Board Of Directors

Jake Sinclair md

Founder

Jake is a San Francisco-based Pediatrician and is the Founder of Manassehs Children. He has been working to develop innovative models to care for high risk youth for the past 20 years. He is a passionate advocate for young victims of domestic and sexual violence and has developed several youth empowerment programs in the USA and Africa.

Benjamin is the Executive Director of Ujamaa Africa. He leads Ujamaa's school-based program which teaches empowerment defense to girls and gender transformation programs to boys in Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, and South Sudan. Over the past 6 years, he has co-authored several research papers in collaboration with JHU, Stanford, and the United States International University (USIU) studying the effectiveness of this unique dual-gender approach for preventing violence against women and girls.

Dawn is Manassehs Partnerships Coordinator. She has over 20 years experience facilitating program and curriculum development in the education, environmental and civic engagement sectors. After almost of decade conducting public policy research at think tanks in Washington DC, Dawn honed her skills as a process facilitator for multi-stakeholder initiatives involving teachers, schools, non-profits/NGOs, and city and government agencies. Having launched multiple non-profit start ups, Dawn also has extensive non-profit management and fundraising experience.