Our Team
At CIR, we know that good work is accomplished by dedicated individuals who are encouraged to let their numerous talents shine. Our staff are dedicated to the excellent planning and implementation of human service training projects. These highly-qualified people come from diverse backgrounds and bring a wide array of expertise to the work we do.
We are not afraid to tackle difficult social issues and we also know when to stop, take a breath, and have a little fun. We embrace our agency’s vision of giving professionals that serve children, families, and communities the knowledge, skills, and training to act in a holistic and culturally-responsive manner. Thus, our office environment is far from typical. On any given day we may be accompanied by a mixture of furry friends, studying tweens, and/or sleeping babies.
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Executive Director
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time."
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Program Director
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
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Program Director
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” - Robert F. Kennedy
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Project Manager
"Life is meant for spectacular adventures. Let your feet wander, your eyes marvel, and your soul ignite." -Anonymous
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Project Coordinator
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller
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Project Coordinator
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare."
-Audre Lorde -
John TuchowskiProject Coordinator
"The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself." - Alan Watts
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Project Coordinator
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Project Assistant
“It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life...are most easily attained by giving them to others." - Isabel Allende
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Project Assistant
"Decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go. Oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there’s more room for them.” -Taylor Swift
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Project Assistant
"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." - Vincent Van Gogh
