Staff and Board of Directors
Mailing Address:
NHCADSV
PO Box 353
Concord, NH 03302
P - (603) 224-8893
F - (603) 228-6096
info@nhcadsv.org
Staff
Coalition staff positions include the following:
Administrative Director
AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program (AVAP) Director
AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program (AVAP) Coordinator
Bookkeeper/Data Specialist
Child and Family Advocacy Coordinator
Community Relations Director
Community Relations Assistant
Executive Director
Office Coordinator
Program Director
Public Policy Specialist
Public Policy Director
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program Administrative Assistant
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program Director
Technical Assistance Specialist
Trauma Specialist
*To contact any of these staff members call (603) 224-8893 or go to the contact us page.
2011 Board of Directors
Steve Varnum, Chairperson
Steve is Director of Communications and Marketing at the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. He formerly directed the PrioritiesNH sensible budget campaign and was Public Policy Director for the Children’s Alliance of NH. He was also a journalist for 25 years, most recently with the Concord Monitor.
Peggy O’Neil, Vice-Chairperson
Peggy O’Neil has been the Executive Director at WISE since 2003. WISE provides crisis assistance and support to Upper Valley, New Hampshire/Vermont victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence and offers community education programs to Upper Valley communities. She has been in non-profit management for twenty years. Her career includes state and national level work on child and family mental health policy issues.
Kathy Keller, Treasurer
Kathy is the Executive Director of New Beginnings, a crisis center serving all of Belknap County. She began as a board member for New Beginnings in 1991, was hired in 1995, and became the director in 1996. She is an active member of the Family Violence Prevention Council in Belknap County, and a member of the Leadership Executive Committee for the Belknap County Services Coordination System Integration Initiative.
Kathleen Kimball , Clerk
Kathy is a retired Detective Sergeant with the New Hampshire State Police. She has been in law enforcement for over 23 years. During her time at State Police Troop B she was assigned to be a domestic violence victim/witness advocate. She’s also conducted trainings for fellow officers on domestic violence. She is currently the Sexual Assault Resource Teams (SART) Coordinator for NH.
Susan was the Director of Victim Assistance for Strafford County for 8 1/2 years, served on the Attorney General’s Task Force for Child Abuse and Neglect for 15 years and has been on the Board of Directors of A Safe Place, SASS and SHARPP. Sue has also worked as a part-time police officer, as the Community Intervention Coordinator for Caring Unlimited in Sanford, Maine and as a nonprofit board consultant.
Gary Palmer
Gary works with the NH Department of Information. Prior to working in his current position he spent 12 years at the New Hampshire Department of Justice, Grants Management Unit.
Donna Raycraft
Donna is the Executive Director of the Rape and Domestic Violence Crisis Center in Concord. Prior to that, she held various positions at Riverbend Community Mental Health.
Elizabeth A. Garon
Elizabeth has been an advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence for over 15 years. She has worked for the YWCA in Manchester and is currently an attorney concentrated in family, juvenile, trusts, wills, and real estate law. Through her work on the board she hopes to empower others in their quest to stop the violence through education and services.
Eulalie Paris
Eulalie is an AVP Senior Fiduciary Services Specialist at People's United Bank. Her educational background is in criminal justice. One of her goals as a board member is to “empower victims to not just exist but to thrive in spite of their adversities.”
Cory works for the private foundation Humanity United as Legal and Policy Counsel for the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking. His extensive career in serving vulnerable populations includes Executive Director for Enough (project to end genocide and mass atrocities) and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Suzanne Harvey
Suzanne served three terms in the NH House from 2005-2010, and was vice chair of the Science, Technology & Energy Committee for two terms. During her time in the House, she also served as chair of the Statewide Interagency Commission on Human Trafficking and was prime sponsor of the bill that made human trafficking a felony in the state. Suzanne's professional career included publishing, where she was editor of a business and marketing magazine for the pharmaceutical industry, and she spent over a decade developing and managing continuing medical education programs for healthcare providers.
Robin Christopherson
Robin has been involved with the Coalition for a number of years through her work at the Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention in Keene. Robin first joined the organization as an education and outreach coordinator in 1999 and was promoted to her current role of Executive Director in 2005. Robin is active in several statewide projects, including the primary prevention and education efforts of the Coalition.
