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
Bette Ann Baker
Bette Ann Baker is a nurse and attorney. Originally from New England, she received her bachelor’s degree in English and Nursing from Simmons College. Bette then worked in rural Eastern Kentucky running a Home Health Agency and later was head
Rhonelle Bruder
Rhonelle Bruder is a public speaker and human rights advocate. She has travelled extensively throughout Canada and the United States for speaking engagements at high schools, universities, faith groups, conferences, professional groups and events to educate and bring awareness to
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.
Dunia Zelaya
Dunia is a survivor of human trafficking and domestic violence. Dunia was trafficked by her own mother at an early age; she was forced to work in different bars every night and perform sex acts with multiple customers. Her mother
Shaylin Chock
Shaylin Chock, M.D. is a psychiatrist triple boarded in Child and Adolescent, Adult, and Forensic Psychiatry. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) where she works at the Kapi`olani
Advisory Council
Tonya Chaffee
Dr. Chaffee is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, at the University of California, San Francisco. She is Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Support, Advocacy and Resource Center (CASARC) the referral center for children and adolescent who are alleged
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.
Jim Lasher
Jim Lasher is Chief Financial Officer of North Coast Community Homes, a non-profit organization in Cleveland, Ohio. NCCH develops and maintains safe, affordable, high quality community housing for individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and other disabilities. Previously, he was
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
Lauren Mann
Lauren Mann has worked in healthcare communications for nearly 10 years. She is currently the Director of Global Internal Communications at McCann Health. She previously served as Director, Communications in the Division of Family and Child Health at the NYC
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