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Board Members

Katie Smith Young Southern Living at Home	President
Erika Herndon Community Volunteer	Past President
Jodi Pratt Leach Community Volunteer	Secretary
Ray Chatelain, CPA Bounds Chatelain & Pfarr, PC	Treasurer

Members

Amber Bradham Accenture Kelly Breeden Community Volunteer Holly Edger PS Marketing Kori Gough Seeds for Change Consulting Kathi Haralson Community Volunteer Becky Johnson Community Volunteer Erin Jones Oz Systems Cathy McHorse Community Volunteer Chad Sapenter Real Estate

Karyn Scott Community Volunteer Elsa Sprunt Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld, LLP Christina Utkov Attorney at Law Tiffany Wilkinson Community Volunteer David Williams Texas State Senate Committee on Jurisprudence Sarah Williams Marts & Lundy

Advisors

Gigi Bryant
GMSA Management Services

Mark Chase
Chase Carpets & Tile

Kristi Chibib
Attorney at Law

Gary Frump
The Container Store

Dealey Herndon
Community Volunteer

Judie Jensen Hatton
Hospice Austin

Andrea McWilliams
McWilliams and Associates

Lisa Rosenbaum
Community Volunteer

Jim Schwertner
Capital Land & Cattle

Jacque Seale
Region 7 Director Child Protective Services

Board Responsibilities

Board members are expected to:

1. Attend all board and committee meetings and functions, such as special events.
2. Be informed about PC’s mission, services, policies, and programs.
3. Review agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings.
4. Serve on committees or task forces and offer to take on special assignments.
5. Annually make a personal financial contribution to the organization.
6. Inform others about the organization.
7. Suggest possible nominees to the board who can make significant contributions to the work of the board and the organization
8. Keep up-to-date on developments in the organization's field.
9. Avoid any actual or perceived conflicts of interest and follow PC’s conflict of interest and confidentiality policies.
10. Refrain from making special requests of the staff.
11. Assist the board in carrying out its fiduciary responsibilities, such as reviewing the organization's annual financial statements.

We recruit board members who bring special strong interest and expertise to PC and who possess the following traits:

1. Ability to: listen, analyze, think clearly and creatively, work well with people individually and in a group.
2. Willing to: prepare for and attend board and committee meetings, ask questions, take responsibility and follow through on a given assignment, contribute personal and financial resources in a generous way according to circumstances, open doors in the community, evaluate oneself.
3. Develop certain skills if you do not already possess them, such as to: cultivate and solicit funds, cultivate and recruit board members and other volunteers, read and understand financial statements, learn more about the substantive program area of the organization.
4. Possess: honesty, sensitivity to and tolerance of differing views, a friendly, responsive, and patient approach, community-building skills, personal integrity, a developed sense of values, concern for our organization’s development, a sense of humor.

Term: Three years with option for Board to renew for an additional year beyond the three year term.