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Anne-Elizabeth Anne-Elizabeth lived in rural Tanzania and witnessed first hand the issues surrounding the healthcare system, where the closest hospitals and clinics were hours away from the villages. She would therefore like to contribute her time to raising money and awareness to help save lives as she prepares to run in the ING NYC Marathon. Anne-Elizabeth is a biologist and works at an environmental consulting firm in New York City. |
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Eliza Eliza is a Touch Foundation staff alum and is thrilled to have the opportunity to run her first marathon for a cause she believes in so strongly. Eliza has lived and worked in several African countries, and has witnessed first-hand the debilitating effects of insufficient health care services on nations’ development goals and humanitarian priorities. Eliza is currently a student at Harvard Law School, where she is focusing her studies on international human rights and humanitarian law. She is spending the summer living in Cambodia working as a legal intern for an anti-human trafficking organization. |
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Pearl In addition to the experience of running in a marathon, Pearl looks forward to raising funds for the Touch Foundation to improve access to healthcare in Tanzania. Since her high school years in San Francisco, Pearl has volunteered for many organizations that focus on improving health and education. An adventurer at heart, Pearl also enjoys traveling and trekking around the world. She studied toxicology and public health and is gainfully employed as a consultant at an environmental consulting company in Manhattan. |
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Kevin Kevin is an analyst at Promontory Financial Group. Poverty alleviation and economic development are among Kevin’s primary interests and his past work experience in Africa has shown him that health care is a perquisite for success of any development initiative. He became interested in the Touch Foundation through Father Doctor Peter Le Jacq and is excited for the opportunity to raise money to support the training of health workers in Tanzania. |
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Emily Emily is Head of Advocacy and Communication for the Touch Foundation and has a longstanding interest in global health. She was previously at George Soros’ philanthropic foundation, the Open Society Institute, where she was a program officer in the Public Health Watch project, which aims to strengthen meaningful and sustained engagement by affected communities in the development, implementation, and monitoring of TB and HIV policies, and to press for accountability at the national, regional, and global levels. Emily started a volunteer organization called Young Professionals for CARE to raise awareness about global poverty. She is thrilled to be part of the Who Cares? Marathon Team! |
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Meaghan Meaghan is the Director of Operations for the Touch Foundation, supporting the efforts of its New York and London offices. She began learning about Tanzania’s severe shortage of healthcare workers and Touch’s endeavors to improve access to health care five years ago, as a volunteer while working at McKinsey & Company. Last year she attended the graduation ceremony of Weill Bugando’s first medical students, and is thrilled to work to ensure that there are many more graduates to come. This is Meaghan’s first marathon. |
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Tory Tory Ervin is currently a Masters student at Harvard School of Public Health studying health policy and management. Tory has also worked at the Touch Foundation for the past three years and plans to continue her career in health systems strengthening. After obtaining her B.A., Tory joined the US Peace Corps in Kenya, where among other things she was the girls’ cross-country coach at a small, rural high school. She is extremely excited to pour some of her passion for health development work into training and fundraising for the marathon to support Touch! |
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Dan Dan runs a Product Management team at a large asset management firm that manages money for institutions, private clients and individual investors. Dan is a member of the Touch Foundation's Young Leaders' Executive Committee and also works with the New York Foundling Hospital, a New York based agency dedicated to helping children in need. This is his first marathon. |
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John My name is John Hawkins Gordon and I am thrilled to be participating with the “Who Cares?” Team in the ING New York City 2009 Marathon. This will be my first marathon and I'm happy to be helping such a worthy cause as I reach this personal goal. I come to this project with several years of experience in the non-profit sector working for such organizations as The Rockefeller Foundation, The Charles A. Dana Foundation, DebRA of America and HeartStream Education. I’d like to dedicate my efforts to my friend Vincent Martinelli who is currently spending a year in Africa fighting poverty. |
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Scott Scott is excited to be combining the physical challenge of training for his first marathon with the challenge of raising money to train enough doctors, nurses and other health workers to meet the basic needs of the people of Tanzania. Scott works in the knowledge management group at McKinsey & Company, where as a consultant a year and a half ago, he started a weight-loss challenge with his consulting team. That challenge was the start of his running "career," which will take him to the half marathons in Manhattan and Queens in preparation for November's full marathon. |
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Priscilla Priscilla is a management & strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company. Having spent six months in Arusha (Tanzania) as a volunteer with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Priscilla is very excited about working with the Touch Foundation to improve healthcare in Tanzania. Serving underprivileged communities has always been an important priority in Priscilla’s life; she spent a summer as a community sanitation volunteer (building latrines!) in rural Mexico and spent several years co-directing a mentoring program for at-risk teens in Boston. An avid world traveler and recreational gardener, Priscilla has run five marathons and hopes this will be her best one yet. |
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Emily Currently studying at Harvard Law School, Emily is focusing on international development and human rights. This summer, she is working in La Paz, Bolivia with an organization that represents victims of sexual violence, effects policy change, and trains leaders within the justice system. In the past, Emily studied international development and worked with a children’s shelter in Mexico, where she learned about the integral nature of healthcare in the development of both children and society in general. A self-described tortoise-like runner, she is excited to join the Who Cares? team and to support the Touch Foundation. |
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Peter Peter is a consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he works with healthcare clients on strategies for using data and technology to improve care. He became interested in Touch Foundation through friends and colleagues who share his interest in Global Public Health solutions, and he hopes the marathon effort can be a meaningful way to contribute to the organization. This will be Peter's third marathon if all goes as planned! |
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Maija Maija is thrilled to be raising money for the Touch Foundation as part of the Who Cares? Team. Maija believes the crisis of healthcare in Tanzania is critical and it is important to expand and strengthen the healthcare workforce throughout the country. Maija has put her running to good use over the years - regularly raising money for the Revlon Run/Walk for Women’s Cancers. Maija is a documentary television producer and an avid traveler. This is her first marathon. |
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Mark Mark is the current Director of Development for the Touch Foundation and is excited to be running in the often touted NYC marathon. He learned about Touch through his Peace Corps Volunteer friend and fellow colleague Tory Ervin, also a member of Touch's marathon team! He was intrigued by Touch's private sector approach to solving development issues in East Africa. Since joining Touch, he has been energized by the Who Cares? Campaign and the advocacy of the issues which has inspired him to make the commitment to run 26.2 miles while raising much needed funds to support Touch's mission. It's Mark's 2nd marathon. |
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Jacqueline Jackie is an ESL teacher in the New York City public school system. As a language teacher and frequent traveler, she has always been fascinated by other cultures as well as opportunities to work and volunteer abroad. This summer, she is traveling to Uganda to work on various aid projects and visit national parks with Ugandan students. Jackie is thrilled to join the Touch Foundation for her first marathon. She looks forward to achieving her own running goals while providing sustainable aid to East African health care workers. |
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Linda Linda is fired up to train for her first marathon and hopes her knees are also up for the challenge. It is exciting to be running for the Touch Foundation as it supports the great cause of global public health. Linda first became interested in this cause through a friend and understands how combining the personal challenge of training for the marathon with fundraising can help so many people across the globe in Tanzania. Linda has worked at The Economist Group for over 4 years and volunteers in the community through local non-profit organizations. Born and raised in sunny San Diego, Linda loves traveling, learning, coffee, and the sunny outdoors. |
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Sarah Sarah is a recruiter at McKinsey & Company and recently became aware of the Touch Foundation's mission through a number of colleagues. She was inspired to find that the Touch Foundation's mission to build a sustainable health care network in Tanzania is centered around educating locals and the training of doctors, nurses and other health care workers . Having taught abroad herself in Greece and Korea, and passionate about any issue related to international education, she quickly became an advocate for the cause. Sarah could not be more excited to run her first marathon with the "WhoCares?" Team. |
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Sophie Sophie works to coordinate the CSR initiatives for the Stockholm-based Kinnevik Group. She is a founding board member of Queen Silvia's World Childhood Foundation, addressing the social, emotional and material poverty of children around the world through its support of 90 programs in 15 countries. From 2003 to 2005 she served as brand manager for Metro International, the world's largest and fastest-growing newspaper group. Stenbeck served on the Board of Directors of the Glocal Forum, an international non-governmental organization which promotes peace-building and development activities through city-to-city partnerships and youth empowerment. Sophie is the President of the Hugo Stenbeck Stiftelse, a Swedish based charitable trust. In 2006 she worked to promote Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's public school reform legislation. Stenbeck founded Remedee in early 2007 to merge her passions for education reform, global youth advocacy, and media as a tool for change. Sophie also serves as the President of the Stenbeck Foundation. She graduated from New York University with a degree in English and American Literature. |
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Nick Nick is senior at Princeton University, where he studies Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Nick spent the summer of 2009 working at the Touch Foundation and was inspired by the foundation's mission. He is particularly excited to help Touch achieve its goals while also achieving personal fitness goals. This will be Nick's first marathon. |
Meet the Runners
As part of the Who Cares? Campaign, the Touch Foundation is thrilled to be selected as a Participating Charity in the ING New York City Marathon on Nov. 1, 2009! We are building a “Who Cares? Team” of 40 runners, who pledge to raise awareness and at least $2,500 each for the Touch Foundation. Check out some of our Who Cares? Team members at the right! Click here to join our team.