Paula Shirk – President/Treasurer
Avra Wing – Vice President/Secretary
Tina Oliphant – Director/Technical Advisor
Douglas Eads – Director
Ellen Miller – Director
Craig Tooman – Director
Ysa Benjamin – Executive Director of Cambodian Community Connection, BB2C’s in-country NGO
Sarah Steven-Miles – BB2C’s Financial Non-Profit Administrator
Paula Shirk is an experienced entrepreneur who has started and run several businesses. This expertise will be applied to the pump project. Paula’s innovation, marketing and leadership skills have been recognized in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, New York Magazine, Runner’s World, Cosmopolitan, American Health, Working Woman, Elle, The New Yorker, New York Post, New York Daily News, Women’s Wear Daily, Crain’s and the Japanese magazine, Nikkei Woman. She was awarded the B’nai B’rith Board of Governor’s Distinguished Achievement Award for “a woman of accomplishment and stature as an innovative business leader.” She is the mother of two sons, one of whom is adopted from Cambodia. She is the visionary behind BB2C.
Avra Wing is the author of the novel Angie, I Says. Her essays have been published in The New York Times. She is an adjunct professor of English at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, and a workshop leader for the New York Writers Coalition. She and her husband have two biological sons and a daughter adopted from China.
Tina Oliphant holds an MBA degree from Ohio State University and is an economic and community development professional. In the summer of 2009 she completed training at the Boulder Institute of International Microfinance in Turin, Italy.
Douglas Eads is a professional accountant who worked for Merrill Lynch before retiring.
Ellen Miller is a NYS registered architect who has consulted in planning and design for The Associated Press as well as numerous businesses and law firms. Establishing facilities to enable more Cambodian villagers to achieve sustainable prosperity is the aspect of BB2C work that has inspired Ellen to donate her skills and experience. Ellen and her husband live in Brooklyn with twin sons who attended the United Nations International School.
Craig Tooman is a principal in the architectural firm of Cutsogeorge, Tooman and Allen based in New York City. He is a registered architect in the states of New York, Hawaii and Connecticut. Among other projects, Craig has worked on repurposing buildings to become schools. He is on the Board of Directors of Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, a New York City-based dance group.