PostedOctober 8, 2024
DOORWAYS | 1101 N. Jefferson Avenue | St. Louis MO 63106
DOORWAYS Welcomes New Board Members
Special thanks to all members rolling off the board and those continuing their terms.
St.Louis, MO – Eightindividuals have been elected to begin three-year terms on the DOORWAYS Board
of Directors, effective September 2024. Additionally, two board members are rollingoff the board. Details are provided below.
NEWBOARD MEMBERS
ShirleyAdams-Shepherd is dedicated to guiding people throughtheir journey to life-balance and health. As a licensed massage therapist and aesthetician,she helps people reduce stress, relieve pain, and energize overall wellness.Her goal is to complete certification in holistic healing, which emphasizes thewhole person—body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Holistic healing can supplementtraditional medicine and offer supportive preventive care. Already growing her own vegetables, she hopesto promote healing through foods and herbs. Originally from Virginia, Shirleyhas lived in St. Louis for 24 years. She is the mother of two daughters.
Reverend Lauren E.Bennett is the Lead Pastor at the MetropolitanCommunity Church of Greater St. Louis, where she serves as preacher, spiritualleader, and a champion for social justice and community advocacy within thechurch and beyond its walls. Rev. Bennett has been associated with faith-basedactivities through volunteerism and employment since 2011. During these 13years, she has received numerous honors and awards; served as a guest speaker,preacher, and teacher; and published two devotionals. She is currently
completing a Doctor of Ministry in Social Transformation with the UnitedTheological Seminary.
E-P. Barrette,MD, FIDSA, FACP, is an attending physician at BarnesJewish Hospital, Medical Director of the Washington University HIV and VirologyClinic, and Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School ofMedicine. Dr. Barrette is the Principal Investigator for the school’s RyanWhite Part C Grant, which funds primary health care clinical programs andsupport services for people with HIV. He gives lectures on HIV, both regionallyand nationally, and has published multiple books, book chapters, andpeer-reviewed articles. He earned an MD at Harvard Medical School afterresidency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Tony Coreyis retired from a career in engineering/technology. Since his retirement, hehas been involved with ministries assisting the underrepresented people of theCity of St. Louis. Mr. Corey even joined the advisory boards of Firm Foundationand Harambee. He is active in racial awareness and equity efforts through theEpiscopal church, the founder of a racial justice team at St. Timothy’sEpiscopal church in Creve Coeur, and a member of the Episcopal Diocese ofMissouri’s Dismantling Racism Commission. He graduated from NortheasternUniversity in Boston with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
David Lipovicsis Senior Vice President and Head of Institutional Markets at Reinsurance Groupof America, Inc. (RGA). He currently leads RGA’s Pension Risk Transfer and LongevityRisk Management businesses in St. Louis. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2020,he was with RGA’s Global Financial Solutions unit in London. Highly qualifiedin his field, prior to joining RGA, he worked with PwC’s U.K. practice andAon’s U.K. practice. He earned a degree in actuarial science from the LondonSchool of Economics and is a Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Actuaries.
Chester List,CPA, MBA, is Principal at Morice, List & Associates, LLC, which providesbusiness services, tax compliance, and financial statement preparation fornot-for-profit and for-profit entities. With experience working at local CPAfirms, Mr. List joined Morice, List & Associates, LLC, in 1991 as atax/accounting manager, assuming the role as Principal in 2017. He is a memberof the AICPA and MOCPA organizations, and a past chair of the MOCPA audit andaccounting committee. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business
administration/accounting at University of Evansville and an MBA at Universityof Missouri-St. Louis.
Carmen LeneeManning is currently a Home Health Aide at Point ofChange Ministries in St. Louis. She shares her compassion, kindness, and energywith elderly clients as she assists them with activities of daily living, suchas facilitating medical visits, planning meals to meet dietary specifications,and helping with personal care. Often home health aides also provide basichealth-related services, such as helping with exercise, bandages, skin care,etc. Prior to her role with Point of Change Ministries, Ms. Manning worked as asupervisor and manager with building maintenance companies. She has attendedclasses in human services at St. Louis Community College Meramec.
Reverend DoctorJeff Moore is an ordained United Church of Christminister serving as Senior Pastor of the Webster Groves Christian Church(Disciples of Christ) and an adjunct professor of Biblical and Ministry Studiesat the United Church of Christ’s Eden Theological Seminary. With a deep commitment to social justiceand education, from 2003-2007he served as the HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Lesotho, South Africa. Upon his return, along with his pastoralresponsibilities to the church, Rev. Dr. Moore continued his ministry to peopleliving with HIV through service to clients at DOORWAYS. He earned aMaster of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Eden TheologicalSeminary, plus a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal inSouth Africa.
BOARD MEMBERS ENDING TERMS
ReverendKathleen Wilder and Rabbi Elizabeth Hersch are both ending terms. Eachcontributed their time and energy to the agency and its clients. We aregrateful for their commitment in the past and look forward to their future volunteer contributions.
CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS
We also appreciate and value our many returning boardmembers. For a list, please visit our Board of Director’s web page at:
https://doorwayshouing.org/about/people/board-of-directors/
VOLUNTEEROPPORTUNITIES
Inaddition to volunteer service through the Board of Directors, DOORWAYS also
offers many other volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups. To learn
more, please visit our Volunteer web page:
https://doorwayshousing.org/get-involved/volunteer
ABOUTDOORWAYS
Founded in 1988,DOORWAYS provides housing and 360 degrees of wrap-around services to people at
the intersection of poverty, homelessness, and illness from HIV. Each year, we serve approximately 3,000
clients and family members in 124 counties spread across Missouri and Illinois.Expanding over the years to meet growing depth and breadth of need,DOORWAYS evolved from a hospice caring for the dying to an agency buildinglives for the living. We currently own 12 buildings with 230 apartmentsoffering five housing platforms—emergency housing, flexible housing, assistivehousing for those too ill to live independently, permanent housing, and, toprevent homelessness for people in their own accommodations, rent/utilitysubsidies.
Housing is supplemented by empowerment services to cultivate the social determinants ofhealth (housing, health, food security, employment/income, education,community, etc.) that are needed to advance towards a life of opportunity andindependence. We use individualized case management, resource referrals,
self-development programming, employment support, behavioral health counseling,and psychiatric care. An independent pharmacy will soon open on the campus aswell.
Throughthis mix of services to stabilize housing, health, and hope, clients begintheir journey toward a more self-directed life. Once housed and linked withtheir care coordinator, clients are encouraged to comply with an HIV-medicationregimen that can help them attain undetectable status. When HIV isundetectable, life span and quality of life improve for the individual.Furthermore, undectable equals untransmittable (U=U), stopping forwardtransmission. Bringing an end to new cases of HIV will ultimatelyeradicate HIV for future generations.
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