| Alisia Clark Assistant Director of Community Planning and Collaboration Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services Alisia will be returning to OhioMHAS as assistant director of Community Planning and Collaboration. She most recently served as executive director of the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, the government entity that certifies prevention and addiction professionals. Alisia has an extensive work history in substance use and mental health disorders and previously served as housing policy and resource administrator at OhioMHAS, project director for the former Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, and field operations manager for the Ohio Secretary of State. Alisia holds a dual bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Organization Leadership from Franklin University in Columbus. In her role, Alisia will oversee community planning and collaboration, grants management and recovery supports. | |
| Lisa Courtice, Ph.D. President and CEO United Way of Central Ohio Lisa S. Courtice is president and CEO of United Way of Central Ohio, one of the largest United Way organizations in the country. Under her leadership, United Way is helping to mobilize the central Ohio community to reduce poverty. Dr. Courtice is a Ph.D. psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience working in nonprofit leadership having served for over ten years as the CEO, Co-CEO and clinical director of agencies directly providing services to those living in poverty in Ohio. For the last thirteen years she has served as executive vice president and leader of community research and grants management of The Columbus Foundation, the seventh largest community foundation in the country. Lisa currently serves on the Ohio United Way and the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio. In 2018 she was appointed by Columbus City Council to serve as a commissioner on the Commission on Black Girls. Her professional leadership has included chairing on the Weinland Park Collaborative and serving on the Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus School for Girls Board of Trustees. Lisa received her Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University, her Master of Arts from West Virginia University and her Ph.D. from the University of Akron. | |
| Peg Moertl President and CEO Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing Ms. Moertl joined Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) in February 2019 as the Incoming President and will assume the role of President in April 2019. Ms. Moertl comes to OCCH from HCDC, a 35 year-old non-profit economic development agency that grows jobs and the economy through innovation incubation, small business lending, and development services. HCDC serves as the economic development arm of Hamilton County and the jurisdictions in the county outside the City of Cincinnati, by contract with the county, and operates the Office of Innovation + Creativity. Prior to her work with HCDC, Ms. Moertl served as Senior Vice President of Community Development Banking at PNC Bank for nearly 15 years, leading teams responsible for community development loans/investments, grant-making and sponsorships, along with increasing small business lending in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods using creative bank-community partnerships. She also served as the Director of Development at the City of Cincinnati, Executive Director of Women Entrepreneurs Inc., and helped develop the region’s first microloan program. She has served on boards of numerous community and economic development and human service agencies including Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the Greater Ohio Policy Center, Urban League, Cincinnati Development Fund, Urban Land Institute, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation, Catalytic Development Funding Corporation of Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati Equity Fund (3CDC) and Strategies to End Homelessness. Ms. Moertl has been recognized as one of Cincinnati Magazine’s 2019 Most Powerful Business Leaders, a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, among the Top 15 Ohio Women Business Leaders by the Ohio Women’s Conference, along with honors from Cincinnati Development Fund, the Talbert House, the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, the CDC Association of Greater Cincinnati, Avondale Comprehensive Development Corporation, Cincinnati Human Relations Commission and the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education. She is a graduate of Leadership Cincinnati Class XXIII. | |
