Our Volunteer Board and Other Team Members

Jessica Backman-Levy
Co-founder and Board Member
Jessica is an Associate Professor of Practice at Washington University in St. Louis and a Senior Associate at Iris Group.

Brian Burke
Board Treasurer
Brian is an applied cultural anthropologist who studies how communities mobilize to address environmental and economic issues.

Piku Patnaik
Board Member
Piku has worked as an infectious disease epidemiologist on global health research and programs across 14 countries.

John Ben Soileau
Carrezedo Coordinator
John Ben is a program officer at the National Academies of Sciences' Board on Environmental Change and Society.

Karin Friederic
Co-founder and Board Member
Karin is an Associate Professor of Cultural and Applied Anthropology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Megan Snair
Board Secretary
Megan is a public health consultant and writer for SGNL Solutions, working on global health security, emergency preparedness, and health policy.

Ryan Shields
Board Member
Ryan has his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins and practices as a generalist OB/GYN in Honolulu and Waimea, Hawai'i.

Mary Kate Cartmill
Partnerships M&E Coordinator
Mary Kate is a gender and nutrition specialist working in Nairobi, Kenya with a Master in Public Health.

Rhianon Liu
Board President
Rhianon is a palliative care physician working in Portland, Maine with medical training from Johns Hopkins, Sutter Santa Rosa, and Scripps/UCSD.

Erin Lund
Board Member
Erin joined the core faculty at Santa Rosa Community Health's Vista Campus in 2013 as the Maternity Care Director.

Brennan Keiser
Board Member
Brennan Keiser is a Research Coordinator at the University of Washington conducting practice-based research in primary care.

Margaux Sanchez
Development Director
Margaux is a multimedia communications professional focused on activism and social change.