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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Lynn Hyde Senior Executive Assistant The Senior Executive Assistant supports the Executive Office in governance, people & culture, and organizational planning and performance.

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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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Alli Scharf Program Compliance Manager The Program Compliance Manager provides oversight on activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.

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

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

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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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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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Kali Boucher Member Initiatives and Event Coordinator The Member Initiatives and Events Coordinator provides support for communications, activities, events, and programming designed to support local member centers.

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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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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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Debbie Solcher Program Manager The Program Manager is responsible for guiding and managing state-wide and systems-level initiatives that ensure fidelity to the children’s advocacy center and multidisciplinary team models in furtherance of the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse in Texas.

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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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Amanda Barczyk Director of Research and Evaluation As a collaborative member of the Strategy Development and Evaluation team, the Director of Research and Evaluation is responsible for leading efforts to monitor and measure progress toward the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.

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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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Sheila Bustillos Strategy Development Principal The Strategy Development Principal is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing high-impact, evidence-informed strategies with a focus on child sexual abuse awareness and education and collaborating with CACTX teams to develop strategies that focus on other areas, such as primary prevention of sexual offending behavior.

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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 Specialist The Strategy Development Specialist is responsible for supporting research, programmatic, and stakeholder engagement efforts in furtherance of the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.

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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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Katy Morris Philanthropic Relations Manager The Philanthropic Relations Manager provides oversight and direction for the development, coordination, and execution of CACTX’s external communications, fund development initiatives, and strategic resource procurement efforts to achieve multi-year goals.

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Michelle Klein Institutional Partnerships Manager Institutional 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 IPM works collaboratively with business units across CACTX to identify, understand, and procure resource needs to achieve multi-year goals in furtherance of CACTX’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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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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Tiffany Coghill Director of Grants Administration The Director of Grants Administration manages the grant activities for the local children’s advocacy center’s contracts with CACTX, including supervision of grants staff, developing processes and procedures, application review, risk assessments, monitoring plans, and other grant related activities.

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Kelsey Getz Grant Administrator The Grant Administrator provides grants management, monitoring, and technical assistance for the local children’s advocacy center contracts with Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas, payment processing, site visits, and other grant related activities.

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Jennifer Gius Senior Grant Specialist The Senior Grant Specialist ensures compliance of local centers through the management of the enhanced monitoring workstream, conducting monitoring activities and providing technical assistance for local centers deemed high-risk, and serving as the subject matter expert on CAC grant guidance.

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Catherine Smith Grant Specialist The Grant Specialist monitors local center compliance with all applicable state and federal guidelines, synthesizing and applying highly complex grant regulations to local center conditions, providing custom, membership-focused technical assistance for local centers, and managing and optimizing the CACTX Grant Management System.

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Nikki Darty Grant Coordinator The Grant Coordinator supports fund administration, contract administration, and monitoring and compliance activities for all state and federal pass-through funding. The Grant Coordinator is an integral part of the Grant Administration team as this role ensures all grants files and tracking systems meet grantor requirements.

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Daniel Soto 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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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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Arann Barnett Vice President of Human Resources and Business Optimization The Vice President of Human Resources & Business Optimization is responsible for ensuring CACTX has the operating strategies (people, processes and systems), in place to achieve strategic goals that deliver on and advance the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.

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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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