Audrey Hess, President
Audrey Hess loves sharing life-learning with her 7 and 4-year-old sons, Noé and Lucas. She is a Registered Dietitian who enjoys gardening and creating in the kitchen, helping people to connect with nutritious foods and their sources, and incorporating these interests in community-based efforts to build healthy, sustainable lifestyles. Audrey has a Bachelors of Science in Dietetics, with minors in Spanish and Biology. She worked in clinical nutrition at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, including providing nutritional care and education to the pediatric population. She and her husband, Fred Oberholtzer, lived for four years as community development workers in rural El Salvador. Her current employment is with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program in Adams County, promoting maternal lactation and providing nutrition education, with a focus on the Spanish-speaking population. She coordinates the Adams County Local Foods Network, an affiliate of Healthy Adams County.
Joseph Wells, Vice President
Joseph Wells is an Independent Business Owner from the Hanover area. He owns a franchise with DC International (2004), is an Independent Contractor with Aerus (2007), and owns Syntax Computer Solutions (2009). Additionally, Joe is a Certified Victim Advocate; he works with the police and the courts to combat domestic violence and its ramifications within the community and also does crisis work and assists with a crisis hotline. Joe served on the Founding Coalition of Vida Charter School because he believes that bilingualism helps to paint a more accurate picture of language in the larger sense and he strives to put the power of choice back in the hands of parents when it comes to their child's education. He looks forward to making a positive and lasting impact on the local community in terms of public education.
Kerry Urcuyo, Treasurer
Kerry Urcuyo is a mother of two very active children of 7 and4 years old. She has a bilingual family and feels that being fluent in more than one language is beneficial to any child's future. Throughout her life, she has been exposed to many well-traveled people that spoke 2 or more languages and they always had an advantage over everyone else. It is this advantage that she wants to give her children. She feels that by helping to plan and form Vida Charter School she will be able to have the greatest influence on her children's educational quality, citizenship values and overall well being. At the same time, she hopes that we can create a special, cross-cultural learning space that will benefit our entire community.
Faith Godwin, Secretary
Faith is the happy mother of Lily (7) and Liam (4) and guardian to her niece Kayley (3) and nephew Dakota (2). She loves art and sharing different mediums with her children and their friends. At 18 Faith obtained certification as a Nurses’ Assistant and has worked in various Skilled Nursing Facilities in Adams, York, and Cumberland Counties. In cultivating her love of the medical field and her desire to help her community, she served in the United States Army as a medic. Upon her discharge, she returned to school and acquired her Associate’s Degree in Business Management, and was able to take her direct medical care experience to the administrative side of long and short term nursing care. Her greatest hope is to continue to find ways to assist in the betterment of her community and encourage the children in her care to be responsible world citizens.
Donna Perry
Christine Miller
Christie Miller has been in the education field for the past 14 years – working with children ranging from preschool age through high school seniors. She specifically teaches students who are English Language Learners. Christie received a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and earned an Elementary Teaching Certification with Bilingual Endorsement and a Masters Degree in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from Northern Arizona University. She enjoyed teaching in a Bilingual Magnet School for four years in Flagstaff Arizona before returning home to the Gettysburg Area. Christie lives in Fairfield with her husband and two daughters Kendra and Karina.
Elizabeth Fetter Kellett
Elizabeth Fetter Kellett is a Gettysburg parent of two potential Vida School students. She works with her husband in a small property management company which strives to upgrade low income housing to increase energy efficiency and affordability. Prior to moving to Gettysburg, she worked in finance and international development, supporting women's small business development through microcredit lending programs.
