Paige Shildkamp ~ Board Chair

Paige has a BA and MPH (Maternal and Child health) from UNC-Chapel Hill. She currently works for the Poe Center for Health Education, focusing on adolescent health and mental wellness curricula and education delivery around the state of NC. She also works for the Orange County Public Library, fulfilling a lifelong bookworm dream. In addition to that, she coaches CrossFit at Broadreach Fitness and spends most of her free time there. A few years ago, she moved with her partner from rural Orange County into historic Hillsborough and they are happily settled into the area, with plans to be here for the long term.

Shana Scudder ~ At Large Board Member

Shana Scudder has been teaching in correctional institutions for the better part of twenty years and has been involved with social justice work related to the carceral system for even longer. She is an MFA candidate at Randolph College and teaches first-year writing and serves an academic advisor for creative writing majors at North Carolina State University. She also has a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition and an MA in African American and Postcolonial Literature. She is always seeking ways to make all of these degrees actually useful in the world and is therefore excited to be a part of the healing mission of Sincerus Healing.

Oscar Felmming~Board Treasurer

Dr. Oscar Fleming is an assistant professor in the Public Health Leadership Program at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. His work focuses on expanding the capacity of the public health workforce to understand complex systems and collaboratively design and implement public health innovations. This includes attention to how change happens and recognizing that inequitable methods reinforce and exacerbate inequitable outcomes and systems. Dr. Fleming began his career supporting HIV prevention education on the National AIDS Hotline and caring for people living with AIDS in the years before antiretroviral treatment. He then served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa (1994-1996) before completing his MSPH at Gillings in 1999. Over the last 20-plus years, he worked in the US Senate to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act, designed and supported health and community development programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and strengthened the capacity of early childhood systems in Eastern North Carolina and across the US.  

In addition to teaching, Dr. Fleming leads the Evidence-Based Decision-Making Core for the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center based at Gillings. In this role, he supports public health professionals to learn and apply implementation science to improve public health programs, policies, and practices that promote child and family well-being. Dr. Fleming is also an adjunct professor with the Departments of Maternal and Child Health and Health Policy and Management.