The CORE Group Office
1100 G St., NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
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Karen LeBan has served as the Executive Director of CORE Group since 2002. She is responsible to create a forum that nurtures collaboration among CORE members and partners ensuring that the members’ ownership of CORE Group is maintained. She provides strategic and operational leadership and overall management of the CORE Group to achieve its mission, strategy, annual goals and objectives. Karen has worked in Bolivia, Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka and Thailand and has provided short-term technical and management support to community programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean through various positions with the USG and NGOs over the past 25 years. Karen holds Master’s degrees from American University/National Training Laboratories and Southern Illinois University. |
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Ann Hendrix-Jenkins |
Ann Hendrix-Jenkins is the Director of Partnership Development at CORE Group. She works to foster substantive connections among CORE Group staff, our Working Groups, Members, Associates and the many participants in the Community Health Network. She also helps develop new partnerships and initiatives that advance technical areas of focus as identified by our Working Groups and others. Ann has an MA in International Development from American University, and an ongoing interest in communications, dating back to her English Literature and Art studies as an undergraduate. She lives in Takoma Park, Md. with her wonderful husband and three children, and squeezes in ice hockey games whenever possible. |
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Shannon Downey |
Shannon Downey is the Community Health Program Manager with CORE Group and she manages the collaborative activities under the USAID's flagship Maternal Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) and related CORE Group community-focused MNCH programs and Working Group activities. She has over ten years of public health management, education, research, and clinical experience including direct community health program implementation in Africa and other resource poor settings. Shannon holds an MPH in International Health and Development from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine through the Master's International Program and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, served as an AmeriCorps/VISTA volunteer, and has worked with Planned Parenthood, Mount Auburn Hospital, Institute for Aging Research-Hebrew SeniorLife, and the Oregon Health & Science University. |
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Pinky Patel |
Pinky Patel is the Communications Manager at CORE Group. She's responsible for promoting CORE Group's work through the website, publications, newsletters, videos and social media. Pinky also serves as the point of contact staffer for the HIV/AIDS working group. Pinky earned her MPH with a focus on social marketing, human rights, and maternal and child health at Johns Hopkins University. She is passionate about social justice, community health and empowerment of women and children. She has worked in South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Lesotho, and India. She enjoys traveling and documenting project and success stories via film and photography. Piny also enjoys running, learning new languages, and exploring new places. |
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Natalie Neumann |
Natalie Neumann is Communications Associate at CORE Group. She works to enhance to communication of both CORE Group and the FSN Network and is working to help develop the new FSN Network website. She studied broadcast journalism and political science at the University of Montana in Missoula. She has worked for public radio stations in Washington, D.C. and Montana and has produced work for CBS and PBS affiliates. However, Natalie’s true passion is public health and has worked and volunteered in the field since middle school. She has worked at a county health department, as a certified nurse’s assistant and as tobacco prevention specialist. She has educated students on issues like reproductive health, nutrition and stress in high school and college. Eventually, she plans on pursuing a Master’s in Public Health. She’s particularly interested in nutrition, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She loves traveling and would like to serve in the Peace Corps. |
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Alyssa Christenson |
Alyssa Christenson is the Office Manager & Executive Assistant at CORE Group. She supports the overall function of the office and day-to-day needs of staff, which includes ordering supplies, listserv management, logistical support and management of events, and webinar facilitation and training. Alyssa completed her BA in International Studies with a focus in International Development at American University, with the hope of one day pursuing work in humanitarian aid. As a Washington state native, she enjoys reading, jazz, poetry, and perusing the art museums around D.C. |
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Rebecca Nerima |
Rebecca Nerima is an Atlas Corps Fellow from Uganda serving with CORE Group for one year (March 2011 – March 2012) as the Community Health Program Associate. Becky has more than seven years experience working with nonprofit organizations. Before joining CORE Group she worked with African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) as a HIV/AIDS and SRH Project Officer in Uganda where she trained local communities and worked with youth, women, and sex workers to pioneer a community advocacy group for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Becky has also worked with GOAL as Program Assistant, training youth in reproductive health, and educating communities on child sexual abuse, and has volunteered with UNICEF/Rural Voices of Youth (as National Focal Person) where she trained youth in leadership skills and sexual health rights. Becky holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, along with professional certificates in HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health Rights, and Child Sexual Abuse. |
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