Staff

Joy Hughes Rauls Chief Executive Officer The Chief Executive Officer provides oversight and direction to the planning, development, and management of the daily operation of the state association. Oversees all CACTX services and activity.

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Catherine Bass Chief Strategy Officer The Chief Strategy Officer provides leadership and guidance for strategic initiatives to eradicate child sexual abuse and aligns the initiatives with organizational planning and governance.

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Christina Green Chief Advancement Officer The Chief Advancement Officer leads the integration and coordination of the organization’s communications, stakeholder relations, and resource procurement efforts. 

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Natasha King Chief Financial Officer The Chief Financial Officer ensures CACTX has the financial strategies and infrastructure in place to achieve strategic goals that deliver on and advance the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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Ellen Morrissey Chief Program Officer The Chief Program Officer guides the strategy, programming, and direction of our Member Initiatives and Standards of Excellence teams to support CACTX in furtherance of the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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Justin Joyner Chief Operating Officer The Chief Operating Officer is responsible for developing and implementing operations strategy and infrastructure by leading strategic, complex, and cross-departmental initiatives and overseeing IT, Data, and Human Resources teams.

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Lynn Hyde Chief of Staff The Chief of Staff is responsible for facilitating the efforts of executive leadership, board staff, and partners that align with strategic activities, in addition to leading strategies that support CACTX staff in fulfilling their roles to support the vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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Kali Boucher Partner Engagement Specialist The Partner Engagement Specialist is responsible for supporting the strategic goals of CACTX related to partner support and engagement, in addition to the organizational-wide support of CACTX staff. The Partner Engagement Specialist also provides executive-level and board-of-directors support.

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April Leming Director of Program Services The Director of Program Services is responsible for the development and delivery of children’s advocacy center (CAC) programming and network engagement to deliver on the strategies and impact theorized in the theory of change and strategy map.

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Rachel Jackson Training Coordinator The Training Coordinator facilitates and coordinates logistics for the Training Program, including core discipline trainings for member CACs, including Forensic Interviewing, Mental Health, Medical Evaluation, Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), and Victim Support and Advocacy.

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Kasey Jackson Program Principal The Program Principal is a senior level staff member responsible for providing program expertise, specific to CAC direct services.

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Chelsea Churchill Director of Standards of Excellence The Director of Standards of Excellence provides oversight and direction to CACTX’s program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.

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Mikey Betancourt Director of MDT Programming The Director of MDT Programming provides leadership and subject matter expertise in the development, management, and optimization of multidisciplinary teams to inform policy, programming, and relationships.

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Lindsey Jordan Vice President of Strategy Development and Evaluation The Vice President of Strategy Development and Evaluation is responsible for leading the development of the overall strategy to eradicate child sexual abuse in Texas.

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Todd Latiolais Director of Prevention Education Strategy The Director of Prevention Education Strategy is responsible for leading the planning, development, implementation, and statewide dissemination of comprehensive CSA prevention education programming for adults and children to further the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.

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Hannah Gibson-Moore Strategy Development Principal As a collaborative member of the Strategy Development and Evaluation team, the Strategy Development Principal is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing high-impact, evidence-informed strategies in furtherance of the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.

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Catherine Henning Strategy Development Manager The Strategy Development Manager supports research, programmatic, and stakeholder engagement efforts. In addition, manages projects within the department and other forums for dialogue and collaboration among stakeholders to further the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse in Texas.

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Grace Kratochvil Strategy Development Support Specialist The Strategy Development Support Specialist is responsible for supporting projects and other research and programmatic efforts to further the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse in Texas.

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Justin Wood Vice President of External Relations and General Counsel The Vice President of External Relations and General Counsel is responsible for developing and aligning the vision, strategy, and programming of CACTX External Relations and Legal initiatives.

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Vincent A. Calderon Vice President of Communications The Vice President of Communications is responsible for developing and overseeing communications strategy and initiatives ensuring their alignment with the vision, strategy, and programming of CACTX to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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Meaghan O’Donnell Marketing Communications Specialist The Marketing Communications Specialist is responsible for supporting marketing and communication efforts through the design of assets such as brochures, logos, signage, reports, presentations, event collateral, document templates, and other materials that promote, educate, and bring awareness to CACTX’s vision to end child sexual abuse.

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Katy Morris Director of Philanthropy The Director of Philanthropy is responsible for developing and leading the Resource Mobilization Business Unit’s strategies and initiatives to ensure long-term, transformational relationships with individual, corporate, foundation, and public partners in support of CACTX’s work to eradicate child sexual abuse in Texas.

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Michelle Klein Philanthropic Partnerships Manager The Philanthropic Partnerships Manager stewards, maintains, and grows public and foundation funding for CACTX and partners, including the Texas children’s advocacy center (CAC) network. In addition, the PPM works collaboratively with business units across CACTX to identify, understand, and procure resource needs to achieve multi-year goals.

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Chandler Osborne Donor Relations Coordinator As a collaborative member of the Resource Mobilization Business Unit within the Advancement Team, the Donor Relations Coordinator assists in stewarding, maintaining, and growing sustainable and scalable revenue streams to support the transformative work of CACTX.

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Kaley Friedenthal Vice President of Financial Initiatives The Vice President of Financial Initiatives is responsible for developing and aligning the vision, strategy and programming of CACTX Financial Initiatives.

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Sharra Rodriguez Contract Specialist The Contract Specialist monitors local center compliance with all applicable state and federal guidelines, synthesizes and applies highly complex grant regulations to local center conditions, and provides custom, membership-focused technical assistance for local centers.

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Lanette Vela Director of Program Compliance The Director of Program Compliance oversees all monitoring activities performed in accordance with the Texas Standards for CACs and Chapter 264, Subchapter E of the Texas Family Code, which includes site visits, desk reviews, enhanced programmatic monitoring activities, corrective action tracking, and the creation of relevant training content for local children’s advocacy centers (CACs).

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Madison Swenson Program Specialist The Program Specialist performs activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.

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Catherine Smith Contract Administration Manager The Contract Administration Manager oversees the subcontracting process for local children’s advocacy centers’(CACs) contracts with CACTX, including supervision of the contract administration staff, maintaining and optimizing processes and procedures, managing the monthly local center requests for reimbursement, annual membership and funding application review.

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Nikki Darty Contract Administrator The Contract Administrator is responsible for administrative activities required to facilitate state and federal passthrough funding for eligible children’s advocacy centers and review local center applications and requests for reimbursements and grant reporting.

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Allison Cleary Contract Administrator The Contract Administrator is responsible for administrative activities required to facilitate state and federal passthrough funding for eligible children’s advocacy centers and review local center applications and requests for reimbursements and grant reporting.

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Thomas Foster Vice President of Finance The Vice President of Finance directs the activities and functions of all CACTX’s finances while ensuring compliance and execution of financial policies.

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Christian Eto Staff Accountant The Staff Accountant is responsible to process various financial transactions primarily, but not exclusively, payroll and accounts receivable in adherence to generally accepted accounting principles and agency policies and procedures.

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Atitaya Sritongdang Grant Accountant The Grant Accountant is responsible for processing various financial transactions within the general ledger system while being knowledgeable of and remaining in adherence to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and agency policies and procedures.

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Marisa Morales Human Resources Director The Human Resources Director leads the HR department’s daily functions that include talent acquisition, onboarding, benefits, compensation, performance management, and compliance.

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Lindsay Wahlquist Office Manager The CACTX Office Manager coordinates office administration and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and safety, including intra-office communication protocols, streamlining administrative processes, and inventory control.

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Alisyn Diaz Data and Impact Senior Manager The Data and Impact Senior Manager is responsible for executing business intelligence and evaluation efforts for CACTX.

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Shane Bernius IT Operations Manager The IT Operations Manager is responsible for the daily activities of technology operations and all equipment. Leads all technology initiatives and participates in internal multi-disciplinary teams as a technical subject matter expert.

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Maddie Hellinghausen System Support Manager The System Support Manager executes tasks and operating plans along with support that aligns with strategic goals for the statewide case management system.

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