Board of Directors
Kathy McClain
Chairman of the Board
Kathy has been the leading advocate for senior and veteran issues during her entire six term tenure in the Nevada State Legislature. She has also served on the Nevada Commission on Aging, Nevada Veterans Services Commission and is chair for the Statutory Committee on Senior Citizens.
Maria Dent
Vice Chair
AARP Nevada’s Associate State Director for Community Outreach, Maria Dent, brings a wealth of experience in aging services to her work with older Nevadans. After seven years with South County Senior Services in San Clemente, California, she relocated to the Las Vegas Valley in 1994, where she managed volunteer programs for Sierra Health Services. Her work there led to an opportunity with Catholic Charities, administering key programs implemented by the group for older adults as well as low-income Las Vegans. Dent has received several awards and honors for her work with older adults, one such honor being recognized as volunteer manager of the year by the Directors of Volunteers in Agencies in 1999.
Barbara J. Grostick
Secretary
Barbara Grostick is the Volunteer and Community Resource Coordinator for Clark County Social Service and Department of Family Services. In this capacity, Barbara is responsible for the planning, developing, implementing and evaluation of the Social Service Volunteer Program. As the Community Resource Coordinator, Barbara networks with the community in accessing resources for both county agencies.
Barbara is an experienced trainer and conducts Volunteer Management workshops for various organizations throughout the Las Vegas community.
Barbara has been active member of the community for over 20 years serving in a variety of board positions. Past volunteer board positions include: Retired Senior Volunteer Program, the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada, DOVIA, Lutheran Social Services, and HELP of Southern Nevada. She currently serves as the President of the National Association of Volunteer Programs in Local Government and a board member of ITNLasVegasValley. Barbara is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Las Vegas and recipient of several awards for outstanding volunteer management and community involvement.
Tania Thompson
Treasurer
Tania Thompson is the administrative assistant of the Nevada State Bank, CRA - Community Development Department. She has 30 years of managerial compliance expertise in banking operational and branch daily support services.
Her current position allows her to assist the low- to moderate- income residents and communities in need of food, housing, education, life skills and job opportunity. She recently worked with the Latin Chamber of Commerce on their Stimulus Workforce Training Project, which trained and employed 36 young adults between the ages of 14 to 22. She is also involved with many other non-profit agencies such as The Embracing Project, Big Brothers and Big Sisters as a Big Sister, and the recent FHLB 1 million dollar award for The Las Vegas Rescue Mission renovation and housing expansion project. She began her career at Security Pacific Bank in Glendale California, where she was a native professional performer, dancer and owner of a dance studio.
Tom Peterson
Board Member
Tom is a former postmaster of Las Vegas. As postmaster, Tom managed a workforce of over 1,600 clerks, letter carriers, supervisors and managers. He was responsible for the day-to-day management of postal operations and customer relations for the Las Vegas Valley.
Before his tenor as postmaster, Tom was the manager of delivery and retail programs for the western United States, also for the U.S. Postal Service. As the program manager, Tom was the head strategic planner responsible for compliance, performance improvements and consistency of postal operations within an 11 state area.
Tom developed an important process for evaluating managers and supervisors that incorporated multiple facets of national, area and local performance goals. For his innovation, he was recognized as an USPS Executive of the Year. In addition, Tom has developed budgets of over $10,000,000,000 and been responsible for both developing and managing a budget of over $100,000,000 annually.
He has experience in the non-profit sector managing Meals on Wheels for Catholic Charities and currently is a steering committee member for ITNLasVegasValley™. In all, Tom brings over 25 years of operational management and strategic planning to ITNLasVegasValley™. He is also an accomplished public speaker and has made presentations to groups including the Las Vegas Chapter of the American Marketing Association and the Postal Customer Council.
David Reese
Board Member
David Reese is the Vice President of Human Resources for Caesars Entertainment, overseeing Caesars Palace, Bally’s Las Vegas, Paris, Rio All-Suite Hotel, and Planet Hollywood. He previously worked in Human Resources for Macy’s Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. David has his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University, a BA from the University of California Los Angeles, and in his spare time serves as an Adjunct Professor for Nevada State College.
Andrew J. Urban Jr.
Board Member
Andrew (Andy) J. Urban Jr. was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1981 he graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington and moved to Las Vegas in the same year. He is married to Ruth Urban and they have a son who lives and works in Chicago. In 1983 he joined the Henderson City Attorney Office. During his years with Henderson, Andy represented almost every city department at one time or another, and for several legislative sessions in the late eighties and early nineties he was the City’s lobbyist. He remained the City Attorney Office chief legal legislative analyst and second in command until his retirement from public service in July 2009. He is a sole practitioner and owner of the Nevada Virtual Law Office.
Fran Smith
Co-Director
Fran Smith has more than 15 years' experience in non-profit management with organizations in Hawaii, Arizona and Nevada, including eight years as executive director of the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada. During that time, the center fulfilled the Standards of Excellence established by the Volunteer Center National Network, achieved accreditation through United Way, and became affiliated with the national Points of Light and Hands On Network.
Prior to her career in non-profit management, she served as a legislative assistant to a United States senator and congressman.
Nancy Sprague
Co-Director
Nancy Sprague has accrued more than 20 years of community relations, marketing, management, and communications experience in the public and private sector. While serving as Nevada’s Commissioner of Consumer Affairs and Deputy Director of Commerce (Business & Industry), she developed several public information initiatives and programs to benefit both businesses and consumers. During her tenure at the YMCA, she created and implemented marketing strategies that contributed to tripling membership, doubling program revenues and receiving national awards for marketing excellence.
Among her many accomplishments, she was responsible for spearheading the United Way Small Business Initiative and Association of Part-Time Professionals, Las Vegas Chapter. In addition, she has held leadership roles in scores of organizations.
Sam Lieberman
Director/Member Services
Mr. Lieberman serves on numerous non-profit boards in Southern Nevada and has chaired many of them. A long-time activist resident of Las Vegas, he has extensive contacts throughout the community in the business, academic, nonprofit and political sectors. His employment history includes outreach for Sen. Harry Reid, volunteer management at the Las Vegas Marathon and Director of the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada.