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Board
 Louise Krumm - President
Louise Krumm first became familiar with the Association Espoir pour Demain while serving as Country Director for the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo. She has continued to support this project since returning to Washington D.C. in September 2004. In 2002, Louise retired from Georgetown University where she was Director of the Center for Language Education and Development. The Center designed and offered English language programs for students and teachers in the United States and abroad. Presently, Louise works as an independent consultant for Peace Corps and other international education organizations.
Kevin Fiori Sr. - Secretary
Kevin Fiori Sr. first became familiar with AED when he traveled to Togo in April of 2004 to visit his son Kevin Fiori Jr. who was in the Peace Corps at the time. He and his wife Debi provided the initial funding to create HTH in 2004 in an effort to provide medicine to AED members suffering from HIV/AIDS. They continue to be very active contributors to HTH and AED. Kevin has been with Dole Food Company since January of 1979 and is currently Sr. Vice President of Dole Fresh Vegetables' Agricultural Operations. He has also held board positions for Link to Life a non-profit dedicated to helping individuals fighting breast cancer and The Boys and Girls Club of Bakersfield. He and his wife currently reside in Carmel, California.
Dawn Fiori - Treasurer & Co-Founder
Dawn Fiori has been an active member in community and social organizations for over 25 years. She was an elected member of the Medway School Committee for 9 years, where she was Vice-chair for 3 years. For years Dawn was an appointed member of the Medway Finance Committee, where she was the liaison to several town boards. After fifteen years, in retail management and loss prevention, Dawn switch careers and for the last 7 years has been employed as an office administrator for R.P. Marzilli & Company. Dawn still lives in her hometown of Medway, Massachusetts, where she raised her 2 daughters, Shannon and Erin. She is, also a very young grandmother of five. Along with her nephews, Thomas and Kevin Fiori, and her sister, Susan Hafford, Dawn is one of the founders of Hope Through Health.
It is her wish and dream that HTH continues to grow and receive support so that every child in Togo can have a healthy mother to help them reach adulthood and that every mother, even those that are HIV positive, can become a very young grandmother.
Christiane Geisler
Christiane Geisler is a registered nurse and served in Togo as a volunteer French nurse from 1975 to 1980. She trained village health workers to deliver primary care in their villages. She was a Board member of Friends of Togo (FOT) for 12 years while living in the Washington DC area. During that time, FOT funded the first AED Camp Espoir. She has worked in HIV research for the past 4 years. Christiane recently moved to Philadelphia where she started a chapter of FOT with the goal of raising funds for Hope Through Health.
Maureen Giordano
Maureen Giordano attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City for several years before pursuing a corporate sales career with Monet Inc. She has since married and has two children, Hailey, 11, and Luke, 8. She currently runs a small business specializing in Tag and Estate Sales in the Long Island area. Maureen resides with her husband Robert and their children in Huntington Bay. She first became interested in Hope for Health after participating in a NY area fundraiser three years ago. Since this first event Maureen has been instrumental in creating support for HTH in NY. She has also brought about successful collaboration between HTH and area schools.
Danielle Murphy
Danielle earned her bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in June 2002, and went on to Boston University to pursue a PhD in Astronomy. After becoming pregnant with her first child, she opted to leave school indefinitely to be a career mom. Danielle is now the proud mother of two children, and works from home as an independent consultant with Arbonne International. Inspired by the mission and goals of the Initiative, Danielle now works actively with the San Diego Chapter to raise awareness and support for HTH throughout the San Diego community.
Erica Myruski
Erica Myruski graduated from Boston College in 2005 with her bachelors in nursing. She then moved to Washington , DC where she first worked as an emergency room nurse at Georgetown University Hospital . In 2006, Erica became an Americorps volunteer in the first cohort of professional nurses in the program. Through Americorps, she took a position as the HIV Clinical Research Nurse at the Whitman Walker Clinic in DC and continues to work in that position. She also remains active in the local HIV activist community through the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association's Health Disparities Committee and the Greater Washington chapter of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC). She is new to the HTH organization with hopes to become more active in the international HIV community.
Gavin Oxman
Gavin Oxman currently works as a Product Planner for Microsoft Corporation, and has over 10 years experience in the fields of technology and international development. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sokode, Togo from 2003 - 2005, where he led several business education and microfinance initiatives. Gavin has also worked for Deloitte Consulting for five years where he specialized in technology strategy projects for telecom and financial services organizations. Gavin has a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University, a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School, and a Masters in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, Gavin led an international volunteer project in Benin and wrote his Master's thesis on the development of information and communications technologies (ICT) in Rwanda.
Melanie Spence
Melanie graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in International Administration from the University of Denver.
She served as a Peace Corps Community Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention volunteer in Togo, West Africa where she became aware of Hope Through Health activities. In June 2008, Melanie joined Population Services International (PSI) as an Associate Program Manager for West/Central Africa in Washington DC. Prior to working at PSI, Melanie worked with the Community Resource Center in Denver providing consulting and training for nonprofit organizations and community groups throughout Colorado. Melanie has a background in nonprofit start-up, strategic planning and board development with nonprofit organizations. She is passionate about raising awareness and funds for people living with AIDS in Africa and now serves as the HTH Board Liaison for the Washington DC Chapter.
Advisory Board Members
Jerome Agba
Dr. Peter Davenport
Don Krumm
Douglas Murphy
Donald Weaks
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