Our Board
Yusupha Jow
President-Elect
My name is Yusupha Jow, and I currently work as a software engineering director for Okta in the Identity Security engineering space. My experience around leading teams goes back many years, working for companies such as Twilio, RSA, and America Online in various engineering and leadership roles. I am passionate about developing human capabilities and leading organizations to tangible outcomes. I am particularly interested in this position…
Saina Sosseh
Treasurer
I am Saina Sosseh. I am very excited to be elected as Treasurer of this prestigious Association. I have over 20 years of related Banking, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). I am a skilled BSA/AML/OFAC Sanctions, investigations, and Risk Management professional with demonstrated history of success in the banking, money service business and insurance industry. I combined effective…
Pa Sako Darboe
Embassy Liason
Pa Sako Darboe is the First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of The Gambia in Washington, DC (https://gm.usembassy.gov/). He started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad in 2014. While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he attended diplomatic training abroad. To name a few, Pa Sako attended the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR) in Kuala Lumpur and the Romanian…
Kunna Faal
Director of Agriculture & Processing
Kunna Faal is a Quality Assurance / Continuous Improvement Manager with over 20 years of experience in the food industry. In that time, she has held a variety of food safety roles to including lab manager and supplier quality manager. She is a graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and on track to finish her Master’s in Food Safety at Michigan State University. Kunna is passionate about Food…
Mariam Bojang
Director of Membership & Public Relations
Mariam graduated from the University of Texas at Tyler and holds a BA and an MA in political science and government with a minor in international relations. She currently works as a Project Manager for the Seattle Downtown Emergency Service Center, and she is a survivor representative for the Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation. She has also gained experience as the Global Head of Programs for the Youth for Sustainable Development Foundation…
Sainabou Jallow
Director of Health & Health Systems
My name is Sainabou Jallow, commonly known as Comfort or Saina Jallow. I am interested in the position of Director of Health and Health systems. I am a Nurse Practitioner currently working with Harmony transitional care making rounds at a skill nursing facility. I have been practicing for almost 3 years, but prior I have been in healthcare since 2006. I worked at Virginia Hospital Center as a Certified Nursing Assistant, working my way up…
Baboucarr Mbye
Director of Information, Technology, & Communications
My name is Baboucarr Mbye. I am a software developer and have been working in software development and IT infrastructure for approximately 4 years. In high school, I was also involved in the Audio Video Technology and Film program for all 4 years of my attendance, so I have experience with film as well as building public facing web applications. During this time, I have been responsible for the maintenance of various web applications as…
Ousman Mahmud
Director of Science, Technology, & Innovation
Dr. Ousman Mahmud is an Application Scientist at Linguamatics-IQVIA. He leverages his interdisciplinary experience together with NLP analytics to design, build and provide solutions to solve customer challenges. He has over 10 years of informatics experience working in Industry and Academia. Dr Mahmud has backgrounds in bioinformatics, computational biology, infectious diseases and genomics. Dr. Mahmud has a PhD in Genetics from the University of Georgia…
Ndeye Marie Njie
Director of Energy, Infrastruture, & Climate Science
Ndeye Marie Njie brings to the GDEI Board experience in planning strategies for project development and delivery and client management. Her accountability and collaborative philosophy ensure decisions are applied and multidisciplinary teamwork is promoted toward a shared goal. Her vision for the Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Science Committee is to identify gaps in access to affordable and reliable energy, and infrastructure…
Jarra Jagne
Founder
Jarra Jagne is a veterinarian with over 25 years of experience in poultry disease management. She is a Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Population Medicine at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine (https://www.vet.cornell.edu/research/faculty/jarra-jagne). She translates and interprets poultry test data for veterinary practitioners and poultry producers as well as provides farm technical assistance to commercial…
Veronica P.S. Njie-Carr
Founder
Veronica Njie-Carr is a nurse researcher and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (https://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/directory/veronica-njie-carr/), with 35 years of nursing experience. Her work in academia spans over 25 years in universities and colleges in the Baltimore-Washington area in the United States including the University of Delaware, Howard University, and Johns Hopkins…