About the Director

Kathryn Kenith

Director, Life Coaching for Tomorrow’s Leaders Program (LCTL)

Kathryn is a community activist who has been involved with projects at Piedmont Park, the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Children's Healthcare Services of Atlanta and the Ronald McDonald House. She has a passion for working with teens and young adults, and has been mentoring teens for 15 years. She is certified Life Coach and strongly believes in helping others bring about positive change in their lives. Kathryn is also passionate about diversity--getting to know and celebrating the differences in others.

She has a sense of adventure and loves traveling, hiking, kayaking, music, reading, being with friends, and learning new things. Kathryn is currently learning to play the Native American Indian flute and African drum.

SWM Life Coach

Susan Henderson

Susan Henderson was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay-area. After high school and attending college she met and married Dr. Vernon Henderson and started a family. She worked in advertising at the Wall street Journal for several years before deciding to become a stay-at-home mother. In 1998 Susan and her family relocated to the Atlanta area for a job opportunity for her husband. In 2001 she became a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for DeKalb County and used her skills as a mother to compassionately fight for the rights primarily of the children and families involved. Susan is also a member of the SWM Board of Directors where she serves as Secretary.

SWM Life Coach

Stacy Lacroix

Stacy Lacroix is a National Account Executive at Get Married Media. She has a strong business background and specializes in marketing and sales. Stacy completed her bachelors degree in Communications at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After 10 years of professional experience managing urban promotions, marketing, and business development, Stacy continued her education and earned a masters degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. In addition to managing budgets in excess of $15 million, Stacy has consistently exceeded sales goals. Stacy has excelled in both the private and public sector. Stacy is committed to lending her creative talents to helping the organizations she’s involved with to raise funds and promote their mission(s). She is a member of the Board of Directors for REACH Complex and serves as a Life Coach for Students Without Mothers.

SWM Life Coach

Lynn Prime

Lynn has been involved with Students Without Mothers since 2006. Prior to joining the SWM Volunteer team Lynn worked for Delta Air Lines for 31 years as a flight attendant, training instructor, facilitator, and a personnel analyst and retired in 2004. Since retiring she has gone back to her first love, teaching children. She works as a substitute teacher as well as works part-time in the school clinic at her neighborhood elementary school. She is also President of the Stone Mountain–Lithonia Silhouette Chapter, an auxiliary group of wives of members of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. The Chapter is new but plans to become involved in various community service projects throughout the year, including supporting SWM in some capacity.

The mother of two successful adult sons, a stepdaughter, who is going to college in the Fall and the grandmother of a precious two-year-old granddaughter, Lynn’s life is full and rewarding. In her spare time, Lynn is an avid reader and is an active member of a ladies book club. She enjoys working-out and is learning to play golf. She is also an artist - whenever she can find the time to paint.

Lynn is a native New Yorker but has been an Atlantan for nearly 36 years and needless to say, she absolutely loves the city and its people.

SWM Life Coach

Susan Stine

Susan Stine is a Director of Development at Georgia State University, and has extensive experience working for and advising universities, non-profit organizations, and foundations on strategic planning and development issues. She earned a bachelors degree from Michigan State University and masters degrees from MIT and Ohio State University. Susan is also a member of the Board of Students Without Mothers. Susan enjoys coaching scholarship recipients on financial aid and curriculum issues, and navigating the higher education system.

SWM Life Coach

Ana Sanchez

Ana was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She traveled to the United States to continue her education. She completed her undergraduate degree in Boston, Massachusetts and continued on to complete her Juris Doctorate at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Prior to becoming a life coach, Ana worked throughout Latin America designing and directing projects for human rights and justice reform.

Ana is married and has two young sons. She loves volunteer work-- at the Church, schools, and in her community. She studied all the core life-coaching courses and completed an intense life coach leadership-training program. She is passionate about coaching teens and college students with attention deficit. Ana chose coaching over being an attorney because she loves how connecting youth and the flexibility, which allows her to be a full time mom.

Other facts about Ana:
She speaks Spanish and English-- and can understand a bit of French.
She is a certified scuba diver.
She has two dogs.
She loves to cook.

SWM Life Coach

Robert Sylvester

Robert is originally from Canton, Ohio. He currently resides in Asheville, NC and has lived in Rochester, NY and Richmond, VA while employed by Eastman Kodak Company as well as Atlanta, GA while employed as a Channel Manager for Ricoh.

He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration, a Bachelors Degree in Management, and an Associate Degree in Accounting. Robert is a Certified Yoga Teacher and is a graduate of the CTI Coaches Training program.

He played high school football and baseball and enjoys playing golf, hiking, boating, gardening, mountain biking, skiing, traveling, going to concerts and plays, and reading. He is active in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.

Robert believes that education and gaining knowledge is the key to unlocking ones potential and personal power and that ones service and contribution correlates with ones rewards in life. Each of us must develop the ability to live with change and uncertainty, and develop the ability to delay immediate gratification for the sake of long-range goals.