Melanie Cataldi, MPH
President
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there - George Harrison
With over 30 years of management and leadership experience, Melanie Cataldi is a committed thought-leader and collaborator for social justice. She has expertise in non-profit management and operations, program design, cross-sector partnership-building and social enterprise.
Motivated by passion and a strong belief in leveraging strengths and finding focus, Melanie is a strategy-builder helping organizations bring stronger, and more sustainable impact to their missions.
Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, PhD, LSW
Senior Consultant
Change is possible if we work together
Carolina Hausmann-Stabile is a health scientist with over 20 years of experience working in the United States and Latin America. As an expert in culturally attuned mixed-methods and community-based participatory research, she contributes the methodological and conceptual skills to develop feasibility planning and analysis of programmatic efforts involving multicultural stakeholders and communities.
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Carolina specializes in working across complex systems, and connecting people around a shared desire to improve the lives of others.
Roopa Seshadri, PHD AM
Senior Consultant
Nothing is permanent, except change
Roopa Seshadri is a quantitative social scientist with 25 years of experience conducting research into child and adolescent human services and wellbeing. She has partnered with academia, government and community organizations around program evaluation and evidence-informed approaches to programs and policies.
Roopa specializes in supporting organizations in their mission of justice and equity by promoting cross-system partnerships, creating a learning culture through knowledge-sharing and impact-oriented strategies, and advocating for sustainable collaborative solutions.
Meet the Team
Makenna Lenover, MPH
Project Manager
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
Makenna Lenover is a bio-cultural anthropologist with an interest in behavioral health and chronic disease prevention. She is currently investigating behavior and irritable bowel syndrome, with a focus on nutrition. This has led to her participation with Penn State Health Network’s Community Health Needs Assessment and her role as a board member with PA Eats.
She has experience conducting mixed-methods epidemiological research and is passionate about merging anthropology and public health to produce culturally competent interventions.
Advisors
Dr. Saba Khan, MD
Senior Medical Advisor
Dr. Saba Khan is an academic pediatrician and physician executive with over 15+ years' experience in developing programs to address societal root causes of poor health outcomes. She is a leader in the "Food as Medicine" space and and is currently the Director of Food Pharmacies at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Saba has developed economically viable social determinant of health programming focusing on bottom-up solutions, that is accountable, feasible and profitable to the communities it serves as well as non-and-for profit stakeholders.
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Saba is a regular contributor on pediatric social determinant issues, intergenerational wellness and obesity for several well-known publications and media outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC, ABC, NPR and others.
True equity can be achieved through
common humanity - President George W Bush
