Board of Directors
Board of Directors Executive Committee
Hanni Stoklosa
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Executive Director, is a Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking and an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Susie Baldwin
Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH, President of the Board of Directors, is a Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking. She is a preventive medicine physician who works as the Chief of Medical Community Engagement at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
George L. Askew
George L. Askew, MD, Vice President of the Board of HEAL Trafficking, is the Deputy Chief Administrator Officer for Health, Human Services, and Education for Prince George’s County Maryland.
Kathleen Thurmond
Kathleen Thurmond, MSW, MBA, brings more than 20 years of executive experience in corporate and non-profit management.
Kristin Potterbusch
Kristin Potterbusch, MPH is an advocate for health equity, and has built a career around addressing systemic barriers to best-practice within the public health field.
Board of Directors Members
Abigail English
Abigail English, JD, is a lawyer, researcher, and advocate for the rights of vulnerable young people. She is director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, a nonprofit organization working nationally to support laws and policies that promote
Mariam Garuba
Mariam Garuba, MD, is a psychiatrist who works in New York and provides care to the chronically mentally ill.
Katherine Hargitt
Katherine Hargitt, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who works with trauma survivors and service providers, and specializes in the psychosocial care, recovery, and re/integration of survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Suzanne Poppema
Suzanne Poppema, MD has been involved in reproductive justice and human rights since the first days of her private practice north of Seattle.
Advisory Council
Makini Chisolm-Straker
Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, is a Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking. Dr. Chisolm-Straker is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; she works clinically at Mount Sinai Brooklyn.
Vicki Rosenthal
Vicki Rosenthal, MSW, Secretary of the Board of Directors and founding Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee, is an independent consultant for coalitions, non-profits, start-up companies, social service agencies, professional associations, task force groups, and academic organizations increasing organizational effectiveness and capacity
Nicole Littenberg
Nicole Littenberg, MD, MPH, Board Liaison on Violence and Trauma and a Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking, is the Clinical Director of the High-Risk Victim Clinic at the Sex Abuse Treatment Center (SATC) in Honolulu, HI, practices internal medicine at Kokua
Aimee Malia Grace
Dr. Aimee Malia Grace, MD, MPH, FAAP, is the Director of Health Science Policy for the University of Hawaii (UH) System, working in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. She is responsible for identifying funding and