Board

Board of Directors

To contact the board, please email info [at] nasna [dot] org

Tasha, Board President, Co-chair: Tasha is the founder and director of The Contributor street paper in Nashville, Tennessee. She brings to the NASNA board a degree in photojournalism and more than 15 years experience working with at least ten publications in various capacities. She has experience as a homeless outreach worker and has spent years photographing and interviewing individuals living on the street. She is the recipient of the 2009 Titans Community Quarterback award, given to the top volunteer in the state of Tennessee, for her efforts with The Contributor. (2 year term 2010-2012)

Sean Condon, Board Vice President, Co-chair: Sean Condon is the executive director of Megaphone, a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver by homeless and low-income vendors. A former senior editor of Adbusters, Sean has written for a number of magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States and Europe and has focused his work on social justice, with the goal of ending poverty and prejudice. (2 year term 2010-2012)

Katie Bodiford, Secretary: Katie Bodiford serves on the team of The Contributor street newspaper, in Nashville, Tennessee, as Event Planner and Volunteer Coordinator. With a background in association and non-profit management, she has specialized in event management, fundraising, and member services. The wife to one patient husband and mother to two rambunctious boys, she spends her spare time writing, photographing anything in her path and quoting movie lines and song lyrics in place of normal conversation. (2 year term 2011-2013)

Kathleen Porch, Treasurer: Kathleen joined the Real Change staff in October 2009, to direct fund development and marketing efforts.  Prior to coming to Real Change she worked in non-profit fundraising and administration for over 6 years.  Kathleen is a product of a very low-income family.  This experience connects her strongly to the mission of Real Change.  In fact, her mother was a Real Change vendor and speaker in the 1990s. In addition to working at Real Change, she sits on the board of Seattle Education Access, a non-profit delivering tutoring, mentoring and scholarships to low-income and formerly homeless young people. Other volunteer work includes leading support groups for new parents. She is an active member of the Northwest Development Officer’s Association.   Kathleen lives in Seattle with her husband and 2 young sons. (2 year term 2010-2012)

Gregory Flannery, Board member: Gregory Flannery is the editor of Article 25 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A journalist since 1981, he made his mark by exposing illegal wiretapping by the Cincinnati Police Department. He later wrote articles that led to the successful prosecution of three Catholic priests who had sexually abused children. In addition to his work in local newspapers, he has been published in The Nation and other national magazines. In 2009 he received the “Best Feature Story” award from the International Network of Street Papers. (2 year term 2010-2012)

Jim LoBianco, Board Member: Jim LoBianco is the Executive Director of StreetWise, Inc., which serves the greater Chicago area as a social enterprise designed to help the homeless and those at risk of homelessness out of poverty. Jim is a career social worker who has focused on the areas of homelessness and poverty. His working history includes non-profit and government positions. Just prior to arriving at StreetWise Jim worked for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, first as Deputy Chief of Staff for Human Services and then as Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Office of Homeless Services. During his time with the City Jim was instrumental in the Mayor’s Plan to End Homelessness.

Jim has been actively involved in civic and charitable volunteerism throughout his career. He currently holds board positions with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Franciscan Outreach Association, as well as being a member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness. In March 2011, Jim was appointed by Rahm Emmanuel to serve on the Social Services and Healthcare Committee of the Mayor-Elect’s transition team. Jim continues to advise Mayor Emanuel’s administration on issues of poverty and homelessness. (2 year term 2011-2013)

Amanda Moore, Board Member: Amanda Moore – Founder and managing editor of Toledo Streets in Toledo, OH, which was established in 2009. Amanda has over 12 years in marketing and graphic design, as well as previous experience serving on non-profit boards. She has also worked in the social services sector at a local mission, and continues to volunteer for various area non-profits that serve the unhoused. She’s passionate about building community and grassroots change through the power of telling stories. Having been homeless herself after a house fire in 2006, she believes strongly in creative opportunities that allow people to rebuild their lives and this is what drives her commitment to the street paper movement. She dabbles in writing, and enjoys reading poetry alongside some of her vendors several times a month. (2 year term 2011-2013)

Dave Roland, Board Member: is the Director of Litigation and co-founder of the Freedom Center of Missouri; he also serves as the Secretary for the Freedom Center’s Board of Directors. Dave earned undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Biblical Studies at Abilene (TX) Christian University before studying law and religion at Vanderbilt University, where he received his law degree and a Master’s in Theology in 2004. While at Vanderbilt, Dave wrote a series of essays for the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center about the First Amendment and public education, and he clerked for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, DC. Following law school, Dave spent more than three years in the nation’s capital as an attorney with the Institute for Justice, where he litigated school choice, economic liberty, and property rights cases in state and federal courts. His work has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other major newspapers nationwide; since he moved to Missouri in 2007 Dave has become a familiar presence on radio shows and in newspapers across the state. He has traveled widely in the state of Missouri, arguing before the state supreme court, speaking to elected officials, student groups at colleges and law schools, Federalist Society chapters, and community groups about education, property rights, health care reform, constitutional protections for liberty, and the American Founders’ conception of virtue. Prior to founding the Freedom Center, he spent three years working as an attorney and policy analyst for the Show-Me Institute. He lives in St. Louis with his wife, Jenifer, and can be reached at dave@mofreedom.org. (2 year term 2011-2013)