Family Tree Clinic

Staff

Our team includes medical practitioners, clinic assistants, medical assistants, administrative staff, community health educators, and volunteer health educators. Our work is enhanced by the contributions of volunteers who are trained in a variety of clinic tasks and provide over 2,500 hours of service each year.

Leadership

 

Annie Van Avery
Executive Director

Annie Van Avery brings an extensive track record of collaborative leadership in the nonprofit sector. She has successfully stabilized and grown each organization she has been a part of by listening to and engaging the strengths of the team while developing innovative solutions that help organizations thrive. Her extensive leadership history includes successful experiences as Interim Executive Director at Banyan Community Foundation, and Executive Director positions at three nonprofits: Domestic Abuse Project in Hennepin County; COLAGE, a national organization supporting LGBTQ+ parents and caregivers; and Photographic Center NW in Seattle. Annie brings a deep understanding of the communities Family Tree serves, and extensive experience as a co-creator of strategies, sustainable practices, and innovative solutions to support this next chapter for Family Tree Clinic.

612-473-0807
avanavery@familytreeclinic.org
Lindsey Hoskins
Health Education Director

Lindsey Hoskins is a deeply committed sex nerd who graduated from the University of MN with a degree in sex education. She dove into this work in 1999 and fell in love with helping folks get comfy and start talking about topics that can often be challenging. Lindsey joined Family Tree is 2002 and is now the Director of Health Education.

Lindsey is most proud of the sex ed programming she runs in juvenile corrections, the peer sex educator program she started for queer and trans teens, and her work with parents of young children. Lindsey is happiest when teaching puberty, and don’t even get her started on lube.

In 2017, her book, Principles of Pleasure: Working with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators, was released. Her mother is very proud.

612-473-0804
lindsey@familytreeclinic.org
Nyssa Krause
Clinic Director

Nyssa discovered her ability to lead teams towards a shared goal in a positive, people-centric way as a teenage camp counselor in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Her passions of music & team leadership joined forces while in college to spend many years working at the Electric Fetus record store near Lake Superior.

In 2013 Nyssa started working at Planned Parenthood & managed the Duluth & Virginia, MN clinics, helping to eliminate health disparities in underserved communities with a focus on sexual health. Nyssa moved to the Twin Cities during the Covid pandemic to join the team at Family Tree & continue work in community-focused reproductive & social justice in healthcare.

Nyssa holds a Bachelor of Music & Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. In her spare time she loves to go on outdoor adventures, play the upright bass, cook complicated meals, & her newly found joy of fly fishing.

612-473-0802
nkrause@familytreeclinic.org
Jacki Trelawny
Director of Community Engagement

Jacki Trelawny believes sex-positive sex education and health access resources will save the world. Focusing on racial justice and community organizing, Jacki is passionate about intersectional sexual health and sees it as a way to make not only individuals healthier and confident, but whole communities as well.

The work of Community Engagement supports and holds Family Tree accountable to its vision of eliminating health disparities. She believes in people; the community knows what they need.

Jacki holds a Bachelors Degree in Africana and African American Studies from the University of Minnesota.

When Jacki is not at work she is off being a superhero or hanging at the dog park without a dog.

612-473-0806
jtrelawny@familytreeclinic.org
Deborah Angelucci
Finance and Human Resources Director

Deborah Angelucci has more than 25 years of experience working in fundraising, finance, human resources, and administration in small- to mid-sized nonprofits in the Twin Cities.

Her previous work experience includes Tree Trust, Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Rural AIDS Action Network, and what was then Face to Face Health & Counseling Service (now Face to Face).

Prior to that, she worked as a fundraising consultant for what was then Crowley, White & Associates – now Crowley, White, Helmer & Sevig.

Deborah has a BA in Communications from Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA, and in her free time enjoys traveling with her spouse.


612-473-0812
dangelucci@familytreeclinic.org

Clinic

Amanda Stephens
Care Coordinator RN
Matilda George
Care Coordinator RN
Ernie Hsu
Clinic Assistant & Prior Authorization Specialist
Brandon Jones
Clinic Operations Specialist
Olly Scharpe
Clinic Assistant
Rys Petersen
Medical Assistant
Mollie Heil
Medical Assistant
Marcela Sanchez
Front Desk Manager
Xiomar Luna
Clinic Assistant
Max Johnson
Patient Resources Specialist
Drew Totz
Medical Assistant
Kadie Fredell
Nurse Practitioner
Cheré Bergeron
Care Coordinator RN
Dylan Flunker
Project Manager
Alexis Akre
Clinic Assistant
Kai Kelley
Clinic Assistant
Colin Whitmore
Medical Assistant
Parvaneh Jefferson
Medical Assistant
Avi Marshall
Medical Assistant Manager

 

Community Outreach, Education & Hotline

Jordyn Adeboye
Community Health Educator
jadeboye@familytreeclinic.org
Taylor Chambers
Juvenile Justice Sex Educator

tchambers@familytreeclinic.org
Sawyer Plotz
Sex Educator & KiSS Coordinator

splotz@familytreeclinic.org
Nicci Willams
Community Engagement Program Coordinator

nwilliams@familytreeclinic.org
Chandler Daily
Sex Educator

cdaily@familytreeclinic.org
Paige Beto
Sex Educator

pbeto@familytreeclinic.org
Jadea Moss
Sex Educator

jmoss@familytreeclinic.org

 

Administration & Billing

Clive North
Finance Associate

cnorth@familytreeclinic.org
Harry Itie
Communications Manager

hitie@familytreeclinic.org
Yri Hansen
Billing Associate

yhansen@familytreeclinic.org
Jaffa Aharonov
Technology Manager

jaharonov@familytreeclinic.org
Annie Schmitz
Development Manager

aschmitz@familytreeclinic.org
Jesse Kohler
Building Assistant
jkohler@familytreeclinic.org

Education and Program Staff