The Board of Directors keeps us sailing in the right direction. They oversee the strategy of our organization, making sure our resources are spent in the most impactful ways. They're volunteering their time [and brains] to making sure you get the info needed to make informed decisions about your healthcare. The folks are the MVPs of BCDB.
Sarina Byron is a widely published Writer, Director of Content, Yale Writers' Workshop Alumni, and former investment banker. Sarina’s Not for Profit work began with the United Nations and has progressed to fundraising, content strategy, and corporate relationship building with three organizations as Board of Director. Featured by Voyage Tampa and Canvas Rebel magazines and having delivered a talk at a “Big Tech” firm, Sarina is fast emerging as a recognizable name in Literature and Not for Profits. Having lived on three continents and in three US states, Sarina is excited to contribute to her local community in the Evergreen State. When not engaged in BCDB priorities and writing, you can find her knee-deep in books as a Board Member for the Seattle Public Library.
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Leah is a board certified Nurse Informaticist and Oncology Nurse Practitioner, passionate about quality of life, healthcare data as a catalyst for change, and coaching and mentoring people in many areas of life. She spent the early part of her career at the bedside caring for oncology and hospice patients and their families. From there, she moved to then healthcare tech startup Flatiron Health, where she worked with and ultimately led a team of Health Informaticists poised to create usable healthcare data to answer hard clinical questions. Most recently, she’s been Chief of Staff to the CTO at Collectors, where she’s worked to scale the size of the engineering organization, leaning into people and finance processes and implementations to round out her business skill set. Leah has an MSN Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist from Loyola University Chicago and a BSN from Oakland University.
A dedicated advocate for gender and reproductive justice, Emily has extensive experience fostering increased access to comprehensive health care through strategic communications and advocacy, coalition building, and grantmaking. As a Senior Program Associate at The Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation – a small grantmaking organization focused on scaling up access to contraceptives and safe abortion care – she leads the U.S. grants portfolio as well as manages grants throughout East Africa. Previously, Emily was a Senior Associate at Global Health Strategies, where she consulted for clients focused on advancing safe abortion access, gender equality and universal health coverage around the world. Prior to working at GHS, she completed an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in International Relations, French and Sociology from Tufts University.
Jessica is excited to combine her 5+ years of expertise in business strategy, material science, product development, and start-ups with her research in period health, and product safety to BCDB! She's worked on a wide range of projects from working as a 3D Technical Designer in the fashion industry, business development in the non-profit sector, material R&D for academia, and conducting grounding-breaking research for menstrual health products. Jessica is humbled and thrilled to have the opportunity to bridge the gaps of body advocacy and demystifying care with BCDB for uterus-having folks!
Cole has more than five years experience in the nonprofit sector as a database administrator, event organization, and marketing back-up. In their current role as the Development Associate for the Board of Child Care (Baltimore, MD), they are responsible for the maintenance and hygiene of the CRM Database as well as the growing Advancement Services needs of the organization. As a nonbinary individual they struggled for years to find a birth control that was effective and gender-affirming, and would have greatly benefited from BCDB!
