US Staff

Sean Hewens

Sean is the founder and Executive Director of Smallbean and a member of the Smallbean Board of Directors. A former corporate lawyer type, Sean is also a graphic designer, amateur electronics enthusiast, and the all around Smallbean handyperson.

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Heather Pierce

Heather has her MBA from Boston University and helps Smallbean keep our feet firmly planted on the ground with questions like, "Wait, how much is that solar panel going to cost?". Heather is the Chief Financial Officer at Smallbean and a member of the Board of Directors.

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Tatiana Bogina

Tatiana is Smallbean's Chief Marketing Officer. Tatiana is an MBA student at Yale and will be working this summer to make Smallbean a household name from Boston to Bogota.

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Noah Cornwell

Noah is a professional computer coder in his day job. Because he's crazy like a fox, he thinks it's fun to do volunteer coding projects in the evenings as well. Noah is helping Smallbean refine and improve our PhotoTagging software.  

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Jim Hamski

Jim specializes in water conservation and other alternative energy issues. He uses his melon on Smallbean's behalf as our Chief Strategist.

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Anna Norcross

Anna is helping Smallbean with grant research and writing. Doing great things requires the resources to do them and that's exactly where Anna comes in!

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Tristan Snell

Tristan is Smallbean's Chief Technology Officer. In addition to being an IP attorney and a writer, he finds time to serve as Smallbean's designated "dude that understands how stuff works."

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The Smallbean Board of Directors

Peter Turk

Peter is an attorney at the law firm of WilmerHale in Boston. He's also the very capable head of Smallbean's Board of Directors. Peter has extensive experience in the nonprofit arena and was a pretty good bowler in law school.

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Sean Hewens

You've met Sean before (see above).

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Tom Kim

Tom is currently a dual degree candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School. At the end of the 2010-2011 academic year, Tom will be rejoining Bain & Company to resume his consulting career. In addition to being a top flight businessman, Tom owns a one-eyed cat named Cookie which is actually how he was introduced to Smallbean many years ago. 

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Jesse Leff

Jesse works as an attorney for the United Nations in Tanzania. He speaks French like a Frenchman and surfs when he can.

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Heather Pierce

You've met Heather before as well (see above).

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Pro Bono Legal Counsel

John Barrie

John is a partner in the Tax department at the law firm of Bryan Cave in NYC.

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Smallbean Summer Interns

Amy Hufnagle

Amy is just a few months away from receiving a graphic design degree from New England Institute of Art. Amy is the Smallbean graphic design intern for the summer and is helping us brand our summer fundraising event, create our "How to Be a Citizen Archivist Guide", and assisting the Smallbean Marketing department in our quest to make Smallbean a household name from Boston to Bogota.

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Sadye Sagov

Sadye just finished her freshman year at Brandeis University. She is helping out Smallbean in all sorts of ways this summer, including corporate and university relations, fundraising, and helping plan and execute to perfection the Smallbean MobileCAP trip to Kenya this July.

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Kamilah Welch

Kamilah is a Peace & Justice Studies major at Wellesley College and just completed her sophomore year. Kamilah is helping Smallbean in too many ways to count this summer, including mastering the complicated world of public relations, fundraising for our summer event, and making sure that the Smallbean MobileCAP expedition to Kenya this summer is a smashing success.

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Alice Tang

Alice will be starting her sophomore year at Wellesley College in the fall. Alice is helping Smallbean with lots of important tasks this summer and gaining a first hand perspective on what it's like to run a small but scrappy nonprofit organization in 2010. 

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Tanzania Staff

Omari Mshana

Omari is the Smallbean on-site technology expert in Tanzania. He has an electrical engineering degree and can disassemble and reassemble a solar suitcase in 37 seconds flat. Omari is also fluent in four languages and helped Smallbean conduct oral history interviews in Kwala.

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