coalition Team
The Greater Houston Coalition of Healthy Marriages Board of Directors
W.S. Lee - President & Chair
Pastor W.S. Lee, M.Div., D.Min (c), MFC, Denver Seminary. Mr. Lee served the Seventh-day Adventist church in four conferences across United States in various forms of ministry for over 49 years and actively in Marriages and Family strengthening leadership for 40 years.
His experience includes:
- Chaplain Arkansas Children's Hospital - Little Rock, AK
- Chair - Horizon's Intergenerational Wellness Coalition - Houston, TX
- President & Chair - Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition - Houston, TX
- Director - Family Ministries & Men's Ministries - for the SWR Conference of Seventh-day Adventist
Married to Wilma Kirk-Lee for more than 50 years, a father and grandfather.
Irma L. Palma - Secretary
Irma L. Palma graduated from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi with a Masters in Guidance and Counseling. Irma is a licensed Addiction Specialist with over 20 years of experience counseling children and families. She is active in the community serving as Secretary on the Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition Board of Directors, Vice-President of the KC Ladies Auxiliary and committee member on the Walk for Mental Health Awareness.
Married to John for 30 years and a mother of three.
Arturo Monterrubio-Treasurer
Deacon Arturo Monterrubio ordained in 2003 at the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is the Director of the Family Life Ministry of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He earned his undergraduate degree in Pastoral Theology and graduate degree in Theological Studies from St. Mary's Seminary - University of Saint Thomas and completed graduate school at Texas A&M University. Arturo actively serves as a Board Member and Treasurer of the Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition.
Nakia W. Edwards, MA
Nakia Edwards is the Assistant Director of Workforce and Family Strengthening for AVANCE Houston, Inc.. Mr. Edwards has over ten years of experience and training in research and evidence-based curricula. He represents AVANCE Houston in the Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition, Smart Marriages, and NARME. Nakia serves as a champion of healthy relationship and fatherhood initiatives for the Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition, actively serving on its Board of Directors and as the chairperson of the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative in the Greater Houston area.
Katrina Johnson
Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition Board of Directors
Helen Stagg
Helen Stagg is the Senior Director at Change Happens, a premier social service agency serving the Greater Gulf Coast Region and one of the largest minority founded non-profit organizations in Houston. As Senior Director, she is responsible for program operations and oversight, grant writing; and managing programs in excess of 6 million dollars. Ms. Stagg has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Houston, College of Social Work. Additionally she is a Field Instructor for the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Program; a scholar of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Association of Schools of Public Health Institute for HIV Prevention and an Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist.
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