Jaime-Lee Bradshaw serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Community Partners of South Florida (CPSFL) in Palm Beach County, Florida. She first joined CPSFL as director at a neighborhood resource center, called BRIDGES. Jaime previously worked to support youth engaged in the criminal justice system, as an emergency housing case manager, an after-school director, and as a consultant for a local early childhood funder.
Through community building, stabilization, and engagement, Jaime has cultivated strong relationships with several local, regional, state, and national partners including NeighborWorks America, where she serves on the Community Initiatives Advisory Council and Everyday Democracy, where she manages CPSFL's anchor relationship designed to help build capacity and engage communities in creating positive change. In her current role, she oversees the implementation of the organizations' strategic plan, applying a strategy and equity lens to each of the organization's major lines of business, health, housing, and community. In her role as liaison for NeighborWorks America, she also supports the NeighborWorks Florida Collaborative as Coordinator. Jaime also supports various local and national efforts engaged in community engagement, collective impact, and comprehensive community development to create actionable outcomes.
Originally from Barbados, Jaime moved to Palm Beach County in 1987. An outspoken advocate of CPSFL's mission, she seeks to engage resident voice in all aspects of programs and projects that impact their community. Jaime received her degrees in Criminal Justice and Psychology from the University of North Florida. She is an alumnus of the Nonprofits First Rising Leaders program and Leadership Palm Beach County. Jaime enjoys spending time with her family and friends both locally and abroad.

Kemberly is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pathways to Prosperity, Inc., (P2P) a non-profit organization committed to strengthening communities by improving the lives of children and families in Palm Beach County through education and social services. She has more than 30 years of experience working with children, families, individuals and communities and holds a Bachelor of Social Work. She began her career in addiction disorders and crisis management becoming one of the first Relapse Prevention Specialist in the state of Florida. At P2P, Kemberly has focused on partnership development, family strengthening and community improvement.

Sue-Jay Collins is a Program Manager in the Office of Economic Self-Sufficiency for the Florida Department of Children and Families' Southeast Region. During more than 10 years of service with DCF, Sue-Jay has served in multiple roles, from determining eligibility for applicants seeking public benefits (Medicaid, Temporary Cash Assistance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), to supervising Economic Self-Sufficiency Specialists, leading the Case Maintenance and Special Programs units, managing Operations, and managing Planning and Performance. As Program Manager, Sue-Jay is responsible for ensuring staff are trained and policy is disseminated and implemented appropriately throughout the region (Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, and Broward counties). Sue-Jay earned a bachelor's degree in health education from the University of Florida and a master's degree in public health from Florida International University.

Florence French Fagan is the Senior Southeast Organizer with Bread for the World, a faith based advocacy organization advocating for federal policies that address the root causes of hunger. Florence is always searching for ways to connect people to one another to build community and hope, especially where challenges exist.

Scott Hansel, CEO of Community Partners of South Florida (CPSFL), utilizes his expansive business and entrepreneurial experience to lead the vision, design and implementation of a comprehensive community development model that focuses on housing, financial coaching, community building and engagement and community mental health so that families and neighborhoods will thrive.

Scott serves on the Executive Committee of the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County. Scott is Vice-Chair of the NeighborWorks Florida Collaborative, working to foster sustainable homeownership, develop affordable housing and provide needed capital to build strong, thriving communities. Most recently, he graduated from the NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence Program, in collaboration with Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Scott holds an MBA from Bellarmine University and a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky.

Jessica joined Palm Beach County Public Safety in July 2018 as a Reentry Program Coordinator, and now serves as the Manager of Criminal Justice Programs with over 15 years of experience. In this role she builds and manages the reentry continuum, supports the Full Reentry Task Force, create initiatives to provide innovative programming to people returning from incarceration and work collaboratively towards systemic change. In 2018, she implemented a BJA grant enhancing current reentry efforts with transitional job opportunities coupled with cognitive behavior intervention. The initiative showed promising outcomes and has since been sustained through other funding sources.

Prior to the joining PBC Public Safety in 2018 her experience included facilitating classes inside institutions, HIV testing and counseling, providing intensive services to individuals returning to their community from incarceration, advocacy, and developing and overseeing adult and juvenile criminal justice programs.

Jessica was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Boston University and immediately relocated to sunny south Florida. It is here that she put down roots; meeting and marrying her husband, raising two amazing kids and the sweetest pup.

Rachel Hirsch serves as a senior policy analyst for the Economic Opportunity Division of the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices, where she works to assist states in scaling and strengthening best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development. Her areas of focus include work-based learning and apprenticeship, sector partnerships and industry engagement, supportive services for those with barriers to employment, and reskilling and upskilling for adults.

Before working at NGA, Rachel was state network manager at National Skills Coalition. There, she led the organization's first-ever policy academy on work-based learning. She organized multiple statewide coalitions towards achieving policy impacts in expanding access to and success in education and training programs. Earlier in her career, Rachel ran a research project based out of Northwestern University focused on helping underserved high school youth improve their performance in job interviews. During graduate school, Rachel also held an internship on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Rachel received her Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and her Bachelor of Arts in communication studies from Northwestern University. Rachel originally hails from Illinois.

Since 2012, Sherry Howard has served as the Deputy Director of Palm Beach County's Department of Housing & Economic Development. Sherry has been involved in managing the county's efforts to promote business and affordable housing development opportunities through Federal, State and local funding and through public-private partnerships.

With over 27 years in county government service, Sherry served previously as the County's Economic Development Director prior to merging with the Housing Department, the County's Legislative Coordinator, advocating legislation with Federal, State and local officials, and as Assistant Scripps Program Manager, serving as a liaison between the Board of County Commissioners, the Governor's Office, Scripps personnel and the public. Her problem-solving and cost-cutting skills, used in collaboration with county departments, have earned her two Golden Palm awards, which represents the County Administrator's highest level of recognition for employee achievement.

Sherry is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University. She is an alumna of Leadership Palm Beach County and serves on numerous Federal, State and local housing and economic development committees.

Kamatara has served the CUSA community of practice, which includes 80+ chapters across the United States and into Canada, for the last four years as the Chief Learning Officer and now as ED. With a master's degree in organizational leadership, almost 25 years of experience in secondary education, and a personal experience of poverty, Kamatara brings her skills, passion, and experience to deepen the expression of the Circles model which is building community to end poverty. Kamatara holds the space for national collaboration, local innovation, and personal empowerment for all the people in the Circles family and beyond. Kamatara is also a licensed minister with the Centers for Spiritual Living and resides in Albuquerque, NM.

A new resident of Boynton Beach, Jamie Kendall moved to Palm Beach County after serving for 12 years as chief operating officer for America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia - a nonprofit focused on ending hunger in a 21-county area of Ga. In her last fiscal year there, her leadership allowed the food bank to more than double the amount of food they distributed, compared to years prior.

"I am extremely passionate about the mission of ending hunger," said Kendall. "I am an outside-the-box kind of leader and know that problems can be solved by being creative with our solutions. The Palm Beach County Food Bank has a great staff and an amazing board of directors who are each very involved with our mission to end hunger in our community. The need for our services is greater than ever and we must help our neighbors in need of assistance."

Prior to her most recent food bank experience, Kendall spent more than 25 years in the nonprofit sector, working for social service humanitarian organizations, as well as land conservation groups across the state of Ga. She is an Ohio native and attended Bowling Green State University.

The Palm Beach County Food Bank procures food from grocery stores, farmers, food distributors, wholesalers and other sources and provides it to almost 200 local community partners, including food pantries, soup kitchens and residential housing programs. Palm Beach County Food Bank programs reach families, children and seniors, and connect those in need to available benefits and resources. Partner agencies distribute the products received, including culturally appropriate food and necessities. This process ensures families have access to food when they need it most.

Jamie has two grown daughters that reside in Atlanta and New York. She enjoys art, music and traveling. She can often be found gardening or spending time with her two big dogs who keep her very busy!

Josh Kirschenbaum enjoys building projects, initiatives, and organizations. As one of the original PolicyLink staff members, Josh has worked across the programmatic, communications, and operations teams, which allows him to bring comprehensive organizational knowledge to bear on supporting diverse alliances of internal and external teams to deliver on the promise of equity. His broad understanding of PolicyLink programs, funding, and partners enables him to design and launch new initiatives, drive organizational strategy, and chart the future of PolicyLink. Josh accomplishes this by being in steadfast service to the organization's mission, leadership, staff, and partners. When not immersed in the future of PolicyLink, he loves building alternative communities, dreaming of utopian societies, and chasing after his wild three-year-old, Sammy Rose.

Prior to joining PolicyLink, Josh was the director of special projects at the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development, where he managed a defense conversion research program and fostered partnerships between the university and the City of Oakland to strengthen and revitalize low-income neighborhoods. He holds a BA from Brown University and an MS in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

I joined FAU's Sociology Department in 2014 after earning my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Georgia. My last major research project examined how energy market changes, mining-related pollution, population loss, government malfeasance, opioid addiction, and cultural stigmatization were affecting communities in Central Appalachia. The purpose of the research was to document how mountain communities were responding to these social problems, produce knowledge that could be used to address them more effectively, and debunk cultural stereotypes about the region.

I recently a began a new research project that examines how commercial real estate speculation, government housing policy, and public and private development initiatives have affected South Floridians' ability to access affordable housing; how various institutions and stakeholders within the region are responding to the rising cost of, and ability to profit from, housing; and the role that housing and the real estate market play in the production and reproduction of inequality in the United States.

In the past, I have also studied how young people use subcultures to bring attention to their unmet needs, adapt to blocked opportunities, and critique the deficiencies they perceive in mainstream society.

Taruna Malhotra currently serve as Deputy Director, Community Services, Palm Beach County where she oversees and responsible for various Health and Human Services programs that includes Homeless, Seniors, Veterans, Community Action HIV elimination, Non Profit funding and other programs. Her department oversee budget of more than 225 million that includes pandemic dollars and is responsible for assessment of need, planning, implementation and evaluation of system of care under various programs and grants.

She is a dynamic professional who has demonstrated the ability to operate program serving vulnerable populations while utilizing creative operational efficiencies to provide high quality service. Her areas of focus are access to social services for the underserved, community welfare and capacity building for the nonprofit agencies. In her role, she leads the Department grant making activities, building effective, impactful health-human related programs for Palm Beach County.

Taruna is an advocate, bridge builder and voice of the community, serves on various committees and works with various advisory boards to build the expression and extension of commitment to leading and serving others. Her work is to improve health and human services through data analytics and system driven collaborations to build stronger and efficient social services network. She is instrumental in creating multiple technology and data infrastructure innovations that has led to improving service delivery and various new programs and policy changes in Palm Beach County especially under Covid-19 crisis. Her innovative skills has earned her four Golden Palm awards, which represents the County Administrator's highest level of recognition for employee achievement and five national awards for Community Services department for pandemic programming. Taruna has a Black belt six sigma certification.

Ms. Malhotra holds a Master Degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She has lived in Palm Beach County for last 21 years with her husband and two children, Inayat & Ruhaan and family dog Chuski.

Joshua has worked and volunteered in the nonprofit industry for more than 25 years. He led the implementation of the 211 service throughout Utah, has served as Director of Services for the Utah Food Bank, as Vice President of United Way of Northern Utah, CEO of United Way of Frederick County, Maryland and as President & CEO of 211 Maryland. Today Joshua works as the Director of 211 at United Way Worldwide.

Joshua has served on multiple boards including the Frederick County Healthcare Coalition, Catholic Community Services, West Valley City's Cultural Arts Foundation, Murray City Arts Council, the Utah State Commission on Volunteers, Salt Lake Community College Thayne Center for Service & Learning, and as board president for both the Utah Nonprofits Association and Maryland Nonprofits Association.

Today he is chair of the Maryland Governor's Commission on Service & Volunteerism and is a Trustee for the Ausherman Family Foundation. Joshua has a bachelor's degree in Communication from Weber State University.

Rev. Cahoon holds a B.A. in sociology from Jacksonville University and a Master of Divinity from Emory University, and is a proud graduate of Leadership Palm Beach County's Class of 1989. She has three grown children, three granddaughters, and a grandson.

Peter Pignataro is the Manager of Performance Analysis with CareerSource Palm Beach County, a non-profit organization chartered by the state of Florida to lead workforce development here in Palm Beach County. As a business Analyst, Peter monitors and reports on trends in our local labor markets and economic conditions, providing information on industry and occupation growth to government officials, public and private individuals, and organizations.

Before joining CareerSource in 2007, Peter worked in electronics manufacturing, product development, planning, logistics and distribution here in South Florida and California over 30 years for a diverse range of successful companies.

Peter is a state certified workforce professional and qualified records management professional certified by the Florida Department of State, Division of Library Management, and a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Peter's goal is to learn something new each day and believes learning should be a lifelong endeavor for everyone. Whether pursuing personal interests and passions or chasing professional ambitions, lifelong learning can help us to achieve personal fulfillment and satisfaction.

Wendy Tippett has been involved in with nonprofits and government organizations for 30 years. She holds her bachelor's degree in Sociology with a specialization in Community Services and her master's degree in Nonprofit Management. Ms. Tippett is also a Nationally Certified Grant Writer and holds her Fund Development Certification from Florida Atlantic University as well as her Green Belt Certification in Six Sigma.

Wendy began her career working with abused and neglected teens before moving into providing services, programs and housing for homeless families and their children. She is familiar with local, state and federal funding sources and has been recognized as an expert in collaborations and cross-system teams. After spending 25 years in the non-profit sector, she moved into her current position, Director of Human and Veteran Services, with Palm Beach County and has been instrumental in the implementation of coordinated entry, initiatives to end youth and veteran homelessness, innovative street to work programs, and cross systems collaborations.

Ms. Tippett has served on several boards, including the State Homeless Coalition, the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Health and Human Services of Palm Beach County, Friends of Foster Children, The Community Back to School Bash's Executive Committee, the Homeless and Housing Alliance Executive Committee and chairs the Palm Beach County Cross-Departmental Team for Housing and Homelessness.

Ms. Tippett has been awarded the Women Chamber of Commerce "Sticking Your Neck Out" award for going above and beyond in her field, the Palm Beach County Soroptimist award for work in the nonprofit sector and the Chamber of Health and Human Services Community Spirit award for service to the homeless in Palm Beach County.

Ms. Tippett is a native of Palm Beach County and resides in Lantana with her partner and two children.