Sights for Hope Executive Director and CEO Dennis Zehner has been selected for the Marketing Management Engagement Board of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. The engagement board is a group of partners who provide industry knowledge, perspectives, and resources to enhance the student experience, including classroom learning, career readiness, and […]
Vinod Namboordiri, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Community-Driven Assistive Technologies (CDAT) at Lehigh University’s College of Health, was elected this week to the Sights for Hope Board of Directors. Namboodiri also is the College of Health’s Ellen and Vincent Forlenza ’75 Endowed Chair in Health Innovation and Technology. His focus on advancing solutions for […]
Paul Miller, founder of Lehigh Valley Martial Arts and Active Learning Centers, was featured by WFMZ 69 News this week for guiding Sights for Hope clients through a self-defense lesson focused on confidence, awareness, and the power within each individual to respond to danger. Miller, who also is Sights for Hope’s Board President, has dealt […]
Claudette Williams – a retired United States Army veteran and CEO of the Women Veterans Museum – has been elected to the Sights for Hope Board of Directors. During her 30-year Army career, Williams was a Sergeant Major who led soldiers in missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, and several additional areas in Southwest Asia. She founded […]
Scott Lohman, Immediate Past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K, has begun a one-year term on the Sights for Hope Board of Directors. Each District 14-K Governor becomes the board’s Lions Leadership Director automatically at the conclusion of their tenure. District 14-K represents Lions Clubs in Lehigh and Northampton counties, areas from which Lions […]
Paul Miller was elected President of the Sights for Hope Board of Directors last week during its Annual Meeting. Miller will succeed Kate Raymond, whose term as Board President ends on June 30. Also elected to terms starting July 1 were Devin Darby, OTR-L, as Board Vice President; Daniel Lombardo as Board Treasurer; and Nicole […]
Former Sights for Hope Board President Linwood Gehris rejoined the organization’s Board of Directors on January 1 as the representative of the Sights for Hope Foundation. Gehris – who served on board from 2014-2023 and as President from 2017-2021 – will represent the foundation on the Sights for Hope board during the 2025 calendar year. […]
Denise Shaffer, Toney Horst, and Walter Roland, IV, have joined the Sights for Hope Board of Directors. Shaffer, the Immediate Past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K, is the board’s 2024-2025 Lions Leadership Director. Horst and Roland have been elected to three-year terms. Board Treasurer Daniel Lombardo also began his second three-year term as a board […]
Gary Dvorshak has been elected to a second three-year term on Sights for Hope’s Board of Directors. Dvorshak, who has been a Sights for Hope client since 2013, will begin his second term on January 1. He is a former President of the Lehigh Valley Council of the Blind (LVCB) – an advocacy and peer […]
Nicole Williams, O.D., Lead Optometrist for the Valley Health Partners Community Vision Center in Allentown, PA, was elected to a three-year term on Sights for Hope’s Board of Directors during its July meeting. Williams has been with Valley Health Partners since September 2022 and helped to form the new community center on Allentown’s North Sixth […]