Ann Hershkowitz, International Project Coordinator
Ann received her MA in International Development from American University. She was a Youth Participation Intern for EQUIP3 from June – December 2005, and has also interned with the Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) and Twana Twitu, an NGO that supports children orphaned by AIDS in Kenya. Her main area of interest within development is education, including the overlap of education with health and work, and non-formal education. Ann has extensive research, writing, and editing experience, and has lived in England and Kenya.

Cornelia Janke, Director for Institutional Learning
Cornelia Janke coordinates the efforts of EDC's Business Services (contract management, accounting, legal, IT, etc.) to support EQUIP3. She has worked for EDC as a Program Manager for more than five years. She has provided administrative as well as technical support for EDC projects in Afghanistan, Ghana, South Africa, and Honduras.

David James-Wilson, Associate Project Director for Applied Research
David James-Wilson has 15 years of experience developing and delivering youth-friendly education, livelihood, and health promotion services. His career has balanced direct service delivery to vulnerable populations, the management of interdisciplinary teams of youth service providers, along with extensive work in the areas of policy making and capacity development for government, non government and civil society organizations. David has worked extensively in both Canada and the United States, along with assignments in more than 25 countries. David's work with EQUIP3 has seen him lead a research project entitled "Youth, Microfinance and Conflict", and serve as the lead on the Livelihoods technical assistance, David also serves as a senior technical specialist on EQUIP3's Education For All (EFA) initiative, and as a senior technical assistance provider to Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS) Phase 2 Program in the Philippines.

Erik Butler, Program Director
Since 1999 Erik has been president of Human Investment Institute LLC, a consulting firm specializing in workforce development and education organizations. He has been a frequent collaborator with EDC in international projects in education and workforce development, and was EDC Team Leader for the USAID Rapid Assessment projects in workforce development in Cambodia, South Africa, Georgia, and Rwanda. His international commitment is to work in countries with significant economic and demographic challenges to their young and disadvantaged populations, often in post-conflict settings. A youth employment and education specialist since his first work in Boston beginning in 1969, Erik has pioneered work linking education and employment systems and creating private-public partnerships for the benefit of young people and the unemployed. He has worked extensively with human service and workforce development programs in the U.S. and abroad. For ten years he has been senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor for youth development programs, serving as a technical coach to key national demonstration programs for vulnerable and disadvantaged youth. Erik has also left his mark on academia, founding the Center for Human Resources (now the Center for Youth and Communities) at Brandeis University and advising the Annie Casey Foundation in their work in multi-sectoral partnerships for youth development. He is Chair (and Trustee since 1979) of the National Child Labor Committee, and he helped develop the National Youth Employment Coalition and was NYEC's chair from 1992-1996. Erik was awarded Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in history, government, education, and social policy from Harvard University.

Gustavo Payan, International Program Associate
Gustavo spent nearly two years at the Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign where he coordinated the preparations for the 2004 YES Mexico Summit and worked with the YES Kenya Network in engaging the Government of that country to host the YES Global Summit in 2006. Prior to joining EDC, he spent most of his professional career in the private sector in Juarez, Mexico and consulted for the municipal government. He also worked as Cultural Ambassador in Walt Disney World's International Program at EPCOT Center in Florida and co-founded and led seminars for the Juarez chapter of Cuauhtli, a Mexico-wide non-profit aimed at building life skills for youth. He holds a M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University's Heller School and a B.A. in International Business from Monterrey Tech.

Nancy Devine, Senior Program Planner
Nancy Devine has twenty-five years of experience managing private voluntary organizations in the USA and Africa. She is a trained and experienced manager, overseeing budgets including sub-grants, coordinating recruitment and activities of senior personnel, as well as program implementation. She has years of experience in designing youth programs, community based programs to improve basic education and increase civic participation in the delivery of social services in Africa. She advises several African youth-serving NGOs in their organizational development.

Nalini Chugani, International Project Coordinator
Nalini joined EDC as a project coordinator after working at EDC as an intern and completing her masters in International Educational Development from Kobe University in Japan. She has experience working with the Ministry of Education in Yemen analyzing issues of educational access in rural, isolated villages and identifying solutions involving community participation.

Nancy Meaker, International Program Coordinator
Nancy is the EQUIP3 assistant in Washington. She joined EDC after having spent the summer in Afghanistan with Save the Children creating Adolescent Reproductive Health Curriculum. Nancy has experience in education in India and Bangladesh and has spent time in a number of other countries as a volunteer, student and traveler. She holds her MA in International Education from George Washington University where she specialized in nonformal education and South Asia and her BA from McGill University in International Development and Modern Languages. In addition to her work at EDC, she is studying at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in Florida.

Paul Sully, Senior Youth Advisor
For 10 years, Paul was the lead global technical specialist for Youth and Community Development for the US Peace Corps. In that capacity he supported and encouraged the creation of 16 new national youth programs and numerous cross-sectoral programming efforts. Paul authored the guidance on setting youth project goals, objectives, and monitoring indicators for Peace Corps. He also published Working with Youth: A Guide for Volunteers which is distributed to Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide. For over 25 years, he has worked in youth efforts in federal and state government and non-governmental agencies addressing health, agricultural, environmental, small business, and educational sectors in the U.S. and numerous countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

Ronald Israel, Vice President and Director of Youth and Workforce Programs, Education Development Center, Inc.
Ron Israel is Vice President at Education Development Center, where he serves as Director of the Youth and Workforce Programs.  Mr. Israel has worked with groups of scholars and teachers from countries around the world, facilitating projects within a broad array of cultural settings. He has more than twenty years of consulting and project management experience in the fields of education, health, the environment, and civil society programs. He has consulted for a variety of EDC clients including USAID, the United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank.

Tim Haskell, International Project Coordinator
Prior to joining EDC, Tim worked for a small NGO in Niger improving access to secondary school by opening a dormitory for students. Tim also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger focusing on rural development. Projects during his service ranged from improving irrigation for gardening and rice farming to training local health care workers. Tim was also a team leader with AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps, where he led a team of youth volunteers on a variety of community service projects in the western region of the US. He holds a M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and a B.S. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Sarah Nogueira-Sanca, International Program Manager
After serving for three years in the Peace Corps in Guinea-Bissau as an English language teacher and a teacher training college instructor, Sarah spent close to 10 years working with City Year, most recently as the Director of International Operations. Sarah has also raised funds for their domestic and international work, oversaw Boston-based programming and led teams of diverse young people in service. She is a graduate of Boston College.