Co-Chair

ANGELA RUGAMBWA

Angela is a leading humanitarian expert with 18 years of International development experience. She is the Director for Internal Controls at the IRC. She previously served as the Country Director for IRC Uganda. Before that, she held various Program Operational roles in Uganda, Somalia, Pakistan, DR Congo, South Sudan, and Kenya. Before joining the IRC, she worked for the Uganda Government and the United Nations World Food Program. Angela holds a BA in social sciences, PGD in Human Resource Management and a Masters in Public Administration. She has been a force advising Spark’s team on in country coalition building.

KARA WEISS

Kara Weiss is Vice-Chair and Head of Programs at CRI Foundation. Kara is involved in all aspects of vetting and managing grantees with a special interest in earliest stage NGO development and strategy. Kara is the CRI lead on system-change initiatives, including national digital health cooperation and implementation, and the Health and Nutrition Risk Pool Fund pilot to prove the efficacy of providing contingency funding for implementers.

Over the years, CRI has developed many relationships with those participating in social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa and Kara is especially adept at facilitating synergistic relationships among actors and funders. Kara has served as an “expert” for the Aspen Ideas Incubator, as “global health expert” for the New England International Donors Program Committee, and as a director or trustee on the boards of Gardens for Health International, Spark MicroGrants, Seed Global Health, Aspen Management Partnership for Health, the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, and CRI Foundation.

JONATHAN JACKSON

Jonathan Jackson is the founder and CEO of Dimagi, and is an entrepreneur and innovator with extensive health technology expertise in developed and developing countries. Jonathan leads several efforts to build software engineering capacity in low-resource countries through partnerships and collaboration. Jonathan earned his bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jonathan also co-founded Cogito Health, a pioneering company using speech analytics for depression management, and Doctor Kares Hospital, a low-cost orthopedic surgical hospital in New Delhi. He is also a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Decision Systems Group and a lecturer at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

AMOL JAIN

Amol has a decade of experience in finance. He was most recently a portfolio manager at Duquesne Family Office and is now exploring investment and entrepreneurship opportunities across industries. Amol graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in physics and minor in economics.

Co-Chair

STACEY FAELLA

Stacey Faella is the Executive Director of the Woodcock Foundation, a progressive family foundation that supports efforts to improve the educational, economic, and environmental circumstances of communities in need. In addition to advancing the foundation’s programs, Stacey works with others to foster collaboration in philanthropy and support grantee capacity building efforts. Stacey has experience working on foundation and nonprofit communications, strategy, and evaluation, including the development of a foundation project strategy to build millennial engagement in gender equality causes and a program evaluation for an international youth program of Planned Parenthood. She has engaged in communications research on behalf of various causes and frequently works with grantees to improve their communications capacity. Stacey received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Communication in 2009 from Wake Forest University. In 2013, she received a Masters of Public Administration in International Management & Policy from New York University. Stacey serves on the Board of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, where she was also founding chair of the Young People’s Network.