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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