MK
Mary Katherine Jones, Case Manager, is responsible for working individually with clients towards goals and developing community resources. She is a diligent advocate for her clients finding jobs, rehabilitiation programs and other services. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of the South, Sewanee, and plans to attend graduate school in the next few years. Prior to the Carriage House, MK was a Government Relations Assistant at Avent Fox, a Washington, DC law firm.

Jacob
Jacob, Operations Manager, is in charge of recruiting, training and supervising volunteers. He is also charge of food operations and coordinates the Emergency Warming Center. In 2006, he was a Peace Corps volunteer, serving with his wife in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Jacob graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and Religion.

Joy
Joy Eckstine, Executive Director since 2005, is a licensed clinical social worker and CAC III (certified level III addiction counselor), brings enthusiasm and energy to her position with Carriage House and as an advocate for Boulder’s homeless. Most recently, Joy was responsible for supervisory and administrative tasks in the Outpatient Behavioral Health Services at Denver Health serving methadone clients and general substance abuse clients. Joy has years of experience with the homeless and with people with both mental illness and substance abuse problems. In the past, she has clinically coordinated multiple mental health programs in the criminal justice system and has worked for mobile psychiatric crisis teams. Her first position working with the homeless was at the Pine Street Inn in Boston, a large emergency shelter and she is delighted to return to her professional roots.