WHO WE ARE
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Executive Director (Co-founder)
Carolyn "Toc" Dunlap Vice President (Co-founder) Dr. Sakena Yacoobi We have a small, dedicated staff that work on a daily basis with the Afghan Institute of Learning in Afghanistan and our Tibetan Bon Project in India. |
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Executive Director
Toc Dunlap co-founded Creating Hope International. She is Executive Director and President of the board. Toc is an educator, lawyer, teacher trainer, and expert in providing quality technical assistance to grassroots health and education NGOs in developing countries, including those that work with refugees.
Over the past three decades, Toc has worked with Afghan women and Afghan NGOs to help them as they provide education, healthcare and skills training in Afghanistan and to refugees in Pakistan. Since 1996, Toc Dunlap has worked closely with the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an Afghan women’s non-governmental organization.In 2002, Toc initiated a new program to help a group of Tibetan Bon refugees in India. For Toc's full biography see link below. |
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Toc's Full Biography
Vice President
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is the CEO of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), which she founded in 1996 in response to the lack of education and healthcare faced by the Afghan people after decades of war and strife. Since its founding, AIL has either directly or indirectly impacted the lives of millions of Afghans. Under her leadership, AIL continues as an innovative organization working at the grassroots level helping communities and individuals. She is also co- founder and Vice President of Creating Hope International (CHI). In addition, she has established private facilities in Afghanistan: 4 schools, a hospital and a radio station.
Dr. Yacoobi has 6 honorary doctorates from institutions, including Princeton University. Dr. Yacoobi was named 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate and honored in 2016 as the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education awardee, the 2015 WISE Prize for Education Laureate and the 2013 recipient of the Opus Prize. She is both a Kravis Prize and Gruber Prize awardee. Sakena is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Social Entrepreneur, Ashoka fellow and was nominated as one of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She serves on a number of boards and panels including, New Global Citizens, the Advisory Council for the Center for Social Impact Learning at theMiddlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and is a former board member for the Global Fund for Women. She is an advisor to the Fetzer Institute, and is a member of the US - Afghan Women’s Council.
Before founding AIL, Dr. Yacoobi was a professor at D’Etre University in Detroit, MI and was Coordinator of the Women’s Programs for the International Rescue Committee in the Afghan refugee camps in Peshawar, Pakistan. For Sakena full Biography see link below.
Dr. Yacoobi has 6 honorary doctorates from institutions, including Princeton University. Dr. Yacoobi was named 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate and honored in 2016 as the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education awardee, the 2015 WISE Prize for Education Laureate and the 2013 recipient of the Opus Prize. She is both a Kravis Prize and Gruber Prize awardee. Sakena is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Social Entrepreneur, Ashoka fellow and was nominated as one of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She serves on a number of boards and panels including, New Global Citizens, the Advisory Council for the Center for Social Impact Learning at theMiddlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and is a former board member for the Global Fund for Women. She is an advisor to the Fetzer Institute, and is a member of the US - Afghan Women’s Council.
Before founding AIL, Dr. Yacoobi was a professor at D’Etre University in Detroit, MI and was Coordinator of the Women’s Programs for the International Rescue Committee in the Afghan refugee camps in Peshawar, Pakistan. For Sakena full Biography see link below.
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Staff
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Elizabeth Appleyard has worked with CHI and AIL since 2004. She has a BA in English from Durham University, UK and qualified as a lawyer in the UK. Elizabeth spent part of her childhood in Hong Kong and Taiwan and lived for many years in the USA. She now resides in her native England. |
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Nancy Mendicki is President of SBB Tax & Accounting Services LLC. We have been fortunate to have had Nancy provide her accounting and financial skills to both CHI and AIL. We have been a client of Nancy's Michigan based firm since 2003. |
Photography credits
Donald Cardwell - photo Toc Dunlap biography page
Ginna Fleming
William Marshall of WKM Photography - Eighth National Role Model Award
William Vazquez - Photographer "Maternal Health Initiative" supported by a grant from the Abbott Fund
Afghan Institute of Learning
Christine Olsson - World Children's Prize
Alissa Everett
Ginna Fleming
William Marshall of WKM Photography - Eighth National Role Model Award
William Vazquez - Photographer "Maternal Health Initiative" supported by a grant from the Abbott Fund
Afghan Institute of Learning
Christine Olsson - World Children's Prize
Alissa Everett
