Board of Directors

  • Sal Valadez

    ECORN-MO Board Chair/Founder & Diversity, Outreach and Marketing Representative, LiUNA Midwest Region & Missouri and Kansas Laborers District Council (St Louis)

  • Caroline Fan

    Co-Founder/Board Member, Board Co-Chair & Founder/President, Asian Youth Foundation (St Louis)

  • Rebecca Niedner

    Board Member & Director of Language Services, Bilingual International Assistant Services

  • Geoffrey Soyiantet

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Executive Director, Vitendo4Africa (St Louis)

  • Moji Sidiqi

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Manager, Afghan Support Program, International Institute (St Louis) 

  • Diego Abente

    Co/Founder/Board Member & Executive Director, Casa de Salud (St Louis)

  • Adil Imdad

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Director, Social Services, Islamic Foundation of St Louis

  • Tony Maldonado

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Chair, Hispanic Leaders Group & 1 st District Commissioner, State of Missouri Human Rights Commission

  • Damon E. Broadus

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Director, Health Promotion and Public Health Research, Saint Louis County Department of Public Health

  • Dr. Zia Moiz Ahmad, MD

    Co-Founder/Board Member & Director, Salam Clinic – St Louis

  • Sherrie Watkins

    Board Member & Technology Transfer Specialist, Opioid Response Network (ORN) Midwest Region & Liaison, Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center – Collaborative to Advance Health Services, School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)

  • Kayla Zawislak, LCSW, CADC

    (she/her/hers) Director of Patient and Family Services, Addiction Policy Forum, Washington, DC

  • Kristin Bengtson

    Board Member & Associate Director of Community Strategy, PreventEd – St Louis

  • Bonita Gibb

    Consultant - New York State

  • Dr. Julie Gary

    City of St Louis, Department of Health - Chief, Behavioral Health Bureau

  • Haroon Safi

    Coordinator, Monarch Immigrant Services - Services for Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat

  • Dr. John Fallah (MSW, PHD)

    Assistant Professor & Districtwide Coordinator, Human Services & Addiction Studies Programs & Director HERSA/OWEP Grant, St Louis Community College – Forest Park

  • Gabriel Sheets

    Filmmaker & Content Creator, Missouri LECET, LiUNA

  • Dr. Abdurrahman “Abdul” Abdelzaher, MD

    Washington University in St Louis - School of Medicine

  • Board Advisor, Manar-ul Islam Swaby

    Founder/Principal Strategist Sway B Access LLC - St Louis