The BCNH Board Of Directors

  • Dhan Timsina

    BOARD CHAIR

    Dhan Timsina was elected chair of the BCNH Board of Directors in December 2022, soon after founding a new business in Concord, Universal Care Alliance, which provides home-health aides. Previously, he had been the marketing manager of CarePoint Plus, a home-health business based in Manchester. Dhan came to the United States as a refugee from Bhutan and was resettled in Concord. After graduating from Concord High School, he started working with people with developmental impairments and went to Southern New Hampshire University and earned an associate degree in Healthcare Management with a specialization in logistics and operations. Dhan has been an active volunteer with BCNH and with the Bhutanese community. He lives in Concord with his wife and two daughters.

  • Ben Morrow

    BOARD TREASURER

    Ben was born and raised in New Hampshire and is a 2013 graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in business administration. Following college, Ben worked for 6 years in the defense industry as a project controller before joining Suffolk Construction in 2019 where he has worked in finance and information technology roles since. Ben resides in Boston. Ben had volunteered with BCNH for about year before he was elected to the BCNH Board and to the office of Treasurer in July 2023.

  • David Kirkpatrick

    VICE CHAIR

    Dave Kirkpatrick started his career as a reporter at the Montana Standard after earning a BA in Journalism at the University of Montana in Missoula and worked for many years as a writer and editor. In 2013, he earned credentials as teacher of English to speakers of other languages and worked at Concord High School and NH Technical Institute with New Americans, including three people who would become case managers at BCNH and a fourth who would become a member of the Board. Dave has mostly recently served as a kitchen manager at the Friendly Kitchen in Concord and has volunteered at Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian Center and the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness. He was elected to the Board in December 2022. Dave lives in Concord with his wife and daughter. He is a graduate of the NH Center for Nonprofits’ 2024 Hoffman-Haas Fellowship Program.

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Olena Neruk
Olena Neruk

Lena Neruk earned her first law degree at Odessa State University in Ukraine in 2000, and she practiced law in the Odessa region for the next 16 years.  After immigrating to the United States in 2016, she earned a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Boston University in 2017 and an LLM degree from Suffolk University School of Law in Boston in 2021.  She is currently a paralegal at Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. in Manchester.  Lena started her volunteer work in Odessa in 1998 in support of UNICEF.  In 2022, she was a cofounder of Dobro New England, a nonprofit organization that sends humanitarian aid back to Ukraine.  Lena lives in Londonderry with her husband.  She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English.  She was elected to the Board in August 2024.

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Lindsay Allsop
Lindsay Allsop

Lindsay Allsop brings to BCNH expertise in measuring the impact of social service programs. As the Data and Organizational Performance Manager at the New Hampshire Children’s Trust, Lindsay manages a statewide database and supports Family Resource Center staff across NH. Prior to joining NHCT, Lindsay coordinated communications and marketing initiatives at the UNH Institute on Disability and worked in marketing and product development departments at Wayfair in Boston and Sydney, Australia. Lindsay grew up in Concord, where she now lives with her husband, graduated from Bates College, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Paul College of Business and Economics at UNH. She was elected to the BCNH Board in October 2023.

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Nira Kandel
Nira Kandel

Nira Kandel is a public health specialist at the Manchester Department of Health. She also works as a special investigator for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Originally from Nepal, Nira was educated in Nepal, earning a master’s degree in rural development and a law degree. She moved to Manchester in 2021 with her husband and daughter after postings in Nepal, Indonesia, and Egypt. Nira is currently enrolled in a year-long training program at UNH’s Institute on Disabilities to provide enhanced care coordination to children, youth, and their caregivers whose parents are impacted by opioid-use disorders and other substance-use disorders. She was elected to the Board in October 2023

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Dorsa Razi
Dorsa Razi

Dorsa Razi immigrated to the United States from Iran in 2017. She had earned an associates degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, learned English at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Keene State College in 2022. She now works as an architectural designer at Warrenstreet Architects in Concord. Dorsa lives in Concord with her husband. She was elected to the Board in October 2023.

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Blaise Nganyi Imbembe
Blaise Nganyi Imbembe

Blaise is originally from Congo. In 2003, he left for Belgium where he earned a MS in military construction. He received another engineering degree in Montreal in 2014, and an MS in structural engineering at UNH in 2017. He lives in Manchester with his wife and children and works at an engineering firm in Bedford. From 2018-2020, Blaise served a term as president of the Congolese Community of New Hampshire.

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