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Our Executive Team
Rick Baker, Executive Director
Rick Baker, Executive Director
Rick Baker, Executive Director
Rick Baker is the Founder of the BBF and has enjoyed a number of highly successful careers. First, as a senior pastor for many years, he then transitioned into the media as a newspaper publisher and finally as a best-selling author. He launched the Becky Baker Foundation after his wife, Becky, passed away from breast cancer.
Dr. Barb Hughson, President
Rick Baker, Executive Director
Rick Baker, Executive Director
Dr. Barb, who is the President of the Foundation holds a Doctorate in Leadership and has been involved in education and learning for several decades. A serial entrepreneur, she has literally helped thousands of people in her career and now utilizes her experience to design and develop the education arm of the Becky Baker Foundation.
Our Medical Director
Dr. Carla Garcia, Medical Director, Board Member
Dr. Carla Garcia is a board certified Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico with more than 20 years of experience in Thermography. She has performed thousands of scans in the U.S. and Canada. She has trained in the United States and Germany and is certified as a Clinical Thermographer by the American College of Clinical Thermology, the only Non-Profit, Medical Thermography Board in the United States. She has owned and operated the Thermography Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico for over 20 years. She recently opened a new office, DFW Thermography, in Irving, Texas to serve the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Douglas Howe, Board Chair
Douglas Howe has been a trusted advisor to companies and leaders in business, non-profits, education, politics and government for three decades, having been a business owner, social entrepreneur and non-profit director himself. His professional experience includes Succession Planning, Mergers & Acquisition, Trusted Advising and Human Resource Development, and has served such clients as Procter and Gamble, AK Steel, Duke Energy and Carespring Healthcare.
Doug has served on several Boards including Epipheo, Phillips Tube Group, Young Life, University of Northern Kentucky Business School, Stepping Stones, Horizon and Insignia Foundation. Personal highlights including finishing the New York Marathon, coaching his daughter’s girls basketball team to the Cincinnati Metro Championship, speaking and advisory meetings with political leaders including President George W. Bush, and being chosen for the Burbank Walk of Fame. He and Denise have raised their four adult children in Burbank, CA and Cincinnati, OH.