Newest members of the RESULTS Board of Directors!
During the spring and summer, RESULTS welcomed three new members to its Board of Directors, serving through 2027. Each brings a wealth of experience and leadership in a variety of sectors to bear in their roles with the RESULTS Board. We are honored and thrilled by the opportunities this partnership presents for RESULTS, our work, and our mission in the world. Welcome to Dr. Christina Gunther, Leah Bradford Francis, and Kasapo Chibwe!
Christina B. Gunther, EdD is an assistant professor and chair of the Health Sciences Department at Sacred Heart University. Dr. Gunther’s expertise lies within the fields of anti-oppression, diversity, equity, and inclusion, social determinants of health and social justice in the global arena. She presents and consults nationally on topics that include diversity, power and privilege, implicit bias, and stereotype representations. Dr. Gunther’s current research and teaching focuses on best practices for creating anti-racist and inclusive health care curricula and advocating for equitable access to resources for all communities. She is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) and the International Conflict Styles Inventory® (ICSI®).
Leah Bradford-Francis joined the Gates Foundation in 2020 with a focus on education. Prior to joining Gates, she was Managing Director at Synergos Advisory, leading their global social impact advisory practice and assisting clients — such as Bloomberg Philanthropies (health), Citi Foundation (global non-governmental organization (NGO) capacity building), Gates Foundation (agriculture & financial inclusion), WalMart Foundation (agriculture), Conservation International (coffee), Unilever (various), Mondelez International (nutrition), Abbott (foundation operations), PepsiCo Foundation (water/nutrition), and Porticus (education). She has worked on projects in countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, Argentina, India, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Africa, Namibia, and Malawi. Prior to Synergos, Leah was President of the Kraft Foods Group Foundation, and led the company’s philanthropic strategy in community partnerships, humanitarian aid, and employee civic engagement with a focus on food access and nutrition. Leah’s philanthropy journey started at the Chicago Community Trust, where she oversaw investments in affordable housing, workforce development, community organizing, justice system reform, and economic development. Over the years, Leah has served as a volunteer, board member, and speaker at numerous organizations. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Virginia.
Kasapo Chibwe was elected to the board by fellow RESULTS Volunteers this past July. She works for World Vision as a policy advisor for global health and has been in this role since November 2021. She has a master’s in health communication from DePaul University and has worked in both the United States and Zambia. Her professional background has been in public health with experiences in HIV/AIDS research and teaching public health at the University of Zambia.
In her spare time, she has volunteered in various capacities, spanning across different sectors in food pantries, orphanages, and organizations with the most recent experience as a RESULTS volunteer. We are thrilled to have her joining the Board and lending her expertise as an active volunteer as well as a policy professional on many core RESULTS issues.
RESULTS is also honored to acknowledge the incredible contributions of six Board members who rotated off at the conclusion of their terms. They collectively represent some 55 years of commitment to the RESULTS mission.
Thank you!
Ernest Loevinsohn has a more-than-25-year history on the board of RESULTS including as a past Chair and lengthy tenures as Chair of the Policy & Advocacy Committee and has been a tireless advocate for ambitious policy asks and ensuring that we are seeking substantive and measurable outcomes in our policy work.
Ernie is the Executive Director at the Fund for Global Health, which has been set up to use proceeds from asset management to improve the health of people in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Although they are a non-profit organization, they try to take a business-like approach, with a clear bottom-line focus on health results. Previously, he was the Director of Global Health Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Loevinsohn lead the foundation’s efforts to encourage political commitment and effective investment in global health in both donor and developing countries. He also managed a grant program, oversaw work to build evidence to support effective policy making, and helped lead the foundation’s work on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Prior to joining the foundation in June 2010, Loevinsohn worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). At CIDA, he served as Director General for Global Initiatives, leading a large-scale international assistance program providing aid to more than 70 countries.
He also served as the founding Chair of the Stop TB Partnership and was Vice Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Loevinsohn holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Roger Hudson joined the Board of RESULTS in the spring of 2015. Over the ensuing years, Roger has served as long-time chair of the Board’s Philanthropy Committee and has served as well on the Governance & Board Development and the Policy & Advocacy Committees.
Roger has been a RESULTS Partner and occasional Regional Coordinator for over thirty years, including attendance at more than thirty International Conferences, and perhaps half that many Northwest Regional Conferences, in Washington and British Columbia. He has held all standard Partner and Group Leader roles, including coaching other partners, assisting in preparation and presentation of numerous UNICEF and RESULTS press conferences, 1990 World Summit for Children event, editorial meetings, outreach meetings, action meetings, drafting and publication of op-eds and letters to the editor, congressional correspondence, etc. He has participated in numerous lobby meetings with member of Congress and contributed to conservative Republican Congressman Don Young becoming co-founder and co-chair of House TB Caucus and helped influence former Senator and Appropriations Committee Chair Ted Stevens to increase funding for bilateral TB programs and U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Roger helped put on numerous RESULTS fundraising events, including events featuring guest speakers such as Joanne Carter, John Hatch (3X), and Lee Reichman.
Based in Anchorage, he was lead Alaska attorney for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1982-2014. Recipient of numerous Solicitor’s Office performance awards, and most recently an award presented by U.S. Attorney General Holder for contributions to the mission of the Department of Justice through participation in several lawsuits regarding Alaska Native rights and property interests. Retired May 2014.
Roger is married to RESULTS volunteer and former Regional Coordinator Mary Martin and is a CSPAN junkie, golfer, and student of life.
Jan Twombly, CSAP, has served on the Board as its Treasurer and Chair of its Finance Committee starting in 2009 and has served as a steadying force and source of financial and strategic wisdom for 15 years with RESULTS.
Jan is President of The Rhythm of Business. For more than 20 years, Twombly has served as a trusted advisor to global and emerging companies, providing thought leadership, partnering expertise, strategic alliance management consulting, and related education. One client refers to her as the “collaboration therapist” and in difficult situations often asks “what would Jan do?”
Twombly works as an extension of partnering and alliance management teams, helping them accelerate outcomes from partnering and alliances. She helps business leadership move organization, operations, and behavior to a more collaborative way of working, both internally and externally. She guides companies to reach higher levels of alliance success by integrating partnering into all aspects of the business. Customized education and training bring alliance and collaboration skills to all who interact with partners. Her current emphasis is on applying agile principles to alliance management and digitizing its workflow.
Twombly serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP). She is editorial advisor and frequent contributor to ASAP Media, publisher of Strategic Alliance Quarterly, and contributed to the ASAP Handbook of Alliance Management: A Practitioner’s Guide. Her volunteer responsibilities previously included the program content of ASAP conferences.
Together with business partner Jeffrey Shuman, Twombly has a rich history of developing, publishing, and presenting strategic and practical thinking that advances the art and science of partnering and alliance management.
Her first career was as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), becoming partner in a regional CPA firm, serving technology and knowledge-based entrepreneurial companies. Twombly continues to leverage her financial knowledge. She served as Treasurer and a Member of the Executive Committee of RESULTS and the RESULTS Educational Fund, sister organizations that empower individuals around the world to use their voices and collaborative skills to influence decisions by governments and other institutions that will bring about the end of poverty. She is also a member of the Finance Commission of her town government, evaluating and making recommendations about the town’s overall budget and financial operations.
Pankaj Agarwal joined the RESULTS Board in spring of 2015. Pankaj most recently served as the Board Secretary and has served actively on the Governance & Board Development, Policy & Advocacy, and the Philanthropy Committees. Pankaj is Managing Director of ReCubed Consulting based in San Francisco. ReCubed assists businesses, governments, and not-for-profits in becoming more effective and efficient by improving business processes and systems. Pankaj has expertise in insurance claims and workers compensation, procurement, state government, universities, and real estate and facilities management.
Pankaj has also worked at Deloitte Consulting and IBM. Prior to management consulting, he spent 10 years in manufacturing and service companies. He has worked globally on a variety of projects spanning Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India and the United Kingdom. He has also published several papers and made presentations at conferences in the U.S. and Canada.
After joining the RESULTS Board in 2018, S. Ashish Bali has chaired the Audit Committee and served on the Finance Committee.
Ashish is a former senior leader and executive with experience in professional services globally, 38 years with Deloitte and forty years in total. His areas of expertise cover Strategy; M&A; Finance; Operations; Customer engagement; Risk management; Cost optimization. With Deloitte, Ashish was a CFO and Audit Partner. He has served on the boards of non-profits in the education space and is an Independent member of the Audit and Evaluation committee of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He is a guest lecturer at a top New Jersey university, a mentor to Rise — a fintech accelerator, and adviser to a data analytics company. He has worked in the United Kingdom, Kenya, and Canada.
Ashish was educated at the University of Delhi in India, and Kingston University in the United Kingdom. Ashish is a U.S. certified public accountant, a UK chartered accountant, a Canadian chartered accountant, and an Indian chartered accountant. He is married and has two grown-up children. He enjoys playing golf and travel.
Ashish holds a Master of Business Administration Degree (Joint program of The University of Michigan’s College of Engineering and Ross School of Business) and a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Economics (University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and MENSA.
Jennifer M. Koo, has served as a Grassroots Director since July 2021 and has served on the Executive Committee and at various times on the Board Governance and Philanthropy committees. She has been a champion for advancing our diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice efforts and has also been an advocate for the needs and perspectives of the volunteers across the RESULTS network.
She joined RESULTS in January 2018 after reading a letter to the editor on Tuberculosis in the New York Times. Reflecting on her experiences with oppression, and inspired by the RESULTS movement, she collaborated with passionate college students to bring a chapter of RESULTS to the University of Connecticut. Wanting to include more diverse voices, the chapter transitioned into a community group in 2020. Currently, Jennn is a Co-Founder and Co-Group Leader of a predominantly BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) chapter in Connecticut, RESULTS Greater CT, where advocates focus on global and domestic poverty. To support the thriving of her group, Jennn maintains strong relationships with her Members of Congress, the Connecticut community, and the RESULTS Northeast Region to mobilize anti-poverty action in CT, and develops social events and educational workshops for new and seasoned advocates (e.g. LTE Writing Workshops, 1:1 Mentorships, Issue Expert Presentations, Networking & Advancement Opportunities, etc.). Jennn is a RESULTS Fellowship Alum (2019-2020 Cohort) and in addition to maintaining deep connections with other alums, volunteers at events for and builds relationships with current fellows. Along with her International Conference panel on youth empowerment and shared leadership, she also engages in anti-oppression through leadership training and events, and her involvement with the newly formed Anti-Oppression Council and BIPOC Caucus.
Beyond RESULTS, Jennn advances health equity and anti-oppression through her roles as a Research Assistant with the National Disability Rights Network, and as a Community Organizer with R2H Action (Right to Health). In response to the increasing need for health care workers, she also volunteers at public health education events, and is actively working towards her Emergency Medical Technician certification. Recently, Jennn graduated from the University of Connecticut in May 2020 with two honors degrees in Allied Health Sciences (B.S.) and Sociology (B.A.). She constantly reflects on how dynamic her time serving as a writing tutor, teaching fellow, and health equity researcher at UConn was. These experiences of supporting and uplifting the freedom and empowerment of others have strengthened her leadership and relationships, and informs her work at RESULTS.