Experience

Rebuilding Alliance

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and Executive Director

  • Apr 2002 - Present

  Redwood City, California, United States Polish-American from Michigan, Donna’s interest in the Middle East began in 1990 when she initiated a symbolic message to the people of Iraq as a way to end the then stand-off without going to war. Some 10,000 people participated when her New York Times op-ed, Small Lights in the Darkness, was translated into Arabic and presented to the Iraqi Women’s Federation a week before the First Gulf War began. Encouraged by Jerome Wiesner, president emeritus of M.I.T. and former science adviser to… Show more Polish-American from Michigan, Donna’s interest in the Middle East began in 1990 when she initiated a symbolic message to the people of Iraq as a way to end the then stand-off without going to war. Some 10,000 people participated when her New York Times op-ed, Small Lights in the Darkness, was translated into Arabic and presented to the Iraqi Women’s Federation a week before the First Gulf War began. Encouraged by Jerome Wiesner, president emeritus of M.I.T. and former science adviser to President Kennedy, she seeks ways to use technology creatively enough to link good neighbors across the world for education, development, justice, and peace. In 2003, Donna founded Rebuilding Alliance, a U.S. nonprofit that rebuilds communities in areas in conflict and brings the world together to make them safe. Show less



SRI

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Licensing Associate

  • 1997 - 1999

  Menlo Park CA

• Licensing Associate, Telecommunications Techology

  • 1996 - 1999

  Menlo Park California Evaluated new inventions in electronics, software, artificial intelligence and telecommunications, decided if patents were to be filed, worked with companies and/or venture capitalists to license the invention or form a start-up company.



Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing

• Licensing Associate

  • 1994 - 1996