Sandy Faucett – Executive Committee VP
Sandy is the CEO and Executive Director of Katy Christian Ministries and sits on the board of several non-profit boards including Breath of Life. She is part of a Houston Collaboration of almost 16 ministries and 14 foundations and was awarded the Maconda Brown 0’Connor Organizational Spirit of Collaboration Award from “Collaborative for Children”, Sandy understands that our non profits and the community can do more as a group than we can on our own, and shares this believe from her position as a Katy ARTreach executive board member.

Claudia Richter- Executive Committee- Secretary
Claudia Richter is the editor of Absolutely! Katy and Memorial magazines, two publications that are dedicated to supporting and featuring the best our communities have to offer. She is currently serving as secretary for Katy ARTreach and before that served on the board as a member-at-large. Claudia’s position with a local publication has helped provide greater visibility for ARTreach and other organizations, people and businesses who support efforts to help less fortunate residents living in our area.

Lori Gunn- Executive Committee- Treasurer
Lori Gunn is currently the Controller for MKT Mortgage located in Katy Texas. She was formerly a partner and Chief Operating Officer with Bricker Cannady Architects. Lori loves the arts and has been involved with Katy ARTreach for several years. She serves specifically to benefit the elderly and special needs community. Lori also helped establish the Katy Performing Arts Society with several other community leaders and currently serves as the interim General Manager. She has spent several years working with the Katy Chamber of Commerce and is currently in her third year on the Chamber Board of Directors. She is an active member of the Katy Heritage Society and serving as Treasurer on the board from 2005 to 2006.

Carol Eckels Adams- Executive Board Member at Large
Carol Adams is the executive director of the Katy Hertiage Society, and has devoted over three decades toward the work of historical conservation and preserving local heritage. Before working for the Katy Heritage Society, she worked with the Harris County Historical Society, the Texas Historical Commission, the Houston Heights Association and the Harris County Historical Commission. For her efforts she has received two prestigious individual Good Brick Awards from the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, the Historic Preservation Medal from the NSDAR and was named 2003 Volunteer of the Year by the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce. Carol continues to support local and regional organizations as a board member for the City of Katy Heritage Park Board, the Katy Performing Arts Society, Katy ARTreach, Katy Literary Club and as a charter member of the West Fort Bend County Republican Women, life member of the 100 Club, life member of the Friends of Katy Library and more.

Katherine Ammer -Executive Board Member at Large
Katherine is the Katy ARTreach Nominating Committee Chairman. She has been involved in not-for-profit work for many years in Austin, San Antonio, Galveston and now Katy. She was named Texas Volunteer of the Year by Governor Mark White. She has been on both sides of the Board Room table by being President of the Lone Star Girl Scout Council and also Executive Director of The Ronald McDonald House in Galveston. She has experience in the work of Foundations and numerous community organizations. She has been interested in the Arts for many years and is one of the founding directors of the East End Theatre Company in Galveston. She is presently President of Goose Lake Corp. and active board member in other organizations including the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce, the Katy Historical Society, The Katy Performing Arts Society, and the Christ Clinic Board of Directors.

Ann Bayliss Executive Board Member at Large
Ann Bayliss has been active in Katy ARTreach since 2003 serving in an advisory capacity to develop programs for children and the secondary victims of domestic violence. As a board member she supports fundraising thorough grant writing. Her business affiliation is with the Forum Senior Care Residences of Houston, with her advisory focus on senior citizens and bringing enrichment to their daily lives and making it possible for senior residents to stay active in the cultural community of Houston.

Scott Bieber - Executive Board Member at Large
Scott Bieber is the chairman of the ARTreach finance committee. He is also Marketing Manager for Baker Petrolite's Industrial group in Sugar Land, Texas, responsible for strategic analysis and technical marketing for the group’s refinery and petrochemical process technologies. He has also held various product development, product management, technical support management and sales positions during his career in the hydrocarbon processing specialty chemicals industry. Scott has a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, and an MBA (International Business) from the University of Houston.

Martha Brown- Executive Board Member at Large
Martha joined Katy ISD’s Partners in Education program in July 1996. She is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the district’s Volunteers in Public Schools program, which oversees more than 11,000 parent and community volunteers at Katy ISD campuses. She also manages the KEYS mentoring program, an initiative that serves children on the brink of success.

Mary Gready- Executive Board Member at Large
Mary Gready is the Supervisor of Special Programs at the Fort Bend County Juvenile Probation Department and is dedicated to developing and supporting programs and partnerships that will meet the special needs of at-risk juveniles. She was formerly the Executive Director of Fort Bend Partnership for Youth, Inc., a non-profit mentoring agency founded in 1996. While this nonprofit's programs were absorbed into the juvenile probation department's operations in 2004, the nonprofit still exists as an auxiliary organization expressly for support of the programs and services benefiting juveniles involved with this department. Mary is a Trustee on the Board of Fort Bend Partnership for Youth. Mary first served as an Advisor to the Katy ARTreach Board in conjunction with the special programs being brought into the Juvenile Detention Center and then became a Trustee in order to better represent Fort Bend County.

Laura Leigh Robinson- Executive Board Member at Large

Community Advisors

Ann F. Hodge- Katy ARTreach Community Advisor
Ann is the President/CEO Katy Area Chamber of Commerce. She is keenly aware of the challenges facing the community to maintain an outstanding quality of life as well as an excellent education system and supports this interest as an advisor to Katy ARTreach. Ms. Hodge currently serves as Chair of the Texas Workforce Investment Council. She has served as a gubernatorial appointment for over 18 years. Additionally, she serves on numerous national, regional and local organizations, including currently serving as a director of the Texas Association of Business, American Heart Association (Katy Chapter), Katy Performing Arts Society and the Texas Women’s Alliance. Ms. Hodge is a graduate of the 1988 Class of Leadership Texas and has served on their Board of Directors. She is also a graduate of the 1990 Class of Leadership America where she served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Ms. Hodge was named Citizen of the Year in February 2006 by the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce. The award was a direct result of her exceptional service as President/CEO of the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Ms. Hodge was named an Honoree for the 2006 Annual Citizens for Animal Protection. In late 2006, Ms. Hodge was named one of the ten Texas Women on the Move. In September 2007, Ms. Hodge was named the “Best Business Woman” by the Katy Sun Readers Poll.

Dr. Zachary R. Hodges- Katy ARTreach Advisor- Katy/Houston
Dr. Hodges is a 27 year resident of West Houston and has served as President of Houston Community College Northwest for the last 13 years. Locally Dr. Hodges has served as Chair of the Mustang District of the Boy Scouts of America, Board Member at West Houston Hospital, and Member of the Partners in Education for both Katy and Spring Branch ISD. He was selected as Citizen of the Year by the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce in 2003. He has long been an advocate for educational issues in West Houston and is widely recognized for his achievements at the local, state and national level. He is also an advisory board member for Katy ARTreach and is committed to working as a catalyst to bring an appreciation and an opportunity for participation in the arts and to use art as a lever for creating access to under represented groups in the community.

Jefferson Todd Frazier- Katy ARTreach Advisor- Katy/Houston
Todd Frazier is a composer, educator, and arts administrator. He is the Executive Director of Young Audiences of Houston (YAH), one of 31 independent chapters of Young Audiences, Inc. The mission of YAH is to educate and inspire children through the arts. In its most recently completed season alone, YAH's roster of 78 professional artists, representing all fine arts disciplines, brought the arts and culture to more than 330,000 children through over 2,200 high quality performances, workshops, and residences in school and community venues throughout the greater Houston area. Mr. Frazier is also the Founder (est. 1993) of American Festival for the Arts (AFA), which safeguards the availability of high quality K-12 music education through the AFA Summer Music Conservatory Campuses, presently in Houston and Beaumont, Texas. He received his music composition training from The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and The Juilliard School in New York, NY where his major teachers included American composers David Diamond and Samuel Adler. On the occasion of the Juilliard School’s 100th anniversary in 2006, Frazier was recognized as one of 100 distinguished alumni and profiled in the Juilliard Journal's "A Quiet Revolution: Juilliard Alumni and The Transformation of Education in America Through the Arts." He serves on the advisory boards of the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the Texas-French Alliance for the Arts, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and Katy ARTreach, an organization YAH is presently partnering with in order to expand fine arts programming to at-risk youth. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Houston Arts Alliance, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and Texas Music Teachers Association. Frazier’s other interests, which inspire his music and teaching, include an active involvement in real estate, agriculture, medical technology, and Texas and American history. He is a 6th generation Texan and is proud of his wife Jennifer, son Mac, daughter Kenzie, and his Merriman, Frazier, Bryant and McReynolds clans.

Downy Vickery- Katy ARTreach Community Advisor
CEO and president of Tradition Bank "I consider myself very fortunate to have been associated with the Tradition Bank Family for the past 27 years. During that time we have always placed a tremendous emphasis on getting involved in the life of the communities we serve. The opportunity we have had in Katy to work with Katy ARTreach is a perfect example of the type of organization we love to be associated with. Katy ARTreach touches the lives and hearts of so many in Katy and is one of the reasons that make Katy such a wonderful place in which to live and work. It's a fun, worthwhile organization that provides us a chance to help others and give back to the community.

Kathy Renfrow- Katy ARTreach Advisors-Fort Bend
Kathy works for Volunteer Houston as the Director of Volunteer Fort Bend. She earned her degree in Social Work from Sienna Heights University in Adrian Michigan and worked with the Xerox Corporation in Houston for 14 years in customer support and outside sales. Kathy has been a volunteer in Fort Bend for many years, primarily with the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County as a tutor and now on the “Bike the Bend” for Literacy event planning committee. She is on the steering committee for the “Fort Bend Alliance”, an advisor for Katy ARTreach and a new member of the Community Enrichment program, sponsored by Rosenberg Richmond Chamber. Kathy was hired in June of 2006 to be the Director of Volunteer Fort Bend, which is a new satellite office of Volunteer Houston whose mission is to engage more people and resources more effectively in volunteer service. Katy ARTreach is an organization whose mission resonates with me because of my interest in art. I minored in art in college and have taken drawing and photography classes throughout the years. Based on my personal experience, I have a great love and appreciation for art and the impact it can have on a person’s life and well-being. I support the mission of Katy ARTreach to engage underserved school communities and at- risk populations through art as an incredible vehicle…a “Way”… of fostering health and well being in those who may never have had the opportunity.

Lisa Guidry- Katy ARTreach Corporate and West Houston Advisor
Lisa Guidry is the President, CEO of Extreme Technologies, Inc. with its corporate offices located in West Houston. “I believe in the commitment of supporting the ARTreach programs. It is my personal commitment to see that other local companies help in the support of this and other programs that reach out to the children of our communities.” Extreme Technologies delivers strategic IT/Business advisory consulting, managed services, technology-driven business solutions and staff resourcing services to emerging organizations to Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States and are the major Katy ARTreach benefactor of programs supporting equal access to the arts in Katy.

John Pape- Katy ARTreach Advisor Katy/Fort Bend /Sugar Land
John Pape is the editor of the Katy Sun, Sugar Land Sun and Fort Bend Sun newspaper group. One of the objectives of the Sun newspaper group is to support non-profit organizations that work to improve the quality of life in the community and help those in need. As a part of this community outreach effort, the Katy Sun has chosen to support ARTreach and its various programs and endeavors to make Katy and the Fort Bend area a better place to live.

Beth Zarate- Katy ARTreach Agency Advisor
Beth Zarate currently serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. She has over 15 years of experience working with children and families through Military Youth Activities, the YMCA, Texas PTA and public and private education. As a trainer and parent educator Beth believes strongly in the community's role in ensuring every child is rich in the developmental assets, especially the Arts!

Monica Meade, LCSW- Katy ARTreach Fort Bend ISD Campus Advisor
Monica has been a school social worker with Fort Bend Independent School District for 16 years. She is responsible for directly providing school social work services to 9 elementary campuses, as well as participating in District programs and the District crisis team. She is FBISD’s agency advisor to Katy ARTreach, and is working to develop programs on elementary campuses as well as the alternative schools.

John Merriwether- Katy ARTreach Agency and Campus Advisor
Principal of the University of Texas Charter Schools in the Houston area and educational consultant for Region 4.. There are two campuses, DePelchin Elkins and DePelchin Richmond. These are residential treatment centers that cater to students under CPS custody waiting for foster care placement. This is the second year that we have been involved with Katy ARTreach and it has helped us to provide programs in the arts area since we do not have certified teachers to teach these courses on our campuses. We look forward to Katy ARTreach's support this year at Richmond again and hope to expand to the Elkins campus in Houston.

Susan Burden- Agency Advisor (Harris County)
Susan Burden is the program director of CROSSROADS Community Partnership for Youth, Inc., founded in 1968, is a non-profit charitable organization whose mentors befriend boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 17. These youth are referred to our agency by the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department and other child serving agencies. The goal is crime prevention! CROSSROADS has been fortunate to have Katy ARTreach as an active participant in helping to foster our mentoring programs. We have been fortunate to have Katy ARTreach involved in various art projects in several of the Harris County Juvenile Probation detention facilities. This positive interaction through art with these incarcerated children has always raised their self-esteem and has given them great joy in being able to express their feelings and creativity. It is such a positive experience for these kids to have these projects to look forward to while they are going through such a hard time of their young lives. We value Katy ARTreach’s support and would love to see their programs continue to succeed and grow.

Nancy Stiles Katy ARTreach Katy ISD Advisor
Katy ISD Safe and Drug Free Campuses- Nancy is in her 46th year of working with public schools. Ms. Stiles spent most of those years as a principal. As a principal, she learned the value of mentoring and of building strong community involvement. For the past several years, Ms. Stiles has concentrated her leadership to the field of Safe Drug Free Schools and Communities. Katy ARTreach is one of the community organizations that Ms. Stiles acknowledges as providing viable ways to “connect” students to their school and praises the leadership of Katy ARTreach for their achievement and growth.

Becky Bracewell- Katy ARTreach Katy ISD Campus Advisor
Principal of Morton Ranch Junior High. Morton Ranch Junior High partners with Katy ARTreach to provide a positive after school program for at-risk students. Together we offer kids a safe, fun place to hang out after school, access to homework help and tutorials, experiences they would not otherwise have, hope and positive relationships. Katy ARTreach supports the MRJH Mentor Program as well.

Shannon Prejean –Katy ARTreach Agency Advisor
Shannon serves as Director of Community Relations at Sunrise of Cinco Ranch where she councils with families about the needs of their loved ones transitioning into assisted living. In addition, she is the liaison connecting Sunrise to the Katy community through partnerships with local businesses and organizations. Shannon supports the need for arts & the service projects related to the arts as a vital tool in enriching the lives of seniors, creating an outlet for expression and a means to connect with one another. She plays a supportive role in the Katy ARTreach organization of both recruiting and managing the volunteers that join the Sunrise team to champion the quality of life for all seniors!

State Senator Glenn Hegar- Katy ARTreach Community Advisor
“Many people are hearing about the great work being done through Katy ARTreach. This is why many community leaders and local businesses are very proud of their involvement in the success of this outreach organization. Katy ARTreach is a community supported non profit operating on a modest budget that puts its resources directly into outreach programs to provide much needed art programs and mentors to a rapidly growing list of social service agencies and underserved schools. Their advocacy campaigns and willingness to share their resources is clearly advancing the arts-in-education movement state wide, opening doors and paving the way for this small grassroots non profit from Katy, Texas to have a tremendous impact on a very important population!”

KEY Staff
complete resumes are available upon request

Terri Bieber
Executive Director and founder of Katy ARTreach, 15 years non-profit leadership experience, professional visual artist, writer, registered mentor and lead teaching artist trained to work in all fields. Community involvement this year includes board of directors, Katy Hertiage Society, Katy Performing Arts Society, BJH/PTA, JWE/PTA, Advisory Committee for Katy ISD Partners in Education, Houston Community College Steering Committee, and Young Audiences of Houston Educational Committee,

Chris Gamez
Program Director overseeing ARTreach projects in the Houston area. 11 years professional visual performing artist and founder of the international dance company URGEWORKS. Chris is an approved mentor, professional dancer, spoken word, rap recording artist and ARTreach roster lead teaching artist trained to work with at-risk and high risk youth.

Elizabeth Linder
Program Director overseeing programs serving children at risk in the Katy independent school district. An approved mentor, professional visual artist, illustrator and studio teacher. Elizabeth is an ARTreach roster lead artist trained to work in all fields, and available for professional staff development. Elizabeth is specialized in working with at risk youth

Kim Ginn
Katy ARTreach Director overseeing programs serving the elderly, adults with physical and mental disabilities, and children with special needs. Kim has a medical field background with nursing experience in pediatric and hospice care. Her background and interest in the arts supports Katy ARTreach’s capacity to serve the needs within these specific populations. Kim is an approved mentor, professional instructor, and ARTreach roster lead teaching artist trained to work in specialized fields.

Bobby Herring
Program Director overseeing ARTreach projects serving Victims of Crime, Incarcerated Youth, and Drug Rehabilitation through the Arts. 10 years professional studio recording industry experience and positive hip hop outreach. Bobby is an approved mentor, professional MC and ARTreach roster lead teaching artist trained to work with at risk youth and adults. Bobby R. Herring, aka Tre9, is often times referred to as the hardest working man in Houston's hip hop music industry. This is because he is always seeking new ways to expose America's youth to a better side of hip hop, which teaches positive principles and good morals. Whether he is providing inspiration as a rap artist through his own record label, Much Luvv Records, or building self-esteem through the visual performance company he co-founded, Urgeworks, Bobby is constantly striving to help others find hope. He is also an entrepreneur who owns a commercial building maintenance company called the Cleaning Critters. Growing up in the inner city with very little funds available, he took hold of what he had and used it to be successful in business. Now he shares with others how to take that same determination and drive to start their own businesses.

As the Houston ARTreach Director, Mr. Herring is connecting local businesses, churches, and other entities with the youth organizations in their communities, recruiting volunteers and supporting fundraising. He teaches a rap, spoken word, and poetry class in which young people learn how to express themselves through song composition and visual performance. Truly an asset to the ARTreach family, Tre9 is making a difference in the world through the arts.

Vickie McMillan
Program Director overseeing ARTreach projects in the Woodlands and Internationally as part of church mission outreach. Vickie is an approved mentor, professional visual artist, studio artist and an ARTreach roster lead teaching artists trained to work with at risk children and available for professional staff development.

Elizabeth Bailey
Graphic Designer, webmaster and key staff available for ARTreach graphic design and website maintenance with updates aimed at web outreach and program sharing practices. Professional art background includes visual artist, graphic designer, muralist, documentary film maker.