Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Jamie Idelberg, President
Jamie Idelberg, RDH, B.S., is the Outreach Coordinator for the Cleft and Craniofacial Programs at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She serves on the American Cleft Palate Association (ACPA) Commission of Team Approval and the ACPA Revitalization Task Force. Her passion is the Cleft Camp Program she created 20 years ago. Jamie enjoys her involvement with Face-to-Face Colorado as she understands the value of creating meaningful and enjoyable programming for this community.

Jennifer Freeman, Treasurer
Jen Freeman has twenty years of non-profit management experience at all levels including as executive director.  She has significant experience collaborating with non-profits, government agencies, and funders including grant solicitation, relationship building, grant management, fund management, and reporting. She specializes in youth development and engagement, conservation and stewardship, community collaboration, and national service/AmeriCorps programs.  Prior to launching her consulting business in 2014, Jen served as the Executive Director of the Colorado Youth Corps Association (CYCA), a statewide non-profit organization that promotes youth development through conservation. She has a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Management and Organizational Development, both from Benedictine University in Illinois.  Jen lives in Denver with her husband and two children.  Her husband and son are cleft-affected.  The Freeman family enjoys spending time in Colorado’s great outdoors – hiking, camping, and skiing.

Barbara Gueldner, Board Member
Barbara Gueldner, PhD, MSE, NCSP, IMH-E® is mom to her child who, among other phenomenal qualities, was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. She and her family have found Face-to-Face Colorado to be an essential and joyful part of their journey. In her professional life, she is a licensed psychologist who has worked in clinical, research, teaching, and consulting roles, specializing in school-, home-, and community-based programs that support healthy social and emotional development. She is passionate about connecting with people, hearing their stories, and appreciating our diverse, rich, unique, and common life paths. Barbara has called Colorado her home for over 15 years.

Theresa Snelling, Board Member
Theresa Snelling is the team Speech Pathologist and Clinical Coordinator at the Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center at Rose Medical Center. Her full-time work is at her private practice/speech therapy clinic in Lakewood; her passion is medical cleft palate missions which she has been participating in yearly for 11 years now! She also serves on the advisory board for Face-to-Face Colorado. 

Linda Rollert, Board Member

Consultants

Meaghan Carabello, Marketing Consultant
Meaghan Carabello is the lucky mother of two wonderful children: Maggie (9) and Luca (7), wife to Zeb, and a marketing consultant living in Denver. When Luca was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, they started an incredible journey navigating the changing seas of healthcare, insurance, emotions, and all of the ups and downs of loving, caring for, and advocating for their son. She is passionate about supporting other families navigating the same journey, as well as educating the general public about cleft-related issues. For the past 15 years, Meaghan and Zeb have hosted an annual charity bocce ball tournament that has raised more than $100,000 to support the Children’s Hospital Colorado Cleft Camp for kids who are cleft-affected. She is honored to be part of the Face-To-Face Colorado team and community.