
Our Leadership
Jenni Campbell
Executive Director & Board Member
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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
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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
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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.
Kristina Rattnanak
Treasurer
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Kristina serves as the Treasurer of the LARCRO and is responsible for its financial oversight and governance. She is also involved in the group’s grant-writing, and communication with its funders.
Natalie Samuels
Secretary
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Natalie Samuels is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who has been providing trauma-informed clinical services to the Greater Los Angeles region since 2017. Alongside this work as a mental health professional, Natalie is also the Director of Development for West Valley Counseling Center, where she oversees the program operations across the Greater Los Angeles region.
With a deep commitment to empathetic understanding, Natalie tailors her therapeutic approach to meet each client’s unique needs. She incorporates contemporary and creative modalities to promote positive self-development, foster a sense of safety, and help clients process emotions in a way that facilitates personal growth. Her work emphasizes the development of adaptive coping techniques and prioritizes long-term recovery and meaningful change. Natalie has received specialized training in trauma recovery, equipping her to address the complex emotional and psychological impacts of trauma effectively. Her expertise enables her to guide clients through the healing process with a focus on resilience, safety, and sustainable recovery.
Natalie began representing West Valley Counseling Center in the disaster management space back in 2018, following the Woolsey fires. She brings her knowledge and clinical experience to help support a variety of program developments that can aid in the community responsiveness in the wake of disaster while also bridging those impacted with critical mental health resources.
In addition, Natalie serves as an Executive Board member for Emergency Network of Los Angeles (ENLA) and has been working with this team since 2018. Her work with ENLA reflects her dedication to supporting disaster preparedness and recovery efforts across the region.
Krista Bilderbach
Board Member
Nancy Rasmussen
Board Member
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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.
Past Leadership
Alana Hitchcock
Board Member
December 2018 – January 2021
Sandri Kramer
Board Member
December 2018 – January 2021
Katherine Miller
Board Member & Secretary
October 2019 – January 2021
Nicki Parr
Board Member & Treasurer
December 2018 – October 2019
David Worth
Board Chair
October 2019 – January 2021
Nicholas Nguyen
Board Member
December 2018 – January 2021
Dawkins Hodges
Board Member & Secretary
December 2018 – March 2021
Yosef Jalil
Board Member
2021 – December 2022
Lisa Patrick Mudd
Board Member
2020 – December 2022
Garry Weese
Treasurer
2020 – 2023
Melissa Crews
Board Member
2022 – 2023
Sharon Burnett
Board Member
2021 – 2023
Robert Whitman
Board Member
Larry Grable
Board Member