Board of Directors
Lynn Coatney
Lynn Coatney is a decades-long community volunteer in New Orleans. After earning her B.S. and M.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Texas at Austin, she worked as a teacher and consultant for blind and visually impaired students. Since 2015, Lynn and her husband Mike have sponsored the New Orleans branch of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR), which supports survivors of sexual trauma and creates social change. They co-founded Dignity Period, a non-profit organization that provides eco-friendly menstrual hygiene products and education to Ethiopian schoolchildren. Lynn has served on the boards of Loyola University in New Orleans, the Louisiana SPCA, and RSDSA. Her family has experienced the trauma of childhood sexual abuse as well as the healing power of voice and support.
James Comeaux
James Comeaux, LCSW, is the Executive Vice President for Access Health Louisiana. He graduated from Loyola University, New Orleans in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. He then obtained his Master of Social Work from Tulane University, New Orleans in 1990 and his licensure was obtained in 1992. His 14-plus years post master’s work experience in private psychiatric hospitals, not-for-profit residential settings, outpatient mental health services, directing clinical programs, managing a physician practice, and providing social work services in a medical surgical hospital have given him an extraordinary perspective that he brings to Silence Broken. Comeaux currently also is a member of the Board of Directors for the Mobile Health Clinics Association, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for Luke’s House Clinic in New Orleans.
Eileen Daily
Eileen M. Daily, JD, PhD, grew up in Massachusetts, attending Belmont High School and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. Her psychology degree led to working with adults who had experienced sexual abuse as children. A couple of years later she attended Suffolk University Law School. After some years as a lawyer, she wanted to dig deeper into practical applications of life’s big questions so she headed to Boston College for degrees in Pastoral Studies, and Theology and Education.
Teaching stints at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Loyola University Chicago, and Boston University have culminated in a focus on empowering religious professionals to lead transformation in their communities and beyond. That said, she is still interested in the pathways by which individuals transform woundedness into growth.
Gary Innerarity
Gary Innerarity is a seasoned technologist with over a decade of experience in educational technology operations and more recently started leading the NASA Digital Twin effort as a Project Manager. He has a proven track record of developing and implementing enterprise systems for both government and commercial clients. His deep expertise in cybersecurity and data privacy ensures the solutions he delivers are not only efficient but also highly secure and economical. Driven by a personal connection to the devastating effects of child abuse, Innerarity is passionate about using his technological skills and influence to safeguard vulnerable populations.
Mary Munger
Mary L. Munger, MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience. She is a graduate of Spring Hill College and Tulane School of Social Work. Mary’s professional background includes community mental health and inpatient psychiatric care with children, adolescents, and adults. She specializes in the treatment of trauma—-including complex and developmental, eating disorders, anxiety, and grief. Mary’s therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, drawing from her training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), IFS-informed parts-work, and mindfulness-based therapies, as well as her personal practice of mindfulness and spirituality. Through compassionate presence, Mary guides her clients in befriending their inner experience and reconnecting with their innate wisdom and capacities for healing and transformation. Mary maintains a private practice in Uptown New Orleans.
Eva Silvestre
Dr. Eva Silvestre serves as the EDI Data Strategist for the Tulane University Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Associate Dean for EDI at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is originally from Guatemala and immigrated to the United States as a child with her family during the country’s civil war, seeking political asylum. She grew up in a rural community of immigrants in south Florida and earned a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.A. from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a Ph.D. from Tulane University. Her research areas focus on monitoring and evaluation of health programs and improving health information systems for evidence-based decision-making. She is currently the co-principal investigator for GH PEARL, a USAID-funded project that focuses on supporting countries to generate and use high-quality data to improve their programs, policies, and – ultimately – health outcomes. She teaches introduction to public health, social and behavioral aspects of health, and Latino health in the United States.
Advisory Board
Mark Caggiano
Mike Coatney
Zoë Garry
Zoë Garry is the new Associate Director for Theological Funds Development at the Presbyterian Foundation. Zoë is an ordained minister in the PC(USA) and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Theology. With over twelve years of experience in education, Zoë has worked in academia both in the United States and abroad. Her most notable experiences in higher education were with Princeton University’s Office of Religious Life, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Women’s Center, and Bangla Language Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh (where she was one of twelve Americans awarded a Critical Language Scholarship). In addition, she has worked in ministries in the West Bank, Jordan, and Nepal. Zoë received her Religious Fundraising Certificate from the Lake Institute in September, 2023. She works from Cleveland, Ohio.
Patrice Gerideau
A contemplative at heart, I am also a storyteller and spiritual director in the Ignatian tradition. My work intersects where God’s story meets our story. My mission is to use all that God has given me to help others discover and experience God’s love, grace, and mercy through Christ Jesus. My vision is to inspire humans to live as bold, balanced, beautiful creations of God. My folks are humans who may be broken but not bitter, who may be bitter but want to be better, who may be hurting but not hopeless, who may be hopeless but want to be hopeful. Anyone who wants to meet God at the well.
I am ordained in the Baptist tradition. I hold a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership from Boston University and a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary. I also have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College and a Master of Sacred Theology from Drew University. I received my certificate in spiritual direction from the Sustainable Faith School of Spiritual Direction.
Jay Hogewood
Reverend Jay Hogewood has served senior pastor of Rayne United Methodist Church since July, 2017. Before moving to Rayne Jay served as the pastor of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge. Prior to that, Jay served as pastor of Ingleside and St. Luke’s United Methodist Churches in Baton Rouge and as Pastor of Congregational Care on the staff of University United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge.
Jay received his B.A. in English and history from Samford University in Birmingham. He then completed his M.Div. at Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. His Ph.D. is in Hebrew Bible/Theological Hermeneutics from Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.
David Tran
David Tran is the founder and co-pastor of Table San Diego, a multiracial, LGBTQ-affirming Christian congregation based in Broadway Heights. His community practices an embodied spirituality and studies decolonial theology. David holds an M.B.A. in Marketing and Social Entrepreneurship from University of California, San Diego and a doctorate in anti-racism and inclusive leadership from Boston University’s School of Theology. David also works as a marketing director in the life sciences field.