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My Story
I've spent the last eight years living around the world, working in a variety of capacities for a variety of organizations. I've lived in a dorm room in Nicaragua, in an orphanage in Mexico and in a mud hut in Kenya. I've been an employee, a consultant, a board member, and an executive director. I've worked with indigenous civil society groups to combat poverty using local means, and I've worked with international NGOs, particularly in the start-up phase, to help guide and fund and replicate such endeavors. While I have gained significant practical experience in project management, fundraising, communications and leadership, I have also pursued academic inquiry from both ecological and anthropological perspectives, including studies of exposure to toxic metals in a Nicaraguan mining town and changing AIDS stigma in a Kenyan village.
A friend of mine recently called my life "schizogenically dichotomous." He was referring to living between rural Kenya and urban America, but his comment is more broadly true of the work we're committed to in the non-profit sector. How can we refine and articulate focused strategies that will help us move forward, while also engaging the holistic nature of the problems we work on? How can we create sustainable change, which may require working ourselves out of a job, and financially sustainable organizations at the same time? How can we build relationships cross-culturally that are sensitive, mutual and teachable but also get things done? And how can we represent the people we serve in a way that is humanizing but also motivates our donors?
I've been privileged to see development work through the eyes of people living in poverty, and to work with them to
develop more sensitive, effective programs. I've been privileged at the same time to work with people of uncommon
insight and good humor to build innovative, sustainable organizations. I would be honored to help you do the same.
Experience
Founding Executive Director - Lwala Community Alliance : 2006-June 2009
Founding Board Member - Blood:Water Mission : 2004-Present
Consultant, AIDS Initiative - Compassion International : 2005
U.S.-Mexico Liaison - Centro de Promoción de Salud Esperanza : 2003-2004
Research Fellow - Dartmouth Cross-Cultural Service and Education Project : 2001-2003
Education
University of California Berkeley - M.S. in Health and Medical Science : 2004-2006
Dartmouth College - A.B. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology : 1999-2003
Selected Publications
Wickre JB, Folt CL, Sturup S, Karagas MR. Environmental Exposure and Fingernail
Analysis of Arsenic and Mercury in Children and Adults in a Nicaraguan Gold Mining
Community. Archives of Environmental Health. 2004 Aug; 59(8):400-9.
Wickre, JB. Treatment as Prevention: The Transformation of AIDS Stigma in Lwala, Kenya.
Masters Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. 2008.
Wickre, JB. Sons of Lwala, People of the Week. February 7th, 2009.
http://www.one.org/campus/blog/2009/02/07/sons-of-lwala-people-of-the-week/
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