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Meet the GapQuest: Gap Year Experience Team
Melanie Kempton, M.Ed.
Hayley Studer, CPA, FHFMA
Hayley Studer, CPA, FHFMA
Melanie, the Executive Director of GapQuest, will be leading participants on their Quest, and will serve as the on-site Resident Advisor and Program Director. She brings over 25 years of experience in the fields of education & entrepreneurship to GapQuest.
- Certified Teacher since 1996, Master of Education degree
- 13 years as a high school Career-Tech Business & Marketing Instructor and Cooperative Education Coordinator
- Advisor for DECA and BPA student organizations, with dozens of International qualifiers and winners
- Career Pathways Specialist, College Access Advisor, and Vocational Supervision positions
- College and Adult Education Instructor
- Trained Mediator through the Supreme Court of Ohio
- Certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid
- Owned and operated several small businesses
- Provided comprehensive Home Education for her own sons from birth through high school graduation
- Empty-nester mom to two financially independent young men ages 22 & 23
Hayley Studer, CPA, FHFMA
Hayley Studer, CPA, FHFMA
Hayley Studer, CPA, FHFMA
Hayley is the Founder & CEO of achi, LLC and will be providing behind-the-scenes support and community connection services for GapQuest. She brings 30 years of experience in the fields of accounting, healthcare finance, entrepreneurship, and mission-driven work.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) & a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA)
- Early career in auditing for a large multi-national public accounting firm
- 20 Years in executive roles in healthcare finance and revenue cycle within a large health system
- Chief Mission Officer responsible for directing charitable giving and leveraging community resources
- Entrepreneur & Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise
- Board member and long-time volunteer for many local and national service organizations and ministries
- Mom to twin 18-year-old recent high school graduates
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GapQuest: Gap Year Experience is a program of achi, LLC
GapQuest: Gap Year Experience addresses education, social connection, and workforce development – three social drivers that impact the overall well-being of a community. Social drivers are the root factors that affect people’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
The community support services provided by achi, LLC are specifically built with the challenges that Gen Z is facing in mind as they enter the workforce, higher education, and adulthood.
The meaning of the achi brandmark is "to change a life."
