The Dougbe River School is a 503(c)(3) registered non-profit, and the Board of Directors is made up entirely of passionate volunteers:
Barbara Wherley – Board Chair, Ruling elder from Noble Road Presbyterian Church, early board member
Donna Pacchioni – Treasurer, former CFO of Hawken School
John Luttermoser – Secretary, retired journalist from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, member of Noble Road Presbyterian Church and one of the founding board members
Francis Miller – Director of Mission, pastor of Lyndhurst Community Presbyterian Church, one of the founding board members
Debbie Gurney – Chair of Development Committee, ruling elder from Noble Road Presbyterian Church, Manager of Sexual Behavior Services at Signature Health, early Board Member
Tom English – owner of Stuck in Siberia Productions LLC
Melissa Garcar– Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District educator for 30 years, passionate supporter of DRSL for 10 years
Nancy Ivansek – Cleveland Clinic Foundation – practicing Physician Assistant with experience in Internal and Family Medicine as well as Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine
Marie Johnson – business owner in Baltimore and former resident of Grand Gedeh County in Liberia, where the school is located, one of the founding board members
Tom Keys – Chair of Health Committee, retired medical doctor from the Cleveland Clinic, specializing in infectious diseases, ruling elder from Covenant Presbyterian Church, past elder of the Church of the Covenant
Scott McGraw – professor of primate studies at The Ohio State University, one of the founding board members, lives in Columbus
Laurie Moorman – retired executive from Rockwell Automation, ruling elder from Lyndhurst Community Presbyterian Church
Celinda Brandt Miller – Higher education administrator at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, supporter of the school from inception
Margaret Mwale – staff associate for the Self Development of People, PC(USA)
Ogie White – pastor emeritus of Bethany Presbyterian Church, former interim pastor of Christ United Church
