Staff
Patricia
(Pat) A. Taylor, Executive Director
Pat joined Faces & Voices of Recovery
as campaign coordinator in 2003, building on many years of
grassroots advocacy leadership. Most recently, Pat served
as deputy director of Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
at George Washington University Medical Center; other work
includes service as associate director of Neighborhood Funders
Group, director of the Alcohol Policies Group at the Center
for Science in the Public Interest, and director of the Advocates
Senior Alert Process at the health advocacy group Families
USA. She has also worked as a U.S. Senate campaign staff member.
A resident of the Washington suburb Takoma Park, MD, Pat and
her husband, Bill Batko are the parents of one daughter, Abby
Batko-Taylor.
Tom Hill, MSW, Director of Programs
Tom is a founding board member of Faces & Voices and a Senior Associate at Altarum Institute, where he provides technical assistance to state and nonprofit grassroots organization for the Federal government’s Access to Recovery program. He has over twenty years of personal recovery and community organizing experience. He is a skilled trainer and facilitator in leadership development, addiction and recovery issues, and diversity/cultural competency. He has worked as a professional and a grassroots community leader in the HIV/AIDS, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender and Transsexual (LGBT), and recovery communities.
Read Tom’s article, “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are.”
Eric McDaniel, Program Coordinator
Eric previously served as a legislative analyst and state-level lobbyist for a nationally known policy reform organization. He is a graduate of George Mason University’s School of Law, a former law clerk to the Hon. Victor J. Wolski of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and a founding editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. Before becoming involved with the recovery community, he worked as a trial lawyer. In 2008, he helped start a media relations business focusing on innovative public relations strategies to present legal and public policy issues to journalists, judges and law makers. He has over three years of personal recovery, and is an alumni of Oxford House Northampton in Washington, D.C.
Sarah Rayer, Outreach Coordinator
Sarah is thrilled to join Faces & Voices of Recovery as Outreach Coordinator. Sarah has an MBA from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and a decade of work in New York theatres like Playwrights Horizons and the Public Theatre, where she served as assistant to the artistic producer. She also spent four years as a casting associate on projects such as Law & Order, The Lion King, and many of the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park Initiative and readings. She's worked as an Associate Producer for Eve Ensler's V-Day Project (a social awareness and engagement initiative of The Vagina Monologues) at Madison Square Garden, and she's co-produced benefits for Naked Angels Theatre Company, Associate Produced for "A Net of Souls: A Borrowed Light - Voices from Women in Prison," an annual one-night benefit for the College Education Program at the Bedford Hills Maximum Security Prison for Women involving actresses Glenn Close, Rosie Perez, and Marisa Tomei, reading the inmates' own words. She has over 10 years of personal recovery.
Jerry Gillen, Office Manager
Jerry brings a wealth of organizational management experience to his role as Faces & Voices of Recovery’s Office Manager. He spent eight years as a Process Design Engineer for Bank of America. A number of community organizations in the Washington, DC area have benefitted from Jerry’s skills as an event planner and manager. He is a founding member and alumni of Oxford House Military Road, and served for two years as Chairperson of Oxford House’s Washington, DC Chapter 1, providing planning and oversight for trainings, workshops and conferences for other Oxford Houses both in DC and Maryland, and from around the country. He is a person in recovery.
