Board of Directors

Kristen C. Altenau
Interior Designer

Dr. Angela Rivers-Harper
Programs Director Dress for Success Cincinnati

Whitney Simmons-Newton
Principal Parker Woods Montessori

Denyse Adams Ferguson
Co-founder/Partner BOLD change

Robert Sanker
Partner Keating Muething & Kiekamp PLL

Steven A. Squires, PhD

Rebecca O'Der MSN, FNP-BC
Family nurse practitioner, Internal medicine of Blue Ash

Blair Schoen, LSW

Mary Ucci

Susan Keefe
RN, Retired

Luz Elena Schemmel
Outreach and Wellness Director Santa Maria Community Services

Sister Patricia Cruise, SC
Ex-Officio
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