Pauliane do Couto e Silva – Program Assistant, Population
Before joining the Foundation, Pauliane worked at the Stanford Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform at Stanford University and at SAPMarkets in Palo Alto. She lived in Switzerland for several years and worked for the United Nations in Geneva. Pauliane holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Chuck Ferreira – Help Desk/Desktop Support Technician, Information Technology Services
Chuck joins the Foundation from, most recently, Epiphany/Infor, where he spent the past seven years in increasingly responsible end-user support roles, most recently as a Senior IT Field Support Engineer.

Ward Heneveld – Program Officer, Global Development
Ward has an Ed.D. in educational planning from Harvard University and has lived and taught in Africa and Southeast Asia. He comes to the Foundation from Vermont, where he had been a private consultant since retiring from the World Bank in 2001. His work since then has been on a broad range of educational issues, from helping to design a distance-learning program for teachers in rural Romania, to chairing a World Bank review of its assistance to education in Nigeria. For most of the 1990s, Heneveld worked in sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, and India as an education specialist at the World Bank. Earlier in his career, he worked as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and a teacher trainer in Vermont; as head of the School for International Training, in Brattleboro, Vermont; and as director of education programs at the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, among many other positions. He is a graduate of Pomona College with a B.A. in history and received a diploma in education from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda.

Amy Kaminski – Assistant Director of Real Estate and Natural Resources, Investment
Amy comes to the Foundation from Shoreline Investment Management, Hewlett-Packard's investment arm, where she worked as an investment analyst focused primarily on private assets. She received her B.A. in mathematical economics from Colgate University and her M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2006. While at Tuck, she interned at the Dartmouth College Endowment Office, helping to build its asset allocation model. Before business school, Amy spent four years at Putnam Investments, completing credit research on commercial mortgage- and asset-backed securities.

Jessica Lutzker – Administrative Assistant, Investment
Jessica joins the Foundation as a member of the Investment team after spending three summers as a student hire working with Facilities and the President’s Office. She grew up in a small town in the foothills near Lake Tahoe, where her family currently lives on over forty acres. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2004 with B.A. in history and a minor concentration in music, and will be receiving her M.A. in American history from Claremont Graduate University in January.

Maxine Rivers – Program Assistant, Global Development (Washington, D.C.)
Maxine joins the Foundation with over fifteen years of nonprofit, education, and arts experience, including work at the National Catholic Educational Association, where she was assistant to the president; and four years as a member of the board of directors of the Washington, D.C .Youth Orchestra Program. While at the orchestra program, she established its development office and launched its “Bright Future” marketing campaign and companion annual scholarship fund for economically disadvantaged students. She is transitioning from her role of the past two months as a temporary program assistant at the Washington, D.C., office.