MNH&V Advisory Committee Members
MNH&V Team
Anne Barlow, MNH&V Director
Brenda Hommerding, Guide By Your Side (GBYS) Manager
Callie Holmes, Southern MN Parent Guide
Elena Miranda, Lead Metro Parent Guide/Lead Statewide Cultural Parent Guide
Heidy Nazario, Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Guide Program Manager
Hannah Harriman, DHH Guide
Kelsey Woodward, DHH Guide/ASTra Advocate
Lee Vang, SE Asian Community Parent Guide
Leslie Carnegie-Hilde, Upper Northwestern MN Parent Guide/Event Coordinator
Marie Pank, Northeastern MN Parent Guide
Mary Stadelman, Metro Parent Guide
Nura Hersi, NE African Community Parent Guide
Shannon Hohrman, Lead Greater MN Parent Guide/Advocacy, Support, & Training (ASTra)
Coordinator/Northwestern MN Parent Guide
Shelby Geldon, DHH Guide
Sophia Barr, Administrative Assistant/DHH Guide
Suzanne Iwainat, Central MN Parent Guide
Yodit Amare, Metro Parent Guide
Community Stakeholders
Allison Mehlhorn, Parent
Andrea Riffe, Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDHH)
Anne Grace Donatucci, Director, Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD)
Brandy Johanson-Sebera, Family Engagement Coordinator, Minnesota DeafBlind Project (MNDBP)
Calla Kevan, DHH Specialist, Minnesota Department of Human Services (MNDHS)
Danelle Gournaris, Collaborative Plan Program Director, Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind,
& Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH)
Emily Manson, Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDHH)
Emily Smith-Lundberg, Director, Deaf Mentor Family Services (DMFS) at LSS
Jesi Novak, Pediatric Audiologist, Children’s Minnesota
Jess Moen, Minnesota Statewide Specialist, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)
Jordan Krentz, Pediatric Audiologist, Lions Children's Hearing and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Clinic
Joyce Dressler, Parent/Advisory Committee Co-Chair
Kelsey Kirkpatrick, Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD)
Kitri Larson-Kyllo, Board Member, Cued Speech Association of Minnesota (CSAM)
Kristen Aeikens, PACER Advocate
Mary Cashman Bakken, Minnesota State Specialist: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) DHH
Susan Outlaw, Executive Director, Metro Deaf School (MDS)