Meet Our Leadership Team

KIRSTEN D. SIKKELEE

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

Sarah Lanners Avinger, portrait, CPO, philanthropy, YWCA

SARAH LANNERS AVINGER, CFRE, MBA

CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER

“Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”
– Frederick Buechner

JOLAINE ELIEN, MBA

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become
more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
– Dolly Parton

JEFF NERRET

DIRECTOR OF FITNESS

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

TOMIAKA WINGARD, M.ED.

DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

– (Ret.) Army General Colin Powell 

Rebecca Stickel, YWCA Central Carolinas, YWCA Director of Women In Transition

REBECCA STICKEL, LCSW

DIRECTOR OF HOUSING

“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
– Maya Angelou