Instructor Bios
Rebecca Brookes
Alice Estey
Christine Graham
Churchill Hindes
Jim LeFevre
Karen Saudek
Rebecca Brookes has over 25 years marketing experience. She now consults for nonprofit organizations domestically and internationally, working with clients like Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the New York State Tobacco Control Program, and Cicatelli Inc. She has taught marketing at the college level, peer reviewed marketing text books, and has written guides on applying social marketing to public health issues. She lives in hopes of winning the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
Alice Estey has been a mediator in private practice since 1991, a mediation instructor at Woodbury College since 1994, and has served as director of the undergraduate Mediation & Conflict Management Certificate Program. She has a passion for teaching, especially teaching adults. In addition to the academic setting, Alice has designed numerous intensive trainings in conflict resolution, negotiation and communications skills for agencies and organizations, and she has been one of the lead trainers for the popular Basic Mediation Skills training offered by Woodbury College for the past 12 years.
Christine Graham is a consultant with a wide range of nonprofit clients, with specialization in fund-raising and management issues. She is also the editor and publisher of Nonprofit Vermont Newsletter, established in 1986; and the Vermont Directory of Foundations 1986-2006; and the New Hampshire Directory of Foundations, since 2001. Additionally, she is the author of several booklets and books on fund-raising techniques and planning, and is a trainer and presenter of fund-raising and management workshops for nonprofits.
Churchill Hindes applies the experience of years spent in health care and public administration to his job as president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand isle Counties.
Jim LeFevre is an organizational consultant who has worked for more than 20 years with clients from many sectors of the nonprofit spectrum. These clients include statewide land trusts and humanities councils, museums, health care organizations, international family planning organizations, and Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout the United States.
Karen Saudek is director of human resources at Committee for Temporary Shelter (COTS). She has served as a human resource consultant, vice president of human resources at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont and Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery.
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