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Administrative Staff

Kristi Stilen-Lare
President & CEO

Kristi Stilen-Lare is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a degree in Communications. She attended Radford University for her Masters Degree in Corporate Communication and it was there that her interest in Nonprofit Management began. While at Radford she interned at the Governmental Nonprofit Assistance Center and after graduation she worked as a grant writer and consultant to nonprofits in southwestern Virginia.

After assisting the 2-1-1 VA center in Roanoke with capacity building and accreditation practices, she was hired as the Statewide Coordinator for 2-1-1 VA. Kristi worked with the Statewide Information & Referral System to promote, fundraise and implement the three digit dialing code in Virginia. 2-1-1 launched statewide in February 2006 with Governor Tim Kaine placing the first call.
In May of 2006, Kristi began working at Loudoun Cares in Leesburg, Virginia. While there she was promoted to Director of Programs and worked on grant writing, program development and building local nonprofit infrastructure.

Kristi serves on the Board of Directors of the Loudoun Human Services Network, the Virginia Alliance of Information & Referral Systems and Leadership Loudoun. She is a Leadership Loudoun Class of 2007 member. More recently, she became a member of the National Association of Speech & Hearing Centers.

She is excited to begin a new career at Blue Ridge Speech & Hearing Center and to enhance her knowledge of the medical nonprofit world. An added bonus has been getting to know the doctors and clinicians at Blue Ridge and seeing how they impact the lives of Loudoun residents everyday.

Kristi and her husband Skip moved to Frederick, Maryland in 2006 and began renovations on their log cabin home built circa 1940.

Karen Green
Director of Finance/Operations

Karen Green originally came to Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center from Heritage Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, after serving as the Business Office Manager and Bookkeeper for 6 years. She was employed by Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center as the Office Manager, from October 1996 through March of 2000. Ms. Green left the Center to pursue a career, outside of healthcare, with a private, for profit organization where she was employed for 5 years, as an Office Manager/Bookkeeper, but her heart never left Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center. Karen continued to be an active employee on a part-time basis since 2001, as a Bookkeeper for Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center, doing bank reconciliations and end of the month financial reports. Karen was welcomed back to the Center on a fulltime basis on April 11, 2005 assuming the position of Director of Finance/Operations. Ms. Green’s level of competency and experience have been proven assets to the organization.

Pam Lester
Office Manager

Ms. Pam Lester attended Moorhead State College in Minnesota before joining Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center on March 11, 2002 as a front office assistant. She resigned her position in 2003 to assume a full-time role as a devoted and most youthful grandmother. She returned to the Center in the front office in January, 2004 and was promoted to office manager in September, 2004. Ms. Lester has demonstrated great devotion to the Center in managing the front office and in working overtime to assure the success of many fundraisers.

Jill Matheson
Front Office Staff

Jill Matheson, originally from Caracas, Venezuela joined the front office staff of Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center on August 1, 2005. Jill has a B.S. degree in Education from Libertador University, Caracas. She was employed as a translator in Caracas before relocating to Virginia. Since Jill has been in Virginia, she has worked in the medical field for Children’s Heart Clinic and Leesburg’s Orthopaedic. Her bilingual ability and her experience in the medical field are greatly valued. She is a welcome addition to our competent front office staff.