Our Board of Trustees

Katherine Justice was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC in December 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Reading. After receiving her education, Katherine married and moved to Boston, MA where she started her civil service career. As a personnelist, she was responsible for recruiting engineers and technical support personnel for the Hanscom Air Force Base. She continued to work in personnel management at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Manchester, Tennessee and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. She transferred to Dahlgren Naval Base, Dahlgren, Virginia and began working with the AEGIS Weapon Systems Program, AEGIS Training Facility, as a Curriculum Development Assistant. In September 1996, Katherine and her husband adopted a daughter who had suffered abuse and a Traumatic Brain Injury. They made the decision that Katherine would resign from Federal Service to devote her time to the education of their daughter. When their daughter reached adulthood, Katherine began volunteering in nearby public schools. In 2009, after completing a course of study in Teaching English as a Second Language, she secured a part-time teaching position with Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD. She taught there from 2009-2011. In 2011, she began teaching Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten in a small private school in Fort Walton Beach, FL. She continued in that position until the move to Bedford County, Virginia. Katherine is a past member of The Officers’ Wives Club, Hill Air Force Base Thrift Shop Committee, and several church programs for women and children. She is an active member of the Friends of the Moneta/SML Library. She enjoys reading, paper crafts, and sewing.

Mrs. Sutherland is presently an 8th grade US history teacher at Storm Grove Middle School in Vero Beach, Florida and this is her 20th year of teaching. She holds a Florida State Professional Teaching Certificate in the areas of Social Studies and English grades 6-12. She also earned Endorsements in Reading and ESOL each entailing 300 credit hours of coursework in the state of Florida. Mrs. Sutherland graduated with a BA in American Studies from Washington College in Chestertown, MD and then added another year and a half to her undergraduate coursework record taking the required education classes to become a teacher. The education coursework included classes entitled: Early Childhood Psychology, Philosophy of Education, History of Education and Differentiated Instructional Practices in Teaching. Mrs. Sutherland also completed the required student teaching practicum and passed the required state tests in order to obtain a Maryland Teaching Certificate. She held several teaching positions including In Annapolis where she taught at a public high school and in Chestertown she taught at a public middle school. Additionally, she was hired at a private school that specialized in teaching students with learning differences, specifically dyslexia. In order to be hired at this private school, Mrs. Sutherland became a certified instructor of the Orton-Gillingham Method of teaching using a multi-sensory approach to instruction specifically in reading and writing, but it’s a method that can be applied to all subject areas. In Florida, Mrs. Sutherland was hired at a school that is run by the Division of Juvenile Justice and the local school board. There she gained experience working with troubled youth who had to work through a program in order to gain admittance back into public school. This position required Mrs. Sutherland to be a social studies teacher and a case manager of specific children. As a case manager, she worked individually with dysfunctional teens that had experienced a plethora of traumatic experiences. One of her many responsibilities as a case manager were to monitor students at a variety of community service activities. Prior to teaching where she presently has been for six years, Mrs. Sutherland taught at a Charter middle school for 5 years. For nearly 20 years Mrs. Sutherland has dedicated herself to educating America’s young people and, in addition to her teaching experience, she has gained work experience in both public and private school settings. Along with teaching, Mrs. Sutherland coaches rowing for the Vero Beach Rowing Club and has been with VBRC for 5 years. Prior to being a rowing coach, Mrs. Sutherland coached tennis for several middle schools that she taught in Florida. She is married to Adam and they have been together since 1993. They have one son, Angus who will be 12 in December and one brown dog, Sugaree, who is their 5 year old chocolate lab.

Dr. Danielle N. Bird is an Active Duty Neonatologist in the United States Army. A native of Lynchburg, VA, she attended medical school at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. During her 20+ years of service, she has been stationed at Tripler Army Medical Center, HI; Seoul, South Korea; Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. In 2008, Dr. Bird deployed to Mosul, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Bird is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and is constantly seeking ways to improve patient care and customer experiences by the implementation of systems and improved processes. Outside of the Military, Dr. Bird rescues senior Weimaraner dogs and is heavily involved with a number of rescues throughout the mid-Atlantic region. During the summer of 2019, Dr. Bird’s oldest daughter – all of 2-1/2 years old - attended ONE Forest School, developing a love of nature, learning and being outdoors. Dr. Bird is currently stationed at Fort Bragg, NC with her husband TJ, their two daughters and a number of dogs and cats.

After going back to school to receive her Level 3 Forest School Practitioner Award through Archimedes Earth Forest School Education, she and her husband Danny built an interactive nature preserve and Forest School on 8 acres of their property. While taking her Level 3 Practitioner course she concurrently took a Forestry Management class through Virginia Tech. The course included land stewardship and sustainability, maps, photos, and soil surveys, forest ecology and management, tree identification. She is currently enrolled in the Virginia Master Naturalist Course and hopes to graduate within the year with full certification. She is the Director and Lead Practitioner of the school, ONE Forest School at Deerhead Nature Preserve, in downtown Huddleston, Virginia. She is also recognized as the founder and CEO of this nonprofit organization. To her credit, ONE Forest School is the first accredited and internationally recognized Forest School in the state of Virginia. Catherine Eubank has held the position of Vice President and President of the Board of Directors for the Friends of the Moneta/Smith Mountain Lake Library. She is an active member of the Friends of the Smith Mountain Lake State Park by working on the Committee for Trail Maintenance. She is also an Officer of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Inland Sailing Association in the position of Rear Commodore, as well as records keeper for the Race Committee, and avid sailor at the same sailing club. Catherine and Danny Eubank collectively have eight children and thirteen grandchildren. They are currently living on the property with their youngest daughter Emily and their one year old bloodhound dog Daisy.

Andrew Bond is a Software Architect with comprehensive experience in software development, engineering, technical marketing, and professional services. Mr. Bond originally joined Cisco as a Technical Marketing Engineer, but has since spent the majority of his career working in software development. More recently, he moved to Cisco Professional Services, working with customers to plan, deploy, and implement state-of-the-art automation and orchestration solutions for service providers and large enterprises such as COX Communications, Verizon, Visa, Bank of America, NBC Universal, and many others. Mr. Bond often speaks at industry conferences such as Cisco Live, VMWorld, and others. Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Mr. Bond held engineering positions at Fujitsu Network Communication, Applied Innovation, and Siemens Electrocom LLP. Mr. Bond also teaches at San Jose State University, covering topics in Networking, Computer and Software Engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Mr. Bond lives in Milpitas, California, with his wife, Susannah Bond.

Leslie Harwood is a Senior Program Officer at the Transportation Research Board: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine where she manages synthesis and regular National Highway Cooperative Research Program projects. In this role, Ms. Harwood works with contractors and expert panels to facilitate a wide variety of research on topics including highway planning, design, construction, safety, pavement and materials, hydraulics, and geotechnical engineering. Ms. Harwood is a former Research Associate in the Center for Advanced Automotive Research at VTTI and former Program Manager for the Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) National University Transportation Center (UTC). Ms. Harwood worked with connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technologies for nearly 10 years in her previous positions at VTTI. She focused primarily on proposal development, project management, experimental design, data collection, data analysis, and reporting. In her technical research, Ms. Harwood has presented research findings at transportation safety and GIS-related conferences, as well as authored numerous articles on research conducted in scholarly journals, symposiums, and conferences. Her most recent research projects at VTTI include spatial analysis of connected vehicle technology for the Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD), mapping and spatial analysis for connected vehicle performance drives conducted during the SPMD Driver Clinics, and investigating mapping speed resources for potential use with the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) naturalistic driving data. Ms. Harwood completed her M.S. degree in Geography at Virginia Tech in 2015. She received her undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech in 2007 in Geography, with an emphasis on geospatial and environmental analysis. Ms. Harwood also serves on the Member Services Committee of the Habitat for Humanity New River Valley where she helps find pathways for lower-income individuals to achieve the dream of home ownership. Ms. Harwood lives in Washington DC, with her fiance William Wash.

Beth has been a special education teacher for 25+ years working with students with significant behavioral challenges. She worked at Devereux Children’s Center in Washington, DC as a special education teacher for over 10 years when she and her family moved to Raleigh, NC. After 10 years of teaching at the Bridges Program, Wake County’s alternative elementary school for children with significant behavioral issues, she has been the lead teacher for the past 5 years, where she assists with the running of the program and all that that entails. She is currently also working on her masters degree for school administration at ECU.

Shannon Eubank has been an educator of young children for 20 years. Her education career first began as a child care worker for the University of Michigan Hospital’s Child Care Center. She worked there for 5 years while attending college and worked with children that ranged from infants to Kindergarten with the majority of time spent with preschool aged children. Shannon graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor’s Degree and was licensed to teach PreK - 3 with an endorsement in Early Childhood Education for the state of Michigan. Her teaching career led her to the state of Virginia to begin teaching in public schools. She has been teaching in public schools for 15 years and is a licensed PreK - 6 educator for the state of Virginia and currently works for Bedford County Public Schools. She has taught second grade for 9 years and is in her 6th year of teaching Kindergarten. Shannon is the chair of her grade level, is the inclusion teacher (special education students and general education students) for her grade and is part of her school’s leadership team. She also serves on the school’s RTI committee (response to intervention) that tracks data of academically struggling students and makes recommendations to teachers to help support those academically struggling students.

Dena serves the Small Business Administration where she is responsible for Reviewing Grant Submissions. She also started a Business – REFRESH – where she mentors and inspires Entrepreneurs in their personal and professional lives! What is your Vision for your future? How will you get there from here? What tools in your toolbox need to be sharpened? My goal is to help you get there Sooner than Later! She especially has a LOVE for Marketing and Recruiting. Dena is a Liberty University graduate and holds a BS in Business Management. Outside of work, Dena spends her free time painting “Bob Ross” style paintings. He has been married to the love of his life, Scotty for almost 20 years. They have 2 rescue fur babies, Bailey and Buck who really are their adopted children.

Michael brings stories from his experiences of working in a small mom and pop shop, to a Fortune 5 company and few other companies in between. More recently he has settled on working for some of his favorite clients. Using a bit of creativity, some logic mixed with a cube of horse sense, he enjoys helping them grow their presence both online and offline. Married to a wonderful European who said 'I do, if you...', he has two great kids who keep reminding him that he is still attending the School of Hard Knocks. He loves the wonders of nature, traveling with his family, listening to his daughter play violin, his son talk about Minecraft and every now and then he gets to sample his wife's wonderful cooking.

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Current board of trustees

Katherine Crowder Justice -
Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees

Heidi sutherland -
Vice-chairwoman

Dr. Danielle N. Bird -
Secretary of the Board of Trustees & OFS Physician Advisor

jan miller
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees

Janelle helfer
Director of education

Catherine A Eubank -
Director & founder of ofs and dnp

Andrew Bond -
Special Projects Coordinator for STEM

Leslie Harwood-
Development and Updates

Beth Bond-
Special Education Specialist

Shannon Eubank-
Public Education Specialist

Dena amos
marketing director

michael lynn
webmaster

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