Board

Prior to working in golf course maintenance, Lance umpired professional baseball in the minor leagues for three years. Lance is a member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association (RMGCSA) and the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA). He is past President of both the Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association and the RMGCSA non-profit organization, Rocky Mountain Environmental Golf Institute. Lance also chaired the state-wide committee that created the Colorado Golf Industry Best Management Practices Guide for Golf Courses that was published in 2019.
Lance serves on the Board of ALL IN Fostering Futures (AIFF). He helped plan, implement, and participated in the first two inaugural AIFF retreats, a Co-Ed retreat held in Lakewood, CO in August of 2021 and the recent Men’s Retreat held at Spring Valley Ranch in Eucha, OK in May of 2022.


After more than a decade in the field, in 2021, Tiffany stepped away from a successful and fulfilling career as a public relations and marketing strategist having supported brands including Whole Foods Market, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Nestle, Bob Evans Farms, and Big Lots in earned media, influencer relations, event strategy, and social media campaigns. Her pursuit for more meaningful work collided with her experience in the child welfare system when God led her to First Star Academy.
It's Tiffany’s privilege to bring her robust experience as a leader, planner, and communicator to projects that move the needle for youth experiencing foster care. As the current director for West Virginia’s chapter of First Star Academy, Tiffany has exposed dozens of transition-aged youth to diverse opportunities and experiences intended to spark their curiosity and empower them to dream, thus propelling them forward into higher education. As a lived experience consultant, Tiffany helped shape the nation’s first-ever middle college exclusively for youth in care at Fairmont State University and continues to provide resource coordination and peer mentorship for the program’s students. She also serves as an advocate, organizing community-wide, church-based support networks for foster families and transition-age youth.
To this day, Tiffany’s drive to improve statistics remains. She is passionate about equity, and helping youth develop life skills and healthy habits as they age out of the system. Above all else, she fiercely believes everyone deserves stability, safety, and support to achieve a healthy, happy future.
Tiffany’s other life's work includes being a homeschooling Mama to two boys and an aspiring homesteader in the hills of West Virginia.

Exuding to her solid & compassionate leadership style, Lynn has held many positions in human services and, most recently, served as the assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services in a Senate-confirmed appointment. She led an agency with a $60 billion budget and over sixty programs designed to improve the lives of the most vulnerable children, individuals, and families.
Under this appointment, she created the ALL IN for Foster Care and Adoption Challenge - a national call for partners in every state, including governors, agencies, courts, churches, community organizations, foster alumni, and the public, to commit to being ALL IN for finding “forever families” for the 122,000 children per year awaiting homes. These children are at imminent risk of ending up in other systems like juvenile justice, homelessness, or human trafficking. Lynn believes that these are “America’s children.” With a combined strategy of primary prevention on the front end, when families need intervention and wrapping around those who step up to adopt youth waiting for homes, the 122,000 children would be rapidly reduced. Lynn knows we all have a role to play and is making connections for success for vulnerable families and children.
As the executive director of Jefferson County, Colorado, Department of Human Services, she provided dignity and respect for our most vulnerable community members to end poverty, eliminate abuse and neglect, and stop the trafficking of children. Lynn served as chief of staff for former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane E. Norton. She was also deputy director for policy and human services policy advisor for former Colorado Governor Bill Owens. With her expertise in child welfare, welfare reform, and criminal justice, she has been appointed to numerous committees and won multiple awards for excellence in human services transformations and customer service.
Lynn has been married for thirty-nine years. She has three adult children, two beautiful daughters-in-law, an amazing one-year-old granddaughter, and numerous chosen foster alumni young adult children.


Ken is retired but is currently serving as an online instructor for Colorado Christian University in the Nonprofit Management Program.
Ken served 28 years in full-time ministry before serving as a nonprofit executive director and six years in the Colorado House of Representatives. He also served a four-year term on the Fort Collins City Council. While serving in the Colorado House, Ken was recognized as a Legislator of the Year by the Colorado Nonprofit Association. He served for two years as the Chair of the House Health and Environmental Committee. They have two adult children and six grandchildren.

As a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a lifetime Ashoka Fellow, his strong sense of leadership and service to others is always paramount. Steve’s lifelong work as founder of America’s Family has transformed hundreds of thousands of lives. www.amfol.org. Steve and Brenda live lives of servant leadership surrounded by their 5 children and 4 grandchildren. Faith and family come first in everything they do.

Jonathan and Madelyn, and two rescue dogs, Theo and Zoey. They are former foster
parents. During free time, their family enjoys music, hiking, and soccer.
Morgan Cox formed The Child Advocate Law Firm PLLC in 2017, a firm dedicated to
the representation of children as guardian ad litem. Morgan previously practiced family
law in both Northern Virginia and Northern California. She has received recognition for
her skills by repeatedly being selected as a Super Lawyer in Virginia Super Lawyers
Magazine. She has also earned the distinction of becoming a child welfare specialist
through the National Association of Counsel for Children.
Andrew Cox is an experienced R&D project lead for national security technologies (AI,
machine-learning, Cyber) at Sandia National Laboratories specializing in advancing
research concepts/prototypes to operational/market-ready products. Prior to his tenure at
Sandia, Andrew worked at the TSA, where he played a key role in the rollout of
PreCheck and in modeling terrorism risk analysis.


Eddie is the Director of Quality and Clinical Programs at Transcarent. He is a ground-floor contributor providing quality and patient safety insight to change the way health and care are delivered. He serves as the Director of Quality and Clinical Programs for Everyday Care, Behavioral Care, and Pharmacy Solutions. He assists in the development of these programs by utilizing clinical expertise to innovate strategies that encompass high-value care solutions. Eddie is responsible for clinical quality metrics and processes. He ensures the product and design reflect the highest clinical quality patient outcomes for members seeking services. This evaluation leads to the development of an exceptionally reliable member experience that encompasses the complete continuum of care. Eddie is an executive with a proven record of driving visioning, strategic planning, and execution for the development, growth, financial health, quality, disaster preparedness, and operational excellence of neuroscience service lines and practices. He has thirty-eight years of experience in fast-paced healthcare environments at Mercy Springfield, Missouri, and Queen’s Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii. He facilitated the Missouri Governor’s Taskforce on Time Critical Diagnosis for Strokes and is recognized for his ability to educate, support, and advise leadership teams through critical initiatives and orchestrate key programs. Eddie spearheaded the design and development of thirty-two Centers of Excellence. He established a reputation for building service-focused, high-performing team cultures, prioritizing measurable results and long-term impact. His emphasis is ensuring evidence-based best practices with an ethical approach. Eddie’s goal is to touch the life of one person each day.
By the time she graduated high school, Becky attended fourteen schools. Her dream was to return to her grandparents’ home to live out her adult life. Except for a three-year period living in Hawaii, Becky has called Springfield home for over forty years, making strong commitments to its community through numerous avenues. Becky is a graduate of Evangel University, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration, Management, and a Master of Organizational Leadership. She has served in a variety of professional roles, including serving at Evangel University as the Director of Retention, where she worked with at-risk students as well as an adjunct professor in the master’s program. While in Hawaii, Becky served as a Lecturer at the University of Hawaii. Upon returning to Springfield, Becky served as the Mercy Trauma Services Injury Prevention Specialist and the Director of Safe Kids Springfield. Becky has also been the Manager of Business and Workforce Development with the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Director of Community Relations with Bank One. Becky has been active in volunteer efforts in her community and abroad and has served on over forty Boards, Task Forces, Coalitions, and Collaboratives.
