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Jenn Jevertson, M.S., is the Prevention Coordinator for the Office of Student Wellness of the Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS), and oversees the District’s wellness and prevention efforts. Additionally, she oversees the SFPS Safe Zones Program and the Gender Support Plan process for transgender and gender nonconforming students, as well as serving on SFPS’s Diversity and Equity Council. Jenn has over eighteen years experience utilizing experiential education and therapeutic adventure methodologies with children, youth, adults, schools, and organizations. Her expertise includes the content areas of experiential education, bullying, suicide, substance use, anti-bias, anti-oppression, gender/sexuality, and youth-driven work, and is an experienced trainer and facilitator. |
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Jess Clark is the Education and Prevention Manager for Solace Crisis Treatment Center in Santa Fe, NM. His work over the last decade has focused on increasing youth capacity to interrogate systems of oppression, exploring queer/trans masculinities as a site of violence prevention, and supporting organizations in better serving transgender communities through policies, best practices, and learning to be like his grandma. Jess is Vice Board Chair for Girls Inc. of Santa Fe and serves on the Santa Fe Public School District’s Diversity and Equity Council.
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Alena Schaim is the Executive Director and Instructor at Resolve, a violence prevention organization based in Santa Fe. She has been working to prevent violence and support survivors for almost 20 years. Her work centers around helping people shift beliefs that shape norms and speak up for themselves & others. She enjoys the balance of supporting school districts and organizations in implementing policies that promote inclusiveness and working directly with staff and students to ensure that community members have the skills to navigate situations that arise. Alena has presented at regional and national conferences on topics including Empowerment Self-Defense, sexual and domestic violence, and preventing violence for specific communities. |
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Karen Dugas (she/her) is a health educator, parent, daughter, sister, auntie, and youth advisor who is committed to supporting our community to build upon its inherent resiliency. She serves as the NM Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network and Adventure OUT! Program Manager at The Mountain Center in Tesuque, NM. Karen is a seasoned trainer and facilitator on a variety of topics of expertise, including anti-oppression. She earned a Master’s of Public Health from the University of Michigan, and specializes in social determinants of health and behavioral health. She is the treasurer of HEAL+NM, a member of the NM Public Health Association, and an alumna of the NM Women of Color Leadership Initiative. Karen is a Queer Latina of multiracial descent originally from greater Detroit/Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved to NM in 2013.
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Lisa Vigil is Director of the Language and Culture Department for Santa Fe Public Schools. Mrs. Vigil is a graduate of New Mexico Highlands University, where she received a BA in Elementary Education, a MA in Curriculum & Instruction and a MA in Educational Leadership.
Mrs. Vigil taught in the elementary setting for 14 years in northern New Mexico prior to transitioning into the administrative roles of assistant principal at El Camino Real Academy in Santa Fe, NM and her current position as the Language and Culture Director. Mrs. Vigil is dedicated to creating an equitable educational environment that incorporates the histories, languages, values, beliefs, and perspectives of all SFPS students. She works to ensure teachers are adequately trained in culturally and linguistically responsive instruction to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students.
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Nancy Davis, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, serves as the Director of Native American Student Services for the Santa Fe Public Schools. Previously she was a teacher and taught grades K, 1st, 7th-8th grade math. She currently oversees academic and cultural programs for over 400 Native American students in grades K-12. The students come from many different tribes from all across the United States as well as the local pueblos and tribes here in NM. She enjoys working with students at all grade levels and strongly encourages their involvement in school, community, athletics and visual and performing arts. Nancy is a dedicated advocate for students and their families attending Santa Fe Public Schools. She serves on the Truancy Task Force, Homeless Children and Youth Task Force, the Superintendent’s Diversity and Equity Council and is a member on the Santa Fe Indian Center board. She has two loving daughters, Kayla who is beginning her senior year of college at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO and Isabella who is in the eighth grade and attends ATC School.
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Katrina Koehler is Co-Executive Director of Gerard's House. Since 2001, Katrina has been leading grief support groups for children and teenagers at Gerard’s House. She was the program director for ten years and continues to train, supervise and support volunteers and staff. The Co-Executive Director assists with collaborative partner coordination, volunteer training, outreach, program evaluation and fundraising. Katrina co-facilitates the Semicolon group for youth who have attempted suicide and coordinates referrals and services for Nuestra Jornada participants who are also in the Semicolon group. She also supports and supervises Nuestra Jornada staff, is a substitute group leader and co-leads the Nuestra Jornada program. |
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Nicole Maes-Gonzales is Co-Executive Director of Gerard's House. Nicole has been involved in Gerard’s House since the beginning in 1997. As a volunteer, Nicole has run some very successful special events for Gerard’s House, including Mend a Broken Heart, our Dia de los Muertos Event and our Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. For many years she worked at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service managing a large staff, and she brings both special events and organizational management expertise to our organization. The Co-Executive Director assists with recruiting, coordinating and appreciating volunteers, creation of marketing materials, coordination with collaborative partners, administration of surveys and fundraising. She also supports and supervises Nuestra Jornada staff, serves as a substitute and co-leads the Nuestra Jornada program.
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Roxana Melendez is the Nuestra Jornada Outreach and Training Specialist for Gerard's House. Roxana has been at the heart of the Nuestra Jornada program from the beginning. Because Roxana’s mother is from Guatemala and her father is from El Salvador, and because she grew up in Santa Fe with Spanish as her first language and with friends whose families came from Mexico and Central American countries, she has been immersed in these immigrant communities. She provides outstanding support for every aspect of the program, including the coordination of programming with schools, collaborative partners and volunteers, outreach, marketing, donations and volunteer training. She also connects participants and families with needed services, from basic needs to mental health needs. She also leads 2 Nuestra Jornada groups. |
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Maggie Boyle is the Program Coordinator of the Nuestra Jornada Program and the Bilingual Coordinator. She is a former Gerard's House volunteer and rejoined the team in May 2019. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker. Maggie is a non-native Spanish speaker. It was through learning Spanish that she first understood that our country needs more kind, smart, hardworking immigrants, not fewer. Before joining Gerard's House she worked at Catholic Charities in Santa Fe and Albuquerque providing immigration legal support, as a case manager at Refugee Women's Alliance and as therapist at SeaMar Behavioral Health Clinic in Seattle. Maggie is relieved to be back in New Mexico where she belongs, holding space for all of Santa Fe's residents to find healing and connection. |