Co-Founder, Director 

Alicia Christopher graduated from The College of William and Mary, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree and played Division I field hockey. Alicia has dedicated 20-plus years to teaching and coaching field hockey to young women at the high school and club levels.  Alicia was the founder and President of Garden Girls, LLC, a company that hand-crafted small garden storage sheds and bird feeders. Alicia dedicates time to serving on nonprofit boards and committees in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.  She is married and raising four children. 

Co-Founder, Director 

Jodie has a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. Jodie has worked for Mercy Hospital St. Louis for over 15 years and specializes in geriatric rehabilitation, acute care, stroke, brain injury, and spinal cord rehabilitation. Jodie earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from Northwestern University, where she played division one field hockey. Jodie is an avid writer and writes a mom’s blog called The Finney 411. For more information on her writing journey and to read about her Alzheimer’s caregiving experience, visit The Finney 411. Jodie and her husband live in St. Louis with four girls, two dogs, and four chickens.
 

Director 

Allie Christopher graduated from Bucknell University in 2020 with a double major in Neuroscience and Spanish. She was a four-year member of the field hockey team during her time in Lewisburg. Following graduation, Allie traveled to Swansea, Wales, where she attended Swansea University and earned her Master’s in Public Health while continuing to play field hockey. She completed her dissertation on the impact of COVID-19 on Youth Sports. Allie currently works at Urgent Care in St. Louis, where she is a medical technologist. Allie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, doing anything outside, and watching St. Louis sports.

I was born and raised in Houston, then attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas followed by medical school at UT Southwestern also in Dallas, where I stayed for my residency in Neurology. I was in private practice for about 5 years before deciding to return to academic medicine and completed a two-year fellowship in Behavioral & Cognitive Neurology under the mentorship of Kenneth Heilman at the University of Florida. Following that, I took a faculty position at UT Southwestern back in Dallas, where I was an investigator with the Alzheimer Disease Center there for 18 years before being recruited to come to the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Washington University in July of 2020.

Ethan Oetter is the founder of Long River Investment Management LLC. Ethan holds a BA and MBA from Yale. In addition to The Caregiver Club®, his civic involvement includes working with the Kairos Academies charter schools and Unlocked Labs’ prisoner education program.