Milissa Magwood
Founder, Board Member, Executive Director & Lead Content Creator
Milissa is a writer, advocate, community builder, and content creator
focused on making systems easier to understand and harder to ignore.
Path to Somewhere began as a creative outlet for her artwork but evolved
into a community-focused initiative after she saw how many people were
getting lost while trying to navigate disability supports, healthcare,
housing, crisis services, and government systems.
As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult, she understands firsthand how
overwhelming it can be when information is fragmented, inaccessible, or
difficult to understand. That lived experience helps shape the
foundation's commitment to plain language, accessibility, and practical
action.
For more than fifteen years, she has worked in telecommunications,
helping individuals and businesses navigate complex services, solve
problems under pressure, and connect with the resources they need.
As Executive Director and Lead Content Creator, Milissa develops the
foundation's educational resources, advocacy tools, community guides,
public awareness campaigns, website content, and plain-language learning
materials. She is also responsible for much of the digital infrastructure
supporting Path to Somewhere's resource library and community navigation
tools.
She founded Path to Somewhere to bridge the gap between information and
action, helping people move forward instead of getting lost in the system.
Danielle Violot
Co-Founder, Board Chair & Strategic Director
Some partnerships are built through circumstance. Others are forged through
years of trust, shared purpose, and showing up when the work is hard.
Danielle and Milissa have worked side by side for more than a decade,
beginning as training leaders in the telecommunications industry where they
coached new teams through fast-paced, high-pressure environments. Those
years built a partnership grounded in resilience, clear communication, and
an unwavering commitment to helping others succeed.
Today, Danielle brings that same leadership to Path to Somewhere. A writer,
editor, technical communicator, and social work student, she combines
strategic thinking with genuine compassion and an exceptional ability to
transform complex ideas into practical action.
Her lived experience as a caregiver, including supporting her mother
through brain cancer, together with her volunteer work in hospice care,
shapes a leadership style rooted in dignity, empathy, and hope.
Through her internship with DiversoLab in Colombia, Danielle is helping
cultivate international relationships that support research, inclusive
education, community innovation, and collaborative opportunities aligned
with the foundation's mission.
Danielle has a remarkable gift for bringing people together. Whether
developing partnerships, coordinating projects, strengthening governance,
or opening doors to new opportunities, she helps turn vision into momentum
and possibility into progress.
As Co-Founder, Board Chair, and Strategic Director, Danielle helps guide
the foundation's long-term vision, strategic partnerships, governance,
research collaboration, and organizational growth while ensuring every
decision remains grounded in compassion, integrity, and belonging.
Michelle Kosik
Board Member & Director of Senior Care & Community Wellness
Michelle is a nurse and community advocate with extensive experience
supporting seniors, caregivers, and individuals navigating complex health
and wellness challenges.
Through her work, she has seen firsthand how difficult it can be for
people to access the services, information, and support they need to
remain safe, healthy, and independent.
Michelle brings valuable frontline insight into the realities of aging,
caregiving, healthcare navigation, and community wellness. Her experience
helps identify practical solutions that reduce barriers and improve
quality of life.
She is passionate about helping people maintain dignity, autonomy, and
meaningful connections to their communities while ensuring they have
access to the supports they need.
As Director of Senior Care & Community Wellness, she helps guide the
foundation's work in aging in place, caregiver support, senior wellbeing,
and community-based solutions that strengthen independence and belonging.
Stacey O’Neil
Program Coordinator
Stacey brings extensive experience supporting families, seniors,
caregivers, and individuals navigating everyday systems that are often
difficult to understand or access.
As both a parent and grandparent of neurodivergent children, she
understands firsthand the realities of advocacy across generations and
the importance of ensuring people feel seen, respected, and supported.
She has spent years helping seniors maintain their independence,
autonomy, and connection to their communities through practical,
person-centered support.
Stacey brings valuable frontline insight into the challenges many
families and seniors face, helping identify barriers and opportunities
for meaningful support and connection.
She helps ensure Path to Somewhere remains compassionate, responsive,
and focused on preserving dignity, independence, and belonging.
Rob Magwood
Treasurer & Logistics
Rob brings practical problem-solving, reliability, and a deep commitment
to helping people through life's challenges.
Known for his steady presence and willingness to lend a hand, he
understands that meaningful community support often comes from showing
up, listening, and helping people take the next step forward.
As Treasurer and Logistics, Rob helps oversee financial accountability,
transportation planning, equipment management, and the day-to-day systems
that support the foundation's work.
He plays an important role in transforming ideas into action, helping
ensure resources, volunteers, and services can reach people when and where
they are needed most.
He helps build the structure, reliability, and operational foundation
that turns community care into something people can depend on.
Kat Caraballo
Educational Consultant & Spanish-Language Learning Advisor
Kat is an experienced educator with a Master of Education and a strong
commitment to inclusive, practical, and developmentally appropriate
learning.
Recognized as a Teacher of the Year, she brings current classroom
experience and a deep understanding of what educators and students need
for learning materials to be engaging, realistic, and useful in everyday
school environments.
Kat supports the development of educator resources, classroom
implementation guidance, curriculum alignment, lesson structures, and
learning activities. Her perspective helps ensure that educational
materials are not only thoughtful in theory, but workable for teachers
and meaningful for children.
Fluent in both English and Spanish, Kat also supports the translation and
adaptation of educational materials for Spanish-speaking children,
families, educators, and international partners.
She is interested in continuing her academic journey through doctoral
studies and brings valuable insight at the intersection of classroom
practice, educational research, multilingual learning, and inclusive
program development.
As Educational Consultant, Kat helps connect creative ideas with
classroom reality, supporting the development of accessible,
educator-informed resources that can travel across languages and
communities.