Bill Wolfkiel, President & Chief Financial Officer
Laura Gill, Vice President
Joyce Wolfkiel, Secretary
William Browne
Kelly Humphrey
Dave Paxson
Stephanie Sohl, PhD
Jeannine Walston
Bill S. Wolfkiel
Bill S. Wolfkiel is co-founder, Board President, and the Chief Financial Officer of EmbodiWorks. He has extensive experience in charitable gifting and non-profit organizations.
Bill has been a professional in the financial service industry since 1985. He formed an Estate Planning firm that specialized in the development, implementation, and education of the use of various charitable trusts. Bill and his firm cultivated a national clientele that served hundreds of individuals and businesses with the implementation of estate-planning strategies.
With a strong emphasis toward charitable giving and charitable planning, Bill authored the book The Power of Charitable Remainder Trusts in Estate Planning. Bill has authored additional books and lectured extensively throughout the United States on aspects of wealth transfer and advanced estate planning, including charitable trusts, family foundations, and gifting strategies.
As the initial funder of EmbodiWorks, Bill has a strong desire to participate in the development and continued funding of a quality organization bringing components of integrative cancer care together and serving as an information platform accessible to all.
Bill is married to Joyce Wolfkiel, a resident of Colorado, and an international traveler.
Laura Gill
Laura Gill is Board Vice President of EmbodiWorks. With a passion for health and nutrition, she is a certified pilates instructor teaching the art of body awareness, breath, and movement. Laura has a Bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies, and a Master's degree in Business.
Through the loss of her aunt to lung cancer, Laura hopes to transform her family's tragedy into an opportunity to help others. Knowing the frustration of navigating resources for loved ones with cancer, Laura strongly believes in EmbodiWorks's mission. She also has a strong interest in the mind-body connection, including the power of healthy thoughts.
Laura lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband Patrick, and their daughter Lily Mae.
Joyce Wolfkiel
Joyce Wolfkiel is co-founder of EmbodiWorks. With extensive experience in non-profit program implementation and fundraising, national, community, and school service organizations have benefited from Joyce's volunteerism. Joyce is currently active in local and national cancer research funding efforts.
Joyce's motivation to create EmbodiWorks is rooted in her experience of helping a beloved sister journey through cancer. Spending many hours researching the Internet for resources about cancer treatment options, Joyce found it difficult to navigate available information. Her deepest hope is that EmbodiWorks helps reduce stress experienced by people affected by cancer in their search for reliable and timely information about integrative cancer care, and makes a difference in care decisions that affect quality of life and longevity.
Over the last several decades, Joyce's professional experience has also involved work with her family's estate planning and investment businesses. In addition, Joyce had her own business in furniture design, served as a consultant to home building and remodeling projects, and was a sales representative for national furniture manufactures at the Denver Design Center.
Joyce is a resident of Colorado where she is able to enjoy her passion for the great outdoors. She is an avid hiker, gardener, and international traveler. Joyce and her husband Bill of over 40 years have raised two daughters who are also involved with EmbodiWorks.
William Browne
William Browne is an attorney working for the Department of Veterans Affairs handling veteran's disability claims, including some related to cancer. His overall professional focus has involved legal interests in business operations. Bill has a Bachelor's degree from Saint Mary's College of California in Business Administration and Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
With conviction to offer people affected by cancer comprehensive information addressing their full scope of needs, Bill wants to ease the stress that cancer patients and loved ones experience while searching for resources. He is committed to increasing awareness about effective strategies for cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship.
Diagnosed with malignant melanoma during law school, Bill learned from his cancer experience to take better care of himself with diet, exercise, skin protection, and other approaches. Also through losing a grandmother to lung cancer and a grandfather to liver cancer, he knows the frustrations experienced by families researching treatment options.
Bill lives in Denver, Colorado and enjoys playing golf, hiking, snowboarding, and baseball.
Kelly Humphrey
Kelly Humphrey works with a financial company specializing in using life insurance as an investing and estate planning tool, and has previous professional experience in family estate planning.
Through the helplessness she experienced researching treatments for her aunt's lung cancer, Kelly wants to provide cancer patients and their loved ones with reliable, trustworthy, and organized information about integrative cancer care. She has a special interest in the mind-body connection.
Kelly lives in Erie, Colorado with her husband Jason, and their sons Dillon and Conner.
Dave Paxson
Dave Paxson has a life long interest in integrative health care. He is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist and serves as Board of Directors President of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Association. From 1985 to 2005, he was involved in clinical social work and the management of social services for Montgomery County, Maryland. He earned a MBA from the University of Maryland in 1978. Dave was an Army Nurse during the Vietnam conflict. He has experience in Psychiatric Nursing and was involved in both the clinical and administrative side of managing addiction treatment centers. In an interim career, he was involved in directing a major national trade association. He has also been involved in technical writing and consulting work regarding medical economics and epidemiology. Dave lives in South Carolina and frequently travels to further advance his work in the world.
Stephanie Sohl, PhD
Stephanie Sohl has expertise in psychology, integrative medicine, and public health. She earned her doctorate in Social and Health Psychology from Stony Brook University and is currently researcher in Public Health Sciences at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Stephanie has also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention Control at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a 200-hr Yoga Teacher certification through a Kripalu-affiliated school, the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Training, the Adapting Yoga for People with Cancer Teacher Training at Integral Yoga, and the Duke Integrative Health Coach Professional Training. Her research focuses on developing brief mind-body interventions for people affected by cancer that are adapted to the clinical setting and understanding psychosocial factors that influence quality of life in this population. She teaches yoga classes to people affected by cancer and coaches individuals to facilitate behavioral health changes. Her breadth of knowledge allows her to effectively facilitate communication between professionals with backgrounds in complementary and conventional medicine. Stephanie is devoted to empowering people affected by cancer with mind-body tools that may increase their ability to find comfort during the healing process. Currently living in Winston-Salem North Carolina, she loves spending time with her husband Alec and puppy Prana who bring adventures, comfort and joy to her life.
Jeannine Walston
Jeannine Walston is co-founder and Executive Director of EmbodiWorks. She has extensive experience in cancer education and advocacy, health care policy, as well as conventional and integrative cancer care.
Jeannine's career includes work in the U.S. Congress, government agencies, cancer non-profit organizations, and health care practices. As a writer, trainer, and spokesperson, Jeannine educated the public for several years about alternative health care through the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clearinghouse. Chosen as the first person to serve in the Food and Drug Administration's Patient Consultant Program as an advocate in the cancer drug development process, Jeannine was also selected to work as a consumer representative in a National Cancer Institute Cooperative Group where she offered the patient's perspective about clinical trials design. Earlier in her career after work in the U.S. Congress as a Legislative Assistant, Jeannine was a policy advocate and lobbyist for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and assisted the President of The Children's Cause for Cancer Advocacy. More recently, Jeannine provided writing, marketing, and consulting services through her business Healing Focus to many clients such as the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, EmergingMed, Cancer Information and Support Network, site specific cancer non-profits, and health care practices. Jeannine has been published in magazines, other media, and spoken before many groups.
With a deep passion to help people affected by cancer, Jeannine's vision for EmbodiWorks is to provide the highest level of support through integrative cancer care education and advocacy. Her goal is for EmbodiWorks to offer the integrity people with cancer and their loved ones need and deserve. Jeannine's personal health care experiences, especially her journey with a brain tumor, enrich her perspective.
Jeannine lives in Sausalito, California and loves learning, dancing, art, nature, culture, and matters of the heart.
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