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Sara Martin is an Admin program officer for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ Religious and Volunteer Services Unit. In both her secular and religious roles, Sara often provides continuity, support and hospitality to encourage a welcoming, accessible and user-friendly environment. In her role with ODOC, Sara’s primary responsibilities is centered around volunteer management, recruitment and retention as well as providing administrative support to the Agency Chaplain and staff. 
 
Sara holds a Master of Divinity from Saint Paul School of Theology and a BA in Religious Studies from Oklahoma City University with a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership of the Arts. She is currently working on a second master’s in public administration from the University of Central Oklahoma. 

Sara is also a provisional deacon completing her residency towards becoming an ordained clergy person. Her areas of specialized ministry include disability advocacy, leadership development, spiritual formation and digital ministry.  She chairs the Disability Concerns Taskforce of the Oklahoma Annual Conference and is a board member for the Disability Ministries Committee of the United Methodist Church, whose work extends nationally and internationally. 

Passionate about disability awareness and improving accessibility in secular and religious spaces, Sara utilizes her lived experience as a disabled person and ambulatory wheelchair user personally as well as professionally. 

Rev. Mary Gaudreau Hughes is an ordained United Methodist deacon, Oklahoma licensed professional counselor, and nationally known disaster response specialist with 25 years’ experience in disaster emotional and spiritual care. She is a key leader in developing curricula, resources, and national standards for disaster spiritual care and has provided training, consultation, and technical guidance across the United States. She currently serves as executive director for Crisis Care Ministries in Oklahoma. 
 
Rev. Hughes was chair of the writing group for the National VOAD Disaster Spiritual Care Guidelines and chair of the National VOAD Emotional and Spiritual Care Committee during the development and ratification of the Disaster Spiritual Care Points of Consensus. She served for ten years as a national disaster consultant with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), providing training, consultation, technical guidance, and establishing credentialed disaster emotional and spiritual care teams more than two dozen states. She also created and managed a five-year pilot program based upon the National VOAD Disaster Spiritual Guidelines through the Oklahoma Conference of Churches, developing a team of more than 175 credentialed disaster spiritual care providers.

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Isaac Morris is a Disaster Staff Attorney at Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma. Isaac has been with Legal Aid’s Disaster Team since April 2021. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Legal Studies from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and his law degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law. Isaac enjoys reading and spending time with his family. He and his wife, Erika, and their two children, make their home in Shawnee, Oklahoma. 

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Gary Shepherd is the Overdose Prevention Program Manager at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. In his previous roles as a field representative for ODMHSAS and Clinical Coordinator of the Jim Taliaferro Recovery Center, Gary has helped implement and operate naloxone distribution hubs across Oklahoma. Gary graduated with his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma and his master's degree in Behavioral Sciences from Cameron University. Using both his formal education and his lived experience, Gary is passionate about educating the public regarding overdose prevention efforts, breaking the stigma connected to mental health and substance abuse treatment, and improving the lives of all Oklahomans.