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The Horizon Foundation Staff

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  Richard Krieg

  
  Richard Krieg is President and CEO of The Horizon Foundation and also serves as a Foundation Trustee. He is former Health Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago. The Chicago Department of Health is the nation's largest local health department, with a staff of approximately 2,000 people and an $85 million annual budget. Its fifty-two general and specialty clinics make up the largest ambulatory care system in the Chicago, handling one million patient visits annually.

  He is former Executive Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs in Chicago, an urban policy and community action center. Richard formerly served as Associate Dean of The University of Illinois School of Public Health. For four years, he held the position of Director of Policy Analysis and Planning for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. He was a Peace Corps volunteer, working in the community health area in central Brazil.

  He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago where he specialized in health policy and administration. He holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago's Harris Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Brookings Institution Advanced Studies Program.

  He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He was a member of the Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism in Maryland and chaired the statewide Cancer Treatment Task Force established by the Maryland General Assembly in 2001. He was the founding Chairman of the Howard County Community Emergency Response Network (CERN). Currently, he is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of Howard County General Hospital and serves on the Advisory Board of the National Peace Corps Association. Richard is a recipient of the Illinois Department of Public Health's "Award of Merit" and the Illinois Public Health Association's "Presidential Award" for 1990. Under former Illinois Governor James Edgar, he was awarded the "1992 Governor's Award for Unique Achievement" for his chairmanship of the League of Woman Voters' statewide ElderHealth Project.
  
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  Cheri Auger

  
  Cheri Auger is the Administrative Assistant, performing a variety of duties to support the staff of The Horizon Foundation and Howard County Connections. Prior to coming to the Horizon Foundation, Cheri worked as a program analyst for the federal government and as an administrative assistant at a local private school. She is a graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
  
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  Maureen R. Hayes

  
  Maureen R. Hayes is The Horizon Foundation's Financial and Administrative Officer. Her responsibilities include strategic and operational support. Maureen is the former Administrator of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She holds an MA in business administration from Ohio State University.
  
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  Kathy L. Macfarlane

  
  Kathy Macfarlane is the Administrative Assistant to the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Horizon Foundation. She performs a variety of duties, including visitor relations, clerical support, and preparation of reports, charts, and other correspondence. In addition to her duties, Kathy is the assistant producer to On the Horizon, the Foundation's monthly television show that tackles issues facing the community. Kathy recommends story ideas, schedules guests, and markets the show to Foundation constituents. She has worked as an office coordinator and assistant to the president for several local firms. She is a graduate of Villa Julie College.
  
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  Rosimar Meléndez

  
  Rosimar Meléndez is the Foundation's Senior Staff Associate. She oversees the Foundation’s responsive grantmaking programs, serve as a resource to the nonprofit community and assists with program planning and evaluation. Prior to the Foundation, Meléndez was United Way of Central Maryland's Regional Director for Howard and Anne Arundel Counties. Before joining the United Way, she was Director of the Women’s Business Center in Fayetteville, NC, an agency that helps local entrepreneurs start or expand small or home-based businesses. She has also worked as Marketing and Communications Director for the United Way of Cumberland County in Fayetteville, Public Relations Director/Account Executive at Hodges Associates in Fayetteville, Fund Development and Public Relations Director for the Girl Scouts of Concharty Council in Columbus, GA and a Market Research Analyst for the Department of the Army’s Marketing Division in Vicenza, Italy. A native of Puerto Rico, Meléndez is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.
  
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  Marla Shaivitz

  
  Marla Shaivitz is the Foundation's Web Technology Director. She manages the day-to-day operations of the Foundation site, as well as the Community Emergency Response Network (CERN) suite of websites under BePreparedBeReady.org (CERN/Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) and Business Continuity of Operations,) and the Howard County CONNECTIONS website. She works closely with Foundation staff to realize the strategic goals of the organization through web technology. A graduate of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, Marla worked in the technology sector as an Internet strategy consultant, as well as in the marketing and public relations departments at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.