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Worlds Touch has a diverse and accomplished board of directors of which we are rightly proud.
Scott, our grassroots, community man, is retired from the State of Texas after twenty five years service in Child Protective Services as a social worker. He also worked ten years as a labor organizer, business agent and manager with various needle trades and public sector unions. He has also been involved in grassroots community organizing and politics.
David has over 20 years of professional experience directing nonprofit organizations. His major accomplishments include nationally recognized program development. He has expanded and diversified public and private funding sources at The Hemlock Society, Parents at Teachers National Center, NC Partnership for Children, and Chicago-based Child Abuse Prevention Services.
Since his degree in Business Administration from Tribhuwan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, Nar has worked in the hotel industry as front desk clerk and supervisor. He speaks French and Japanese, as well as English and Nepali. He's at the Radisson in High Point, NC, after having won the US Green Card Immigration Lottery. Nar is studying to become a certified public accountant.
Jenny is Associate Director of HandMade in America, where she is working to diversify HandMade’s contributed and earned income. Prior to HandMade, Jenny was the Executive Director of Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art for 13 years, where she managed a budget of $750,000, a full-time staff of six and a part-time staff of nine. Jenny was responsible for fundraising, grants management, cultivation of corporate and individual donors and strategic direction of the organization.
Scott, an Ohio native, received his M. D. from The Ohio State University in 1979. Until his retirement in 2005, he was a neurologist and interventional pain medicine specialist in High Point, North Carolina. He now practices internal medicine and neurology as a volunteer physician at the Community Clinic of High Point. Scott has had a lifelong commitment to community service. Nimi Laroche As
controller at Ipas, a women's reproductive health organization in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Nimi is responsible for the organization’s
financial management, development, monitoring and implementation
of organization’s and donor’s budgets. She provides
leadership and creativity in planning of finance objectives, assesses
opportunities, develops strategies and projects and collaborates
from other team members, Ipas technical unites, regional and country
colleagues. Staff
After 20 years as a writer, teacher and mother, Travelertrish returned to university in 2001 in Computer Information Systems, concentrating on database theory, design and construction, web site construction, and programming. She began working for nonprofits while still in school, assessing technology needs, creating databases and web sites. After founding Worlds Touch, she has developed and executed projects in New Caledonia, Cambodia, Nepal and India.
Gilda has a broad range of academic as well as nonprofit, for-profit and government work experience in the international (Asian) and US development fields. She's worked for CARE, multi-million-dollar projects funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank. In the US, Gilda had increasingly responsible positions with nonprofit, social development agencies managing grant-funded projects. Two of our great Volunteers
Raf created the Worlds Touch logo and designed our web site and office documents. He has a BA in Fine Arts from High Point University and is working on a portfolio in computer animation and graphic arts.
James Windle, technology consultant and testing. James
is a business analyst with an IT background and some experience
of developing Microsoft Access based applications for charities.
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