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Meet Our Leadership

We are so grateful to our team members who work together to make Finding Hope Wellness Center successful for those who walk through our doors.

Danielle Lair

Co-Founder

Danielle Lair has served children and families in the local church since 2010, including her recent role as the director of Children’s Ministry at Lake Travis United Methodist Church (LTUMC). Danielle is administratively gifted, detail-oriented, and knows how to balance logistics within a relational ministry. She also has extensive experience in planning events for 10-5,000 people.

Through Danielle’s own trauma recovery journey, she has become increasingly passionate about mental health and wellness. She believes healing begins when we share our stories with others in safe spaces.

Danielle graduated from Abilene Christian University in 2007. She has two kids, Tommy (7) and Lucy (5), and one fur baby named Teva. She enjoys time with her kids, eating all the food, reading, new adventures, and traveling.

Jenni Oaks

Co-Founder

Jenni graduated from Baylor University with a BA in journalism and a minor in marketing. She built her business career as a Change Management Consultant at Accenture. During her time at Accenture, Jenni served international clients in the chemical, utility, and energy industries. She supported global change management programs within Accenture; led business development, community outreach, and people engagement in one of the major US offices; and provided program management for a US local market growth initiative. Jenni served as Chief of Staff to the North America CEO for three years prior to leaving Accenture in late 2014.

After retiring from Accenture, Jenni expanded her service to the local community and local church. She gave of her time and talents in volunteer roles including Lake Travis ISD CLASS Project member, a member of the Campus Advisory Team at the local middle school, and six years as a board director of an international women’s member organization, Tri Delta. Additionally, Jenni began serving on staff at her church in 2020 establishing and leading the Discipleship Ministry and adult and small group ministries, in addition to teaching Sunday School and Women’s Bible Studies.

Jenni and her husband, Brian, reside in Austin, TX, with their twins, Connor and Sydney.

Ashley Schlosser

Communications Director

Ashley Schlosser is Founder and CEO Live Out Loud, Inc., a boutique public relations and integrated marketing firm in Austin, Texas, founded in 2014. She holds more than seventeen years of experience in graphic design and twelve years of experience in media relations, writing, brand building, community engagement, media monitoring/social analytics, and event management. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors of Science in Public Relations and a Bachelors of Arts in Rhetoric & Writing.

She is passionate about helping organizations tell their story in a way that makes an impact and is honored to support Finding Hope Wellness Center. She previously worked at Burson-Marsteller and Porter Novelli, where she served large-scale clientele in multiple industries conducting media relations, campaign development, graphic design, event management and social media campaign management and analytics. In her tenure, she has worked with large-scale clients including DEMO Conference, SXSW Interactive Festival, HP Cloud Services, Luminex Corporation and Johnson & Johnson, as well as with local clientele including several nonprofits Salvation Army Austin Area Command, Any Baby Can, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, Texans for Joe Straus, Breakthrough Central Texas, Temple Health and Bioscience District and more. Prior to PR agency life, she worked for Entercom radio as a promotions assistant executing guerilla marketing activities for MIX 94.7 FM and Majic 95.5 FM radio in Austin, Texas staffing some of the city’s largest music festivals and events.

Kennedy Garland

Baylor School of Social Work Intern

Kennedy is from the small town of Axtell, TX. She received her Bachelor's degree in social work from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and is actively working as a Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Advocate at a nonprofit in Central Texas. She is currently a master's student at Baylor University in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work and is interning at the Center for Church and Community Impact at Baylor. She is working with LTUMC to help establish the Finding Hope Wellness Center and create the resource database.
Kennedy is passionate about loving people, and bridging gaps in services by providing information. She is beyond blessed to be a part of the Finding Hope team and is excited to see God work through this Center. Following graduation, Kennedy wants to pursue community social work and program writing in medical settings.
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