About Us
Leadership & Staff
Natalie A. Leek
President & Chief Executive Officer
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Natalie A. Leek has 25 years of experience in non-profit and corporate environments. She has been a Teacher, PR/Marketing professional, Admissions, and Development Director in the non-profit sector as well as a Marketing, Business Development and E-Commerce Director in regional and national corporate technology companies. Natalie accepted the role of CEO and President for Providence House, a non-profit crisis nursery for infants and children in 2001. Since assuming that role at Ohio’s first licensed crisis nursery, Natalie has worked diligently to improve the organization’s operations, programming, development, and community outreach efforts and in 2012 successfully completed a $3 million capital campaign for expansion of the Crisis Nursery Campus.
Ashley Stock, LISW-S, ACTRP
Director of Programming & Clinical Operations
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Nora Conway, MSW, LSW, CTRP
Family Services Manager
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Erin George, LISW-S, CTRP
Family Services Manager
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Kim Hereford
Nursery Operations Manager
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Dani Lachina, MSSA, LSW
Community Services Manager
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Kendra Sowards, MSW, LSW, CTRP
Intake Coordinator
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Deborah Hitchcock, LISW-S, CDCA
Compliance & Quality Manager
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Kaitlyn Lionti
Marketing Manager
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Kate Malone
Government Relations & Public Policy Advisor
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Selena Vazquez
Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator
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Amy Bahre
Donor Engagement Coordinator
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Katie Goodman
Grants Coordinator
Kristen Kollar
Chief Financial Officer
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Margaret Bayliss
Accountant
Michelle Walsh
Operations and Strategy Director
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Amy Mills
Center for Crisis Nurseries Manager & Exec. Asst.
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Vanessa Vazquez
Facilities Coordinator
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Laprise Johnson
Office Assistant
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Michael Gamble
Human Resources Director
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Cherelle Houston-Porter
Human Resources Generalist
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J'Tala Henry
Human Resources Generalist
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Gregory D. Rush, Chair & Executive Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, CFO, Cleveland Browns
*Jane M. Cronin, Chair Emeritus & Governance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, The Sherwin-Williams Company
Timothy K. Flanagan, Vice Chair
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, GrafTech
Jeffrey A. Robinson, Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair
Audit Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
Paul T. Kostyack, Counsel, Secretary, & Business Innovation and Strategy Committee Chair
Deputy General Counsel, University Hospitals Health System, Inc.
Karen R. Dolan, Giving Hope to the PHuture Campaign Chair
Community Volunteer
Katherine L. Lehtinen, External Relations Committee Co-Chair
Vice President, Brand and Digital Marketing, Oatey Co.
Warren Blazy
Senior Vice President, Jones Lang LaSalle
Matt Coberly
Director of Global Security, Eaton Corporation
Chris Conti
Partner, Founder, Lancor Partners, LLC
Dabney Conwell
Executive Director & Vice President, Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging
Jeffrey C. Douglas
National Head of Sales and Client Experience, KeyBank
Huda Farunia
Vice President, Human Resources, Asurint
Dolores P. Garcia
Partner & Vice Chair, Business Litigation Group, Ulmer Berne LLP
Adam R. Jacobs
Senior Director, Investments, The Hartzmark Group of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Anna Kanaris
Executive Vice President, Sales, Associated Materials
Joseph P. Lukac
Partner, Ernst and Young
Jennifer Masterson
Executive Vice President Retail Lending Services - Default Servicing, PNC
Ryan P. McKean
Financial Planner, Turning Point Wealth
Yolanda McWilliams
Director, Governance, Risk, & Compliance, Hyland Software Inc.
Mike Mooney
Vice President, Customer Service Group, The Albert M. Higley Company
Tendai Mukeredzi
Manager, Medicare Advantage Product Strategy, Medical Mutual
Tori Nook
Principal, Anchor Cleveland
Vilmarie Pérez
Connections Care Manager, Positive Education Program
Eileen Schreiber Radis
Partner, Deloitte
Andrew Rutherford
Senior Vice President, Middle Market Relationship Manager, Truist Financial Corporation
Angela K. Stojkov
Vice President, Tax, Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.
Twyla Turner
Fundraising Consultant, Enlightened Solutions
J. Chaz Weber
Partner, Tucker Ellis LLP
Karla R. Wludyga
Vice President of Organizational Development, PRADCO
William Aamoth
President, Aamoth Capital Holdings, LLC
Joseph Bauer
Founder, Bauer Advising, LLC
*Edward Bell
President, Gries Financial
*Duane F. Bishop, Jr.
Chief Operating Officer, EVP Real Estate
Terrance K. Donley
Chairman, Donley’s Inc.
Evelyn Croft Faulkner
Retired/Fundraising Consultant
Sally Gries
Chairperson, Gries Financial, LLC
Thomas M. Laird
Executive VP, Gilbane Building Company
Lolita McDavid, M.D.
Medical Director, Child Advocacy & Protection, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
*Paul M. O’Connor
President, Advanced Controls Incorporated
Rena Olshansky
Consultant, Rainmaker/Reignmaker
*Jeffrey K. Orloff
President/Managing Director, Consulting, ReCreation LLC
Susan M. Palmer
Sr. Account Manager, Medtronic
*Dominic V. Perry
Director of Wealth Transfer Planning, St. Clair Advisors LLC
Robert J. Roe
Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
*Gareth D. Vaughan
President & CEO, The Albert M. Higley Company
Suzanne Christ
William Christ
Sr. Nancy Conway, CSJ
*John Doherty
+Robert Dorfmeyer
+Stanley Kerka
Sandy Kish Jordan
*Greg Klein
+Bettie Perry
*Charles E. Taylor, PhD
* past president
+ deceased
about the kids, families and volunteers of Providence House.
No, thanks. Don’t ask me again.