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Our Staff & Board

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Staff

John Bergez, Managing Editor
Deborah Bickel, Senior Writer/Editor
Kristen Cashmore, Donor Engagement Manager
Jenny Chung, Accounting Assistant
Esther Escudero, Fulfillment Assistant
Edith Friedman, Senior Grant Writer
Jacob Goolkasian, Publications Designer
Shu Ping Guan, Publications Designer
Ingrid Hawkinson, Book Publicist
Zena Herman, Writer/Researcher
Todd Jailer, Senior Editor
Miriam Lara-Meloy, Writer/Researcher
Tawnia Litwin, International Publications Associate
Jane Maxwell, Women's Health Editor
Susan McCallister, Senior Editor
Aranzu Perez, Fulfillment Associate
Niki Selken, IT Manager
Sarah Shannon, Executive Director
Kiriyo Spooner, Fulfillment Manager
Kathleen Tandy, Publications Designer
Dorothy Tegeler, Editor
Leah Uberseder, Development Associate
Gaurav Vashist, Business Manager
Lily Walkover, Executive Assistant
Alan Curt Wands-Bourdoiseau, Manager, New Where There Is No Doctor

Board

Janice Tunder, Chair
Health Education Specialist, Solano County Health & Social Services

Ellen Vor der Bruegge, Vice Chair
Senior Vice-President, Freedom from Hunger

Pauline Butcher, Treasurer
Nurse and Midwife; Health trainer in Guatemala

Lee Gallery, Secretary
Founder, Spanish/English Legal Court Interpretation program at San Francisco State University; Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia '64-66; long term Hesperian Gratis Fund Volunteer

Denise Bergez
Foundations Officer, Earthjustice, Hesperian Volunteer and former staff member

Roland Bunch
Founder and one of the coordinators, COSECHA (Association of
Consultants for a Sustainable, Ecological and People-Centered Agriculture)

Davida Coady
Director, Options Recovery Services; Board President, San Carlos Foundation

Eva Harris
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UC Berkeley School
of Public Health; Board President, Sustainable Sciences Institute; MacArthur Fellow

Larry Kressley
Former Executive Director, the Public Welfare Foundation

Bill Lankford
Founder, The Central American Solar Energy Project (CASEP)

Rob Rosenfeld
Region Director, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council

Sergio René Salgado, MD
Senior Malaria Advisor with the Global Health Fellows Program of the
Public Health Institute, former Senior Consultant- Malaria, John Snow International, Tanzania

Emily West
Executive Director, The West Foundation

Sarah Shannon
Hesperian Foundation Executive Director

Jane Maxwell
Staff Representative to the Board

Leah Uberseder
Staff Representative to the Board