Our U.S. Team
Haiti Awake Board Members, Child Sponsorship Coordinator
Becky Graves Executive Director
Wife to Rick and mom to Justin, Jared, and Ethan, Becky's first trip to Haiti was in March of 2012 with her family. Since then she's traveled to Haiti roughly 100 times and worked with many short-term teams made up of team members from across the United States.
Steeve Derard and Becky met on that first trip, and over the next year became close personal friends. Through daily conversations, a mutual love for Haiti, and shared vision for development, Haiti Awake was born.
Becky is thankful for the privilege of loving and learning cross-culturally and finds great satisfaction in the mutually-beneficial relationships growing between Haitians and Americans.
She truly believes these words from Craig Greenfield:
Local people are at the heart of what God is doing in any particular place.
Our role is to come alongside them, and strengthen their hand. As outsiders we are called to amplify their voices, lighten their load, equip and support them. For they are the true change-makers.
Not us.
Rick Graves
Board Member
Rick's first trip to Haiti came in 2012, traveling alongside Becky and their sons. What began as a family trip became a shared calling: two years later, he and Becky founded Haiti Awake to come alongside Haitian believers already at work in their own communities. While Becky had the initial calling and passion, Rick has served the ministry assisting with governance and finances so the work in Haiti can stay focused on relationships, gospel, and hope. Rick returned to the board in 2026.
Professionally, Rick is an attorney with Maverick Law in Wilmington, where he practices estate planning, trusts, and taxation. He holds a JD and a Master of Taxation from the University of Akron and a B.A. from Clearwater Christian College, and he is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. He is a CFP®️ and a founding partner of Ascendor Wealth, LLC and a past Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association's Tax Section. He also served 21 years in the U.S. Army and National Guard, first as a Green Beret and later as a JAG officer.
Jenn Augi
Board Member
Jenn took her first mission trip to Haiti in the spring of 2017 with Haiti Awake. It was on this trip she grew dramatically in her passion for global work and her eyes were opened to the beauty of God’s movement among the nations. She returned to Haiti in 2018 and her love for the people of Haiti continued to grow. Her passion for global missions led her to serve 3 years as global outreach director at The Bridge Church and she was part of multiple, international short term mission teams. Joining the board of Haiti Awake gives Jenn an opportunity to be actively involved, coming alongside the Haitian staff championing them as they carry the vision that glorifies God in every aspect. What a joy it is to continue to nurture the relationships with those she met in 2017 and develop new relationships as the Haiti Awake “family” grows.
Jenn holds a BA in political science and an associate’s degree in funeral service. She is an owner and works part-time in her family’s business, Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home. In 2020, Jenn completed Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Jenn is a wife, mother, grandmother as well as a licensed funeral director and embalmer keeping a busy schedule between family activities, global mission work and fulfilling her role in her family’s funeral home business. And this is all why her grandbabies call her “GoGo.”
Alexandria Augi Caudill
Treasurer
Alexandria first visited Haiti on a Haiti Awake mission trip in the spring of 2018. As soon as she exited the Port au Prince Airport, Alexandria sensed something special about Haiti and felt the trip would be life-changing. Following the mission trip, she had the opportunity that same summer to intern at Haiti Awake. While there, she realized God was placing Haiti on her heart beyond the short term. She continued to travel to Haiti as much as she could until 2020. She considers it a great joy to still be able to be involved in the ministry state side through the board.
Alexandria is an UNCW alumni having studied mathematics and works for IQVIA as a Senior Site Solutions Analyst. She resides in the greater Wilmington area with her husband, Owen. Together, they attend and are involved in The Bridge Church.
Jake Flaming
Jake loves Haiti Awake and its mission to assist the Haitians to reach their fellow countrymen for Christ. He has been able to visit the beautiful country on two separate occasions.
Jake works as a Digital Experience Director for a company in Wilmington, NC. He’s an active member at The Bridge Church.
He has a amazing wife, Meg, and 4 awesome and active kids: Lily, Ella, Benny, and Wren.
Coordinator
Kynda Colson
Ministry Partnership Coordinator
Kynda found Haiti Awake amid the COVID pandemic of 2020. She was seeking a worthwhile ministry with which to build a relationship and become involved. Kynda knew that child/community sponsorship was what she desired and, by God’s hand, came across Haiti Awake. After researching the website and social media, she reached out in support of the community child sponsorship program.
Desiring to expand her involvement, she offered to volunteer her time as well. She accepted the Ministry Partnership Coordinator position in July 2021.
Kynda lives on her family’s centennial farm in Southern Illinois, where she gardens and raises chickens. She is a speech-language pathologist and works at an alternative school in the rural community.