Proximity is the start; Relationship is the goal
The mission vision for “Gather Well Cleveland Heights” is to bring community members together in spaces and places that are moving our community forward. Proximity is the start, relationship is the goal.
Meet the Team
Board of Directors
Co-Host, Board President
Julie Walker
Julie Walker is a lifelong resident of Cleveland Heights save for college in Hawaii - where she earned a Bachelor’s in Sociology, and her husband’s grad school in Baton Rouge where she began her teaching career and her family . Julie has a Masters in education and has been teaching since 2002. She currently works as a 4th grade teacher at Boulevard Elementary in Cleveland Heights. Her two children attended Fairfax, Roxboro and Heights High where she was engaged in PTA events and general CH-UH gatherings where and when she could. At Boulevard she serves on the Building Leadership Team, Literacy Committee and Garden Committee. Julie is in her second round of the Future Heights Leadership workshop and serves on their civic engagement committee as well as the Crowd Sourced Conversation planning committee. The seeds for Gather Well were planted in all of these places and was helped along the way by various community members, friends and eventually her Gather Well teammate Eric Yarham.
Co-Host, Board Treasurer
Eric Yarham
Eric Yarham is a born-and-raised Cleveland Heights resident, who came home in 2020 after eight years living in Florida. He currently works from home as a FinTech IT Project Manager, and recently bought a home in the Cain Park/ Heights High neighborhood. He is an alumnus of FutureHeights’ Leadership workshop, on the Board of Directors of Friends of Cain Park, on the board of Friends of Heights Libraries, and spends what’s left of his time helping people and sharing artistic community with friends. When Julie Walker invited him to take part in Gather Well, it felt like a perfect opportunity to help further the great work already being done in Cleveland Heights.
Board Member
Charita Boseman
Charita Boseman is a public health expert and DEI champion with over 20 years of experience in impactful and equitable health programming. A proud native of Cleveland Heights, she credits a lot of who she is to being raised in such an exceptionally diverse neighborhood, this ultimately gave her the desire to learn more about how people live, work and play. At Special Olympics International she is currently merging health, sports, technology, and inclusion strategies to create social change globally. Charita recently returned to Cleveland Heights after many years in Washington, D.C. with the same hope to create social change and to contribute to the community in an impactful way.
Board Secretary
Christie Yonkers
Christie Yonkers is a nonprofit consultant and leader with 30 years of experience in the
sector. She has left her mark on a number of Cleveland organizations including Towards
Employment, The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Beech Brook, Cleveland Clinic, and the ACLU
of Ohio. She currently serves the nonprofit community through her consulting practice
and as the executive director of the Sandra Hoskins Legacy Foundation, a charitable
foundation focused on affordable housing. Yonkers has lived in Cleveland Heights for
twenty-one years and deliberately chose this diverse, walkable, civic-minded community
in which to raise her two daughters, both of whom attended Fairfax Elementary and
Roxboro Middle School.