LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Heifer Worldwide introduced at this time the appointment of three new members to its board of administrators: Nomsa Daniels, Daron Joffe and Marianella Baez Jost. Their appointment brings the board to 17 administrators, representing numerous backgrounds in enterprise, agriculture, academia and the non-public sector, who information the group’s strategic imaginative and prescient.
“Between them, Nomsa, Daron and Marienella deliver a wealth of experience in sustainable agriculture, smallholder market entry and social enterprise investing throughout Africa, Central America and the USA,” mentioned Heifer Worldwide President and CEO Surita Sandosham. “We’re excited to have the ability to profit from their ardour and information in service of the smallholder farming communities we interact worldwide.”
Nomsa Daniels is the CEO of Blue Zebra Initiatives (Pty) Ltd, a South African firm that works with social enterprises in Africa to assist them increase into new markets, increase capital and enlarge their affect. She additionally serves as an government director of Anibok Funding Analysis Chambers (Pty) Ltd, and she or he performed an instrumental function growing and conducting analysis tasks to advance ladies’s monetary inclusion in 10 African international locations as a founding member of New Faces New Voices (NFNV).
Marianella Baez Jost is the founder and director of Farmers Challenge Specialty Espresso, a gaggle of Costa Rican producers who established a real direct commerce mannequin and now take pleasure in long-term partnerships with roasters within the USA and Canada. Her function within the espresso worth chain affords her distinctive insights into market practices, gender fairness in farming and sustainability challenges, and her ardour to empower different ladies in espresso led her to serve on the board of administrators of the Worldwide Ladies Espresso Alliance – Costa Rica.
Georgia-based Daron Joffe is a nationally acknowledged biodynamic farmer, educator, guide, speaker and entrepreneur. He’s the writer of the just lately printed guide Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Solution to Develop Wholesome Meals, Construct Thriving Communities and Give Again to the Earth, and is the founding father of Farmer D Consulting. Daron joins Heifer’s board with over 20 years of expertise designing and constructing neighborhood farms and gardens everywhere in the United States.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Nomsa, Marianella and Daron to our board of administrators, and we sit up for working alongside them as we harness their skills and distinctive views to advance Heifer’s mission to finish poverty and starvation whereas caring for the earth,” mentioned Randi Hedin, Heifer Worldwide board chair.
Heifer Worldwide workforce members throughout the globe implement the board’s values and insurance policies and, in flip, construct inclusive economies that empower tens of millions. No less than one director resides in every of the worldwide program areas the place Heifer carries out its work. All administrators are impartial voting members.
About Heifer Worldwide
Since 1944, Heifer Worldwide has labored with greater than 42.9 million individuals all over the world to finish starvation and poverty sustainably. Working with rural communities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, together with the USA, Heifer Worldwide helps farmers and native meals producers to strengthen native economies and construct safe livelihoods that present a residing revenue. For info, go to https://www.heifer.org.
Board Member Biographies
Nomsa Daniels is the CEO of Blue Zebra Initiatives (Pty) Ltd, a South African firm that works with social enterprises in Africa to assist them increase into new markets, increase capital and enlarge their affect.
Nomsa can be an Govt Director of Anibok Funding Analysis Chambers (Pty) Ltd. The corporate conducts analysis and finds funding alternatives in Africa for its shoppers. Its principal shopper has been the African Alternative Fund LP which is listed on the London inventory alternate. AOP has invested in a variety of African asset courses, together with fairness, debt and real-estate. Additionally lively within the enterprise capital area, Anibok has invested in start-ups overlaying sustainable forestry, agriculture, schooling, microinsurance and know-how.
Over and above her work within the non-public sector, Nomsa has intensive expertise within the growth/NGO sector, having served as CEO of the Graça Machel Belief, the place she led a workforce of program specialists who drove the Belief’s work in Ladies’s Financial Development, Youngsters’s Rights, Vitamin, and Management and Governance throughout Africa. As CEO she harnessed her expertise in advocacy, coverage growth, analysis, community constructing, stakeholder engagement and fundraising to amplify the work of the Belief at nationwide, regional and international ranges.
As a founding member of New Faces New Voices (NFNV) and its first Govt Director, she led the group to be on the forefront of pan-African and international initiatives aimed toward accelerating ladies’s monetary inclusion and ladies’s management within the monetary sector. Via varied NFNV programmes, she was instrumental in growing and conducting analysis tasks to advance ladies’s monetary inclusion in ten African international locations in addition to managing a community of seventeen chapters, unfold all through the continent.
Nomsa presently serves as a member of the Worldwide Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide, and on the boards of Edulution Studying South Africa NPC, Roedean Faculty South Africa, and the Sešego Basis.
She has a grasp’s diploma in Geography and Environmental Research from the Metropolis College of New York, Hunter Faculty, and a Bachelor of Arts Diploma from the College of Toronto.
Marianella Baez Jost is the Founder and Director of Farmers Challenge Specialty Espresso, a small group of Costa Rican producers who established a real direct commerce mannequin and now take pleasure in long-term partnerships with roasters within the USA and Canada. Farmers Challenge was the product of Marianella’s intensive native information gained from possession of Café Con Amor Farm within the mountains of Naranjo, the success of a lifelong dream.
Her distinctive function within the espresso worth chain permits her to continuously interact with farmers and customers, offering distinctive insights into market practices, gender fairness in farming and sustainability challenges. Her ardour to assist empower different ladies in espresso led her to serve on the Board of Administrators of the Worldwide Ladies Espresso Alliance – Costa Rica.
Born and raised in Costa Rica, she at all times admired the USA as a nation of alternative and prosperity. Her want to be taught English drove her to acquire a scholarship to check within the U.S. She graduated from the College of Nebraska, with a level in Enterprise Administration with emphasis in Worldwide Enterprise.
Previous to her foray into espresso, she developed and led examine overseas packages for Florida State College. Skilled positions earlier in her profession allowed her the chance to stay in varied states and work in a various vary of industries from Telecommunications to Finance, Logistics and Worldwide Commerce.
Marianella divides her time between her two houses in Costa Rica and the Unites States. She and her husband reside in North Carolina with their Golden Retriever, Guapa. She likes to journey, path bike and hike within the woods and mountains.
Daron Joffe is a nationally acknowledged biodynamic farmer, educator, guide, speaker and entrepreneur, and the writer of the just lately printed, acclaimed guide Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Solution to Develop Wholesome Meals, Construct Thriving Communities and Give Again to the Earth.
He’s the founding father of Farmer D Consulting and has over 20 years of expertise designing and constructing neighborhood farms and gardens everywhere in the nation. Previous shoppers embrace agrihood communities, resorts, retreat facilities, spas, hospitals, nonprofits, faculties, cities and personal landowners.
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