Sybil Gallagher (Chairwoman & Co-Founder) started down her path of service as an AmeriCorps member with City Year Boston and then joined the team of Citizen Schools, where she led grade school students in apprenticeship-based after school programming. For the next decade, Sybil worked on reforming elder care programs, managing assisted living facilities in the Greater Boston Area. In 2002, she became the recipient of the Alfa Star Award, honoring her outstanding leadership and commitment to service on a national level. For the last 7 years, Sybil has served as tour manager for indie rock band State Radio, while leading the charge to inspire its fan base to public service and awareness building of key social issues. She and her partner, musician Chad Stokes, met at Camp Jabberwocky, a camp for adults with various physical and mental disabilities, which led to How’s Your News?, a critically-acclaimed documentary film on HBO and series on MTV. Sybil and Chad’s latest venture is Ruff Shod Records, an independent music label currently building its artist roster.
Chad Stokes (Co-Founder) was raised in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he grew up as a pacifist through his time spent at The Peace Abbey and then took a year after high school to work in Zimbabwe. For many summers, he worked as a counselor at Camp Jabberwocky, a camp on Martha’s Vineyard for adults with disabilities and the launching pad for How’s Your News?. Chad left college to pursue an independent music career with the bands Dispatch and State Radio. A founding member of the Elias Fund, the Dispatch Foundation, and now Calling All Crows, Chad was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Boston Music Awards in 2008. He remains a committed activist and is passionate about inspiring the live music community to invest their time and energy toward public service and humanitarian causes, especially the empowerment of women around the world. In his spare time, Chad can be found playing pond hockey and hopping trains with his dog Lefty.
Jen Hallee (Executive Director) has over 10 years of experience in non-profit management, event planning, and community organizing. After two years of Americorps service with City Year New Hampshire, Jen stayed on staff to help improve their service capacity and volunteer engagement throughout New Hampshire. Most recently, she worked at Southern New Hampshire University in Alumni Relations and Development helping to grow the alumni community and engage them in giving back to the university. Jen has an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University and a BA in Biology/Biochemistry from Colby College. In her spare time, Jen loves playing and coaching basketball, spending time with family and friends, watching HGTV, and being outdoors.
Matt Wilhelm (Chief Program Officer) is a 29-year old community organizer and national service activist. During his two terms of AmeriCorps service with City Year New Hampshire, he led a team at Somersworth Middle School, built capacity around public outreach and engagement efforts, and helped spearhead Concert Corps, an initiative bridging the worlds of music and service. Immediately following, Matt joined the founding team of ServeNext.org and led their 2008 Presidential Primary campaign in the Granite State, helping to build grassroots support for what would eventually become the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. Matt is the recipient of Thrivent’s National Volunteer Excellence Award (2008), the Spirit of New Hampshire Award for National Service (2007), and a Clinton National Service Innovation Award (2006). When not on tour, Matt and his beautiful wife Jody reside in Manchester, NH.
Ashley Rable (West Coast Regional Coordinator) is from Tucson, AZ and currently resides in Denver, CO. She attended the University of Arizona (Go Wildcats!) where she received her Bachelors of Science in American Sign Language Interpreting for the Deaf. She is an avid runner, and "enjoys all that the Rocky Mountains have to offer. In addition to working with Calling All Crows, Ashley volunteers with a variety of non-profit organizations including Dress for Success, Ben’s Bells and Children’s Hospital. She participated in the first Alternative Break Tour and is always looking for new ways to work with Calling All Crows.
Krista Williams (Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator) has been on the Calling All Crows team since 2008 both as a volunteer and action leader. In 2010, she served as a Community Organizer for New York City, and in 2011 participated as a campaign coordinator, ABT Leader, and CO. Krista grew up in eastern PA and lives in Bethlehem, PA. She is a graduate of Penn State University, with a major in Business Management and minor in art history. For the past 10 years, she has been a loyal restaurant leader for the same company holding several positions, including both district and regional training managers and has been the lead of several restaurants openings along the east coast. In addition to being an avid music lover, her hobbies include kayaking, disk golfing, couponing, and brewing beer. She is a passionate animal lover and volunteer and shares her home with many rescued furry friends.
Kim Warnick (Northeast Regional Coordinator) studies too many different things at Harvard and thoroughly enjoys changing majors all the time. After spending a semester working at CAC HQ and another semester wandering through Rwanda and Uganda studying post-conflict reconciliation and peacebuilding, she has returned to the best sports region in the country. As a NH native who went to school in ME and now lives in MA, she's ready to get even more acquainted with the Northeast!
Devin Burke (Midwest Regional Coordinator) grew up outside of Chicago, and is now a soon-to-be-graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He spent 2009-2010 engaged in hands-on service in California, Washington, and Alaska ranging from tutoring to trail-building as a Corps Member in AmeriCorps*NCCC for which he received the President's Volunteer Service Award. Now, he spends his weekends leading volunteers in building houses for UW's chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Devin joined the Calling All Crows team after taking part in CAC service projects and joining Dispatch's Amplifying Education Alternative Breaks Tour in the Summer of 2011.
