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Dr. Pacht began his career at ARCO in the exploration research department in 1980. ARCO recognized his contribution in its 1987 Annual Report where his team was
credited with adding $350 million of reserves. His work continued at RPI International as a Senior Scientist working in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Africa. In 1992, he
founded Seis-Strat Services, Inc., a geological and geophysical service company employing up to 35 geo-scientists in seven countries. He sold Seis-Strat in 2008. From 2004 to 2016, Dr. Pacht founded (with partners) and sold several oil and gas production companies, one of which was producing over 4000 BOEPD at time of sale. He is presently the
President of Altair Resources. Dr. Pacht has won five best paper awards and has published over 80 papers and abstracts. He serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State, where he received his Ph.D.

New York-native, Barbara Bronstein, has resided in Houston for more than 30 years. After graduating from Tufts University, she earned an MBA in Marketing from New York University. Following a successful career marketing some of America's leading brands for Unilever, Mars and Coca-Cola, Barbara founded Second Servings to address the staggering rates of food insecurity and food waste in Houston. Under her pro bono leadership, Second Servings has become one of the city’s fastest-growing nonprofits, helping nourish over 170,000 needy Houstonians with high-quality food all year long.

Barbara has been featured in local and national media, and honored with the Mayor’s Proud Partner Award, the Houston Humanitarian Award and the Compassionate Action Leader Award. Currently, she serves on the Board of the Houston Culinary Guild.

https://secondservingshouston.org/barbara-bronstein

Breanna Fetkavich serves as the Director of Outreach for Street Grace in Houston. Breanna graduated magna cum laude in Corporate Communication from Olivet Nazarene University. Breanna has always been passionate about human rights especially pertaining to women and children. She served impoverished women and families at a crisis pregnancy center in her hometown in southern Colorado. She is certified by the Colorado Center for Relationship Education and passionately trained thousands of students in southern Colorado public schools about healthy relationships and how to keep themselves safe from abuse.

During her time at the pregnancy center, she developed a fervent passion to use her skills in teaching and communication to fight specifically against the injustice of sex trafficking. Breanna also served as a missionary in Mozambique, Africa with Project Purpose International. She ran a center where women engaged in the sex trade could find resources, employment, a safe harbor for their children, and most importantly of all, hope. Breanna mobilized the community in Mozambique to work. She directed the largest and most successful fundraising and awareness event in the history of the ministry. Through her work in Mozambique, she mobilized the entire community to get involved and use their resources to fight this injustice. The efforts of her work are still continuing to grow to this day.

Upon returning to the United States, Breanna served for two years as a Residential Care Coach in a safe home for sex trafficking survivors. The safe home is part of Redeemed Ministries, a faith-centered organization that provides the highest quality of rehabilitative care and services for those who have been victimized by the commercial sex industry.

Because of the time Breanna spent living with survivors and helping them in their incredibly difficult journey back to healing, she is excited and passionate about the mission of Street Grace to stop sex trafficking before it ever starts.