Jay Nash: Chair
Liz Chant: Vice-Chair & Treasurer
Lisa Schwartz: Development Officer
Lisa Seymour: DR Congo Project Manager
Sissi Robins: Adminstrative Assistant

Dr. Jon Andrus: Chief, Immunization Unit, Pan American Health Organization
Tony Gambino: Former Director for DR Congo, United States Agency for International Development
Judith Heumann: Director of the Department on Disability Services, District of Columbia
Dr. Lauro Halstead: Director, Post Polio Program, National Rehabilitation Hospital
Faida Mitifu: Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the United States
Ellyn Ogden: USAID, Worldwide Polio Eradication Coordinator

Judith Affatato Charles Bretz Nancy Bolan James Bond Scott Campbell

Mary-Louise Eagleton Dr. Alberta Finch Joan Headley Carol O´Reilly Steven Suskin

Victor Tanner Rudina Vojvoda Catherine Volter

StandProud's chairman, Jay A. Nash, is a graduate of Amherst College and of the University of Illinois´ doctoral program in Linguistics. Mr. Nash first began assisting disabled persons in the third world when serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Congo–an activity which he later continued when working for Catholic Relief Services in Angola and the Dominican Republic. After returning to the Congo in 1998 to work for the United States Agency for International Development, he assisted a group of disabled Congolese friends to organize to establish a brace shop where poor disabled youths could obtain free orthopedic equipment, then helped found StandProud in the United States to serve as a funding source for that organization and others like it in other developing countries. It is Mr. Nash's belief that with only moderate resources from the developed world, it should be possible to assist most previous polio victims to obtain simple orthopedic aids which greatly enhance their mobility and dignity, and that this is an important complement to current efforts to eradicate the disease entirely.