"If someone is supposed to change the world, why shouldn't it be me?”

Summer Buckley currently resides in Washington, DC and is the Executive Assistant and a Project Manager for Guerrilla Aid. Prior to joining the Guerrilla Aid team, she was the assistant to the Co-Founder at the Enough Project, a project through the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. 

Summer was previously a coordinator and grant writer for the Southern Sudanese Community Center, an organization located in San Diego whose mission is to assist recently placed Sudanese refugees. Summer received her B.A. from the University of San Diego, where she studied sociology and gender with a focus on women in conflict regions.

Brent LeRash came to Guerrilla Aid to fill a certain niche with skills that none of us have. His expertise in wildlife conservation will help GC create programs that are environmentally friendly, and focus on issues that affect the relationship between villagers and their local wildlife.

With his Wildlife Conservation degree from UMASS and a production background, Brent will be taking the lead with many of our Guerrilla Aid efforts in 2010.

DeDe Brown is the Director of Special Events and Public Relations at the New York Post, where she oversees all of the public relations outreach and events execution for the Post.  She initially joined the Post in 2002 as the Promotions Manager, where she managed that department’s efforts to create value-added packages for the Post’s sales team.  She has over 15 years of experience in managing marketing-related services, including public relations, promotions and special events, for such well-known brands as Planet Hollywood, Universal Pictures, inDEMAND and GQ Magazine.  Ms. Brown graduated from the University of Alabama with a BS in Communications and a minor in English.

Michael Joseph Gross is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, where he covers politics, crime, technology, and national security.  He went to Williams College and Princeton Theological Seminary, worked as chief speechwriter for former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, and is the author of STARSTRUCK: WHEN A FAN GETS CLOSE TO FAME, published by Bloomsbury.  He is currently writing a book about discovery and the world’s great waterfalls.

Patrick is the co-founder and Executive Director of Integrative Medicine Foundation, a New York-based non-profit dedicated to the research and development of traditional medicine in East Africa with a focus on equitable benefit-sharing practices and intellectual property rights.  Patrick holds an undergraduate degree in English and Psychology from Kenyon College, a post baccalaureate degree in pre-medical science from Sarah Lawrence College, and has studied at Bastyr University of Naturopathic Medicine and Weill Cornell School of Medicine.  He is widely published in areas of sustainable development, clinical trial methodologies for the developing world, as well as the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.