Advisory Board

Carol Booker, Washington, D.C., is an attorney and former journalist who served for over 30 years as legal counsel to national nonprofit organizations and federal agencies. She recently retired as General Counsel to US international broadcasting. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the City College of New York.

Barbara Feuer, Bethesda, MD, is an organizational psychologist whose company, The Catalyst Group, helps companies achieve optimal performance and productivity by creating a healthy workplace. As a life coach, she helps people realize their life goals. The employee assistance program (EAP) she helped create received a President's Volunteer Action Award from President Clinton and the Point of Lights Foundation.

Bonnie Holcomb, Bethesda, MD, has a master's degree from George Washington University. She has a lifelong interest in African Social and cultural issues and has special expertise on the Ethiopian Famine. Her major area of interest is the impact of social structures on human agencies. She is the head of Global Mission Outreach for Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church.

Denise Kalule - Kampala, Uganda, is Business Manager and Personal Assistant to the Head of Audley Limited, a diversified holding company operating numerous businesses in Uganda. She grew up in the United States, obtained a B.S. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management. She is also currently a Board MEmber of the Vienna College Namugonogo and helped transform the boarding school into the largest Cambridge International Education center ini Eastern Africa. Prior to moving to Uganda in 2005, Denise was Manage of Business Development fro UTC Fuel Cells in Connecticut, where she developed business stategies and determined opportunities for new high-volume fuel cell businesses. She also served as an internal audit leadership associate for Untied Technologies in Connecticut and as a sales leadership associate for Carrier Corporation in South Africa and the U.S.

Robert Israelite, Chicgao, IL, graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Currently he works at CUNA Mutual Group as a Services Specialist for Credit Unions in the Midwest. He traveled to Uganda in 2005 on a non-profit volunteer mission, and continues to work both in the U.S. and in Uganda to increase the capacity of the communities in and around Mbale.

Harris Recht, Ridgewood, NJ, is an attorney specializing in emerging technologies in the medical field, as well as other issues impacting the medical practice. His clients include a number of companies that are engaged in a number of cutting edge research and development projects. He attended Rutgers University and the National Law Center at George Washington University.

Katherine Staudaher, Bethesda, MD, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in Occupational Therapy. She worked in the DC tri-state area for 10 years and developed a specialty in pediatrics. She opened a Pediatric Occupational Therapy private practice in 1988. Since retiring from her O.T. practice, Ms. Staudaher has directed numerous volunteer projects.

Al Tetrault, Vienna, VA, is a real estate development consultant running his own company, Tetrault and Associates. He attended American University and received a masters degree from the University of Virginia. He has developed a particular expertise in public policy and planning related to urban development, neighborhood revitalization, grant programs, and community development planning. Previously he was an instructor and department head at the Kiambu Institute of Science and technology in Kenya, while serving in the Peace Corps.

Christine Uzzell, Bethesda, MD, serves as United Educators' Associate Vice President, Information Technology with responsibility for the corporate-wide management of information resources. She oversees strategic information planning, business process re-engineering, project management, applications development, hardware and software acquisition, vendor negotiations and relationships, and budget preparation. Ms. Uzzell received her M.S. degree from the George Washington University.

Carol Van Oudenaren, Bethesda, MD, is the librarian at Westbrook Elementary School and is a native of the Washington DC area. She has a B. A. in English from Oberlin College, a Masters in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Masters of Science in Instructional Technology from Towson University. Before returning to school for her library degree, she worked in international banking and served as Vice President of a start-up high technology company in Cambridge MA.

Bill Wilhelm, Charlottesville, VA, is the William G. Shenkir Eminent Scholar and professor of finance at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he held the American Standard Companies Chair at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and was a member of the finance department at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. His teaching and research focus on the financial intermediary functions of investment banks. His most recent work, elaborated in "Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law" (Oxford University Press, 2007), examines the historical role of investment banks in economic development.

Mona Yacoubian, Bethesda, MD, works as a Special Advisor to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace where her work focuses on the Middle East. Previously, Ms. Yacoubian served as the North Africa analyst for the U.S. Department of State. She received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Duke University. Ms. Yacoubian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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