Graduate of Chariho High School and Gibbs College, Deb grew up in Charlestown, RI and after living in Washington State for a short time, returned home to RI and settled in West Kingston with her family.  Deb's background took her from legal secretary for partners at two large Providence law firms early in her career, to Assistant Human Resources Director for Cranston General Hospital Osteopathic.  After the birth of her daughter, Deb took a leave to raise her three children and returned to the workforce in the late 1990s as the Development Director for South County Community Action.  After 3 years of successful event planning, appeals, and grant-writing at the CAP agency, Deb was approached in 2000 about the Executive Director position at Southern Rhode Island Volunteers.  SRIV was then known as Seniors Helping Others.  On October 1, 2000 Deb began her tenure with SHO as its third Executive Director and fifth Director overall.  In the last decade, Deb has led SRIV through many changes, challenges and opportunities and looks forward to the continued work of service, growth, and succession planning that will carry SRIV well into the future.

Pat is the SRIV Manager of Independent Aging Services programs.  Pat's compassion for the aging, homebound members of our communities make her the perfect advocate to lead programs that support independence such as SRIV's transportation assistance to medical, dental, therapy and dialysis appointments, coordination of Meals on Wheels delivery, visitation and respite support, minor home repair, mobile library services, and more.  Pat comes from a 33 year long career in the manufacturing industry.  She worked primarily in logistics and production scheduling.  After retiring, she and her husband (a commercial fisherman) relocated permanently to Narragansett. 

Kathy came to SRIV in 2005 as the Volunteer Coordinator and Community Partner Liaison.  She enthusiastically recruited many new volunteers, gave presentations in the community and personally visited most of the community partners to obtain new volunteer opportunities and establish new collaborations.  She resigned in March 2009 and relocated to CA.  After a year in CA., Kathy returned to SRIV in January, 2011 and assumed the same position.  She has many new ideas  for growth and improvement of the volunteer experience.  Before retiring in 2005, Kathy was a Property Manager for 33 years in Connecticut.  Her experience with Senior Housing and recognizing the needs of seniors, gives her great insight into the mission of SRIV.  She resides in North Kingstown with her daughter and family and of course, her 2 Maltese dogs, Casey and Gracie.