November 21, 2008
Board of Directors
Elizabeth Westhoff
Descending gently
like a multi-colored leaf,
glad I landed here.
Elizabeth is an articulate, creative, versatile professional with nearly ten years of experience in the non-profit sector. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Upon the completion of one more class, Elizabeth will be doubly Masterful in English language and literature and Public Administration.
Betsy Dennis
Stewardship to trust
community connector
wife, mom, friend, and food
Betsy currently holds the Alumni/Auxiliary Relations Manager position for the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation and is active in the Jewish community. At the University of Michigan and Duke University, Betsy spent her lawful educational career earning a host of acronyms, including an AB and a JD.
Braden Welborn
local scribe cooks books
reacts to sentence with glee
committed to print
Braden is the Assistant Director of Communications and Grant Writing for the City Academy and is a full-time lover of puns. In an academic career spanning two states and eight years, Braden transformed herself into a BAMFAMA of English, Creative Writing, and American and English Literature.
Ben Johnson
Life science by day
Football, the zoo, BBQ
Tower Grove living.
Ben works as a Project Specialist for the Coalition for Plant and Life Sciences. At Northwestern, Ben became an Artful Bachelor of Economics and Political Science while he showed minor interest in German Business.
Pam Bliss
Mom to Will & Mags
Adventures, art & design
up for anything
Pam is the founder of Bliss Collaborative and currently leads design of the identity, sign system, and print collateral for Citygarden. While attending the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, she became a fine, artsy Bachelorette.
Jeanne Smith
philosopher mom
aware of her ignorance
will work for chocolate
Jeanne currently works as an adjunct faculty member at St. Louis University, where she has been since 1988 as both a student and a teacher. Over the past twenty years, she has served in a variety of leadership positions in the community. At Illinois Wesleyan, she was bachelorly fabulous in biology, so she went on to be masterifically wonderful in philosophy and ethics at St. Louis University and Eden Theological Seminary.
Staff
Beth Einig Ketcher
ever effusive
passion for words, kiddos and
possibilities
After trading her law career for the service of children, Beth founded StudioSTL and serves as its Executive Director where she advocates full-time for children and teachers. In the same month that Windows 3.0 was released, Beth received her law degree from St. Louis University
Emma O'Brien
energy and spunk
i love alliteration
canines, cupcakes, camp!
Emma has dedicated her short but diverse career thus far to the non-profit sector. She serves as StudioSTL's Marketing and Development Coordinator when not creating baked goods for the Cakery Bakery in Dogtown. Her resume "Advertises" her degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, while noting only a minor interest in Environment Studies.