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Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors are Health Poverty Action USA’s governing body. It delegates management of the organisation to the senior leadership, but the Board remains ultimately responsible for the affairs of the non-profit organization, ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering appropriate outcomes in terms of public benefit.

Health Poverty Action USA’s bylaws provide for a minimum of three Board members, who are responsible for the election of new members. All Board members have to stand for election each year at the annual meeting.

The Board of Directors

Cheri Dubiel (Chair)

Cheri is the Executive Director of Community Shares of Wisconsin (CSW), which brings the community together with 70 nonprofits, raising funds for, and awareness of, the local social and environmental justice movement. In addition to her work with CSW, she brings extensive experience with local advocacy movements through past leadership roles with the Dane County Rape Crisis Center, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Cheri grew up on a multi-generational dairy farm in the beautiful rolling hills of Trempealeau County in the drift less region of Wisconsin.

Oliver Kemp (Vice Chair/Treasurer)

Oliver is the CEO of Prostate Cancer Research Centre, which focuses on the advanced stage of the disease treatments are currently limited. Prior to this, he was the CEO of Build Africa. At Build Africa he directly supported over 400,000 people with an increase of over 500% in six years and was awarded the prize for the “Best International Charity in the UK” in 2012.

Kathi Seiden-Thomas (Secretary)

Kathi Seiden-Thomas is a strategic partnership specialist with more than 20 years of experience co-creating with multi-sector partners in the areas of health, racial justice, education, women’s rights, and youth development in the U.S. and throughout the world, with a focus on sub-saharan Africa.

Her career began as a health educator with the Peace Corps in Mali and includes recent engagements with Africa based NGOs (CorpsAfrica, ACADES Malawi and T21 Families Support Organization-Kenya) and U.S. Department of State Exchange Programs (Mandela Washington Fellowship, International Visitors Leadership Program, Young African Leadership Initiative).

Kathi is the co-founder and editor of Whose Stories Will We Hear, a collaborative initiative created to provide a platform for Black Africans to tell their own stories and be at the forefront of how history views Africa and its people. Kathi has had the privilege of visiting 27 countries for immersive travel and professional collaboration and is conversant in French, Kiswahili and Bambara.

Leena Moiz

Leena Moiz is a technology professional with a decade of experience building software and strategies for nonprofit fundraising. She is a passionate advocate for social change, dedicated to serving underserved communities through her work in the nonprofit technology sector. Throughout her career she has focused on roles that have a social impact from global organizations like Microsoft and Unilever to startups. She combines strategic insight with a hands-on approach to create meaningful, lasting impacts. Leena is driven by a deep-seated empathy and a commitment to uplifting marginalized populations, envisioning a more equitable and just society. Born and raised in Pakistan she now resides in rural Maryland with her husband and children.