Our team
Life That Counts brings together organizational leadership, curriculum and training expertise, school coordination, fiscal stewardship, and experienced adult facilitation. Independent evaluators, advisors, schools, and community organizations retain distinct roles and responsibilities. That separation supports clear accountability while allowing people with different forms of expertise to contribute to thoughtful, well-prepared work with young people and families.
Programs may involve facilitators, school contacts, scheduling and administrative support, and independent evaluation partners. Roles and responsibilities are defined for each engagement.
Leadership
LTC
John Williams
Founder and Executive Director
More than two decades of youth work, program development, mentoring, school engagement, and organizational leadership.
Curriculum, training, and school coordination
Dr. Connie K. Huber, DCEd, MPH
Program Leadership
Education-leadership and public-health expertise focused on usable curriculum, prepared facilitators, consistent delivery, and continuous learning.
Alexis Williams, M.S., NBCT
Curriculum and School Implementation Liaison
A nationally certified educator connecting curriculum, accessibility, school logistics, and clear communication with families and staff.
Fiscal stewardship
Michael Anthony “Tony” Turbyfill, M.S., CPA
Fiscal Officer
More than 20 years of accounting, nonprofit, local-government audit, financial-reporting, and fiscal-management experience.
Program facilitation
Abraham Humphrey, B.A.
Program Facilitator
Youth-program experience spanning classroom delivery, small-group mentoring, project coordination, direct supervision, and participant engagement.
Brian McKenney
Program Facilitator
Practical experience supporting young people through foster care, group-home service, school operations, advocacy, training, mentoring, and field leadership.
Independent advice and evaluation
Independent evaluation brings a different responsibility to the work. Evaluators define and apply approved research methods, protect analytic independence, and report favorable, null, mixed, and unfavorable findings according to the available data. Life That Counts may coordinate implementation and data collection responsibilities, but it does not control an independent evaluator’s conclusions.
Independent evaluation
Washington Park Research & Evaluation, LLC
Washington Park Research & Evaluation, LLC, led by principal evaluator Dr. Galena Rhoades, conducted the final evaluation of Life That Counts’ historical Rural Alabama and Montana Project. The relationship is presented separately from Life That Counts staff so the evaluator’s methods, analysis, and conclusions remain clearly independent.
How the work connects
1. Organizational leadership — sets direction, scope, relationships, and accountability.
2. Curriculum and training — prepares content, facilitators, tools, and delivery expectations.
3. School coordination and facilitation — plans the setting and delivers the approved experience with adult support.
4. Fiscal stewardship — documents and monitors the responsible use of resources.
5. Independent evaluation — applies approved methods and reports what the evidence supports.
Technical review
Examines specialized content within a defined field of expertise.
Community referral and support
Helps connect participants or families with appropriate help outside the educational program.
Verified leadership and facilitation
John Williams
Founder and Executive Director
More than two decades of youth work, program development, mentoring, school engagement, and organizational leadership.
John Williams
Founder and Executive Director
More than two decades of youth work, program development, mentoring, school engagement, and organizational leadership.
Dr. Connie K. Huber
Program Leadership
Education-leadership and public-health expertise focused on usable curriculum, prepared facilitators, consistent delivery, and continuous learning.
Dr. Connie K. Huber, DCEd, MPH
Program Leadership
Education-leadership and public-health expertise focused on usable curriculum, prepared facilitators, consistent delivery, and continuous learning.
Alexis Williams
Curriculum and School Implementation Liaison
A nationally certified educator connecting curriculum, accessibility, school logistics, and clear communication with families and staff.
Alexis Williams, M.S., NBCT
Curriculum and School Implementation Liaison
A nationally certified educator connecting curriculum, accessibility, school logistics, and clear communication with families and staff.
Michael Anthony “Tony” Turbyfill, M.S., CPA
Fiscal Officer
More than 20 years of accounting, nonprofit, local-government audit, financial-reporting, and fiscal-management experience.
Michael Anthony “Tony” Turbyfill
Fiscal Officer
More than 20 years of accounting, nonprofit, local-government audit, financial-reporting, and fiscal-management experience.
Abraham Humphrey, B.A.
Program Facilitator
Youth-program experience spanning classroom delivery, small-group mentoring, project coordination, direct supervision, and participant engagement.
Abraham Humphrey
Program Facilitator
Youth-program experience spanning classroom delivery, small-group mentoring, project coordination, direct supervision, and participant engagement.
Brian McKenney
Program Facilitator
Practical experience supporting young people through foster care, group-home service, school operations, advocacy, training, mentoring, and field leadership.
Brian McKenney
Program Facilitator
Practical experience supporting young people through foster care, group-home service, school operations, advocacy, training, mentoring, and field leadership.
Hope Wilson
Curriculum Design and Development Advisor
Institutional-learning and knowledge-management experience supporting coherent, accessible, scalable, and durable curriculum systems.