Steve Boerner

Steve is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in startups, engineering, and leadership. He has a certificate in the economics of digital assets (like academic articles) from the Wharton School of Business. He has previously developed two startups in the educational technology space (Hatchhouse ventures and HeliumIQ). He is currently PubTrawlr’s C-suite level development officer.

Kathie Jushchyshyn

Kathie Jushchyshyn is an experienced communications professional skilled in journalism, publishing, corporate communications, digital marketing, and instructional development. Her career has included roles in the publishing, energy, and education sectors.

She supports leadership development and employment opportunities for adults and transition-aged youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities as an at-large director with Integrate for Good. In addition, she has advocated for education that meets the diverse needs of gifted and twice-exceptional learners.

She helps Dawn Chorus with our instructional design and training development.

Elena Tamanas Ragusa, PsyD

Dr. Elena Tamanas Ragusa, President and Founder of Drive Evaluation Studio, is an organizational and community psychologist. Elena built Drive Evaluation Studio out of a desire to partner with communities to strengthen the systems in which they live, work, learn, and play — and out of a need to make research and evaluation accessible to people doing important work in these spaces. The Studio works with nonprofits, foundations, and universities to use data to inform their work, determine and build on what is working in their practices, and tell the story about their impact in their community.

Elena has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, program assessment, systems evaluation, organizational strategy, and evaluation coaching. As a consultant, she serves as a capacity builder, evaluator, critical thought partner, and coach. Elena stays connected to students and theory in the classroom, serving as adjunct faculty whose teaching includes community psychology, group dynamics, industrial/organizational psychology, social psychology, and program evaluation methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Before building out the Studio, Elena was the senior executive director of enrollment strategy and analytics for Rutgers University–New Brunswick, where her work focused on using data to design and execute collaborative strategies to enroll, retain, and graduate a diverse and accomplished student body at the university. Prior to that, Elena designed, managed, and directed the research and evaluation of college access programs for Rutgers University’s pre-college program portfolio. And before her 10 years at Rutgers, she served as a project manager at OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (now Equal Measure) – a national research and evaluation consulting firm based in Philadelphia, PA. She has worked in Human Assets at Teach for America’s national headquarters and consulted to New Jersey public school districts on issues of organizational effectiveness and on the development of college preparatory research methods courses for high school students.

Elena holds B.A.s in psychology and sociology from Rutgers University, and she earned an M.A. and doctorate of psychology in organizational psychology – with a focus on communities – from Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.

Jason Turi, RN, MPH

Jason Turi, RN, MPH

Director of Field Building and Resources for the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, an initiative of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.

Jason Turi is a registered nurse and public health practitioner specializing in integrated healthcare and social service delivery for complex, vulnerable, and marginalized populations. Currently, he serves as Director of Field Building and Resources at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs in Camden, NJ where he plans, organizes, and leads technical assistance, model co-design, multisector coalitions, evaluations, and curriculum development focused on advancing the field of complex care and addressing inequities in health outcomes.

He has bachelor’s degrees in Nursing from William Paterson University and English Literature from Union College and received a master’s degree in Public Health, with an international health concentration, from the Boston University School of Public Health. Currently, he is a doctoral student in Public Health at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health in the Global Health Leadership Program.

Prior to his current role he served as Vice President of Population Health and Clinical Integration for Centerstone, the nation’s largest community-based behavioral healthcare organization. He provided leadership and expertise for population health management initiatives, complex care innovation, integrated primary, behavioral health, and addiction services, as well as data analytics, and value-based care readiness. Previous to Centerstone, Jason served at New York City Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health system in the nation, as Associate Executive Director of the Health Home program, where he oversaw the administration of both a city-wide health home care management agency and a New York State designated health home network engaging over 20,000 individuals – additionally, he worked at the health system’s Accountable Care Organization as Senior Director for Innovation Strategies where he focused on building clinical and operational capacity to effectively engage and manage high-need, vulnerable populations throughout New York City in collaboration public agencies and non-profit partners.

Earlier in his career, he was Associate Clinical Director at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers where he led strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation of the Coalition’s nationally recognized hospital and community-based multidisciplinary care management teams in collaboration with multiple regional health systems, multisector service providers, and community-based organizations. Prior to that, he worked at Pathways To Housing NYC as a Registered Nurse Care Manager on the Assertive Community Mental Health Treatment and Housing First team in Central Brooklyn, a model harm reduction-based initiative.

He currently serves as an advisory panel member for Indiana University’s Addiction Grand Challenge Research Initiative and has been actively involved in several of the initiative’s research projects. His doctoral research focuses on evaluating the mechanisms of multisector community networks to impact inequities in health and social outcomes. He is collaborating with students and faculty at Indiana University to advance the Doctor of Public Health program to better address racism, bias, discrimination, and xenophobia as a global public health leadership competency and is part of joint student-faculty organizing efforts to institutionalize a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee at Indiana University’s Fairbanks School of Public Health.  Additionally, he is an active member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.

Contact information: jturi@camdenhealth.org

Victoria Scott, PhD

Dr. Victoria Scott earned her Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology and Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of South Carolina.  Focused on systems-level capacity building and organizational development, her research involves interdisciplinary approaches to promote individual and collective wellness. Dr. Scott works primarily with healthcare systems and community-based organizations. She is particularly interested in a) supporting breastfeeding through community, healthcare system, and workplace interventions;  b) building organizational readiness in non-profit and for-profit organizations; c) the science and art of implementation science and quality improvement.

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In 2015, Dr. Scott received the Society for Community Research and Action Early Career Award in honor of her commitment to developing and promoting the field of community psychology.  She also received the Don Klein Publication Award to Advance Community Psychology Practice for her co-edited book: Community Psychology: Foundations for Practice, which aims to further the competencies of professionals who work in community settings.

David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman is a founder and partner at Mind Development and Design.  He is an experienced developer with a broad skill set includes PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript (plus Vue, Sass, jQuery, node, WordPress, and other open-source projects), general web development and database usage, and server administration, and nachos. He helps to deploy the Dawn Chorus applications and reports, and works deeply with the team around implementing machine learning models.

Rebecca Sax, MPH

Matt Scaccia

Matt Scaccia has 15 years of expertise in customer experience and customer relations. He helps Dawn Chorus maintain its wide network of relationships by providing above industry standard methods of engaging new customers and retaining existing customers.

Matt prior background was in soccer merchandizing, and he is ready for the 2026 World Cup in Philly.

Christina Richter, MA

The nursing cap was first worn in the 1800s by Florence Nightingale.  It quickly became the symbol around the world of” providing help and service to those in need.”

Just as Nightingale became know as the “The Lady with the Lamp,” Christina is a dedicated, non-profit thought leader with over 28 years experience. She offers a dedicated light of service, guidance, and solutions to all her clients. Armed with her ability to see the big picture, build relationships, her skills build long-term solutions that build healthy results. She is a coach and builds teams that can lead to a better donor experience.

MANTRAS: Service-above-self.  Daring greatly. The rich tapestry of diversity weaves a beautiful fabric.

Community advocate and volunteer.

Marathon runner with a purpose to change lives one step at a time. Lover of the beach, nature, biking and kayaking.  Always has a stack of books. Still listens to record albums. Trying her hand at learning to play the piano—“take each day with gratitude to learn something new.”

Christina is formerly the Chief Development Officer of the Philadelphia Police Athletic League. She has worked in higher education at Temple University,  and as a Senior Major gift officer in a major healthcare system—Virtua Healthcare in Southern NJ. She has also served as the Chief Development Officer of the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition. She has served as interim Chief Development Officer at clients such as the Kimmel Center Performance Arts, Bancroft, and assisted with major gifts at the Special Olympics of PA.

She has a strong knowledge of the healthcare sector and its changing landscape. She has implemented and led capital campaigns, major gift strategies, grants, special events, annual fund. She is very relationship focused in her approaches and is interested in building a culture of philanthropy that is donor-centric. She sees the big picture for organizations and is a connector and makes things happen to collaborate.

Christina has a B.A. from Clarion University in Communications, and a M.A. from Point Park University in Marketing Communications.

She also serves on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Services of Delaware and is a volunteer at the Mary Campbell Center, a residential center for people with disabilities.  She also serves on the Alumni Board of Point Park University.

Mary Mitsdarffer, PhD

Mary’s research is focused on ethno-racial health disparities, U.S. policy, and structural racism. She is trained as an interdisciplinary researcher with a research agenda centered on ethnic and racial health disparities driven by U.S. and institutional policy. In her work, she employs qualitative, quantitative, and archival methods, specifically focusing on demographic and community-based participatory research. As an investigator and research assistant, she has worked on several universities and privately funded grants, focusing on community health needs for marginalized and minoritized persons.

Through her dissertation work and commitment to acquiring advanced statistical skills, she has laid the groundwork for understanding the impacts of interior immigration enforcement policy on Latinx maternal and child health, by developing a policy dataset with interior immigration enforcement policies at a county level over the last 20 years, acquiring restricted level natality data from the National Center for Health Statistics and by establishing strong methodological skills working with large datasets and panel data.

Brittany Cook, PhD

Brittany S. Cook, PhD, a senior managing partner of the Wandersman Center, has extensive experience in evaluation, project management and coordination, qualitative methodology, and implementation support, particularly in educational, youth serving, and community health organizations. As one of the founding authors of the R=MC2 readiness model, her research focuses on differences in organizational readiness, including variations by individuals’ roles and levels of engagement in an innovation, as well as change management for readiness strategies.

Brittany was involved in the formative evaluation work that received the American Evaluation Association’s 2017 Evaluation of the Year Award. She is also a faculty member with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and earned her degree from the University of South Carolina’s clinical-community psychology program.

Ross D. Whiting, PhD

Ross D. Whiting, Ph.D. is the President of Dogwood Consulting an organization that engages in evaluation, organizational development, and advocacy that drives change for good. Ross is a consultant and social scientist with extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, organizational development, and project management, reporting, and results communication and advocacy. Ross currently serves as a consultant for diverse nonprofit, public, and private clients who are committed to improving opportunities and quality of life for the people they serve. Ross’ focus on entrepreneurial, creative solutions to policy and practice challenges has resulted in several nation-leading public and privately funded initiatives. A former educator, Ross has experience in teaching, evaluating, and facilitating change in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and excels at knowledge organization and translation that results in aligned, action-focused planning and implementation. Ross is passionate about solving complex organizational problems and excels at understanding and translating seemingly disparate data. Ross has a demonstrated history of convening interdisciplinary groups to drive meaningful changes in policy and practice.

Ross is the former Associate Director of the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers University-Camden where his work focused on evaluation, data-driven organizational development, and strategic planning serving local and state governments, nonprofits, and private foundations and organizations. In this position, Ross led program evaluation and advocacy to pass P.L.2021 c.85 supporting the Clayton Model Pilot Program, one of the largest state-funded social-emotional learning programs in the United States. Ross also served as the Inclusive Education Project Manager at Temple University where he led an interdisciplinary program to create Certificate in Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion that was the first for-credit credential available to both adults with Intellectual Disabilities and their typically matriculated peers in the United States. Ross is a former adjunct professor at Temple University, teaching courses in Urban Education and Organizational Development including Understanding Urban Communities, Sociocultural Foundations of Education in the United States, Organizational Communication, and Interpersonal Communication. Ross began his career as a music teacher at Edward W. Bok Technical High School in the School District of Philadelphia, focusing on student-centered, growth-oriented, culturally responsive teaching and learning.

Ross earned a Doctorate in Urban Education (Ph.D.) from Temple University, a M.M. in Music Education with a focus on Urban Education from Boston University, and a B.M. in Music Education from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. Ross continues to engage in regular leadership coaching, and continues to seek opportunities to grow his evaluation, organizational development, and leadership skills