 Meet Our Staff
If you're a volunteer here at Grace, it's very likely you've gotten to know (by email) one or more of the fine people below. To the rest of the world, welcome and meet our team! We would show you all their pictures but not everyone has sent them in to the web team. When you’re working with a super keen, super hard-working staff, (pro bono, no less!) it is hard to get them to lift their heads from the keyboard to brag about themselves. Here is a chance to put a face/description to an email!
 Stephanie L. Moles
Stephanie Moles is the founder here at Grace. Wearing anywhere from 6-17 different hats on a given day, she tries to focus focused her attention on gathering the right people for the best work – though we think she should focus more on raising capital! She is also a little bossy but in kind of a weird good way. It must work; everyone here is working pro bono! After stealing the idea from Chris (see below) to help our veterans, Stephanie was sitting on the beaches of San Diego munching on tacos with her friend Shelley and discussing the plight of women veterans – then and there they came up with the name Grace After Fire. Before creating Grace, Stephanie worked demonstrating online support program through The Woman’s Heart. And in her younger years, she worked at the Intel Corporation in the America’s Marketing Division, and in San Francisco in the world of Venture Capital – both the boom and the bust!
Jamie A. Lee
 Jamie A. Lee is our film producer and friend - she creates compelling and accessible work while enjoying every minute of the storytelling process (see her pic)! We are thrilled to have her on our team! She is an award-winning filmmaker who runs Visionaries Filmworks, a production company dedicated to social justice media. Jamie Lee advocates for self-representation and so is thrilled to collaborate with Grace After Fire to hear women's stories of survival -- breaking stereotypes of what it means to be a woman and in the military. She is dedicated to teaching youth the complexities of telling our own stories. Lee teaches documentary film at City High School in Tucson, AZ and facilitates Grrrls Literary/Media Activism Workshops through Kore Press, where she also created the book trailer for POWDER: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Jamie is the recipient of the 2009 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant to assist her in post-production on her fourth documentary feature film, aguamiel: secrets of the agave.
Dhani Davis
 Dhani Davis directs Grace’s film and media projects, using her background in the entertainment industry that stretches over 40 years of experience. She most recently hails from a long career stint as a writer and producer of television, film and video/DVD projects, and continues to package film projects. Davis also doubles as Stephanie’s copy editor and pitches in wherever and whenever there is a need for an extra pair of hands. Dhani looks forward to overseeing the creation of provocative and thought provoking media pieces for Grace After Fire that are focused on bringing the stories of the American veteran woman forward.
Sherry Young
Sherry Young is the coolest national business director and uses her amazing skills to lovingly twist the arms of treatment centers and expert clinical providers to give to Grace’s women. Mind you it’s an easy sell but she likes to rough’em up a little anyway.  She is also known as “Ms. PhD and Know-It-All of Everything” more because of her broad interests and interdisciplinary education than actual grasp of facts. Mother of three, plus two step-children who have disowned her at this moment, and grandmother of six and one-half, she is a former college professor and business owner, wife to two husbands at separate times, sister, employee and friend. Sherry currently works with a treatment center that provides hope and healing for many licensed professionals who struggle with addiction and psychiatric mood disorders. Eleven plus years of recovery have transformed Sherry’s life and her family’s. In her work, she develops a trusted network of relationships with treatment and counseling providers nationally. Service and addiction are intertwined in her history. Dad was a Navy officer, who was a functioning alcoholic. She married Husband #1, a Marine, months after he returned from Vietnam in 1967 who later developed a drinking problem and Husband #2’s father was a career officer and large animal Vet in the Army who drank. Her oldest son was in the Navy and is currently in recovery. Sherry’s passion is to peel back the stigma of shame associated with this disease, to uncover the trauma, and get people the help and healing they deserve. She’s excited to work with Grace After Fire, sharing with therapeutic providers how they can connect and be of service to these brave women through partnership participation.
Cathy Morton
 Cathy Morton manages our online communication and resource database. Servers her right for being a 2-1-1 expert with two national certifications as a database resource manager and information and referral specialist! One of her many great loves is computers – she understands them and they make sense. She was born and raised in beautiful, historic, Charleston, SC, and has lived in many parts of the US as an adult. She is the mother of two, stepmother of two more, and has three grand kids. Cathy is married to an interesting character who is a middle school teacher, former paramedic, and a Marine veteran. Cathy has been clean and sober for 22 years. What is she doing at Grace After Fire? Her friend introduced her to the project and after talking with Stephanie about GAF, she was hooked! Her goal is to make sure that our database has resources for the women that will be using this site. She also manages our "virtual communications" like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more. “I am looking forward to working with this awesome project and amazing group of women!”
Julie Hurley
Julie Hurley drives our online marketing and affiliate program bringing to Grace only the business that gives to women veterans. In her spare time, Julie gratefully chases her two daughters and she’s pregnant with another baby girl due in August! Whew, we’re tired just thinking about it.  She grew up in a loving but alcoholic home and began drinking at 13. Fortunately, she got sober at 25, over ten years ago, and married Mark, who also is in recovery. Formerly a pastry chef and cook in the back of the house in restaurants (a great job for an alcoholic in training), then, in recovery Julie moved into management, where she ran a four-star restaurant as general manager until the baby was six months old. Julie’s now a stay-at-home Mom, managing a busy and expanding household, as husband has taken on extra work as a custom wood craftsman to support the family. The challenge for Julie, and her family, is to live life differently – simply, creatively, passionately – to raise healthy children and to be contributing members of a community as many in her family have dealt with trauma and addiction. Grace After Fire is an organization that is needed now. More than any other time in our country’s history, women are serving in the Armed Forces. They return to lives and families, children and communities, heroes with hidden wounds. Julie wants to be able to give them the same chance at a different life that she was given; she wants to be of service. Julie is helping Grace develop relationships with companies about opportunities for service through advertising and donations.
Serena Hayden
Serena, our Veteran Communications Officer, hails from the most wonderful state of Texas where, believe it or not, they stopped riding horses as their primary mode of transportation last year.  Serena has embraced her deep passion for Grace to continue giving to something far greater than herself. As a recent veteran with a plethora of communications skills and life experiences, she is the internal "voice" of Grace - allowing us to better serve you, our lovely lady vets. A veteran, daughter, sister, friend and partner, she joined the Army in 2003 to challenge herself and see the world. She saw the armpit of Oklahoma (Lawton), the armpit of Texas (Killeen) and Diyala province, Iraq – which about sums up her luck. With a degree in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University, she decided it was not time to be the female version of Frank Lloyd Wright. Instead, she took her complete disdain for proper grammar, punctuation and spelling, and became the Public Affairs NCOIC for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Diyala just so happened to be the terrorists' safe haven at the time, blessing Serena with 15-18 hour days filled with media, press releases, writing, photographing and editing news stories, and developing powerful speeches for the brigade commander. With 110 Soldiers killed from her brigade, she also gained an amazing perspective on life, love and the pursuit of true happiness. Now out of the service, she will probably become an astronaut or something else that makes absolutely no sense.
Dottie Natal
 Dottie is director of information systems and design. She also has a special affection for delivering information via eHealth and Telemedicine platforms. When she is not busy programming at mach-speeds she hikes the CA Sierra's for days on end, by herself. Dottie is a woman of nature, has a great laugh and more compassion than most humans comprehend. But don't kid yourself; she's a pillar of strength. She single-handedly has kept Stephanie facing forward and alive for years now! Dottie is also an artist of the soul, and as comfortable playing with nuclear physics as with metaphysics! Other then working endless (unpaid) hours to make Grace happen, Dottie devotes her love and energy to her really cool ocean surfing husband Dave, dogs and wild animals, and the kids that stray the neighborhood.
Christopher Rawn
 Christopher Rawn likes to think he is a mere contractor working to build our web traffic and design, but we won’t let him get off that easy. Stephanie literally stole his idea to support our veterans by offering access to free treatment - but his program did not include women, so poo on that! Now he is indentured to the cause of making Grace look pretty and help our fundraising efforts. When asked what he is doing here he responds, “I’m just a worker bee trying to be part of something great.” Chris is one of only two male staff member at Grace After Fire, going where few men have gone before. Prior to his never-ending work with Grace and the staff that wonderfully drives him crazy(ier), Christopher co-founded Addicted.com and is Vice President of BCT Consulting, Inc.
Kevin Britton
Kevin Britton is the guy "behind the curtain, turning the cranks and pulling the levers" as the back-end developer at Grace After Fire. That's fairly appropriate for a guy with a background in robotics programming and automation design! After several years in the automotive industry, Kevin has turned his programming expertise (and sleepless nights) on Grace, which he describes as "a fantastic project dedicated to an extremely deserving group of women". Kevin is a Senior Web Developer and Project Leader for Up and Running Software, Inc. and is also the Chief Technology Officer for Mu Beta Psi, National Honorary Musical Fraternity. If he HAD free time, he swears he'd spend it with his wife Jodi, probably traveling to some far away land.
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Casper, WY
Saginaw, MI