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Andrew Klaber, Founder, President, and Partner Jake Masters
OAA China Project Director  Sam Dixon graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Modern History in 2007. His interest in helping youths affected by HIV/AIDS was augmented by working at a Tanzanian orphanage that provided care for HIV/AIDS victims during a year in between high school and college. Sam also worked at a school in Uganda in which a large number of the local children and adults had been affected by HIV/AIDS. Sam is now studying for an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Following his graduate education he hopes to return to East Africa and continue volunteering on the continent.
 John Harabedian graduated in 2004 from Yale College where he received a B.A. degree in Political Science. Following graduation, John worked as an analyst at the investment banking firm Barrington Associates, completed a Masters degree in Comparative Social Policy at Oxford University, and served as a Coro Fellow in Los Angeles. He is currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School.
OAA South Africa Project Director
Jake Masters attends Vanderbilt University, having recently graduated from ACS Cobham International School in Surrey, England, where he received an International Baccalaureate diploma. In 2005 Jake began to collect and distribute Beanie Babies to AIDS orphans throughout South Africa; to date over 3500 Beanie Babies have been collected worldwide. During this intitial endeavor, Jake was introduced to the children of Dikatole, a squatters' camp near Johannesburg. Jake expanded his initial work from distributing Beanie Babies to creating the Dikatole Scholarship Fund, which allows high-achieving children living at the camp to attend private school. The fund also provides financial support to a local nursery school (ages 3-6) and an after school program (ages 7-16). Jake's goal is to one day shake the hands of these students at their own high school graduation.
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 Lindsey Reynolds received her MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2006 and is now completing her Ph.D. in Public Health at Johns Hopkins. During her junior year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, she won a small research grant to travel to South Africa for one month to study HIV prevention programs. While there, she spent time at Holy Cross, an AIDS hospice and orphan care project in rural South Africa. After her first research trip to South Africa with Angela Larkan, Lindsey started an organization called Thembanathi (www.thembanathi.org), which aims to increase awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to provide support to Holy Cross and other organizations like it. Her continued work on HIV/AIDS led her to choose the field of public health as a career path. Since her first work in South Africa in 2003, Lindsey has continued to work in South Africa with HIV prevention projects and programs to provide care for orphans and vulnerable children. She is currently starting research for her Ph.D. dissertation, working with organizations that provide care and support for children in AIDS-affected communities in South Africa.
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Andrew Klaber founded Orphans Against AIDS after confronting the plight of children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS during the summer of 2002 in northern Thailand. Klaber is especially interested in the psychosocial and educational crisis facing these youths and how the private, public, and non-profit sectors can build symbiotic relationships to better address these issues. Andrew has served with the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and currently oversees OAA’s Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Thailand projects. An Ethics, Politics, & Economics and International Studies graduate of Yale College, Klaber earned Masters of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and is currently pursuing a JD/MBA at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. For his commitment to public service and leadership, he has been selected as a Truman Scholar, a Goldman Sachs Global Leader, and a First-Team USA-Today Academic All-American. 
Adam Grogg, from Frederick County, Virginia, is currently a student at Yale Law School. He graduated from Williams College in 2004 with a degree in Political Science and Economics. As a Marshall Scholar, he completed an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy at Oxford University in 2006 with a thesis on the politics of education reform. Before beginning law school, Adam worked for Google in London and for CEOs for Cities, a U.S. network of cross-sector urban leaders headquartered in Chicago. He is particularly interested in understanding and advocating issues of equality in cities and schools.
Angela Larkan graduated from Wesleyan University in December 2005 with a degree from the College of Social Studies. Originally from South Africa, she witnessed the poverty experienced by many children while growing up. She began researching models of care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in 2003, after which she co-founded Thembanathi to raise funds and awareness for children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2007 Angela established Thanda as a separate organization to support the Thanda After-School Program (Thanda ASP). She co-founded Thanda Zulu jewelry (
Scott Grinsell is currently a student at Yale Law School, where he serves on the Yale Law Journal and as Submissions Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. Prior to attending law school, he received an MPhil in Modern History from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in 2004. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Scott has worked for Mayor Gavin Newsom and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. 
obert Schiff is a consultant in New York where he advises private, public, and non-profit organization on issues of strategy and growth. Robert previously pursued an MPhil in Economic and Social History at Oxford University on a Keasby Scholarship and served as the New College, Oxford Middle Common Room President. Mr. Schiff, originally from California, graduated from Haverford College in 2004.Newsletter
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