Advisory Board

M. Therese Antone

M. Therese Antone, RSM, B.A., M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D., is a Sister of Mercy, and has been President of Salve Regina University for 12 years.

Catalina Barratt

Catalina Barratt, founder of the NGO 'The Right to be a Kid', has worked in Mexico, Malawi, Pakistan, and Japan for 30 years,

Stephen Butler

Stephen Butler, D.O., is Medical Director of Dartmouth Medical Center, a family practice in Massachusetts.

Charles Gachene

Charles Gachene, Ph.D., is Professor of Agricultural Economics and the former chairman of the Department of Soil Sciences at the University of Nairobi.

Kigara Kamweru

Kigara Kamweru, Ph.D., is chairman of Architecture and Building Science at the University of Nairobi.

Board of Directors

Christian Allen

Christian worked in Rwanda with Partners in Health, to develop a groundbreaking electronic medical recording system.

Justine Axelsson

Justine graduated from Salve Regina University in 2007 with a BA in English Literature.

Jonathan Barr

Jonathan is Marketing Director at Proctor and Gamble.

Olga Barr

Olga was Global Creative Director of Saatchi and Saatchi for 15 years. She now runs her own advertising agency in London.

Debra Curtis, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Debra is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on children and global capitalism. Over the past twenty years she has worked in the areas of public health, domestic violence and education in the Caribbean.

Leila de Bruyne

Leila graduated from Salve Regina University with a BA in Anthropology.

Philip Kilbride, Ph.D.

Philip is the chair of the Social Sciences and Social Research Department at Brynmawr University. His work in Kenya has focussed on the impact of formal education on indigenous values. He is the author of 'Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood'.

Njoroge Mungai, M.D.

Njoroge was Kenya's first Minister of Health and founder of Kenya's first medical school. He subsequently served as Minister of Defence, and later Foreign Affairs.

Toby Storie-Pugh, B.Sc., MSc

Toby founded 'Adventure for our Children' in 2004, providing mentoring services to needy children in India. He was formerly Director of Children's Programs at the Himalayan Adventure Institute.

Katharine Williamson

Katharine is a project director with Save the Children, and has worked with displaced families and children in Cambodia, Ghana, Sudan, Pakistan, Uganda and Kenya.