Huairou Biographies:
Staff
Huairou staff is composed of paid personnel, interns and volunteer professionals.
 Nicole Ganzekaufer
Ms. Ganzekaufer graduated with a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from Milano: The New School of Management and Urban Policy in 2006. Prior to her graduate studies, she spent over two years working as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in the former Soviet Republic of Georgie. Ms. Ganzekaufer's experience as a teacher and community development volunteer fostered her interest in international affairs and grassroots community development. Ms. Ganzekaufer started at the Huairou Commission as an intern in 2005 and now works as a full-time staff person anchoring the Land and Housing Campaign
Contact:
Huairou Commission
249 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. New York. USA
Tel: 1-718-388-8915. Fax.1-718-388-0285
Email: nicole.ganzekaufer@huairou.org
Website: www.huairou.org
 Dahlia Goldenberg
From the state of Pennsylvania in the United
States, Ms. Goldenberg graduated from Rutgers
University. As a Fulbright Fellow, she studied and worked with grassroots women's organizations in Ecuador. She has been connected with the global office of Huairou since then, first as a college intern, then as a volunteer for local and national community work, and now as a full time staff person. As network
organizer, she facilitates communication,
organizational development and member relations.
She is fluent in Spanish.
Contact:
Huairou Commission
249 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. New York. USA
Tel: 1-718-388-8915. Fax.1-718-388-0285
Email: dahlia.goldenberg@huairou.org
Website: www.huairou.org
 Suranjana Gupta
Research and advocacy coordinator for the
Huairou Commission since 2002, Ms. Gupta
has been in grassroots empowerment work – primarily in India – since
1995. For Swayam Shikshan Prayog she focused on credit as a tool for empowerment and institutional responsiveness to poor communities. She facilitated and documented a post-disaster peer learning exchange between grassroots women in Turkey and India. Ms. Gupta is currently based in Bombay supporting the Disaster Campaign from the field.
Contact:
Huairou Commission
249 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. New York. USA
Tel: 1-718-388-8915. Fax.1-718-388-0285
Email: suranjana.gupta@huairou.org
Website: www.huairou.org
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 Shannon Hayes
Originally from Southern California, Ms. Hayes moved to New York City in 2003 to pursue a Master of Arts in International Affairs at the New School. In the summer of 2004, she traveled to Kenya for 2 months to participate in a Community AIDS Watch, documenting the work of GROOTS Kenya. Since she returned, she has been working at the Huairou Commission--first as an intern and now as a full-time staff person--focusing on the AIDS Campaign and recently taking over as the Huairou Commission Communications Officer.
Contact:
Huairou Commission
249 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. New York. USA
Tel: 1-718-388-8915. Fax.1-718-388-0285
Email: shannon.hayes@huairou.org
Website: www.huairou.org
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 Jan Peterson, Chair
Huairou Secretariat
Founder and chair of the secretariat of the Huairou Commission, Ms. Peterson is also a founder of GROOTS International and prior to that, founder and executive director of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, a grassroots women's empowerment organization in the United States. With 30 years of experience in developing local initiatives, Ms. Peterson is the recipient of many awards for community service and is frequently invited to speak at national and international conferences and events.
Contact:
Huairou Commission
249 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn. New York. United States
Tel: 1-718-388-8915
Fax:1 718-388-0285
Email:jan.peterson@huairou.org
Website: www.huairou.org.
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