Alumni Executive Board

Michelle was introduced to NSP in the spring of 2004. After taking on several pro-bono strategic consulting projects in prior years, Michelle was drawn to NSP's unique service model and high level of community impact. She served as a of volunteer consultant at the National Office in Washington, DC that summer, before matriculating to the MBA program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Michelle continued her fundraising and advisory involvement with NSP while in Evanston, and served on the NSP-AA Development Committee through 2006 as well as the NSP-AA VP-Events in 2007. She currently lives in New York, NY and works in healthcare marketing. She is a 2001 graduate of the University of Virginia and looking forward to the opening of the Charlottesville, VA office of NSP sometime in the future!

Mary's involvement in NSP began as a volunteer in the Evanston office in 2002. While an undergraduate at Northwestern University, she served as a Local Director and worked with other volunteers to found Evanston's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. After graduation, Mary worked for JPMorgan in Chicago for two years. She now resides in Washington, DC, and works for the World Bank, where she focuses on private sector investments in health and education.  Mary is excited to bring several new additions to NSP-AA development efforts, including an increase in corporate involvement from young alumni.

Jesse is currently the NSP-Cambridge Site Coordinator, and is excited to be a part of the NSP-AA executive team as he finishes his AmeriCorps term. He graduated with Highest Honors from Bowdoin College in 2006 with a double-major in Africana Studies and Government and Law. Jesse says of his experience, "NSP gave me the opportunity to serve in a capacity that I had never known existed before. No longer was I locked within an isolated world of vague idealism stemming from academic privilege: I was able to work one-to-one with the population I had studied for four years. Yet those skills I learned at college, the critical thinking, the problem-solving, the analytical mind-set, have allowed me to serve that under-privileged population even more effectively. NSP’s model is an ingenious blend of micro and macro level advocacy - and we are aware that change will happen when you have young leaders who are able to see, and effectively deliver, both of those services."

Originally from Birmingham, AL, Rita first got hooked into NSP as a National Office intern in the summer of 2004.  When she returned to the University of Pennsylvania for her senior year, she became a West Philadelphia volunteer and then a Local Director.  Since graduating in 2005, Rita has worked as the Research Coordinator at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania.  As an alumna on the West Philadelphia Local Advisory Board (LAB), Rita has had the pleasure of continuing to help build stronger connections between NSP, UPenn, and the West Philadelphia community.

Originally from New York City, Fanta Waterman was a founding Local Director of the NSP Northwest Philadelphia office in 2003.  After graduating from La Salle University in 2004 with a degree in Integrated Science, Business and Technology, she went on to complete a year of service as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with the Environmental Protection Agency's Philadelphia headquarters, managing environmental education programs in the Mid-Atlantic states. Fanta completed her Master in Public Health (MPH) degree in May 2007, and most recently worked as a Clinical Trial Associate for Pfizer Inc.  She is currently Research Services Analyst with Consumer Health Sciences International, a division of the Ziment Group.  Interested in Health Education, Policy and Research, particularly in minority and underserved communities, she is currently an Adjunct Lecturer for the City University of New York's Bronx Community College.  Fanta enjoys cooking, exploring new cities and "cliché coffeehouse conversation."