Staff
The Ohio Campus Compact staff: (clockwise from left, above) Elizabeth McAnally, Lesha Farias, Kirsten Fox, Dick Kinsley, Susan King, Brenna Limbrick & Coral Breuer
Our Staff:
Coral began her service with Ohio Campus Compact as an AmeriCorps VISTA where she worked with the Students in Service program and local community initiatives. A photographer, she also worked to document programs and projects implemented by OCC’s many 2011-2012 AmeriCorps VISTAs at member campuses. Now that her term of service is up, she is thrilled to continue on with OCC and work with Brenna on the Campus Election Engagement Project, a non-partisan effort to get as many college students as possible to register, volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves, and turn out at the polls in this upcoming presidential election.
Formerly a student at Denison University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in May 2011, Coral maintains closes ties with the local community and in her spare time serves on the 6th Street and Growing Community Gardens Board, the guiding coalition for Bridges Out of Poverty as well as acts as a Class Agent for Denison University’s Annual Fund. When she’s not working, gardening, or taking photos, she enjoys hiking at Ohio’s many parks, playing badminton, and returning to the farm where she grew up in Wisconsin.
Lesha Farias began her career as VISTA Supervisor with Ohio Campus Compact in January 2003 when the VISTA Program consisted of 18 VISTAs working in literacy, community outreach, and service learning. Now in her eighth year, the OCC VISTA Program is the second oldest and one of the largest Campus Compact VISTA programs in the country, transforming campus and community through service and social action. Under her direction, the OCC VISTA Program now consists of 32 VISTAs working in their campus communities on specific poverty alleviation focus areas, like college access, Ohio Benefit Bank and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, food security, veteran student services, nonprofit capacity building, housing and homelessness, Bridges Out of Poverty and public health. As the VISTA Program has grown so has Lesha’s interest and involvement in local community empowerment and social change. Through the Sixth Street & Growing Community Gardens initiative, she is working to bring community gardens to the forgotten neighborhoods of Newark as a means for revitalization and renewal. Her other current community organizing work includes the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, the Bridges Out of Poverty Guiding Coalition, and the Newark Freedom School. She fully belongs to her community, and has learned to think globally and act locally as an embedded citizen of her birthplace.
Susan serves as Ohio Campus Compact’s Program Director for Outreach & Engagement. In this capacity, she is responsible for coordinating professional development training for college community service directors as well as organizing regional meetings for member campuses and AmeriCorps VISTA alumni. Susan also manages organizational communications, marketing and resource development programs. Prior to joining the Ohio Campus Compact team, Susan served as the Denison University Environmental Studies Program Manager and also worked for over eight years at the Ohio Environmental Council. Susan is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and board member of the nonprofit Amazon Partnerships Foundation. When not conducting outreach to Ohio Campus Compact member institutions, Susan can be found at her family’s farm where she helps her mother grow organic flowers for Buckeye Blooms.
Richard Kinsley has been Executive Director of Ohio Campus Compact since 1997. He has over 25 years of experience as a faculty member, curriculum specialist, trainer, and administrator in the field of service-learning and experiential education. Ohio Campus Compact engages and supports it members in public and community service that builds sustainable campus/community partnerships, educates for active citizenship, and improves the social and economic well being of communities.
Under Mr. Kinsley’s leadership, Ohio Campus Compact has expanded its membership to 46 Ohio colleges and universities, expanded its grant programs for faculty, students, and community organizations, expanded its technical assistance and training services, and developed a nationally recognized college student philanthropy program and a nationally recognized AmeriCorps VISTA program.
Brenna started at OCC in May 2011 supporting the 2011-12 VISTA team and Program Manager Lesha Farias. She is currently a Project Director for OCC, working on the Pay It Forward student philanthropy initiative, yearlong VISTA program, directed the 2012 VISTA Summer Associate program, and directs the 2012 Campus Election Engagement Project. Each day at OCC is different: she might be in the office one day working on a presentation, and the next day traveling to a corner of the state for a campus site visit.
Brenna has a degree in Computer Information Systems that she utilizes to assist at OCC with technology upgrades, design presentation and technical training. She is dedicated to her young son, who was born in 2009, and is pursuing her interests in photography and sustainable agriculture.
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