Our Team

The Board Resource Center Team consists of trainers, coaches, content specialists, designers, writers, and media production experts with professional experience working with diverse communities and accessible media. The team has a rich education and social services background that provides “state-of-the-art” services using modalities that empower, demonstrate and teach complexities using easy-to-understand methods and tools.

BRC’s creative team ensures clients’ needs are met with customized training products and outcomes. Development of training, curricular and informational media is strengthened by routine use of focus groups, field testing and data analysis to validate methods and utility designed to accommodate diverse audiences, readers and users.

Tammy Evrard

is the BRC Project Coordinator with nearly 20 years experience in the developmental disabilities service administration field. Her consultancy services concentrate on providing facilitation support and lending technical assistance to ensure projects meet anticipated outcomes. Tammy works directly with the BRC production team and coordinates with end users.

Tammy holds a Bachelors Degree in communication arts and business and with experience as a Community Living Specialist. She worked for 10 years as a Service Coordinator and Resource Developer for one of California’s 21 Regional Centers.

Charlene Jones

teams with BRC to provide technical assistance on instructional tools and strategies for a broad range of users. She has experience as a developmental disabilities service provider and administrator for more than 25 years. Charlene blends facilitation and training with production of written materials in accessible formats to support individuals to increase personal leadership and civic engagement. With a Masters Degree in special education, she specialized in integrated team work and co-authoring publications and training curricula on facilitation services. Working with numerous advocacy groups, she conducted statewide trainings using “consumer friendly” tools to support exercising personal rights and inclusion on governance boards. Charlene has also provided facilitation training for agency boards of directors and advisory committees to support members with adapted informational materials.

Charlene joins the BRC team as co-writer and editor. She participated on numerous BRC curriculum and media projects.

Brian Marsh

is the life and wellness advisor for BRC leadership projects. He contributes to BRC’s projects by involving families and parent groups by supporting them to create community partnerships that advance independent and self-determined lives.

Brian has a Fortune 500 corporate leadership background and is a practicing life coach, consultant and speaker based in northern California. He holds an MBA and a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation. Brian developed a program that linked positive personal and emotional satisfaction and life coaching to measurable scientific and clinical outcomes for a northern California healthcare organization. He works in the healthcare field to help clients clarify how they want to live and support them in designing strategies to reach goals. Brian also leads a disease management coaching program within a large California-based healthcare system aimed at patients living with chronic illness, such as diabetes and high cholesterol.

Brian’s contact information is: brian@brcenter.org .

Sharon Fallis

is a collaborator to many of BRC’s projects, using training and tools developed by BRC in her capacity as Transition through Lifespan Projects Coordinator at Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, UC Davis MIND Institute. Sharon collaborates on community stakeholder efforts invested in advancing community living opportunities for marginalized people.

As a community inclusion specialist, she has worked since 1989 on behalf of people with complex challenges. Sharon developed and managed a unique parenting support program for parents with developmental disabilities and their children that provided independent living and early intervention services. Sharon holds a Bachelors Degree in organizational behavior and leadership with specialized training in organizational development and employee management.

Leslie Ann Levine

is a graphic designer, production artist and website developer who has taken her background in the fundamentals of print production to the multimedia environment. Leslie creates accessible websites with customized content management technology employing new industry techniques and easy-to-understand and use publications, marketing tools and interactive web applications. Leslie meets and complements diverse client needs.

Leslie began work as a typesetter and since then has advanced her expertise and expanded her professional tool kit to incorporate skillful utilization of Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Client projects have included designing and typesetting film titles for Title House in Hollywood, and designing and producing hotel guides for corporate chains such as Hilton and Marriott.