RefugePoint

"Founded in 2005, RefugePoint’s mission is to provide lasting solutions for the world’s most vulnerable refugees. We address the critical and unmet needs of those who fall through the cracks of humanitarian assistance and have no other options for survival, with a focus on women, children, and urban refugees."

Board

Accessed May 2013:

Directors

• Sasha Chanoff - Executive Director, RefugePoint
• M'Imunya J. Machoki - (Kenyan Board) - MB.ChB; M.Med. Obs/Gyne., Senior Consultant, World Health Organization; Deputy Director, University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical & Infectious Diseases, (UNITID); Chairman, Division of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Kenyatta National Hospital.
• Daniel A. Draper Treasurer - CPA, President, Draper Tax Consulting
• Richard Wayne Chairman - President and Chief Executive Officer, North East Bank
• Lorna Brett Howard - Social Justice Activist; Communications Specialist
• Kitty Dukakis - Refugee Advocate; Author; Former First Lady of Massachusetts
• Wendy Ettinger - Award-winning Producer, Director; Founder, Chicken and Egg Pictures
• Désirée Younge - Director of Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development, Tony Elumeln Foundation
• Jessica Houssain - Program Director, Women Moving Millions

Advisors

• Julia Taft - In Memoriam - Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, 1997-2001
• Susan Sarandon - Actor and Human Rights Advocate
• John Hammock - Associate Professor of Public Policy, Tufts University; Founder of the Feinstein International Center
• Sherman Teichman - Director, Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership
• Danny Glover - Actor/Activist and CEO of Louverture Films
• David Chanoff - Writer
• Angela Raven-Roberts - Executive Director, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership Operations
• Dylan Leiner - Executive Vice President, Acquisitions & Production, Sony Pictures Classics
• Karen Jacobsen - Associate Research Professor at Tufts University; Director, Forced Migration Program, Feinstein International Center; Consultant, UNHCR
• Shaffiq Essajee - Medical Officer for Paediatric HIV and Family Care, World Health Organization; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, New York University
• Chris Osorio - Founder, X Factors Innovations
• Ken Pruitt - Managing Director, Environmental League of Massachusetts
• Evan McDaniel - Director of Technology, PJA Advertising + Marketing

Contact

Web: http://www.refugepoint.org