Staff
Directory
Executive Director
Sarah K. Snyder
Office: (727) 528-5762 Cell: (727) 424-1355
E-mail: sarah@pinellashomeless.org
Director of Development & Performance Evaluation
George N. Bolden, Jr.
Office: (727) 528-5762 Cell: (727) 424-1325
E-mail: george@pinellashomeless.org
Community Education Coordinator
Gregory W. Rolle
Office: (727) 528-57623 Cell: (727) 424-1088
E-mail: gw@pinellashomeless.org
Office Manager
Susan Thornton
Office: (727) 528-5763 Cell: (727) 424-1325
E-mail: susan@pinellashomeless.org
Bookkeeper
Louise Culotta
Office: (727) 528-5768
E-mail: louise@pinellashomeless.org
Office Volunteer
Roger Mogle
Office: (727) 528-5763
E-mail: office@pinellashomeless.org
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Biographies
About Sarah K. Snyder
Sarah K. Snyder is the first Executive Director of the Pinellas County Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. She is also the staff director for the Homeless Leadership Network, an organization of elected officials and other county leaders. The Leadership Network is charged with developing homeless services policies, securing additional financial and other resources for homeless services, and ensuring that the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness is implemented.
Ms. Snyder has long experience in the Pinellas County human services arena. She was the President/Executive Director of the Pinellas Private Industry Council (the predecessor to the current WorkNet Pinellas Board) for over 16 years. During her tenure, the Council won numerous state, regional, and federal workforce development awards, including being named the first winner of the national Outstanding Private Industry Council Award by President Ronald Reagan. Ms. Snyder was also named the National Job Training Professional of the Year by the National Alliance of Business. Prior to that experience she administered a small juvenile delinquency project and a hospital-based on-the-job training program.
Following her service with the Pinellas Private Industry Council, Ms. Snyder consulted with local and state non-profit and governmental organizations across Florida and the nation for ten years. She specialized in the development and training of Boards of Directors, organizational development, staff training, and strategic planning.
Ms. Snyder has been a resident of Pinellas County for 35 years. She is also a quilter and textile artist. She has a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling and extensive post-graduate training in non-profit organizational design and development.
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About Susan J. Thornton
Susan Thornton serves as the office manager for PCCH. She has lived in Pinellas County most of her life, and graduated from St. Petersburg High School. A short residence in Tallahassee netted her a non-profit experience at Hillel at Florida State University – a non-profit Jewish Student Life Center. Susan served as office manager and oversaw the employees as well as the volunteers. She gained additional office management experience with a few local businesses in Pinellas County.
Susan is married to her husband Hill, and together they have 9 children and 6 grandchildren. They volunteer at the Suncoast Haven of Rest Rescue Mission teaching classes and helping out where ever they are needed.
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About Gregory W. "G.W." Rolle
Gregory Warren Rolle, better known as "G.W.," was born in upstate New York. Orphaned at an early age, he was reared with "middle-class sensibilities" by his maternal grandmother. At the age of 17, he was sent to prison, but while he was there he earned his GED and read over 1,000 books. While he was incarcerated, G.W. was accepted into Syracuse University, where he majored in philosophy and english upon his release. Following his studies, G.W. migrated to Los Angeles, where he worked on various movie sets in the art department. He later became a chef, and worked at some of the finest restaurants in Beverly Hills. G.W. later moved back to New York, but because of his record, he could not get work. So he started a community newspaper called the Wheat Street Independent, which circulated for three years.
In 1991, G.W. joined the merchant marines, working as a chef. He relocated to St. Petersburg in 2000, working as a chef at some of Tampa Bay's hot spots, including Leverocks, Safety Harbor Spa and Resort, and Starlight Cruises.
Tragedy struck when the house he was renting caught fire and became inhabitable. The Red Cross aided with housing for three nights, afterwhich G.W. was forced into "couch surfing," but eventually slipped into homelessness. He subsequently lost his job and Williams Park became his new "home."
Mr. Rolle was homeless for four years. During this time, he met a film director, and became one of the principal subjects of a documentary film about homelessness in St. Petersburg.
Now an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, G.W. serves as PCCH's Community Education Coordinator. He is responsible for developing the "Faces of Homelessness" Speaker's Bureau, which enlists the volunteer service of homeless and formerly homeless people to dispell the myths about homelessness and to educate people about the variety of situations which lead to homelessness by presenting the stories of the homeless by the homeless themselves.
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Mission and Values
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