Columbia resident is interim director of STTAR Center

Dawn Fisk Thomsen, a Columbia resident, is serving as interim executive director of the STTAR Center (formerly the Sexual Trauma Treatment, Advocacy and Recovery Center) in Columbia.

She is president and founder of DFT & Associates Inc., a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations that specializes in executive transitions.

The former executive director, Cheryl DePetro, resigned after eight years with the center and moved to New Hampshire.