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Our Team Amy C. Mauro, Esq. Executive Director Amy C. Mauro, Esq. is an accomplished and transformative leader who has worked on critical policy issues and strategic organizational change for twenty-five years, in both District and federal agencies and in three branches of government. Read More Chuck Bean Board Member Chuck Bean was Executive Director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments from 2012 through early 2023. He is an executive and civic leader with more than 30 years of experience in government, nonprofits and philanthropy. Read More Milton Douglas Board Member Milton Douglas retired from the DC Fire & EMS Department in 2022, after 35 years of service, at the rank of Assistant Fire Chief of Technical Services. Read More Kate Fogle Archivist Kate Fogle manages the Foundation's Virtual Exhibit, the History of the DC Fire and EMS Department in Photos, Videos, and Oral Histories, and supports the Washington, DC Fire and EMS Museum on behalf of the Foundation. Read More Olaf "Pete" Pederson Board Member Olaf P. “Pete” Pedersen, III has served on the Foundation's Board of Directors since its early days of incorporation and most recently took a lead role in the Foundation's DC Firefighters Memorial Helmet Project. Read More Tommy Wells Board Member Tommy Wells is a long-time DC resident, attorney, and public servant. Read More John A. Donnelly, Sr. Fire & EMS Chief and Honorary Co-Chair, ex officio Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly, Sr. was nominated by Mayor Muriel Bowser on September 4, 2020 to lead the 2,200 member DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. He was confirmed by the Council of the District of Columbia on December 15, 2020. Read More Larissa Bergin Board Secretary Larissa Bergin is a Partner at Jones Day. Her practice addresses the antitrust concerns arising from M&A matters, joint ventures, federal investigations, and commercial practices. Read More Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA Board Member Lisa Fitzpatrick is Founder and CEO of Grapevine Health, a digital health media company whose mission is to build trust and improve patient engagement among Medicaid patients through delivering culturally appropriate and relatable health information. Read More Carrie Kohns Board Member Carrie Kohns is the founder and CEO of strategic communications consulting firm, K&K Group, where she has been guiding political, corporate and nonprofit clients since 2018. She has more than two decades of experience in political strategy, policy development and communications management. Read More Ronald Siarnicki Board Member Ronald Siarnicki spent 24 years in the fire service as a volunteer and professional firefighter before retiring and then serving as Executive Director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation for 22 years. Read More Balchander Jayaraman Board Co-Chair Balchander Jayaraman is a recognized leader with over 18 years of emergency preparedness experience that includes evacuation and response plan development, Continuity of Operations planning, resilience assessment, HSEEP compliant exercise and scenario design and training, evacuation map creation, and program and project management. He is an effective consensus builder who has successfully worked with business leaders, government officials, advocacy groups, and community based organizations to generate support for innovative approaches to emergency preparedness planning. Read More Steve Blivess Board Treasurer Steve Blivess is Chief Legal Counsel for Frederick County Public Schools. Blivess has spent the past 20 years as an attorney and labor relations professional with experience in litigation, as counsel to government executives, Fortune 500 corporations, family-owned businesses and individuals. Read More David Hoagland President, Local 36 of the IAFF and Board Member David Hoagland is President of Local 36 of the International Associated of Fire Fighters, representing over 2,000 members of the DC Fire & EMS Department. He is currently a Lieutenant and was most recently assigned to Engine 9 in the Adams Morgan/U Street neighborhood. Read More Renee McPhatter Board Member Renee McPhatter is proud Ward 7 resident who has lived in the District of Columbia for over 30 years. She is Associate Vice President for Government and Community Relations at George Washington University. Read More John Sollers Board Member John Sollers retired from the DC Fire & EMS Department in 2021 at the rank of Assistant Fire Chief. During his 35 years with the Department, he specialized in special operations, incident command and response to technical rescue and hazardous materials incidents, logistics and facilities, fleet maintenance, program management, emergency planning, operational readiness, and instructing and training and motivating team members. Read More

< Back J.R. Clark Board Member J.R. has extensive experience representing issuers and borrowers, and serving as underwriters’ counsel on tax-exempt and taxable borrowings that include use of revenue bonds, tax credits, tax increment financing opportunity zones and other economic development tools. Before joining the firm, J.R. served in the executive office of the mayor of Washington, D.C. as director for council affairs in the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, where he advised the mayor on all legislation before the District of Columbia Council. In this capacity, he oversaw the implementation of the mayor’s legislative agenda. Before working with the mayor, J.R. served as deputy general counsel in the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer. There, he worked with the legislative branch on the District of Columbia’s budget and finances. J.R. is a DC native, resident of Ward 4, and member of the Leadership Greater Washington Class of 2012. He has served on, and as chairman of, several regional boards and associations.

< Back Michael Goldstein Board Member Prior to joining Tyton, Mike led the higher education law practice at global firm Cooley LLP and predecessor Dow Lohnes, and previously served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor of Urban Sciences at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations for the City of New York. He serves as chair of the Board of Trustees of Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a Board member and past chair of Fielding Graduate University, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for his contributions to experiential learning. He is a Director of the University of the District of Columbia Foundation and of The Washington Center, Vice Chair of the Board of The Washington Ballet and was formerly a Director of the American Association for Higher Education and a Trustee of Mount Vernon College, as well as a long-time member of the Friendship Fire Association. He has a BA in Government from Cornell University, a law degree from New York University and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Urban and Environmental Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mike is a Ward 3 resident.

< Back Andrew T. “Chip” Richardson, III, Esq. Board Chair Chip previously held senior leadership roles with the DC Government. He served initially as Deputy, and then as General Counsel led a very proactive Office of the General Counsel for the Executive Office of the Mayor during the Honorable Adrian Fenty’s administration. He then served as Interim Director of the District of Columbia Office of Risk Management. Chip served a three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of The Not For Profit Hospital Corporation, formerly known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital and United Medical Center. He previously served on the Board of Directors for Stargate, a nonprofit foundation in Richmond, Virginia that supported arts programming in public schools. He has been recognized by the District of Columbia Bar for his contributions to the practice of estates, trusts and probate law in the District, and he received a Meritorious Public Service Award from the Government of the District of Columbia for service to its residents. Chip lives in Ward 4 with his family.

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< Back Sean Egan Board Member Sean established contacts throughout the District government and the region to the benefit of the Department, including service as Chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Health and Safety Subcommittee. As an executive leader and trusted advisor, he has had a front seat and management role in some of the most impactful events of the 21st century, including historic Presidential inaugurations, major sporting events, national crises, and large-scale infrastructure transformations. Following his retirement from the Department, Sean served as the Response and Recovery Coordination Specialist of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Office of Emergency Preparedness. He is currently working as a risk management and emergency preparedness consultant. ​ ​

< Back Janene Jackson Board Member Having worked in all branches of the government of the District of Columbia, Janene brings a 360-degree approach to assisting clients with their government relations and lobbying needs, business development interests, and legal representations in administrative proceedings. Janene has served as deputy chief of staff and director of the Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs where she was responsible for the regional, federal and local relationships for the mayor, as well as lobbying the Council of the District of Columbia and Congress; senior vice president for government affairs at the DC Chamber of Commerce; committee counsel to Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary Chairman Phil Mendelson; executive director of the State Complaint Office of the District of Columbia Public Schools; assistant corporation counsel in the Office of Corporation Counsel; and clerk for the Honorable Donald L. Ivers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, as well as for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton, formerly of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Janene is a Ward 4 resident. ​ ​