As a healthcare administrator with 30 years of direct experience in healthcare, Camerone has had the good fortune of working in every aspect of the healthcare industry, including research, patient care, and education. He has spent the majority of his career working in academic and public healthcare systems and believes that it is essential that healthcare organizations maintain the highest level of integrity and trust.

Before joining our board, Camerone has spent many years volunteering with several community-based organizations, including with OSCS for 3 years prior to the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic. He believes that one of the greatest gifts that you can have in life is to be able to give back to your community, something that he credits OSCS with providing. In his spare time, Camerone enjoys exercise, investing, and exploring new places.

Katie has spent 20+ years and counting working in affordable housing development, specifically working with nonprofit organizations on the development of new housing and preservation of existing housing. She is particularly drawn to the work, projects and organizations that can most effectively support and serve individuals with the lowest incomes and highest potential housing barriers. She looks forward to the opportunity to contributing her technical affordable housing knowledge to OSCS’s growth, evolution, and success. At the same time, Katie humbly aims to broaden her perspective and knowledge on the hard work that community-based organizations such as OSCS do to positively impact its community and individual lives.

Katie has always integrated volunteering into her life in various ways. In addition, to her OSCS Board service, she is currently a volunteer English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom instructor with Lyndale Neighborhood Association (LNA) in Minneapolis and hopes that work can also be an asset to OSCS.

Katie is a native of the Twin Cities area but spent multiple years in both Washington DC and Chicago and returned to the area in 2017. She has a graduate degree in Urban Planning from the University of Minnesota.

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Martha joined the OSCS board in 2021. She first got involved with OSCS 10 years ago when she offered a weekly spirituality circle for OSH shelter residents, which she was inspired to offer after working with adults experiencing homelessness in Tacoma, WA. She is honored to serve on the board and is eager to discern how the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church congregation can keep supporting all the good work that OSCS does in the community. She is most passionate about how OSCS walks alongside community members in its programs in dignity-affirming ways, equipping folks with the skills they need for resilience and agency in their lives. She is inspired by the ways OSCS has worked hard to adapt and reimagine its programs to serve the expressed needs of its students and residents during the pandemic.

Martha has served as a pastor at Our Saviour’s since 2017. She brings a discerning spirit, a passion for antiracism and justice work, and congregational and community connections to the board. She lives in North Minneapolis with her husband Sam and 2 children.

Jon Clevenger is currently a Vice President of Commercial Lending at Bridgewater Bank, specializing in financing affordable housing. Over his career he has gained experience financing and investing in affordable housing, as well as developing. Prior to Bridgewater, Jon was a Vice President of Development for Volunteers of America National Services and Vice President of Affordable Housing Lending at US Bank.

Before joining our board, Jon spent many years volunteering with several community-based organizations and housing developers. Jon is passionate about housing issues and hopes that his professional experience will help further the OSCS mission.

Travis wanted to join this board due to the fact that his experience with helping individuals that experienced hardships in their life were assisted by OSCS, by being housed and helped to stabilize their lives. His professional life has been to serve those that needed hope and guidance to services that would assist them in their life changes, one of those services Travis utilized was OSCS and they showed care and compassion throughout.

Born in a Christian household in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jireh has always been passionate about serving others in any way possible. He is new to OSCS as an organization, but he is not new to the fantastic work OSCS has been doing for the community. Jireh is a member of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, a non-profit organization that partners with organizations like OSCS locally and worldwide to serve the community. Jireh is excited and eager to learn more about the OSCS and the impact it has been making in changing the lives of ordinary people locally and those who come from abroad and make our city their home. Jireh comes with an extensive amount of experience in fundraising and relationship building. Jireh is inspired daily by his wife and their two children. In his free time, Jireh enjoys playing basketball and practicing his Minnesota slang words such as Uff-da, Dontcha, and You-Betcha.

Fowsa Sabtow (she/her) is a social worker and Program Director at Horizon Mental Health & Rehabilitative Services in Minneapolis, where she oversees adult outpatient psychotherapy, ARMHS, and outreach linking people experiencing homelessness with ongoing care. With more than a decade in community-mental-health leadership and driven by a belief in “lifting as we climb,” 

Fowsa focuses on empowering immigrant and newcomer communities to achieve lasting wellness through accessible, dignified services and strong cross-sector partnerships. She joins the OSCS Board with practical operational insight and an unwavering commitment to equity and community uplift.

Rebecca first learned about Our Saviour’s Community Services as a legal aid lawyer in Minneapolis, where she worked with many community members who experienced housing instability, as well as many immigrant community members learning English as a second language. As a member of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Rebecca has continued to learn about the important work of OSCS.

Since 2012, Rebecca has worked as an immigration attorney at nonprofit organizations, focusing on advancing the rights of immigrant children and youth. Before law school, Rebecca served in the Peace Corps in a Costa Rican community on the Nicaraguan border, working specifically with young people. Through these professional experiences, Rebecca has witnessed how poverty, race, immigration status, language, and other factors can be used to oppress and exclude. She looks forward to working with the board, staff, and impacted community members to strengthen and support OSCS’s transformative work.

Rebecca lives in South Minneapolis with her husband and two small children.

Steve came from Ann Arbor, MI, in 1978, and has worked as physician at Abbott NW Hospital emergency department and also in primary care on Chicago Avenue South in the 1980’s, caring for the residents of the Phillips and Central neighborhoods. In the 1990’s and 2000’s, in primary care at Cedar Riverside People’s Center, he had many patients with unstable housing, living indoors/outdoors all year long in tenuous circumstances. A walk-around with St. Stephen’s Shelter Outreach to engage those unhoused was eye opening and compelling.

He fell in love with OSH shelter residents and staff in 2012, when Cedar Riverside People’s Center partnered with OSH shelter to provide an urgent care clinic every Tuesday evening at the OSH shelter. It was great! Although it ended in 2015, his love for the OSH community was born and continues to this day. Steve has been regularly volunteering nearly 2 years at OSH shelter. Every time he is there he is at his 2nd home away from his Seward neighborhood home. He is looking forward to bringing experience in health care and a passion for knowing and helping others, to OSCS for many years to come.