wcw SEPTEMBER 2022

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Accolades
■ More Too Life, Inc. honored Dr.
Kameron Partridge Hodgens, Gulf
Coast Community Foundation’s
Director of Community Leadership,
with the
Community
Hero
Award at
their Inspire
Change Anniversary
fundraiser in
June.
For over
Dr. Kameron Partridge
Hodgens 18 years,
More Too Life, Inc. has been dedicated
to fighting human exploitation
and providing victim services
and programs to children, families,
and the community. As the former
CEO of The Glasser/Schoenbaum
Human Services Center, Hodgens
has been a loyal supporter of the
More Too Life mission and vision.
Dr. Hodgens has also been an outstanding
leader and advocate for
the work of nonprofits throughout
the community.
More Too Life’s approach is
to provide opportunities to turn
“victims to survivors, survivors to
thrivers, and thrivers into champions.”
In the fight to attack human
trafficking, they provide care to its
victims and those on the fringe by
addressing root causes.
Appointments
■ Halfacre Construction Company,
a Lakewood Ranch-based
commercial construction company,
recently welcomed Tammi Dodson
as its marketing
and
proposal
manager.
Dodson
brings over
30 years of
experience
in marketing,
graphic design,
media
Tammi Dodson
relations and event planning to the
commercial construction company.
In her new role, she will be tasked
with managing the requests for the
proposal and qualification process,
overseeing marketing initiatives,
event planning, communication
efforts, collateral creation and file
management, among other duties.
Most recently, Dodson served
as the marketing specialist for Advanced
Orthopedic Center in Port
Charlotte. During her time there,
her tasks included managing the
website, growing the organization’s
social media presence, overseeing
commercial and educational video
production, coordinating physicians’
speaking engagements and
business development.
■ Neal Communities, a homebuilder
based in Lakewood Ranch,
has promoted 14 employees over
the last several months.
The promotions include two
vice presidents: Ivory Matthews
promoted
from director
of community
and
governmental
affairs to vice
president of
community
and governmental
affairs,
Ivory Matthews and Carlos
Puente promoted from vice president
of sales to vice president of
sales and marketing.
In addition, the following
employees were promoted: Pam
Curran from bank financing
manager to director of finance, Rob
Kozlowski from senior financial
analyst to business insights and
analytics manager, Janet Ladwig
from director of design to director
of community design and
product development, Mathew
Lavish from project manager to
director of construction, Heidi
Lustig from staff accountant III to
senior accountant, Jodi McConnell
from assistant controller to
controller, Marjory McGloin from
job coordinator to purchasing
supervisor, Kristin Mullins from
senior accountant to accounting
manager, Ben Renner from area
construction manager to director
of construction, Kameren
Saffold from assistant construction
manager to construction manager,
Michael Thomas from purchasing
agent to estimator and Rob Woods
from project manager to area
construction manager.
For more information, visit https://
www.nealcommunities.com/
■ Elisabeth Owen has
joined ArtisTree Landscape
Maintenance & Design as its newest
designer to serve the company’s
growing client roster. A Florida
Certified Horticulture Professional,
Owen will create plans for new
builds and renovations. Her 20-plus
years in the green industry includes
design, managerial and sales experience
for residential and commercial
clients. Owen graduated cum
laude from the University of Florida
with a Master of Science degree in
environmental horticulture.
■ Forza Wealth Management, an
SEC-registered investment advisor,
has added Kimberly Evener as its
new Director
of Client
Services.
Evener will be
responsible
for all aspects
of client services
including
strategic
direction,
Kimberly Evener,
coordination,
Director of Client
Services for Forza and operations.
Wealth Management
Prior to joining Forza, Evener
worked for six years at Caldwell
Trust Company, most recently as
an Assistant Vice President and
Trust Officer. Before that, she spent
12 years at Northern Trust Company,
advancing to the roles of Officer
and Account Manager. Learn more
at forzawealth.com.
Board News
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
and Hermitage alumnus
Doug Wright, Sondra
Biller, Stephanie Jones, and Liz
Richardson have joined the
Hermitage Board of Trustees.
Robyn Citrin
will continue
in her
second year
as President of
the Hermitage
Board,
with David
Greenserving
as Vice President,
Steve
Sondra Biller
Adler as
Treasurer, Ellen
Berman as
Secretary,
and Carole
Crosby as
Chair of Governance.
Doug
Wright is a
Stephanie Jones Pulitzer Prize
and Tony
Award-winning
playwright.
He is
a Hermitage
alumnus and
served as a
juror for the
inaugural Hermitage
Major
Liz Richardson
Theater Award
in 2021. His plays and musicals
include I Am My Own Wife (Tony
Award, Pulitzer Prize in Drama),
Quills (subsequently adapted
by Wright as a screenplay), Grey
Gardens, The Little Mermaid, War
Paint, and Hands on a Hardbody,
among others.Stephanie Jones,
having worked in corporate
recruiting for over 20 years, is currently
the Director of Experienced
Talent Acquisition for Kroll, a global
professional services firm.
Sondra Biller has worked at the
UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill,
where she held positions as a nurse
educator clinician and nurse manager
for a new acute rehabilitation
unit. Upon moving to Chicago, she
worked in health care marketing for
assisted living and rehabilitation facilities.
Sondra served as Co-Chair
of the 2022 Hermitage Greenfield
Prize Dinner.
Liz Richardson began her career
in the healthcare industry, starting
as a clinical speech pathologist and
then moving into management as
a program evaluation director, followed
by establishing a healthcare
quality management consulting
practice. Richardson was President
of the Board of the Newton Schools
Foundation for multiple years and
served as a volunteer and board
member for “Understanding Our
Differences,” an award-winning
national disability awareness and
acceptance program.
The Hermitage’s board officers
for the 2022-2023 season are:
Robyn Citrin, President; David
Green, Vice President; Steve Adler,
Treasurer; and Ellen Berman, Secretary.
The full Hermitage Board
of Trustees includes Sondra Biller,
Christine Boone, Maryann Casey,
Carole Crosby, Marletta Darnall,
Leslie Edwards, Stephanie Jones,
Tina Shao Napoli, Michael Pender,
Charlotte Perret, Liz Richardson,
Edward M. Swan, Jr., Nelda
Thompson, Mary Lou Winnick,
Doug Wright, and Andy Sandberg,
Hermitage Artistic Director and
CEO (ex-officio).
■ Child welfare agency Safe
Children Coalition has announced
its 2022-2023 board of directors.
Michael Rahn is the new chair
of the board. New directors are
Jamara Clark and Lee Lipton;
they join continuing directors Ken
Alexander, Tony Gamelin, David
Fairy, Brian Goodrich and Ann
Marie Jones.
Rahn is the SWFL Regional
Production Manager for South-
State Bank, with nearly 30 years
as a mortgage broker in Sarasota/
Manatee. He has served in multiple
capacities with the Home Builders
Association of Manatee-Sarasota as
well as served as the vice chair of
the Florida Home Builders Association.
He was elected to the Florida
Housing Hall of Fame in 2017 and
sits on the National Association of
Home Builders board. He currently
serves on the Manatee County
Planning Committee. This will be
his third year on the board and his
first as chair.
Clark is currently the principal
at Rowlett Middle Academy in
Bradenton and has over 15 years
of experience as an educator in
Manatee County. He has first-hand
knowledge of how life events can
directly impact a student’s ability to
learn and grow, both academically
and socially.
Lipton spent nearly 30 years in
the healthcare industry, working
for national organizations in both
the home health and physician
management fields. Recently, he
left the healthcare industry to focus
on opening his own business
and supporting local activities
and causes.
The core functions provided
by Safe Children Coalition (SCC)
include child welfare case management,
foster care, adoption,
independent living, prevention,
diversion, quality management,
and support services. Last year,
SCC served nearly 1,700 children in
foster and out of home care as well
as nearly 6,000 children in its diversion
and prevention services. For
more information, visit sccfl.org
■ Hearing Charities of America
(HCOA) has announced the appointment
of Carol Pandis, to the
board of directors for a three-year
term starting this past July 1.
Pandis, a hearing aid specialist
for Hear Again America-Sarasota,
has seen firsthand how hearing
loss negatively impacts loved
ones. Growing up with a father
with hearing loss and meeting
her husband, who has singlesided
deafness, she felt becoming
a hearing care professional was
the perfect way to help improve
lives. Carol received her Bachelor
of Science from Elmira College
and has over 30 years of extensive
knowledge in the medical field.
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