Meet the Staff
Laura Corley |
Executive Director
Laura joined the Kellermann Foundation team in 2017 as Communications Coordinator. She brings thirteen years of experience in non-profit leadership serving the Batwa. She first fell in love with the Batwa when she visited Bwindi in 2010 with Diane Stanton who she worked alongside for fifteen years. Returning to Uganda with her family in 2014 and 2019, she considers the Batwa and the team on the ground in Bwindi to be a part of her extended family.
Laura graduated from The University of Texas in Austin and was the Communications and Scholarship Coordinator for Uganda Christian University Partners before joining the Kellermann Foundation. She has a love for dance and teaches ballet at Dallas Ballet Center and Dallas Ballet Company where she performs in their annual Nutcracker ballet. She is also passionate about her faith and considers ministry to be a life-long calling. Laura lives in Dallas with her husband, the Rev. Robert Corley, and loves spending time with their two adult children.
Penny Lalanne
Program and Volunteer Coordinator
The Kellermann Foundation welcomed Penny in 2021 to serve as Program and Volunteer Coordinator. Penny first met our friends in Bwindi in 2007 when she led a youth mission team from her church. As a result of her work with the Batwa, she followed a strong call to work in missions and led six additional trips to Uganda.
Penny graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in Education. She taught junior high school math for 38 years. Penny enjoys walking, reading and gardening. She lives in Richardson, Texas with her husband, Chuck. They have three adult children and two grandsons.
Brendan Kimbrough
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Brendan is a pastor in the Anglican Church of North America, serving at Missio Dei Anglican Church in Houston, Texas. He has served as planting pastor and rector of parishes in Dallas and Lake Jackson, Texas. He coordinates communications for SAMS-USA as well, and is church planting in the Houston area. He believes that one of the keys to cultivating mission-mindedness among Christians is for churches to be active in supporting missionaries and sending mission teams out to do gospel-centered work locally and cross-culturally.
Michelle Ribble
Executive Assistant
Michelle Ribble is a Kansas State University graduate with a BS in Journalism and Mass Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations, and a minor in Nonprofit Leadership Studies. Michelle enjoyed many years working for Young Life both in Kansas and during the summer in Colorado. She moved to Dallas in 2018 as a Fellow of the Uptown Fellows Program at Church of the Incarnation and graduated from the program in 2019.
One of her greatest joys is volunteering at a local ministry whose mission is to restore lives, create jobs and ignite hope among the most marginalized people in the Dallas area.
“The Batwa have the gift of strong families and relationships and seem to find joy in every detail of life. The birth of a child, a warm meal, shelter from a storm or a visit from friends are causes for celebration and joy. As a foundation, we commit to the singular focus of patiently developing quality relationships with the Batwa, assuming that whatever is produced from these associations will have validity and be sustainable.”
— Dr. Scott Kellermann
