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President
Brent Savoie | | | Brent Savoie was one of the founders of Primeros Pasos and has helped with the clinic's development since 2002. In 2004 he co-founded IAHA with Michael Brown, in order to provide financial and technical support to Primeros Pasos and other health organizations in Guatemala. He graduated from University of Virginia School of Law in 2007 with a focus on health and human rights law. In 2009 he graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School and is currently a resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. | | |
Vice-President
Adil Qureshi | 
| Adil joined the IAHA team earlier this year after serving as an IAHA advisor on an ad hoc basis and assisting with fundraising for Primeros Pasos. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007 and is currently a lawyer with the law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in Washington, D.C. Adil received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. | | |
Treasurer
Matt Grimes | 
| Matt is an advocate and student of social entrepreneurship. He has researched and consulted with social entrepreneurs and forward-thinking non-profits in the U.K., India, South Africa, Mozambique, and the United States. He first became familiar with the IAHA and Primeros Pasos through participation in Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management's Project Pyramid visit to Guatemala in March 2010. He holds a B.B.A. from the College of William and Mary, an M.Sc. from the University of Oxford and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. | | |
Secretary and University Partnerships Chair
Megan Dunning | 
| Megan is currently a second-year medical student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008, where she studied Spanish and Human Biology. Megan has been involved with Primeros Pasos, since 2007, when she volunteered as a health educator with the Children's Health Education Program. As an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, Megan co-founded the "IAHA at UVA," the first student chapter of the Inter-American Health Alliance. She also spent ten months working in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala as the Primeros Pasos Volunteer Coordinator in 2008-2009.
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Fundraising Chair
Danielle Ditrich | 
| Danielle is a Nurse Practitioner specialized in Women's Health (Obstetrics & Gynecology). In the fall of 2009 she started the Women's Health Clinic at Primeros Pasos in conjunction with the Women's Education Program (Stairway to Good Health). The women's clinic runs two days a week and focuses on cervical cancer prevention and prenatal care.
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Co-Chair Guatemalan Partnerships
Antonette Shaw | 
| Antonette has been involved with both IAHA and Primeros Pasos extensively for the past three years. She first became connected with Primeros Pasos as a Children's Health Educator in 2007, and from that moment continued to invest her time into the clinic and the communities it serves. She was later hired as the General Director for Primeros Pasos from 2008-09. Upon passing along her position and returning to the States, Antonette has recently started her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Pennsylvania. In the midst of re-adjusting to being in the States and university life again, she wanted to continue to invest her time in some capacity to the organizations that left such a footprint on her own perspective. Antonette is working with IAHA to help foster the IAHA relationship with their Guatemalan partners. | | |
Co-Chair Guatemalan Partnerships
Gina Kapustin | 
| Gina came to know Primeros Pasos through several trips to Guatemala with Threads Weaving Dreams, a non-profit organization that works to improve the lives of women and their families in Guatemala. During this time, she helped develop and secure funding for Primeros Pasos’ Scholarship Program and Women's Education Program. Gina is an attorney and social worker. She currently works for Columbia University Head Start. Gina lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter. | | |
CHILA, Inc. Liason
Brian Smith | 
| Brian is the founder and President of Chila Inc., a non-profit organization building a medical clinic in Chisec, Alta Verapaz, with focus on partnership with local Q'eqchi Maya womens group Q'ana Tz'uul Taq'a, natural medicine, family health and production of household fruits/vegetables/animal products and income generation. Brian was first exposed to the health and health education needs of underserved Guatemalans through his 4 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chisec, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. He recieved a BS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 2002 and is currently a medical student at Quillen College of Medicine.
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Member at Large
Rob Segan
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| Rob has been involved with Primeros Pasos since 2005 when he joined the clinic first as a volunteer and later took the position of Development Coordinator. He is an MBA, MPH student in Health Sector Managment and Global Health at Boston University and he is a co-founder of the Global Health Association at the BU School of Management. In 2010 he led a group of his MBA student classmates on a trip to Guatemala and he is focused on building a sustainable link between IAHA and BU. | | |
Advisory Board
Avery de Giron
Avery has a doctorate in Anthropology with a research focus on development in northern Guatemala. She is the advisor to the IAHA student organization at Vanderbilt and the leader of the VISAGE summer study abroad program for Vanderbilt students to Primeros Pasos, as well as a coordinator for Project Pyramid students working with the clinic. She is the assistant director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University.
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Advisory Board
Mike Brown
Mike spent a year working as the director of the clinic in Guatemala in 2003-2004. Upon returning to the U.S., he was involved in the early foundation and development of the Inter-American Health Alliance. He is currently in his final year of an MD/MPH program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will go on to pursue a residency program in Pediatrics. | | | | | |
Advisory Board
Julie Savoie
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