Meet Our Fellows

Since 2009, GHC has trained, supported, and amplified the impact of over 1,000 health equity leaders through our leadership development programs. Get to know the diverse changemakers who are part of our powerful, growing network.

 

Eliza

Eliza Ramos

Eliza is from Beaverton, Oregon. She received her Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Southern California. During her undergraduate studies she...

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth Mkandawire

Elizabeth is from the Mzimba district in Malawi. She performed her undergraduate studies at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College, where she...

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth "Tish" Sahner

Tish is from Maplewood, New Jersey. In 2011 she graduated from Rutgers University, where she majored in History, Spanish, and Latin American...

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Emily

Emily Sullivan

Emily Sullivan is originally from Maplewood, New Jersey, but has lived in Washington, D.C., for the last two years. She holds a...

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Faridah

Faridah Nantume

Faridah is from Uganda and holds a Bachelor's in Development Studies from Makerere University. Recently, she has been involved in designing, planning,...

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Fatsani

Fatsani Banda

Fatsani is from Malawi. She obtained a Bachelor's in Journalism from the University of Malawi, Polytechnic, and has since worked with a...

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Francis

Francis Muhire

Francis was born in Bujumbura, Burundi. He grew up in a northern suburban quarter called Kamenge, where he learned to play the...

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Garret

Garret Ma

Garret is from Boise, Idaho. He graduated Tau Beta Pi from the University of California at Los Angeles with a major in...

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Genevieve

Genevieve Barnard

Genevieve is from Dover, Massachusetts. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Health &...

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Gerard

Gerard Ntiranyuhura

Gerard Ntiranyuhura is from Makamba, a province located in the south of Burundi. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Burundi,...

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Giulietta Luul

Giulietta Luul Balestra

Luul comes from the small and pleasant city of Bologna, Italy. She completed her undergraduate studies in Cultural Anthropology at La Sapienza...

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Grace

Grace Longwe

Grace is from Lilongwe, Malawi. In 2010, she completed her Bachelor's in Social Science studies at the University of Malawi, Chancellor College,...

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Hannah

Hannah Smalley

Hannah is from Los Angeles, California. In high school she moved for a year with her family to Cape Town, South Africa,...

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Hayley

Hayley MacMillen

Hayley is from Hillsborough, California, in the San Francisco Bay area. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 2012 with...

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Hexin

Hexin Katengeza

Hexin is from the Dowa District in Malawi. He completed his secondary education in 2002, and while awaiting his college entrance exams,...

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Hiba

Hiba Iqteit

Hiba is from Amman, Jordan. She moved to the U.S. to pursue her undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry at SUNY Potsdam....

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James

James Arinaitwe

James grew up in rural Uganda where AIDS orphaned him before he was a teenager. While volunteering for a U.S.-Ugandan charity working...

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Jared

Jared Stancombe

Jared is from Bedford, Indiana. He graduated with honors from Indiana University, majoring in Political Science with a focus on international relations...

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Jean Michel

Jean Michel Maniragaba

Jean Michel is from Kigali, Rwanda. He completed his undergraduate studies at Nihon University, College of Engineering, majoring in Architecture. After he...

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Jeffrey

Jeffrey Tillus

Jeffrey was born in Haiti and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of...

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Jennifer

Jennifer Foth

Jennifer is from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. She completed her undergraduate studies at Middlebury College, majoring in International Studies with a focus...

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Jonathan

Jonathan Doucette

Jonathan graduated with Highest Honors in Comparative American Studies from Oberlin College in 2011. During his time at Oberlin, Jonathan served as...

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Jonathan Michael

Jonathan Michael Mtaula

Jonathan is from the Mangochi district of Malawi on the southern shore of Lake Malawi. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2011...

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Joseph

Joseph Scarpelli

Joseph is from Boston, Massachusetts, and completed his undergraduate studies at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he...

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