Faculty
HandsOn Central Ohio's presenters offer a varied background and deep roots in community service. Program trainers include:
President and CEO
Vice President of Training and Volunteer Services
Chief Operating Officer
Mentoring Center of Central Ohio
Stephanie Sparrow Hughes
Stephanie Sparrow Hughes oversees day-to-day operations of the Mentoring Center including conducting background checks, recruiting volunteers, training mentors and making connections to partner agencies to improve programming. She manages a second office at the Ohio State University, working with OSU faculty and staff in recruiting students and developing mentoring programs. Through the OSU Buckeye Mentoring Hub, more than 400 OSU students serve as mentor/tutors to youth primarily near OSU.
Ms. Hughes holds an associate degree in social services from Columbus State Community College and a bachelors degree from Franklin University in business administration. She has been involved with mentoring programs including tutoring with the Columbus Literacy Council and with the city of Columbus Capital Kids program.
Mentoring Center of Central Ohio
Tessie N.M. Belue, J.D.,
Tessie N.M. Belue is an educational specialist for the Mentoring Center of Central Ohio where she creates training curricula and conducts training for mentors and mentees in both the profit and nonprofit sector.
Ms. Belue is also a mediator/facilitator/trainer consultant. As a consultant, she specializes in cultural competence, including religious, age, learning styles, gender and ethnic diversity and workplace conflict. She previously served as a legal services and municipal attorney in which her specialties were employment, civil rights, landlord/tenant, consumer, family and labor/personnel law.
Ms. Belue obtained her undergraduate degree in Spanish, French and German from New Mexico Highlands University. She also holds a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law and a masters of divinity in pastoral theology from the American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, CA. She is the holder of several certificates in mediation: Basic, Cultural Competence, Transformative, Juvenile, Domestic Violence Issues, Child Custody and Divorce.
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
Martha J. Sweterlitsch, Esq.
Martha J. Sweterlitsch is an attorney with the law firm of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff in the firm's health care practice group. Her practice focuses on nonprofit, administrative, health, state tax, and federal and state tax exemption law and lobbying. Significant areas of practice include creation, reorganization, mergers and consolidations and ongoing counsel to nonprofit corporations, state and federal tax and tax exemption for nonprofit organizations, and legal issues related to charitable solicitation and fundraising.
Sweterlitsch is a board member of the American Association of Homes and Housing for the Aging, National Legal Committee, the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations for which she chairs the Public Policy Working Group and is the attorney general's appointee to the Government Contracting Advisory Council.
Sweterlitsch obtained her bachelor of arts degree from The Ohio State University and her juris doctorate from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law.
