The work of Health In Harmony is facilitated by the diverse talents of its board of directors, and through the efforts of a small but dedicated staff in the United States and Indonesia.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nancy Angoff, MD
Dean of Student Affairs: Yale University School of Medicine
Brent Beidler
Organic Dairy Farmer: Beidler Family Farm
Darin Collins, DVM
Director of Animal Health: Woodland Park Zoo
Thomas P Duffy, MD
Professor of Medicine: Yale University School of Medicine
Christina E. Fitch, DO, MPH — Secretary of the Board
Physician: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Peter Glassman
Entrepreneur: Capitol Financial Partners
Anna Gibb Hallemeier, MD
Physician: Community Health Center of Cape Cod
Kim Johnson
Retired from the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery
Peter Mayland, MD
Psychiatrist in Private Practice
Alison Norris, MD, PhD — Board President
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology: Ohio State University
Christina Sabater, MBA — Board Treasurer
Avanzar
Rhiya Trivedi
Climate Activist
Clare Wolfowitz, PhD
Writing & Editing Services
ADVISORY BOARD
Rhett Butler
Founder, Mongabay.com
Michele Barry, MD, FACP
Senior Associate Dean of Global Health
Stanford School of Medicine
Luc Janssens, PhD
Artist, Vitner, and founder of The Lao Rehabilitation Foundation
Mimi Plumley
Philanthropist
The Chapin Foundation, Inc.
Preetha Rajaraman, PhD
Epidemiologist
John Hopkins University
Margaret Bourdeaux, MD
Double Board Certified in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
Harvard University
Mark Totten, JD
Professor: Michigan State University College of Law
STAFF
Kinari Webb
Founder & President
Dr. Webb first developed the vision for Health In Harmony when studying orangutans in 1993 at Gunung Palung National Park. There she encountered not only a beautiful and threatened natural environment but also the dire health needs of the people surrounding the National Park. After her experience in Indonesia, Kinari decided to become a physician and return to Indonesia to work together with local communities to improve both their health and preserve the natural environment. Dr. Webb graduated from Yale University School of Medicine with honors and then completed her residency in Family Medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. Kinari founded Health In Harmony in 2005 to support the combined human and environmental work that she planned in Indonesia. After a year of traveling around Indonesia looking for the best site for this program (unmet health care needs, forest that could still be saved and a responsive government), Kinari helped co-found the ASRI program in West Kalimantan Indonesia with Hotlin Ompusunggu and Antonia Gorog (see below). Kinari currently splits her time between Indonesia and the US.
Michelle Bussard
Managing Director
Michelle Bussard has served as a non-profit executive leading a variety of organizations for over 20 years. From the National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial to the DC Downtown Partnership to The Forest Park Conservancy to now serving as the Managing Director of Health in Harmony, Michelle has been committed to and collaborated in the development of highly effective, engaged organizations committed to positive change in how we view each other, our cities, and the resources upon which we depend for life. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a Bachelors in Environmental Studies, Michelle also holds a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning from George WashingtonUniversity, Washington DC. After living in Washington, DC for 17 years, Michelle and family returned to her fourth generation roots in Oregon in 1997. Today, she is an avid hiker, writer, yogini, gardener and the single-mother of 3 grown daughters, Ayan, Safia and Hani with whom she resides in Portland.
Nichol Simpson
Development & Communication Director
Nichol was captivated by the revolutionary concept of healing the planet by combining human and environmental health. She joined Health In Harmony with more than a decade of leadership experience in the non-profit sector, including fundraising, organizational development, and putting her passion to work in order to change the world. She resides in Portland, OR with her two young children.
Antonia Gorog, PhD
Director of Programing
Dr. Gorog is an ecologist and conservationist with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Much of her dissertation research was focused on Gunung Palung National Park, where she studied patterns of distribution in the small mammal fauna throughout the park’s diverse elevational zones, from alluvial forest to cloud forest. After finishing her graduate studies, Antonia returned to Indonesia as the Science Advisor for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Indonesia Program. In that position, she coordinated programs for the conservation of Sumatran tigers, Sumatran elephants, and the maleo bird. In 2007, Antonia helped Kinari Webb and Hotlin Ompusunggu to found the Alam Sehat Lestari program in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Through 2010, she acted as ASRI’s Conservation Director, working alongside Kinari and Hotlin to integrate ASRI’s conservation programs with its medical initiatives and health care clinic. Recently Antonia returned to the US, where she now works as Health In Harmony’s Program Director, providing guidance to ASRI in the design and management of its conservation programs and support through funding and knowledge resources.
Kari Malen, MSc
Marketing and Volunteer Manager
Kari’s experience with Health In Harmony started when she first made a trip to Borneo to volunteer with the reforestation work that Health In Harmony supports – and then stayed… for 2 years. Before being hired as Health In Harmony’s Communications and Volunteer Manager, she managed the Grand Canyon Trust volunteer program for 3 years, coordinated International Field Courses in China and worked on various habitat restoration projects in multiple continents. In her spare time she enjoys self propelled travel via bike, boat and backpack and currently resides at the ASRI (Alam Sehat Lestari) project site in Borneo with her partner, Loren Bell, who is following primates in the region in pursuit of his Masters degree.
Kari earned an M.Sc. in Physiological Plant Ecology and B.S. in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Horticulture. With her experience, combined with an intimate knowledge of all the wonderful work Health In Harmony supports, she couldn’t be better for the job.