Clinical Co-Lead
Anadora Turner, MSW (USC), LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker · Master of Social Work, University of Southern California
Clinical Co-Lead, Guardians of the AV
Brief introduction
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Anadora is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Her clinical practice has centered on community work with populations the public benefits system tends to underserve — families in housing instability, women navigating safety planning, and the long tail of behavioral-health needs that get triaged out of acute care.
On Guardians of the AV, she serves as Clinical Co-Lead alongside Aaron Turner. The split is operational on purpose: Aaron designs the platform; Anadora shapes the field-side practice the platform has to support, and holds decision authority over every clinical-adjacent policy the project produces. Phase 0 in the Antelope Valley is being scoped from the inside, not from a slide deck.
She's working on this because the people she's seen go quiet over the years — leave the clinic, miss the appointment, stop returning calls — almost always did so for reasons the existing system can't see. The point of building something new in the Antelope Valley is to make those reasons visible early enough to act on.
Scope
Five ownership areas
The Clinical Co-Lead role is defined by substantive ownership, not by an hours commitment. Hours follow the scope. The five areas below are non-delegable to Aaron — they are her decisions.
Area 1
Clinical-policy ownership
The trauma-informed UX standard, the mandated-reporter procedure under California Penal Code §11164, clinical-content review on every resident-facing surface, and sign-off on any partnership with a HIPAA covered entity. No clinical-adjacent policy ships without her sign-off.
Area 2
Domestic-violence routing protocol — with veto on platform changes
The handoff script to the local victim-service provider and the Antelope Valley Family Justice Center, the annual VAWA-grant-condition review (34 U.S.C. §12291(b)(2)), and the training material for any future navigators or partner-org staff who encounter a DV disclosure. Non-waivable per Founding Charter §3.6. The platform does not ship DV-routing changes without her explicit sign-off.
Area 3
Trauma-informed UX gate — with a review cadence she sets
New intake flows, changes to crisis-routing surfaces, consent-screen copy, and any new collection of resident data fields route through her for recorded review before deployment. She sets the turnaround cadence; the build commits to honoring it.
Area 4
Field-interview leadership and mandated-reporter procedure
Phase 0 and Phase 1 field validation: she identifies which Antelope Valley service providers and lived-experience contacts to interview, conducts the interviews, and authors the synthesis that feeds product decisions. The written mandated-reporter procedure must exist and be signed before she interacts with residents in a Guardian-branded capacity.
Area 5
Clinical-licensure exposure framework
A written framework defining Guardian's use of her LCSW credential, the backup-LCSW rolodex with named clinicians (not abstract roles), professional-liability indemnification, and the scope boundary at which a clinical request is routed outside Guardian entirely.
⚠️ ANADORA REVIEW — these five areas reflect Aaron's reading of the role-scope document. Anadora's sign-off ratifies the framing; her redlines rescope it.
Reciprocal commitments
Three things the platform commits in return
The Co-Lead structure is real only if it is symmetrical. These three commitments are structural — written into the role-scope document and surfaced publicly so they are auditable.
Compensation path post-501(c)(3) — with back-pay reconciliation explicitly committed
Pre-501(c)(3), no founder compensation — the household is supported by Anadora's clinical income. Post-501(c)(3), compensation is set by the disinterested-director Comp Committee under the IRC §4958 rebuttable-presumption procedure. The Comp Committee's first review includes a cumulative back-pay reconciliation for Phase 0 and Phase 1 contributed time — committed, not deferred.
Public-credit policy — structural, not courtesy
Co-founder listing on every founding-team surface; LCSW and MSW (USC) credentials named consistently. Press attribution: if a journalist asks for a Guardian quote on anything clinical, trauma-informed, DV-related, or population-policy, the quote goes to her. If she is unavailable, the journalist is redirected — not given a substitute quote from Aaron.
Time-boundary enforcement — platform rescopes around the lower number
If Guardian's growth pulls her hours past what is sustainable, the platform narrows the scope, not the other way around. Scope-change conversations are structural, not in-the-moment asks. Stepping back from operating Co-Lead invokes the clinical-handoff doctrine — supported, not penalized.
Compensation status
Honest note: Anadora is uncompensated today
Phase 0 is contributed time. Anadora is not currently being paid for Guardian work. This is documented in the governance role-scope document §4.1 and flagged in the project's load-bearing-assumption audit (row G2).
We publish this on the public profile rather than burying it in governance documents because the gap is real and because the structural correction — no founder pay pre-501(c)(3), Comp Committee compensation post-501(c)(3), explicit back-pay reconciliation — only becomes credible when the gap is named publicly.
Anadora's Guardian hours are net additional to her LCSW clinical practice, which she maintains throughout. The Phase 0 hours figure in the role-scope document is a working assumption pending her sign-off; the scope rescopes around the number she names, not the other way around.
Full governance frame: Governance index.
Spousal-DQP procedure
Why a §4958 procedure exists for a co-founding spouse
Under Treasury Regulation §53.4958-3, both Aaron and Anadora are "disqualified persons" with respect to the future Guardians of the AV, Inc. — Aaron as founder and director, Anadora as founder, Clinical Co-Lead, and spouse of a DQP. That status is structural and cannot be waived by board vote.
The project's response is a written annual procedure (the IRC §4958 rebuttable-presumption procedure in the governance bundle) used by the disinterested-director Comp Committee, with per-individual analysis and a separate household-total review. The procedure is public so partners, funders, and the eventual board can audit how a husband-and-wife founding team intends to handle compensation honestly.
⚠️ Anadora review pending
This page describes Anadora in the third person from the public-bio language in the role-scope document. It has not yet been line-by-line ratified by Anadora. Sections marked ANADORA REVIEW are first drafts by Aaron pending her sign-off or redline. Once ratified, this banner comes down and the signed date is published below it.