Our Founder

Daleela Farina has worked with charitable organizations such as New York Cares, Lions Club, Project Migration, Hands On Disaster Response, Faces of Kibera and Victory Church and decided to create her own after many trips to Africa and Asia.

While witnessing the immense poverty and underdeveloped economic conditions in Kenya firsthand, she was inspired to develop a network of professionals eager to effect change. After studying finance at Stony Brook University in New York, Daleela intends to focus on micro financing and building long term business strategies with Kenyan entrepreneurs. "We will help them every step of the way, through advising, product development, distribution, exposure and management." She then spent the month of January 2010 in Kenya at Hekima Place orphanage teaching Kenyan orphans and overseeing Care For Kenya's first project, 'Nolcha Cares' which successfully debuted at New York Fashion Week 2010.

Daleela is a writer for AOL Finance, interviewing financiers and covering conferences such as the World Business Forum, Web 2.0, Traders Expo, and the Hedge Fund Summit to name a few. In her spare time Daleela enjoys learning languages, volunteering and traveling.

Kenyan Ambassador

Mr. Jalang'o joined the diplomatic service in 1993 as Ambassador of Kenya to Zambia, Malawi and Botswana for four years, then proceeded to serve as Ambassador to Italy, Greece, Poland and the UN Agencies in Rome before being posted to the United Nations in December 2000 as Permanent Representative of Kenya till the end of his tour of duty in 2004.

Prior to joining diplomatic service, Mr. Jalang'o was elected to Kenya's Legislature and represented a rural constituency in western Kenya on the shores of the beautiful Lake Victoria from 1988-1993. Ambassador Jalang’o was initially trained in information technology and worked in the private sector in East Africa for 14 years as IT Manager for American based Petroleum Company providing marketing and other services to six Eastern and Central African countries. This was the beginning of his travels within Africa and internationally.

In his spare time, Ambassador Jalang'o has been actively involved in volunteer work (Board member American Red Cross, Advisory member of Reach the Children Inc., Family mediator, etc) including supporting an Orphanage in Kenya for children from HIV/AIDS families. He has recently been working with Care for Kenya to extend to Western Kenya with micro financing to enable Kenya’s underprivileged and rural women achieve a degree of empowerment as they work on income generating projects. He also sends international Volunteers to work in rural parts of Western Kenya.

Miss Africa

Angela Wairimu Maina was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. She is aan undergraduate student pursuing a Nursing Degree at Orange County Community College in New York. As the reigning Miss Africa New York 2011/12, she is a State Ambassador of the Talanta African Awards. Talanta Development Inc. is an organization that recognizes, promotes and celebrates Gospel Talent not only in Kenya but in Africa and the rest of the world.

Angela is also a Secretary of Baraka International Youth Alliance (BIYA), which is an organization that brings together Christian young adults in the United States of America with the common objectives of networking, inspiring and serving. Education is one of her passions as she grew up in a family with many teacher and knows that education is the best gift that a parent/guardian can give to a child.

Education in Kenya is a luxury, as many families live below the poverty line and are unable to provide food for their families, let alone education. There are so many students who desire and are capable of doing great in school. Unfortunately the funds are not available. These students are the future leaders of tomorrow and if they are not sponsored, not only do they, their families and country suffer, but so does the world at large.

Communications Director

David Nitti was born in Siena, Italy, and raised in New Jersey. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Classics from Drew University, he joined the Peace Corps and spent fifteen months as a volunteer in Kenya, designing and operating programs through a local NGO to raise awareness of public health issues such as HIV, and helping to build a self-sustaining pharmacy in his village of Masimba.

Upon returning to New York, David began his graduate work at New York University, where he is currently completing a master's in Global Affairs, with a focus on International Refugee Law.

An avid reader and lover of languages, David currently lives in New Jersey, where he works as an editor in educational publishing company, Pearson Education.

Communications Intern

Maria is grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and has been living in the fashion capital of the world, New York City for the past two years. Currently, she is studying Sociology with a minor in Political Science at Arizona State and plans to pursue a Masters in International Relations. In New York City, Maria interned in fashion and public relations at Allure Maganzine, but realized that alone this career paths would not fulfill her. After studying modern social problems and world politics, Maria became interested in work that would impact the world on a deeper level. Learning about Care For Kenya at a Fashion Event in February 2011 sparked Maria's interest, as she loved the idea of utilizing the multi-billion dollar Fashion industry to provide aid, sustainable income, and education to underdeveloped countries. Maria is now a full time intern on the Care for Kenya team, representing us at fashion shows and events in the New York area.

Development Director

We were so fortunate this year to have Alexa Chase Caesar, from New York City, join us on our mission to Kenya this January 2011! After graduating from Western Reserve Academy, Alexa moved to Rome where she studied International Relations at The American University of Rome for the past four years. She focused on nation building and governance in places such as Montenegro, Brussels, Kosovo, Geneva, Accra, the Basque Region and Vienna. She was involved in organizing a fundraising campaign for the UNHCR Buduborum Liberian Refugee Camp while in Ghana, which deepened her interests in humanitarian aid and crisis management. She is currently interning in the Technical Cooperation and Emergencies Rehabilitation Unit within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and will now be applying her expertise in the slums of Kibera with Care for Kenya.

Our Board of Directors

	Jennifer Johnson, CEO of Hashtag Media, works with brands, startups, celebrities, advertising and charities launch and optimize their Twitter presence. She developed and sold the first internet dating community, LavaLife. She is a first round investor in Twitter. She was a first round investor in Postini, acquired by Google for $600m. She was a co-founder of LesConcierges, the largest provider of assistance-based loyalty solutions. She created green retailer EthicL. She launched and ran the business development group of Live365 streaming radio. Prior to the internet, Jennifer was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and UBS in structured finance for Fortune 50 corporations. She has a Columbia Business School MBA and a BS from The Wharton School, University of Penn. Jennifer also helps early-stage internet companies via PitchCapital. Her companies have raised over $50 million in investment capital.

	Elizabeth Ziemba is the President of the non-profit organization, SHARED, dedicated to improving the health of people living in poverty through increased accessed to medicines and medical care. She is also a Senior Associate with Stackpole & Associates, a marketing, market research and organizational development consulting company. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College, a law degree from Suffolk University Law School and a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University. Her book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Giving Back was recently published by Penguin Books.

	Ariane Sommer is a published author, columnist and European TV personality. Her latest books include a guide on etiquette and style Die Benimm Bibel aka "The Bible of Behavior" and Foreign Affairs, a collection of 34 short stories. Additionally, Ariane has published short stories in German VOGUE and BLANK magazine. Ariane has been a featured as both a regular and guest columnist for European periodicals such as InStyle, max, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, MODE, Celebrity and BILD. Presently she is writing a column for the British/Chinese publication China Ethos. At the young age of merely eight weeks the self-proclaimed "child of the world" moved from Bonn, Germany to Sierra Leone, Africa, beginning the first of her many global adventures due to her father's position as a German Ambassador. His representation abroad allowed her to experience living in Africa, India, Spain, United States, France, United Kingdom and, of course, Germany. Ariane benefited from this international exposure by learning to both appreciate and respect the differences these varying cultures portrayed and was instilled with a deep sense of awareness and responsibility towards the human family. One of her greatest concerns is tolerance and acceptance, as demonstrated by the following mantra of her work: “We don’t have to be alike to get a long.”

	Neal Berger has been a Global Macro trader for more than 15 years and has been in the hedge fund business for more than 14 years. Neal is also the Founder and Director of Eagle’s View Fund, Ltd. a Fund of Funds and Advisory business investing in ‘niche-oriented’ hedge funds. Neal is also the President of MQS Asset Management, LLC a quantitative global macro hedge fund. Prior to founding Eagle’s View and MQS, Neal was the Founder and Director of multi-strategy Fund, Apogee Fund, Ltd. and New Edge, Ltd. collectively managing more than $150 Million. Neal had previously been employed as a Global Macro trader at $10 Billion New York-based Millennium Partners. Neal has allocated capital to hedge funds on behalf of a wealthy family and has also been employed as a Vice President of Proprietary Trading with Chase Manhattan Bank and Fuji Bank in New York. Neal started his career as a Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley.

	Michael Covel passionately teaches the lessons of the great traders who have made their fortunes over the last four decades. His subject of choice is an obscure trading style called “trend following trading” that has produced untold millionaires and a few billionaires. It is a style of trading ignored by the mainstream press, all universities and much of Wall Street. Michael is now considered the point person on trend following trading. In 1996 Michael co-launched a website titled TurtleTrader.com® Following on the success of TurtleTrader®, Michael published his first book Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets. Michael’s second book The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results is different. It is the definitive behind the scenes look at a real life trading legend. Following his two books Michael directed his debut documentary film Broke. It premiered on ‘The Documentary Channel’ in October 2009. It explores human behavior (read: behavioral finance) during the 2007-2009 market crash.

	Danielle Park is a Chartered Financial Analyst, portfolio manager, attorney, published finance author, columnist, keynote speaker and North American television personality. She is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as a litigator until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an international securities firm. In 2003 she co-founded Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc. www.venablepark.com, an independent money management company of which she is President. In recent years Danielle has been writing, speaking and educating industry professionals as well as investors on the risks and realities of investment behaviors. Over the past 20 years Danielle has served on several not-for-profit boards and committees including Student Legal Aid, The Elizabeth Fry Society, Rotary and several community arts organizations. A member of the internationally recognized CFA Institute and the Law Society of Upper Canada, Danielle is an avid health and fitness buff as well as a passionate and insightful speaker on money management, wisdom and the art of work/life balance.

	James Altucher is the managing director of Formula Capital, an asset management firm and fund of hedge funds. He's written four books on investing: Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett, SuperCash, and The Forever Portfolio and is currently at work on a fifth, tentatively titled, 25 Ways the World Could Be Destroyed And How to Profit from It. He currently writes for The Wall Street Journal and AOL Finance. Mr. Altucher is the founder of Stockpickr.com, a social network for finance that had millions of unique visitors per month when it was sold to TheStreet.com in 2007. He has written over 200 columns for The Financial Times and has written for TheStreet.com, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Fidelity.com, and other publications. He was also the founder of a web services firm, Reset Inc, which he sold in 1998, at which time he became a partner at VC firm, 212 Ventures/Investcorp. Mr. Altucher regularly appears on CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, and CNN Radio, and is also in his spare time a nationally ranked chess master. He received his BA at Cornell University and attended graduate school for computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

	Gregg Morton currently works for Citigroup Global Capital Markets division in New York City as an analyst. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with both a BBA in finance and a BS in economics. In addition to his work at Citigroup, Gregg serves as the director of brand management for the newly launched financial products rating website, Investimonials.com. To further his career, Gregg began pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and will be sitting for Level I. While an undergraduate, Gregg worked for Western & Southern Financial Group providing financial services for the Lexington, Kentucky area.

Attorney

Dan Halper, an expert in business law both real property and intellectual property has worked for famous companies such as Viacom, Vornado, K-mart, Aeropostale and Mark Ecko Brands and some of the most famous law firms such as Skadden Arps, Proskauer Rose and Sullivan and Cromwell. Dan was one of the founders of Cyberpax, a software company that developed the world's most advanced vector tracing software in the mid 1990's. In 1999 he illustrated and published a compendium of his poems the Language Pasta of a Yiddish Rasta. While attending Brooklyn Law School, in 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, he helped organize community groups around Ground Zero to demand an effective clean up policy. He takes care of six disabled people for the New York State Supreme Court. His passion is the relationship between shape geometry and the human computer interface.

Controller

Emily is a recent MBA graduate from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management. Before making a complete career change she was a professional dancer and worked for the Metropolitan Opera. Emily loves to take the opportunity to travel whenever possible. She has visited over 60 countries on 6 continents and lived in 4 different countries. Immersing herself in different cultures and traditions is a passion that rounds her charitable drive. While laying the foundation for a house in Pigeon, Haiti with Habitat for Humanity, first by digging into the ground with pickaxes and then laying the foundation stones into the ground from a nearby mountain, she strengthened her resolve to help others whenever possible. She is excited be involved with Care for Kenya, a charity she has known since its inception.

Videographer

David Bates, Jr. (aka davidjr.com) is a director, videographer and editor. He is the recipient of Interview Magazine's Web Superstar Award for "Making People Talk", and has been featured in press including USA Today, Ad Age, TV Week. He has created online campaigns for brands including K*Swiss, Starburst Candy, Puma, MSN, Gen Art, Acura and others. His popular, high visibility site, davidjr.com, includes feature and short documentaries, entertainment, fashion, arts, interviews and events, shot in his improvisational style.

David is Co-producer of Streaming Museum, a new hybrid museum that presents multi-media exhibitions in cyberspace and public space on seven continents, and live programs at partnering international cultural centers. The museum symbolizes society’s global interconnectedness, creates opportunities for integration of artistic and cultural understanding worldwide, allowing a greater demographic exposure to the arts.

http://streamingmuseum.org

Webmaster

Angela Karinn is a designer and illustrator who runs a one woman design studio from the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. A design graduate of Emily Carr University with a passion for online communication, she is self-taught in the ways of the web. After 4+ years of providing a mix of creative, yet practical solutions for a long list of clients, she threw her heart into redesigning Cargoh.com, a creative Canada-based startup that has garnered international attention, making sales across the globe for independent artists.

Other experience includes working on large eCommerce sites (Bootlegger, Bestbuy) and independent illustration projects. Her interests include social activism, graphic novels, biking, film, art, and anything music. Feel free to contact her for projects in this area.

angelakarinn.com

Intern

Brendon Chan is currently an undergraduate at Fordham University and is pursuing a dual concentration in business economics and finance at the Gabelli School of Business. He has been a dedicated intern, working with Care for Kenya since its founding. Brendon wears many hats, whether it is managing our events, advertising, media or communication while the team is in the field in Kenya. He is committed to solving the issues of underprivileged members of Kenya's society and impacting people in need through his undying determination and commitment to our cause. Besides his philanthropic efforts, Brendon is a contributor to numerous financial websites, sharing his knowledge about the stock market.