Our Leadership

Jenni Campbell
Executive Director & Board Member

Compassion, communication, community—these three words capture LA Region Community Recovery Organization (LARCRO) Executive Director, Jenni Campbell.

Jenni oversees day to day operations at LARCRO, identifying and leveraging resources in the community for recovery efforts. Her main objectives are to develop the Woolsey Fire Recovery Plan and create a recovery plan blueprint for future disasters. Jenni also serves as LARCRO’s Secretary and is a Board member of the LA County VOAD/Emergency Network Los Angeles

Jenni’s role is both strategic and grassroots. She works closely with NVOAD partners coordinating recovery resources, but she can also often be found with her work clothes on assisting her neighbors and Woolsey Fire survivors.

Jenni’s role as Business Unit Liaison and Relationship Manager for Fleet Bank, WellPoint, and other businesses and organizations prepared her uniquely for her role as Executive Director of LARCRO where communication and relationship building are key components of the organization’s mission.

Dedication to conscientious public service was instilled in Jenni as a child growing up in a small, rural Northern California town. Jenni brought this dedication to nonprofit work and community organizing with her when she moved to Agoura in 2004.

Over the past fifteen years, Jenni has worked with Relay for Life of Agoura, Hospice of the Conejo, LV Fire Relief, Los Robles Hospital, Next Door, Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival, Odyssey of the Mind, Poison Free Agoura, the Buy Nothing Project, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and many more community organizations. Her work has embedded her deeply into the community she loves, and she continues to build relationships with neighbors, business owners, and local professionals every day.

Tracing her profound respect for nature and wildlife to her childhood explorations of the unique landscape surrounding her small town, Jenni finds joyful renewal as an adult when she is outdoors gardening, hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, and assisting local wildlife rescue organizations.

Jenni’s goal in her work with LARCRO, as well as in her life, is to unite and empower our community with knowledge and compassion, especially in ways that benefit the environment and that build lasting relationships.

Brent Woodworth
Board Chair

Brent Woodworth’s career spans over 40 years with extensive experience in crisis management, program development and conflict resolution. Brent has a distinguished history of working with heads of state, elected officials, international relief organizations, private sector companies, academic institutions, and faith community leaders throughout the world advising them on actions to take and alternative collaborative strategies when responding to high consequence crisis events. Domestic response efforts include major natural disasters along with terrorism events: the Oklahoma City Bombing, 9-11, the 2015 San Bernardino Shooting, and the 2017 Aliso Viejo Bombing. In 1993 Brent was appointed by FEMA Director, James Lee Witt to help draft the U.S. government guiding principles for natural hazard impact reduction. In 2008 Brent established the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation in support of community stakeholders throughout the Los Angeles region. Brent is co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Sahana Software Foundation providing humanitarian relief software systems in support of 27 countries along with the UN and International Red Cross.

Brent and his team are part of an independent academic group reviewing the Woolsey Fire. The report being produced follows academic reporting standards and provides valued insight into many of the challenges and opportunities resulting from the fire. This work is being completed in cooperation with academic teams working on the Camp Fire.

D’Andre Lampkin
Board Vice Chair

D’Andre Lampkin is a life-long public servant and serves as Vice Chair with the Los Angeles Community Recovery Organization. D’Andre also serves the community as a law enforcement professional in California. During his tenure as a Deputy Sheriff he has earned several commendations for his work in educating youth, quality of service, community involvement, and response to mental health crisis. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing solutions company which creates new jobs for healthcare professionals throughout the state of California.

Mr. Lampkin is a seasoned public servant with a strong community service background and experience in starting and leading program initiatives. He successfully founded the D’Andre D. Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt human services organization designed to promote “social good” projects throughout the United States. He serves as a City Planning Commissioner for the city of Ontario and Board Member for the Creekside West Village Master Association, also located in Ontario, California. D’Andre Lampkin is the youngest of three brothers, son of a single mother, and product of the poor, gang ridden, and drug infested South Central Los Angeles. Despite his upbringing, Mr. Lampkin has made it his mission to make a positive contribution to society through public service.

Mr. Lampkin is an active member of Alpha Phi Sigma – Criminal Justice Honor Society, and earned a Baccalaureate of Science in Criminal Justice Administration. In 2017, he earned his Masters of Science in Homeland Security & Emergency Management with the distinction of High Honors from National University. D’Andre is a two-time nominee to the 2017 National University Scholarship Conference and recipient of National University’s 2017 Top Scholar Award and The Emerging Leadership Award. He is also the recipient of the Artist In Music (AIM) Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2018 he earned The World Networks’ Community Enrichment Award for his contributions to the Puerto Rico disaster recovery effort following Hurricane Maria. He holds several certifications in the homeland security and terrorism related topics.

His research in areas of domestic and international policy has been published in the William & Mary Environment Law and Policy Review and University of Oregon’s Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. His work and research in Mental Health, as it relates to improving law enforcement’s response, has been published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Human Resilience.

Garry Weese
Treasurer

Garry serves as the Treasurer of the LARCRO and is responsible for its financial oversight and governance. He is also involved in the group’s grant-writing, and communication with its funders.

Born in Canada, Garry moved to Southern California as a young child with his parents and younger sister. Garry grew up and attended school in the San Fernando Valley. Garry was an active member of the Air Force ROTC at Loyola Marymount University while taking engineering classes at CSU Northridge. Garry graduated from CSU Northridge with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Garry started working at Aerojet Rocketdyne while taking college classes. He continues his 40+ year career to this day. Garry has worked on numerous rocket programs, with a primary focus the Space Shuttle, and is currently working on the NASA’s Space Launch System program and our eventual return to the Moon. Garry has volunteered for several organizations, taking on leadership roles as a Cub Scout Leader, Boy Scout Troop Leader, Coach for an SFV AYSO boys soccer team, and Logistics Lead for the American cancer Society Relay for Life in Agoura. Garry is also an avid amateur astronomer and nature photographer.

Melissa Crews
Board Member

Melissa Crews is a collaborative, detail oriented professional at Hagerty Consulting and has worked as the firm's Project Manager on several state and local Emergency Rental Assistance Programs funded by the US Treasury. She also has over 15 years of employment at both the National American Red Cross in Washington DC, as well as regional Red Cross offices across the country. Most recently, she worked on the grant and case management programs as the Deputy Director for the Red Cross State of California Wildfire Recovery Programs 2017-2020. She has a background of over 20 deployments to national operations to provide expertise in the areas of grant program design and implementation, case management, individual assistance, housing, and partnership building with high visibility government and non-government entities.

Krista Bilderbach
Board Member

Sharon Burnett
Board Member

Sharon Burnett is a teacher, mentor and psychotherapist with over thirty-five years experience. She began her career as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at California State University, Chico, where she received her Masters in Counseling Psychology. She continued her education at the University of Oregon, Department of Education Doctoral Program in Developmental Psychology, and completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Southern California University, Irvine.

Leading with her passion for diving deep into the understanding of the human condition, and the resilience of the human spirit, Sharon had the privilege of training under Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a pioneer in near-death studies and the process of grief and loss. Inspired by her teacher’s model of grief, loss and trauma recovery, Sharon continues to lead a bi-annual workshop, Life In Transition, where she facilitates participants in building greater resilience and allows for deeper connection with themselves and others.

In 2010, Sharon founded the non-profit community mental health center, West Valley Counseling Center located in Tarzana, California. She has developed a successful model for educating and training beginning trainees and associate licensed therapists prior to entering private practice. Her model is grounded in a trauma informed philosophy and helps to promote long-term trauma recovery. In addition to this, Sharon’s private practice has been bringing this trauma recovery model to her work with individuals and families residing in the Greater Los Angeles area for many years. Sharon is also on the Board of Directors for LA Region Community Recovery Organization (LARCO).

Larry Grable
Board Member

For the past 10 years Larry has been the Executive Director of Service Center for Independent Life, (SCIL), one of the 28 Independent Living Centers (ILC’s) in California. He was the Chair of the Board of Directors for 2 years prior to accepting the ED role. ILCs serve seniors and people with disabilities to help them live a safe and independent life. SCIL operates the Disability Disaster Access & Resources program. Before working for SCIL, Larry worked for the Office of the Governor for 8 years as the Director of the Inland Empire Field Office. Prior to that he worked for Senator Jim Brulte as a Field Representative. Larry is a Past Chair of the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers. Larry is also chair of the California Assistive Technology Advisory Committee. Recently Larry was appointed to the California Aging and Disability Resource Connection Advisory Board and serves as an Executive Board member for the Emergency Network of LA (ENLA). Larry sits on Aging Next, a senior service provider, Board of Director. Larry has been married for 30 years and has 3 children and 3 grandkids.

Nancy Rasmussen
Board Member

Nancy serves as Disaster Case Management Chair for the LA Woolsey Fire LTRG, leading the Disaster Case Management group in providing trained Disaster Case Managers to work with survivors to plan and facilitate a road to recovery and resilience.

As a member of the United Methodist California-Pacific Conference Disaster Task Force and a representative of UMCOR, Nancy works in a range of Disaster Response and Recovery activities. Some of her experiences involve working with cleanup and rebuild teams in the US, Haiti, and the Philippines. She participated in the Long Term Recovery Group in Santa Barbara after the Thomas Fire/Montecito Debris flow and has 7 years of experience as a volunteer in the Disaster Response and Recovery sector.

Nancy retired from professional life so that she could volunteer in the Disaster Response Sector and it remains her passion. At one of the first organizing meeting of the Los Angeles Long Term Recovery Group, she volunteered to take on case management, having been bitten by that bug during Disaster Case Management training for the Thomas fire.