Jessica Bueler
Executive Director
Jessica Bueler is building bridges to a better St. Louis.
“When I was 8 years old, my mother walked out on our family and left me and my three little sisters to be raised by my father,” Bueler says. “I promised myself when I grew up, I would do everything in my power to help other people who had also been abandoned because I didn’t want others to hurt in the same ways I did.”
To be this pillar of strength for the vulnerable, Bueler founded Welcome Neighbor STL, an organization assisting immigrants and refugees. “When I learned about the situation with the Syrian refugee families being dumped in filthy apartments with cockroaches, mice and bedbugs, along with a plethora of other problems, I snapped into action to do everything I could to help connect our new American friends with the resources and tools to build a better life,” Bueler says.
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Ann Wittman Human Kind STL
Ann is a St. Louis native, a graduate of Visitation Academy and St. Louis University. She spent a decade in corporate America as a Management Consultant for Deloitte and Touche and an IT Auditor for Abbott Labs. For the past 15 years Ann has focused on raising her 3 boys, Bobby, Ben and Brady with her husband, Frank. They live in Ellisville, MO. Ann is the Director of Welcome Neighbor STLs HumanKIND STL and START programs. She is very passionate about finding creative solutions to improve the lives of new arrivals to St. Louis.