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Mark Grashow
President, Co-Founder

Mark taught mathematics at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn for 35 years. He was the advisor to the school’s service club, coached the swimming team, served as union leader, ran the GED program and advised the Rainbow Alliance. Mark was twice recognized as High School Teacher of the Year for Brooklyn and Staten Island Schools. He retired from teaching in 2001. In 2003, Mark and his wife, Sheri Saltzberg, co-founded USACF. Mark has published several books, travels extensively, and is a nationally ranked swimmer.

Bob Rollins
Bridge Project Director

Bob is an educator and ed tech based in Oakland, California. He has a passionate interest and commitment to using educational technology to inspire learning, imagination and innovation. Since launching USACF's Bridge Project in 2016 Bob has worked hard to grow the project in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, and other countries. Bob cherishes the opportunities to bring educational tools and resources to so many severely under-resourced children, teachers, and classrooms. 

Manning Sutton
Bridge Project Director of Design & Engineering

A hands-on executive with experience in cross-functional and geographic project management, strategic planning, and delivery. Experience in building and delivering solutions to problems in innovative ways – in countries such as Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal and Latin America. Adept at overseeing all aspects of the project life-cycle, from concept to creating, defining project scope and deliverables, implementation, operations, and sustainability.  Previous technology and management roles at IBM, Gap and TechSoup.  Manning is directs Learning Without Borders which he founded in Senegal where he lived and worked in 2011-2012.

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Dominic Muntanga
Director

Dominic Muntanga is Special Projects Advisor to the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture in Zimbabwe. He is founder of the Council for Zimbabwe and one of the Co-Directors of Kalai Foundation. Prior to joining the Ministry of Education, Dominic was a consultant to the World Bank. He sits on the board of the US Foundation for the UWC Atlantic College.

Escar Kusema
Director

Dr. Escar Kusema earned her M.D. at Dartmouth and is working towards her Masters in Public Health at Harvard. She grew up in some of Zimbabwe’s poorest communities. Despite many hardships she excelled in school and received several scholarships including one for Academically Gifted Vulnerable Children in 2001. Deeply empathizing with the plight of children born in displaced homes, Escar helped form the Dumela Initiative, which started small agricultural and animal husbandry projects to provide families with income in Zimbabwe. She was the driving force in starting the Triage and Health Education Clinic at the Upper Valley Haven Shelter for the Homeless in Vermont and the ABI Scholarship Fund for Zimbabwean single teen mothers who want to return to finish high school. She was named an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and a Pano Rodis Schwartz Fellow at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. She was recognized by United Way Africa as one of Africa’s leading under 30 years-olds. 

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Alexander Grashow
Director

Alexander is the Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Leadership Associates and co-authored The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. He is a leading expert in helping organizations and communities thrive and he consults to and works with CEOs, senior managers, and top teams in many Fortune 500 companies and international aid organizations. Alex has been on the executive education faculty at New York University, Duke Corporate Education and Harvard University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative, has been published in Harvard Business Review and had a column in the Washington Post. Alex lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.

Paulo DeSousa
Director

Paulo has over 20 years experience working in communications, media and event planning.The highlight of Paulo’s performing career was his principal role, opposite Nicole Kidman, in Sydney Pollok’s internationally acclaimed thriller The Interpreter. Paulo speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian and is certified in Intercultural Exchange by the Government of Portugal. He was born in Zambia and lives in L.A. where he works with Universal Music Distribution’s Latin Division.