Alison Hayward, MD, Director – Alison works as an emergency medicine physician at UMass University Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has been involved in Uganda Village Project as director and assistant director since its inception in 2003 and has also coordinated the orphan support program. She has also served as a member of the board of trustees of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations – USA.
		Sarah Dunigan, Assistant Director – Sarah began her field experience in African development by working with a special needs school in Mbale Uganda. Since then she has been involved in development projects in Morocco and was a Summer 2009 member of the UVP intern team based in Walukuba village. She is currently working in Rwanda, helping to coordinate a social enterprise that partners with local women’s cooperatives. Sarah has BA in Economics and and MBA in Sustainable Management.
		Kelly Burba, Fundraising Chair – Kelly is a fourth year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine with the intention of becoming an Emergency Medicine physician when she graduates in 2010. She is originally from Ypsilanti, MI and graduated from Albion College with a bachelors degree in Chemistry. She went to Uganda during the summer of 2007 with the Health Care team and is excited to return as soon as she can!
		David Dinh, Board Member At Large – David has been working with UVP for three years now. His passion is safe water, and he oversees the modified clay pots and WaterGuard dispenser programs, which he is currently developing into a business model. His other specialty is financial analysis and projections.
		Kristina Wang, Treasurer – Kristina is a current medical student at UC Irvine, and a former director of Uganda Village Project. She coordinates the Uganda Village Project treasury and financial transactions from the USA. Kristina has been involved with Uganda Village Project since 2006 when she led a group of volunteers on one of our safe water projects.
		Archana Jayakumar, Publicity Chair – After serving on our Obstetric Fistula team in 2008, Archana is joining the UVP Board as our publicity chair. She has a great deal of experience in the arts and communication, and has a degree in studio arts from the University of Buffalo, as well as a major in Biology. Archana is concurrently working in California’s Americorps while serving on the board.
		Kristen Shuken, Internships Coordinator – Kristen has been closely involved with UVP since working as our program manager from 2008-2009. She did amazing work getting the new Healthy Villages program off the ground nearly single-handedly. She has expanded UVP’s recruitment efforts and is overseeing our internships program for 2010. She is pursuing a master’s degree in public health this year.
		Michael Thornton, Member at Large – Michael continues work in and related to Uganda as a field mentor for water and power projects with the MIT Chapter of Engineers Without Borders and also as a founding member of Kamu Kamu, Inc, a US based non-profit dedicated to reducing Ugandan motorcycle taxi deaths.  Michael, a graduate of Duke University, lives in New York and is a Project Engineer at Sherwood Design Engineers, a sustainability driven civil / environmental firm.  He also serves as Managing Director of an associated non-profit, the Sherwood Institute.
		Christine Poquiz, Member at Large – Christine is a new board member who just finished serving as an intern for Healthy Villages this past summer in Bulumwaki village. She received her undergraduate degree at The University of California, Irvine in political science in 2006 and is currently working on her law degree at UC Davis School of Law.
		Hailey Davis, Member at Large – In 2007, Hailey worked as a health educator for Students’ Partnership Worldwide in the Kamuli District of Uganda for eight months. Since Uganda, she has been working as a project manager for an international public opinion polling firm based in New York City, working on quantitative and qualitative research around the world. Prior to SPW, she worked for a strategy and policy consulting firm in Austin, TX. Hailey has two Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and currently lives outside of NYC. She is in the process of applying to graduate school, to pursue a master’s degree in Public Health Policy
		Mohamed (Medie) Mukalu, Member at Large – Medie is a new UVP board member at large. Medie has worked with Uganda Village Project summer teams for several years and is in his final year of university for a degree in social work.
		Leah Bevis, Member At Large- 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.

Project Co-Founders: Brent Anderson, Kirk Scirto, Alison Schroth Hayward

Email the executive board at info@ugandavillageproject.org