Board Members

A professional with nearly thirty years experience in organizing communities, unions, political campaigns and various projects, Kim has a successful history of organizing and managing complex projects from conception to completion.  In January 2008 she founded the Lathrup Village TimeBank – which has now grown to over 100 members – and continues to serve as its Co-Coordinator.

She recently worked as the Senior State Coordinator with AARP’s Divided We Fail campaign and as the Field Director for both America Votes and America Coming Together. Kim was the National Campaign Coordinator for PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers initiative and the project manager for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s 3000 person Cultural Change project.  She is a certified Personal and Professional Coach and founder of the International Coach Federation’s Michigan Chapter.

Shane Bernardo is a native Detroiter and is very active in his community on issues around education and environmental justice. His most recent work was for a non-profit, Student Conservation Association where he and a team of ten high school students completed service-learning projects that maintained public green spaces around the City of Detroit. Shane also worked for Detroit Parent Network where managed a college-prep program and was also the lead coordinator for their Leadership training that developed the advocacy skills of 150 parents while he served as an AmeriCorps volunteer.  Shane’s work around education also included consulting on various initiatives that targeted the drop-out rate and sought to increase the graduation and college retention rates among high school students in Detroit.

Shane’s interests and passions are in traveling, writing, being active, volunteering and community building. His short-term plans include pursuing a degree in Urban Planning and starting a youth advisory council in his own neighborhood. Shane is currently serving as the interim chair for his neighborhood community group, the Northend/Central Woodward Collaborative.  Shane is also an active member of the Detroit Asian Youth Project, an initiative that engages youth through community-based projects to promote a greater understanding of Detroit and its Asian American community. Shane also studied industrial design at the Center for Creative Studies where he was an active member of BART, a student organization aimed at creating solidarity among artist of color across all disciplines.

Jan Day has nearly thirty years experience in grant-writing, budgeting, financial management and non-profit administration as staff, consultant or volunteer with organizations ranging from small volunteer-based programs to large regional agencies. She is currently president of Jan Day & Associates, offering consulting expertise to non-profit organizations. She has written successful grant proposals to private foundations and large community foundations, as well as local, state and federal agencies, including those providing several years of annual support of as much as 3.5 million dollars to her former primary employer. Jan is a member American Association of Grantwriting Professionals.

Originally from the Cincinnati area, Jan recently relocated to Eaton Rapids, Michigan. She is a member of the Board of Directors of SIREN/Eaton County Shelter and the Strategic Planning Committee of the Generosity Project of Charlotte, Michigan. Jan is an inveterate reader and an aspiring writer and photographer.

Susan Gisholt has focused her career on developing people’s talents in the workplace. Timebanks provides a new avenue for Susan to develop the talents within her community in East Lansing where she and her husband Nico are founders of the Hawk Nest Time Bank. Throughout her professional career, she has seen the power of people using their skills to make a difference.

Currently, Susan works as a Learning and Talent Management Specialist at Accident Fund Insurance Company of America. Susan graduated from University of Michigan, Phi Beta Kappa, where she was able to study abroad in Italy. She worked for the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy. Susan received her master in Human Resources and Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University. During her master’s degree, she was fortunate enough to study labor relations in Berlin, Germany.  Susan has her Senior Professional in Human Resources designation (SPHR) and is conversational in Spanish and Italian.

Shawn Kimmel is the founding Director of two organizations committed to working with communities to strengthen their power to drive policymaking for sustainable development & health equity: the Detroit Center for Community-driven Policymaking, and CD Policy Consulting, LLC.  Previously, Shawn was a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Community track of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (2006-2008), with a focus on best practices for strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations to integrate policy research and advocacy into the design of community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects.

Shawn’s current work is directed at developing best practices for community-driven partnerships to support the policy action and change goals of Detroit’s residents and community-based organizations.  Shawn serves on a number of Detroit community nonprofit boards, and has been a social justice activist since the mid-1980s.  Shawn earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Dual M.A. in Philanthropic Studies and History from Indiana University and lives in Detroit.

Richard Reeves has lived in Lathrup Village for 16 years. After a 20 year career as a mechanical engineer, he chose to follow his passion and is now on a quest to try to survive as pastel portrait artist, independent film maker and part time caterer, not an easy task in this economy. This is just one of the many reasons that the promotion of TimeBanks has become a goal for him. Richard not only serves as one of the coordinators for the Lathrup Village TimeBank, he has also earned TimeBank hours creating two short videos to help promote it.

Hollis Turnham is the Midwest Director for PHI. She has over 24 years experience in poverty and aging issues, first as a legal services attorney in Adrian, Michigan and, then, as Michigan’s State Long Term Care Ombudsman for almost 16 years. Prior to joining PHI, Hollis was the 1999-2000 John Heinz Senate Fellow in Aging working on aging and long-term care issues for then-Chairman James Jeffords (R-VT) of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. She has a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Hollis has lived in the Lansing area for over 25 years and recently completed MSU’s Master Gardening call.  She has served on several non-profit boards of local, state and national boards and is currently a volunteer for the Tri-County Office on Aging Meals on Wheels.