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Who We Are

Our mission and projects are just as important as the people who drive them. Here's a glance at the faces that make this foundation a family. 

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

"Passion with purpose can move mountains."

-Anonymous

Michael Picker - Treasurer

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation." 

-Glenn Close

Jad Ryherd - Director of Development

Lisa Picker - Founder/Executive Director

Jad Ryherd - Director of Development

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Stephanie Ryherd - Secretary

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

"What you do matters, but why you do it matters so much more." 

-Anonymous

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls."

-Khalil Gibran

"Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to remind us where we are going."

Chelsea Darnell - Community Outreach

Zoe Picker - Director of Program/Webmaster

Chelsea Darnell - Community Outreach

"Scars remind us where we have been. They don't have to dictate where we are going."

-Joe Mantegna

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet."

-Stephen King

Paige Ryherd - Social Media Manager

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

"Be who you want to be, not what others want to see."

-Anonymous

Justin Darnell - Community Outreach

Drew Ryherd - Co-Director of Program

Justin Darnell - Community Outreach

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

Cathy Downen

Gohei Nishikawa

Cathy Downen

 "Take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."-Martin Luther King Jr. 

Phil Downen

Gohei Nishikawa

Cathy Downen

Gohei Nishikawa

Gohei Nishikawa

Gohei Nishikawa

"If you work hard enough, anything is possible."

-Anonymous

Kennedy Graf

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do." 

-Brene Brown


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