Experience

MANA Nutritive Aid Products, Inc

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Aug 2010 - Present

  We call ourselves the MANA village, a community that also happens to be a company. We are a group of social entrepreneurs located in Fitzgerald, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina and our day job is developing and providing solutions to address severe cases of malnutrition in children. At the MANA village we make MANA (Mother Administered Nutritive Aid), a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) made of a fortified peanut paste that has been carefully formulated to provide a child’s basic nutritional needs. Roughly three servings of MANA a day for six weeks can save the life of child suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). We are organizationally structured as a non-profit, but we run our company according to the same tried and true best-practice business principles that are the hallmark of great companies around the globe. We not only make a special fortified peanut butter, we also seek to spread awareness of SAM and the 20 million children it affects every year. Today, MANA Nutrition can produce as much as 120,000lbs of MANA per day — enough to feed 4500 children suffering from SAM over six weeks — and our partners distribute it to places like Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala. Much of our product ends up in a village setting, treating the world’s most fragile kids, most often by empowering their moms with simple healthy ready to eat food. From our village to theirs, we are proud partners with the brave and committed mothers of the world. They are incredible and we are thrilled to put such a useful product in their loving hands. Show less


Heartbeat, Inc.
• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Board Member

  • 2023 - Present


Active For Good

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Apr 2014 - 2023

  Active For Good, previously known as Calorie Cloud, provides solutions that connect getting active with helping severely malnourished children. Our goal is to inspire people to get active for good while helping severely malnourished kids. The approach, through sponsorship, is to convert burned calories into lifesaving nutrition for children in the developing world who need it most. We are currently focused in two areas: Workplace Activity Challenges and the UNICEF Kid Power Program. It’s time to get active for good! Active For Good was started by the founders of MANA Nutrition, a non-profit organization that manufactures RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food) to prevent childhood deaths caused by severe acute malnutrition. In 2009, MANA raised $13 Million to open a factory in Georgia. Today, MANA ships over 500,000 packets of RUTF per day to save lives through partners like UNICEF, USAID, Save the Children, World Vision, and Doctors without Borders. Show less



Paul Quinn College

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • 2020 - 2020

  Paul Quinn College, one of the most innovative small colleges in America, is a private, faith-based, four-year, liberal arts-inspired college that was founded on April 4, 1872 by a group of African Methodist Episcopal Church preachers in Austin, Texas. The school’s original purpose was to educate freed slaves and their offspring. Today, Paul Quinn has become a model for urban higher education by focusing on academic rigor, experiential learning, and entrepreneurship. The College proudly educates students of all races and socio-economic classes under the banner of its institutional ethos, WE over Me. Its mission is to provide a quality, faith-based education that addresses the academic, social, and Christian development of its students. The College’s president, Michael Sorrell, was recently named one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders in 2018 and the Male President of the Year by HBCU Digest for the third time. Beginning in the Fall of 2015, Paul Quinn College adopted a new student financial structure called the “New Urban College Model” which, among other characteristics, reduced student tuition and fees and provides students with the ability to graduate with less than $10,000 of student loan debt. The centerpiece of the New Urban College Model is Paul Quinn’s decision to become the country’s only urban Work College. There are currently eight work colleges in the nation. Paul Quinn is the ninth federally funded work college in the United States, the first Minority Serving Institution (“MSI”) in the Work College Consortium, and the first work college in Texas. The vision of the Paul Quinn College Work Program is to transform ability into action and potential into achievement by encouraging all students to embrace the ideals of disciplined work, servant leadership, and initiative in preparation for lives of financial freedom, community engagement, and outstanding character. Show less



Youth Villages

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • 2007 - 2010

  Youth Villages is a national leader in children’s mental and behavioral health committed to building strong families, delivering effective services and significantly improving outcomes for child welfare systems across the country. Founded in 1986, the organization’s 3,000-plus employees help more than 30,000 children annually in 20 states across the U.S. The organization has been recognized by the Harvard Business School and U.S. News & World Report and was identified by The White House as one of the nation’s most promising results-oriented nonprofit organizations. Show less