Staff and Board

Governing Board Members

Ari Stern, MD President & Medical Director Berkeley, CA USA Doctor of Emergency Medicine	Bob Doak, DVM Vice President Albuquerque, NM, USA Doctor of Veterinary Medicine	Scott MacLennan Founder & Executive Director Nepal Program Director Albuquerque, NM, USA
Dorothy Kammerer-Doak, MD Board Member Albuquerque, NM, USA Doctor of OB/GYN	Trond B. Jensen Board Member Alaska, USA	Dan Mazur Expedition Organizer Summit Climb Mount Everest Foundation
Phillip Heinegg Medical Doctor New York, USA	David Diaz Web Developer Santa Fe, NM, USA	Mike Anderson General Contractor Alaska, USA
Amanda Padoan, JD Attorney at Law Barcelona, Spain	Jon Reed Airline Pilot California, USA	Subhash Ghimre Kathmandu, Nepal

Main Office Staff, Albuquerque, NM, USA
	Scott MacLennan Founder / Executive Director Email: mtnfund@mountainfund.org Scott has working in Nepal and Peru for nearly a decade. He is the recipient of the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal and the founder of The Mountain Fund.
	Sunita Subedi-MacLennan Director of Volunteer Programs Email: mountainvolunteer@me.com Sunita has been directing the volunteer program in Nepal for The Mountain Fund since it's inception. The program continues to grow in popularity each year.
	Snigdha Sharma Regmi Administrative Assistant Email: info@mountainfund.org Snigdha is the official go-to person at The Mountain Fund for a variety of matters including web updates, bookkeeping, filing and donor recognition programs.
Nepal Staff, Kathmandu, Nepal
	Sharmila Khanal General Manager/Accounting Email: Sharmila, also known as Saru, is our business manager on the ground in Nepal and in charge of accounting, banking and all the business related processes that go along with the day-to-day management of an NGO working in Nepal.
	Manisha Sharma Placement Coordinator/Rural Program Manager Email: Jenee is our go-to person for volunteers in Nepal. She manages the placement relationships and provides oversight to volunteer activities. Jenee also is in charge of The Mountain Fund's rural programs and volunteer placements.
	The Sisters Namuna, Usha, Saru and Shanti keep the volunteer house in Nepal running. To contact the house in Nepal call 977-9841060257, or Email: Nepal@mountainfund.org

 

Other Regional Staff

Noah Harper

El Salvador Program Director

Email: benefitelsalvadorproject@gmail.com

Noah currently resides in Salt Lake City, UT, where he attends the University of Utah as a premedical student, and serves as a Teaching Assistant for Human Anatomy. When not studying, you’ll find him enjoying the seasonal fruits of rock climbing and skiing in the nearby Wasatch Mountains.   In June of 2008, Noah traveled to El Salvador and was fortunate to have the opportunity to volunteer in a local, public health care facility,The  Zaragoza Clinic. While volunteering it became evident that the well-trained physicians and nurses that served there were tragically under supplied.It was within this context that the Benefit El Salvador Project was born.

Yure Chavez 

Peru Program Director

Yure was born in Cusco, Peru, where he went to University for 5 years to be licensed in tourism. An introspective guy with a great sense of humor, he speaks Quechua (local language), Spanish, French, and English. Yure has guided adventure, ecotourism, bird watching and conventional tours for almost 10 years. Yure is very involved in Andean Anthropological Studies (costumes, traditions and social customs) and is also interested in the animal world of the Andes and the rain forest. Yure's wife, Brenda, is our Homestay Manager in Peru. She is also in charge of our micro finance program, Aynikuy.

Hannah Porst

Peru Education Coordinator

In the spring of 2010, Hannah trekked up the Vilcanota range of the Andes Mountains to Hatun Q'eros. She studied the intersection and tension between modernity and tradition, including migration patterns among youth and self-initiated development. She was fortunate to live with the Quechua speaking people in this beautiful and remote realm and to have been adopted into their circle of family as madrina, or second mother, to several children. In the summers of 2009 and 2010 she interned as a visual and urban anthropologist at The Field Museum's Division of Environment, Culture and Conservation. A Harward Center fellow, Hannah is a senior at Bates College majoring in Spanish and Photography with a concentration in Environment, Place and History.