Executive Board Task Forces

	Leah Bevis, Monitoring and Evaluation- Leah graduated from Middlebury College with a major in Geography, and a minor in Economics. Raised in Hawaii, she has lived, worked and studied in Switzerland, England, Barcelona, Malawi and Uganda. She first volunteered in Uganda in 2006, conducting writing workshops with vulnerable youth. She returned to Uganda, on a Project for Peace grant from the Katherine Wasserman Davis Foundation, to work on an ethnographic radio story-telling project with youth. After a stint with the New Sudan Initiative in the USA, Leah returned to Uganda as UVP’s first Healthy Villages Program Coordinator. Leah is pursuing a PhD in Economic Development.
	Emily Chuba, Fundraising and Development – Emily has stayed in touch with UVP since volunteering with us in 2004 – she currently works as a rape crisis counselor and volunteers as a mentor for medically at risk refugee women. She has future plans to pursue her Master’s degree in Public Health.
	David Dinh – David served as the UVP treasurer and assisted with the treasury after a stint as an intern with the team in 2006. He also served as a team leader of a safe water intern team in 2009, and oversaw the development of a program to create modified clay pots for safe water storage that distributed locally made pots throughout the district and beyond.
	Juan Jaramillo, Internships – Juan served as a team leader in the internship program in 2010.
	Archana Jayakumar, Fundraising and Development – Archana served on the UVP board from 2009-2010 after a stint as an intern in 2008. She graciously assists Uganda Village Project with graphic design/arts related issues.
	Stephanie Lewczyk, Fundraising and Development – Stephanie served as part of a team working with UVP’s scholarship students, and is a talented artist who runs her own shop on Etsy for handmade crafts, and has started a handmade craft shop to benefit Uganda Village Project as well.
	Melanie Poole, Fundraising and Development - Melanie co-ordinates Parliamentary Advocacy on reproductive and sexual health for the Australian arm of CARE International, and has degrees in Arts and Law. She first became passionate about east Africa, and particularly about reproductive healthcare, when she volunteered at the Kakuma Refugee camp on the Kenya/Sudan border. Melanie travelled and volunteered in Uganda, where she saw how initiatives like the Uganda Village Project achieve success through being participatory, locally contextualised and taking an evidence-based, health-focused approach to program delivery.
	Sonali Palchaudhuri, Monitoring and Evaluation – Sonali is a medical student at University of Michigan whose focus with UVP is on safe water and sanitation programs.
	Fyfe Strachan, Fundraising – Fyfe served as the Uganda Village Project’s Fundraising Chair in 2011, and achieved record breaking fundraising levels during her tenure. She has previously volunteered in a number of roles, including organizing youth programs and events for Amnesty International Australia, working on a women’s rights project with UNIFEM in Vietnam and helping to organize Hanoi’s Aid for Asia tsunami relief fundraiser in 2005. Fyfe has legal degrees from Sydney University and Australian National University and is currently working in Ghana. fyfe ( at ) ugandavillageproject.org
	Ozge Tuncalp, Monitoring and Evaluation – Ozge is currently writing her dissertation proposal for her doctoral degree in public health at Hopkins, on maternal health in Ghana. She has been working with UVP with a focus on obstetric fistula issues since 2004.
	Ce Zhang, Monitoring and Evaluation – Ce is a premedicine major in the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University, and spent the summer of 2009 with UVP in Uganda. He has done research in collaboration with UVP on tippy taps for primary schools, and co-founded the initiative Tippy Taps for Africa.