Steven Dawson

President
(718) 402-7471
SDawson@PHInational.org

As its founding President, Steven Dawson has guided PHI for 15 years. Under his guidance, PHI has grown into a $9 million organization with a staff of 45, working to secure quality care through quality jobs for our nation’s direct-care workforce. He serves on the Board of Directors for Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), PHI’s affiliated $28 million home care agency, which employs 1100 paraprofessionals in New York City and is the largest worker cooperative in the country.

Steven also chairs the Independence Care System (ICS), New York’s first Medicaid-funded chronic care demonstration program for adults living in their homes with disabilities. He has authored several landmark publications on low-wage and health care employment issues. Prior to his tenure at PHI, he founded the Industrial Cooperative Association (now The ICA Group).

Jodi Sturgeon

Chief Financial & Operating Officer
(718) 928-2037
JSturgeon@PHInational.org

Jodi M. Sturgeon is PHI’s Chief Financial & Operating Officer, responsible for the overall management of PHI’s administrative and financial operations.

Jodi has over ten years of nonprofit management experience as vice president for a statewide nonprofit that partnered with PHI and others to create Quality Care Partners, a home health care agency in New Hampshire. She also served as a founding board member of that organization and is a past board member of PHI. Jodi has a BS in accounting. She did her graduate work at Southern New Hampshire University, with a concentration in nonprofit finance that included an advanced certificate in governmental finance.