Our Board and Volunteers

USA and International Advisory Board

Admassu Tadesse
Executive Vice President, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg

Amsale Abera
Fashion Designer, New York

Gelila Assefa
Fashion Designer, Los Angeles

Issac Ephriam
Professor, Princeton University

JanMarie Zwiren
BetterBranding, LLC., Princeton, New Jersey

Mahmoud Thiam
Senior Vice President, UBS, New York

Marcus Samuelsson
Chef, Aquavit Restaurant, New York

Meskerem Asrat
Former Executive Director, ECF, New York


Advisory Board Ethiopia

Abera Moltot
Asrat Tessema, Col.
Eskinder Josef
Etalem Misgana
Getachew Kassaye
Teshome Gebre Mariam Bokan,
Yoseph Tekle Mariam


Volunteers and Committee
Daniel Yilma, Diana Erdmann-Sager, George Van Billoen, Indrias Getachew, Hirut Getachew,Yeshiwork Shiferaw, Yodit Seifu, Meskerem Asrat, Vincent Hornoy, Adey Getaneh, Dani Leone, Rahel Kebede, Gelila Asefa, JanMarie and Nora Zwiren, Muluwork, Winta Teseri, Aieda Hopkins, Hanna Shiferaw


Donors, Child and In Kind Sponsors
Meskerem M. Abere
Mesfin Assefa
Della and Mario Baeza
Alain Berdouare
Tutu Bizayehu
Edouard St. Bris
British Council, Addis Ababa
Amsale Abera and Neil Brown
Jade Brown
Kenneth and Kathryn C. Chenault
Jean-Louis Dumas
Abby Erdmann
Shira Erlichman
Erika Falconeri
Perine Fernando
Robert and Melinda Gerrard
Andy Goldman
Lene Hall
Irish Aid
Irish Aid, Addis Ababa
Ephraim Isaac
Bill Karg
Hirut Kassaye
Gurmit Kaur
Getnet Kidane
Hanna Kiros
Teddy Kiros
Steven Mathew Kruh
Margareth Lahoussaye-Duvigny
Rita Matsuura
Yongbok Mayer
Tewodros Mequanenet and Tigist Tatek
Tony Musembi
Ekwe Quaye
Tekonme Quaye
Queen of Sheba New York
Marie C. Rhone
Marcus Samuelsson
J. Schachter
Margaret Snyder
Heliane Steden
Mika Tarao
Mahmoud Thiam
USAID
Raeven Western
Abby Zeichner
Jan Zwiren

ECF is made possible by the collaboration of so many individuals and organizations. Our deepest apologies to individuals who were inadvertently omitted.

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