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Board of Directors
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Kelly Stevens, Board Chair
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Kelly (she/her) is a native of the Washington, DC area with over 15 years of professional experience supporting the organizational development, workforce strengthening, and stakeholder engagement of nonprofits and government agencies across the country. Kelly is the Principal of Zahara Consulting where she specializes in people-centered approaches to championing equity and driving meaningful and sustained change within systems. |
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Devon Trotter, Board Vice Chair
Pronouns: He/Him/His or She/Her/Hers Devon is a certified life coach and equity and inclusion professional in the climate and environmental conservation space, who brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit management, community engagement, event planning, fundraising, and peer group facilitation. An active member of the D.C. queer and art communities, Devon is a member of the Kennedy Center's inaugural Culture Caucus and volunteers for Whitman Walker and SMYAL. Devon has been a DJ and event planner since 2011. |
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Chelsea L. Ricker, Board Secretary
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Chelsea L. Ricker is a lifelong sexual and reproductive rights activist with over 15 years professional experience supporting global and local women's and human rights organizations develop policy, program, and advocacy initiatives that work for their needs. Through her consulting practice, www.chelseasaidso.org, Chelsea specializes in building organizational strategies, and learning and capacity-strengthening tools that are inclusive, intersectional, and community-driven. |
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Matthew Rose, Board Treasurer Pronouns: He/Him/His Matthew Rose is the Director of US Policy and Advocacy at Health GAP. He brings over a decade of experience in community engagement, federal health policy, HIV science, and advancing health equity. |
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Malik Burnett, MD Board Member
Pronouns: He/Him/His As a physician advocate and entrepreneur, Dr. Malik Burnett works to advance the broader drug policy reform agenda with the goal of shifting US drug policy from framework based on criminal justice to one based on public health. He is currently involved in developing and advising a number of venture start-ups in the cannabis space and advancing harm reduction and drug treatment opportunities in the DMV area. |
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Whitney Case, Esq. Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Whitney proudly supports the HIPS mission to provide healthcare and other basic necessities to some of DC's most underserved individuals. |
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Kristin Foti, Board Member
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Kristin is Principal of Foti Creative where she enjoys helping nonprofits like HIPS raise resources for their essential missions. Prior to launching Foti Creative in 2015, Kristin spent ten years as the Chief Development Officer of Bread for the City in DC. |
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Gregoriah Hartman, Board Member Pronouns: Ze/Zim/Zirs Gregoriah Hartman has worked for various non-profits for most of zir professional career. Currently, ze works in the environmental space, but before moving to DC three years ago, ze worked for a reproductive rights and abortion fund organization based in Denver. There ze supervised a small staff of canvassers and community organizers, as well as assisted individuals from surrounding states coming to Colorado to receive reproductive healthcare they couldn't find back home. Ze has personally used harm reduction services that organizations like HIPS provide, and is excited to see how we can expand those services, together. |
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Stephen Lee, MD Board Member Pronouns: He/Him/His Dr. Stephen Lee is the Executive Director of NASTAD. Stephen oversees all NASTAD programs – Health Care Access, Prevention, Hepatitis, Drug User Health, Health Equity, Policy & Legislative Affairs, and Health Systems Integration – as well as NASTAD’s overall operations. Stephen has deep expertise in program and organizational management, and his experience as a physician brings a practical perspective with regard to policy and program implementation. |
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Andrea López, PhD, Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Andrea M. López is a professor and researcher with expertise in medical anthropology, urban anthropology, the anthropology of drug use, health inequities, the U.S. welfare state, and social suffering in U.S. urban contexts. She has nearly two decades of experience working with unstably housed and homeless people who use drugs, both in a harm reduction direct service capacity and as a trauma-informed researcher. She is currently a professor the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. |
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Sravanthi Padullaparti-Jackson, Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Sravanthi is a transplant to the DC-area who has supported the HIPS mission for over six years. She spent the first years of her career in global health, specifically in HIV prevention and care navigation. More recently, Sravanthi has domestic experience with healthcare organizations and state governments developing population health and public health strategies. She brings experience in program design, event planning, and DEI/Talent Management and is committed to improving the connectedness of social services and health care to advance health equity. |
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Laurel Powell, Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers An experienced non-profit communicator and passionate storyteller, Laurel Powell is the Deputy Director of Communications for the Human Rights Campaign's Foundation programs, leading the team that shines a light on the organization's vital programmatic work. Born in Benton, Arkansas, Laurel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Flagler College, where she graduated cum laude. She considers Washington, D.C. her chosen home. |
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Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, JD, Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Victoria is a Senior Policy Manager at AIDS United. Particular areas of expertise and focus are the intersections of issues affecting transgender people with disabilities and mental illness, anti-trans workplace discrimination and gun violence prevention from a social justice lens. Victoria holds a B.A. in Psychology with honors from the University of Puerto Rico, and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. |
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Mazen Saleh, Board Member Pronouns: He/Him/His Mazen Saleh is the policy director of Integrated Harm Reduction at R Street Institute where he oversees policy strategy, fundraising and management of the program. Prior to joining R Street, he served in senior roles at the National League for Nursing and the Association of American Medical Colleges. His experience cuts across health education and research, public policy, business development and strategy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in global health and development from the University College London. |
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Lauren Webre, Board Member Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs Lauren is a D.C. based education researcher, programmer, and performing artist. Lauren has a diverse background spanning social work, trauma-informed care, efficacy research, relationship coaching, data analysis, and exotic dance. They are honored to be working with HIPS toward dignity and harm reduction for those who most need it. |
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