Three new leaders were recently nominated to join the board of trustees for Opportunity Farm for Boys to Girls.

Jordan Denning is associate general counsel for Wright Express Corporation in South Portland. He is a graduate of Hobart & William Smith Colleges where he played on the soccer and basketball teams. He received a JD/Master of Intellectual Property

from the Franklin Pierce Law Center. In addition to serving on the board of Opportunity Farm, Jordan serves on the advisory council for the Maine chapter of the Trust for Public Land as well on a handful of committees for Safe Passage and Cheverus High School. Denning was raised in Yarmouth and resides there today.

Risa Moon is a psychotherapist maintaining a private practice in Portland, specializing in couples and family work, including mediation, with a particular emphasis on eating disorders. She consults to schools and small businesses about staff, peer, and student related issues. Moon moved to Maine five years ago after

having maintained a clinical and mediation practice for 25 years in Boston. Prior to her practice she co-founded and taught at a public alternative school focused on mainstreaming students in grades kindergarten to eight. She also founded the children’s program for IMPACT/Model Mugging, which teaches the art of self-defense to men, women, and children.

Moon’s other volunteer work has included “Guiding Eyes for the Blind” (a seeing eye dog training program) and “Riding to the Top.” Along with her husband Richard, she is an avid equestrian, and on her own, an avid snowshoer and reader. The Moons have four children, ages 20-26.

Stephanie Takes-Desbiens has been involved with Opportunity Farm for a number of years, serving as a charter member of the leadership council and chair of the annual auction committee. She received both her bachelor and master of arts degrees from the State University of New York at Albany.

In addition to her work at Opportunity Farm, Takes-Desbiens has also served as a board member and fundraising chair at the Tate House Museum and education & training committee of the Junior League of Portland. She lives in Yarmouth with her husband, Don.

To learn more about Opportunity Farm, visit the website at www.opportunityfarm.org