State VOAD leadership is comprised of Members from across the State. For information on how to get in contact with our team, please visit our Contact Us page, or click on the team member that you wish to contact.
Sister Michael Marie
Chair
John Heading
Vice Chair
Larry Singer
Treasurer
Lisa Call
Secretary
Kevin Gehres
Finance Chair
Emily Hesselbein
Education Chair
David Meyer
Long Term Recovery Chair
Gene Boldman
Membership Chair
Russ Hesler
Communications Chair
Bernice West
Ohio Emergency Management Agency Liaison
Sister Michael Marie is the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Mission Coordinator
sistermichaelmarie@protonmail.com
John Heading is the Ohio Southern Baptist Disaster Relief State Coordinator.
Larry Singer
Ohio/Michigan Planner
Team Rubicon USA
Lisa Call is the Ohio VOAD representative/Area Welfare Specialist for the North America Northeast Area for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Emails:
Secretary@OhioVOAD.org
Kevin Gehres represents the Heartland Conference and is the Heartland Conference Disaster Coordinator.
Email: gehreskb@gmail.com
Emily Hesselbein represents the American Red Cross located in Columbus, Ohio.
Email:emily.hesselbein@redcross.org
David Meyer is from Operation BBQ Relief
Gene Boldman represents Operation BBQ Relief
Email: gboldman@operationbbqrelief.org
Russ Hessler is a member of Team Rubicon having joined in the autumn of 2017. He has served on over 35 Operations with Team Rubicon across the United States since joining in various capacities such as Swamper, Saw1, Site Survey, Strike Team Leader, Recon/ADVON, Planning Section Chief, Task Force Leader, and Incident Commander. Presently he serves as the Metro Lead for the Southeastern Ohio Metro which is comprised of 32 counties. He serves his fellow Greyshirts (Team Rubicon Volunteers) by teaching various courses both In Person and Virtually (Recon/ADVON, Site Survey) along with being the Site Survey Instructor Cadre Lead for the Eastern United States (Red Team).
Russ used his spare time starting in 2020 enrolling and completing various Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) National Incident Command System Trainings. To date he has completed the following:
ICS 100: Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS)
ICS 200: Basic ICS for Initial Response
ICS 300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
ICS 400: Advanced ICS
ICS 700: National Incident Management System, An Introduction
ICS 800 : National Response Framework, An Introduction
Russ.Hessler@TeamRubiconUSA.Org
Bernice West is with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency.