Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Global Action for Children’s Board of Directors
Angelina Jolie, Co-Chair, Jolie-Pitt Foundation - Honorary Chairperson
Angelina Jolie, a dedicated humanitarian advocate and philanthropist, is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Co-Chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, and an Academy Award® and Golden Globe winning actress. Since her appointment by UNHCR in 2001, Jolie has undertaken field missions to over 30 refugee camps, including several visits to Chad and Sudan’s Darfur region. Among many other contributions, her philanthropy has included major donations to UNHCR field operations around the world and initial grants by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each. Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by UNA-USA. Jolie has appeared in more than 30 theatrical and TV films, including an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning performance as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted. She also won Golden Globes for the HBO film Gia, and for George Wallace, a period epic for TNT, as well numerous other acting awards and honors throughout her career. Jolie is the mother of four children. Click here to read more about Angelina Jolie and the launch of Global Action for Children.
Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance - Chairperson
Dr. Zeitz worked in Africa as a public health specialist for over 10 years, his experience ranging across many countries: Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Senegal, Malawi, Niger, India, Guatemala, and Bolivia. In Zambia, he worked with the United Nations AIDS Initiative, the US Agency for International Development and the Zambian government. He has also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control. Dr. Zeitz completed his Preventive Medicine Residency and received a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He has served as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Dr. Zeitz is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Global AIDS Alliance (GAA), a collaborative effort among global health advocates, human rights groups, AIDS activists, religious organizations, debt cancellation advocates and others. GAA stands for eliminating the AIDS crisis without delay by mobilizing public opinion, more money, and far better policies against AIDS and its causes, including extreme poverty and gender oppression.
Jennifer Delaney, Executive Director, Global Action for Children - President
Jennifer Delaney, the Executive Director of Global Action for Children, is a children’s advocate with over 15 years of international business and development experience in Asia, Africa, and Europe. She served as Senior Program Officer for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs’ Africa Alive! Initiative, which reaches young people with AIDS prevention messages through music and entertainment. While at the Hope for African Children Initiative, she played a key role in successfully advocating that 10 percent of funding under the United States Leadership against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (PL 108-25) be dedicated to programs for orphans and vulnerable children. She serves as volunteer co-chair of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children Task Force, the Children Affected by AIDS steering committee, and the Better Care Network Communications Group. Delaney lived in Tokyo for seven years, where she worked for one of Asia’s premier entertainment firms. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts, and a Masters of Policy Management from Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. Delaney studied International Business at Oxford University, and has worked or traveled in more than 40 countries.
Dr. Joanne Carter, Associate Executive Director, RESULTS - Secretary and Treasurer
Since 1992, Joanne Carter has been with RESULTS, an international grassroots citizen’s lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and to empower individuals as advocates with their governments, the media and in their communities. RESULTS has active chapters in nearly 100 U.S. cities and in the UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and Germany, and works on a range of international and domestic issues-including expanding basic health programs to combat TB, AIDS and other major infectious killers, access to microfinance to allow very poor women to start their own businesses, reform of World Bank health policy, and expanded access to Head Start preschool programs and quality early child care in the United States. Carter has worked with key Congressional allies drafting legislation and supporting campaigns on global child survival, microenterprise, tuberculosis control and World Bank reform. She regularly arranges media briefings on breaking legislative news, and works closely with the WHO and other international public health organizations, and with advocates in Africa, Europe, and India. She speaks regularly about global health issues, poverty reduction and the work of RESULTS. She holds a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) degree from Cornell University and has done graduate research in reproductive physiology. She has served as a VISTA volunteer and as a recruiter for the Peace Corps.
Kathy Postel Kretman, Ph.D., Director, Georgetown University Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership - Director
Kathy Kretman is the Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She is also a Research Professor for the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where she teaches public leadership, and a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service. Kretman serves on the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center of Washington, DC and the Steering Committee of the national Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition. Kretman previously served on the affiliate faculty of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Leadership Institute, providing executive training to AmeriCorps and VISTA directors around the country. She has devoted much of her career to public service and the development of emerging leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Public Administration from The George Washington University.
Joan Lombardi, Director, The Children’s Project LLC - Director
Joan Lombardi is one of the leading experts on early childhood development and child and family policy. She is the director of The Children’s Project LLC, a non-partisan effort to improve public, private and civic investments in children and families. Through The Children’s Project, she serves as an advisor to a number of foundations and policy initiatives and helps create innovative projects with a wide variety of national and international organizations. Lombardi served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the first Director of the Child Care Bureau. She is the author of Time to Care: Redesigning Child Care to Promote Education, Support Families and Build Communities (Temple University Press, 2003) and co-editor of A Beacon of Hope: The Promise of Early Head Start for America’s Youngest Children (ZerotoThree Press, 2004). She is a member of a number of boards and advisory committees, including The Mayors Advisory Committee on Early Childhood, Docs for Tots, PNC Bank Grow up Great, and Corporate Voices for Working Families. In 2004, Lombardi launched the Global Leaders for Young Children program in partnership with The World Forum Foundation which is currently providing leadership support to 19 early education leaders from eight countries. In addition, in 2004 she served as a Senior Fellow with The Global Fund for Children in Washington D.C. She serves on the Education Leadership Council of Save the Children, and participates in the U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education.
Conan N. Louis, Esq., Chief Development Officer, The SEED Foundation - Director
Conan Louis serves as Chief Development Officer of The SEED Foundation, an organization pioneering the concept of an urban public boarding school. Prior to joining SEED, Louis was Director of Development for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Before becoming an advancement professional, Louis was in private practice in the Washington office of a major law firm for six years, focusing on international trade and transactions. He has more than 25 years of experience working in philanthropy, having served first as an alumni volunteer leader, then as associate vice president for alumni relations at Georgetown University. He then served as Vice President for University Advancement at Howard University before joining one of the nation’s top fundraising management consulting firms. Prior to practicing law, Louis conducted funded social science research for ten years, focusing in the areas of criminal justice, drug abuse, and literacy. He also assisted in the creation of a regional advanced technology center, and served as that organization’s first director of human resources. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Georgetown University and is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Diana Aubourg Millner, Executive Director, Save Africa’s Children - Director
Diana Aubourg Millner directs Africa policy and programmatic development for the Pan African Children’s Fund/Save Africa’s Children, a U.S. black church initiative that supports orphan care projects in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. In her capacity as special assistant to the president, Bishop Charles E. Blake, Aubourg represents the organization among a network of people addressing the AIDS pandemic, including governments, humanitarian organizations, faith-based organizations, and policy and advocacy groups. She has traveled extensively throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Aubourg has been active in the fight against global AIDS for several years and serves on the board of the Jubilee USA Network, a national campaign to cancel the debts of impoverished nations. Aubourg earned a bachelor’s degree in policy studies from Syracuse University and a master’s in international development planning from MIT.
Richard C. Powell, Chief Operating Officer, Burson-Marsteller - Director
Rick Powell, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Burson-Marsteller, works with the management team on its operations, on key strategic clients, and help execute the firm’s plan. He served as a managing director of Quinn Gillespie & Associates (QGA), one of Washington, DC’s, leading public affairs firms, since 2001, overseeing the financial and operational functions of the firm. He has also provided public affairs and corporate communications counsel to a variety of QGA clients, including Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Zurich Financial Services. Powell joined QGA after working in venture capital management, first as cofounder and Managing Director of Washington, D.C.-based technology incubator VenCatalyst. When VenCatalyst was bought by rival idealab!, Powell became Managing Director of idealab!’s New York office. Prior to founding VenCatalyst, Powell served as Chief Knowledge Officer and member of the Worldwide Operating Committee at Burson-Marsteller. He joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office in 1992, where his work focused on public affairs issues. In 1995, Powell moved to Burson-Marsteller’s New York office to become chief of staff to the firm’s COO. He was named Chief Knowledge Officer in 1998. Powell is on the board of American Council of Young Political Leaders and the National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneurs Foundation. A native of Tennessee, he is a graduate of Southern Methodist University.
Global Action for Children’s Advisory Board
Trevor Neilson, Senior Advisor, APCO Worldwide - Chair
Albina du Boisrouvray, Founder and President, Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud
David Gartner, Global AIDS Alliance
James Haven, Youth AIDS Summit, Saddleback Church
Kerry Olson, Founder and President, Firelight Foundation
Jack Quinn, Founder and Co-Chairman, Quinn Gillespie & Associates
Sara Sievers, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
