Board of Directors
Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Board Members

Ellen Ambrose
Community Volunteer
 
Chair
Kori Gough
Seeds for Change Consulting
 
Past Chair
Becky Johnson
Community Volunteer
 
Treasurer
Lisa Tully                        
Community Volunteer  
                
Secretary
   

 Members

Sherie Artaza
Community Volunteer
 
Misty Bray
Community Volunteer
 
Janis Carter
Community Volunteer

Heather Crawford
Community Volunteer
 
Jennifer Dipasquale
Community Volunteer 
 
Holli Hill
Daichi Sankyo, Inc
 
Andrea Sheridan
Office of the Speaker of the House 
 
Carrie Trabue
Community Volunteer
 
Benita Trevino
Community Volunteer
 
Ashley Zimmerman
Community Volunteer
 

 Advisors

Gary Frump
The Container Store

Dealey Herndon
Community Volunteer

Erika Herndon
Community Volunteer

Karyn Scott
Kids in a New Groove

Elsa Broeker
Community Volunteer
 
Tiffany Wilkinson
Community Volunteer
 
Nancy Williams
Community Volunteer
 
Katie Young 
Community Volunteer 
 
Ron Hubbard
City of Austin HHSD
 
Sheila Brown
Community Volunteer
 

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.

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