DP Team Members Archive - Tiba

Kaila Ciel Diep

tibafoundation — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:49:55 +0000

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Magen Krage

tibafoundation — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:16:15 +0000

Magen Krage is a Wisconsin native now based in San Francisco, with a Master’s in International Development from American University and a career focused on women’s health and community-led initiatives. She began her work in Kenya with Mama Maji, supporting water access and entrepreneurship programs led by women, an experience that shaped her commitment to equity and local leadership. Since then, she has worked across East Africa and the U.S. in roles spanning fundraising, grantmaking, and program support — from donor engagement at The Asia Foundation to advancing reproductive health access through the Bergstrom Foundation.

She now channels that same focus on care and access into entrepreneurship as co-owner of Bar Belafonte, a mobile espresso bar that appears at markets and neighborhood events across San Francisco. Magen views hospitality as another form of justice — creating spaces where everyone can experience warmth, connection, and a little joy. Outside of work, she enjoys yoga, tennis, gardening, cooking, and getting lost in historical fiction.

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Nancy Akeyo

tibafoundation — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:35:04 +0000

A visionary leader with over 14 years of experience advancing health equity and gender equality across Kenya, Nancy Akeyo brings a deep commitment to improving the lives of women and girls through strategic programming, data-driven solutions, and cross-sector partnerships. As Boda Girls Project Manager, Nancy leads the expansion of the program across counties, ensuring that more women have access to safe transportation, mentorship, and reproductive health education. Her expertise in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) has been honed through leadership roles at Shujaaz Inc., We World Kenya Foundation, and a range of national and international consortiums.

Nancy is a published author of a menstrual health guide for girls and a certified MHM (Menstrual Hygiene Management) educator through Columbia University. She has trained thousands of health workers, developed adolescent health curricula, and led programs that have reached over 170,000 girls. Whether building community-based monitoring systems or championing grassroots solutions for maternal health, Nancy is driven by a deep belief in the power of dignity, access, and opportunity for all. She holds a Bachelor’s in Project Planning and Management and an MBA in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi.

When she’s not in the field or crafting proposals, Nancy enjoys writing, mentoring young professionals, and spending time with her family in Nairobi.

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Susan Jacobson, MD

tibafoundation — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:48:57 +0000

Susan, an infectious disease physician, joined the Tiba Board in late 2024, having volunteered at Matibabu numerous times over 20 years. Her undergraduate degree was from the University of California, Berkeley. She trained in medicine at Stanford University and moved to Boston for internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship, including tuberculosis research. A brief exposure to AIDS in Zimbabwe, Africa in 1989 opened her eyes to global challenges as she returned to northern California for a clinical ID practice in Berkeley. In 2002 she became the ID physician in Kaiser Fremont, as that hospital opened. Effective therapy for HIV became the norm. Managing the Covid pandemic into 2021 reminded her of the early days AIDS. During her time at Kaiser, she was able to return to Africa on brief trips with Tiba to the Matibabu clinic, later hospital, in Ukwala, in rural western Kenya.
She recalls on her first trip to Kenya in 2005, only 1 person came to a clinic with medication for HIV, despite widespread HIV/AIDS in the country. Nearly 20 years later she observed a dedicated government (and PEPFAR) funded nurse provide cutting edge antivirals for nearly 1000 people living with HIV in the Ukwala community at Matibabu, transforming their lives. As Matibabu health care services evolve, she hopes to aid in the transformation of the diagnosis and treatment of other important community conditions.

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Ram Ramachandra, MD

emergestudiosco — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:46:15 +0000

Srinivas “Ram” Ramachandra was born in Bangalore, India. He joined the Department of Surgery at Kaiser Permanente’s Hayward Medical Center in 1982, and became Chief of Surgery in 1987. He is now in private practice in Danville, CA. Ram is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and has a special interest in minimally invasive surgery. He has a long history of volunteerism, and is Tiba’s most active volunteer surgeon in Kenya, having performed many, many surgeries at the Siaya District Hospital. Ram also coordinates the surgical teams we send to Africa. In addition to English, he speaks Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil (with a sprinkling of Dholuo).

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Michael Mellenthin, MD

emergestudiosco — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:09:31 +0000

Michael joined Tiba’s board after serving as a volunteer anesthesiologist on several surgical team trips to Matibabu Hospital. Back home Michael is an anesthesiologist in pediatric dental offices and surgery centers. He started his practice in 1989, having completed his medical degree at the UCLA School of Medicine and his anesthesia residency at the Stanford School of Medicine. In 1999, he completed a business degree at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. With over 30 years of hospital-based experience, he has served in several medical director and department chair positions. Michael has a passion for global health initiatives, having served in multiple surgical camps throughout the world. He has a special fondness for Matibabu as they endeavor to become a high-quality, self-sufficient resource for the health needs of rural Kenya.

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Paul Oseso

emergestudiosco — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:04:06 +0000

Paul, born and educated in Kenya, is a hotel consultant now living in Napa, California. He graduated from Kenya Utalii College a Swiss Hotel and Tourism School. His career as a hotelier took him from Nairobi to Cairo, London, and Birmingham, England. Paul moved with his family to the United States in 2001, where he has managed and owned hotels. He is the General Manager of Aegis Living in Napa, a leading company in the Senior Living industry. He is the founder and principal at Pacific International Hotel Consultants and partner at Travel Square One LLC. He is a long-time Rotary Club member whose knowledge of Kenyan politics, economics, and culture are a constant source of strength for the Tiba Board of Directors.

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Norma Bozzini, MD

emergestudiosco — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:08:00 +0000

Norma began her medical practice as an internist in Atlanta, Georgia in 1978. She joined Kaiser Permanente in Hayward, California in 1983. In 1996 Norma began practicing full time in South San Francisco as a geriatrician, and served as the sole physician to a new Department of Continuing Care. Norma also served as Chief of the Department of Home Health. In 2004, Norma retired and made her first volunteer trip to Africa, after which she helped to found both Tiba Foundation in the US, and Matibabu Foundation in Kenya.

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Rose Wahome

emergestudiosco — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:02:29 +0000

Rose has worked in corporate treasury for over fifteen years domestic and internationally within professional services at both public and private companies.

At URS Corporation she led a range of acquisition integration projects after several M&A’s and risk management initiatives, including implementing a cash pooling banking structure in Europe and drafting the first company investment policy during the financial crisis of 2008.

While at Morrison and Foerster LLP Rose worked collaboratively creating a receivables FX hedging program to hedge exposures in Asia. She was also involved with renewal of the firm’s credit facility.

An entrepreneurial venture then took her back to her country-of-origin Kenya, where she in partnership successfully established and operated a fine dining restaurant and accommodations in Nairobi. During this time Rose managed a team and the administrative side of the business including licensing, insurance, marketing, accounting, and tax.
Upon returning to the A&E industry, she joined the liquidity group at AECOM where she focused on improving cash forecasting and cash collections by way of a factoring program. She also oversaw share repurchase, debt and investment transactions.

Rose is currently Director of Treasury at Gensler based in the SF Bay Area.
Rose holds a Bachelor of Business Economics from Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada.

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Gail Wagner, MD

emergestudiosco — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:21:28 +0000

Gail Wagner met young community organizer Daniel Ogola in Nairobi’s Kibera slum in 2003. The two discussed an audacious idea for a comprehensive community health care system in Dan’s impoverished rural home near Lake Victoria. They began with a trip of North American-based medical volunteers in 2004. In 2022, Tiba Foundation helps support outpatient clinics and a hospital that we built. It is a phenomenally successful community health worker program in the villages that is changing not only the lives of patients, but also the productivity of a community. Gail retired from her position as an oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in 2016. She describes the work she does in rural Kenya as “the most important thing I will ever do in my life.”

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