EXECUTIVE BOARD
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 Dave Barker
President
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Dave, along with the original Board of Directors, founded CIADE and Peoria Pride in July 2009 with the goals of bringing the first ever major Pride Festival to the Peoria Area and to build support to create the first ever LGBTQA Community Center for the Greater Peoria area. Dave moved to Peoria in 2008 from Fort Lauderdale, FL where he was the Marketing & Communications Director for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce.
Dave is also the publisher of Out & About Illinois magazine and www.outandaboutillinois.com website, a centralized resource for Central Illinois. Dave's background includes marketing, graphic & web design, working with and for non-profit organizations, office management and paramedic. |
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 Maggie Koehler
Vice President
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Maggie was born and raised in Peoria, with her parents and two sisters. She graduated from Woodruff High School in 1996. Following graduation from high school she spent time as a full time volunteer for a non-profit organization that works with migrant farm workers. She lived in Chicago, Florida, Oregon, and California while working with this group. She has attended ICC and a theology school in Bangor, Maine, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bradley University in 2010 with a degree in Religious Studies. Maggie worked full time at OSF St. Francis Medical Center while going to school at ICC. She has worked at Bradley since 2005 in the office of the Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Maggie has been involved in politics from an early age and was an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2008. She is very active in local groups and organizations that deal with equality and social justice and currently serves on the board of the Peoria Chapter of the ACLU. She lives in Peoria with her partner, Brennan Kramer, and their two dogs, Odis and Jewel. |
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Dr. Jobie L. Skaggs, Ph.D.
Treasurer
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Dr. Jobie L. Skaggs, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Human Service, and Counseling at Bradley University. She is the Departmental coordinator of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program and accreditation liaison. Dr. Skaggs assisted in the development of the Illinois 10th Judicial Circuit Court Visitation Center and served as the National Executive Council Secretary for the Association of Multicultural Counseling & Development. Dr. Skaggs has more than five years of general and forensic private-practice counseling experience and was the Clinical Supervisor and founder of the Bannock County Domestic Violence Center. She has been a board member for a variety of community action groups including: the Idaho Women's Network, Southeast Idaho for Human Rights, and Idaho’s No on One campaign. She received her Ph.D. in Counseling & Counselor Education and Master's in Counseling from Idaho State University.
In her spare time Jobie enjoys spending time with her granddaughter, sons, traveling, reading, and visiting the family Thoroughbred farm in Idaho.
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Stephanie Worlow
Secretary
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Stephanie grew up in the Tri County area and graduated from Pekin Central High School. She currently is the Facility Services Coordinator/Administrator for HK Systems in Mossville. When her busy schedule slows down, she plans to obtain her degree in Special Education.
In her spare time, Stephanie is a Peoria Push Derby Dames team member, plays softball, and enjoys singing.
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DIRECTORS AT LARGE
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DuWayne Brooks
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Troy Kerrn
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Troy, an accredited REO agent, is a Realtor for Jim Maloof Realtor. He currently serves as the lead of the Bank Owned Division, is a Short Sale Agent, and a GRI instructor. In 2009, Troy received the Multi Million Dollar Round Table Award.
Troy was employed at the Heart of Illinois HIV/AIDS Center with the University of Illinois. He was tasked with outreach, HIV testing, education, and group facilitation. He also was an Executive Curriculum Director with Rogy’s Learning Place where he was responsible for a broad list of responsibilities ranging from training, curriculum development, through implementation of State mandated regulations.
Troy has attended ICC, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His interests include working out, family, friends, boating, and traveling.
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Matt Kindred
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Matt Kindred brings to the CIADE board a wealth of experiences. Born and raised in the Quad Cities, Matt served in the US Army from 1996 to 2000 stationed in Oklahoma and Germany. Matt is currently employed for Starbucks Coffee Company as a Store Manager and Training/Coaching Mentor; a position he has held since 2004. In addition to working full time, Matt is currently enrolled in the Organizational Leadership Program at Eureka College; having received his Associate Degree from Illinois Central College. He plans to pursue his MBA at UIC in the fall of 2011.
Volunteer efforts for Matt include a plethora of community as well as religious organizations such as Children’s Hospital of Illinois, American Cancer Society, Peoria Art Guild, New Orleans Relief work with Rebuilding Together, John Lewis Coffee Shop (homeless center)Greater Quad City Area Chrysalis Youth Outreach Center Board of Directors, as well as the Red Cross, and the American Cancer Society.
Matt makes his home on the west bluff with his partner, Jeremy Winget who serves the community as a Nurse Practitioner for Methodist Hospital, his mother Dorinda Winget, Jakub Maximilian, a student from the Czech Republic who is attending ICC, and three canine babies, Maddie, Gracie, and the newest edition, Diesel.
While not working or volunteering, Matt enjoys remodeling/rehabilitating homes, interior design, real estate, cooking, baking, entertaining, and saving the world one cup at a time.
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Robert Rivoli, III, MD
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Dr. Robert Rivoli III currently works at the Peoria City/County Health Department in Environmental Health. He is a Certified Food Manager and Food Manager Instructor for the State of Illinois. Dr. Bob, as he prefers to be called, was a Research Fellow at UICOM-Rockford and has taught at California State University Long Beach. He received his M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and his M.S. and B.S. from California State University.
Dr. Bob has received the Paul Ambrose Health Promotion Leadership Symposium Award, the Major Tsai Award in Chinese Studies, the Monterey Park Kiwanis Citizenship Award, and is listed on the Who’s Who in American Colleges.
He has been involved in variety of professional and community groups including: Rainbow Youth Association, Peoria Gay Pride, UICOM Emergency Response Team Member for Environmental Health, the American Medical Association, and the Beta Beta Biological Honors
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Gretchen Taylor
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Gretchen Taylor has been a social worker for the state of Illinois for over 25 years. She completed her Masters in Social Work at Illinois State University, where she continues to serve on the advisory board for the School of Social Work. In 2009, Gretchen was named National Association of Social Workers Peoria Chapter Social Worker of the Year. She has volunteered with community organizations such as Heartland Safe School Initiative, Equal Marriage Illinois, and Rainbow Youth Outreach. The delicate balance of work, home, volunteerism is something Gretchen could not do without her family….blood and chosen. Gretchen brings to the CIADE Board a voice for those who don’t have the courage to speak and is best stated by Harvey Milk, “Hope will never be silent”.
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 Alexis Whitman
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In 2005, after Lexy came out, she became passionate about activism and making this world a better/safer place for LGBT youth. She graduated from Washington Community High School in 2007, where she started Washington High’s very first Gay Student Association (GSA), which remains quite a success.
She has served on several boards, including Heartland Safe Schools Initiative (HSSI), Rainbow Youth Outreach (RYO) [Youth Representative], Minority Aids Awareness Council (MAAC), Peoria Pride Steering Committee, and now the Central Illinois Alliance for Diversity & Equality (CIADE). In 2007, She was awarded the ACLU’s Youth Activist Scholarship, attended conferences such as MBLGTACC in 2008, 2009, 2010 and an HIV conference in 2008.
Both individually and as part of a plethora of panels, Alexis is frequently invited to speak publicly about my story and to elevate LGBT and STD awareness. She has spoken at local schools, colleges, universities, community forums, and at Peoria Pride. Consequently, her story has been covered by many of the local newspapers and television networks.
Currently, she attends Illinois Central College where she studies Political Science.
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