The Staff at WALA
Executive Director, Jim Murphy with Ima WALAby, our Wallaby mascot. |
Brandi Davis, Victoria Lauersdorf, Sarah Bass, Amanda Ryan, and Dennis Yadon |
Executive
Director
Jim has been the Executive Director of WALA since 1996. Feel free to call him with concerns, opportunities and questions regarding Assisted Living. |
Operations Director
Sarah has been with WALA since 2007, coming from an assisted living background. Call her if you have questions about membership, promotional opportunities, and networking opportunities. She is in charge of marketing, outreach, editing the WALA Watch, WALA's quarterly newsletter, eBlasts, along with www.ewala.org and social media outlets. |
Education Director
Brandi is the Education Director at WALA. She has worked for WALA since 2009. She oversees the WALA Annual Spring Conference, seminars, WALA Products, and the Diamond Accreditation Program. Call her if you are interested in sponsorship or speaking opportunities! |
Victoria is the Event Administrator at WALA. She has been at WALA since 2007, being promoted from Office Administrator to Event Administrator in 2011. Call her if you are interested in vendor opportunities at our events and for potential webinar ideas! |
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Dennis is the newest addition to the WALA staff! He is the contact for the Diamond Accreditation Program. |
Amanda has been the Office Administrator since 2011. She is the first contact for much of our membership, and can answer many of your membership questions as well. |





Event Administrator
Diamond Coordinator
Office Administrator