President/CEO
MATT TJAPKES
I have been with HFP part time since 2010 and full-time since 2013, taking over as President/CEO/CFO in April of 2019. My goal is to make sure we can provide all our services to as many clients as necessary, and to continue building HFP to ensure we can provide these services as long as they are needed. Every person we serve was someone's baby at some point, and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect no matter the reason for their incarceration.
Client Services Specialist
SUSIE GREENBAUER
I find joy and meaning in using the empathy I have always had to help others. I believe in our mission in delivering compassion. We don't know what people were born in to and the shaping that took place for them as a child. We are not here to judge, but to help make the world a little better with kindness.
Client Intake Specialist
SARAH EBIDON
As a legal service and criminal justice undergraduate of Grand Valley State University, I am extremely passionate about advocating for those who are unheard and often forgotten. We are all human, therefore we are all deserving of humanity, courtesy, kindness, and compassion. Our work is purposeful, and I have faith in our mission. “Who are we as human beings if we ignore the suffering of others?” – Unknown

Rodney Gulley
Pastor at New Covenant Community Baptist Church

John M. Rottman, Th.D.
Professor of Preaching, Calvin Theological Seminary

Mary Margaret Grillo
Charity and Justice Commission, St. Patrick- St. Anthony Parish

Dave Bardolph
Accountant, Calvin Theological Seminary.

Rick Duncan
Product Owner III, Compassion International
HFP Board of Directors

Heather Moore, MA, ACC
Prison Reform/Prisoner Advocacy

Nancy Pagan
Owner, Fancy's Tokens

Onesiphorus Burrel
Former Chaplain, MDOC
Pastor/founder West Shoreline Community Church

Russell Bloem
HFP Board Chair, former pharmaceutical executive

Joseph Haveman
Former Michigan State Representative,
Hope Network

Marla Mitchell-Cichon, J.D.
Director of WMU-Cooley Innocence Project