NPIHN Staff

Our staff consists of talented professionals, consultants and interns. We also have 30 volunteer coordinators, one from each congregation, and approximately 1,200 volunteers. 

Core Staff

  • Rachel Falkove, M.B.A., Executive Director: Rachel became involved with NPIHN as a volunteer at her synagogue 19 years ago, and served as an NPIHN Board member for five years before taking the Executive Director position in 2001. Prior to working with NPIHN, Rachel worked primarily in health care management for twenty years.  She serves on the Mayor's Task Force to End Homelessness and on the advisory committee of the Pennsylvania Homeless Children's Initiative. She enjoys continually learning from the families NPIHN serves and from our participating congregations.
  • Sonya Boggs, M.S.W., Director of Emergency and Transformational Housing: Sonya joined the NPIHN staff in January 2011. She provides case management to our families and manages our post-shelter housing programs in a full-time capacity. Prior to working with NPIHN, Sonya worked in a dual position at the Community College of Philadelphia and Temple University in social work and program management. Sonya also has experience in workforce development and college preparation programming as well as creating educational enhancement programs for disadvantaged individuals.  
  • Neva Pryor, M.S., Director of Volunteers and Counseling Services: Neva officially joined our staff in October 2008, but has been involved with NPIHN for the past seven years. She served as a congregation volunteer for most of that time while working at Horizon House in development, and most recently in a clinical position. We learned of Neva’s talents when she served as a psychology field study student for us, working with families 20 hours each week, providing individual and group therapy with a focus on trauma recovery. Neva replaces our former Director of Mentoring and Volunteers in a full time capacity.

Interns

  • Lulu Todorov, M.B.A., Marketing & Development Coordinator: Lulu graduated from Freie Universitaet Berlin (in Berlin, Germany) in 2003 with an MBA. She joins the NPIHN Development team as we prepare to launch our network in Northeast Philadelphia. In addition to marketing and special event planning, Lulu will work to conduct outreach to prospective congregational partners and engage the Northeast Philadelphia community in planning and implementing the new network.
  • Tugay Ucbaglar, Materials Donations Program and Warehouse Manager: Tugay is a full-time volunteer from the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace Program, a German peace and volunteer service organization. TJ, as we like to cal him, is from Berlin, Germany and plans to study Social Work. He coordinates the pick-up and delivery of all material good donations to our current and alumni families. He also provides transportation, childcare, and homework assistance to families in our emergency shelter program, on an as-needed basis.
     

Consulting Program Staff

  • Geoffrey T. Woodland, M.Ed., Career Development and Youth Engagement Counselor: Geoff has spent most of his 14-year career in the field of workforce development. He works with NPIHN heads of households and teens on developing career paths, finding immediate employment, and developing strategies for employment search. In his work with teens, Geoff focuses on identifying strengths and building volunteer, work, and college prep experience.
     
  • Sue Endy, M.S.W., Parenting Educator: Joining our staff in June 2010, Sue meets weekly with the families in our congregational shelter to work on a range of parenting concerns and to help them develop better parenting skills. Sue also meets with former families on an individual, as-needed basis. An education professional, Sue has served as a school counselor/therapist for the past nine years.