NEW 2024 BOARD MEMBERS WELCOMED TO DOORWAYS

Posted October 8, 2024
DOORWAYS   |  1101 N. Jefferson Avenue   |  St. Louis MO 63106

 

DOORWAYS Welcomes New Board Members

Special thanks to all members rolling off the board and those continuing their terms.
 

St. Louis, MO –   Eight individuals have been elected to begin three-year terms on the DOORWAYS Board
of Directors, effective September 2024.  Additionally, two board members are rolling off the board. Details are provided below.

 

NEW BOARD MEMBERS

 

Shirley Adams-Shepherd is dedicated to guiding people through their journey to life-balance and health. As a licensed massage therapist and aesthetician, she helps people reduce stress, relieve pain, and energize overall wellness. Her goal is to complete certification in holistic healing, which emphasizes the whole person—body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Holistic healing can supplement traditional medicine and offer supportive preventive care.  Already growing her own vegetables, she hopes to promote healing through foods and herbs. Originally from Virginia, Shirley has lived in St. Louis for 24 years. She is the mother of two daughters.

Reverend Lauren E. Bennett is the Lead Pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis, where she serves as preacher, spiritual leader, and a champion for social justice and community advocacy within the church and beyond its walls. Rev. Bennett has been associated with faith-based activities through volunteerism and employment since 2011. During these 13 years, she has received numerous honors and awards; served as a guest speaker, preacher, and teacher; and published two devotionals. She is currently
completing a Doctor of Ministry in Social Transformation with the United Theological Seminary. 

E-P. Barrette, MD, FIDSA, FACP, is an attending physician at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Medical Director of the Washington University HIV and Virology Clinic, and Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Barrette is the Principal Investigator for the school’s Ryan White Part C Grant, which funds primary health care clinical programs and support services for people with HIV. He gives lectures on HIV, both regionally and nationally, and has published multiple books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. He earned an MD at Harvard Medical School after residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 

Tony Corey is retired from a career in engineering/technology. Since his retirement, he has been involved with ministries assisting the underrepresented people of the City of St. Louis. Mr. Corey even joined the advisory boards of Firm Foundation and Harambee. He is active in racial awareness and equity efforts through the Episcopal church, the founder of a racial justice team at St. Timothy’s Episcopal church in Creve Coeur, and a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri’s Dismantling Racism Commission. He graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a degree in Chemical Engineering.

David Lipovics is Senior Vice President and Head of Institutional Markets at Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. (RGA). He currently leads RGA’s Pension Risk Transfer and Longevity Risk Management businesses in St. Louis. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2020, he was with RGA’s Global Financial Solutions unit in London. Highly qualified in his field, prior to joining RGA, he worked with PwC’s U.K. practice and Aon’s U.K. practice. He earned a degree in actuarial science from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Actuaries.

Chester List, CPA, MBA, is Principal at Morice, List & Associates, LLC, which provides business services, tax compliance, and financial statement preparation for not-for-profit and for-profit entities. With experience working at local CPA firms, Mr. List joined Morice, List & Associates, LLC, in 1991 as a tax/accounting manager, assuming the role as Principal in 2017. He is a member of the AICPA and MOCPA organizations, and a past chair of the MOCPA audit and accounting committee. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business
administration/accounting at University of Evansville and an MBA at University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Carmen Lenee Manning is currently a Home Health Aide at Point of Change Ministries in St. Louis. She shares her compassion, kindness, and energy with elderly clients as she assists them with activities of daily living, such as facilitating medical visits, planning meals to meet dietary specifications, and helping with personal care. Often home health aides also provide basic health-related services, such as helping with exercise, bandages, skin care, etc. Prior to her role with Point of Change Ministries, Ms. Manning worked as a supervisor and manager with building maintenance companies. She has attended classes in human services at St. Louis Community College Meramec.

Reverend Doctor Jeff Moore is an ordained United Church of Christ minister serving as Senior Pastor of the Webster Groves Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and an adjunct professor of Biblical and Ministry Studies at the United Church of Christ’s Eden Theological Seminary. With a deep commitment to social justice and education, from 2003-2007 he served as the HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the Lesotho Evangelical  Church in Lesotho, South Africa. Upon his return, along with his pastoral responsibilities to the church, Rev. Dr. Moore continued his ministry to people living with HIV through service to clients at DOORWAYS. He earned a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Eden Theological Seminary, plus a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

BOARD MEMBERS ENDING TERMS

 

Reverend Kathleen Wilder and Rabbi Elizabeth Hersch are both ending terms. Each contributed their time and energy to the agency and its clients. We are grateful for their commitment in the past and look forward to their future volunteer contributions.

 

CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS

 

We also appreciate and value our many returning board members. For a list, please visit our Board of Director’s web page at: 
https://doorwayshouing.org/about/people/board-of-directors/

 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

 

In addition to volunteer service through the Board of Directors, DOORWAYS also
offers many other volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups. To learn
more, please visit our Volunteer web page: 
https://doorwayshousing.org/get-involved/volunteer

 

ABOUT DOORWAYS

 

Founded in 1988, DOORWAYS provides housing and 360 degrees of wrap-around services to people at
the intersection of poverty, homelessness, and illness from HIV.  Each year, we serve approximately 3,000
clients and family members in 124 counties spread across Missouri and Illinois. Expanding over the years to meet growing depth and breadth of need, DOORWAYS evolved from a hospice caring for the dying to an agency building lives for the living. We currently own 12 buildings with 230 apartments offering five housing platforms—emergency housing, flexible housing, assistive housing for those too ill to live independently, permanent housing, and, to prevent homelessness for people in their own accommodations, rent/utility subsidies.

 

Housing is supplemented by empowerment services to cultivate the social determinants of health (housing, health, food security, employment/income, education, community, etc.) that are needed to advance towards a life of opportunity and independence. We use individualized case management, resource referrals,
self-development programming, employment support, behavioral health counseling, and psychiatric care. An independent pharmacy will soon open on the campus as well.

 

Through this mix of services to stabilize housing, health, and hope, clients begin their journey toward a more self-directed life. Once housed and linked with their care coordinator, clients are encouraged to comply with an HIV-medication regimen that can help them attain undetectable status. When HIV is undetectable, life  span and quality of life improve for the individual.  Furthermore, undectable equals untransmittable (U=U), stopping forward transmission. Bringing an end to new cases of HIV will ultimately eradicate HIV for future generations.

 

 

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Top Row From Left:  Shirley Adams-Shepherd; Reverend Lauren E. Bennett; E-P. Barrette, MD, FIDSA, FACP.

Middle Row From Left:  Tony Corey; David Lipovics; Chester List, CPA, MBA.

Bottom Row From Left:  Carmen Lenee Manning; Reverend Doctor Jeff Moore.