Archives: Team

Willow’s expertise is in overseeing program implementation per established standards to achieve optimum outcomes, developing project budgets, formulating robust reports, preparing other documentation, and maintaining case files to streamline operations. Willow has six years of international development experience including four and half years living and working in the developing countries of Ghana and Guatemala. Additional experience in/on/for Italy, South Africa, Armenia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Sudan, South Sudan, and Syria.

Julia brings nearly 30 years of experience to the role. She comes to BRAC from Population Services International (PSI), where she was the Vice President of Global Fundraising and Communications. Since 2008, her skills and leadership grew out of delivering programs across the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. Prior to this, she worked for USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and is a Chartered Advisor of Philanthropy.

Julia brings nearly 30 years of experience to the role. She comes to BRAC from Population Services International (PSI), where she was the Vice President of Global Fundraising and Communications. Since 2008, her skills and leadership grew out of delivering programs across the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. Prior to this, she worked for USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and is a Chartered Advisor of Philanthropy.

Vladan Nikolic is the Senior Manager, Grants and Compliance at BRAC USA. Vladan has more than 15 years of grant management and compliance experience with international non-government organizations and consulting companies, such as Save The Children, CARE International, Humanity and Inclusion, IREX, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior to this role, Vladan was a Senior Grant and Compliance Officer at Humanity & Inclusion.

Vladan holds a bachelor’s degree in management and international marketing from Megatrend Business School, Megatrend University, Belgrade.

As the Executive Assistant at BRAC USA, Oyeshee supports our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. She assists the executive team with prospect, donor, and stakeholder relationships, through conducting in-depth research, drafting solicitations for high priority prospects, and facilitating internal relations, staff coordination, and communication.

Prior to joining BRAC USA, she collaborated with Institut Pasteur in Paris and Dakar, which is an internationally renowned center for biomedical research. She supported the philanthropy team as a consultant, working on their capital campaign program and international fundraising initiatives.

Abdulrahman Alzuebi is a Manager in the Corporate and Foundation Partnerships team at BRAC USA. He is running a portfolio of partnerships with leading Global Foundations, where he is contributing to partnership building, proposal development, and increasing BRAC’s ties and visibility across different geographies and thematic priorities such as education, humanitarian response, and microfinance programs.

Previously, he managed public health and education programs for Dubai Cares across 12+ countries, and worked in the energy sector with Kuwait Oil Company prior to the international development career.

Abdulrahman holds an MBA in Social Enterprise from Hult International Business School and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Kuwait University. He is fluent in Arabic and English, with basic proficiency in Spanish.

Mica brings more than 25 years of communications and fundraising experience to BRAC USA. Mica’s career launched in a BusinessWeek newsroom in Manhattan as the magazine launched its online presence in the late 1990s. She was a Senior Writer/Assistant Editor at the London Business School from 2005-2008, diving into alumni communications, speech writing, and internal communications.

After moving back to the U.S. in 2008, she consulted for a range of organizations before joining Humanity & Inclusion (then ‘handicap international’) as their U.S. Director of Marketing and Communications and then their U.S. Director of Communications and Development.

Melyssa Muro is the Gift Processor/Database Administrator for the Individual Giving team, assisting with donation processing as well as donor data hygiene solutions. She ensures all donor and gift information is stored accurately to aid in fundraising efforts aimed at expanding BRAC’s programs.

While a student of Columbia University, Melyssa interned with The Moth, Doctors Without Borders, and The Prospect Hill Foundation. She then worked for a global financial institution where she learned data and account management. This combination of nonprofit experience and data management led her to serve as Program Coordinator for the small nonprofit Path Forward, where she assisted with database administration, program implementation and coordination, as well as fundraising efforts.

As the Director of Development at BRAC USA, Catherine oversees the fundraising strategy and donor relations for individual, major donor, and family foundation giving. Catherine has twenty years’ experience in development, strategic planning, and communications for international and U.S.-based youth development, human rights, and social justice organizations.

She has served in recent fundraising leadership roles at NAF, Learning Leaders, and Equality Now. Catherine holds an M.A. in Modern European History from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont.

Joel Lamstein is founder and president of John Snow Inc. (JSI), an international public health consulting firm. Founded in 1978, JSI now has more than 2,000 people stationed in the United States and throughout the world working to enhance the lives of underserved and vulnerable populations. He is also president of World Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through education, economic and social development programs. JSI/World Education has been selected as one of the 100 best places to work in Massachusetts.

Mr. Lamstein is a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. And a visiting professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.He is a frequent lecturer on organizational strategy, nonprofit management, international development and strategic management.

Mr. Lamstein serves on the boards of advisors at Boston University Public Health School, and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is also on the board of Seed Global Health and the Center for Health Equity at Dartmouth College.

Mr. Lamstein also co-founded Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in 1973. He has been advisor to numerous public health programs throughout the world in issues of public health management. He received his BS in math and physics from the University of Michigan, and attended the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.