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New Staff at CHIP (Center for High Impact Philanthropy)
Last summer, the School of Social Policy & Practice announced the creation of its newest center, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy. In the months following, Executive Director Katerina Rosqueta began hiring the Center’s team. Today, CHIP’s staff includes Kathleen Noonan (Associate Director), Carol A. McLaughlin (Research Director, Global Public Health), Francis H. Barchi (Senior Fellow, Global Programs), Autumn Walden (Administrative Coordinator), Mickey Jou (Research Assistant), Swapna Putcha (CHIP Wharton Fellow), and Jelena Djordjevic (Research Intern).
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Autumn Walden, Jelena Djordjevic, Mickey Jou, Kathleen Noonan
Kathleen Noonan, J.D., is a founding team member and Associate Director of CHIP. Before joining the Center, Kathleen spent six years as a Senior Associate and Engagement Manager with Casey Strategic Consulting, the consulting arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. As the consulting group’s first member, Kathleen was instrumental in bringing Casey’s expertise in state and local human service systems together with the best methods of private sector strategy consulting. While at Casey, Kathleen led engagements around the country aimed to produce significant, measurable, and lasting public system reforms for the benefit of vulnerable children, families, and communities.
Prior to joining Casey, Kathleen was a practicing attorney at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow where she focused on real estate, specifically deals involving Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. She served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Morris E. Lasker and has worked in public policy positions in New York City with the Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York, Inc., and Bank Street College of Education’s Division of Social Policy.
Carol A. McLaughlin, MD, MPH, is the Research Director for Global Public Health at CHIP. She is an infectious disease doctor who brings a longstanding interest and commitment to global public health. She has been involved with a diverse variety of programs in the developing world including community-based health interventions in Central America and Mexico, field research on emerging viruses with the CDC, clinical programs in Thailand and Vietnam, and public health work addressing antibiotic resistance in cholera and malaria. She most recently served as an HIV medical attending at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, through the Penn Program in Botswana.
After completing dual primary care residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics through the Harvard Combined Program, Carol completed a fellowship in infectious disease at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Peru. She is currently pursuing further training in infectious disease epidemiology and community-based research through a Master in Clinical Epidemiology degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
Francis H. Barchi, M.S., is the Senior Fellow for Global Programs, working to identify faculty, advisors, and resource centers that can inform the Center’s work in global health and development.
Francis brings more than 30 years of foundation, nonprofit consulting and international program experience to this role, including several initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania which brought together academic faculty, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies in multi-disciplinary projects focused on issues in women’s health, HIV, and neuroscience. Previous roles include Executive Vice President of the Dana Foundation (New York, Washington DC) which works to improve brain research and education and President of IdeaCom, Inc. which provides programming, communication and marketing services to foreign government agencies, executive offices of foreign heads of state, Fortune 500 companies, and an array of nonprofit organizations. Francis has held numerous civic leadership roles including Senior Advisor for Women’s Campaign International, and founding member of Allied Arts for DC and Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington.
Autumn Walden, M.A., is the Administrative Coordinator at CHIP, and is currently working on a database (created by CHIP intern Kurt Yusi) that targets the effectiveness of grant money given by the top 10 philanthropic organizations (such as the Gates, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations). Prior to joining the team at CHIP, Autumn received her Master of Arts in Humanities from Arcadia University. During her time in graduate school, she interned at a local radio station in the promotions department. In 2004, Autumn was involved in the Hon. Michael F. Gerber’s campaign for State Representative for the 148th Legislative District.
Mickey Jou serves as CHIP’s Research Assistant, gathering case studies, summaries, and articles pertaining to CHIP projects. Her current research focus is on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of some of the major HIV/AIDS interventions in the field. Mickey is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing.