Jesus-centered.
Practitioner-led.
Community-rooted.

Sandra Chavez spent 25 years in the United States Army — serving in Bosnia and Iraq, earning the Bronze Star, and coming home to Colorado Springs with a conviction she'd carried through every deployment: that the people around you are your responsibility, and you do not leave them behind. She holds a Master of Public Administration from UCCS and chose Colorado Springs not as a posting but as home.

Faith has been the through-line of Sandra's life — the thing that held through combat, that gave her language for what she witnessed, and that brought her back to her community with a clear sense of what she was supposed to do next. She attends New Life Church and believes that the Christian community is not a bystander to the recovery crisis — it is the natural first responder. When Amanda asked her to chair the board, Sandra recognized the same standard she'd held for 25 years: you show up for the people who have nobody else showing up for them.

Priya Hariharan is a nonprofit accountant at The Denver Foundation, where she has spent nearly a decade working alongside organizations doing serious community work in Colorado. She holds a B.S. in Accounting and is completing her M.S. in Accounting at CU Denver. She heard Amanda speak at a women's leadership event in Denver and knew immediately that RHSH Colorado was the kind of organization she wanted to be part of — not as a donor, but as someone who could make sure it was built to last.

Priya joined because she has watched good missions collapse under the weight of bad financial infrastructure — and because she believes recovery ministry is too important to let that happen. She manages RHSH Colorado's financial controls, reconciliation, and fund stewardship with the same care she brings to her work at the Foundation. She is based in Littleton and makes the drive to Colorado Springs because the work matters, not because it is convenient.

Rev. Tamara Holloway holds an M.Div. from Denver Seminary and has served as an ordained Christian minister and APC-certified chaplain for over a decade. In that time she has sat with people in recovery, in crisis, and in the particular despair that comes when someone believes God has stopped listening. She has watched the church fail people in addiction — and she has watched it redeem them. She joined RHSH Colorado because she believes the church belongs in recovery ministry, not as an afterthought but as a foundation. Faith Foundations — RHSH Colorado's Bible study and discipleship program — exists because of her conviction that healing begins in the soul.

Dr. Alfonso Cappa-Meléndez is a licensed psychologist with more than seventeen years of clinical experience in trauma, PTSD, and child and adolescent mental health — practicing out of Pueblo Pioneer Psychology, forty-five minutes south of Colorado Springs. Named Best Psychologist in Pueblo in both 2022 and 2023. He holds a PsyD from the APA-accredited Ponce School of Medicine and is bilingual in English and Spanish, with deep cultural fluency in the Latino community.

Dr. Cappa-Meléndez joined RHSH Colorado's board because he was tired of referring clients in recovery to organizations that weren't equipped for the complexity of their situations — and because he recognized that RHSH Colorado was being built to a clinical standard he could stand behind. He oversees all mental health linkage protocols and ensures the warm handoff model is clinically sound. No unlicensed clinical services are delivered. That line is one he holds personally.

Sofia Reyes has spent eighteen years working in Colorado Springs as a Certified Community Health Worker and community organizer — the kind of person who knows the names of the people everyone else refers to by case number. She is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and brings deep knowledge of the Latino community in El Paso County, one of Colorado Springs' largest and most underserved populations. She has built her career around a simple conviction: that communities heal from the inside, and that organizations serving them need to be rooted in the same soil they are trying to restore. She joined RHSH because she has spent nearly two decades watching people in recovery fall through gaps that a well-built organization could close — and because she believes RHSH is finally that organization.

Marcus served in the United States Air Force, stationed at Peterson Space Force Base — which is how he came to call Colorado Springs home. When he separated from service, he encountered the housing gap firsthand: the narrow window between discharge and stability that swallows veterans before the system can catch them. It didn't take him. But he watched it take others, and that experience drove every career decision that followed.

He holds a B.S. from CSU-Pueblo and has spent eleven years as a housing navigator in El Paso County — working the referral networks, the transitional housing partnerships, and the unglamorous middle ground between someone losing their housing and someone keeping it. He joined RHSH Colorado because recovery without stable housing is a clock running down, and he has spent his entire career refusing to watch that clock expire on people who could have been caught.

James Nguyen holds an MBA from UCCS and has spent fourteen years working in corporate community affairs — on the side of the table that decides where companies invest in the communities they operate in. He has seen what good organizations look like from that vantage point, and he has watched resources go to organizations that didn't deserve them while organizations that did went unfunded. He joined RHSH because he wanted to use what he knows to close that gap. Recovery ministry that is well-run and mission-clear is exactly the kind of work that deserves the resources it has not always received.