Board of Directors
President - Greg Alcorn, Global Contact Services (GCS)
Vice President – Vincia Miller, Director Alumni Affairs Livingstone College
Treasure – Joyce Goodwin, Families First Founding Partner, retired teacher
Elijah Belton, CEO Students with Academic Gifts & Goals to be Acknowledged
Reverend Carol Hallman, First United Church of Christ
Natalie Murphy, Therapist
Melonie Thompson, Retired Captain Salisbury Police
Ester Atkins Smith, CEO, SWAGGA
Luke Hamaty, Wells Fargo
Nichole Pequeno, Community Representative
Heather Mobley, Attorney - Family Law
Gemale Black, Salisbury Rowan NAACP
Staff
Families First employees 8 full-time and 8 part-time staff along with 23 contractors. We value our team of committed individuals who help us strengthen Families every day.
Leadership staff has over 95 years of combined experience at Families First alone.
Jeannie Sherrill – Executive Director, 2009
Lori Bridges – Office Manager, 2020
Krystle Edwards - Program Manager – Teen Pregnancy Prevention, 2023
Angela Graden – Associate Director Programs & Evaluation, 2009
Christine Gray - Program Manager – Early Learning, Second Step, 2012
Beth Hamilton -Program Manager – Supervised Visitation & Exchange, 2009
Larry Jones - Program Manager, Strengthening Families Parenting Program, 2015
Lea Silverburg – Program Manager, Elementary Second Step, 2005
Rhonda Sturdivant – Program Manager, Court Child Care, 2019
Shakia Washington – Program Manager, Adolescent Parenting Program, 202
