Dr. Fred Oola, Co-founder & Uganda Executive Director
Dr. Fred, a young physician from Northern Uganda who grew up in the context of the North's civil war, co-founded TCII in 2004. As a child, he had the good fortune to obtain sponsorship to attend boarding school from foreign donors and subsequently gained admission to medical school. Now a practicing physician in Northern Uganda, Fred is acutely aware of how fortunate he was and is committed to creating the same opportunity he benefited so much from for other children from his home. This commitment inspired him to found TCII with his colleagues in the US and Canada.
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Kevin Schwartz, Co-Founder & US Executive Director
Dr. Kevin co-founded The Child is Innocent in 2004 with Dr. Fred when the two of them were both medical students and roommates. They wrote TCII's first mission statement sitting at their kitchen table together in Massachusetts. He is currently an attending Pediatric Emergency Medicine doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA and has research interests in helping to prepare medical trainees for work in low-income countries and adapting current pediatric cancer practice to these settings.
Robert Jay Ross, Clerk & Board Member
Robbie first got involved with TCII as an overeager freshman at Harvard in 2006, and he's been enamored with the organization and this community ever since. He brings experience building a leadership academy for high school students in Washington, DC and currently works in NYC at Purpose, a home for 21st century movement-building. He's spent a number of summers on the ground in Gulu, researching post-conflict reconciliation practices and eating more than his fair share of matooke - any sensible vegan's favorite Ugandan meal.
Edwine Michel, Treasurer & Board Member
Edwine joined TCII in 2014 to serve as the finance director and treasurer. Currently, Edwine is the senior manager of economic evaluation in global business development for a large multinational. Prior to this role, Edwine was a project manager for various governmental programs. In addition, he has broad experience in strategy development and financial management & analysis. Edwine earned his MBA at Boston University, and holds a B.A. in Physics and B.S., M.S. degrees in Optics from the University of Rochester. Originally from Miami, Edwine now lives in Denver, CO.
Omar McDoom, Founding Board Member
Omar, one of the originals, has been involved since TCII's beginnings back in 2004 when he was a graduate student doing fieldwork across the border in Rwanda; he first saw the situation in northern Uganda for himself during one of the peaks of the conflict. Now he's grown up he teaches at the London School of Economics where he's an Assistant Professor specializing in the study of sub-Saharan Africa and violent conflict.
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James Sibelle, Director of Leadership Training
James Sibelle has spent over a decade working with youth in wilderness-based programs, outdoor education, and traditional summer camp settings. He brought his experience to The Child is Innocent for the first time in 2016 helping direct the leadership training and has subsequently developed our signature peer-based Leadership Training curriculum. James currently resides in Vermont where he runs, hikes, paddles, and wanders.
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