Devon Alexander

Devon is the Director of Community and Public Relations at HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood. With expertise in strategic marketing, communications and social media integration, she is responsible for public affairs as related to the hospital and the role it plays in the community.

Dr. Bron Barkley

Dr. Bron Barkley is an accomplished  musician, teacher of the Jewish roots of Christianity, ministry leader and former senior pastor. He is the author of Designed Life.  He is also part of Dr. Victoria Sarvadi’s First Genesis Team.

Judy Cox

Judy served more than 30 years with FamilyTime Crisis and Counseling Center. She started training as a volunteer in March of 1987 and worked as a legal advocate before taking on the promotion of executive director for 14 years. Judy retired in 2020 and is now the director of HRA18’s annual Beauty for Ashes fundraising luncheon at the Kingwood Country Club.

Mark Dreistadt

Mark Dreistadt is the founder and President of Infinity Concepts, a company committed to helping clients think more strategically, operate more efficiently, and communicate more effectively. Mark has a long and distinguished history of transforming organizations through his strategic counsel and blended approach to branding, advertising, fundraising, and media management. Mark is passionate about Israel and Holocaust education and brings a unique blend of creativity and strategic thinking to help HRA18 with the mission to sensitize hearts to the issues of the Holocaust.

Christine Ege

Christine developed a love of travel and other cultures early in life. By the time she was 14, she had lived in numerous U.S. locations and connected with friends from different cultural backgrounds. This experience motivated her to pursue degrees in Russian, German, and French Languages and Literatures with a year of post-graduate work in interpreting and translation at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After living in Norway for several years, she and her husband Steve settled in Texas, where they have served in various volunteer capacities.

A leader with the March of Remembrance Texas since 2013, Christine is passionate about taking a stand against modern-day antisemitism. She also serves as executive director for a local anti-trafficking organization, where she leverages her baking experience to distribute thousands of cookies each year to grateful recipients.

John D. Garr, Ph.D., Th.D.

Dr. John Garr has served the Christian church as theologian, minister, presbyter, and educator for over 50 years, including the past 25 years as Founder and President of Restoration Foundation (Hebraic Christian Community), an Atlanta-based transdenominational, international, multi-ethnic networking organization focused on publishing and education. His career has been devoted to equipping Christians with insights into the historical and theological truth of Christianity’s Hebrew foundations and to promoting rapprochement between the international Christian and Jewish communities.

Marilyn Mann

Heinz Reuss

Heinz Reuss is the international director of March of Life and part of the pastoral team of TOS Church in Tübingen, Germany. Heinz is in charge of the training programs, young adult ministries, and public relations for TOS Ministries internationally. Heinz has been married to Ann-Caroline since 2013.

Hon. Debbie Riddle

Deborah (“Debbie”) Riddle is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 150, which encompasses much of northwest Harris County in and about Houston, Texas. 
Debbie is a horse breeder who lives in Tomball with her husband Mike, an attorney. In 2010, she self-published Taking Back Your Community, Your Country and Your Kids, which she described as, “a practical roadmap for anyone who chooses to make a difference in their country and community.

Mike Riddle

Mike Riddle is the Managing Partner of Riddle & Butts, LLP and has been practicing law in Harris County and surrounding counties for almost 40 years. Mike has been a guest speaker for the White House Conference on Aging and he spoke before the International Association of Financial Planners in Washington, D.C.

Mike has been a guest speaker for 30 years on Christian radio station KHCB 105.7. He has three grown children and lives in the Tomball area. He is a member of Champion Forest Baptist Church, where he serves as a Sunday school teacher. Mike is married to former Texas State representative Debbie Riddle.

Emanuel Rund

Emanuel Rund, a German-Jewish filmmaker, grew up in Israel and later moved to Germany, where he noticed a lack of Holocaust remembrance. Inspired by Israel’s Yom HaShoah, Rund advocated for a German Holocaust Memorial Day. In 1994, after filming young Germans in Israel, one of them expressed shame over the absence of a memorial day in Germany, sparking his final push. Rund met with over 200 influential people, and on January 3, 1996, German President Roman Herzog established January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day later became International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recognized by the EU and UN.

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Janice Sturkie

Janice Sturkie serves on the Board of the Institute for Hebraic Christian Studies and taught for several years at the campuses in Houston and Brenham. Janice has a passion for introducing Christians to the Hebraic Roots of their faith and connecting them to God’s purposes for Israel – to become “A Light to the Nations”.

Mrs. Sturkie is a US Representative for the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ), with Aliyah projects and other humanitarian needs in Israel.

Sanja Zoričić Tabaković

Mrs. Sanja Zoričić Tabaković is from the Shoah Academy, president of the Jewish Community of Zagreb and the Coordination of Jewish Communities.

Rev. Jim Welch

Rev. Jim Welch is the former senior pastor at Kingwood United Methodist Church.

Dr. DM Woody Woodward

Dr. DM Woody Woodward is an experienced pastor with a demonstrated history of working with nonprofit organizations, project management, systems oversight, communication, writing, discipleship. He is the leader of the March of Remembrance marches located in Kingwood and Austin, Texas. Dr. Woodward graduated with a doctoral degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in the track, “The Preacher and the Message,” with an emphasis on teaching people to communicate well.