Family Service Agency (FSA) of Santa Barbara County has voted in a new slate of leadership for its 2022-23 Board of Directors.

Molly Carrillo-Walker and Tricia Price replace out-going co-presidents Terri Zuniga and Robin Doell-Sawaske, who served an extended term during the pandemic. Linda Sessler and Robert Janeway move forward as co-treasurers. Teressa Johnes becomes secretary.

Ed Tran and Rod Durham will be co-vice presidents of programs. Maria McCall assumes the role of vice president of development.

“We are thankful for the support of the previous officers and are excited about  welcoming our new officers,” said Lisa Brabo, FSA CEO. “Their experience and expertise, in combination with the rest of FSA’s board, will effectively guide us as we step forward into the new fiscal year.”

Carrillo-Walker has been an FSA board member since 2014. She worked for the city of Santa Barbara for 16 years, holding several positions, including community services supervisor, management analyst, and assistant parks and recreation director.

Price joined the board in 2018. She was the superintendent/principal of the Cold Spring School District for six years before retiring in 2017. Price was previously a teacher and then curriculum coordinator for Carpinteria Unified School District before becoming principal at Aliso and Summerland schools, and the Carpinteria Family School.

Janeway has been a board member since 2018. He has spent some 15 years working in both the private and public health sectors, supporting local healthcare and environmental organizations, and committee service with the city of Santa Barbara. He is currently the provider network operations contract manager for San Francisco Health Plan.  

Sessler is a self-employed consultant with some 25 years of experience in administration and contract negotiation for companies such as Hughes/Santa Barbara Research Center, Superconductor Technologies, and UCSB. She has been a resident of Goleta for more than 30 years.

Johnes joined the board in 2020. She has worked for local community service organizations since 1998 and held previous positions at First 5 Santa Barbara County and CommUnify. Johnes retired in 2018, and in June resigned after four years as co-chair of the California Family Resource Association’s Networks Committee.

Jones is considered an expert in family support and continues to be a champion for children and families locally and at the state level. 

Tran, an RN, has some 20 years of experience in nursing and public health. He has worked in both the private and public healthcare sectors. He previously served as the senior public health nurse operations director for the Public Health Company (Goleta), where he provided public health consulting services and helped launch an algorithm based dashboard for communicable diseases.

Before joining the Public Health Company, Tran served as the assistant deputy director for community health at the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, where he provided leadership and oversight of health programs such as the Maternal Child and Adolescent Health, Women Infant and Children, Health Education/Promotion, Epidemiology, and Vital Statistics.

Durham has lived Santa Barbara for some 50 years and has been an FSA board member for seven years. Since his retirement from Raytheon/SBRC in 2005, he has served numerous Santa Barbara nonprofit agencies. He was a reader for Learning Ally, a classroom volunteer at Monte Vista School, supported Mock Job Interviews for Partners in Education, and was a mentor for the Hospice of Santa Barbara’s I Have a Friend Program.

McCall, has served on FSA’s Senior Program Advisory Council since 2017, and has long been associated with senior programming in Santa Barbara. She started her career with the city of Santa Barbara’s Senior Recreation Services, co-founded the Santa Barbara Senior Expo in 1988, and is a member of the Senior Programs of Santa Barbara Committee Advised Fund.

McCall is a vice president at Montecito Bank & Trust and remains active in multiple community and nonprofit organizations, such as the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, Art Foundation of Santa Barbara, Pearl Chase Society, and the Wilding Art Museum.

For more about Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County, visit fsacares.org or call 805-965-1001.