OUr Co-Founders

The Lemon-Aid Project started with four siblings and a single lemonade stand during a hot summer day in 1993. Fast forward three decades, and the Eller kids are still working together on this mission.

Katie Eller Murray

Anna
​Smith

Madeleine
​Eller

Ben
​ELLER

Our Board

Our working board of directors is committed to driving The Lemon-Aid Project forward to achieve its full potential.

Emily ​Fuller

A Tulsa native, Emily graduated from Oklahoma State University with degrees in Spanish, and family relations and child development. She then headed to the mountains of Colorado to get her graduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University. 

A Certified Fundraising Executive with over two decades of experience in program management and fundraising, Emily has dedicated her career to working with children in various capacities, including education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as the Director of Development - Major Gifts at the University of Tulsa, supporting both the Kendall College of Arts and Sciences and the University School, merging her experience in fundraising and development with her passion for education.

Emily finds great joy in forging new connections and nurturing meaningful relationships. Beyond her professional responsibilities, Emily actively contributes to her community as she serves as a board fellow for the Tulsa Performing Arts Center and is an active alumna of Leadership Tulsa Class 68, in addition to The Lemon-Aid Project.

She and her partner, Chris, live in Tulsa and collectively have two college-aged daughters (both named Sophia) and a son, Connor.

Caren Kelleher

Caren Kelleher is a serial creative entrepreneur, whose favorite hobbies as a kid were creating artwork and trading stocks with her allowance money. Her first creative business idea came in junior high with a Beatles-themed restaurant called The Octopus' Garden. It was such a good idea that the Fab Four threatened to sue her!

She most recently founded Gold Rush Vinyl, a new high-quality, fast-turnaround record pressing plant based in Austin, TX that helps musicians take advantage of timely marketing moments and the growing demand for vinyl records. Prior to founding Gold Rush Vinyl in April 2017, she co-founded a band management company called Sister Management, ran a marketing consultancy called C/MK, led music partnerships for Google Play, ran business development at Songkick and was hired as the first dedicated marketing employee of Paste Magazine.

Caren graduated from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University with a bachelor's degree in marketing and communications before earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. 
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Megan Korn

Megan Korn is the Chief Development for the Tulsa Community College Foundation with a passion for raising funds for higher education and student success. For more than five years, she has led the development team, partnering with community leaders, corporations, family foundations and TCC employees, retirees, and alumni to build resources that enrich TCC students’ educational journey. Megan has a diverse leadership background spanning corporate sales and training, non-profit consulting, fundraising, event planning and coaching youth soccer and tennis.

She has a bachelor’s degree in arts from Washington University in St. Louis where she double majored in Spanish and International Studies. She is also an enthusiastic member of the Rotary Club of Tulsa Sunrise and is currently serving as Past-President on the Club Board.

In her free time, Megan enjoys playing tennis, taking long walks and serving in her community. She and her husband, Kiley, live in Tulsa, OK and have two college-aged sons, Ayden and Ben. 

Katie Eller Murray

DARREL Frater
Katie Eller Murray is the founder and principal of ROAM Communications, a boutique public relations consulting firm. Prior to founding ROAM in 2013, Katie worked in communications at Google and Fleishman-Hillard International Communications.
 
As a result of her work with Lemon-Aid, Katie received the National Caring Institute Award and the inaugural Prudential Spirit of Community Award, and in 2016, she became the first recipient of the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless' Heart of Henry Youth Philanthropy Award, now known as the Katie Eller Youth Philanthropy Award. She currently serves on the boards of Riverfield Country Day School and AWC-Tulsa, and previously served on the boards of America's Charities and the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless. Katie is part of Leadership Tulsa Class 68.

Katie graduated summa cum laude from Emory University, where she became a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity and rowed on the varsity crew team.

Katie returned to her hometown in 2020 with her husband, two daughters, son, and three Boston Terriers.
Devoted to playing a pivotal role in closing the wealth gap, Darrel currently serves as co-founder of the Frater Family Foundation. 

Prior to founding his family foundation, Darrel served as a Senior Associate at Serac Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Oklahoma, an Investment Associate at Visible Hands (a Boston based VC Firm) and an Investment Analyst at Comcast.

He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and an MBA specialized in Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership from The College of New Jersey.

He is married with 1 child (and one on the way) and is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated and the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Darrel is serving as a board intern for 2025 as a part of the Board Leadership Collaborative run by Leadership Tulsa, TYPros and The Junior League of Tulsa.

Our Advisors

We are grateful to have a wide variety of official and more casual advisors to help support our initiatives
​on local, regional and national levels. 

KRISTIN Ferguson

ANGIE HALAMANDARIS

Julia Hobbs Kivistik
Kristin Ferguson is AMAZING. Full bio coming soon. 
Angie Halamandaris is a leadership and life coach who draws on more than 30 years of leadership and management experience working internally in the nonprofit and healthcare fields. Her experience in working with Fortune 500 companies in supporting their community and philanthropic strategies have made a difference in the lives of thousands throughout the country. 

She is the founder of Juniper Group, a leadership and life coaching practice. She previously co-founded and served as president of The Heart of America Foundation and was instrumental in helping develop Give Kids the World Village, a 75-acre resort for terminally ill children, helping raise more than $10 million for that effort.

She has also served as an advisor to The Caring Institute, The Frederick Douglass Museum, The Hall of Fame for Caring Americans, the National Capital Area Foundation of the March of Dimes, the DCPC Library Task Force, and the Weinberg Foundation Library Project. 
Julia Hobbs Kivistik is the national director of corporate and cause partnerships at Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She previously was a founding partner of Human Truth Marketing and has a diverse background in nonprofit leadership, strategy, fundraising, cause branding, shopping marketing and consumer behavior and insights. 

Julia's career, which includes leading strategic corporate partnerships and employee engagement at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, cause branding at Cone Communications, strategy, account service and shopper insight at Saatchi & Saatchi, and pioneering cause marketing at Give Kids the World, has been a 25 year journey to develop mutually beneficial long-term partnerships with retailers, consumer brands and nonprofit organizations. 

Julia has served on the Board of Directors of several nonprofits, including Give Kids the World, the Executive Board of America's Charities and the Harvard Women's Leadership Board.

BRYCE MURRAY

Bryce is Managing Director of Talent Acquisition Group, a consultancy that helps organizations acquire the very best talent.

Over the course of his career, Bryce has helped leading consumer brands like Disney, Red Bull, and JCPenney build or refine their talent acquisition capabilities. His responsibilities encompassed the “full talent acquisition stack” - executive search, professional recruitment, high volume recruitment, campus recruitment, contingent workforce solutions, branding, talent acquisition technology, and talent acquisition training & development.​

In addition to in-house talent acquisition leadership, Bryce spent several years building and growing agency recruiting businesses. He has worked across a myriad of industries including media & entertainment, technology, consumer packaged goods, and retail to recruit talent from the board to individual contributor level for clients ranging from seed stage startups to large enterprises.

​Bryce holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego and was selected as a National Collegiate Scholar.

Kellie Stone

Kellie is new in her advisory role for Lemon-Aid but has been a supporter of the organization since volunteering for the Memorial Day event in 2019. Kellie has worked with various non-profits in Tulsa, serving on the boards of the Junior League of Tulsa and the Red Dirt Relief Fund. She is the CFO of a private equity group and the owner of The Collaborative Coffee.  Her background draws her to the LemonAid Project as it highlights entrepreneurship and philanthropy among the youngest citizens of Tulsa. 
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In her spare time, Kellie enjoys traveling with her husband and son, attending concerts, and practicing yoga. She is looking forward to helping the next generation of leaders learn the skills needed to run Tulsa’s businesses and non-profit organizations.

Justin Thompson

Justin Thompson is the Proprietor Chef of the Justin Thompson Restaurant Group, owner of Farrell Bread & Bakery, and Author of Trial & Error: Recipes and Lessons Learned by a Chef & Restauranteur. 

Before founding the Justin Thompson Restaurant Group, Justin opened and operated several local restaurant favorites in Tulsa, including Ciao, Baby!, Osage Restaurant at Gilcrease Museum, The Brasserie Restaurant & Bar, Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar, and Duke's Southern Kitchen. 

Throughout his career, Justin has been named best chef in Tulsa by Oklahoma Magazine, Tulsa Voice, Tulsa People Magazine and Urban Tulsa Magazine. He has received awards and recognition from the Chaine des Rotisseurs, has been featured in Saveur Magazine and served as guest chef at the James Beard House in New York City.

Justin is also involved in numerous charities in Tulsa, including 6 years of service on the Board of Directors for the Child Abuse Network, and 5 years on the Holland Hall Alumni Association. Justin and his restaurant group have contributed to over 100 different charities in Tulsa since 2011, including the United Way, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Alzheimer's Association, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Youth Services of Tulsa, Family & Children's Services, Iron Gate Ministries, Catholic Charities, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa Ballet and many more.

Patti Jo Wolfson

Patti Jo Wolfson is an active and long-standing member of her community in Los Angeles, California, particular with organizations that support the community’s youth.
 
She has served as an educator at Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas for the last 20 years, supporting multiple grade levels and special needs students. Since 2001, she has also served on the Board of Directors for New Directions for Youth, a comprehensive youth development agency located in North Hollywood that provides direct services and programs to more than 3,000 at-risk youth annually, where she has held many roles including Chair, Vice Chair and currently Co-Chair. With New Directions, Patti Jo has supported various fundraising and networking activities that have raised more than $1 million to date for the organization.
 
Patti Jo is currently an active member of the Woodland Hills Rotary Club, the Wolfson Family Foundation and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
 
Patti Jo has been honored with several awards for her service including Best Board of Directors by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal when she was Chair and the Justice Armand Arabian Leader in Public Service Award by the Encino Chamber of Commerce.