Leadership Team

Donna L. Jones

Executive Director

Calenthia Dowdy

PRESIDENT

David Tatgenhorst

TREASURER

Courtney Anika

Secretary

Marsha Brown-Woodard

Board Member

Christobal Kimmenez

Board Member

Susan Teegan

Board Member

L’Vonne MCMillan-Smith

Board Member

Jay Gardner

Board Member

W. Nick Taliaferro

Communications Consultant

Myra Maxwell

Board Member

Warren Cooper

Board Member

Troy Wilson

Board Member

Rev. Dr. Myra Maxwell

Myra J. Maxwell serves as Lead Pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in South Philadelphia and is the Founder of Restoration Interdenominational Ministries, Inc. and the President and Founder of FAVOR (Faith And Victim Services Offering Restoration) International, Inc. FAVOR International is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing training and resources for communities of faith, offering spiritual support and referrals.

Maxwell is a bi-vocational leader with over 25 years of victim services experience and served as the Director of Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement for Survivors of Homicide (CARES) Unit at the DAO. She has over 40 years of experience serving in leadership in human services with private, for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations. She has served in several directorship capacities within the field of victim services and human services, including Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP) as Director of Victim Services, Transitional Services Director, and Director of the Faith-Based Program for Victims (a U.S. Justice Department program); West Philadelphia Partnership, Director of West/Southwest Victim Services; and as a Victim Advocate with the Philadelphia Family Court’s Victims of Juvenile Offenders (VOJO) program. Her passion is developing and implementing new programs in victim services and providing strategic direction for the field.

Other experiences include former Vice President of the Board for WOAR Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence, State President of Church Women United in Pennsylvania, Co-Chair of the Urban Commission of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, and several terms as co-chair of the Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy (PCVA) in Philadelphia. Maxwell has also served on the Homicide Review Team, Network of Neighbors, and Keystone Crisis Intervention Team (KCIT) and facilitated Balance And Restorative Justice (BARJ) classes. She has provided training on victim services in California, New Jersey, Florida, and across Pennsylvania, and plans to continue training on the impact of violence and trauma nationally and internationally.

She holds degrees in Theology and Human Services, graduating with honors and a lifetime induction into Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Sciences. She has a certificate from the University of Pennsylvania in Non-Profit Leadership and received awards for Victim Advocacy from PCVA and Lutheran Settlement House. She is currently pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Human Services. Her motto: “If I can help somebody along the way, my living shall not be in vain.”

Leadership Team

Donna L. Jones

Executive Director

Calenthia Dowdy

PRESIDENT

David Tatgenhorst

TREASURER

Courtney Anika

Secretary

Marsha Brown-Woodard

Board Member

Christobal Kimmenez

Board Member

Susan Teegan

Board Member

L’Vonne MCMillan-Smith

Board Member

Jay Gardner

Board Member

W. Nick Taliaferro

Communications Consultant

Myra Maxwell

Board Member

Warren Cooper

Board Member

Troy Wilson

Board Member

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