Executive Staff
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Suliman A Giddo, President / CEO suliman@darfurpeace.org Mr. Giddo is a founding partner of DPDO. In 2009, he received a ABD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He has extensive experience in ethnic conflict resolution through participation in peace negotiations during Darfur tribal conflicts in 1980s and 1990s. He has been working on the Darfur Peace Initiative since 2003, creating close but impartial relationships with all movement leaders and other stakeholders in Sudan. In 2009, he began working as a consultant to the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, on the State Department’s Peace Initiative in Sudan. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Khartoum, an MBA from Strayer University, and a post-graduate diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University. His additional training includes Disaster Management at University of Wisconsin, Conflict Resolution at Indiana-Purdue University, Human Resources at Maduri Kamaj in India, and Non-Profit Leadership at the UN University for Peace. |
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Susan Burgess-Lent, Program Director susan@darfurpeace.org Susan has worked in many capacities with DPDO since 2004 to build the organization. As Program Director, she is responsible for the direction and funding of DPDO’s programs in Darfur. She previously worked as a project manager for the African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation and InterAction, as a proposal consultant for CEDPA, and as budget and administrative coordinator with American Red Cross International Services. Susan is also a writer and worked for many years as a television journalist. |
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Katherine Naugle, Executive Assistant Katherine@darfurpeace.org Katherine Naugle has worked with DPDO since 2008, handling multiple roles including bookkeeper, fundraiser, and office manager. She earned BA degrees in both International Studies and Spanish from Towson University in Baltimore, MD and a certificate in Hispanic Studies from the University of Granada in Spain. During her undergraduate work, she completed extensive studies of economic development and African politics with a focus on Sudan. Her senior research project focused largely on the global climate change as a contributing factor to the conflict in Darfur. |
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Omer Ismail, Vice President / Advocacy omer@darfurpeace.org Omer Ismail, Vice President of DPDO and a key player in Darfur advocacy, is a graduate of Khartoum University where he worked as a research assistant to Dr. Mansour Khalid, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sudan. In 1988 he became the Operations Manager for the United Nations Operation Life Line Sudan. He fled Sudan after the current regime took power and since then has lived as a refugee in the U.S. He returned to the United Nations to serve in Somalia from 1992 to 1994. |
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Stephen M. Harrigan, Solar Cooker Project Manager stephen@darfurpeace.org Stephen Harrigan was raised in a small village in Sierra Leone. Raised by missionary parents, he spent most of his early life in the interior of this West African country. After completing his graduate training in the United States, Steve and his wife returned to Sierra Leone in 1987 with World Partners. They spent the next eight years raising four children, running a medical clinic and developing literature for the local people.Civil war inevitably found its way to their village. Steve and his family evacuated to Burkina Faso and finally to Guinea, living in a village a few miles from the war zone of Sierra Leone. Fleeing refugees with desperate needs — as well as fear of rebel infiltration – became a daily reality. When peace came in 2001, Stephen was reassigned to Fort Wayne IN. He works on the resettlement issues of many refugees in the United States. Through collaboration with DPDO, Stephen developed the solar cooker project for Darfur. |
| Yassir Abdalla, Translator for DC Office |
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| Suliman Ishag, Assistant Director of Programs suramo@yahoo.com |
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| Dr. Abdalla I. Adam, Director for Relief & Development draiadam@yahoo.com |
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| Adil Hassan, Asst. Director for Administration and Finance adil@darfurpeace.org |
Sudan Staff
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Yagoub Abdulkarim, Darfur Program Manager, El Fasher |
| Amal Elmutalib Ibrahim, Women’s Center Program Manager, El Fasher
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Mohamed Ahmed Uthman, Khartoum Program Manager |
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