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Our Team

ryan@mingafoundation.org

Ryan Shields

Board President

Ryan practices as a generalist ob/gyn in Honolulu and Waimea, Hawai'i.

karin@mingafoundation.org

Karin Friederic

Co-founder and Vice President

Karin is an Associate Professor of Cultural and Applied Anthropology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

jessica@mingafoundation.org

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.

megan@mingafoundation.org

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.

brian@mingafoundation.org

Brian Burke

Board Treasurer

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

rhianon@mingafoundation.org

Rhianon Liu

Board Member

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

brennan@mingafoundation.org

Brennan Keiser

Board Member

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

erin@mingafoundation.org

Erin Lund

Board Member

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

piku@mingafoundation.org

Piku Patnaik

Board Member (On Leave)

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.

development@mingafoundation.org

Margaux Sanchez

Development Director

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

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