Meet the Previous Board
Teresa Molina, MSW, MBA, PhD. | Associate Chair
Teresa came to Utah in 2006. Since then, she has worked with Westside Salt Lake City residents in different capacities. Her research interests are mental health and community practice. Her research dissertation focused on recovery from intimate abuse among Latinas in Utah. She has conducted impact and empowerment program evaluation for the Westside Leadership Institute, and volunteered as an instructor for refugee nonprofit organizations and NAMI. She also worked with the Hartland Redwood Refugee Clinic. As Associate Director at University Neighborhood Partners, her mission is to support the development of UNP’s education pathways, community capacity building and community leadership partnerships. Teresa has a strong experience working in Mexico and Utah with individuals and families with mental health, substance use and domestic violence issues. She has an appointment as assistant professor/lecturer at the College of Social Work, where she teaches policy and community practice courses in the BSW program. Teresa is a member of the NAMI Latino Utah task force, the Salt Lake County CODA Health Subcommittee, the Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission, and South Valley Sanctuary Board of Advisors. Teresa earned her PhD and MSW degrees from the University of Utah; her MBA degree from Lake Superior State University, and her BS in Economics at UNAM.
Teresa came to Utah in 2006. Since then, she has worked with Westside Salt Lake City residents in different capacities. Her research interests are mental health and community practice. Her research dissertation focused on recovery from intimate abuse among Latinas in Utah. She has conducted impact and empowerment program evaluation for the Westside Leadership Institute, and volunteered as an instructor for refugee nonprofit organizations and NAMI. She also worked with the Hartland Redwood Refugee Clinic. As Associate Director at University Neighborhood Partners, her mission is to support the development of UNP’s education pathways, community capacity building and community leadership partnerships. Teresa has a strong experience working in Mexico and Utah with individuals and families with mental health, substance use and domestic violence issues. She has an appointment as assistant professor/lecturer at the College of Social Work, where she teaches policy and community practice courses in the BSW program. Teresa is a member of the NAMI Latino Utah task force, the Salt Lake County CODA Health Subcommittee, the Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission, and South Valley Sanctuary Board of Advisors. Teresa earned her PhD and MSW degrees from the University of Utah; her MBA degree from Lake Superior State University, and her BS in Economics at UNAM.
Jeff Whitbeck | Managing Partner, Momentum Recycling
Shortly after receiving his B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1994, Jeff served in the Peace Corps for 5-years as a secondary education teacher in Ukraine and as a teacher and a Sustainable Economic Development Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan. He returned to the States to pursue a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon in 2002. After graduate school, Jeff returned to the developing world where he worked for a number of international non-profits over the next several years gaining extensive experience in civil society development, democracy building, health education, community and economic development, infrastructure development and social planning. In addition to programmatic work, Jeff directed administrative operations for the office of a large NGO and had oversight of:procurement; security of property and personnel; human resources; grant writing, and contracts and tendering. Jeff previously worked as a planning assistant in Oregon. In the seven years Jeff has been managing Momentum Recycling he has also served on the Utah Society for Environmental Education Board of Directors and on an Advisory Board for Real Food Rising. |
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