HESPERIAN - Key Persons


Aditi Malhotra

Job Titles:
  • Staff Representative to the Board
  • Writer / Researcher

Alicia Flores

Job Titles:
  • Bilingual Editor

Bill Lankford

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair / Founder, the Central American Solar Energy Project ( CASEP )
Grace Maher Associate with the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Program at Vital Strategies; background in small-scale development work in Papua New Guinea

Dani Behonick

Job Titles:
  • Digital & Updates Editor

Ellen Vor der Brugge

Job Titles:
  • Member Emeritus of the Board
Long-time trainer of health educators and former Senior Vice President of the Freedom from Hunger Foundation

Eva Harris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, UC Berkeley Co - Founder and Board President, Sustainable Sciences Institute

Garrett Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CIH, Secretary

Grace Maher

Job Titles:
  • Associate With the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Program at Vital Strategies Background in Small - Scale Development Work in Papua New Guinea

Jade Fong

Job Titles:
  • Development Coordinator

Jenny Chung

Job Titles:
  • Staff Accountant

Jessica Barrera

Job Titles:
  • Digital Publishing Associate

Kate Bobrow-Strain

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance & Administration

Kathleen Tandy

Job Titles:
  • Publications Designer

Keziah Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Development Director
  • Staff Representative to the Board

Kimi Owens

Job Titles:
  • Marketing & Communications Director

Larry Kressley

Job Titles:
  • Board Member Emeritus / Former Executive Director, the Public Welfare Foundation

Leigh Haynes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Linda Spangler

Job Titles:
  • Board Member Emeritus / Physician, Adult Primary Care, Alameda County Medical Center Medical Director, Options Recovery Services

Lucia Sayre

Job Titles:
  • Director of Regional Innovation and Community Resilience, Healthy Food in Health Care Program of Healthcare Without Harm

Maile Robles

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Melissa Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Center for Gender and Health Justice, University Global Health Institute

Michael Birnbach

Job Titles:
  • Customer Relationship Coordinator

Nasrullah Amirzai

Job Titles:
  • IT / Web and System Administrator

Paula Worby

Job Titles:
  • Editor, Writer / Researcher

Pauline Butcher

Job Titles:
  • Member Emeritus of the Board
  • Member of the Board

Prentice Zinn

Job Titles:
  • Director, GMA Foundations

Purnima Mane

Job Titles:
  • Expert

Rosemary Jason

Job Titles:
  • Publications Designer

Samantha Heep - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
Background in business law and finance having worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, and attorney at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.

Sarah Jane Holcombe

Job Titles:
  • Senior Learning Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Ex Officio

Shawn Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Fulfillment & Building Coordinator

Susan Weissert

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair

Tawnia Litwin

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital Projects

Trupthi Basavaraj

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Independent Consultant, Organization Development Specialist

Vanessa Tran

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Outreach Coordinator