Paul Purnell is a training and development professional who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Since 2019, he has served as the Principal of Purnell Consulting. During his more than 40 years’ experience, Paul has worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor, trainer, curriculum designer, group facilitator, project manager, and small business owner. Paul earned a B.S. degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology and an M.S. degree in Rehabilitation Counseling at Southern Illinois University, and has completed additional graduate coursework in counseling, education, and human resource development at George Washington University. He has also completed graduate coursework in distance education and e-learning at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Paul has worked on both domestic and international programs. In the U.S., he has designed and led projects supported by the U.S. Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Defense (U.S. Army and U.S. Navy/Marine Corps), U.S. Peace Corps, local government agencies, and for-profit and non-profit organizations. His areas of expertise include career development, workforce development, corrections, substance abuse treatment and prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention education, leadership development, and organizational change. Internationally, Paul has provided training, meeting facilitation, organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, and strategic planning support for international organizations, and government agencies in areas including leadership, management, supervision, communications, stakeholder engagement, change management, community mobilization, project implementation, organizational health, and health systems strengthening. He has worked in Europe, the middle east, the Caribbean, and 12 African nations. For this international work, Paul has supported programs sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Forest Service Office of International Programs, the African Union, and the United Nations.

Tia Taylor is a community member involved with IMPACT’s East County network. While volunteering at Greencastle Elementary School Food Pantry two years ago, she met an IMPACT staff member. Being new to the area, she was looking for ways to connect and volunteer. IMPACT provided the opportunity to do both! In addition to her involvement as a resident network leader in East County, Tia has a 20 year background in non-profit organizations and fundraising. She has served in various roles including program manager, assistant director of annual giving, and major gift officer at the American Diabetes Association, the Naval Academy Foundation, and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. She is currently an Organic Food & Product Representative utilizing her marketing, sales and public speaking skills. Additionally, she has volunteered for several organizations; including serving on the board of Project Create DC (which provides art programs for children in homeless family housing). She would like to continue serving and supporting community – particularly in lifting up the important role connected people play in shaping a better world.

Jenny Hoffpauir is Corporate Counsel for IBA, a Belgian company that manufactures particle accelerators, including revolutionary cancer-treating devices. She handles a wide array of legal matters for the North American market, advising on corporate and regulatory compliance, employment matters, investments, and negotiating multi-million dollar transactions. Her previous work experience in-house and at law firms has included extensive work starting nonprofits, representing employees in discrimination claims, and supporting veteran-led businesses. Jenny has also worked with housing and worker-owned cooperatives and intentional communities. It was IMPACT’s work in supporting worker cooperatives that initially drew her to the organization. Jenny won election to Mount Rainier City Council in May 2025 for a four-year term. Mount Rainier has similar demographics to many of the communities served by Impact, and she is working to ensure that her work on Council reflects Impact’s values. Outside of work, Jenny enjoys playing board games and foraging for mushrooms with her children.

A driven HR and TA leader, Robin brings over 20 years of experience across industries, including financial services, media and advertising, healthcare, government contracting, and retail. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and has dedicated much of her career to aligning people strategies with business goals to strengthen high-performing teams. Some of Robin’s core strengths include talent strategy and workforce planning, leadership development, change management, recruitment and retention, employee engagement, and employee relations. With strong expertise in recruiting, workforce planning, and organizational leadership, Robin is a servant leader who is passionate about creating environments where employees can thrive and businesses can grow. Robin is skilled in leading cross-functional teams through change, while developing leaders and driving engagement.

Amy Kincaid advises and supports social change leaders on organizational growth and impact, especially during times of transition and renewal. Over her career, she has secured over $72 million for nonprofits working and has facilitated dozens of strategic plans and program evaluations. Amy has a soul-deep commitment to defending and resourcing underinvested changemakers and communities, and her work primarily has been challenging and supporting leaders from behind the scenes. As the Founder and Managing Director of ChangeMatters, a national collaborative strategy and fundraising consultancy, she engages a team of seasoned consultants and coaches specializing in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, governance, and evaluation. Signature projects include curriculum and rubric design for a national Service Year credential, mentoring U.S. food system executive directors, resourcing Black farmers in the Mississippi Delta, and introducing the Benefit LLC hybrid business designation. In previous roles, she served as interim deputy director of Main Street Alliance, advised peer-advised participatory grant programs that deployed over $3M to local economy efforts and supervised funder cohort programs on foundation impact investing (Common Future), facilitated collaboration for a $35M multi-state and -sector initiative to improve the Delaware River Watershed (Institute for Conservation Leadership), and taught social entrepreneurship at University of Maryland. She and her husband live in the Takoma Park-Silver Spring area where she tries to manage a backyard kitchen garden and barely maintains a visual art practice.

Velina has studied, lived, and worked in the Washington DC area since 1997, when she arrived as an immigrant from Bulgaria. She left briefly to earn a PhD in sociology / political economy, then came back to her chosen home. Over the last 20 years, Velina has worked for social change, rights, and justice, initially in the U.S., focused on workers’ rights, and then mostly in the international development setting. Her work has focused on helping organizations ask and answer questions that matter, about impact, strategy, and quality – and put knowledge and learning to strategic use. Her work in organizational knowledge and learning is fueled by a deep curiosity about how it is that we know social change is happening. Velina’s experience includes international non-governmental organizations, think tanks, universities, and private consulting companies. When she is not working, she can be found reading while traveling or traveling while reading.