Our advisory board holds a variety of advisors with experience and expertise in Africa, NGOs, fundraising, and social entrepreneurship. The members of this board serve as guides who help us set policy and answer our questions in a crunch. Currently, our advisory board contains ten members.

Dude Angius founded the Rotary AIDS Project in 1989 after losing his son to the AIDS epidemic. He and a group of committed Rotarians from the Los Altos Rotary Club produced a film called The Los Altos Story about the disease's impact in their community. Since the film, Dude and the Rotary AIDS Project have published a training manual for community health workers and distributed thousands of copies in multiple languages around the world.

Victor Barnes is the director of the HIV/AIDS Initiative at the Corporate Council on Africa. Prior to holding the position at CCA, Victor worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he directed the Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Partnership. He also spent 12 years at USAID, serving primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and overseeing the USAID HIV prevention program.

Anne Firth Murray founded the Global Fund for Women in 1987 and served as its president until 1996. During this time, she raised $24 million for the fund and gave grants to innumerable organizations promoting women. She is currently a consulting professor in the Human Biology Department at Stanford University.

Jack Higgins, M.D., practiced family medicine and developed health promotion programs for 20 years before his focus changed to telemedicine. He is a Reuters Digital Vision fellow at Stanford University and the President and Medical Director of the HouseCall Foundation (HCF), through which he is now developing telemedicine projects in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and South Africa. He also serves as director for three other health-related nonprofit organizations, including the Rotacare Foundation, which provides nine free clinics in the Bay Area.

Dennis Israelski, M.D., is the co-founder and Executive Director of the World Wide AIDS Coalition (WWAC), an organization that connects donors with organizations that can address the needs of Africans suffering from AIDS. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been the Medical Director of the San Mateo County AIDS program and the Chief of Infectious Diseases at the San Mateo Medical Center and Clinics since 1988. He recently assumed the position of Director of Research at the San Mateo Medical Center as well. He is on the Board of Trustees and Medical Director of AIDSETI, an NGO that helps community-driven development programs scale up their activities.

David Katzenstein completed his undergraduate and medical degrees as well as a residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the UC San Diego and continued fellowship training at UC Davis. He then taught at the University of Minnesota for two years before moving to the University of Zimbabwe just as the AIDS epidemic was recognized in Southern Africa. In the late 1980s he worked under the Food and Drug Administration on early candidate HIV vaccines and diagnostics. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Stanford University AIDS Clinical Trials Group and Co-Chair of Stanford’s Center for AIDS Research. He is also the Founder of AIDS Care and Treatment Now (ACT Now).

Kimeli Willson Naiyomah is currently working towards his Masters in Biological Sciences at Stanford University and plans to be a medical doctor. Born in Enoosaen Village in Kenya, he first came to the United States after a 1996 Washington Post article inspired Americans to sponsor his studies at the University of Oregon. In response to 9/11, Kimeli coordinated a gift of cattle from his tribe to the United States. The founder of the America Africa Nuru Foundation, Kimeli has continued to raise money for his village in Kenya, done research at Stanford, and volunteered in the Bay Area. Kimeli is working on an autobiography with Random House Publishers and a children’s book with Children Book Press. He has been commended by leaders like former US president Bill Clinton and former Kenyan President Arap Moi for his enduring spirit and his commitment to make a difference.

Joel Samoff is currently a professor in the Center for African Studies at Stanford University, but he has taught at universities in California, Michigan, Zambia, Mexico, Sweden, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He is a technical advisor for the Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education, the North America Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development, and an Advisory Board Member of the Comparative Education Review and Development and Change.

Robert Siegel is a professor in the Human Biology Department at Stanford University. He has also served as an advisor for Students for International Change (SIC) since its inception and teaches the biology of HIV/AIDS at Stanford and the pre-field training for SIC in Tanzania.

Joelle Tanguy is the Managing Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a coalition of nearly 200 companies that has offices in New York, Paris, and Johannesburg. Ms. Tanguy was formerly a computer software executive until she left the Silicon Valley in 1989 to run humanitarian medical relief operations in East Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans. In 1994, she became the US Executive Director and a senior spokesperson of MSF. After 2001, Ms. Tanguy helped launch and develop the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. She received her MBA from a joint program with the French Institut Superieur des Affaires and Stanford University, and her MA in Management Information Systems from the University of Paris IX.

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