Jay Nash: Chairman
Liz Chant: Vice-Chairman & Treasurer
Caroline Savitzky: Development Officer
Lisa Seymour: DR Congo Project Manager

Dr. Jon Andrus: Chief, Immunization Unit, Pan American Health Organization
Tony Gambino: Former Director for DR Congo, United States Agency for International Development
Judith Heumann: Director of the Department on Disability Services, District of Columbia
Dr. Lauro Halstead: Director, Post Polio Program, National Rehabilitation Hospital
Faida Mitifu: Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the United States
Ellyn Ogden: USAID, Worldwide Polio Eradication Coordinator

Judith Affatato
Charles Bretz
Nancy Bolan
James Bond
Scott Campbell
Mary-Louise Eagleton
Alberta Finch
Joan Headley
Carol O´Reilly
Steven Suskin
Victor Tanner
Rudina Vojvoda
Catherine Volter

StandProud's chairman, Jay A. Nash, is a graduate of Amherst College and of the University of Illinois´ doctoral program in Linguistics. Mr. Nash first began assisting disabled persons in the third world when serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Congo–an activity which he later continued when working for Catholic Relief Services in Angola and the Dominican Republic. After returning to the Congo in 1998 to work for the United States Agency for International Development, he assisted a group of disabled Congolese friends to organize to establish a brace shop where poor disabled youths could obtain free orthopedic equipment, then helped found IPVRC in the United States to serve as a funding source for that organization and others like it in other developing countries. It is Mr. Nash's belief that with only moderate resources from the developed world, it should be possible to assist most previous polio victims to obtain simple orthopedic aids which greatly enhance their mobility and dignity, and that this is an important complement to current efforts to eradicate the disease entirely.