Adam Reinhart, PhD
Adam Reinhart is an agricultural scientist with a focus on food
security, rural development, and environmental quality. Dr. Reinhart
currently serves as an American Association for the Advancement
of Science Diplomacy Fellow, providing technical assistance to the
US Agency for International Development. Dr. Reinhart has worked
on numerous projects in the areas of food security, water quality,
pollution prevention, and wastewater reuse with a wide variety of
stakeholders including National and State Governments, large corporations,
large and small scale farmers, and communities. He has also been
a diversified vegetable farmer and managed a sustainable farming
research institute. Dr. Reinhart's international experience includes
work in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Dr. Reinhart consults
on food security and crop development project design and implementation
for Village Volunteers.
Richard Michael Tucker, MD
Richard Michael Tucker is a medical doctor specializing in infectious
disease. He is currently at the Wenatchee Valley Clinic where he
is a Clinical Associate Professor for the School of Medicine at
the University of Washington. Dr. Tucker is also a Medical Staff
Member at Central Washington Hospital and received his Masters
of Business Administration through the American College of Physician
Executives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Tucker
is a member of the North Central Washington Rural Health Foundation,
and in 2000, he served as chairman of both the Continuing Medical
Education Committee and the Board of Directors. Dr. Tucker will
be working in the development of the healthcare
delivery system in the rural clinics that work with Village Volunteers.
Elizabeth Nyawira Mwangi
Elizabeth Mwangi has built a distinguished and successful career
in Kenya in social development, specifically as a technical advisor
in project planning, project management, and capacity building.
Currently she has her Masters in International and Community
Development from Deakin University, Australia.
Over the past eight years, she has enhanced the capacities of organizations
to effectively deliver poverty eradication strategies, lobby and
advocate on human rights issues that affect local communities. Ms.
Mwangi's greatest strengths lie in project design, planning, monitoring,
and evaluation of projects. She is well versed with participatory
surveys and assessments especially the design, development and use
of survey and assessment tools. In addition, she is skilled in data
collection using Participatory Rural Appraisal/Rapid Rural Appraisal
and analysis of data using software packages like SPSS and Epi-Info.
Further, Ms. Mwangi is competent in supporting organizations in
the process of bridging their vision and mission through integrated
program planning and institutional strengthening.
Ms. Mwangi has a proven record of accomplishment in the design,
delivery and evaluation of training. She works with Catholic Relief
Services/Kenya in the programming division and is a part-time consultant
and a trainer of trainers. As a Kenyan national, Ms. Mwangi is strategically
positioned to technically support the Village Volunteers Board and
facilitate effective implementation of activities at the community
level.
Jonathan M. Scherch, PhD
Dr. Jonathan Scherch is a Core Faculty member of the Graduate Programs
in Environment and Community at Antioch University, Seattle, WA.
A certified permaculture designer and teacher, his background includes
more than 15 years of sustainable community organizing and development
initiatives, place-based appropriate technology design and applications,
and teaching across five universities. Dr. Scherch is also a Returned
United States Peace Corps Volunteer (Jamaica, 1991-93, Community
Development Sector), and he teaches and consults on ecological design
strategies emphasizing low impact solutions and local resource use.
Todd D. Stong, PhD, PE
Dr. Stong's distinguished career included being the director of
the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory with a 420 person civilian staff,
from Alaska to Panama, for 3 years; the Technical Director, for
the US Army Strategic Defense Command "Star Wars Program" with a
$1.2 billion per year budget; and as a colonel in the US Army Corps
of Engineers. Dr. Stong retired in 1989 with two Legion of Merit
Awards, two Bronze Stars, two Medals for Meritorious Service, three
Joint Service Medals, a Vietnamese Public Works Medal, and six Vietnam
Campaign Medals. He worked as a Technical Director for Coleman Research
Corp in Virginia, working in Environmental Technologies from 1989
to 1996 and Humanitarian Services -- water supply and small business
creation for the poor in Africa and Latin America -- from 1996 to
2002. He is currently writing a book on water in the developing
world and advises Village Volunteers on water and engineering projects.
Mr. Stong is our advisor on developing appropriate technology in
rural water systems.
Loyce Asigo Mbewa, MPH
Loyce Mbewa, originally from Kenya, has been working in the public affairs
sector for over eighteen years. She has worked with organizations
such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United
Nations, the US Embassy in Kenya, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the African Medical Research Foundation.
Ms. Mbewa is currently an Advisory Board Member with the Global
Health Resource Center, the University of Washington Health Sciences,
and was a Truman Scholar and a Martin Achievement Scholar at the University of Washington. Ms Mbewa recieved her Masters in Public Health from the University of Washingon in 2007. In 2003, she established
the Rabuor Village Project. Ms. Mbewa speaks throughout the Northwest,
which she uses as an opportunity to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS
and the effect it has had on African society.
In addition, Ms. Mbewa has coordinated with governmental and corporate
officials at the highest levels in both the United States and Kenya,
and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge regarding international
public affairs to Village Volunteers.
Michael Broili
Michael Broili has a broad range of experience that includes project
design and management, graphic and physical systems design, mapping,
contracting, marketing and research. Mr. Broili has designed and
managed a wide range of local, national and international projects,
and has managed large crews in remote and stressful circumstances.
Over the past ten years he has taken a leading role in sustainability
and low impact design. He brings with him over thirty years of experience
and a network of contacts and alliances within the sustainable and
low impact design community. He and Dr. Jonathan Scherch are partners
in Living Systems Design. Michael Broili will consult with us on
appropriate technology emphasizing low-tech solutions using indigenous
resources.
Rita Azizi Egrari, PhD
Dr. Rita Egrari has focused much of her education and career on
international public health. After receiving her B.S. degree in
Nutritional Sciences from the University of British Columbia, she
continued on to the School of Public Health, UCLA, where she earned
her Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences. Dr. Egrari spent a summer
in Kitui, Kenya where she participated in an internship program
that allowed her to conduct research on the nutritional status of
children in rural Kenya. In addition, she has been involved with
the Pilot Study of Inner City L.A. School Feeding Program where
she conducted anthropometric evaluations of the students and analyzed
the children's food intake.
Risho Edward Sapano
A native of Sudan, Ms. Sapano has worked, both in her homeland as
well as in the United States, in the area of disaster relief and
community development. Ms. Sapano has worked as Program Field Officer
for the Canadian Save the Children Fund in Sudan where she managed
relief projects intended for internally displaced persons. These
projects included supplementary feeding centers, primary healthcare
clinics, education, income-generation activities, and water sanitation
services. She also worked for the Sudanese National Committee for
Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting women and
girls. For ten years, she held leadership positions with the Sudanese
Red Crescent Society and the Sudanese Girl Guides Association. She
represented both organizations within Sudan and abroad in Austria,
Egypt and Libya. Following her move to the United States, Ms. Sapano
attended Clark University in Massachusetts, where she earned her
masters degree in International Development and Social Change. After
graduation, she joined Oxfam America in Boston as the Program Assistant
for Africa, providing programs and administrative support for the
organization's regional programs in Southern and West Africa. Ms.
Sapano is also a member of the American Red Cross. Ms. Sapano will
consult on program management for the empowerment of vulnerable
girls and women.
Byron "Ted" Butchart, ND
Trained as an architect, Ted was a pioneer in bringing natural building
techniques to the Pacific Northwest, inventing several material
and labor saving improvements in the field of straw bale construction.
He is a founding member of the North American Natural Building Colloquium,
a collective of builders, designers, engineers, and suppliers working
in cob, straw bale, light-clay, timber frame, cordwood, and other
alternative building materials. He has been the Director of the
GreenFire Institute of Seattle, Washington since 1997, teaching
and consulting on natural material construction, including training
building officials. He has been a Permaculture Design instructor
for over 12 years.
His interest in healthy environments, both physically and psychologically,
led him to retrain as a Naturopathic Physician with expertise in
Homeopathy, EnvironmentalToxicity, Behavioral and Psychological
Disorders, and Dermatology. He is the CFO of Rowan Botanicals, Inc.,
an international dermatology therapeutics company.
In addition to Village Volunteers, Ted sits on the board of Voices
in Wartime, which is an international web-based forum for citizens
to express their experiences of war through poetry and art; and
the producers of the film of the same name. Ted will be consulting
on ecological design for new construction.
Jennifer Nyiraneza Mpyisi
A Member of the Architectural Association since 1982 receiving the
Royal Institute of British Architects I and II post Graduate research
in appropriate design and technology followed by the Post Graduate
Course at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Tufts
University. This specialization was focused on creating Design Solutions
for Health Care, Education and Institutional Design, with an emphasis
on a holistic design approach, including landscaping. Her strengths
in planning and evaluation, public relations and strategic management
for non-for-profit projects has enabled her to integrate her training
with her interest in working with community development. Her passion
for education has enabled her to initiate and facilitate workshops
for a broad range of communities.
Since 1992, Mpyisi has consulted, designed and managed design projects
with an emphasis on applying her design philosophy of holistic and
healing environments. In addition to architectural and design work
she has been active in promoting the collective participation of
all stakeholders in owning their development and design identity
through artistic expression.
Brian P. Mangum, MS
After receiving his MS in Medical Anthropology from Idaho State
University, Brian became an adjunct faculty member in the Department
of Anthropology, where he focused his teaching and research on international
healthcare and sustainable development.
During this time, Brian developed a post-baccalaureate certificate
program in medical anthropology that includes a significant international
healthcare experience in the Caribbean Basin, where Brian currently
resides as the core international faculty for this program, while
also conducting fieldwork for his joint MPH/PhD in Public Health
Epidemiology. In addition to this, Brian is also pursuing his MD
from the Medical University of the Americas, with plans to pursue
post-graduate training in family and preventive medicine
Using his varied background in medical anthropology, public health,
and medicine, Brian hopes to develop integrated healthcare systems
in the developing world, and currently works with Village Volunteers
as an ethnography consultant to preserve and record the cultures
of Village Volunteers Consortium members. Some of the projects include
documenting the lives of parents who are HIV+, working with traditional
healers, and helping to capture language that is being lost.
Renee Gastineau, MBA
Renee Gastineau is owner and president of Gastineau Communications
Inc., a Seattle-based public relations and communications consulting
business that works with social enterprises. With a diverse background
in communications and public affairs, including news reporting, media relations,
corporate communications and event planning, she brings strong
strategic planning and marketing skills to Village Volunteers.
Ms. Gastineau is the author of business trend and marketing articles
for professional journals and educational websites. She earned
an MBA from Seattle University, a B.A. in Communication and English
from James Madison University; a Certificate in Management from
the University of Washington; and recently earned the distinction of Accredited Business Communicator
(ABC), from the International Association of Business Communicators.
Collins Atego, Architect
Collins Atego is a graduate architect from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Currently he is working with Peter Thomas Architects, a leading architectural firm in Nairobi. As an architect, Mr. Atego has worked on many different projects, such as housing, mixed use developments, community projects and in project management. His most recent project is in the design consultation process of building new theatres for Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi. Mr. Atego has worked on several volunteer projects for United Nations habitat under the Best Practices Program. He will be a consulting architect in various community building projects for the Village Volunteer consortium members.
Randy Rice
Randy Rice completed his undergraduate work in Biology at the University of California, and graduate studies in Biological Oceanography at the University of Alaska where he had journal articles and his honors thesis published.
He worked extensively with Alaska fish and shellfish species, and also conducted research in Antarctica. Before
coming to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute as their Technical Program Director, Randy worked with
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation developing
expertise in water quality and contaminants. He also worked privately as an Environmental Consultant and fished
commercially in Alaska for 19 years, He is fully conversant with fisheries management methods, statistics, approaches,
and issues and has considerable experience in working with natural resource regulatory agencies.
Randy has traveled extensively on behalf of Alaska seafood conducting educational seminars,
training sessions, and prepared documents and publications directed at all sectors of the seafood
industry. Randy will be a fisheries consultant for our new programs on the coast of Ghana.
Kate Killerlain Morrison
Kate Killerlain Morrison is an Ocean Policy Analyst at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. Kate has been with MCZM for just under three years and is lead staff for the Massachusetts Ocean Management Initiative, working on implementation of the 2004 Ocean Management Task Force Recommendations, including assisting with proposed legislation. During that time, Kate has managed consultants working on ocean management projects, chairs the Massachusetts Interagency Ocean Planning Work Group, and represents MCZM on the Stellwagen National Marine Sanctuary Zoning Working Group and the Gulf of Maine Council Working Group. Kate was also Program Chair for The Coastal Society's 20th International Conference in May 2006. Kate has a Master’s degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington where she studied international fisheries trade in West Africa, and has worked as a staffer in the Washington State Legislature prior to joining MCZM.
