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People U.S. Staff Amy Maglio Amy
Maglio is the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Global
Education Project. While serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal,
West Africa, from 1996-1998, Amy identified a church group in the U.S.
to fund her village sister to go to school. With her sister’s success
and after returning from Senegal, she decided to expand the project and
provide other girls in Senegal the same opportunity. She incorporated
Women’s Global Education Project as a nonprofit organization in March
2003 with the vision of expanding the opportunity of education to women
and girls all over the world. Edevina Quetua Before joining Women’s Global, Edevina served for several years in communications and marketing for Access Community Health Network in Chicago, the nation's largest network of community health centers for uninsured and underinsured patients. Additionally, she has worked in the field of national service training and development, and also served with the AmeriCorps program City Year Chicago, first as a literacy tutor for remedial third-grade students and then as manager of education programs. She holds a bachelor’s degree in applied communication and public relations from Asbury College in Kentucky and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Edevina grew up in the Philippines and the U.S.
Alise Brasch Alise
has worked with non-profit organizations for more than seven years in
her corporate and private life. Alise has a Master’s of Science in
Integrated Marketing Communications and is currently pursuing a
Master’s of Arts in Multicultural Communications from DePaul
University. Malii Brown Cross-cultural Consultant
Malii is a Consultant for Intercultural Programs with Language &
Culture Worldwide, a firm that offers cross-cultural training,
coaching and consulting services to meet the most sophisticated global
challenges faced by Fortune 500 corporations, non-profit organizations and
government agencies. Malii has traveled, lived and worked extensively in Asia and Latin
America, beginning her career in cross-cultural work in rural Japan with the
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Malii then served with Rotary
International’s Humanitarian Programs Division to coordinate international
humanitarian aid projects. Upon relocating to James McDonald James serves as Vice President of
Commercial Real Estate Lending for New Century Bank, one of Chicago’s
leading real estate banks in Chicago with almost $500 million in
assets. Currently James manages a real estate portfolio of
approximately $65 million and provides financing for development of
condominiums, high-rises, single-family homes and strip centers, as
well as financing for the acquisition and refinancing for similar
properties. Tracy Nicholas As Vice President for the Alter Consulting Group, Tracy provides client services to deliver highly complex and sophisticated projects where keen organizational skills are key to success. Tracy has been responsible for facilitating on-site planning sessions to ensure successful relationships among stakeholder groups on some of the industry’s most complex projects, including the 1,700,000 SF Hyatt Center, 850-room Hotel Intercontinental and the Council for a Parliament of World’s Religions, facilitating more than 30 project teams in successfully implementing project programs. Tracy has provided program management and strategic planning and implementation services for the Biograph Theater renovation for Victory Garden Theater and for the $20,000,000 renovation of the Chicago Historical Society, including all exhibit, media and technology work. She was the production manager for the construction of Skyline Stage at Navy Pier in Chicago. Tracy is currently providing strategic planning, transition management, and owner’s representative services for the Muntu Dance Theatre Performing Arts Center, and the Joel Hall Dancers and Center. Tracy, who previously was Regional Quality Manager at Bovis Lend Lease, joined The Alter Group in 2003. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Stage Management from Columbia College, and a Master of Science from Northwestern. She has served as a Senior Examiner of Lincoln Award for Business Excellence. Debbie Plager Joan K. Sherman Joan
received her Master’s Degree in International Affairs from George
Washington University, with a specialization in international economic
development. She worked for CARE International for 5 ½ years: first in
Haiti working on rural clean water systems and in mother and child
health, then in India as director of their micro-credit program. She
became an organizational resource on gender and development issues, and
participated in the strategic planning processes for the India mission.
Upon returning to the U.S., she worked for the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation’s Global Security and Sustainability Program. She
currently teaches a seminar course on International Development and the
Politics of Gender at Northwestern University.
Elise Annunziata-Blaisdell Elise Annunziata-Blaisdell is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Senegal (‘96-’99) where she worked with Senegalese teachers and students to develop primary school programs and curricula in environmental education. She continued her work in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer trainer for Guinea’s first Environmental Education program in 1999. Upon her return from West Africa, Elise worked at Chemonics International and managed multi-million dollar USAID contract projects in Mali, Senegal and Uganda. Later, she became a Master Trainer for NASA/National Science Foundation and the Dept. of State’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) project, and facilitated trainings for students and teachers in The Gambia and Madagascar. On behalf of WGEP, Elise traveled to Senegal in December of 2004 and met with WGEP’s local partners and girls scholarship recipients. Currently, she
is the Northeast Political Director for Clean Water Action and
lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with her husband and daughter. Lynn Besser, LCSW Lynn received a master's degree in psychiatric social work from the University of California at Berkeley, and has worked in both in-patient and out-patient psychiatric settings. She has experience in individual, family and group therapy, and has worked in all aspects of the adoption process in New Mexico and Illinois, including counseling with pregnant adolescents, education and counseling with adoptive families, and grief counseling with all members of the adoption triad. Christopher Boffey, J.D., L.L.M., Christopher
Boffey, who serves as legal adviser to Women’s Global, has been
practicing law for 13 years and is now Legal Director for the
PetroKazakhstan group of companies in Kazakhstan. Before this, Chris
was a partner in the Almaty, Kazakhstan, office of McGuireWoods LLP. He
was also previously an associate in the Chicago offices of law firms
Ungaretti & Harris and McDermott, Will & Emery, as well as the
Moscow, Russia office of Holme, Roberts & Owen.
Michelle Gavin has more than 10 years’ experience
in international education and development. She currently works at Rotary
International where she coordinates The Rotary Foundation’s The Rotary World
Peace Fellowship program, which awards 60 full scholarships annually for
master’s degrees in peace and conflict resolution. She has worked as a trainer for Prudential
Relocation Intercultural where she specialized in designing cross-cultural adaptation
programs for youth. Michelle has also
worked as a capacity building trainer for Save the Children in Safietou Kane Born and raised in Senegal, Safietou received her B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from the University of the District of Columbia in Washington D.C. She then got her M.A. in African Studies from Florida International University in Miami, and is currently pursuing her doctorate degree from Florida International in Comparative Sociology. Safietou’s research interests center around international NGOs in Senegal that focus on women, health and education. She first got involved with Women’s Global as a translation voluteer, translating reports from French to English and helping to interpret phone conversations between U.S. staff and our partners in Senegal. Safietou sees Women’s Global as a great asset to Senegalese girls and women and to the entire Senegalese community. Laura Kennedy Chicago
native Laura Kennedy has 10 years of professional experience in the
fields of humanitarian grants administration and international
education. Laura has served with the Rotary Centers for International
Studies in peace and conflict resolution program at The Rotary
Foundation of Rotary International. In Washington, D.C., she also
managed the largest university-level Russian language exchange program
with the former Soviet Union. Laura lived in Moscow, Russia for more
than three and a half years during the late 1980’s and 1990’s. In
Moscow she worked with the International Organization for Migration to
develop micro-enterprise in Russia. She also managed scientific grants
in the former Soviet Union for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Prior to joining The Rotary Foundation, Laura worked with a small,
Chicago-based non-profit to design and implement short-term educational
training programs for U.S. State Department-sponsored groups from the
former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Abdoulaye Ndiaye Abdoulaye Ndiaye has 20 years of government, non-government, foundation, and private consulting work experience in Africa in nature conservation and community development. He currently works with the United Nations Development Program in Senegal as a regional coordinator in biodiversity and international waters for West/Central Africa. In 1999, he joined the MacArthur Foundation as program officer where his responsibilities included grant making for the foundation’s Conservation and Sustainable Development area for Africa, and integrated grant making of the Africa Task Group. Prior to his arrival at MacArthur, Abdoulaye was the Country Director of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) program in Senegal. Abdoulaye has also worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Catholic Relief Services and the Senegalese Government where he started his professional career as head of the Urban Water Supply Unit. Abdoulaye has a B.S. in Physics/Chemistry from the University of Dakar, a Rural Development Engineering degree from the International School of Engineering of Burkina-Faso, and a master’s of science degree in Water Resources Administration from the University of Arizona. Paul Ndong, Ph.D. Paul Ndong is the Director of Middle & Secondary General Education with the Senegal Ministry of Education in Dakar. He holds Bachelors, Maters and Advanced degrees in Literature and French from the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. He was a high school French teacher for 17 years, including 12 years as a trainer for high school teachers at Ecole Normale Superieure de Dakar. Paul spent six years as the Education and Cultural Counselor for the Senegalese Embassy in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in French Literature from Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. in 2006. Paul is from the Sine-Saloum region in Senegal where Women’s Global is currently operating and lives with his family in Dakar. Barbara Rose Barbara Rose serves as CEO of S. N. Peck, Builder, Inc. and Case Handyman and Remodeling of Chicago and as Vice President of Operations for national building services firm Management Cleaning Controls, Inc. She has a B.A. in Sociology and an M.S. in Counseling from Purdue University and has designed numerous training programs and seminars for leadership training, management development, and communication skills, especially for people in the construction industry. In addition to serving as an Advisor to Women’s Global, she is on the Board of Directors of Chicago Foundation for Women, Industrial Council of Near West Chicago, Heartland International, and For Global Progress. She has held office in several women’s organizations and has organized, volunteered and led community programs in Illinois and Indiana. She is also a volunteer fundraiser for the Hunger Project and has traveled to many countries in Africa, including Senegal and Kenya where Women’s Global currently operates. Jennifer Sachs Jennifer enjoyed two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching environmental education in Senegal, where she became aware of how few girls have an opportunity to learn in school in Africa. Jennifer has been a fundraising professional for more than five years. She was Development Director of Bluewater Network and is currently the Development Associate for On Lok, a program for seniors in San Francisco. She is an avid runner and painter. Julie Stagliano Julie
Stagliano has a firm grounding in international development assistance
with more than 20 years experience living and working overseas
(primarily in West Africa) and serving in senior management positions
for private sector companies in the Washington, D.C. area dedicated to
health systems improvement and sustainable development. She was also
involved in strategic business development efforts and managed
contracts for the U.S. government and the World Bank. Bill Taylor Bill
Taylor taught political science and history at Oakton Community College
in Des Plaines, Illinois, for 32 years before retiring in 2004.
He began volunteering in 1999 with Seeds of Peace, an
organization that brings Israeli and Palestinian teens to a camp in
Maine every summer for a 3-week experience in peaceful coexistence,
where he served as facilitator of the camp’s daily dialogue sessions.
During the school year, Bill also teaches short courses for older
adults on such subjects as Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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