Lance Gannett 

Board President (Present - 2024)

A retired grocery and building industry executive, Lance has been a Taylor House volunteer since 2011. He learned about the mission and vision of The Taylor House while volunteering as a court appointed special advocate (CASA) for Child Advocates of Placer County. Taylor House founder Lisa Peat was Lance’s CASA trainer and, as they collaborated, Lisa shared The Taylor House story. He was hooked!

As the father of two girls, Lance was already sympathetic to the challenges young women often face. What he saw in court, and what he heard about The Taylor House vision and mission, made him anxious to get involved. It didn’t take long for Lance to begin volunteering during the remodeling of the property. He also supports the nonprofit at its various fundraisers, and is the unofficial handyman at The Taylor House. Lance became a member of the Taylor House board of directors in 2014, served as a board member from 2020 to 2021, and is now in his second
term as president.

Kate Bowers​

Board Member (Present - 2024)

After graduating from San Diego State, Kate moved to the Sacramento area where she spent over 20 years in the Staffing and Corporate Recruiting industry. Having been an avid gardener and plant fanatic since she was young, Kate switched careers  by going back to school to study Landscape Design at Sierra College, and now owns her own Roseville-based design business, serving clients throughout Northern California. She has lead charitable landscape renovation projects with Make a Wish and Wellness Within, and formed her own volunteer group Happy Spaces that provides landscape makeovers for families with special needs children as well as for kids going through medical treatment. Kate met Lisa Peat after being invited to redesign the Taylor House landscape during the remodel of the college apartment and since then has been a supporter of the organization. 

Tracy Gorman

Secretary (Present - 2024)

Tracy Gorman is a 20 year veteran with Wells Fargo Bank and is currently an Administrative Assistant who supports two District Managers and over 15 branches. Tracy has held a variety of positions within the company over the course of her tenure. Through Wells Fargo’s volunteerism projects, Tracy was introduced to the Taylor House and was immediately drawn to the mission of what the Taylor House does to encourage, educate and develop the young women it supports. Tracy has enjoyed volunteering for a number of projects over the last few years supporting Taylor House and is excited to hold a more involved role of the organization on the board. Tracy is a resident of Rocklin where she enjoys spending any free time she has with her dear friends and family.

Gene Glaser

Treasurer (Present - 2024)

After 50 years as both a partner and an independent CPA, Gene has almost retired. Throughout his career in Contra Costa, Monterey, and Placer Counties, he has been involved in each community with an emphasis on programs for at-risk children.  He was a board member of YMCA in Contra Costa County and YMCA in Monterey County where he was treasurer and board president as well as board member and treasurer of nonprofit Mariposa Hall, a low-rent location for a conglomerate of nonprofits.  In Placer County, where he moved in 2005, he has been a CASA and Mentor and where he met Taylor House founder Lisa Peat.  He also is a volunteer tax-preparer for AARP Tax-Aid for low-income seniors in Lincoln.  Gene has also volunteered over the years to financially guide local nonprofits, some from their inceptions, helping to prepare paperwork, learning systems and finance to begin their journey.  His passion is his motorcycle, which is now a trike, and taking long trips out of state to see old friends and family or to vacation with his wife Bernadette.  He enjoys barbecuing for friends and family and smoking a good cigar.  Gene has two children, Matt and Amy, and four grandchildren who grace his life regularly. 

Pam Kerr

Board Member (Present - 2024)

Pam graduated from Sacramento State University with a degree in marketing and worked in thefood sales industry for several years before leaving to raise her three children. She has been a volunteer at different levels during the 32 years that she has lived in Roseville and heard about
the Taylor House through friends. After learning more about the Taylor House and its Mission, she realized that she needed to jump in with both feet. Pam has been a volunteer at the Taylor House since 2022 and has thoroughly enjoyed working with the girls. She has developed
relationships with the girls and everyone else who makes the Taylor House such a wonderful organization. Pam became a member of the Board of Directors in 2024. Pam enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

Leslie McNeal

Board Member (Present - 2024)

Leslie is a graduate from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo earning her degree in Psychology and minoring in Gerontology and Biology. While completing her degree she worked with Visiting Angels to provide in-home care for the elderly and people with paraplegia. In three years of working with these individuals she realized her calling was to help people, but ultimately the elderly population in a health or medically conscious environment. She moved back to her hometown of Sacramento after graduating in 2020. She is currently working for a neurosurgeon in the Sacramento area and plans to soon go back to earn her Masters degree in Nursing to become an Adult Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner as she specializes in the care of the aging and elderly. She looks forward to this opportunity to widen the scope of the people she is able to offer help and assistance to. She is also excited to be the first Junior Board Member in the Taylor House history. She will bring a giving heart and a fresh perspective to the table to support the current women of the Taylor House in flourishing, and the ones to come. 

                          KATHRYN MATHEWS,  

                           Board Member (Present- 2025) 

Kathryn became a CASA volunteer in 2001 while working as a corporate executive in the Bay Area for a high-tech company. Her experience advocating for foster youth led her to switch careers to the nonprofit sector and join the CASA program of Placer County in 2007 as Program Director. For almost twenty years, her extensive customer service and operations background helped assign a CASA to every foster child. She dedicated herself to improving outcomes for youth and assisted with expanding the operation. Before joining California CASA, she was the Executive Director for El Dorado County where she was instrumental in developing an online training tool that doubled the number of trained volunteers and is now deployed and used by several other CASA programs throughout California. Kathryn began serving The Taylor House during its inception in 2011 and has been supporting us ever since.

---

To donate your time, money or services:
Contact our Executive Director, Chime Costello, at 916.778.8533 or [email protected]
Mail Donations to The Taylor House | P.O. Box 853 | Roseville, CA  95678
Supporting the Taylor House, Inc., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. ​EIN 46-0748514