Meet Your SHC Leadership Team
Robert Lippman, Chair, Robert.lippman@providence.org
Robert Lippman is currently an MSW for both Horizon Hospice and Providence Charity medicalclinic (associated with House of Charity). He’s currently enrolled in a doctorate program though Arizona State University with an emphasis behavioral health and management. Robert is home grown, born and raised in Spokane, WA and attended Northwest Christian High School and played Bigfoot basketball for
the Community Colleges of Spokane, Northwest Nazarene University and professionally in Australia. Robert’s influence for social work is rooted in an upbringing by a single mother, who had a passion for serving vulnerable peoples and advocating for injustice within defective systems. Robert views lifestyle change from both a population health management perspective and through the lens motivation
interviewing. Robert is dedicated toward enhancing the value of relationships, among the people we serve to the systems we navigate through. “Be completely humble and gentile; be patient, bearing with one another in love” EPH 4:2
Barry Barfield, Administrator, barrybarfield@gmail.com
Barry began his involvement with homelessness in 1976 as a volunteer at St. Joseph Center in Venice, California, where over the next eight years he served on its board and worked to open a poverty law legal clinic. In 1991 when his family moved to Spokane one of Barry’s first community engagements was to meet with Donna Hanson, the then director of Catholic Charities, to explore how he could get involved in Spokane. Since 1992 Barry has worked at Gonzaga Preparatory School seeking to help students walk with the marginalized. In 2010 Barry took over the Spokane Urban Plunge program which allows community members to learn about homelessness from encounters with those who are or have been houseless. Barry volunteers with Hospice of Spokane and holds a B.A. in Theology and a law degree.
Maurice Smith, Communications & Media Liaison, risingrivermedia@gmail.com (filling in while Rob Bryceson on leave)
The Executive Director of Rising River Media, a non-profit publishing and media company, Maurice is the author of several books on serving the homeless and marginalized, including 30 Days And 30 Ways Of Doing Good, written with articles contributed by members of the Spokane Homeless Coalition. He is a co-founder of Feed Spokane, where he served as Executive Director for five years, and has served as a working board member of a local men's homeless shelter. Maurice is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA-Classics) and an honors graduate of Denver Seminary (MA-Theology). Maurice & his wife Gale have been married for 40 years.
Julie Garcia, Co-Chair , jewelshelpinghandsspokane@gmail.com
The Executive Director of Jewels Helping Hands
Robert Lippman is currently an MSW for both Horizon Hospice and Providence Charity medicalclinic (associated with House of Charity). He’s currently enrolled in a doctorate program though Arizona State University with an emphasis behavioral health and management. Robert is home grown, born and raised in Spokane, WA and attended Northwest Christian High School and played Bigfoot basketball for
the Community Colleges of Spokane, Northwest Nazarene University and professionally in Australia. Robert’s influence for social work is rooted in an upbringing by a single mother, who had a passion for serving vulnerable peoples and advocating for injustice within defective systems. Robert views lifestyle change from both a population health management perspective and through the lens motivation
interviewing. Robert is dedicated toward enhancing the value of relationships, among the people we serve to the systems we navigate through. “Be completely humble and gentile; be patient, bearing with one another in love” EPH 4:2
Barry Barfield, Administrator, barrybarfield@gmail.com
Barry began his involvement with homelessness in 1976 as a volunteer at St. Joseph Center in Venice, California, where over the next eight years he served on its board and worked to open a poverty law legal clinic. In 1991 when his family moved to Spokane one of Barry’s first community engagements was to meet with Donna Hanson, the then director of Catholic Charities, to explore how he could get involved in Spokane. Since 1992 Barry has worked at Gonzaga Preparatory School seeking to help students walk with the marginalized. In 2010 Barry took over the Spokane Urban Plunge program which allows community members to learn about homelessness from encounters with those who are or have been houseless. Barry volunteers with Hospice of Spokane and holds a B.A. in Theology and a law degree.
Maurice Smith, Communications & Media Liaison, risingrivermedia@gmail.com (filling in while Rob Bryceson on leave)
The Executive Director of Rising River Media, a non-profit publishing and media company, Maurice is the author of several books on serving the homeless and marginalized, including 30 Days And 30 Ways Of Doing Good, written with articles contributed by members of the Spokane Homeless Coalition. He is a co-founder of Feed Spokane, where he served as Executive Director for five years, and has served as a working board member of a local men's homeless shelter. Maurice is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA-Classics) and an honors graduate of Denver Seminary (MA-Theology). Maurice & his wife Gale have been married for 40 years.
Julie Garcia, Co-Chair , jewelshelpinghandsspokane@gmail.com
The Executive Director of Jewels Helping Hands
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