Board of Directors

Dr. Basil Stamos

Dr. Stamos is the chairman of Sterling Stamos Corporate Philanthropy. He is heavily involved in the fight against AIDS in Cambodia, serving on the Board of Director’s of Friends Without a Border and working with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative to fund childrens hospitals. A licensed general internest, he worked for 10 years as a doctor at the Tom Waddell Clinic in San Francisco, serving a predominantly homeless population of the city.

John Goldman

John is a distinguished philanthropist and business leader. He has served as the President of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the President of the San Francisco Symphony, and the CEO of Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services. He is also the vice president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation and a member of the board of trustees at Swarthmore College.

Brenda Freiberg

Brenda has been a leader in the fight against AIDS for over 15 years. She has served as the Chair of the Board of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), and as the Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles under Mayor Richard Riordan. She has also served on the boards of Project Inform, Mothers’ Voices, the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research, and the honorary board of The Trevor Project. She has been heavily involved in the fight against AIDS in India, recently founding the Women’s Center for Y.R.G. CARE in Chennai.

Jonny Dorsey

Jonny is the Chair of the FACE AIDS board of directors. He was a co-founder of FACE AIDS in August 2005, and served as Executive Director through September 2007. As Executive Director, he oversaw the expansion of FACE AIDS to 150 schools across the United States, and helped the organization raise $850,000 in its first two years. He has since returned to undergraduate study at Stanford University.

Katie Bollbach

Katie Bollbach was a co-founder of FACE AIDS in August 2005, and has overseen all FACE AIDS pin making projects in Zambia and Rwanda as Africa Program Director. In 2005 she lived in Zambia, working with AIDS support groups in refugee camp to implement the pin-making projects and help the pin-makers develop sustainable business projects. She is currently in Rwanda, implementing a new round of pin-making with men and women affected by AIDS in the Kirehe district of Eastern Rwanda.

Lauren Young

Lauren Young is the Secretary of the FACE AIDS board of directors. She was a co-founder of FACE AIDS In August 2005, and served as Associate Director in 2005-2006. She is now a senior at Stanford University, and upon graduating will move to Liberia to work with the American Refugee Committee in the country.

Dave Ryan

Dave Ryan, is the Executive Director of FACE AIDS. He took on the Directorship following his graduation from Stanford University in June 2007 with a degree in International Relations.

Board of Advisors

Dude Angius

Mr. Angius founded the Rotary AIDS Project in 1989 after losing his son to the AIDS epidemic. He and a group of committed Rotarians from the Los Altos Rotary Club produced a film called The Los Altos Story about the disease’s impact in their community. Since the film, Dude and the Rotary AIDS Project have published a training manual for community health workers and distributed thousands of copies in multiple languages around the world.

Victor Barnes

Victor Barnes is the director of the HIV/AIDS Initiative at the Corporate Council on Africa. Prior to holding the position at CCA, Victor worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he directed the Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Partnership. He also spent 12 years at USAID, serving primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and overseeing the USAID HIV prevention program.

Anne Firth Murray

Anne Firth Murray founded the Global Fund for Women in 1987 and served as its president until 1996. During this time, she raised $24 million for the fund and gave grants to innumerable organizations promoting women. She is currently a consulting professor in the Human Biology Department at Stanford University.

Jack Higgins, MD

Jack Higgins, M.D., practiced family medicine and developed health promotion programs for 20 years before his focus changed to telemedicine. He is a Reuters Digital Vision fellow at Stanford University and the President and Medical Director of the HouseCall Foundation (HCF), through which he is now developing telemedicine projects in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and South Africa. He also serves as director for three other health-related nonprofit organizations, including the Rotacare Foundation, which provides nine free clinics in the Bay Area.

Dennis Israelski, MD

Dennis Israelski, M.D., is the co-founder and Executive Director of the World Wide AIDS Coalition (WWAC), an organization that connects donors with organizations that can address the needs of Africans suffering from AIDS. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been the Medical Director of the San Mateo County AIDS program and the Chief of Infectious Diseases at the San Mateo Medical Center and Clinics since 1988. He recently assumed the position of Director of Research at the San Mateo Medical Center as well. He is on the Board of Trustees and Medical Director of AIDSETI, an NGO that helps community-driven development programs scale up their activities.

David Katzenstein

David Katzenstein completed his undergraduate and medical degrees as well as a residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the UC San Diego and continued fellowship training at UC Davis. He then taught at the University of Minnesota for two years before moving to the University of Zimbabwe just as the AIDS epidemic was recognized in Southern Africa. In the late 1980s he worked under the Food and Drug Administration on early candidate HIV vaccines and diagnostics. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Stanford University AIDS Clinical Trials Group and Co-Chair of Stanford’s Center for AIDS Research. He is also the Founder of AIDS Care and Treatment Now (ACT Now).

Kimeli Willson Naiyomah

Kimeli Willson Naiyomah is currently working towards his Masters in Biological Sciences at Stanford University and plans to be a medical doctor. Born in Enoosaen Village in Kenya, he first came to the United States after a 1996 Washington Post article inspired Americans to sponsor his studies at the University of Oregon. In response to 9/11, Kimeli coordinated a gift of cattle from his tribe to the United States. The founder of the America Africa Nuru Foundation, Kimeli has continued to raise money for his village in Kenya, done research at Stanford, and volunteered in the Bay Area. Kimeli is working on an autobiography with Random House Publishers and a children’s book with Children Book Press. He has been commended by leaders like former US president Bill Clinton and former Kenyan President Arap Moi for his enduring spirit and his commitment to make a difference.

Joel Samoff

Joel Samoff is currently a professor in the Center for African Studies at Stanford University, but he has taught at universities in California, Michigan, Zambia, Mexico, Sweden, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He is a technical advisor for the Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education, the North America Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development, and an Advisory Board Member of the Comparative Education Review and Development and Change.

Robert Seigel

Robert Siegel is a professor in the Human Biology Department at Stanford University. He has also served as an advisor for Students for International Change (SIC) since its inception and teaches the biology of HIV/AIDS at Stanford and the pre-field training for SIC in Tanzania.

Joelle Tanguy

Joelle Tanguy is the Managing Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a coalition of nearly 200 companies that has offices in New York, Paris, and Johannesburg. Ms. Tanguy was formerly a computer software executive until she left the Silicon Valley in 1989 to run humanitarian medical relief operations in East Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans. In 1994, she became the US Executive Director and a senior spokesperson of MSF. After 2001, Ms. Tanguy helped launch and develop the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. She received her MBA from a joint program with the French Institut Superieur des Affaires and Stanford University, and her MA in Management Information Systems from the University of Paris IX.