Board of Directors
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Devon Trotter, Board 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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Andrea López, PhD, Board Vice Chair
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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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 a longstanding HIV and social justice advocate. He brings more than a decade of experience in community engagement, health policy, and HIV science, focusing on health equity. He currently serves as a Director at a global health communications and advocacy consulting firm. Supporting clients across some of the world's most dynamic regions to enable policy innovations, mobilize resources, and build political will, engaging global and local audiences to drive change. |
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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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Mariah Francis, Board Member
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers or They/Them/Theirs Mariah Francis (she/they) is a native Appalachian but currently residing in DC since 2016. They are long-time HIPS volunteer and community health worker. Their public health work includes HIV advocacy and prevention, drug policy, and providing an expansive menu of harm reduction services for communities most impacted by the War on Drugs. From political organizing with the #DecrimPovertyDC Coalition, to producing accessible, community-backed political education for the National Harm Reduction Coalition, they strive to co-create spaces that are trauma-informed, anti-racist and mobilzing towards liberation for Black and Indigenous bodies. |
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Kate Goertzen, Board Member Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Kate Goertzen has 14 years of experience leading teams to set inclusive, equitable long-term strategy, design teams and stand up new organizations, and strengthen grassroots actions so that those most impacted are continually centered. Kate leads Open Seat which partners with donors to make grantmaking smarter, smoother, and more accountable to those it’s meant to serve and with organizations to be more agile—creating spaces that foster growth and creative change, to allow organizations to challenge how they’ve worked before—and each other. |
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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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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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LJ Sislen, Board Member
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs LJ Sislen is a Campaign Organizer with DecrimPovertyDC and a local harm reduction outreach volunteer with HIPS. They have a MA in public anthropology with a focus in medical anthropology and oral history. Their anthropological research focuses on drugs, drug communities, and the social determinants of both chaotic drug use and treatment options through the lens of power, subjectivities, biopolitics, and culture. They’ve been in community with drug-user health groups since 2015. |
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Kelly Stevens, Board Member
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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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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Jonathan Zucker, Board Member
Pronouns: He/Him/His Jonathan Zucker is a political technology entrepreneur and campaign finance attorney; he is the founder of Democracy Engine (2009) and Every State Blue (formerly It Starts Today - 2016). He was the first COO and second CEO of ActBlue. Before joining ActBlue in early 2005, he spent the 2004 election cycle as the National Director of Operations - Finance at the Democratic National Committee. Prior to that, he was an organizer, fundraiser, administrator, or attorney for a variety of progressive organizations, including the Interfaith Alliance, HRC, Color of Change, Genderpac, and Gill Foundation. |
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