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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

Kathryn Shipley - Director of Music Programs

Kathryn Shipley - Director of Music Programs

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

-Brene Brown


Kathryn Shipley - Director of Music Programs

Kathryn Shipley - Director of Music Programs

Kathryn Shipley - Director of Music Programs

“Keep your head up, even in the midst of the storm, and you will find your way through. Just like the sun rises after every storm, you too will rise again. In the midst of chaos, find your calm.”

-Anonymous

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