Staff
- Azibuike Akaba, Policy Associate
- Joel Ervice, Associate Director
- Seham Fare, Office Manager
- Brandon Kitagawa, MS, Policy Associate
- Anne Kelsey Lamb, MPH, Director
- Leslie Louie, MPH, Ph.D., Program Administrator
- Jessica Peters, MPH, Program Associate
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Azibuike Akaba
Policy Associate
Azibuike Akaba is a Policy Associate overseeing the development and implementation of the public health and equity aspects of SB 375. He brings almost two decades of experience as an environmental consultant. He is currently a member of the Freight and Transport coalition and the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative. Prior to joining RAMP, Azibuike served as a climate change policy analyst and a program coordinator for Health Care Without Harm where he developed a climate literacy curriculum for medical professionals to learn about the public health effects of climate change. His research interests include the public health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in the U.S. and he provides technical assistance for environmental justice communities nationwide and internationally. Azibuike is a graduate of the New College of California and he trained as a medical technologist at the Letterman Army Institute of Research.
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Joel Ervice
Associate Director
Joel Ervice is the Associate Director. In partnership with RAMP’s Director, Joel leads strategic plan development and implementation, and manages organizational growth; he also oversees RAMP’s financial management. Programmatically, he supports ongoing communications and state policy efforts and the work of the Environment Committee, including direct support to the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative. Joel serves as Program Manager for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) grant, which designates RAMP as a Center of Excellence in Eliminating Disparities (CEED). Prior to joining RAMP, Joel was a public health media advocacy trainer for the Berkeley Media Studies Group and worked on child care and economic development policy for the National Economic Development and Law Center. After graduation from Whitman College, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, South America.
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Seham Fare
Office Manager
Seham Fare is the Office Manager at RAMP. She provides conference, administrative and website support to the organization. Prior to joining RAMP, Seham was the Administrative Coordinator for the Family Ambassador Project at the Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco, which finds free and low cost resources for children 0-5 years of age. Seham is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
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Brandon Kitagawa, MS
Policy Associate
Brandon Kitagawa, is a Policy Associate for RAMP. He leads RAMP’s Environment Committee and all state level policy efforts for RAMP and CAFA (Community Action to Fight Asthma), a network of asthma coalitions in California that shape local, regional, and state policies to reduce the environmental triggers of asthma for school-aged children. Prior to joining RAMP, Brandon was a Community Organizer in Sacramento, CA working with local communities on youth development, neighborhood safety, and affordable housing. Between his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Brandon served as a Peace Corps Volunteer assisting environmental education, monitoring, and protection efforts of a marine reserve in Belize, Central America. Brandon is a graduate of Santa Clara University and received his MS degree from UC Davis.
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Anne Kelsey Lamb, MPH
Director
Anne Kelsey Lamb is the Director of RAMP. Serving as the Director since 2002, Anne provides overall strategic guidance in working toward the organization’s vision and mission, ensuring a highly effective organization and innovative, successful programs. With a strong interest in both chronic illness and social inequities, she leads all components of the organization’s efforts to reduce the burden of asthma including: technical assistance to community-based asthma coalitions; the provision of a clearinghouse of information on asthma;, convening groups to facilitate networks and capacity-building; and creating change through policy advocacy. Under Anne’s guidance and direction, RAMP has evolved as an organization, significantly expanding its breadth, scope, and size. In 2007, RAMP was awarded a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control to become a Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities and she is the Principal Investigator on this project to reduce asthma disparities among African Americans and Latinos in the Bay Area. Previously, she was a Health Educator at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA. Other previous professional affiliations include: the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Genetics Program, and the Prevention Center of Boston. Anne is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
Leslie Louie, MPH, Ph.D.
Program Administrator
Leslie Louie is the Program Administrator for RAMP. She is responsible for financial planning and the administrative and organizational facets of RAMP projects. Leslie has held several positions in public health including time spent at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland overseeing the adolescent health department, working with service programs on financial planning and sustainability, and running her own research program on genetic risk factors for tuberculosis and HIV in Zimbabwe and Uganda. Leslie is a graduate of UC Berkeley where she received her undergraduate degree, a Masters in Public Health and a Ph.D. in epidemiology.
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Jessica Peters, MPH
Program Associate
Jessica Peters is a Program Associate with RAMP. She leads RAMP’s Clinical Committee, the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative Idling Committee, and all efforts related to Community Health Outreach Workers. Jessica co-leads RAMP’s evaluation activities for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) grant, which designates RAMP as a Center of Excellence in Eliminating Disparities (CEED). Prior to joining RAMP, Jessica utilized her skills at various public health projects related to disparities reduction, tobacco prevention, children’s health insurance and nutrition and childhood obesity prevention. She is a graduate of Winona State University and received her Masters in Public Health from Portland State University.
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