Love Our Team – Chad Johnson
In honor of Presidents Day today, we thought it was a great day to show our love for our Board President! Please meet Chad Johnson! Chad and his family learned about GiGi's from a nurse when their daughter Mila was born. They have been part of the Playhouse since 2013...
Love Our Team – Paige Kelly & Shannon Herra
If you've participated in our GiGiFIT program, you've most likely met Paige and Shannon. They are the amazing GiGiFIT Program Leaders. They are often assisted by Physical Therapy students from St Ambrose. Paige Kelly is a Physical Therapist for Genesis Outpatient Pediatric Therapy (GO Peds) and as a sibling of...
Love Our Team – Anna Carmichael
This team member deserves a special triple A membership with all the miles she puts on her car coming to GiGi's programs and events. Her daughter Abby won the Participant of the Year Award at the 2022 Gala because they attend every program possible even though they live outside of...
Love Our Team – Brett Seitz
Earlier this week we shared some love for our St Ambrose Interns. Today we're back to our board members! Please meet Brett Seitz! He and his family have been part of GiGi's since 2016 and he joined the board in 2019. Brett works for Ascentra Credit Union and brings his...
Love Our Team – Cassie, Maude, and Jaide
If you've been following along, you've seen that during the month of February, we've been showing some love for our team on social media and in our blog. So far we've highlighter a few board members and program leaders. We'd be amiss if we didn't highlight our spring interns. This...
Love Our Team – Misty Dais
The second Saturday of the month here at GiGi's is our LMNOP day. Language, Music N' Our Peeps is a wonderful program for our younger friends that is an interactive and engaging program designed to guide parents and young children through learning basic sign language and other forms of communication...
Love Our Team – Liz Webster
As mentioned in a post earlier today Liz Webster is a co-leader for our Teen Tastic & Fantastic Friends programs. She is just getting started in this role so many of our friends may not have met her yet! Here's a good opportunity to learn more about her. Liz works...
Love Our Team – Amanda Ramirez
As an organization that is 99% volunteer run our Program Leaders are a big part of our team. Amanda & Vada during tutoring Today we'd like you to meet Amanda Ramirez. Amanda has been volunteering here at GiGi's since the beginning of 2020. That spring she began tutoring literacy and...
Love Our Team – Kitty McSparin
Aside from showing our love and appreciation for the many people that make the magic happen here at GiGi's, one reason we are doing the Love Our Team series is because we have a number of team members that many of our families and supporters have not met. Kitty McSparin...
Love Our Team – Kathy Kuhnen
Today we're doing two team highlights for the Love Our Team series. First up....Kathy Kuhnen! Kathy & Amelia during tutoring Kathy is a retired teacher from Erie Community School District. She serves on our board of managers and also as our literacy coordinator. She was a Reading Specialist for 35...
Love Our Team – Jenny Juehring
Today we are showing some love for Jenny Juehring! Jenny is board member here at GiGi's and her day job is with Lane & Waterman LLP. She heard about GiGi's from a coworker, Tim Gulbranson. Tim was a former board member. Jenny joined the board in 2020 while we were...
Love Our Team – Nathan Kessler
As many of you may know we only have 2 paid staff. The rest of our team are all volunteers! That includes board members, interns, programs leaders and more. We asked a group of key volunteers to provide some insight into their lives, reasons why they’re involved, and a fun...