Staff of Buckeye Community Hope

Main Office
	Peggy Young Director of the Community School Division. Office: (614) 942-2003 Email: pyoung@buckeyehope.org Peggy Young, Director of the Community School Division, has a lifelong focus on education beginning her career as a speech therapist.  Peggy has extensive experience in executive leadership, business operations, financial management, and personnel management in both profit and non-profit organizations. Peggy has worked in the Community School Division at Buckeye since its inception with community school sponsorship in 2004. Peggy is instrumental in the growth and accomplishments of the Division and leads an exemplary team of community school consultants throughout the State. Peggy earned a BA and Masters Degree from The Ohio State University. She is a licensed Ohio School Treasurer.
	Jennifer L. Robison Associate Director of the Community School Division. Office: (614) 942-2002 Email: jrobison@buckeyehope.org Jennifer L. Robison has served community school developers, operators, sponsors, parents, and students throughout Ohio for 10 years. Jennifer is a leading expert in community school sponsorship, auditing, school operations, and compliance monitoring with local and national community school rules and regulations. Jennifer has served as a NCLB compliance officer, Federal programs administer, sponsor representative, and community school board member. Jennifer has worked on the planning committee for the national project: Building Charter School Quality working with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes, and the Colorado League of Charter Schools. Jennifer L. Robison earned her BBA degree from Ohio University and her MBA degree from the University of Phoenix Columbus Campus.
	Anita McCarty Data Collection Manager Email: AMcCarty@buckeyehope.org Anita, an Ohio native, has accepted the task of assisting each sponsored school and all regional representatives in assuring the ODE required documents are uploaded into Sharepoint in a timely fashion.  Equipped with the eagerness to help others, a happy-go-lucky outlook on life and a vast understanding of Sharepoint, Anita is the one to e-mail for all your Sharepoint questions and concerns.
Regional Representatives
	Maureen Barbessi Akron area Regional Representative Office: (330) 518-5260 Email: MBarbessi@me.com Maureen has been assisting schools and non-profit organizations in their fundraising efforts for the past nine years with Great American Opportunities. She holds a Bachelor in Science of Business Administration with a focus in Advertising and Public Relations. Her interests include advancing technology, working with children as well as spending time with family.
	Joe Calinger Youngstown area Regional Representative Office: (330) 759-8222 Email:  joecalinger@sbcglobal.net Joe earned his Bachelor of Science in Education from Youngstown State University. Joe possesses a wide range of educational experience from teaching middle school for the Austintown School District, to administrative experience at Kent State University. Born outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Joe is a life long Pittsburgh sports fanatic and a walking encyclopedia
	Jack Conrath Central Ohio Regional Representative Office: Email: jackconrath@columbus.rr.com Dr. Jack Conrath has served public education for forty-five years, as a teacher and administrator. Taking his first superintendent's position in 1971 and retiring as Superintendent of the Whitehall City Schools, Whitehall , Ohio in 1994, he now serves as partner of CNM Educational Consulting, a full-service educational consulting firm. He has completed studies/surveys for more than 50 Districts to assist in curriculum and educational facility planning.
	Lori Gawdyda Youngstown area Regional Representative Office: (330) 757-7534 Email: lmm1@neoucom.edu Lori is currently a medical librarian at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, Ohio. She earned her MLS from Kent State University, Kent and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science with a major in Medical Technology from Youngstown State University. Her interests include the application of emerging technologies to learning; webpage development and design; all aspects of digital preservation projects;computer networking and medical database searching.
	Gary Hardman Dayton area Regional Representative Office: Email:  ghpen@aol.com Gary has extensive experience in teaching, school administration and special education. He has served on county boards of mental retardation, was the Educational Supervisor of a county education service center and the Pupil Personnel Services DIrector. Most recently he was the President, CEO and administrator of a community school in Dayton.
	Trevor Walsh Toledo area Regional Representative Office: (419) 304-4008 Email: trevorwalsh@buckeye-express. com Trevor has taught Social Studies for 5 years and has recently joined Nystrom, Herff Jones' Education Division, as the Northwest Ohio Representative.  Nystrom provides a number of free maps and lesson plans on their website for teachers parents, and students.  Trevor holds a Master of Education degree
	Carol Young Northcentral Ohio Regional Representative Office: (740) 360-9175 Email: cyoung2@hardinnet.com Dr. Carol Young has worked in PK-12 and higher education for over 35 years. She retired in 2006 from public education, having served as Superintendent of both the North Union and Southern (Perry Co.) local school districts. Carol has taught recently in the teacher education program of Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where she formerly held the positions of Intervention Specialist Program Coordinator and Graduate Education Department Chair. She is active in research and consultation in school leadership, special education, curriculum development, and teacher quality. Carol earned her Ph.D. in educational administration from Ohio University, and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in education and speech-language pathology from Marshall University.