Our Team
Let us introduce ourselves
America’s Volunteer Driver Program is an ITNAmerica program.
Katherine Freund
Founder and CEO
Nicholas Candela
America’s Volunteer Driver Center Program Director
Alan Fried
Chief Technology Officer
John Bartz
Marketing Manager
Morgan Jameson
Training Manager
Mahathi Dodda
Salesforce Administrator
Pooja Patil
Salesforce Administrator
Marcia Black
Administrative Assistant
Advisory Bodies
America’s Volunteer Driver Center works closely with two advisory bodies: The Leadership Roundtable and the Advisory Council.
The Leadership Roundtable provides strategic guidance from all sectors of the economy—business, nonprofit and philanthropy, and government at all levels.
Philanthropy / Nonprofit
- Consumer Technology Association Foundation – Steve Ewell, Executive Director
- NextFifty Foundation – Susan Hill, Program Officer
- Grantmakers in Aging – Lindsay Goldman, CEO
- National Institute for African American Health – Stacey Easterling, Executive Director
- CareQuest Institute – Melodie Griffin, Grants and Programs Manager
- The John A. Hartford Foundation – Marcus Escobedo, Vice President of Communications and Sr. Program Officer
- ITNAmerica – Ann Dellinger, Board Chair
Government
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Amy Schumacher, Health Scientist
- New York State Office on Aging – Greg Olsen, Director
- Blackfeet Nation – Steve Pollock, former Acting Director of Tribal Transportation
- National Association of Counties – Wendy Askew, NACO Health Steering Committee member, Monterey County Supervisor, District 4
- California Department of Motor Vehicles – Bayliss Camp, Chief of Research
- State of Maine Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future – Jessica Scott, Senior Climate Advisor
Business and Industry
- Salesforce – Brian Komar, VP Global Sustainability Solutions
- Esri – Terry Bills, Global Transportation Industry Director
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals – Amanda Seeff-Charny, Executive Director, Patient Advocacy
- Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf – Matthew Daus, Partner & Chair, Transportation Practice Group
- American Property Casualty Insurance Association – Paul Tetrault, Senior Director, Personal Lines & Counsel
- M&T Bank – Mark Foster, Vice President, Business Banking Relationship Manager
The Advisory Council offers diverse perspectives and expertise from nonprofit transportation stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Nonprofit Volunteer Transportation Providers
- Volunteer Transportation Center (Watertown, NY) – Sam Purington, Executive Director
- York County Community Action Corporation – Karen Winton, Director of Economic Opportunity
- Chariot Transportation – Octavio Hinojosa, Executive Director
- ITNMontereyCounty – Jessica McKillip, Executive Director
- Molly’s Angels—Jill Jorgensen, Deputy Director
Local/National Organizations
- National Council on Aging (NCOA) – Genevieve Waterman, Director, Economic & Financial Security (former)
- Village to Village Network – Barbara Hughes Sullivan, Executive Director
- Community Transportation Association of America – Scott Bogren, Executive Director
Subject Matter Experts
- Jim Firman – National Council on Aging, Executive Director (retired)
- Patricia Oh – University of Maine Center on Aging, Program Manager
- Nicholas Giudice – University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science, Professor
- Barbara Wentworth – United Way of York County, former President and CEO
