NOTS Board

Deacon Craig LaGier

Founder

• Founder of NOTS in 2017
  
• Ordained as permanent Deacon for the Diocese of Reno in 1991
  
• To me, NOTS means a place of hope. I pray that NOTS gives people hope when they have lost all hope.​

Linda Flaherty



• ​Thirty years of experience in educational service, training and administration
• Bachelor of Science in Biology, Masters in Special Education, and an Educational Specialist Degree in Administration
• Certified Community Health Worker, loves working with others and collaborating in solving problems that beset our communities 
• Married to her wonderful husband of thirty-seven years
• Has an awesome son in Milwaukee and an incredible daughter in Sacramento
• Has two pets: Frosty; a Quaker parrot; and Mango, a Senegal parrot
• Loves to hike, bike, walk, read, see movies, and spend time with family

Nancy Haffey

• Business experience: Fourteen years in hotel management, nineteen years as an accountant and Controller, three years as a church business manager.
• Fifty years volunteering with non-profits and service organizations.
• Education: Bachelor in Sociology and Urban Studies, Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Theology.
• Married to my exceptional husband and grandmother to seven children.
• ​Currently retired and Treasurer at the Carson City Elks Lodge and actively teaching Stay Strong Stay Healthy exercise classes.
  

Lynn Berggren

I am a Native Nevadan and I was actually born in Carson City! I graduated from the University of Nevada Reno with a degree in nursing and have been an RN for 38 years,. I began volunteering with NOTS in the fall of 2020. I initially had heard of NOTS from the local newspaper and our family church St. Peters soon became an involved partner. Learning that four people had died from exposure to the cold in Carson City led me to want to be a part of the solution to offer the unhoused population a warming center in the coldest months.


I am passionate about helping people and animals and I want to continue to help make Carson City a safe community for our unhoused population.

Veronica Galas

Veronica Galas is an Episcopal Deacon, Spiritual Director, Registered Nurse and Adolescent Health Educator. Many of my life experiences shaped my faith and work interests towards social justice in action. From growing up in a household of nine living in a three-bedroom home, through college service trips that revealed poverty first-hand in multiple locations in the U.S, and participating in community needs assessments as a public health nurse needs around housing surfaced again and again. I am wholeheartedly committed to Night Off the Streets. I believe a shortage of affordable housing, incomes not keeping pace with housing prices, and inadequate intervention services are root causes of individuals going unsheltered. Systems fail and individuals are often blamed. Through its faith-based grassroots beginnings NOTS has shown that an engaged community of volunteers can make a direct and immediate difference with little more than the gumption of the volunteers themselves.

Caryn Huntt DeCarlo

Trish Kelliher