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Home > About > Board of Directors
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Ken Burgress, Board Chair Partner, Poyner Spruill, LLP |
| Ken Burgess is a long term care attorney advising clients on a wide variety of legal planning issues arising in the skilled nursing facility setting, assisted living setting, and other spheres of long term care. He is a frequent national lecturer and author of industry manuals, national trade journal magazine articles and similar training tools. He serves Poyner Spruill clients by focusing on legal issues impacting the long term care and health services sector.
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kburgess@poynerspruill.com
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Sandy Moulton, Vice Chair Principal, The Xenia Group, Inc. |
| Sandy Moulton is a Principal at The Xenia Group Inc, a health care consulting group. Previously she worked for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for over 20 years, most recently as the Executive Director of the GlaxoSmithKline Patient Access Programs Foundation. In that position she designed and implemented programs that provided medicines valued at over one half billion dollars annually to uninsured and underinsured patients. Moulton also served as Director of Policy Development and Director of Strategic Operations at GSK. Prior to joining GSK, she held a number of positions in North Carolina state government, including serving as legal counsel to the North Carolina General Assembly and heading the state’s Certificate of Need office.
Moulton has served as President of the Public Health Foundation Board of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She was an officer of the AIDS Service Agency of Orange County Board and was a founding member of the Alliance of AIDS Services Carolina. She also was a member of the NC Child Health Advocacy Institute Advisory Council, the NC Association of Biomedical Research Board, the Duke University Medical Center Heart Center Board and the NC Health Planning Commission among other community activities.Moulton earned three degrees from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: BA in History, JD from the law school and MPH in health policy and administration.
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Sandy.moulton1@gmail.com
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James Kiwanuka-Tondo, Ph.D, Treasurer Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Public Relations program in the Department of Communication and Director of International Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences North Carolina State University |
| James Kiwanuka-Tondo is a member of the NC State Faculty Senate. His main area of research is health communication campaigns with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS. His major contribution has been the building the first ever quantitative model of relationships between organizational factors, campaign planning, and campaign execution variables. He has also studied the influence of HIV/AIDS public policy on the organizations and preventive strategies to reduce HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Dr. Kiwanuka-Tondo received the award for Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year, Department of Communication, 2007/2008; the Advocacy Award for Promoting the Presence of African American at North Carolina State University 2007/2008; and the Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University. He has been a principal investigator on several research grants and has authored several publications and conference papers. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, and a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, as well as the British Commonwealth Technical Scholarship. |
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jkiwanu@gw.ncsu.edu
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Edgar Villanueva, Secretary Owner/Principal, Leverage Philanthropic Partners, LLC |
| Edgar is the owner of Leverage Philanthropic Partners. Previously he served as the Senior Program Officer and communications director at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. Mr. Villanueva has over 13 years of experience working with national non-profits, including seven years of managing the [edit] marketing efforts of the American Social Health Association. Prior to working at the Trust, he worked in Washington, D.C. for the Health Program of the American Institutes for Research |
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edgarvillanueva77@gmail.com
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Kristie Tobias Miss North Carolina International 2010 |
| Kristie Tobias is currently the Board Chair for Positive Wellness Alliance, and is the former Miss North Carolina International 2010. She is a 2007 graduate of Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a concentration in pre-medicine and a 2011 graduate of Winston Salem State University with her Master's degree in Healthcare Administration. She works full time as an Administrative Fellow at Alamance Regional Medical Center where she is learning the ropes of healthcare management. Her passion for the HIV/AIDS crisis was inspired by a 2006 trip to Kenya as an Amani Scholar working to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and education and bridge the gap between the US and Africa. She has spent the past several years following that trip advocating for HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and prevention.
Kristie Tobias
Winston Salem State University, M.H.A. 2011
Wake Forest University B.A. 2007
Miss North Carolina International 2010 |
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Tobikj3@yahoo.com
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Caitlin Breedlove Co-Director, S.O.N.G. |
| Caitlin Breedlove is currently the Co-Director of S.O.N.G., an 18 year old multi-racial social justice organization that has a 700 person membership of primarily Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people (GLBT) people. S.O.N.G. aims to support and build small LGBTQ community groups around the South to build justice for people in their local communities and state-wide in 4 target states (NC, SC, VA, and AL). S.O.N.G. brings a GLBT voice to many coalitions and social justice work around broader issues—such as education, AIDS, and issues of racial and economic justice. Caitlin brings connections to many groups, leading the work on the ground in NC to connect AIDS services with community justice and organizing work within the state. |
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caitlin@southernersonnewground.org
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Bruce Curran Adjunct Lecturer |
| Bruce Curran is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He recently retired from GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as a Senior Medical Communications Scientist working in global health in HIV/AIDS, malaria and hepatitis B. He worked with the development teams at Burroughs Wellcome on AZT and was PR manager during the launch of AZT and 3TC for HIV/AIDS. Bruce worked with GlaxoWellcome global teams in health communications for hepatitis B in China, Europe, Korea and the United States. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut and a graduate degree from UNC Chapel Hill. He was a US Air Force pilot prior to entering graduate school and is currently a partner in a global health communications business. |
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Macpilot3@yahoo.com
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Jeff Bachar Executive Director, Western North Carolina AIDS Project |
| Jeff Bachar has worked in the field of public health for more than twenty years, most recently as Program Director of Cherokee Choices, a community based organization focused on health promotion and disease prevention among the Cherokee people of WNC. Jeff began his public health career in Chicago, where he helped form a HIV/AIDS prevention and peer education program. He has worked and volunteered with a variety of AIDS service organizations including serving as a WNCAP Board member from 2000 – 2006. |
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jjbachar@att.net
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Darryl Lester Founding Partner, Hindsight Consulting, Inc. |
| Darryl Lester in 2001 founded HindSight Consulting is a research and development company that designs tools and services that enable people in institutions and communities to relate more strategically to their time, talent and treasure with greater freedom, power, and effectiveness to inspire greater personal, community, and institutional transformation. In 2004, HindSight launched the Community Investment Network to provide strategic donor education for African Americans and other donors of color as well as to provide technical assistance for community philanthropists engaged in collective giving and civic engagement through giving circles. Prior to the founding of HindSight Consulting, Inc, Darryl, served as the Director of Programs at the Triangle Community Foundation; Fundraising Counsel at Capital Development Services; Program Director at North Carolina Public Allies; Assistant Dean of the Office of Student Counseling at UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Coordinator of African American Student Affairs at North Carolina State University; and Counselor at Shaw University. Darryl’s civic and community involvement include, member, Next Generation Committee of the Council of Foundation; board member of the New Voices Foundation for children with severe mental and physical challenges; board member of the Center for Community Philanthropy at The Clinton School; Founder and member of the Next Generation of African American Philanthropists; African American Symposium Presenter at North Carolina State University; and former Trustee for the Warner Foundation. |
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dklester@nc.rr.com
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Sheila Smith McKoy, Ph.D Director, Africana Studies Program, North Carolina State University |
| Sheila Smith McKoy is a native of Raleigh, NC. She holds a BA from North Carolina State University, an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her work is focused on Africa and the African Diaspora, and is primarily concerned with the relationships between and among these cultures, race theory, and racial and gendered access to resources. As an alternative and complimentary healing practitioner, Smith McKoy has worked with underserved communities in Tanzania. Dr. Smith McKoy’s work has appeared in numerous publications including the critically acclaimed Schomburg series African American Women Writers 1910 – 1940, Callalo, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, Mythium and Research for African Literatures. Her book, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures (U of Wisconsin Press, 2001) received critical attention in the U.S. and in South Africa. The book was the featured topic of an interview on Cape Town’s Bush Radio (2001) and was the subject of a National Public Television interview on John Seigenthaler’s A Word on Words (2003). Dr. Smith McKoy was the recipient of the Black Alumni Society’s Legacy Award in 2009. She is also a member of the board of the North Carolina Writers Network and works with the North Carolina Chapter of UN Women (formerly UNIFEM). An associate professor of English at North Carolina State University, Smith McKoy is the director of the Africana Studies Program and the editor of Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora. |
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smithmckoy@ncsu.edu
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Tarnya D. McPhatter, MHA Community Liaison Manager for Janssen Therapeutics (formerly Tibotec) |
| Tarnya D, McPhatter has been with Janssen Therapeutics for five years covering six states individually and provides leadership and supervision for the entire Eastern Region. In this capacity she works closely with ASO, CBO’s and various health entities to provide HIV disease awareness and education in addition to specific product (medication) related information for health care providers. Tarnya has over 16 years of experience working in public health focusing on HIV and STD’s in special populations including: women, youth, GLBT, the faith community, the incarcerated, communities of color and the underserved. She serves on the Board of Directors for a HIV Clinic/ASO in Washington, D.C. and in addition to her work in HIV she is also actively involved in her community, church and civic organizations. She resides in Brandywine, MD and during her off time Tarnya enjoys spending time with her family, friends, traveling and leisure activities. |
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TMcPhatt@its.jnj.com
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Tom Zulauf Vice President, Alliance Management for Quinitiles Transnational |
| Tom Zulauf is Vice President, Alliance Management for Quintiles Transnational where he is responsible for the 'Managed Partnership' oversight of key pharma-bio partner relations. Prior to joining Quintiles in 2008, Tom spent twenty years in the pharmaceutical industry working for GlaxoSmithKline, Shire, and Bayer with a primary focus on international Business Development and Licensing. Before starting his pharmaceutical career Tom worked in project support services for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica and National Medical Enterprises in Saudi Arabia. He has traveled extensively throughout Africa and Asia and is an active member of the global health/development lobbyist organization RESULTS. Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Puget Sound and an MBA from City University of Seattle. |
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Rodney Tucker Executive Director, Time Out Youth |
| Rodney Tucker is a native of North Carolina. He has a BA in Human Services from UNC-Charlotte, MA in Christian Education from Southern Theological Seminary and an MA in Counseling from UNC-Charlotte. He is a licensed and ordained minister and has held numerous positions with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Wendee Wechsberg, Ph.D. Senior Director, RTI International |
| Wendee Wechsberg is the Senior Director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions Research Program at RTI International. Since its inception in 1999, this program has evolved to include a multimillion dollar yearly portfolio. Dr. Wechsberg is also Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Dr. Wechsberg started her career in 1977 as an addiction clinician and later as a treatment director, but since 1994 has devoted her career to applied research using both quantitative and qualitative methods to develop and test the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions among disparate populations of substance abusers. The Woman-Focused HIV Prevention, known as the Women’s CoOp, funded by NIDA for more than 10 years, is one of CDC’s best-evidence HIV prevention interventions. It has been adapted specifically for underclass and vulnerable women and teens in North Carolina, and in multiple regions in South Africa and in Russia. One South African adaptation is listed in the USAID Gender and HIV Compendium for African projects as “promising practices.” Dr. Wechsberg collaborates and mentors numerous faculty and researchers in institutions of higher learning in the United States and abroad and she serves as a consultant to various national and international studies. In addition, Dr. Wechsberg utilizes community advisory boards for her research projects in the United States and internationally to establish community-based networks and linkages, obtain critical feedback, and keep community stakeholders involved with her community-based randomized field intervention studies. She is currently funded by NIDA, NIAAA, NICHD, and CDC. In 2008, Dr. Wechsberg was ranked third among all NIH-funded researchers who received HIV/AIDS investigator-initiated grants (Science, 321[5880], 520–521). Dr. Wechsberg has published extensively in the areas of gender and ethnicity, outreach, methadone treatment, HIV risk, and women substance abuse. |
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wmw@rti.org
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