Koko Ameh is a well-established banking professional with expertise in financial management, team building, leadership, and customer service. In addition, she has a deep knowledge in risk management and security investments. 

With over 20 years of banking experience, Ms. Ameh has held positions as head teller, personal banker, processing analyst and private client banker. She earned her BS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland and was awarded a certificate in project management for information technology users. She resides with her lovely family in Maryland.

Eric Woods managed teams of up to thirty professionals composed of software developers, system architects, system administrators, information assurance specialists, configuration managers, testers, and help desk personnel. 

He has hands-on development experience with MVC frameworks, open source languages, web services, templating engines, ORM systems, and source code and package managers. In addition, he developed requirements specifications, functional specifications, system engineering and configuration management plans.  Lastly, Woods served on a source selection evaluation board and, as part of a team, developed technical and cost proposals. He is passionate about aviation education for youth with fewer opportunities. He lives in Fort Washington.

Dr. Rochelle Rollins is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

For over 25 years, she has worked at the local, state, and federal levels on health care and social service challenges impacting communities with limited access to care. At HHS, she has led initiatives focused on improving outcomes in areas such as cancer care, oral health, human trafficking prevention, and national health goals through the Healthy People program.

Dr. Rollins co-led the effort to make oral health one of the 12 Leading Health Indicators in Healthy People 2020 and has served on the HHS Oral Health Coordinating Committee for more than a decade.

In her prior role as Director of the Division of Policy and Data in the HHS Office of Minority Health, she focused on strengthening research coordination, performance tracking, and data improvement strategies to address gaps in health outcomes. She also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute, where she co-chaired the HHS Council Subcommittee on Cancer.

Dr. Rollins received her Bachelor of Science from Wellesley College, her Master of Public Health from Boston University, and her doctorate from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management where she was a Pew Health Policy Fellow. She resides in Maryland with her cat and two dogs.

Stephanie Stinson is the Communications and Research manager with the Future of Fish, an international non-profit that supports small-scale fisheries and communities impacted by overfishing to build sustainable livelihoods while also protecting fish, a critical source of protein for billions of people worldwide.

Ms. Stinson brings a keen lens of cross-disciplinary problem solving to her work as an environmental practitioner, taking into account the interconnectivity between people and the planet. She believes in taking a community-centered approach to her work of supporting stakeholders in their environmental decision making and action taking, whether that be manifested through research, policy, and project management. Her work focuses on human-driven global changes, with expertise in international development, the effects of environmental shifts, and community-focused challenges.

Her regional focus is Latin America, where she has spent nearly seven years working in Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. During this time, she served twice as a Peace Corps volunteer, taught English as a foreign language, contributed as a Fulbright researcher, and supported public outreach efforts at the U.S. Embassy in Paraguay.

Ms. Stinson is fluent in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Paraguayan Guaraní, and has consistently applied her language skills in a range of international professional settings. She currently lives in South Florida.

High School senior, Sophia Fang, has worn many hats as a vital member of the SGAP Leaders’ family. She worked as the project support, community service, and more recently communications intern, over the past three years. In addition, she was a critical member of our fundraising planning team for our “Encouragement Project“

In 2023, Sophia won second prize with fellow teens as part of the Sustainability Summit for SGAP Leaders’ partner, Forbright Bank. She has written and secured grants through Youth Service America and led projects to support SGAP Leaders’ mission. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, spending time outdoors with family, baking sweets, and watching action movies. 

Sophia is a non-voting member of the board and heads-up our Youth Leaders Subcommittee which impacts program and project selection.

Jill Foster has earned her track record of mining, synthesizing, and packaging data from diverse sources to uncover needs, evaluate outcomes, guide decision-making, and promote clinical best practices. She has over 10 years in academia. She earned her masters in public health from the University of Alabama, and medical degree from Duke University. She resides in Maryland with her husband.

Jill is a non-voting advisor to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)