UNUMB CENTER - Key Persons


Adrianna McCuller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President, Autism Legal Resource Center

Alexis Short

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Director of Strategy, 37 Gears

Anne Marie Green

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Charles "Chaz" Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Owner, Parlour 818 Realtor, the Moore Company

Courtney Carrick

Job Titles:
  • Social Skills Groups Manager

Dan Unumb, Esq.

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founder and President of the Autism Legal Resource Center
  • President, Autism Legal Resource Center
Dan Unumb serves as the founder and President of the Autism Legal Resource Center, which develops and protects the legal rights of people with autism and providers who serve them.

Dr. Katie Franke

Job Titles:
  • Director of Clinical Services
  • Certified Behavior Analyst
Dr. Katie Franke is a licensed psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst at The Unumb Center for Neurodevelopment. As Director of Clinical Services, she oversees the ABA, psychology, and pre-employment transition services, ensuring the quality of clinical programs and ongoing staff development. She also conducts comprehensive psychological evaluations for developmental disabilities and provides individual, family, and group interventions for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. Her particular areas of interest include early childhood assessment, as well as the use of applied behavior analysis principles to address food refusal and challenging behavior in children. Dr. Franke obtained her Ph.D. in school psychology at the University of South Carolina in 2018, and she completed her doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. At Kennedy Krieger, she completed rotations in the Pediatric Developmental Disorders and Pediatric Feeding Disorders program. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Autism Academy of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina.

Emily Gallo

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing & Development

Jaime White

Job Titles:
  • Director of ABA Services

Kathleen Herald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Kaytlin Stegall


Kelley Desjarlais

Job Titles:
  • Client Services Coordinator
  • Member of the Administrative Team

Kelley Hoffer

Job Titles:
  • Licensed Psychologist

Kerry Esposito

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Administrative Team

Lorri Shealy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chief Executive Officer, the Council of Autism Service Providers

Lorri Unumb

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer at the Council of Autism Service Providers
January 2016 - Lorri Unumb - Speaker at Guardian ad Litem conference on autism issues in family courts in Columbia, South Carolina

Matt Culler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Pre - Construction Manager, Contract Construction

Misti Raman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Dentist, Irmo Smiles

Rachel Brosz

Job Titles:
  • Job Training Manager

Ross Shealy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Shanna Poston - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance
  • Director of Finance and Administration
  • Director of Finance & Administration at the Unumb Center for Neurodevelopment
Shanna Poston serves as the Director of Finance & Administration at the Unumb Center for Neurodevelopment. In this role, Shanna is responsible for directing and managing finances, human resources and administration to support The Unumb Center's short-and long-term strategic goals. Shanna worked in the field of nonprofit administration since 2005. She previously served as the Deputy Director for City Year Columbia, an AmeriCorps program with a mission to lower the high school dropout rates across the nation. She earned her bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.

Shelly Brigman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Developmental Pediatrician

Shelly Huhtanen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Professor of Public Speaking, University of South Carolina