Meet The Team
Cypriana Hicklen
Cypriana Hicklen comes to NCRC with 17 years of nonprofit experience. Prior to NCRC, Cypriana worked at the Textile Museum for 17 years, where she served as Accounting Manager. Cypriana also brings with her 20 years of tax professional services experience. She is currently enrolled in University of Maryland Global Campus pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
Diane Crockett
Diane Crockett is the Chief Financial Officer of NCRC. Prior to joining NCRC, Diane served as Chief Financial Officer at The Summit Charitable Foundation where she provided strategic leadership for all financial, grantmaking and administrative operations of the foundation. Summit is a private foundation which focuses on equality for women and girls, a resilient Mesoamerican reef and promoting sustainable cities. Previously, she was Chief Financial Officer at Goodwill of Greater Washington.
Her prior experience includes more than 17 years in a variety of roles at The AES Corporation, a global power company, where she ended her career as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to her time at AES, Diane held accounting positions at Claritas, a geodemographic marketing company, and Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company.
Diane currently serves as director on the board of Kakenya’s Dream, a nonprofit organization that invests in girls from rural Kenya through educational, health and leadership initiatives to create agents of change.
Diane is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and received her MBA from the University of New Haven. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Greater Washington Society of CPAs. She lives with her husband on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
Larry Cain
Larry Cain is the Senior Analyst, Grants Budgeting and Reporting and has over twenty years of nonprofit budgeting and finance experience. As a member of the Finance Team, his responsibilities include monthly budget reporting and analysis, project budget development, organizational budget analysis, as well as overall Finance department leadership. He has a passion for social justice and loves to cook. Larry attended Bowie State University, majoring in Accounting.
Molly Thomas
Molly Thomas (she/her) has joined the NCRC Finance team after an extensive career in administration, payroll management, and, eventually, bookkeeping and accounting. She transplanted to the DC area after fourteen years in New York City, and has worked with large legal services companies, very small artistic businesses, and progressive outreach organizations, and in all cases has pursued her commitment to clear, kind communication, accuracy of information, and building and maintaining trust across institutions based on those commitments. Molly has a BFA in Drama from New York University and is an Intuit Academy Certified Bookkeeper, and has a second career as a working actor in the NYC and DC markets, focusing mostly on Shakespeare and other silly works.