Leadership & Key Staff Positions

We’re proud to have made progress in diversifying our staff and recognize that we still have work to do to achieve our diversity, equity and inclusion goals.

Darcie DeShazo, LCSW, Executive Director

Sara Bogan, Foster & Adoption Program Director

Morgan Casey, Program Support Supervisor

Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager

Maria Engle, Education Supervisor

Nikki Gavrelos, Community Relations Coordinator

Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director

Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator

Carson Johnson, Donor Services Coordinator

Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director

Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Supervised Independent Living Director

 

Jessica McKay, LPC-S, Senior Clinical Director

William Metz, Operations Director

Renee Randolph, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Human Resources Director

Samriddi Tiwari, Accounting Director

Tessa Voyles, M.A., LPC, Residential Treatment Center Director

Megan Avery Zellner, LPC, Foster & Adoption Clinical Director

Directors Emeritae

Linda Addicks Kokemor

Remembering Bobbie Mae Matthews

Left to right: Bobbie Mae Matthews, Linda Addicks Kokemor and Darcie DeShazo

Board of Directors

Emily Sheehan, President

Cynthia Sandall, President-Elect

Kimberly Lombard, Immediate Past President

Julie Morris, Recording Secretary

Kim Belew, Treasurer

Jill Zeitz, Treasurer-Elect

KaLyn Laney, Member-at-Large

Lara Anton

Sally Barber

Leigh Ann Bonham

Cathy Buchanan

Paula Chaney

Jane Hammond

Marian Kelley

Johanna Large

Carla Lott

Nicole Oria

Ann Palmer

Tamara Palmieri

Julie Schechter

Janet Watson

Advisory Board

Bob Buchanan

Lutie Butler

Amber Carden

Manny Farahani

Amy Felker

Robert Godwin

Ashley Goudeau

Nancy Nash Harper

Nikita Kakkad

Russell Korman

Liz Lock

Keith Miller

Jake Newman

Jim Parker

Jessica Sacheck

Steve Sandall

The Honorable John Specia

Staci Sprayberry