Doris Ferrer Roach, J.D., Founder and Principal of Potential Horizons Realized© (PHR) is a former senior attorney with a major Fortune 500 Company where she practiced business law for 10 years. Doris left the legal profession to follow her own passion - a passion to make a concrete, positive, and profound difference in the lives of individuals and organizations, by helping others to recognize and realize their potential for growth and transformation.

Doris's diverse experiences as a trainer, teacher, coach, and facilitator are supported by a solid background of professional training, certification, and memberships, including:

• American Society for Training and Development - Professional Trainer Certification
• Simmons College Graduate School of Management - Certificate Program for Developing Managers
• Mediation Works Institute - Mediation and Negotiation Skills Training
• Northeastern University - Leadership Development Certificate Program
• Training with Drs. Caroline Myss and Norman Shealey on creativity and intuition enhancement techniques

Johanna Crawford founded Web of Benefit in January 2004. Web of Benefit reflects her deep commitment to aid and empower survivors of domestic violence, because for many years during her childhood she witnessed her mother's physical and emotional abuse by her father.

Since February 2002, she has volunteered at Transition House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, assisting survivors of domestic violence. During this period, she completed a comprehensive 40-hour training program for counselors. At Transition House, she responds to and manages crisis line telephone calls, screens prospective clients, acts as a housing and social services advocate, and performs client exit interviews.

After attending University of Vermont for several years, she was married, and following the birth of her two daughters, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in finance and management, with highest distinction, from Babson College. Since that time, she has created, bought and/or sold five small businesses in the Boston area, and worked there as a successful real estate broker.

For the past 30 years, Johanna Crawford has dedicated herself to community service in a wide variety of areas. She has devoted her time and energy to organizations and facilities such as the Museum of Science, Glover Hospital, Florence Crittenden House, Franklin Park Zoo, the Noble and Greenough Parents' Committee, Babson College Foreign Students' Committee, the literacy mentoring program at Juniper Hill Elementary School, and the oncology floor of Children's Hospital.

From 1984 to 1986, she served on the Town of Needham Finance Committee, responsible for recommendations regarding the town budget, then exceeding $54 million. During Needham's difficult transition to meeting the provisions of Proposition 2 ½, she served as liaison to the police department, fire department and public works department. She was also elected a Member of Needham Town Meeting.

Lucy Noyes has been committed to listening to women, and to helping their voices be heard, for many years. Through employment and volunteer work, Lucy has interfaced with people from many different backgrounds, facing adversity in various ways.

A Women's Studies minor in college, and an active participant in the Women's Center, Lucy helped to organize the annual "Take Back the Night March," which raised awareness about rape and women's rights on campus.

She also worked at a women's clinic as a doctor's assistant and reproductive rights educator. Lucy spent three years working as a Massage Therapist, alongside Physical Therapists, and found joy working with women recovering from injury and illness, or while pregnant.

Currently working toward a MA in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Lucy seeks to combine her goals of gaining knowledge about the human psyche, and helping women and adolescent girls find and express their voices.

Randi Friedman has worked at Northeastern University School of Law for fifteen years and is currently the Assistant Dean/Director of Career Services. In that role, she actively participates in a number of professional organizations, including bar associations and consortia with other law schools. Prior to working at Northeastern, Randi worked as a lawyer for the MA Division of Insurance. She has a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and a B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY-Binghamton. Randi lives in Newton with her husband and has two children, a son who is in college and a daughter who will be a senior in high school.

 Anne Goh is Program Manager, Risk Awareness & Training, at Fidelity Investments. In a former role in marketing for about 14 years, Anne worked with various Fortune 500 companies. Her job responsibilities in various industries have spanned different countries where she has gained experience working with people of different backgrounds and cultures.

In her various management roles including as a mother, Anne has counseled mentored and coached individuals both in their professional and personal goals. Anne’s resilience, persistence and hope was the “fountain” she drew on to raise and guide her daughter through years of an emotional disorder to become a responsible young woman today. She finds tremendous satisfaction in helping others achieve their highest potential and fulfill their dreams.

Tonya Claire Johnson is President and Founder of Vision’s Sown, An Ancient Baking Company and a Master’s candidate at Simmons College, in Boston. She brings to Web of Benefit, Inc. many talents, research skills, and small business ownership plus a fresh new perspective and voice to the issues of domestic violence.  Tonya is a survivor of intergenerational abuse, a little analyzed and complicated form of domestic violence.  Unrecognized, its damaging effects can persist for years and lead to neglect, causing self esteem to be destroyed.

As a mother, survivor, business owner and graduate student determined to break the cycle, Tonya embraces her Web of Benefit Board of Directors’ responsibilities as an opportunity to conduct meaningful research and outreach while raising awareness about often overlooked aspects of domestic violence.

Denise Lowey is a Senior Paralegal for Procter & Gamble, working on Gillette business in Boston. To further enhance her 25+ years in ‘corporate’ America, she has volunteered at a variety of charitable organizations, work which inspires and fulfills her immensely. Among her greatest accomplishments has been participating in two walking marathons to raise money for “Team in Training” with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She has also been a Big Sister Association of Greater Boston; has participated in Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger and has volunteered with City Year working at Casa Myrna Vasquez.

Denis received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dickinson College, a certificate of Paralegal Studies from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the Simmons College Graduate School of Management. Denise is the grateful daughter of two wonderful parents, the older sister to three younger sisters and the very, very proud auntie to seven nieces and nephews! She lives with her husband on the North Shore of Boston, in Wakefield.

Carole is the Community Program Director at The Second Step, where she has worked for more than seven years. As the Community Program Director, she provides direct service to approximately 100 survivors per year, oversees community outreach efforts, runs the donations and Holiday gifts drives, and is responsible for creating new programming. Her most recent passion is the launching of a pilot Mentoring Program for survivors of domestic violence.

 Before joining The Second Step, Carole worked at Pine Manor College for 16 years, in a variety of roles, including Associate Dean for Student Life.  In that role she was responsible for training and supervising professional and paraprofessional staff, having oversight of the judicial board, Wellness programming, and management of all aspects of residential life, including crisis management. While at Pine Manor, she raised two boys and attended Northeastern University graduate school part-time to earn a Masters in Counseling Psychology with a focus in College Student Development. Carole is married to a Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Pine Manor College.