Debrianna Obara joined the Congo Restoration Board of Directors after traveling to the DRC in 2018. While she loved her trip to this dynamic country – she saw that systemic sexism and poverty affected women and girls to a disproportionate level. “Witnessing the inequities was haunting,” she said. It was clear that every little effort […]
Jill Allison Bryan is a master creativity coach and the founder of Creative Oasis Coaching . Since 2008 she’s helped thousands humans around the world to clarify their creative visions and turn those visions into reality via her coaching programs, classes and workshops. Jill’s passion to help entrepreneurs, artists, writers and multi-passionate creatives create fulfilling lives and […]
Diana Dubois has been a member of the Congo Restoration Board for almost 15 years. Diana is a marketing communications professional and manages the messaging, marketing, and digital presence of the organization. She counts her 2023 visit to our schools as among the most moving of her life. In the months and years to come, […]
Tracy Wallace is a justice warrior—environmental, social, economic—who believes access and equity are the cures to poverty. Tracy brings critical nonprofit management expertise to the Congo Restoration Board of Directors. She is founder and Executive Director of Green Careers Dallas, a nonprofit dedicated to connecting hard-to-employ, low-income neighbors with living-wage employment as installers in the […]
Kristin Mallory has a BA in psychology, an MS in family studies, and has spent her career supporting children, teenagers, and families. She is the Youth Minister at Greenland Hills United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. Working with Congo Restoration helps keep Kristin and her wife Connie connected to their shared passion for Africa. Kristin […]
Claire Stein describers herself as “a mother of two boys in college, a teacher of children with learning differences, and a person who still believes that world peace is possible.” But she knows that peace won’t happen on its own, and she considers her service to Congo Restoration as her contribution to the cause. As […]
As Chair of the Congo Restoration Board of Directors, Dawn McMullan has led the U.S.-funding arm of the organization since 2008. In partnership with founder Gorethy Nabushosi, they have grown the organization’s reach from caring for 30 orphans, to empowering women, educating girls, and providing college scholarships to young adults. Dawn is a freelance writer/editor and mother to two […]
Gorethy Nabushoshi fled the Congo on Sept. 23, 1997, followed by her husband Bona, and six children (ages 3 to 11 at the time) 20 months later. Her work as an attorney standing up for women’s rights put her family in danger in the DRC, so she had no choice but to leave. Gorethy and […]
