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Executive Board
The Executive Board is responsible for the overall management of The Mommies Network. |
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Heather founded CharlotteMommies in 2002 and co-founded The Mommies Network in 2005. Heather has two beautiful daughters: Caroline Grace and Catherine Elizabeth. She has a B.A. in English Literature. She grew up in Ohio and Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina when she was ten. Today she and her family live in Charlotte, NC. She also enjoys reading, writing and homeschooling Caroline. Heather is our visionary and serves on the Research & Development and Community Launch Committees. |
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Rebecca Lange
Becky was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1999 to attend Greensboro College. She graduated with a BA in Exceptional Child Studies. Becky has one daughter, Daniela, who was born in January 2005 and is due with her second daughter, Lorelei, in May 2010. Becky founded our TriadMommies (NC) community and served as the Site Administrator for two years. In her free time, Becky enjoys decorating cakes, photography, reading and music. Becky's primary responsibility is managing our various online promotional tools. She joined our Board of Directors in late 2006. Becky chairs our Promotions Committee and serves on our Accounting, New Community and Community Launch Committees. |
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Amy Sloan
Amy and her husband, Gregg, live in Columbus, GA - aka the boonies! They have three children: Alexa, Hunter and Carter. She worked full time as a Marketing Director before she became a stay-at-home mom in 2003. While living in Cornelius, NC, Amy founded LakeNormanMommies (NC) and served as the site administrator for 18 months. She joined our Board of Directors in 2007. She enjoys reading, decorating her house and being with her family. Amy oversees the Operations Board in the day to day management of our sites. |
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Kristin Amundsen-Cubanski
Kristin and her husband Tom live in San Luis Obispo, California with their three daughters: Autumn, Laura and Mae. She has Bachelors and Masters degress in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University and worked full-time from home as a software engineer before becoming the CIO for The Mommies Network. She is a member of SLOCountyMommies (CA) and served on the community management team for one year and as an area and support group moderator since its opening in March 2006. She enjoys photography, quilting, reading, music, geocaching, camping, learning new things, and hopes to get back to cycling sometime soon. Kristin chairs our Tech Support, Research & Development and Community Launch Committees. Her sister Karin is on our Operations Board. |
 | Chelle Garrett
Chelle is a newlywed! She married her British husband, Andy, in October 2009. She is the mom of twins: Jenna and Nathan. Chelle works part-time at the American Red Cross. She was a long time member and moderator on our CharlotteMommies (NC) community before joining the management team of UnionCountyMommies (NC) and later becoming the Site Administrator, a role she held for over a year. In 2007 she became a Network Administrator, and took on the responsibility of managing our NA team in 2008. Chelle supervises our Fundraising, Grant Writing, and Sponsorship teams in addition to handling the daily bookkeeping functions of the Network. |
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Operating Board
The Operations Board is responsible for the day-to-day operations of our sites.
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Amy Blalock
Amy co-manages, along with Amber White, the administration of teams for all Network Level TMN Sites. This includes hiring and training staff, handling day to day operations at the site level, and overseeing the Librarians and Peer Panel. She is a native of Durham, North Carolina and moved to Greensboro, NC in 2001. She has a degree in psychology from Elon University and a Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She practiced psychotherapy, focusing on children and adolescents, until her second child was born. She joined TriadMommies in 2006 and held a variety of leadership positions including area group mod, user group manage,r and SA from 2007-2009. She is currently a stay-at-home mom and helps her husband Tommy at his law practice. Amy and Tommy have three beautiful sons: Cameron, Caleb and Coltyn. In her "spare" time she enjoys reading, watching TV, spending time with friends, and volunteering at her church. Amy joined our Operations Board in 2008. |
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Margie Gilbert
Margie is responsible for assisting the Network Administrators and Site Administrators with conflict resolution, as necessary, and assisting in Site Administrator training. She founded SouthValleyMommies (CA) and was the site administrator for 18 months. She lives in Hanford, CA with her husband Joseph, founder and site administrator for CentralValleyDads (CA) and their son Caleb. Margie enjoys cooking, crafts, fishing, traveling, spending days with friends, the coast, the great outdoors, and much more. |
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Karin Amundsen
Karin manages our New Community Committee, interviewing potential Site Administrators and training them prior to site launch. She also oversees the training of all new Site and Assistant Site Administrators for the network. She founded VegasMommies.com (NV) and was the Site Administrator for two years, retiring in 2009 to join the Operations Board. She has a Master's Degree in British History and lives in Las Vegas with her son, Danny. Her sister Kristin serves on our Executive Board. |
 | Amber White
Amber, along with co-Director Amy Blalock, is responsible for the administration teams for all Network Level TMN Sites. This includes hiring replacement and Co-Site Administrators and Assistants, along with providing site-level management training, handling member concerns, and assisting sites in becoming successful out of training. Amber and her husband Shane have 3 sons; Joshua, Justin, and Jeremy. She grew up in Aberdeen, MD but moved to Knoxville, TN a few years ago, and she loves the area! She is currently a WAHM hoping to go back to school soon. Amber has been a part of the TMN family since 2007, as a member of both BaltimoreMommies.com and ChesapeakeMommies.com . In 2008, She founded KnoxvilleMommies.com, and has also previously been a Network Level 2 Admin. Amber joined our Operations Board in late 2009 and also helps oversee our Peer Panel and TMN level librarians. |
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Directors
Our Directors are responsible for the day-to-day management of our other business departments. |
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Christi Haynes
Christi is responsible for Network Program Management, oversight of the Technical Team, training site and network staff on the technical aspects of site administration, and assisting the CIO in setting policy and selection of software and technical tools. Christi and her husband Glenn have three children. Christi grew up in Dallas, Texas and has a BBA from Baylor University. She was a manager at an IT corporation before putting her career on hiatus to start a family. Christi and her growing family lived in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before arriving in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was a long time moderator and manager for our LakeNormanMommies (NC) community and was a Network Administrator. Christi joined our Operations Board in 2009. |
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Jamie Rippy
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Christine Byrd
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National Managers
The Mommies Network's National Managers work with the Executive Board, Directors, and our sites to oversee site leadership and national-level projects. |
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Jaala Jensen
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Robin Yount
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Andrea Bates
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Schell Hammel
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Jennifer Pocock
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Stacey Kirk
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Amanda Moran
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Amanda Perryman
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Theresa Jenkins
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Karli Brown
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