Meet Yvonne Wan our United Humanities Project – Focus comic founder, creator, writer and the lead artist. She is a certified social cultural anthropologist with a background in psychology and psychiatry. She devises the exclusive art programming that helps the children thrive. Art is therapeutic. She leads the team in fulfilling the projects mission in maintaining dignity for autistic and special needs individuals by removing the stigma, provide free child development services, and honor heroes through art. Yvonne teaches our students, handles event planning, marketing, graphic design work, filming, photography, website maintenance, social media, fundraising and daily operations. Yvonne paints all the portraits that we gift to our living and fallen heroes. She delivers legacy portraits to the memorial services personally, to honor the memory of our fallen heroes and help the families heal. Yvonne Wan holds the Inspiration in Life award hosted by the Discovery channel, the Pentel creators Award and People’s choice award by the City of Goodyears. She has over 30 years advertising and creative industry experience having worked for some of the worlds top advertising agencies such as Ogilvy. She was also a former volunteer for the VFW.
Meet Deborah Musselman, one of our Focus comic team members. Deborah is a Az Fire Medical authority Chief Assistant with a heart of gold. She helps us at events, admin and fundraising. Debbie ensures we are able to deliver the legacy portraits to our fallen heroes memorial service by researching the dates and locations of the memorial services so we can honor the memory of our fallen heroes and help the families heal. Thank you Debbie for her compassionate support.
Meet John Sanders, one of our Focus comic team members. John is a journalist and helps us with our press releases, communications and admin. He graduated at ASU and formerly worked for Sound of Freedom; Luke Air Force base magazine. Photo credit: Yvonne Wan.
Meet Ryker Helgeson one of our Focus™ Comic team members. Ryker is part of our Focus media team who handles some of the photography and photo editing for our events. He is 18 years old. Photo credit: Yvonne Wan.
We have a team of special education teachers. We will add their information later this week (once we have their headshots ).