Our Leadership Team

Bianca Davis, Chief Executive Officer

 

Kathleen Dooley, Chief HR and Operations Officer

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Priya Murphy, Chief Development Officer

Claudia Davila,Ph. D., Chief Programs Officer

 
 

Our Staff

Liliana Adame, Mental Health Clinician

Roya Atashi, Attorney

Annette Bailey, Program Resource Coordinator

Vanessa Barker, Community Engagement Director

Samantha Carmean, Development Administrative Manager

Rebecca Carlson, Mental Health Clinician

Miluska Acuy-Edwards, Economic Empowerment Specialist

Yeimy Fernandez, Adult Case Manager

Monica Flores, Case Management Director

Victoria Flores, Paralegal

Kate Gilliland, Mental Health Clinician

Mackenzie Hamilton, Receptionist & Intake Coordinator

Avery Hammer, Case Program Manager

Robbie Hamilton, Youth Mentor

Geizel Hatch, Mental Health Clinician

Marie Leblanc, Director of Integrated Learning

Nikki Lockett, Adult Case Manager

Shenita Mitchell, Accounting Director

Sarah Ogren, Youth Case Manager

Myrna Olaya, Clinical Program Manager

Priscila Torres Ortiz, Youth Case Manager

Katrina Tamez, Grants Manager

Sydney Wright, Events & Communications Manager

OUR BOARDS

2025 - 2026 Board of Directors

  • Deondriea Cantrice - Anti-trafficking, Author, Speaker, Life Coach

  • Erin Nealy Cox - Partner at Kirkland & Ellis and a former high-ranking U.S. DOJ official

  • Lynn Dowdle - Principal, Dowdle Real Estate

  • Lonnie Falgout - Director - Family Security at Palette Investment Company

  • Laura Harris - Journalist and Co-Anchor, NBC5

  • Tracey Nash-Huntley - Community Leader

  • Fallyn Jones - Senior Vice President, Citigroup, Inc.

  • Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP- Senior Vice President, Customer Development Group, EssilorLuxottica

  • Camelia Lopez-Shoemaker - Prosecutor

  • Sarah K. Miller - Philanthropist

  • Cheryl Monroe - VP Controller and Treasurer, Mary Kay Inc.

  • Laura Nieto - Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility, Southwest Airlines

  • Jane A. Rose - General Counsel, Irwin R. Rose & Co.

  • Elena Sacca Smith - Group Manager for the Office of Social Innovation, Toyota North America

  • Jessica Turner-Waugh - Actor and Community Leader

advisory BOARD Members

  • Nancy Ann Hunt - Business and Community Leader

  • Ashlee Kleinert - Community Leader

  • Hon. Jeanne Phillips - Senior Vice President, Corporate Engagement & International Relations for Hunt Consolidated, Inc.

  • Pat Schenkel - Community Leader

  • Gail Turner - Community Leader

Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FANN

NFNL Board Chair

C. Davis Prescott - Senior Vice President, First Horizon Bank

  • Don Allen - CEO of Strut Partners

  • Dr. George Ball - Clinical Director, Heritage Counseling & Consulting

  • Matthew Brady - Managing Director, Vice President at Burns & Wilcox

  • Zach Burch, Banking Center Manager, AVP, Origin Bank

  • Scott Dyer - CEO, World Soccer Holdings

  • Michael Guinn - Motivational Speaker, Published Author, Social Worker

  • Josh Hunt - Co-Founder & CVO, Bolt Human Capital

  • Michael Kawa - Seneca Signing Agents

  • Scott X. Nady - Senior Assistant Coach Director of Player Development, Director of Dallas Recruiting, SMU

  • Paresh Patel - Managing Partner, Strategic Alliances

  • Mark Scalzo - Business Leader

  • Bill Wallace - Founder of Success North Dallas, Author & Netweaver

  • Rodrego Way - LPC, LCDC, Owner & Executive Director, The Mind & Therapy Clinic

Men’s Advocacy Group Honorary Board

  • Ray L. Hunt - Executive Chairman, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.

  • Chris Kleinert - CEO, Hunt Investment Holdings, LLC, Hunt Realty Investments

  • Dr. Bobby Lyle - Chairman, President & CEO, Lyco Holdings Inc.

  • John Scovell - Founder and Chairman, Woodbine

  • Brad Cheves - Vice President at Southern Methodist University

  • Dr. R. Gerald Turner - President, Southern Methodist University

C. Davis Prescott

MAG Board President

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS BOARD 2025 -2026

Amanda Muhammad - COF President,Mindfulness-Based Stress Management & Psychological Safety Consultant

  • Cora Black - SHRM-CP - Human Resource and Client Relations, City of Dallas

  • Leslie Concors - Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor

  • Sarah Eastburn

  • Adebimbola Faminu - Client Success Manager, Global Enterprise at Gartner

  • Kirsten Gappelberg

  • Sherry Gillespie

  • Dr. Maureen Gutierrez - MD, FACP, founder of Dallas Comprehensive Medical Care

  • Christina Kaperonis

  • Ashley Koos - Litigation Associate at Haynes and Boone, LLP

  • Suzanne Massey - Founder and President, Place, Work, Folk LLC

  • Jessica Metts

  • Cindy Niederhaus - Community Volunteer

  • Amanda Reynolds - Vice President, Managing Partners, Workday

  • Erin Sander - Owner & Designer, Erin Sander Design

  • Karla Smith - Real Estate Specialist at SRS Real Estate Partners

  • Veronica Smith - Software Engineer; Project Management

  • Yolanda Scott - Security Manager, Texas Instruments

  • Denise Stewart - Community Leader

  • Krysten Thompson - Director, Santander Consumer USA

  • Andrea Weidlich - Senior Director of Marketing, Vari

  • De’Edra S. Williams -Chief Customer Officer at DeepHow

  • Lisa Winkley - Fashion and Event Producer, T.D. Jakes Ministries

Amanda Muhammad

COF President