Volunteers

 
Alexandra Graham is the lead designer and founder of Mango Design, a full-service graphic design studio specializing in web and print design (www.mangodesign.net). She designed NYOF's web site.

 

Mike Mell has been creating web sites since 1994 and has been building the NYOF site since its first incarnation in 1998. His site management tool, Elements, is the technical foundation for the NYOF website. His home page at www.nthwave.net links nowhere, but may be an intriguing place to spend a few quiet minutes. He can be reached at mike@nthwave.net.

 

Alison Wright Photographer Alison Wright provided some of the photographs used on this web site. Her books include Learning to Breathe, The Spirit of Tibet and A Simple Monk, a photographic biography of the Dalai Lama. To see more of her work, go to www.alisonwright.com.


 
Joanne Heffelfinger has been a committed, loyal and versatile volunteer since NYOF’s founding. She has helped NYOF in such diverse ways as grantwriting, editing - and child-rearing. When we brought to the U.S. two children who needed medical care they could not get in Nepal, Joanne and her husband opened up their home and their hearts to the girls and provided them over a period of many years with the same loving and wise parenting they had lavished on their six children. Somehow, she also found time to earn a Bachelor’s degree, a Masters degree, a law degree, and a PhD. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Tot, a founding member of NYOF’s board, surrounded by thirteen rambunctious grandchildren.
 

Barbara Jones has helped NYOF to establish the Ankur Psychological Counseling Center in Nepal. She travels to Nepal yearly to assist with the training of Nepalese counselors for the center and she has introduced sand play therapy to Nepal. She has a Masters degree in counseling and a PhD in psychology. She is President of Dream Tree, a non-profit organization offering temporary shelter to teens, and a member of the Board of Human Design Practitioners. Barbara and her husband Yale, who is on the board of NYOF, visit Nepal frequently and sponsor eight children through NYOF.