Accomplished senior executive with significant experience in sales, operations, acquisition integration and strategy development with publicly traded company in B2B services market.   Unique ability to translate corporate vision into business results through demonstrated strengths in communication, culture building and motivating teams to support strategic goals.  Dynamic team builder who maximizes profits and develops talent to drive growth.

Kayte Anton is the Director of Communications at Augustine Christian Academy, a Christian classical school located in the heart of Tulsa. She earned a Bachelor's degree in communications and history and a Master's in Education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University. She also holds a Master's in American Studies from Northeastern State University. She volunteers with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma, Muddy Paws Pets Helping People, and is active in her church, Christ Church Episcopal, Tulsa. She lives in Sand Springs with her husband, Luke, a Database Administrator with Cherokee Nation Business, and her two children, Ruby and Abel.

Kim is a results-driven professional with 25+ years of experience in media, marketing, and communications, most recently as the Director of Radio Operations at Cox Media Group in Tulsa.

In her 18 years with CMG, she considers herself fortunate to have had the opportunity to lead effective events, promotions and marketing campaigns for local community organizations.

Kim and her husband Dave have been married for 25 years. They live in Jenks with Kim’s daughter Cambria and two very large, very spoiled Great Pyrenees.

Jonathan Belzley is a Tulsa-based real estate professional, small-scale developer, and civic-minded builder with more than two decades of experience across retail, office, and industrial properties. His work blends hands-on dealmaking with a broader vision for how cities grow, evolve, and regenerate. 

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Before returning to Tulsa in 2008, Jonathan built a career in Hollywood as a mastering engineer, working with both major-label and independent artists at The Mastering Lab and Lurssen Mastering after earning his degree from Berklee College of Music. That creative foundation still shapes his approach—equal parts technical precision and big-picture thinking. 

Through New Leaf Development, Jonathan focuses on infill housing and the restoration of historic properties, with an emphasis on energy efficiency, durability, and thoughtful design. His goal is simple but ambitious: create attainable, well-crafted homes that contribute to healthier neighborhoods and a more sustainable Tulsa. 

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Deeply engaged in the civic fabric of the city, Jonathan has helped launch and lead multiple initiatives, including TYPROS Urbanist Crew and Street CReD, and has served on boards and advisory groups spanning urban planning, transportation, and community development. His work reflects a consistent throughline—bringing people, ideas, and places into alignment to move Tulsa forward.

Marquess Dennis is a dedicated family man, married to Crystal Dennis and father to five. He is an active member of the Tulsa community and a passionate advocate for fatherhood and leadership. 

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As a father looking to improve, Marquess encountered a few challenges that led him to create Birthright Living Legacy. Growing up, he had to rely on coaches, pastors, and friends' fathers to learn how to be a better father. He realized the necessity for a secure environment where fathers and their children could build a strong connection through various activities and projects. Since then, he has become a public speaker for leadership and fatherhood through Birthright Living Legacy. 

Lorri has been active in Tulsa and all of Oklahoma for the last 29 years working as an Executive Sales Representative, with Major Corporations who have been the top 10% of her company year after year and has a fantastic Networking group that supports Family Promise. Her biggest Joy is the “owned” Businesses here in Oklahoma that truly support this organization with monies, time, material and labor in the print industry. She is always sharing the cause for this organization with an urgency to help make sure that each event is covered with the beauty of print for the marketing part of the organization.

Lorri is happily married to her best friend Gregg Elpers and has 3 grown children and 6 fantastic
grandchildren who are the Joy of her life and lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She hopes and prays by her continued work and support for this non-profit organization Family Promise, it will make this big, sometimes scary world a better place to live in.

Madison Fowler I was born and raised in Tulsa and have called Sand Springs home since high school. For the past four and a half years, I've had the privilege of working in nonprofits, first with Life.Church in Small Groups and Missions, and later in program and volunteer coordination and youth homeless diversion through the Tulsa Dream Center.

For the past two years, I've served as the Widows Program Manager at Stand in the Gap Ministries, where I have the opportunity to walk alongside widows’ ministry leaders to support and equip them as they serve widows in their communities. I'm passionate about serving others and appreciate the opportunity to be considered. I'm excited to learn more about Family Promise Tulsa and explore how I might contribute to its mission.

Valerie Gheen has been married to her husband, Tim, for 46 years. They have one daughter and three grandchildren that live in central California. They enjoy going to visit them and seeing the sights of southern California, which is where they lived when the met and married. Valerie attended a small, private college in Pasadena, California.  

After spending 30+ years as an accountant in the oil and gas industry, Valerie retired in 2022. She continued to consult with her firm for another couple of years until the sale of the company was finalized. As part of her work with Oxley Resources, she worked with The Oxley Foundation, so she is familiar with some aspects of the non-profit world.

Now that she is retired, Valerie is able to spend her time traveling and cooking, as well as volunteering at several different non-profits. She works with The Nature Conservancy, currently serving as a docent, a docent mentor, and a docent coordinator at the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska, OK. She serves one day a week at Restore Hope’s food pantry program. She enjoys singing, and is a member of her church’s praise band at Community Brookside in Tulsa. She has also fostered dogs that are up for adoption through Homeward Bound Pug Rescue.

One of Valerie’s beliefs is that when you help people, if you have the opportunity to teach them how to help themselves improve their life, you should do so. This is one reason she is excited to work with Family Promise because their programs teach clients to set and meet goals that will help them be successful.  

Anthony Mann was born and raised in Tulsa, I graduated, in 1999, from Booker T. Washington High School. 

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In  2017 I joined, Charney & Brown, becoming a partner last year.  Our firm largely deals in the oil and gas field, representing drilling companies with respect to a variety of legal issues that range from administrative requirements to real estate and mineral title examinations.  In addition to oil and gas law and insurance law, I also practice in the areas of estate planning, contract drafting and interpretation, probate, quiet title to real estate, and general legal research and writing.  Moreover, throughout my legal career I have been a volunteer attorney for Legal Aid of Tulsa, providing pro-bono representation to economically disadvantaged clients in landlord-tenant disputes, divorce, probate matters, and expungements of criminal records.  

At sixteen years old, I went with a friend’s church youth group to Juarez, Mexico.  We helped build houses for the town’s poor and homeless.  The abject poverty, the suffering and the desperation of the people I encountered there left an indelible impression on me.  It was something I had never before seen, or at least had never taken the time to notice.  Since then, I have been profoundly interested in the plight of the poor and the homeless. 

Over the years, and especially within the last decade or so, I have watched as the homeless population has escalated to an alarming degree not only here in Tulsa, but also in all the other large cities I have visited.  It is an undeniable problem, reflecting, in my opinion, huge gaps in the structure of our society.  At this point in my life, I would like to do whatever I possibly can to help fill those gaps and relieve some of the suffering that exists in our community.  

Ms. Jean M. Neal is a Tulsa native, and Pastor of the New Faith Baptist Church. She holds the position of Program, Development, and Event Manager for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation.

Ms. Neal has received numerous awards and commendations for her socially conscious programming involvement, and grass-roots community participation. Ms. Neal is the recipient of the 2015 Pinnacle Award issued by the Mayor’s Commission, on the Status of Women for the City of Tulsa.  Ms. Neal founded In His Image International Ministries.

Heather Scherer was part of the creation team for Family Promise of Tulsa County.  She served on the recruitment team and then became a founding financial partner.  Heather is Senior Pastor of Faith United Methodist church after being a church planter and working with teens for twenty years.  She has been married for 34 years and has 3 grown children.