Esther Angell is currently a Vice President at Cargas Systems. She’s originally from Oklahoma but crossed the Red River spending over 10 years in the oil and gas industry in Houston. During that time, she worked in for both service and manufacturing companies in a variety of leadership roles. While in Houston Esther served on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Energy Network and supported various mentoring and volunteer programs. She relocated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania continuing her work in manufacturing, but for non-energy industries. She currently leads a team in the technology space, leveraging her background in marketing, sales, product management, and business development. This broad experience enables Esther to find connections and commonalities across business and industry. It’s also one of the reasons she’s an active, member, mentor and speaker at Women in Energy, The Technology Council of Central PA, and Leadership Lancaster.

Elisa is originally from New Jersey where she spent her early years moving up and down the coast of the state due to her father’s employment. She and her husband, Mike, who met in college, have made Lititz their home for 16 years now.
Elisa holds a Master of Arts degree in Special Education and a Master of Arts degree in ESL. After 15 years of teaching English and Literature to students with special needs, she retired in 2014 from Lebanon School District. During her career, Elisa assumed many professional roles including serving as Treasurer for the Lebanon Education Association Union, Special Education Department Coordinator, and Lebanon Valley College student teacher mentor to name just a few.
In 2015 while searching for a volunteer opportunity, Elisa read an article about Meals on Wheels and met with the Volunteer Coordinator, who was actually retiring from her position. A day later, she was offered the position of Volunteer Manager! Elisa served Meals on Wheels in that capacity, as well as Director of Programs and Services briefly, for three years.
During that time, she created the organization's first Volunteer Handbook, created documentation to become a PA Waiver vendor, systematized and documented the volunteer scheduling process, served on the Board of Meals on Wheels of Pennsylvania, developed relationships with other non-profits and local businesses, created the Refugee Job Training program, formalized relationships with Intellectual Disabilities organizations, piloted and oversaw the development of The Social Call visitation program and the seasonal cleaning volunteer program, and communicated with hundreds of volunteers on a daily basis.
Elisa left her position from Meals on Wheels in September 2018 but is thrilled to be returning as a board member to support an organization that she is still quite passionate about. In her spare time, Elisa enjoys dog walking and pet sitting, traveling, watching movies, antiquing, and spending quality time with family and friends.

Nikelle is a Lancaster County native and graduate of Penn State University. She is an IT Professional for over 22 years’ experience in various industries. Her journey includes experience consulting and managing projects that span the spectrum of IT services including: software system implementation, business intelligence, infrastructure consolidation, software development, process and systems improvement, security and business continuity. Working with clients in Non-Profits, Federal & State Government, K-12 Education, Gaming, Agriculture, and a large multi-site Church provides her with broad organizational experience. Nikelle has a passion for using data analysis to transform organizations by providing executives with data informed, actionable strategies to make informed business decisions.

She resides in Lititz with her husband (Harry), 18-year-old son (Fisher) and golden retriever (Tensley). She is the Director of Client Success at Trout CPA for that past 2 ½ years assisting clients to optimize their accounting systems and operations.

Dorothy is the founder of Rafiki Africa, a community empowerment and economic development organization that serves in Kenya. She’s also the co-owner of Rafiki Shoppe, a Social Enterprise that specializes in African Food and products sold in the USA.
She has over 15 years of Social Entrepreneurship experience and Non-profit leadership. She is committed to initiatives that serve the needs of children, girls and youths around the world and mentors several youths and girls. She’s an advocate for the Church’s role in justice and poverty alleviation.

Dorothy holds a degree in Business Administration with a focus in Social Enterprise and Social Impact Strategy. She volunteers her time advising and mentoring new business owners. She also holds degrees in Nursing and serves in different capacities as needed.

Dorothy grew up in Kenya and has traveled extensively. She is multilingual and is a certified medical Swahili translator. She enjoys travelling, cooking, athletics and meeting new people. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Roger.

Becki is the Owner and Lead Marketing Strategist of her own marketing consulting company, BFellin Studio. She is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years of industry experience, including 6 years in a leadership role. At BFellin Studio, Becki focuses on helping clients tackle a variety of marketing challenges, including: strategy, website optimization, copywriting, and research. Becki’s career path has been wonderfully varied – spanning print marketing at Family Circle magazine in New York City and digital sales at Comcast.com in Philadelphia as well as small non-profit organizations in professional education and entertainment. During her time as the Director of Marketing at The Appell Center for the Performing Arts in downtown York, Becki led the department in alignment with strategic goals of audience development, community engagement and financial stability.

Originally from Bucks County, Becki made her forever home in Lancaster back in 2015. Becki currently resides in the Landisville area with her husband and two young sons. In her spare time, she loves sketching, painting, or dabbling in a home DIY project.

Sandra Mayers is currently the ERP Manager at Lancaster-Lebanon IU13.

She relocated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1998 and has served in both staff and volunteer board roles in local community organizations including United Way of Lancaster County, Occupational Development Center, and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster.

Her degrees in English and Journalism brought her to Lancaster as the Director of Communications for the United Way of Lancaster County, but since then she has discovered her passion for technology and project management. She has served in management roles at several PA companies leading developer teams and implementing business software. Her personal passions include knitting, gardening and reading.

Sandra lives with her husband Tim in their empty nest in Conestoga, PA. Her children, Anna and Connor, are off at college getting ready to change the world.

Gina was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently attends HACC’s nursing program. She volunteers at Meals on Wheels multiple times a week through her job with one of our partnering organizations. In her free time, Gina enjoys zip lining, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

Stephanie Sadowski Zeigler (she/her) is a native of the Scranton area who has been calling central Pennsylvania home for nearly a decade. She is currently managing editor of content for LNP|LancasterOnline, where she oversees the reporting and editing staff. Stephanie was previously digital editor for LancasterOnline, after spending several years in both digital and print publishing with PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg and more than a decade with The (Scranton) Times-Tribune in editing and design.

Stephanie became interested in Meals on Wheels Lancaster through her work in the 2022 Core Class of Leadership Lancaster, where her community action team’s focus was on community engagement and volunteerism. Food equity and food resources have long been a personal interest, since her days volunteering at a local food kitchen and food pantry in middle and high schools.

Her career roots are in words and art, having spent many years in design and graphic art, as well as copy editing and pagination. She has led seminars and training on topics from social media engagement to SEO in digital publishing, as well as written social media guidelines and best practices in news gathering. Stephanie graduated from Albright College in Reading, Berks County, in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theater.

Stephanie resides in Camp Hill with her husband, Brendan Zeigler, with three children: her teen and preteen, Jenna and Cay, and his grade-school daughter, Olivia. They also have a German Shepherd/husky puppy, Aurora, and intermittent fish.

Tom is a recently retired business executive who worked for over 25 years in the finance organizations of several major international companies. Most recently, at the Hershey Company, he was their Senior Director of Business Development where he led and managed the acquisition and integration of several other confectionery companies. Prior to Hershey, he did similar work for Unilever and International Paper in New York City.
After reading an article in the local newspaper a couple of years ago about Meals on Wheels of Lancaster, Tom became a volunteer driver and quickly became hooked on the good work that the organization does every day. Now, as a member of its Board of Directors, he hopes to help MOW by bringing his business and finance experience to bear on the challenges that face the organization.
Tom holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.