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Jim Dobbins is an Associate Professor of Radiology and
Director of the Medical Physics Graduate Progam at Duke University. He
visited Beacon of Hope in Kenya with his family in 2005. . |
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Amber Dunn (Vice-President) joined Africa Rising as the Executive Director in May 2009. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Sociology. While an undergraduate, she spent a summer in South Africa working with a refugee organization and a semester in Kenya learning about development.
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Mamie Sackey Harris is the Africa Programs Coordinator for the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID). Prior to joining IGHID, Mamie Harris worked as Program Manager with Action Against Hunger, a non governmental organization, in Southern Sudan. She also worked as Associate Consultant for School Feeding and Education for the World Food Program, focusing on sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Other related work experience has been in Ghana, West Africa where Mamie spent most of her formative years. |
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Allegra Jordan (Treasurer) is the Executive Director of Social Sector Initiatives at the Duke Divinity School and Special Assistant to the Dean. She has extensive experience in leadership on innovation, strategy, management and marketing across the private and social sectors.
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Jenny Nicholson (Secretary) is a Software Group Manager at IBM. In 2007 she visited Beacon of Hope and TULIP in Kenya, and Amani Children's Home in Tanzania. Jenny was a founding board member of Carolina Hope which later became Africa Rising.
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Gayle Thomas is a physician with Carrboro Community Health Center, a clinic principally serving low income patients. She was born in the Congo to missionary parents. She lived in Kenya for a year in 1984-85 with her husband, Jim, while he was doing research for his PhD. She has since returned to Kenya to visit Beacon of Hope and TULIP with her family twice. |
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Jim Thomas (Founder and President) is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Program in Public Health Ethics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He worked as a public health nutritionist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then called Zaire) in 1978-81 and in Kenya for doctoral research 1984-85. He has since visited 9 other African countries, consulting in epidemiology and developing relationships between his church and African churches. |
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