Meet Our SERVANT LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our Leadership Team brings with them extensive training, compassion and experience!
Lisa - Founder / CEO
Lisa began her work with human trafficking advocacy in 2009 in Cambodia with World Hope International. She has traveled to Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles for extensive training. Lisa is the former WI State Representative for FREE International. In January 2015 she joined the Super Bowl outreach in Phoenix, AZ. providing training, victim outreach, and connecting law enforcement with leads.
In 2015, Lisa traveled to Nicaragua with Breaking Chains to help sex trafficking victims on the streets and in brothels.
Lisa founded Damascus Road Project in 2013 to more directly serve the needs of local survivors of human sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. She has completed training through Ending the Game, ACEs, GEMS Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) , National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women, Treasures Sex Industry Care and Outreach , International Christian Alliance on Prostitution Global Summit Thistle Farms National Conference, National Trafficking & Shelter Alliance Conference, and education through the Wisconsin Department of Justice/Wisconsin U.S. Attorneys' Offices Human Trafficking Conferences.
Deb A - Interim Executive Director
Deb A. joined Damascus Road Project in 2015 with a myriad of community experience. She has more than 23 years of business and entrepreneurial experience. Her past includes 10 years as an elected official and Chairwoman of the Wisconsin Family Business Forum. Deb has served on numerous boards and commissions, started and sold 2 businesses and has experience in providing support to businesses of varying sizes, ranging from start-ups to a large franchise.
Deb has attended trafficking training through the Wisconsin DOJ, International Christian Alliance on Prostitution Global Summit (ICAP), The National Trafficking & Shelter Alliance and more. In addition to her volunteer commitment with Damascus Road Project, Deb is currently the Founder & President of Great Lakes Financial Strategies, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm and Owner and CDFA® of Compass Divorce Financial Solutions. Despite a very busy professional life, she invests time in her small online coffee & sea salt spice company.
Kelly - Communications & Client Services Director
Kelly has her BA in Interpersonal Communications from UW-Milwaukee. She has completed additional college coursework in Business Management at UW-Madison and Child Development through MATC. Kelly has also served as an AmeriCorp Vista volunteer and a youth mentor. She pursued Human Trafficking education and has completed programs through both Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and Stanford University on-line.
Kelly has volunteered with Damascus Road Project full-time late 2014. She has completed training with Ending the Game Supporter training, Treasures Sex Industry Care and Outreach , Thistle Farms National Conference, ACEs training, Wisconsin Department of Justice / Wisconsin Human Trafficking Conferences, National Trafficking & Shelter Alliance and the International Christian Alliance on Prostitution Global Summit(ICAP).
Terra -engagement & education Director
Terra attended Evangel University in Springfield, MO earning BA’s in International Multi-Cultural Studies and Secondary Social Studies Education. She began her work in anti-trafficking during an internship at the National Salvation Army Headquarters in Washington D.C. in 2003. In 2010, she founded, “Stop the Traffick, Make Some Noise,” an annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day Rally in Oshkosh. In 2011, Terra moved to Las Vegas to assist in the formation of an anti-trafficking non-profit organization and to launch their internship program. She has helped to coordinate 6 Super Bowl outreaches, and Missing Children and Hospitality Outreaches in Las Vegas, Kansas City, and Wisconsin. She has continued her education by completing the End the Game Supporter Training, GEMS CSEC Training, the Wisconsin Human Trafficking Conference, and ICAP Global.
Deb H- incarceration & AFTERCARE director
Deb H. is a mom of two adult daughters, many more "adopted" daughters, and Nana to her grandson.. She has also been a foster mom for eight years to teen girls. Deb has had trauma training through the Department of Human Services, as well as trafficking training through the foster care program. ACEs training, and the National Trafficking & Shelter Alliance. She has been doing international missions since 2007, and served on the board of directors of Cherith International since 2014. Deb has worked for the USPS for 29 years, and has also made serving with the youth group at Community Church a priority for the last 13 years.
Our Amazing TEAM
In addition to our Servant Leadership Team, we are blessed with the assistance of these amazing women:
Kim T - Prayer Team Coordinator / Church Liaison KimT@damascusroadproject.org
Renee - Transportation Coordinator Renee@damascusroadproject.org
Anna - Family Dinner Coordinator info@damascusroadproject.org
Dawn - Boutique Coordinator info@damascusroadproject.org
Cully - Fundraising Team Cully@damascusroadproject.org
Jill - Fundraising Team Jill@damascusroadproject.org
Andrea - Lead Admin Andrea@damascusroadproject.org
Natasha - Admin Team Natasha@damascusroadproject.org
We also have many amazing additional volunteers who bless our organization and our girls with love, prayers, support and mentorship.
Damascus Road Project, Inc
1528 Oregon Street Oshkosh, WI 54902 (On SIte) P.O. Box 275 Oshkosh, WI 54903 (Mailing Address)