Jill Raufman, Executive Director of Kiboko Projects, has directed projects nationally and internationally using models which have resulted in successful cultural exchanges between groups in the USA, Kenya, South Africa, and Russia.  Jill has documented through interviews, video, and photography such projects as the Youth Project USA-Kenya, which have been exhibited in New York, Nairobi, and St. Petersburg. She is currently the Program Manager of the Global Health Center/Global Diabetes Initiative at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from Hunter College in NYC, as well as a MS in Nutrition in Public Health from Teachers College, Columbia University.  She also belongs to the Bronx Health Literacy Collaborative. jill.raufman@gmail.com

Mark Scheflen, visual artist, founded Kiboko Projects in 1999.  His work involves the building of collaborative relationships between educational, art and community institutions throughout the USA, Africa and Russia. Through teaching workshops projects are designed, and develop into a cultural exchanges. Participants use different mediums such as creative writing, art, digital photography and video which result in a collection of photodiaries, face masks and a series of short films. The finished products capture individual, social and cultural themes.

Michael Stoltz, photographer, graphic artist, mixed media artist and teacher. As a teen,  through special programs given by The School Art League he had the opportunity to work with people like George Segal, Beverly Hammer & The Vignellis. Inspired by the work he did with these talents, at age 16 his sculpture Venus of The Borsht Belt traveled to the Soviet Union . Upon graduation He received the St. Gaudens Medal.  Attending Lehman College he became a Graphic Arts major with an Education minor, graduating with both a BFA & a Masters in Art Education.  He was invited to exhibit his work at the Floating Foundation of Photography. Over the yeas he continued to exhibit and teach and presently he is teaching at Eleanor Roosevelt High School , in New York City .  He is committed to the project, and has been part of the Kiboko team for the past few years.

Nancy Koprak,MA,BC-DMT,LCAT, as a licensed creative arts therapist, has worked as a senior dance/movement therapist for over twenty five years at Maimonides Medical Center.  An NYU graduate, she has extensive experience with adult psychiatric patients, as well as Alzheimer’s, developmentally disabled and emotionally handicapped children.  She creates multi-cultural groups at Metropolitan Day Health Center.  She collaborated with Kiboko Projects on a multi-media work entitled “Alternating Faces”.  She presents at ADTA conferences and leads dance therapy retreats in the British Virgin Islands.  She supervises students and is on the faculty of the Creative Arts Therapy program at the New School.

JoAnn Hammond-Meiers, Ph.D., A.D.T.R.

HAGGAI HAWI KADIRI is the founder and director of Oasis of Hope Secondary School, Kisumu, Kenya. Mr. Kadiri started Oasis of Hope, in 2006, for those students who would not otherwise be able to attend school due to lack of school fees. Many of the students at this school are orphaned children living in extreme poverty. The school provides these children with an opportunity that would otherwise be out of reach.  In addition, Mr. Kadiri is an accountant and currently earning a law degree at Moi University, Kenya.