The Board

Superemos Foundation’s Board (2019-2021)

Elected by the general assembly of 8 every 2 year.

• President Gladys Ruiz González

• Vice President Hilda Duarte Solorzano

• Treasurer Octavio Corea Araica

• Fiscal officer Bertha Sanabria López

• Secretary Stephen Sefton

• Accountant José López Hoppington

The office is run on a volunteer basis by members of the board. 

Lissa Shaw of the barr foundation

We are grateful to Bob Barr’s daughter Lissa Shaw for sustaining the Barr Foundation’s commitment to Superemos by administering and coordinating financial support for our community programs.

Dr. Peter Loewinthan is a pediatrician recently retired from a long career serving patients at the Dorchester House, now known as DOTHouse Health, and as a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Since 1999, Dr. Loewinthan has been hugely influential in developing our community health care programs, organizing an ever growing annual medical brigade, supporting fundraising efforts, and growing important relationships between Superemos and local health officials of the Ministry of Health as well as health professionals from (mostly) the United States.

Dr. Michelle Henshaw is the Associate Dean for Global & Population Health, a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research at the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University, and the Co-Director of the Northeast Center to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities, also housed at Boston University. She has partnered with our organization and worked closely with the Ministry of Families and Adolescents to build capacity within the Centro de Infantil preschool program to improve children's oral health through teacher education, teacher training in fluoride varnish application, classroom toothbrushing programs, and parent workshops. This year, she will also lead a new partnership with the Ministry of Health to enhance and expand the classroom education provided in the local elementary school.

Dr. Luz Marilis Lopez is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Global Health Core at the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health at Boston University School of Social Work. She has been greatly supportive to our organization in collaborating to grow our efforts addressing domestic violence within our Intervention, Change and Education Service. During medical brigades, she and her team assist with domestic violence screenings and assessments in coordination and partnership with ICES. Additionally, she has led efforts to collaborate with the Ministry of Health to promote integration of domestic violence screening into other medical brigades in the region and to expand social work and trauma-informed services within Superemos and throughout the Estelí region, as well as providing educational workshops for the psychology and social work students and faculty at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Estelí.

Christine King Memorial Trust
The Christine King Memorial Trust was set up by Christine‘s family after her tragic early death, to commemorate a woman who despite being an ethnic minority in Britain, attained two PhDs in Science and History of Science. She has always supported women’s education and believed this is the path for a better future for all. Since 2002, the CK Trust has funded the "Christine King" Multi-Service Cooperative as a partner organization to facilitate the development and implementation of the foundation's community projects as well as the classroom, workshop and office infrastructure, which comprise the current community center campus.