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Profile * A result driven professional with an established international track record for leading complex projects across public and private sectors. * Sustained success empowering stakeholders at all levels of enterprise to reach short and long term goals. * Successful in creating and implementing collaborative partnered initiatives, across markets, borders and industry that have proven beneficial for all stakeholders. Countries worked USA, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Kenya, Kosovo, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Zanzibar, Uganda. Walking with Angels (WWA) is a not-for-profit charitable corporation that works as a fulcrum in partnership with extraordinary grass-roots community leaders who serve profoundly vulnerable populations. Founder and President of this 501 (c) (3) corporation responsible for operations and reporting to the board of directors donors and the community leaders WWA serves. WWA leaders serve over 6,000 vulnerable ill and handicapped children women and men directly and affect the lives of many others. * Partnered with University of Illinois and created a graduate student internship research program. WWA and U of I statistical students created ground breaking economic research on poverty in HIV-headed households in Kawangware Kenya. Results highlighting extreme poverty unexpectedly high levels of debt statistically predictive models for economic failure along with immediate short and longer term solutions to ameliorate economic suffering were presented at the Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference April 2016 at Yale University. * Enacted a risk mitigation strategy for WWA programs in Rwanda and Kenya to purchase National Health Insurance thereby keeping people well and enabling them to focus earned income for food and shelter. Importantly national health insurance allows HIV+ patients to receive antiretroviral (ARV) medications for themselves and their children. WWA has purchased Rwandan National Health Insurance for all persons our leaders care for and their families and any staff at their facilities since 2008. This program was extended to Kenya as a pilot in 2016 as changes in local legislation allowed. * Analyzed and published abstracts on the economic necessity of genotypic resistance testing for pediatrics with HIV in Sub Saharan Africa. * Analyzed and published abstracts on using caution with micro-lending. WWA research suggests that high debt levels among the very poor may call for an expense reduction strategy rather than debt enhancement via loans.
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