About Us
Our Mission
Honoring Amanda through drug education and awareness and awarding scholarships to students impacted by substance abuse.
Amanda’s Story
Amanda was a sweet, adorable little girl with a great laugh and a beautiful smile. She called me, “Mama.” We did everything together. She was in the Brownies and earned so many badges that she had two sashes. Amanda’s favorite shows were: Lion King, Batman, Air Bud, Free Willy and Sponge Bob. She loved all animals, but dogs were her passion. Her favorite desserts were Oreos and ice cream. Amanda wrote and drew many “books” when she was young and was an avid reader. She sang songs and didn’t realize that a lot of the words were wrong. We always thought that was funny.
Amanda followed her dad around and liked helping him with projects. She often asked him to make things out of wood for her or to draw her pictures of sharks and dinosaurs. …
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Board of Directors
CHris Klonowski
President
Chris earned an Associates Degree in Business Management from Stark State College in 1995. She worked with her husband, Scott, to start Klonowski Agency in 2001, and their second start-up, My1HR, in 2011. Chris served as the Corporate Secretary of My1HR from 2012 to 2018.
Chris started Amanda’s Angels in October of 2018, a year after the death of her daughter, Amanda, to raise money to award scholarships to students who have been impacted by substance abuse.
Chris resides in Tallmadge with her husband, Scott, youngest son, Joey and her yorkie, Sasha. Her mother-in-law, Kathy, also lives in Tallmadge.
Scott Klonowski
Vice President
Scott’s professional career began in 1993 working as an insurance agent. In 2001, he started Klonowski Agency, Inc., which he grew and successfully sold in 2014. In 2012, Scott started My1HR, which became one of the first software companies to successfully integrate with HealthCare.gov, enabling hundreds of thousands of people to gain access to affordable healthcare. Scott sold My1HR in January of 2019.
Scott enjoys reading, playing guitar, lifting weights, and following the Cleveland Indians. He lives with his wife Chris, son Joey, and dog Sasha. Scott’s greatest inspiration in life is his mother, Kathy, to whom he credits his strength and mental toughness.
Alicia M. clark
Treasurer
Alicia M. Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor specializing in chemical dependency assessments. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and her Master of Arts Degree in Community Counseling from The University of Akron in 1987 and 1989, respectively.
She began her career at The Community Health Center where she initially provided case management services for the Substance Abuse Mentally Ill (SAMI) Program and later moved into the assessment department to provide chemical dependency evaluations with adolescents and adults. From there she went on to work at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to provide evaluations in the pediatric psychiatry department for outpatient and inpatient referrals. Following Children's Hospital, she worked for 16 years at Summit County Public Health conducting chemical dependency assessments with youth who were detained in Summit County Juvenile Detention Facility.
Alicia retired in 2014 and now resides in Tallmadge with her husband of 30 years. They have one adult child whom they visit frequently in New York City.
Karen Campana Leppo
Secretary
Having retired from a career in health care to raise her family, Karen Campana Leppo has been working in the Corporate Offices of Leppo, Inc. since August 2000. She received a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from The Ohio State University in 1979 as well as a Master’s Degree in Hospital and Health Administration from Xavier University in 1984.
Karen has worked in several different areas of health care from critical care nursing to home health administration, most notably, she was Vice President for Patient Care of Providence Hospital in Sandusky, Ohio.
Over the years, Karen has been active in fund raising for many organizations including Co-chairing the Walsh Jesuit High School POWWOW, the Newman Center Capital Campaign, as well as a capital campaign for North East Ohio Medical College (NEOMED).
Karen and her husband, Glenn, have two grown sons, Michael (Margaret) and Andrew (Cassie). Together with their beloved Shih Tzu, Cocoa, Karen and Glenn live in Stow, Ohio.
Rob macdonald
Board Member
Rob MacDonald joined the BNY Mellon Legal Department’s Suspicious Activity Response Team (SART) in 2012, where he is a Managing Counsel and Managing Director. Rob also leads BNY Mellon’s VetNet Employee Resource Group as its Director of Global Outreach, and was a 2017 BNY Mellon Diversity & Inclusion Champion.
An Army ROTC scholarship commissionee, Rob is a graduate of the US Army’s Airborne and Air Assault Schools. As a lawyer and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (“JAG”), Rob served in Oklahoma, Korea, and at the Pentagon; his roles included military prosecutor, defense counsel, appellate counsel, and finally Pentagon Special Counsel under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, where he helped plan the Saddam Hussein trial and create the new Iraqi Constitution.
In 2006, Rob resigned from active duty as a Major to become a US Department of Homeland Security Assistant Chief Counsel for Immigration Litigation in Washington DC, while continuing to serve in the US Army Reserve as a Criminal Law Professor. He subsequently joined the US Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney (“federal prosecutor”) in the Southern District of Texas, and then in Las Vegas. He holds a degree in Business Administration from John Carroll University, a JD from the University of Akron, and a pristine 1992 Camaro Z/28 from Chevrolet.
John W. Clark
Board Member
John W. Clark has been a magistrate in the Stow Municipal Court since 1999. In his position as Magistrate, he manages the Court's civil docket, presides over traffic court, and conducts civil, criminal, and traffic trials and hearings.
Prior to joining the Court, he was a judicial attorney with the Ninth District Court of Appeals and practiced law in the area state and federal courts. Magistrate Clark is a graduate of St. Vincent- St. Mary High School.
He possesses an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice/Political Science from the University of Akron, and a Juris Doctor Degree (cum laude) from the University of Akron School of Law.
Magistrate Clark has been married for thirty years and has one child. He is a member of the Akron and Ohio State Bar Associations.