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
Lucinda Cassidy, Development Director
Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager
Anna Drichta, Donor Services Coordinator
Devanie Ferguson, Education Supervisor
Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director
Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator
Joel Hess, Community Relations Coordinator
Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director
Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Transitional Living Program 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
Kimberly Lombard, President
Emily Sheehan, President-Elect
Cathy Buchanan, Immediate Past President
Janet Watson, Recording Secretary
Ruth Whitehurst, Treasurer
Kim Belew, Treasurer-Elect
Cynthia Selman, Member-at-Large
Lara Anton
Suzanne Blackburn
Leigh Ann Bonham
Suzanne Clayton
Ann Jones
Melanie Joseph
Marian Kelley
Jen Mooney
Nicole Oria
Cynthia Sandall
Julie Schechter
Sharon Woodul
Jill Zamen
Jill Zeitz
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