Hopebound Staff

Terrill brings a wealth of diverse experience spanning the nonprofit, government, for-profit, and healthcare sectors, amassing two decades of influential leadership roles. Throughout her career, she has been a steadfast advocate for youth, military families, and underserved communities. Her unwavering commitment centers on the belief in the strength-based approach, emphasizing the importance of providing high-quality, culturally relevant mental health services to empower youth and families to reach their full potential.

Terrill has held significant leadership positions within nonprofit social service organizations, demonstrating her profound expertise in community psychology, with a focus on community engagement, strategic planning, and leadership. Hopebound’s unwavering mission to secure high-quality, accessible, affordable, and culturally relevant mental health resources for youth from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities resonate deeply with Terrill. Her dedicated focus is now channeled into amplifying the impact of Hopebound alongside an enthusiastic and dedicated team.

Armed with a B.S. degree in Human Development (with a specialization in Child and Adolescent development) and a master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Harvard University, Terrill wholeheartedly embraced the belief from an early age that young people and families in underserved or marginalized communities should not be constrained by resource limitations tied to their geographical locations or societal constraints.  This steadfast conviction has been a driving force behind her entire career, characterized by a lifelong commitment to service and advocacy.

Beyond her professional commitments, Terrill enjoys spending quality time with family, indulging in travel, including her husband, William, and her college son, Raynard, who is currently a student at Xavier University. Join her and the passionate Hopebound team in their unwavering pursuit of ensuring that every child gains access to critical mental health support, while simultaneously building a community of skilled and diverse clinicians equipped to handle the needs of diverse youth populations.

As Chief Community Officer, Tenijah Hamilton stewards the growth and development of the Hopebound community through relationship building and partnership cultivation. A seasoned strategist and storyteller, Tenijah is also charged with building out the narrative framework of the organization to further evangelize the important work Hopebound undertakes.

Since earning her Bachelors in Mass Communications, Creative Writing and Film and Media studies from the University of West Georgia, Tenijah has worked at the intersection of youth and social impact. Most recently she led the very first youth facing program for NOVA on PBS, the longest running primetime science documentary series, further cementing her dedication to empowering the next generation.

In addition to her work at Hopebound, Tenijah hosts and produces a podcast called Bring Birds Back about conservation efforts by formal and citizen scientists that are impacting birds, through the lens of intersectionality and environmental justice. In her spare time she can be found hanging out with her partner Ryan and their very chatty cat Aotearoa, in Atlanta where they live.

Ian brings over a decade of experience in education and nonprofit management with a strong focus on operations, team culture, project and event management, and executive support. Ian began their career in the classroom, working as an English teacher at the high school and college level (and briefly at the early childhood and elementary level), but they fell in love with all things operations during their tenure as Chief of Staff for Teach For America Memphis, where they did everything from leading an office move and design project to revamping and designing all-team engagements like staff meetings and retreats. Outside of that work, Ian helped raise Teach For America Nashville’s alumni engagement efforts to the second highest in the network during their tenure as Manager of Alumni Engagement, acted as founding Director of College Counseling at Carver Collegiate in New Orleans, and taught for City University of New York’s CUNY Start program. Most recently, Ian has served as a chief of staff consultant through vChief, working with nonprofit clients like Jeremiah Program and Teach For America on drafting and communicating COVID-19 policies and return to office plans, designing and managing each stage of the hiring and onboarding processes, and project managing multimillion-dollar grants.

Ian is motivated by creating a work culture where everyone feels joyful and open to bringing their whole selves to the table, where humor and fun thrive, and where folks feel known and loved within operational systems, which is why they are so excited to join the Hopebound team. Hopebound’s mission and vision immediately inspired Ian; growing up queer in the South, strong mental health supports would have been revolutionary, and Ian dreams of a world where all kids– especially those most marginalized– have the tools to best love and care for themselves.

As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Ian is passionate about our empowerment and advocacy; one of Ian’s proudest accomplishments (pun intended) was starting two first-in-the-district Gay Straight Alliances in Georgia (as a student) and Tennessee (as a teacher). Ian also enjoys cooking, horror films, food and wine, drag queens and drag scenes, and writing everything from poetry to screenplays to their first novel.