Board of Directors

With over 50 years of experience in business and elected office, Robin essentially retired from political office in 2018.

In his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1998 to 2009, he was a member of various committees, including Armed Services, Agriculture, and Transportation. As a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, he advocated for the well-being of our military service members. He prioritized ensuring veterans’ access to quality healthcare and benefits and co-chaired multiple caucuses focused on philanthropy, special operations, and impact aid. He also has a background in education, having been a teaching fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Having lived most of his life in Concord, N.C., near the Cannon towel factories built by his family, he has been actively involved in various community roles, serving on the state Wildlife Resources Commission, drug task forces, and as chairman of the Prison Fellowship of North Carolina. Alongside his wife Barbara, they take pride in their two children and seven grandchildren.

During his retirement, his passion for ministry grew stronger, particularly in addressing the addiction crisis affecting our state and country. Inspired by his faith, he founded Bridge to 100 in 2020 to support faith-based residential recovery centers across all 100 North Carolina counties, aiming for complete recovery and restoration for those impacted by addiction. Bridge to 100 has now grown to have over 40 affiliated ministries all over the state. Between these agencies, this network offers over 1,000 low- or no-cost residential beds to individuals struggling with addiction. His passion for those in need of the gospel message and those in need of recovery only grows stronger to this day.

John Wesley Keziah is a pastor, public speaker, and the Executive Director of Ground 40 and Thirst Quenchers Ministries. As Executive Director and pastor, he has helped grow Ground 40 and Thirst Quenchers in both North and South Carolina.

Ground 40 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in the heart of Monroe, North Carolina. The heart behind the organization is to provide practical and spiritual guidance to men who are transitioning out of prison, out of homelessness, and even out of addiction. Ground 40 operates a four-phase step-up process for a successful reentry for their clientele.

Since 2018, Pastor Wesley Keziah has helped push the ministry in growth and in effectiveness, and they are currently on seven different properties.

He has studied theology, philosophy, hermeneutics, and substance abuse counseling at Southeastern Theological Seminary, and is best known for his powerful testimony of overcoming a 10-year heroin addiction.

Lori Feezor, a certified risk manager and attorney licensed in North Carolina and California, served as General Counsel and Vice President of Legal Affairs at New Hanover Regional Medical Center until 2018, remaining in an emeritus role until 2019 when she fully retired.

Immediately prior to joining NHRMC, she served as Assistant Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Duke University Health System. In previous roles as both outside and in-house counsel, she provided legal and risk management advice to a variety of health enterprises including academic medical centers, hospitals, physician groups, HMOs, PHOs, MSOs, wellness centers, and surgery centers. In addition, she served as adjunct faculty at East Carolina University for several years, where she taught health law.

She also directed the risk management program at the University of California–Davis Medical Center, where she was responsible for the litigation, insurance, and risk management functions of both the hospital and medical school.

Lori writes and edits the NC Patient and Provider Rights Guide, a resource manual produced by the NC Hospital Association with funding from the Duke Endowment. In addition, she has published several articles in professional journals and is a frequent national and statewide lecturer on various health-related topics.

In 2011, she was the recipient of the NC Bar Association Health Law Section’s Distinguished Service Award, an honor that had only been presented six other times. In 2016, Lori received the YWCA Women of Achievement award in business. She and her husband Allen are retired and have a farm in Brunswick County.

Russ Cambria serves as the Executive Director and CEO of Sandhills Adult & Teen Challenge, where he provides visionary leadership, organizational redevelopment, and strategic growth for one of the most rapidly expanding recovery ministries in the region.

A skilled executive with a proven record of revitalizing and advancing mission-driven organizations, Russ specializes in leading ministries and nonprofits through periods of transition—particularly those following long-term founders or executive directors.

Russ holds a Bachelor of Science in Pastoral Counseling and a Master of Arts in Leadership from the University of Valley Forge. His career reflects a consistent pattern of innovation, fiscal responsibility, and transformational leadership.

Before joining Sandhills Adult & Teen Challenge, Russ successfully led Buffalo Teen Challenge (NY) following the retirement of its 40-year director. Under his leadership, the organization was brought out of debt within one year and achieved profitability by year three. Later in his career, he served as a university registrar for six years, modernizing the department through technology upgrades and innovative record-keeping systems that enhanced the university’s operational efficiency.

Russ later served at the Adult & Teen Challenge USA corporate office, where he helped design and implement a new national accreditation strategy. He continues to serve on committees helping to continually improve these services globally.

Since joining Sandhills Adult & Teen Challenge in 2021, Russ has led the organization through a remarkable season of expansion—from two men’s centers to five locations across North and South Carolina, including the ministry’s first women’s program and a dedicated military specialization program.

Joshua Torbich is the CEO of Christian Recovery Centers, Inc. He also serves as the Chairman of the Brunswick County Opioid Task Force, and as President of the Bluegrass District of the national networking group Citygate. He holds a master’s degree in Education with an emphasis on business management and Christian leadership.

Josh’s ambitious and creative approach has played a major role in assisting Christian Recovery Centers, Inc. in becoming a significant resource in the Carolinas. Under Josh’s leadership this agency has been able to go from serving 12 individuals in a single location to serving more than 200 individuals with no-cost residential treatment, recovery, and re-entry services. His efforts in creating an innovative approach to substance use disorder treatment and recovery that incorporates the strengths of faith and science has helped thousands move from a place of suffering into a place of overall well-being.

In 2013 Josh found his life out of control due to a horrible alcohol and heroin addiction. He had reached a place in his life where he had little to no resources and was left with only the option of exploring whatever free resources would be made available to him.

As a recovered opioid user and alcoholic, Josh often brings in his own personal recovery experience to his other list of attributes. He is considered an expert in his field and is often called upon by traditional educational institutions and community groups to assist in education and to help raise awareness. As an ordained minister, Josh can often be found filling pulpits all across the country on Sunday mornings, sharing a message of God’s goodness, hope, and restoration.

He has made it his mission to reach people who have been ravaged by the illness of addiction and show them a new path to freedom. Creating opportunities for others to receive a new hope for the future is what drives him.

Karen has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Western Carolina University and a Master of Public Administration from Appalachian State University. She is a retired Human Services Director, serving over 30 years in social services agencies overseeing multi-million dollar budgets, public assistance programs, child welfare, adult and aging services, transportation, workforce development, veteran’s services, domestic violence shelter, jail re-entry programs, and behavioral health services.

She has served as a Director, Division Director, and Assistant Director with social services departments, and with the NC DHHS Division of Social Services as a Regional Program Representative serving multiple NC counties. During her government tenure, Karen specialized in working with federal, state, and local governments, faith-based organizations, law enforcement, courts, nonprofit agencies, elected officials, education organizations, and the private sector.

Karen has served on various community boards and agency initiatives including the Partnership for Children Executive Board, Mental Health Advisory Board, HUBB Strategic Planning Committee (Chair), No Child Hungry Task Force, The Open Door House Board, Community Child Protection/Child Fatality Prevention Team, Healthy Cabarrus Executive Committee, Find Help National Community Board of Advisors, United Way Board/Loaned Executive, Home and Community Care Block Grant Planning Council, Senior Center Advisory Board, Children Win Executive Board, Substance Use Network Governance Board, Phoenix Homes for Boys and Girls Board, and the Community Health Needs Assessment Planning Council. In 2012, she was recognized as the County Employee of the Year, and in 2021 she received the Ann Laukitis Champion for Children award.

Since retiring at the end of 2023, Karen has been consulting with the Bridge to 100 Network initiative, working with faith-based recovery centers to develop a faith- and science-informed recovery emergent design model that addresses well-being. Prior to this, she facilitated the Cabarrus HUBB Strategic Planning Committee and Cabarrus Dream Center, collaborating with nine community service sectors and UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work’s Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Laboratory to implement the Aspire multidimensional assessment tool in addressing health and social determinants. Karen facilitates strategic planning initiatives for urban departments of social services, Aspire implementation, and Servant Leadership and Managing Conflict workshops.

Gary M. Nelson, DSW, is Professor Emeritus and holder of the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emeritus positions and activities

• Member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Innovation Advisory Board
• Member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Law School’s Institute for Innovation Advisory Board
• Research and collective impact consultant with the NC Bridge to 100 Network

UNC and School of Social Work leadership (examples)

• Lead designer of the Bridge to 100 Self-Governance Model, funded by the North Carolina Collaboratory
• Co-chair of the committee to design and launch the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach
• Director Emeritus of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, introducing innovations across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors that enhance the well-being of families and communities
• Director Emeritus of the Family and Children’s Resource Program, a statewide child welfare education and capacity building program
• Director Emeritus of the Center for Aging Research and Educational Services, a statewide education, research, and capacity building program serving disabled and older adults
• Director Emeritus of the Rethinking Guardianship Initiative, a statewide collective impact initiative to strengthen the state’s guardianship program
• Leaders in Transition Program for the World Bank, Habitat International, and UN Development
• Director Emeritus of the Behavioral Health Resource Program, now BH Springboard
• Director Emeritus of the Green Plus Sustainable Development Program, Chamber of Commerce
• Associate Director Emeritus of the Jordan Institute for Families, Community Engagement

Selected publications

• Nelson, Gary M. (2018). “Integrative Leadership: Innovation from the Middle Space (TMS).” Practice Social Change. NTL.
• Nelson, Gary M. (2017). “Mary Parker Follett: Creativity and Democracy.” Human Services Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance, Vol. 41, No. 2, 178–185.
• Nelson, Gary M. (2002). Open System Management: Four Volume Series on Changing the Public Welfare Culture. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publications.
• Nelson, Gary M. (2000). Self-Governance in Communities and Families. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
• In process: Nelson, Gary M. (2025). Uncivil War and a New State: Direct Democracy and a Self-Governing People.