Engineers Without Borders - USA
2008 Annual International Conference
March 27-30, 2008
University of Washington, Seattle
Sustainable Engineering and Global Health
 

Conference Speakers 2008
William Gates Sr. shown here with Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter	William H. Gates, Senior, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation William H. Gates Sr. guides the vision and strategic direction of the foundation and serves as an advocate for the foundation’s key issues. He first answered his son's request for help in using his resources to improve reproductive and child health in the developing world by directing the William H. Gates Foundation, which was established in 1994. It merged with the Gates Learning Foundation to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000.  A founding partner at Preston Gates & Ellis, Gates has served as president of both the Seattle/King County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association. He has served as trustee, officer, and volunteer for more than two dozen Northwest organizations.  Gates also has been a strong advocate for education for many years, chairing the Seattle Public School Levy Campaign in 1971 and serving as a member of the University of Washington's Board of Regents since 1997. Gates and his late wife, Mary Maxwell Gates, raised three children: Kristianne, Bill, and Libby. Now married to Mimi Gardner Gates, Gates continues his lifelong commitment to many civic programs, cultural organizations, and business initiatives.
	Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., President and CEO, Museum of Flight and Former Astronaut Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar joined the Museum of Flight after retiring from the NASA Johnson Space Center where she was Associate Director, Technology Integration and Risk Management for the Space Life Sciences Directorate (SLSD) of the NASA Johnson Space Center. A NASA Mission Specialist astronaut and veteran of 5 space flights, Dr. Dunbar has logged more than 50 days in space.  She has served as the Payload Commander on two flights, including the first Space Shuttle docking mission to the Russian Space Station Mir. Dr. Dunbar holds BS and MS degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Washington, and a PhD in Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering from the University of Houston. Dr. Dunbar is a member of the American Ceramic Society (Fellow), the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA/Associate Fellow). She has been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal, the NASA Exceptional Leadership Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.  Dr. Dunbar is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 2002 was elected to the National Academy of Engineers.
	Mark A. Emmert, Ph.D., President, University of Washington Dr. Emmert assumed the leadership of UW in June 2004, and has led an array of efforts ranging from revitalizing undergraduate education to improving workplace culture.  During Dr. Emmert’s tenure, the University has moved boldly to help position the state of Washington as an epicenter for global health, establishing a new interdisciplinary Department of Global Health and creating the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The University recorded the largest private gift in its history—a $105 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—to found the Institute.  Prior to assuming the presidency at the University of Washington, Dr. Emmert was chancellor at Louisiana State University. He also served as chancellor of the University of Connecticut and held administrative and academic positions at the University of Colorado and Montana State University. He was a J. W. Fulbright Administrative Fellow in Germany and an American Council on Education Fellow.  Dr. Emmert has served on a number of boards and councils relating to higher education and the state of Washington.
	Bernard Amadei, Ph.D., Founder, Engineers Without Borders - USA Bernard Amadei is a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has authored two books and over 150 technical papers.  His current interests are in sustainability and international development, and he directs the Engineering for Developing Communities program at CU.  Its overall mission is to educate globally responsible engineering students and professionals who can offer sustainable and appropriate solutions to the endemic problems faced by developing communities worldwide.   Bernard has been the recipient of many awards, both from his work in civil engineering and in recognition of the vision and drive that created EWB-USA.  In October 2007, Bernard was awarded the Heinz Foundation Award in the Environment Category for his work establishing EWB-USA and EWB-International.  In November 2007, he was awarded the Hoover Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers  and most recently, Bernard was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
	John K. Bennett, Ph.D., President, Board of Directors, EWB-USA   John Bennett is the Director of the ATLAS Institute (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research over the years has focused broadly in distributed and parallel systems.  More recently, and more narrowly, he is working in the areas of distributed information management and distributed robotic sensors, and in the use of information and communication technology in developing communities. A highly respected professor, he believes that engineering is fundamentally about using technology to solve societal problems and to serve human need.  John received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington.
	Catherine A. Leslie, P.E., Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders – USA.     Cathy began her work in developing countries as a Peace Corps Volunteer where she developed solutions related to drinking water and sanitation. As Executive Director, Ms. Leslie brings her management and organizational skills to EWB-USA to ensure that the vision of the organization is fulfilled.   Ms. Leslie is a licensed Civil Engineer in Colorado with over twenty years of experience in the design and management of civil engineering projects. Her responsibilities routinely cover all facets of engineering to ensure successful and cost-efficient projects. Ms. Leslie has been a consultant for governmental agencies for development code updates, construction standards updates, and development review.
	David A. Cook, LG, RBP, GeoEngineers Dave is a Principal and licensed geologist in GeoEngineers' Seattle Office. Dave has a broad environmental consulting background spanning over 17 years with GeoEngineers in the Pacific Northwest. Dave specializes in complex urban brownfield cleanup projects involving many stakeholders. Know-how, community and collaboration are foundation characteristics that Dave emphasizes while undertaking brownfields projects. Two such nationally recognized projects that Dave led include the Rainier Court redevelopment in Seattle's Rainier Valley that won a National Phoenix Award in 2005, EPAs highest brownfield honor. The second was an emergency response action in 1999 related to the Whatcom Creek Gasoline Pipeline Explosion Incident in Bellingham that changed the way fuel pipelines are regulated across the country. Dave completed The Executive Management Program at the University of Washington School of Business and has received a M.S. in geology from Northern Arizona University and a B.A. in geology from Wittenberg University. Dave currently is the Puget Sound Professional Chapter president of Engineers without Borders-USA.
	Michelle A. Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine In addition to her tenured position at UW, Dr. Williams is Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center and Affiliate Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Williams’ major research interests are women’s reproductive health and child health. Her current activities include research and teaching collaborations with epidemiologists in Peru, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and the Republic of Georgia. In 1994, Dr. Williams developed the UW Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program, which trains students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds for research and leadership careers in public health. Dr. Williams is one of the leaders in the Rotary-UW Partnership, a collaboration in which the Partnership, UW faculty, staff and student, and Rotary will work to fast-track the dissemination of disease-preventing, health-promoting interventions and technologies to address pressing global health disparities.  Dr. Williams and Partners are working on projects that will bring clean water and improved sanitation to over 100,000 individuals in rural Ethiopian villages.
	Daniele S. Lantagne, P.E., Engineer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Daniele S. Lantagne is a safe water system staff engineer at the CDC, where her primary role is to provide technical assistance and program support to safe water systems projects. Her responsibilities include working with project partners in, and traveling to, developing countries to implement projects, provide technical assistance and program support, and assess safe water system and other point-of-use water treatment projects.  Ms. Lantagne also answers technical questions, writes informational fact sheets, maintains the safe water system website, and provides engineering expertise to the Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch of CDC.  Prior positions include principal, Alethia Environmental; lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); programs director, Ipswich River Watershed Association; outreach program coordinator, MIT Edgerton Center; and environmental engineer, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc. Daniele is a member of Sigma Xi and was recipient of the Ipswich River Watershed Association Leadership Award. She received a B.S. and master's degree in environmental engineering from MIT.
	Pam Elardo, P.E., Founder, Living Earth Institute Pam Elardo is a professional engineer with over 20 years experience in regional and international infrastructure development.  She first worked as a water supply and sanitation engineer in Nepal as a Peace Crops volunteer in the early 1980s.  Since then, she has worked in the environmental engineering field with the Washington State Department of Ecology and is currently employed as a section manager for the King County wastewater treatment utility serving the greater Seattle area.  In 1999, she started the Living Earth Institute (LEI), a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering communities across the globe to protect their health and environment through the sustainable use of water resources.   LEI is currently involved in several community-based sustainable development projects in Nepal, Nigeria, Nicaragua and Bangladesh.  Pam holds a masters degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.
	F. Edward Gonzalez Terceros, M.S., Minera Sa Cristobal S.A. Mr. Gonzalez received a diploma in college lecturing from Universidad Mayor de San Simon in Cochabama, Bolivia, has an M.S. in Mining and Environmental Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Technology and a Professinal Master degree in Water Resources Survey and Geographic Information Systems from the International Training Center - ITC (Enschede, The Netherlands) in cooperation with Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Bolivia. His B.S. is in Agronomic Engineering from Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Bolivia. Mr. Gonzalez currently lives in La Paz, Bolivia, and has been working with Engineers Without Borders-USA at the University of Washington on a project in the community where his mother was born. He is the in-country contact for the Yanayo project and has been invaluable in making the project a success.
	Pedro J. Alvarez, Ph.D.,  Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University.  Dr. Alvarez received his B. Eng. Degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. His research interests are related to the applications andimplications of biological processes in natural and engineered systems, fate and transport of toxic chemicals; the environmental footprint of biofuels, reductive treatment and biogeochemical interactions with zero-valent iron; microbial-plant interactions during phytoremediation, and environmental nanotechnology. Dr. Alvarez is a P.E., a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Honors include the McKee Medal for groundwater sustainability from WEF (2007), the cleanup project of the year award from SERDP (2002), the Button of the City of Valencia (2000), the Collegiate Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Iowa (1997); the Alejo Zuloaga Medal from the Universidad de Carabobo,Venezuela (1996); and a Career Award from the National Science Foundation (1995), among others.
	William Moeller, Ph.D., P.E., Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Dr. Moeller began teaching at UM-Lowell and 1971 and retired to Emeritus status in 2002, while continuing to teach a number of graduate classes.  In recent years, his interests have grown to include the application of appropriate technology for sustainable development of water and sanitation in so called "third world" locations.  Toward that end, Dr. Moeller developed the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure in Developing Regions (ISI).   ISI has a graduate certificate program and is seeing enrollment increasing.  Internationally, close associations are being established with parties in the U.S. and in other nations in order to implement a broad array of education, training, research and assessment activities for which the parties are seeking our assistance. As part of the interactions with these organizations, ISI will establish on a case by case basis, formalized associations with other organizations and educational institutions, both in the United States and elsewhere in order to satisfy the specialized needs of the primary party.
	Raul Raudales, Director of Research, Mesoamerican Development Institute Raul is an energy engineer with experience in both the public and private sector. An engineering graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, he has managed international projects for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the World Bank, Global Environment Facility and Conservation International.  Raul is a co-founder of the Mesoamerican Development Institute (MDI) and has served as Director of Research for MDI during which time MDI has developed solar energy technologies for the post-harvest drying of coffee and other agro-industrial products.
	Janelle D. Rogers, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, PMP, Vice President, CDM/ Water and Sanitation Specialist for NGOs, USAID, and Millennium Challenge Corporation Dr. Rogers is an environmental and civil professional engineer with experience in developing and managing water supply and wastewater projects and programs. In addition to her work in the United States, Dr. Rogers has performed water and wastewater work in the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean, Latin America, and India. Through her desire to participate in humanitarian engineering practices, Dr. Rogers' career has evolved from experiences with the U.S. Indian Health Service and International Rescue Committee to the United States Agency for International Development and CDM International. Dr. Rogers has worked in over 25 countries, supervised development and co-authored more than 25 planning documents,managed numerous wastewater planning studies and facilitated stakeholder meetings between entities with differing objectives. She is certified by the PMI as a Project Management Professional, is a board certified environmental engineer, and is a licensed engineer in Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Virginia.
	Spencer Jourdain, Founder, The 1420 Foundation for Sustainable Development In 1990, Spencer Jourdain organized the world’s first worldwide television broadcast publicizing the United Nations Brundtland Report (“Our Common Future”), uplinking programs from nine nations and messages from eight heads of state that were downlinked to over twenty nations and providing international focus on the emerging crisis of global sustainability. In 1999, Spencer founded The 1420 Foundation for Sustainable Development to focus on the role of domestic and international education as a critical factor in achieving global sustainable development. The 1420 Foundation works to create more effective thinking, teaching and learning that integrates natural and social sciences, technology and engineering, effective communication skills and the arts in action learning formats The goal is to empower students and communities with the ability and motivation to create sustainable futures, locally and globally.  Spencer is a graduate of Harvard College, AB cum laude. His early work as an economic development consultant included the design of programs to develop businesses in marginalized communities and to involve the private financial sector in transformative business and economic development.
	Ute Cezeaux, Ph.D., Intercultural Training Associates Ute Cezeaux has been a cross-cultural trainer and consultant for the past 15 years.  She has worked with employees of Fortune 500 companies preparing Americans to work overseas and foreign nationals to work in the U.S.  Dr. Cezeaux has worked with companies involved in multinational mergers and acquisitions, and has facilitated country specific business briefings.  She has a business background in commercial real estate and adult training and has taught German and French at the university level.  Dr. Cezeaux currently teaches Global Business Communication for graduating engineering students and contributes  to the development of a pilot program for cross-cultural training of EWB-USA student members at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Ute Cezeaux is a member of the Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research, International Connections Houston, the Houston World Affairs Council and a board  member of the Houston-Leipzig Sister City Association.
l to r: Tyler Valiquette, Heather Fleming, Kimberly Hinchley	Heather Fleming, San Francisco Professional Chapter Appropriate Technology Design Team (ATDT) Heather Fleming has co-led the (ATDT) for the past year and a half, but joined the team at its inception.  The ATDT was founded to develop appropriate and sustainable design solutions beneficial to EWB-USA projects and other organizations working in disadvantaged communities throughout the world.  Modeled like a design consultancy, the team takes on multiple projects developing designs that take into consideration individual communities' needs and conditions, such as manufacturing methods and capabilities, locally available materials, and ecological effects.  The team is currently developing a pico-wind turbine for rural Guatemala, researching water purification techniques for a community in Northern India, and developing an alpha prototype of a cervical cancer diagnostic for Haiti.  The team's first project, a fuel-efficient cook stove designed for refugees in Darfur, has been featured in O Magazine, Newsweek, ABC News, and Popular Mechanics.    Heather has a BS in Product Design from Stanford University and is also a project manager and design engineer at D2M Inc, a consumer product design consultancy in the bay area.  She has several years experience designing, developing, and delivering technical product solutions to a diverse range of companies.
	Susan Bolton, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Forest Resources, University of Washington Dr. Bolton has academic training in ecology, biology, hydrology and civil engineering with masters degrees in both zoology and civil engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer.  She received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Water Resources area from the University Council on Water Resources, and directed an interdisciplinary water center for six years. Dr. Bolton is very active in both the student (as the faculty mentor) and professional chapters of Engineers without Borders-USA and is actively working on water, infrastructure and health-related projects in Ecuador, Bolivia and Ethiopia.  Dr. Bolton manages and runs a 10-week undergraduate course in Costa Rica for University of Washington students that focuses on the interaction of community and environment in sustainable development.
	Peter Sturtevant, P.E., Senior Technologist, CH2MHill Pete Sturtevant has more than 33 years of professional experience specializing in the field of hydrology and water resources. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at San Diego and his Master’s Degree from the University of Washington.  He is a lifelong loyal Husky fan.  Pete has worked primarily in the consulting field although his experience includes several years as a planner with the Clark County (Nevada) Department of Comprehensive Planning. He currently works as a Senior Technologist with CH2M HILL in Bellevue, Washington. Pete has a wonderful wife and five children, nearly all of whom have “flown the nest”.
	Willard Nott, Chair of Education Board, EWB-USA Willard (Bill) Nott is a Mechanical Engineer retired from Lockheed Martin Space Systems. As Chair of the Education Board for Engineers Without Borders-USA, Bill has established a pre-college program for EWB-USA with the help of JETS, ASME and the EAST Initiative.  In addition, Bill has worked on a number of STEM workshops and presentations for teachers, engineers and students around the country in his capacity as:   -Member of ASME Center for Public Awareness & Pre-College Education Committee   -Regional Chair for the FIRST Silicon Valley region   -Member of the Board of Directors for the EAST Initiative   -Industry Advisor for CETA   -Member of the National Engineers Week Committee for 2005
	William Wallace, President, Wallace Futures Group, LLC and Member, EWB-USA Board of Directors Bill is a recognized industry leader in the field of sustainable development, serving on several national and international professional society committees, leading the preparation of policies and guidance, and helping public and private organizations apply sustainability principles to their operations.  His book, Becoming Part of the Solution:  The Engineer’s Guide to Sustainable Development, has been labeled a “best seller” by the American Council of Engineering Companies. Bill has over 40 years of professional experience, including 30 years in the field of environmental engineering and management.  Before setting up his own consulting firm 5 years ago, Bill spent 21 years at CH2M HILL holding various senior management positions including a three-year term on the board of directors.  Bill was CH2M HILL’s Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, an international organization of over 190 multi-national companies, all with a shared commitment to achieving conditions of sustainability. Bill has been on the EWB-USA Board of Directors since its incorporation in 2002, and served as President from 2004-6.
	Christopher J. Fahlin, EIT, Program Manager for EWB-USA Program at CDM Chris is an environmental engineer at CDM working with process design of water and wastewater treatment facilities as well as construction oversight and submittal review.  After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Chris attended the University of Colorado, where he was a member of the EWB-CU Student Chapter.   Chris now serves as Vice President of the Denver Professionals where he is Project Lead for their work in Togo.  In addition, he serves as an informal technical advisor to Potters For Peace on their ceramic water filter based on his research as an undergraduate student at CU.  Chris spearheaded and now serves as Program Manager for the firmwide EWB-USA Program at CDM.  In this capacity, he seeks to connect experienced professionals with chapters, and advocates for support for EWB-USA and its many projects.
	Avery Bang, Board Member, Bridges to Prosperity Avery is a current graduate student in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Colorado at Boulder, working with Professor Bernard Amadei.  As an undergraduate at The University of Iowa, she was President of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) and founded the Iowa chapter of EWB-USA.  As Project Manager of Iowa's first International Senior Design project, she led a team of students in designing and building a footbridge in the Peruvian Andes.  Currently, Avery is on Bridges to Prosperity's Board of Directors and is the Director of University Programs for B2P.
	Darin Zehrung, Technical Officer and Program Manager, PATH Mr. Zehrung is a Technical Officer and Program Manager within the Technical Solutions Strategic Program at PATH, serviing on multiple projects involving design, development and assessment of technologies to improve developing country public health.  His main emphasis has been drug delivery technologies such as needle-free injectors and he currently serves the Project Director of the Needle-Free Injector Project at PATH.  He has conducted numerous country level assessments of immunization related technologies, in countries including China, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Tanzania and South Africa.  Mr. Zehrung has a background in biotechnology, manufacturing engineering, medical device and biologics regulatory compliance, clinical studies and project management.  He holds a B.S. degree in Human Biology from Western Washington University, with additional graduate studies in molecular biology and developmental genetics.
	Linda Hawkin Israel, Founder, Mobile Assessment and Maternal Aid Solutions (MAMAS) International Ms. Hawkin is a registered nurse, midwife and social innovator with a vision for integrated technologies to help ensure maternal health in remote, crisis environments.  Factors which influenced her work and development of MAMAS International include her early history as a nurse and midwife in rural Africa, a decade of experimental media and documentation of women in conflict zones, ongoing attention to research, and generous support of university-based engineers, UN advisors, grassroots women and policy experts on gender and health from around the world.  Design phases are now underway for MAMASnet, "e-midwifery" testbeds Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, West Africa, countries with the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.  MAMASnet testbeds will support remote diagnostics and obstetrical triage, centralized dispatch and maternal transport between villages and district hospitals.
	Annette L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington Dr. Fitzpatrick received a master’s degree in Ecology from Southern Illinois University and her doctorate from the University of Washington in Epidemiology.  She has been working for the last 18 years at UW primarily doing research and analyses within the Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating, a Center within the Department of Biostatistics.  While her primary focus has been on studies of chronic disease and aging, she has recently refocused work to involve issues of global health and evaluation of interventions to improve the public health of underserved communities.  She has conducted health impact studies of improved water quality in Nepal and Tanzania, and is working with a student to measure respiratory health in Bolivia. Dr. Fitzpatrick believes that the fields of Engineering and Epidemiology must be bridged in order to train engineers in methodology for evaluating the public health benefits that their projects bring to communities.  She currently teaches a course on practical aspects of research operations to students from the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.  She’d like to expand its reach to Engineering students.
	Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, MD, OB/GYN, UW School of Medicine;  Board Member, Water 1st International As an obstetrician/gynecologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Dr. Amies Oelschlager has had a long interest in clean water and its impact on health, especially for women and children.  She studied cholera at the World Health Organization after receiving her baccalaureate at UCLA, and went on to Vanderbilt University where she earned her medical doctorate. During this time she had the opportunity to research iron deficiency in Guatemala and malaria in Ecuador. Dr. Amies Oelschlager's clinical practice is at the University of Washington Medical Center and she teaches the Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Reproduction, and Obstetrics and Gynecology courses for medical students.  She is on the board of directors for Water 1st International, a Seattle based NPO that partners with local partner organizations in Honduras, Ethiopia, India, and Bangladesh to implement and sustain water, sanitation, and health hygiene projects. She is currently in the process of developing a project for Water 1st to evaluate health outcomes in Lempira, Honduras.
	Kelly Coleman, Executive Director, Save the Rain As executive director and president of the non profit organization Save the Rain, Kelly has spent the last 2 years of her life dedicated to bringing clean water to Africa's children by teaching their communities to harvest the rain. She is an advocate for children's rights. She believes that poverty can only be overcome through the empowerment of those affected, local grassroots action and sustainability. She has worked with the United Nations Development Project, the Millennium Promise and Rotary International to bring clean water to more than 100,000 people in the last 2 years.
	Sharon Smith Elsayed, Assistant Director of Education and Communication, Human Subjects Division, University of Washington Sharon has been with the Human Subjects Division at the UW for four years. As Assistant Director for Education & Communication, Sharon facilitates development and delivery of information, as well as education and training in human subjects research ethics for HSD staff, IRB Committee members, and researchers throughout the UW and its affiliates. A graduate of the UW, Jackson School of International Studies, and the University of Maryland, with a Master’s degree in Health & Organizational Communication, Sharon’s work in health communication and education began with nearly two years on the Lebanese/Israeli border, working with the “School Psychology Emergency Services” in Kiryat Shemona, Israel. She has worked with international education and health programs, funded by USAID, early clinical trials of AZT/Zidovudine for the treatment of HIV/AIDS with JHU and the Burroughs Wellcome Company, and in the disability arena with promotion of early intervention and family-centered practices and then as Washington state’s Early Intervention Training Director with WWU.
	Richard M. Powell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, AP Capital Partners, LLC Mr. Powell began his banking career at Warbur and subsequently worked Bear Stearns with clients in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America before co-founding AP Capital Partners, LLC.  Convinced of the urgent need for sustainable development in the 21st century and the critical role of education in achieving a sustainable global future, Mr. Powell joined the advisory board of The 1420 Foundation for Sustainable Education in 2004.  He believes that The 1420 Foundation's interdisciplinary, action based frameworks for educational programs around the world can play an effective role in transforming both students and the economic, social and natural environments in which they live.  In addition to his involvement with The 1420 Foundation, Mr. Powell holds board positions with ZeroChaos LLC, the ACG Orlando chapter and the Victoria Mutual Building Society.
	Kirk R. Smith, MPH, Phd, Professor of Global Environmental Health, University of California-Berkeley Dr. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health and founder and coordinator of the campus-wide Masters Program in Health, Environment, and Development. Previously, he was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he still holds appointment as Adjunct Senior Fellow in Environment and Health after moving to Berkeley in 1995. He is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. His research work focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution. In 1981 along with Indian colleagues, Dr. Smith first identified the potential health impacts of indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels in developing countries.  Since then, he, his students, and colleagues have conducted a range of measurement and health effects studies in rural areas of India, Kenya, Brazil, Thailand, China, Nepal, Peru, and Mongolia.  Recently, Dr. Smith and an international team completed the first randomized trial of the health benefits of an improved stove in highland Guatemala, focusing on child pneumonia, low birth weight, and chronic heart and lung disease in women.  He has also developed new monitors for use in these settings to measure airborne particles and time-activity assessment relying on microchip technology.  He has also pioneered new risk assessment methods that have been the basis of current WHO estimates that this form of pollution is responsible for about 1.6 million premature deaths per year around the world.
	Owen Richards, President, Architects Without Borders - Seattle In addition to his leadership of Architects Without Borders-Seattle (AWB-Seattle), Mr. Richards is a principal of ORA, a Seattle architecture firm focused on sustainable design and interdisciplinary collaboration. Recent projects include the Seattle Habitat Cottages, Kenya Vocational School, and 99k House Competition to design an affordable, sustainable house prototype for the gulf coast region. AWB-Seattle provides architectural services such as master planning, design, site assessment, technical expertise, and construction management to local communities, public institutions, civil society organizations, transnational organizations, other humanitarian relief and non-governmental organizations.  Their mission is to provide an effective, ecologically sensitive and culturally appropriate response to those in need.
	Adam Abramson, EWB-Israel Adam Abramson is currently a graduate student in Water Resources and Management at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research in the Negev Desert, Israel.  He is interested in water development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, low-cost drip irrigation, and cost-benefit analysis and will begin a PhD project on Zambia's irrigation policy with these interests in mind. He graduated from Harvard in 2004, moved to Israel in 2005, and hopes to facilitate grassroots projects with EWB-Palestine to promote peace in the region.
	Amer Rabayah , M.Sc., Founder (President), Engineers Without Borders - Palestine Amer Rabayah is a Projects Manager in Al-Rabayah Construction Company (Acc) and has a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Birziet University-Palestine where he received his degree in civil engineering in 2000. Amer founded EWB-Palestine in 2006 and he attended the organizing committee of EWB-International in Murburg, Germany in 2007. He served on the Membership Committee of EWB-Int'l. Amer's main interest is in sustainable engineering, and he did many training courses for graduate engineers in cooperation with the Palestinian engineering association to enhance their capability in finding jobs.