The Smallbean Team

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.

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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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Mary Beth Mills-Curran

Mary Beth is Smallbean's Chief Development Officer. Mary Beth is an MIT graduate student and an expert at shaking trees near and far in support of Smallbean and our Citizen Archivist Project.

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Cris Barbero

Cris is the brains behind the website. He's a Denver Broncos fan and functions on Mountain time.

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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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Mara Eyllon

Mara is our Digital Archive guru. She's helping us populate the Digital Archive with all of the photos, movies and oral history interviews that the Citizen Archivist Project has captured around the world.

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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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Adrienne Henry

Adrienne is a senior at Tufts University and is helping Smallbean design and teach our Citizen Archivist Project curriculum in Brighton."

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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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Libby Safford

Libby is a fabulously talented graphic designer and the brains behind our MobileCAP campaign.

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Kristy Thomley

Kristy is the Smallbean PR queen. You haven't heard about the Citizen Archivist Project yet? Blame it on Kristy.

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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.

Contact Kamilah by e-mail

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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Lillian Chikoko

Lillian is the Smallbean Project Archivist in Kwala. Lillian coordinates the Smallbean programming in the technology lab and is working with students from the school to conduct the Citizen Archivist Project in the village.

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The Smallbean Board of Directors

Sean Hewens

You've met Sean before (see above).

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Peter Turk

Peter is an attorney at the law firm of WilmerHale in Boston. Peter has extensive experience in the not for profit arena and was a pretty good bowler in law school.

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Rich Pan

Rich has spent close to ten years in the venture capital field. He can take you on a killer food tour of NYC (in exchange for a small donation to Smallbean) and is generously dishing out helpful bachelor and bachelorette party ideas and tips through his LastBash blog, (http://blog.lastbash.com).

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Felicia Chow

Felicia is a neurology resident in Boston and has conducted medical research around the world. She's the Smallbean spellchecker extraordinaire.

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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.