As a mother of 2, Amelia has held the position of Vice President for fund raising at several booster clubs at the local High School where she consistently exceeded budget goals. During this time she witnessed first-hand our youths’ challenges, struggles, and determination inspiring her to co-found the Erik Hanson Scholarship in memoriam for one of her daughter’s friends who lost his struggle. Because of the need Ms. Floyd has seen in our community, she co-founded the Engage & Heal Foundation to erase the stigma of mental health and shatter the silence that surrounds this issue. Her determination and devotion to community will help her excel as President of the Engage & Heal Foundation.

Kerri Elliott’s experience is directly applicable to her role as the Treasurer of the Engage and Heal Foundation. In her own businesses, as well as being a Scout Treasurer and fund raiser she has demonstrated her financial expertise and extraordinary ethical standards in service to her community.

Bob is a local resident with 38 years experience working for a large energy company in management, planning, operations, marketing and sales. He also has 20 years of experience volunteering for charities and managing fundraisers. He is dedicated to assisting those in need throughout our community and will use his expertise/experience to promote mental health awareness and raise necessary funding for the foundation. Bob is a graduate of Washington State University.

Danielle Lair has served children and families in the local church since 2010, including her recent role as the cirector of Children’s Ministry at Lake Travis United Methodist Church (LTUMC). Danielle is administratively gifted, detail-oriented, and knows how to balance logistics within a relational ministry. She also has extensive experience in planning events for 10-5,000 people.

Through Danielle’s own trauma recovery journey, she has become increasingly passionate about mental health and wellness. She believes healing begins when we share our stories with others in safe spaces. To this end, she is launching a new mental health ministry at LTUMC as the Director of Wellness and Community Empowerment. In this role, Danielle will promote overall health and well-being in her community by leading efforts to create, mobilize, and sustain upstream mental health promotion practices and policies. She is focused on programs that support a holistic view of health and foster community-wide well-being.

Danielle graduated from Abilene Christian University in 2007. She has two kids, Tommy (6) and Lucy (5), and one fur baby named Teva. She enjoys time with her kids, eating all the food, reading, new adventures, and traveling.

Oscar is a business transformation leader with 25+ years of experience helping organizations with strategy required to enable success. He has worked at large organizations and multiple start-ups where he has driven transformation across several verticals. He has not only strategized growth for an organization through technology or process change, but also executed on the strategy and seen it to fruition. Oscar is not new to the non-profit space. He successfully developed and executed on a marketing and technology plan for a non-profit in Southern Ontario, Canada that was addressing mental health for migrant workers.

Oscar is married with three teenage children. They moved down from Toronto, Canada in 2021 to the Lake Travis area. Oscar and his wife have always volunteered in their communities, whether through their kid’s sports, fundraising or through the school’s PTO.

Oscar has a bachelor’s degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, N.C.