MEET THE TEAM
Consultants
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.
Josette Huber
Junior Consultant
Josette Hammerstone Huber is a strategic and results-driven leader with over 10 years of experience designing and executing high-impact communications, program management, and social impact initiatives. She is passionate about uniting people around shared stories, navigating complex challenges, and fostering innovation to solve problems.
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.
Project Managers
Makenna Moyer, PhD
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.
Rachel Mazza
Project Manager
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Rachel Mazza is a communications specialist with experience spanning internal and external communications and affairs, marketing, design, event planning, and educational campaigns. Rachel also has experience in board administration and fundraising, having co-managed a successful $12M capital campaign.
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As a creative, Rachel is passionate about crafting clear and effective communications and branding to help further organizations' missions and inspire others to join efforts.
Advisors
Sara Hertz
Advisor
Sara Hertz has 35 years of experience working with various nonprofits, from local to multi-national organizations. Her skills are in philanthropic and earned resource generation and organizational operations. She has experience in fund development and board and governance processes and has secured record-breaking gifts for organizations. Sara has served in leadership roles and built sustainable development programs at the Nature Conservancy, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Conservation International, Philabundance, Philadelphia Zoo, and the University of Pennsylvania. In a consulting role, Sara served as counsel for the $50 million campaign to create a visionary campus on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue site. She has also acted as the national development director for the Children’s Literacy Initiative and provided strategic counsel and interim development staffing for various organizations.
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
Carol Larach
Advisor
Carol Larach is the Director of Advisory Services within Mathematica’s Federal Medicaid Learning and Technical Assistance community practice. Before joining Mathematic, Carol worked for the Medicaid behavioral health managed care division of the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health.
Carol’s areas of expertise include Medicaid, managed care, integrated care, behavioral health, community health, population health management, provider management, stakeholder engagement and convening.
