BOARD of TRUSTEES

PRESIDENT

KRISTY CHAMBERS

CEO
Columbus

VICE PRESIDENT

MARION WILLEY

CEO
Utah Non-Profit Housing Corp.

TREASURER

CHAD SALVADORE

CFO
Sorensen Impact Center

SECRETARY

GEORGE SEVERSON

Director of Local Programming
& Creative Services
ABC4 Utah/Utah’s CW30

MARKETING & CONSULTING

SHAWN NEWELL

President
Waves Enterprises, LLC

ADVISORY BOARD

SENATOR JAKE ANDEREGG

Bio

BRUCE BAIRD

Bio

GARY BIRDSALL

Bio

DR. JOEL BRUCE

Bio

KRISTY CHAMBERS

Bio

PETER CORROON

Bio

REID DAVIS

Bio

ROB ENCEE

Bio

SENATOR LUZ ESCAMILLA

Bio

MICHAEL GALLEGOS

Bio

SCOTT HOWELL

Bio

LIZ OWENS

Bio

BETTY SAWYER

Bio

MARION WILLEY

Bio

PARTNERS & SPONSORS

CONTRIBUTOR

SENATOR JACOB 'JAKE' ANDEREGG

Senator Anderegg is an American politician. A Republican, he has represented District 13 in the Utah State Senate since January 2017. He previously represented District 6 in the Utah House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017

BRUCE BAIRD

Bruce R. Baird is a top-rated attorney practicing in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. Providing legal representation in Utah for a variety of different issues, Bruce Baird was selected to Super Lawyers for 2007, 2010, 2013 - 2021. He is admitted to practice before the courts in Utah.

After completing undergraduate studies, Bruce R. Baird attended law school. Bruce Baird was enrolled at University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. He earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1978. Bruce Baird was admitted to the practice of law in 1979.

Attorneys like Bruce R. Baird are recognized by their peers for their outstanding work and commitment to the spirit of the legal profession. Their knowledge of the law, professional work ethic, and advocacy on behalf of their clients allow them to stand out among other attorneys in the field.

Bruce Baird represents clients with Land Use / Zoning issues. Additional legal issues represented include Business Litigation and Eminent Domain.

GARY BIRDSALL

Gary Birdsall has been the President & CEO of the South Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce since April 2013. He brings a wealth of marketing, networking, public relations and economic development experience to his role at the Chamber. After serving as a U.S. Army Infantry Captain (Vietnam and Germany), he moved to Utah in the early 1970s. His career stops include commercial banks, economic development with the state of Utah, Mountain Fuel (Questar/Dominion Energy), and the South Davis & Davis Chambers of Commerce. From 2005-2012, he directed a dramatic growth of BNI in the state of Utah. Gary has served on various boards since his arrival in Utah; and, he always finds to volunteer his efforts to help others. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Wyoming; and, he earned his MBA from the University of Utah

Gary thoroughly enjoys the opportunity of teaming up with business owners, SSL City officials and residents in the city of South Salt Lake.

DR. JOEL BRUCE

Dr. Joel Bruce was born in South Hill, Va., and attended Brunswick Senior High school in Lawrenceville, Va. He attended UVA from 1979 to 1983. He was a four-year member of the US Air Force ROTC detachment. He graduated with a degree in chemistry and a US Air Force officer’s commission. He attended UVA School of Medicine from 1983 to 1987. While there, he was a charter member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity graduate chapter at UVa..

He completed his internal medicine residency at the Wright-Patterson USAF Hospital in Dayton, Ohio in 1990. He then completed his nephrology fellowship at Wilford Hall USAF Hospital/ University of Texas at San Antonio in 1992. He remained in the program as a clinical professor and director of dialysis services from 1992 to 1996. His academic responsibilities included teaching medical students, residents, and fellows from the two programs as well as the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. In 1996 he left the US Air Force with the rank of Major and joined Southeast Renal Associates in Charlotte, NC. He was the president of the group when it merged with Metrolina Nephrology Associates in 2010. He remains in the practice today and is a member of its executive board. He spearheads many of the practice’s home dialysis initiatives. He is on the DaVita Dialysis home therapies national advisory board and is also a past president of the Charlotte, Medical and Pharmaceutical Society. He is an elder at Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church and remains active in community health education initiatives. He has been a member of the board of the Blessed Assurance Adult Day Care center since its inception in 1998 and he currently mentors medical students at UVa and 2 other medical schools.

Dr. Bruce has served as member of the Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors since 2016. He is the incoming president of the UVa Medical Alumni Association board of directors. He was named the UVa medical alumnus of the year for 2021 for his work with the SMNA chapter and helping plan the inaugural UVa black medical alumni reunion for April 2022.

He met his wife, Faye, an ICU nurse at the time, during his residency. Faye was a battlefield nurse during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. She currently works as a nurse educator with Fresenius Kidney Care. They have two sons. Teyon lives in Richmond and is a graphic artist. Jadarius lives in Charlotte and is a residential real estate adviser.

KRISTY CHAMBERS

Kristy Chambers is the CEO of Columbus. Prior to joining Columbus, she served as CEO of Wasatch Homeless Health Care, Inc., better known as Fourth Street Clinic. A certified public accountant for over twenty years, Kristy’s professional background includes public accounting and top-level management positions in health care, real estate, retail, and hospitality. Kristy is a guest speaker and former instructor with the University of Utah Nonprofit Academy and serves on various local and national non-profit boards. She graduated Cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Economics/Business and has a Master’s in Taxation with honors from the Washington School of Law.

PETER CORROON

Mr. Corroon has been involved in the construction and renovation of hundreds of housing units since 1995, including market-rate housing and affordable housing. Affordable housing projects include the Sophie Apartments at 925 S 200 West (24 units) and the Cornell Place Apartments at 211 N. Cornell Street (146 units) in Salt Lake City. He also was involved in the recently completed 144-unit Tower View Apartments in Ogden, Utah. Renovation projects include the Lund Apartments (9-units), 1stAve & M Apartments (8-units), Barbara Worth Apartments (34-units), 2ndAve & K Apartments (20-units) and The Gavel Apartments (21-units), all located in Salt Lake City.

Mr. Corroon has also constructed commercial office and retail buildings in Salt Lake City, and renovated a historic office building, The Historic Ogden Post Office Building, in Ogden, Utah.

Mr. Corroon previously served as Mayor of Salt Lake County from 2005-2013, becoming the second mayor in Salt Lake County’s history. He also has served as the Chair of the Utah Democratic Party from 2014-2017.

REID DAVIS

Reid Davis - President/CEO, Entertainment Concepts International - is a veteran
Television Broadcaster, Development, Distribution & Syndication Executive with
over 39 years of Domestic & International industry experience. With a broad skill
set in General Management, Broadcast Start-Ups, Worldwide Television Distribution, Content Creation and Acquisitions, Program Rights Negotiations and Licensing, Production, Programming, Program Development, New Media, and Entertainment Industry Consulting.

ROB ENCE

Rob Ence is the Executive Director for the Utah Commission on Aging which leads the effort to connect research, public policy, and community resources in behalf of older adults. He also leads the Bateman Horne Center of Excellence, a non-profit research clinic specializing in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.

Previously Ence was the West Regional Vice President for AARP after serving nearly a decade AARP Utah State Director. His other career work includes Planned Parenthood of Utah and the Midtown Community Health Center, Sage Creek Apparel, work in the financial services industry and Marriott Corporation.

LUZ ESCAMILLA

Senator Luz Escamilla (UT-1) holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Utah.

On November 4, 2008, she was elected to the Utah State Senate representing Senate District 1, becoming the first Latina elected to the Utah State Senate and the first immigrant elected to the Utah State Legislature. She is serving her third term in the Utah State Senate after being reelected in 2012 and 2016. Senator Escamilla serves in the Senate leadership team as the Senate Minority Whip. She has served as Chair of NHCSL's Banking, Affordable Housing and Credit Task Force since 2018.

In 2005 she was appointed by Governor Jon Huntsman as the first Director for the State Office of Ethnic Affairs. In this position, she oversaw the Directors of Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latino and Pacific Islander Affairs. She currently works as Vice President for Zions Bank in the Community Development Group representing Zions Bank in community and business relationships across the state of Utah and Idaho. At Zions Bank, she has worked as Director for the Business Resource Center, as well as the Hispanic/Latino Market Manager.

She has served in many capacities in different boards of nonprofit organizations and other agencies. She currently serves on the boards of Girls Scouts of Utah, Primary Children’s Hospital, Rowland Hall, Days of ’47 Rodeo as well as the Women in the Economy Commission.

MICHAEL GALLEGOS

Michael Gallegos is Division Director for the Salt Lake County Division of Housing and Community Development. He has had a full career with Salt Lake County and a short time with the State of Utah. Mr. Gallegos has been responsible for the planning and administration of various community and economic development programs and services from employment and training, community revitalization including housing and economic development. These programs are primarily provided by federal grant opportunities and the success of obtaining these resources. Currently, the pandemic is occupying a substantial amount of time in planning and responding to the needs of the broader community.

SCOTT HOWELL

Scott N. Howell currently is a consultant providing government relations consulting to businesses and organizations, including several development companies and various business and civic entities. Scott also provides business dispute resolution as a trained/certified mediator. Scott spent 34 years with the IBM Corporation most recently as Director for the Public Sector Industry guiding government and business leaders in pursuit of outcome-based strategies and successful delivery of implementation initiatives.

From 1990 to 2000 Scott served as a Utah State Senator. For eight of those years, he served as the Senate Minority Leader. In 2000 and 2012 Scott was elected as the Democratic Nominee for the United States Senate.

Scott currently serves as a Board Member of Sutter Health the largest non-profit health care organization in California. He is serving on the Board of the Utah Debate Commission. He is a Board Member of Envision Utah and the Committee of Consumer Services. Also, Scott is a Board Member of the Pioneer Park Coalition which is an organization to end homelessness in Utah.

LIZ OWENS

Liz is a womanist, feminist, multi-racial, multi-cultural woman of color from Utah. She serves as a community educator, gender justice and racial justice activist. Her multi-issue work is firmly rooted within a human rights and social justice framework with a focus on the intersections of power and privilege.

Liz, has experience working with women on issues that disproportionately impact women and with historically underrepresented individuals and communities including: women of color, transgender folks and their loved ones; refugees and immigrants, queer youth; and women involved in the criminal justice system, gangs and/or drugs, drug trafficking, sex-work and prostitution, and survivors of domestic and sexual violence, among many others. She currently serves as CEO of YWCA Utah where she leads the organization in meeting its mission of "eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all."

Liz has a BS degree in Sociology from Utah Valley University and an MA degree in Human Rights from the University of Essex in the UK. Liz has taught sociology and other courses including Race, Gender, Social Inequalities and Social Problems at Utah Valley University and Salt Lake Community College. She has also taught Program Planning and Evaluation in the Master of Arts in Community Leadership at Westminster College.

Liz previously worked at Women in Prison (London, UK), the Utah Pride Center, the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault; and has served on many boards and in volunteer positions in the community.

Liz grew up in Provo, Utah and has walked the last 100 kilometers of the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Liz and her partner Brad are the proud and devoted parents to a little human named Fox and pet-parents to two doggies, Flynn & Fia.

BETTY SAWYER

Betty Sawyer is the Community Engagement Coordinator in Access & Diversity at Weber State University and advises the Weber State University NAACP College Chapter. Utilizing her skills as a communicator, collaborator, encourager and builder, Betty has been an agent for change in the city of Ogden and throughout Utah for over 40 years. Betty moved to Utah in 1975, after graduating from Morgan State University in Baltimore with a BS in Physical Education. She earned a second BS in Physical Therapy and her Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Utah. Her advocacy work includes the creation of the state’s Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission while serving as Director of the Governor’s Office of Black Affairs, the Utah Juneteenth Freedom & Heritage Festival/Holiday, Charter member of the Greater Salt Lake Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce, the Utah Black Roundtable, and president of the Ogden NAACP. Betty serves on numerous local, state, and national boards including the Ogden Diversity Commission, Ogden Civic Action Network -OgdenCAN, U.S. Civil Rights Commission/State Advisory Committee, the Utah Board of Juvenile Justice, and the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, to name a few. Betty is the co-founder of Project Success Coalition, a local grassroots non-profit focusing on health, education, cultural arts, and advocacy. Project Success Coalition has been at the forefront of addressing health disparities reduction and promoting health equity, providing education, outreach, and resources to those impacted by COVID-19 and being a voice in public policy deliberations. Betty’s personal motto is Ubuntu: I am because we are and because we are, therefore, I am. This African Proverb points to the universal bonds of humanity that connects us all and should drive us to work for equity, inclusion, and justice both in private and public arenas.

MARION WILEY

Marion started his career in banking, where he worked in many positions including finance and community development. In the 1980s, he started a private development company, which still retains many holdings. Those experiences were stepping stones to his service at Utah Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Since 1995, Marion has served as the Executive Director of Utah Non-Profit Housing Corporation. He has led the growth of the organization to become the largest and most prolific non-profit developer of affordable multi-family housing in Utah.

Marion's desire to assure that affordable housing stock was not lost through expiring uses, drove the formation of the Western Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Today, he and a core of housing professionals champion preservation efforts both in and outside of Utah. In just several short years, they have preserved and rehabilitated 1,389 units of housing across seven states.

DR. CAMILLE COLLETT

Dr. Camille Collett was raised in Colorado and came to Utah to attend Westminster College in 1975. She attended the University of Utah Medical School from 1979-1983 and the Family Medicine Residency at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City from 1983-1986. She joined the faculty at the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine in 1986. In the1990s she developed a new Family Medicine Residency that is based at St. Mark’s Hospital. She sees patients and teaching Family Medicine Residents at St. Mark's Family Medicine Residency. She completed her Masters of Public Health Program at Westminster College in May 2018. Her Master’s Thesis was on Barriers to Advance Care Planning in a Hospital Setting. She has made presentations to the public and professional on Living Wills, Advance, Directives and the POLST (Provider Order of Life-Sustaining Treatments). She is currently Co-Chair of the Utah POLST Registry so the form is available electronically in emergencies, and on the POLST.org National Planning Committee developing a Universal POLST form.

ANDREA HIMOFF

Andrea Himoff is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Action Utah, a nonpartisan community advocacy organization empowering Utahns to get civically engaged to impact the issues they care about most. Prior to that, Andrea was an award-winning independent film producer and screenwriter, shooting films in Los Angeles and Eastern Europe and coordinating multinational crews. In 2002 she co-founded the animation production company, Jellyman Productions. She was formerly Creative Director at Weintraub Kuhn Productions and an Associate at Bright Sun Consulting in New York City. Andrea received a B.A. in Classical Studies from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude. She also wrote the blog Everyday Earthiness to help teach everyday people small ways to make a big environmental impact. In 2018 Andrea was named the Utah Nonprofits Association Emerging Nonprofit Leader of the Year. She lives in Park City with her family and is an ordinary working mom proving every day that any Utahn can meaningfully impact policymaking.

PAUL LEGGETT

Paul Leggett is the Division Director of Salt Lake County Aging & Adult Service. He took on this role in January 2017. In this role, Paul oversees the services provided to older adults in Salt Lake County. Prior to this position, Paul was the Executive Director of Community Action Partnership of Utah where he worked hand in hand with Utah's Community Action network to provide solutions to poverty and effect change. Paul also previously chaired the statewide Earn it. Keep it. Save it. coalition and directed CAP Utah's statewide Asset Development initiative. Paul currently serves on the Utah Commission on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Board, the Lt. Governor's Commission on Service & Volunteerism and the Utah Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Paul, originally from Northampton, England, earned a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences from the University of Northampton and a master's degree in management from the University of Leicester.

DR. JAYNEE POULSON

Dr. Poulson is an associate producer and the Chief Community Engagement Officer bringing Addiction Unplugged into the communities while working on the strategic development of the A&E series. Her recent TEDx on how to give pain a REAL purpose was inspired by the Surgeon General’s call to action asking America for help with an “urgent health crisis” along with her desire to have open discussions to help remove stigmas around mental health. She has an Executive Leadership certificate from Cornell University, and is a nationally certified Professional Parent Trainer. As the founder of The Give Back Program she works with corporations to give back to nonprofits and communities. She teaches feminism at the University, continues to volunteer in the youth detention center and Utah State Prison and is an investor in CTI. Poulson has worked with schools as a k-12 comprehensive guidance counselor, served on the state PTA board as the Health Commissioner, and worked as a licensed mental health counselor in treatment centers specializing in addiction, and eating disorders treating thousands of girls, and their families.

TARA ROLLINS

Tara Rollins joined the Utah Housing Coalition as their first full-time Executive Director in 2005. Tara moved from New Hampshire with her husband 25 years ago to ski the powder of Utah. She worked at ASSIST Inc a Community Design Center for 10 years helping low-income homeowners with emergency home repairs. Tara has sat on many boards throughout the community and continues her commitment to housing choices for all.