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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 at Roosevelt University 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 currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He is 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 is Chairman of the Howard County Community Emergency Response Network, the Commission on the Future of Howard Community College and the Strategic Planning Committee of Howard County General Hospital. He currently 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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  Jackie M. Ring

  
  Jacquelyn M. Ring is the Senior Program Officer of The Horizon Foundation. She has a long history of working with both the human service and business communities on behalf of Howard County's citizens with developmental disabilities. She is the former Deputy Executive Director of The Arc of Howard County. Her career there included serving as Director of Special Programs and Director of Residential Services. While at The Arc, she was instrumental in developing an early intervention program for infants and young children, the community based residential program, their employment and support program, and a very successful resource development program. She is widely credited as a prime mover in transforming The Arc from a small organization to one of the largest, most successful nonprofits in Howard County. Ring brings to the Foundation a skill set that includes high-level program management, fundraising and development expertise, in-depth knowledge of the non-profit community, and a passion to help those who are underserved. As Senior Program Officer, Jacquelyn oversees the Foundation's grantmaking programs and is involved in implementing Foundation initiatives in the community. She holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Maryland College Park and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Among other honors, she was named to the Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2004 by The (Baltimore) Daily Record. She has also received the 2002 Howard County Equal Business Opportunity Awards, Business Commitment Star.
  
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  Marla K. 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,) the Howard County CONNECTIONS website and is the project manager for HorizonHelp, the largest online health-related information and referral resource focused on Howard County. 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.