Board of Directors (2023)
Tim Lumsden
President
Tim Lumsden has been an active member of Bethany Presbyterian Church since 1987. Over the last 13 years he has been heavily involved in the budget and Stewardship commission of the church. Tim retired October of 2020 after working 40 years in the food canning industry, 18 years with Campbell Soup, and the last 22 years with Silgan Containers Corporation. In the first 29 years of his career he went from Production Supervisor to Manufacturing Engineer, to Plant Controller. The last 11 years he has been an Area Planner for Silgan Containers, overseeing the production plans for 7 plants on the West Coast. Tim graduated from the California State University Sacramento and from UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Marsha Spell
Executive Director
Marsha Spell has been Executive Director of Family Promise of Sacramento for over 10 years. She has 40 plus years of nonprofit management experience. She is a graduate of the University of Memphis where she graduated with honors.
Michele Sawyer
Board Member
Michele is an energetic, stay at home caregiver with prior fundraising and non-profit experience looking to use my skills in assisting an organization as a proposal writer and volunteer. She was involved with the PTA, Booster Club and Relay for Life. Later, she started working with local animal rescues: procuring donations for their fundraisers, and organizing projects and public events. She helped to increase their funding and allowed them to provide more services to needy animals. Her family fostered 20+ dogs, mainly pitbulls. With her recent free time, Michele has received her AA in Real Estate with an emphasis on Business from American River College.
Lisha Radman-Faulkner
Board Member
Lisha Radman was born in Seattle, Washington however she has called Sacramento her home for the past 40+ years. Lisha has a passion and commitment for helping those in need. Lisha has worked in the field of Social Services for the past 15 years serving some of Sacramento’s most vulnerable populations. She has worked as a Personal Service Coordinator, Mobile Case Manager and had extensive history working with Alcohol and Other Drug programs. Not only does Lisha have professional experiences in the above mentioned fields, she also has lived experiences which has helped her connect and successfully reach those who may otherwise be lost. Lisha is also dedicated to her family and church family.
Paula Rouch
Board Member
A native of the Philippines, Paula has lived in California for 12 years. She is a Client Services Supervisor for UCP of Sacramento and Northern California, a non-profit service provider for children and adults with developmental disabilities. She is active in St. Marks United Methodist Church - in the Choir, on the Communications and Outreach Team, and married to the organist. Paula and her family have been making and delivering food to the homeless for the past 10 years. Paula has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Don Fado
Advisory Member
Don Fado is a retired United Methodist minister (St. Mark’s UMC, Sacramento.) Don served on the Family Promise Board recently after being the board chairperson for its first five years. He has also served on the boards of Loaves & Fishes, the Central Downtown Food Closet, Habitat for Humanity and Clean & Sober. He was the founding national co-chair of the Reconciling Ministries Clergy of the United Methodist Church. The city and county of San Francisco proclaimed February 11, 1999 as Reverend Don Fado Day in San Francisco in recognition of his "outstanding commitment to service and dedication to improving the lives of all citizens.” He and his wife, Jeanie, retired librarian, have 4 children (daughter, Patty, served as Family Promise Board Chair when Marsha Spell, ED, was hired) 11 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Barbara Flanigan
Treasurer
Barbara Flanigan is a retired Certified Public Accountant, who was the owner of her own public accounting firm, Flanigan & Company, for over 25 years. The firm specialized in tax and accounting issues for small businesses and their owners, as well as estates and trusts and their administrators. The firm’s clients included corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, sole proprietorships and non-profit organizations. Prior to establishing the firm, she was a Tax Manager at Sacramento’s largest local CPA firm. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree, concentration in Accounting from San Diego State University.
Barbara has served on the board of Family Promise of Sacramento for several years and is a former board member of the Sacramento Estate Planning Council. She currently serves on the board of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for young adults in the foster care system and is on the CASA board’s Finance Advisory Committee.
Rich Koppes
Board Member
Rich Koppes has been an active Roman Catholic Deacon at St Anthony’s Parish for over 36 years. He is a retired California State Attorney that served as general counsel of both the State Dept of Health (8 years) and Calpers (10 years). Rich founded and was the Executive Director for 25 years of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys. In addition, he worked at the Stanford Law School for 20 years, teaching and running programs on governance. Rich has served on 8 nonprofit boards, including Mercy Healthcare and Family Promise, as well as 4 corporate boards. He graduated from LMU in LA and UCLA Law School. Rich and his wife, Connie, a retired RN, have five children and eight grandchildren.
Mark Lytal
Board Member
Mark is a retired Air Force veteran who worked as a technical sergeant. He manages and operates the CHP approved AAA Motorcycle Training Program at Sierra College in Rocklin.
Mark also runs the volunteer program of Showers on Wheels for unhoused patrons at St John’s Lutheran Church in midtown Sacramento.
Dorothy Smith
Board Member
Real Estate Broker. Owns her own business. Mercy Associate, and Board Member and Volunteer of Loaves & Fishes, as well as a number of other non profits doing outreach to people experiencing homelessness or about to be homeless. Member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish. Mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
Linda Wells
Board Member
In 2009, Linda retired from Contra Costa County Employment and Human Service as an Intake Supervisor for Cash, Food Stamps, Medical and Foster Care. She is a member of Emmanuel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Sacramento and serves on three different boards. She's also very involved with the Oakland District and the Northern California Annual Conference of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. A native of Sacramento, Linda gradulated from Sacramento High School and received my AA Degree in Sociology from Sacramento City College.
Ruben Luna
Advisory Member
Ruben has been a board member for the last 4 years. He was a former guest who graduated from our program. He has worked for the last 8 years for Loaves and Fishes. As a mentor, he plays a huge part in the success of our families.
Becky Rule
Secretary
Becky Rule is retired from the Superior Court of California and worked as a Family Court Services Mediator/Investigator assisting families with their child custody issues. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor who had a private practice for over 20 years, as well as, worked many years with Kern County Mental Health Rural Health Clinics. Becky became involved with Family Promise while volunteering for the Legal Clinic at Loaves and Fishes, working with some clients assisting with their custody issues. She is also involved at her Host Church, St. Marks UMC.
Kevin Donohue
Board Member
Kevin Donohue is a retired health care attorney that served as Senior Assistant Chief Counsel for the California Department of Health Care Services’ Medi-Cal Program (7years) and a Deputy Director for the California Department of Managed Health Care (15 years). Kevin returned to Family Promise after being the Board chairperson for 5 years. He is also on the Vestry of the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento and on the Board of Trustees of the Diocese of Northern California. He is actively involved in feeding the unhoused.
Christine Hine
Board Member
Chris has always been motivated to be involved in volunteer activities. She has worked with several non-profits as a volunteer and started working with Family Promise about 5 years ago. She is drawn to the Family Promise mission of helping people get back on their feet through support and education. Chris is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, calling Sacramento her home since 1978. She and her husband have four children and 10 grandchildren. She is a member of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Carmichael. Chris received her degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin and worked as a registered nurse for several years. While her children were small, she decided to return to school and received a degree in English and Education from CSUS. She taught 7th grade at St. Francis Elementary School for 15 years.
Mike Cushing
Board Member
Mike is originally from the East Coast but has been in northern California for more than 30 years. He has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer, an electrical engineer in the semiconductor industry, an optical engineer in the avionics and home security industries, and a teacher. While raising a family, he spent many years running school organizations and events, and as a photographer for schools, bands and teams. He has been a volunteer at Family Promise for the past four years and joined the Board in 2022.
Anne-Marie Hooper
Board Member
A former Family Promise guest and case manager, Anne-Marie has also been a case manager at Salvation Army and a Program Director at Sacramento Self Help Housing. In these capacities, she worked with shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. Most recently, she served as a Director of Operations and then of Procurement and Contracts, where she has been exposed to a variety of homeless services, including landlord/tenant fair housing advocacy, housing counseling, interim (scattered site shelters) housing for individuals experiencing homelessness and outreach navigation. Anne-Marie is passionate about assisting families with children. She also serves on a board of directors for mental health peer advocacy for Cal Voices.
Sister Libby Fernandez
Advisory Member
Sister Libby founded Mercy Peddlers in Sacramento in 2017. Before that she was the Executive Director of Loaves and Fishes in Sacramento from 2006 to 2017.
She has been a Sister of Mercy of Auburn since 1990.