Kevin Bouchard - Executive Director
Kevin is pursuing his Masters Degree at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior to graduate school he served as an Associate at BlackRock, an investment management firm in Boston, Massachusetts. Among various places of past employment, Kevin spent ten months working in Uganda at the Uganda Microfinance Union (UMU) during 2002-2003. Additionally Kevin had the pleasure to go back to East Africa in March of 2007 for 3 weeks. Kevin graduated from Gettysburg College with a concentration in International Affairs.

Ann Marie Bielli Bouchard - Secretary/Director
Ann Marie is a Human Resource Director and an Assistant Vice President at a leading insurance company located in Boston, with corporate headquarters located in Bermuda. Ann Marie graduated Summa Cum Laude from Gettysburg College and is holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources from Suffolk University. Ann Marie traveled to East Africa in 2007 visiting the countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

Virginia Dooley - Director
Virginia joined EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation in 2004 and currently serves as a Grantmaking/Fundraising Associate. There, she is responsible for grants administration as well as individual fundraising, donor engagement and development. After internships and contract work with the International Institute of Education and Mercy Corps in logistics and program support, she accepted a volunteer position in 2003 in Kampala, Uganda, where she worked on organizational capacity building and served as a counselor for urban refugees while conducting field research on relationships between relief and development in refugee settlements. She holds a BS in Russian Language from Georgetown University and an MA in International Development Studies from the University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies.

Dary Goodrich - Director / Treasurer
Dary is currently the Chocolate Products Manager at Equal Exchange, the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade Organization in the US. During his time at Equal Exchange, Dary has had several opportunities to travel in Central America and the Caribbean. Through these travels, he has had the opportunity to colead delegations to visit coffee and cocoa co-operatives to learn about the realities facing small-scale farmers and the impact of Fair Trade. Dary graduated from Colby College in 2000 with a BA in Environmental Policy.

Ian Isherwood - Director / Chairman of the Board
Ian teaches in the English Department at Gettysburg College. Previously, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and as the Director of Special Projects for a member of Congress from Pittsburgh. Ian is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Dartmouth.

Daniel Jewett - Director
Daniel Jewett – Dan is the Chairman of the Social Studies department at Manchester Essex Regional High School in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Prior to being named department chair, Dan coached the school's nationally ranked debate team, winning a national championship in 2006. Before entering the teaching profession, Dan worked on a variety of local and state political campaigns and served for two years as the Director of Constituent Services for a Massachusetts State Senator. He earned a BA from Gettysburg College and a MA in History from Salem State College. Dan lives in Beverly, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.

Daniel Sullivan - Director
Dan serves as the Chief of Staff to the Dean of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Chairman David L. Flynn. Dan graduated from Harvard University in 2003. A US Ambassador to the Youth General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, Dan was a Global Health Scholar of the American Medical Student Association in 2006, is a Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and has served for the past 3 years as a Clinton Volunteer at the Clinton Global Initiative.