Collins Atego
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 surgical 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 local consulting architect in various community building projects for the Village Volunteer consortium members in Kenya.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Ms. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 20 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.
IN MEMORY: Richard Michael Tucker, MD (1956 - 2007)
Richard Michael Tucker was a medical doctor specializing in infectious
disease at the Wenatchee Valley Clinic where he
was a Clinical Associate Professor for the School of Medicine at
the University of Washington. Dr. Tucker was also a medical staff member at Central Washington Hospital. He received a Masters of Business Administration through the American College of Physician Executives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Tucker was a member of the North Central Washington Rural Health Foundation, and in 2000 served as chairman of both the the Continuing Medical Education Committee and the Board of Directors. In addition, Dr. Tucker worked on the development of a healthcare delivery system for HIV/AIDS in the rural clinics that work with Village Volunteers.
"Richard was a pillar to his community where he was the medical director for quality and education at the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center and an infectious disease specialist. He was also vice-chairman of the medical center's board of directors. He started the medical center's research department in the 1990s and for many years worked with people suffering from infectious diseases, and the underserved and underprivileged. He was committed to his patients, his community, his family and his friends. In addition to his many local commitments, he was working with an African relief organization to develop a vaccine program and health care delivery system for villages in Africa ravaged by AIDS and HIV."
Published in the Seattle Times from June 2 to June 3, 2007.
