Board of Directors
Roshni Chengappa
Roshni currently works at Escalate, a workforce development startup striving to help corporations solve their frontline employee retention. Previously, Roshni worked at 60 Decibels in London, an impact measurement firm, and was formerly the Chief Growth and Impact Officer at Generation USA, a global workforce development training organization that oversees workforce trainings serving underserved populations around the country. She began her career after receiving her MPH at the World Health Organization in Switzerland and worked on HIV/AIDS initiatives as an intern and later as a consultant. She then transitioned into the management consultant industry working at PRTM (later acquired by PwC) in their public sector practice and then moved into Healthcare consulting. She also has various experiences in social entrepreneurship and social impact initiatives including writing for a Forbes blog on behalf of the social entrepreneurship non-profit, Ashoka Foundation and volunteering with Acumen+, a non-profit impact investment fund. Roshni also spent several years serving on non-profit boards throughout Atlanta and has volunteered with the Taproot Foundation in helping non-profits around the country bolster their operations and strategic initiatives.
Jaehn Clare, Secretary
Jaehn (pronounced "Jane”) Clare is a creative education professional who originally trained as a theatre artist. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts and an M.A. in Dramatic Literature. Jaehn has worked with a variety of professional theatre companies both in the U.S. and abroad, serving as an actor, director, producer, and teaching artist. For several years, she was a company member with Full Radius Dance, and she has written a number of dramatic scripts, including two solo performances, Belle’s on Wheels and Tail Tell Tale. Jaehn has performed for international audiences during her participation in three VSA International Arts Festivals (Brussels, Belgium, 1994; Los Angeles, California, 1999; Washington, DC, 2004).
In 1986, Jaehn served as the Chair of the founding Board of Directors of VSA Minnesota, and she has served as a Board Member for a selection of other non-profit arts organizations. She has attended and presented at diverse conferences across the country, and she is a published writer whose work has appeared in several issues of Melpomene magazine; her essay “I Wasn’t Born a Mermaid” is included in From There to Here, an anthology of work by individuals who have survived traumatic injury (edited by Gary Karp and Stanley D. Klein, PhD; published by No Limits Communications, Inc.).
Jaehn has served as an access and inclusion trainer, as well as working as a Teaching Artist in classroom settings, and in 2006 she was included in the inaugural class of VSA Teaching Artist Fellows. Jaehn is a certified Georgia Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, working with the Alliance Theatre Institute for more than 14 years. She has travelled and taught across the United States and internationally, as a Teaching Artist and professional development facilitator collaborating with artists, educators and learners from diverse countries and communities.
Jaehn Clare offers her heart and intelligence in service to her personal professional mission: to support productive social change, foster the inclusion of all citizens in the arts community, and contribute to the creation of positive public images of people with disabilities in our culture. She is a fierce advocate, a resourceful artist, a disciplined worker, a dedicated arts educator, a skilled arts administrator, and an enthusiastic participant in the banquet of Life.
Carolyn Stine McLaughlin, Board Chair
Carolyn Stine McLaughlin is a native of Atlanta. She grew up performing with Southern Ballet of Atlanta, a leader of the regional dance movement in the South. She attended Virginia Intermont College where she apprenticed with the Bristol Ballet. Ms. McLaughlin graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration with a minor in Ballet with a teaching emphasis. After several years in the business world, working in management for companies such as Federated Department Stores and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, she returned to dance.
She has performed professionally with Kolors Dance, Ondine and Company, Beacon Dance and Disney (where she was thrilled to play Mary Poppins). Ms. McLaughlin has taught and created dance programs for the WYCA, Georgia State University and the Fulton County Arts Council. Ms. McLaughlin spent 13 years as the Associate Director of Good Moves acting in both administrative and artistic roles.
She works as an arts project manager. Her most noteworthy client has been the Atlanta Preservation Center where she has managed four City-wide festivals of the historic built environment. Under her management, The Phoenix Flies: A Celebration of Atlanta’s Historic Sites grew to include nearly 100 sites and 250 free events. She received the Jenny Thurston Award from the Atlanta Urban Design Commission for her accomplishments with this program. With the Atlanta Preservation Center, she also developed the Drawing Room Gallery and served as gallerist and curator for multiple exhibits that included the talents of Shela Pree Bright, Lucinda Bunnen, Jerry Cullum, Jody Fausett and David Yoakley Mitchell.
In 2011, she began the development of Movement Arts Atlanta. This included a program of ballet classes called Ballet Above the Bar located at The Marianna which is above the Wrecking Bar Brew Pub. Ms. McLaughlin also choreographs, guest teaches and lectures at Atlanta area dance schools.
She is also the Director of Social Arts Atlanta. This in-town business provides etiquette and social dance training. This guidance provides students the tools to meet success both professionally and personally. The overarching philosophy is that good manners make life better and should be a part of each day.
Ms. McLaughlin is a long-time resident of Inman Park where she has served on several neighborhood boards. As a part of her neighborhood commitments, she directs the only free admission dance festival in the Atlanta area. Founded in 2001, the Inman Park Dance Festival is a two-day festival of classical and modern concert dance that is part of The Inman Park Festival and Tour of Homes.
Nadia Eran
Nadia Eran is the founder of Future in Work, an HR consulting practice that helps high-growth companies scale their people operations with clarity and intention. She partners with executives to align people, systems, and strategy, designing performance systems, onboarding programs, internal communication plans, and cultural practices that make people operations a driver of success.
Nadia has more than a decade of experience in People Operations and HR leadership, with a focus on change management, organizational development, and building healthy, high-performing cultures. She has supported organizations through leadership transitions and operational scaling, blending strategic insight with hands-on execution.
Prior to founding Future in Work, Nadia led People Operations at Talkspace during its expansion from startup to IPO and later served as Head of HR & People Operations at Networx. She has since advised companies across technology, real estate, and consumer industries, always bringing a people-first approach to each engagement.
Nadia is passionate about building community, strengthening teams, and supporting organizations that drive meaningful impact. She holds a Master’s in Social Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and brings deep experience guiding companies through the challenges of growth and change.
Lindsey O'Connor
Cheryl Paswater
Ashlee Jo Ramsey-Borunov
Grounded in the perspective that dance-making lives in the primal, physical, emotional and spiritual consciousness of all humans, Ashlee's work thrives on investigation, collaboration, and making dance available as a creative practice for all people. Ashlee loves engaging with people with diverse bodies and minds to excavate embodied intelligence and create new, self-empowered embodied truths. Her work can be described as simultaneously playful and confrontational, resisting dominating aesthetics, activist in nature, and often community inclusive.
Ashlee has shown work, performed or taught in North Carolina, South Carolina, Atlanta, New York, Arizona, Austria, the U.K. and India. Her experience as an educator includes teaching dance and yoga courses at Elon University, Wake Forest University, Winthrop University, and Salem College, and she holds a teacher certification with DanceAbility International. Ashlee has been published in the international academic periodical, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (2011) and has presented work or research at the NDEO National Conference, The Fifth Annual Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival, and Elon University’s Intersect Diversity and Leadership Conference.
In addition to making her own work, Ashlee performs with Beacon Dance, teaches on occasion with CORE Dance, and is a former company member with Full Radius Dance.
Marcelo Roman, Treasurer
Marcelo Roman is the Managing Principal at RSI Group Consulting. He is a trusted thought leader, consultant, and coach to boards of directors, C-level executives, and senior leaders on business transformation, strategic planning, global expansion, and leadership alignment.
He has over 30 years of business experience working with multinational corporations, in the technology, software, consulting and education industries. His assignments have included President, COO and CEO managing over 5,000 employees across 70 countries. He has also built multiple startup initiatives from unfunded to global growth.
He gives back to the community by serving on local and national boards, volunteering with private and public organizations. During the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, he worked for two years as an advisory board member for volunteer training and was assigned as Olympic Envoy to Spain.
Mr. Roman holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics from the University of New Mexico. He continued his studies at Wharton School of Business in Financial Services, and he attended the American Bankers Association Institute. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Ginia Taylor, Vice-Chair
Gabrielle Y. Thomas-Booker