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Leadership

See also: our Tibetan staff and volunteers

  President and founde Pamela Logan may be reached at pam (at) khamaid (dot) org. She lives in southern California, but is often on the road in Kham.  Here is her biography.
 
 
David Bleyle, Chairman of the Board, is a former Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu.  In the course of his State Department duties, he has traveled widely in China and Tibet.  He is also widely knowledgeable about charity projects on the Tibetan plateau - what works and what doesn't.  Recently retired, he lives in Portland, Oregon where he free-lances as a consultant to corporations wanting to do business in China. Write to him at david (at) khamaid (dot) org.
Jonathan Bell is the youngest  member of the Board; he also directs our art conservation program.  He is shown here during a 1998 Kham Aid Foundation mission to Baiya (Pewar) Monastery. He holds master's degrees in art history from the University of Paris - Sorbonne, and in architectural conservation from Columbia University. He is now employed at the Getty Conservation Institute, and leads Kham Aid art missions during vacation periods. You can write him at jonathan (at) khamaid (dot) org.

Craig Jones, co-founder of Kham Aid Foundation, serves as a Board member and Treasurer.  Craig is the former Chairman of China Exploration & Research Society.  Craig has conducted business in many parts of Asia.  Being an explorer in his own right, he has explored on foot & bicycle much of Asia and personally documented the peoples and monuments of his explorations.  He is a CPA and partner in the Los Angeles office of Hines & Jones, where his practice concentrates on nonprofit organizations.  He also serves as Kham Aid's CFO.  He can be reached at cjones (at) khamaid (dot) org.

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Bridget Bray joined the board in December, 2006 after having done just about every possible other job at Kham Aid Foundation.  Her day job is a curator at the Pacific Asia Museum; she is also a Tibetan language scholar and a long-time student of Tibetan culture. 
Brandon Davito (right side of photo) joined the board in April, 2007. He first became involved with Kham Aid in 2005 as part of KelloggCorps, a program that matches graduating business school students with NGOs in developing countries. As part of a team of five volunteers, Brandon conducted market research that helped us develop our handicraft program. Currently employed as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Brandon lives in San Francisco.
Wu Bangfu is Kham Aid's Vice President, China.  He first joined us as team translator during a 1996 art conservation mission. Now, in addition to running our field office, he has taken charge of several projects, including the 2001 disaster relief effort at Egu township and the midwife training program. The photo at left was taken during a lama-dancing festival at Gartok Monastery. Write to Mr. Wu at  wubangfu (at) khamaid (dot) org.
Director of Education Programs Zangkar Jamyang comes to Kham Aid from Hongyuan in the Aba grasslands. He is trilingual, and has an impressive record of achievement working on education and community development programs for a variety of international organizations.  He's reachable at zangjam(at)khamaid.org

Dhawapalmo Dhayong grew up in a poor family in rural Ganzi County where she distinguished herself early by excelling in school, getting all of the way through university by means of scholarships awarded on the basis of academic excellence.   She moonlights for Kham Aid's handicraft program while still holding down a job at the Ganzi Prefecture Tourism Bureau.  She has also worked for other NGOs in the past and is tri-lingual.  Write to her at handicraft (at) khamaid (dot) org.

 

Eunice Shen, a pediatric physical therapist, directs our wheelchair program.  Her email address is eunice (at) khamaid (dot) org.

Ute Wallenboeck is the director of our Volunteer English Teacher program.  She is a Tibetologist by training, is fluent in several Tibetan dialects, and has done research on nomads in Amdo.  Write her at ute (at) khamaid (dot) org.
Doka (right side of picture), a.k.a. Gao Zhengming manages our medical aid program and also leads some Better Schools teams.  He is a native of Ganzi County, where he has held a variety of positions inside and outside the county government. Now officially retired, he works from his Chengdu home to bring vital medical goods to remote rural clinics and hospitals in Kham.  You can write to him in Chinese at doka (at) khamaid (dot) org , or in English in care of wubangfu (at) khamaid (dot) org . The photo shows him with Baiji Lama, director of a rural clinic at Shechen Monastery in Dege.
As Kham Aid's IT Director, Craig Hunter keeps our computers running.  He also designs marketing materials for Kham Aid including print advertising and T-shirts.  His field skills include GPS satellite mapping, forestry, civil engineering analysis, expedition cookery, and equestrian product development. The photo shows him at the Litang Horse Festival. In his other life, he runs a creative construction and landscaping company called The English Gardeners. Contact him at craig (at) khamaid (dot) org.
Erica Elizabeth Hayward, Esq. who serves as Kham Aid's legal advisor, is an adventurer in her own right who has traveled to all four corners of the world.  Her most recent trip brought her to northern Yunnan, the Litang Horse Festival and the Minyak region of Kham.  By day she is legal council to Rapidigm, Inc. on matters pertaining to litigation, collection, employment, human resources, and she recently represented the company as second chair trial council in a trial that resulted in a $1.33 million dollar verdict in favor of her employer.
Melinda Liu (left side of picture) was a Director from 2002 to 2006, and now she sits on our Board of Advisors.  Career journalist and long-time Kham explorer, she first met Kham Aid Foundation when she covered our wheelchair program for Newsweek Magazine.   She lives in Beijing, from which she makes frequent forays to China's wildest frontiers.  We at Kham Aid are very proud that Melinda Liu won the 2006 Shorenstein Journalism Award

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Suzy Moser, a Kham Aid Advisor, is an "old China hand" having lived in Hong Kong for X years where she taught many local nonprofits how to raise money "the American way."  Now she back in California where she lives with her adopted Chinese daughter Shu-shu, she directs the fundraising campaign for the new Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino.  

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