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What's New: Leadership Team: Board of Directors

Robert Copeland

Robert joined the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in August 2024. With more than thirty-five years of progressive leadership experience, Robert has built an impressive track record during a successful fundraising career. His passion and goals throughout his career have centered on creating lasting organizational impact and value, with evidence of vision and effective strategic planning and implementation. Prior to his start with the Freedom Center, Robert spent six years at Equitas Health, where he served […]

Brian Bailys

Brian has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1983. In 1993, he formed The Bailys Group, a consulting firm, to provide tax and financial planning services. He has also been involved in many aspects of private equity, including investment analysis, due diligence, transaction structure, and negotiations. In 2015, Brian founded Ascent, a continuing care solution for people in recovery from substance use disorders and mental health diagnoses. The genesis of the Ascent Solution was based on Brian’s experience in treatment. Ascent […]

Armine Arustamyan

Armine Arustamyan serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Dress for Success Worldwide. bringing to the table her specialized expertise in nonprofit financial and operational management. With a robust background that spans over 25 years in accounting, Arustamyan's skill set encompasses budgeting, internal controls, and reporting for complex nonprofits supported by various funding streams, including government grants, contracts, and affiliations within a multifaceted program framework. She is also co-founder of Avatar Learning Center (www.avatarlc.com), an ed-tech […]

Lindsay Schrader

Lindsay Foster Schrader has been employed with the First National Bank of Waverly for 25 years. She began her career at FNB in 1997, as a part-time teller, while attending Shawnee State University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, graduating in 2002. In 1999, she moved to a full-time position as loan clerk, then advancing to the manager of the credit card & merchant accounts and eventually to the Director of Business Development. […]

John Gabis

Dr. Gabis received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1983. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Wright State University School of Medicine in 1987. Dr. Gabis served his first year of residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, South Carolina where he received recognition for teaching medical students from MUSC. His post-graduate training continued at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where he was […]

Arlene Jones

Arlene Jones began leveraging her lived experiences within the child welfare and housing systems in 2001. Her dedication to equity is demonstrated through her service as a founding member of the OHIO Youth Advisory Board, Court Appointed Special Advocate, child welfare caseworker, youth housing specialist, workforce development program coordinator and through her work with the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program as a trainer, consultant and curriculum content developer. Arlene works with the Capacity Building Center for […]

Randy Leite

Randy Leite, Ph.D. serves as executive director of the Appalachian Children Coalition, an organization focused on expanding and enhancing child mental health resources in the 32-county Appalachian Ohio region. In this role, Dr. Leite is engaged with schools, mental health boards, social service agencies, and governmental entities to address significant mental health resource disparities in the region. Leite assumed this position after serving for twelve years as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and […]

Sally Luken

Sally works with organizations and governments to solve social problems in the intersection of housing, homelessness, behavioral health and criminal justice. Sally is the housing consultant for Stepping Up Ohio, a national initiative to house and reduce jail days for people with mental health disorders, and the Ohio Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-Ohio) for the Fulfilling the Promise campaign. Sally was instrumental in the development and opening of the $1.2MM Adam-Amanda Mental […]