Poppy Copeland - Poppy Copeland is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Senior Consultant for Tucker International. She specializes in intercultural relationships and adjustment issues for individuals and families relocating around the world. Her professional experience includes fifteen years in private practice, five years with Wellspring Partners in Health, and twenty-five years with Tucker International. In addition she has managed programs for the U.S. government, the State of Colorado, the City of Boulder, and the University of Colorado. Poppy spent four years in Thailand where she coordinated the Mitrapab School Assistance Program. She has spoken at international conferences and been a contributing writer to the Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera and the Christian Science Monitor. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Burma Lifeline and the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center.

Poppy received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and a Masters in Psychology and Counseling from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. She is also a certified mediator and received certification as a marriage counselor from PAIRS International.

Benjamin Davis - Ben works as a communications consultant with non-profit organizations throughout Colorado. Although he is a native Coloradan, Ben graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, with a degree in Political Science and Art History. After working as a guide in the Rocky Mountains, he began his political career with Clean Water Action as a field organizer before joining the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) as a consumer advocate. Ben's current clients include the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, Colorado Conservation Voters, AFSCME, and several lobbying firms working in the state capitol.

Elaine Hanson - Dr. Elaine Hanson is a licensed clinical psychologist and attorney with experience working internationally and training others to work internationally. She is currently the Executive Director of SalusWorld. She is an expert in trauma and trauma interventions. Dr. Hanson has worked in both postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina supervising the work of advanced psychology students working with war trauma. During the summer of 2005 she supervised the work of students working in a variety of NGOS in South Africa. She is the former Academic Director of the International Center for Disaster Psychology at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Professional Psychology in Denver, Colorado. She is also a lecturer at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. She is the past president of the Colorado Neuropsychological Society. She received her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver in 1996 and her law degree from the University of Colorado in 1981.

Debra Kreisberg has a Ph.D. in International Relations and a long, distinguished career as a senior program/project management professional with 15+ years experience focused on strategic planning, program development and start up, training and evaluation design and application for human service systems. Her applied experience includes international, national and local nonprofit organizations and state and local government agencies. She was a consultant in 1995-1996 to the newly developing Refugee Mental Health Access Project (RMHAP), which later became RMSC. She then co-founded the original RMSC, where she served from 1996-1998 as Assistant Director before going on to work for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment on integration of refugee health/mental health screening within the Department of Infectious Disease Control. Debra then went on to work in Research and Planning with the Colorado Department of Emergency Management and is now working with the American Red Cross in the International and Military Services areas. She has published extensively on refugee and human rights issues, and has earned many distinctions and certifications.

Charla Low, Treasurer - Charla Low has spent most of her career working in the healthcare environment, primarily in health care for children from impoverished homes or with special health care needs. She currently is the fiscal and operations manager for several newborn screening and special health care needs programs at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Charla graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and attended the Loyola University Graduate School of Business in Chicago. Charla enjoys traveling (especially to see her grandson in Connecticut), quilting, and other crafts.

Ann McNulty, President, has worked extensively in public health in Colorado and believes that a community is measured by how well it tends to the needs of its most vulnerable members. She joined the Board of Directors in June 2005. Ann has a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts. She currently works as the privacy officer for the State of Colorado, and is active in health information technology issues. Ann enjoys traveling with her husband, Jock and spending time with her daughter Claire, a newly-graduated immigration lawyer.

Rev. Tom S. Simbo B.Th, MA - is married to Elizabeth Simbo and is blessed with four daughters. He had twenty-five years of pastoral ministry experience in his home country of Sierra Leone, West Africa before he had to seek safe haven in the United States. He served for nine years as a trainer of church leaders under the ministry of the Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone- an umbrella body for 49 evangelical denominations in Sierra Leone, a Christian organization providing relief and comfort for Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone, as well as internally displaced Sierra Leoneans and Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea. The same organization is currently actively engaged in the rebuilding of war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Tom was also the popular co-host of a weekly phone-in national radio program in Sierra Leone, which was very critical of all parties who inflicted and perpetuated suffering on the people.

Tom is a human rights and peace activist, and a former executive member of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone, which is one of the few national mediating bodies credited for the cessation of Sierra Leone's bloody civil crisis, Tom and his family were victims of that crisis (1997-2002). Tom and his family are former participants of RMSC.

In Colorado, Tom works in a supervisory capacity at the new Hyatt Hotel in downtown Denver. Tom is a teaching member of the Mission Hills Church, and a Missionary Appointee of World Venture (formerly Conservative Baptist) of Littleton. He recently received his Masters degree in Counseling Ministries from Denver Seminary.

Tom enjoys reading, current events, traveling, playing and watching soccer, singing and listening to music (gospel, reggae and pop). He also enjoys empowering other people, particularly the voiceless and weak in society. Tom hates violence and torture because he sees every human being as a bearer of God's Image.

Angela Thieman Dino, Secretary, is a cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research has focused on human rights and youth. Angela has served on boards of directors of numerous local and international human rights and development organizations and has enjoyed international work as a human rights educator, activist and community organizer. She is honored to have been involved in the founding of RMSC, continues to enjoy her work on the board, and is grateful to her husband, Brian, and son and daughter, Dante and Lia, for their relentless support.