PARTNERS IN CAREERS - Key Persons


Anny Alvizures

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant
  • Employment Specialist
Anny Alvizures is a Program Assistant at Partners in Careers and has been working at PIC since August of 2023. She is passionate about giving everyone choices and resources to meet their goals. In her free time, she loves to spend quality time with her family and volunteering at her church. One of her favorite quotes is "live your best, and act your best and think your best each day, for there may not be tomorrow".

Brett Blechschmidt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Associate Superintendent and COO Vancouver Public Schools

Christine Zabel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Executive Director

Damien Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Boys and Girls Clubs of SW WA

Dominique Merriweather

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Farzana NikPoor

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist

Greg Rhodes

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Irina Tracy

Job Titles:
  • Job Developer
  • Specialist With PIC
Irina Tracy, employment specialist with PIC. She moved to the United States from Russia; received her bachelor's from a University in Russia and a master's degree from the University of Oregon. As an employment specialist, she guides and supports immigrants and refugees in becoming self-sufficient and employed. Irina enjoys working with people and seeing them accomplish their goals. In her freetime, Irina enjoys the outdoors, hiking, camping, kayaking and skiing with her twin sons and beloved husband. Irina also enjoys gardening, photography and art.

Josh Jones

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Program Director at Partners
Josh Jones is the Program Director at Partners in Careers, having started with PIC as an Employment Specialist in January of 2018. One of his favorite quotes is by JFK "all of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents" which is reflected in Josh's passion to address the underlying causes of intergenerational poverty. Josh has worked in many of PIC's programs, including both in high school and out of high school youth programming, homeless Veteran housing, and Roots to Road's therapeutic workforce reintegration farming, among others.

Kegan Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist
  • Specialist at Partners

LaDonna Langwell

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist

Lisa Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • Human Resource Manager Impact / ES

Mark Sohm

Job Titles:
  • VIW Prevention Program Manager Legacy Health Systems

Mary Nicholson

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager

Maryam Azizpour

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist
  • Specialist at Partners

Nadiia Babukh

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist

Nicole Quenzer

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant
  • Specialist at Partners

Russ McGraw

Job Titles:
  • Board Vice Chair / Director of Human Resources Humane Society for SW Washington

Sasha Cheban

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist

Sharif Burdzik - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board

Sharon Pesut

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Executive Director at Partners
Sharon Pesut is the Executive Director at Partners in Careers having started with PIC as the Operations Manager in 2011. She is passionate about connecting people to resources and addressing the root causes of poverty.

Teresa Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Accounting

Uliana Lomakovska

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist

Vic Chancellor

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Volodymyr Shatilov

Job Titles:
  • Employment Specialist