Our Board

Ray Conn

Chairman and President

Ray graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Sociology. He is the owner of ArCon and TriCon design/construction companies in Cincinnati, Ohio and Tennessee. He serves as the President of the Board of Directors for Restavek Freedom and also serves as Treasurer for OPREH, the Haitian arm of the foundation.

JOAN CONN

Executive Director

Joan leads all of the operations and programming and splits her time between the US and Haiti. She was a co-founding family of Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. She also led Go Cincinnati for several years, coordinating 2500 volunteers and 100 service projects citywide. Joan received her undergraduate degree in Education from Lee University and a graduate degree from University of Cincinnati.

STEVE BOSMAN

Board Member

Steve is the Chief Manufacturing Officer and co-founder of Trusscore, a company with operations in the U.S. and Canada that is changing residential and commercial construction with products that combine sustainable materials with nanotechnology. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and exchanging views with other business leaders and is a member of the MacKay CEO Forums, a worldwide peer learning and growth organization.

CHRISTINE LEE BUCHHOLZ

Board Member

Christine is a former Senior Advisor in the US Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. She led the Office’s efforts to honor the 20th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, working closely with the White House to host a summit on human trafficking and publishing a 20th Anniversary Retrospective. She previously worked on anti-trafficking initiatives in India and the United States as an advisor, consultant, and donor. Christine studied economics at Wellesley College and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

CHRISTINA GUERIN

Board Member

Born and raised in Haiti, Christina Guérin is the producer of Zoukoutap, as well as the president of BLOOM and co-founder of Scream, an ad agency established in Haiti in 2004. Daughter of well-known Haitian author Mona Guérin, Christina is a skilled writer, performer and the producer of our radio drama for social change.

Ben Hautt

BENJAMIN HAUTT

Board Member

Benjamin is the Co-Managing Partner of Stream’s Atlanta office. Since opening the office in 2008, Ben has been responsible for growing the services portfolio, recruiting new talent, and identifying acquisitions in Georgia. The Atlanta office grew from one employee to over sixty under Ben and his co-managing partner’s lead, while adding over 20 million square feet of assignments.

RANDY LANDIS

Board Member

Randy is the pastor of Life Church, a multi-site church in Pennsylvania. He attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas for one year and then transferred to Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he received a diploma and his ordination.