"Ending the cycle", One Ummah on LO Review. (2/14/08)
2007 Annual board meeting (5/16/07)
ABC News feature on American Assistance for Cambodia (2/7/07)
Executive Summary Of 7th trip to Cameroon (9/13/06)
Blake Goud has joined OneUmmah as the Executive Director (9/1/06)
Elizabeth Bourgeois joins One Ummah Foundation (9/1/06)
Board of Directors
(click to see bio):
Abdul Rahman Zamawi
Alicia Eastman
Barbara Price
Bernie Krisher
David Streight
Don Vallaster
John Lassell
Kamran Ansari (Program Director – India)
Elizabeth Bourgeois
Mohammad S. Rahman (Co-Founder)
Nora Semonsen (President)
Salma Ahmad
Sara Izquierdo
Tasneem S. Rahman (Vice President)
Tom McCaulley
Arshad MuhammadOfficers:
Nora Semonsen, President
Tasneem Rahman, Vice President, Co-Founder
Mohammad Rahman, Co-FounderFounders:
Mohammad S. Rahman, Co-Founder
Tasneem S. Rahman, Co-FounderSTAFF
Executive Director
Peter Braun pbraun@oneummah.comAssistant Executive Director
Kasey Johnson kasey@oneummah.comBIOS
Alicia Eastman is a Partner and Executive Director of Asia Pacific Capital Group, Manager of the GE Asia Pacific Capital Technology Fund and Asia Pacific Capital Fund II. Previously, she worked for the Head of Global Strategy and Alliances at Elan, a US$9B pharmaceutical company. Prior to Elan, she was Vice President of Prudential's Asia Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund (acquired by Darby and now Franklin Templeton), concentrating on portfolio management and investments in technology and communications throughout developing Asia. She was a Founding Principal at NetFuel Ventures (acquired by Arch Development, a subsidiary of the University of Chicago), and has held international strategy and investment positions at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Lend Lease. She was also a financial analyst in the Asian Operations group at AirTouch International (Vodafone) monitoring joint venture investments in India, Korea, and Japan.
Alicia was a founding member of the Wharton Club of Hong Kong and heads the Fletcher Club of Hong Kong. She holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is proficient in Russian and based in Hong Kong.
Barbara Price graduated from Valencia High School, in Placentia, California, in 1973 then attended Chapman University in Orange County, California. While attending Chapman University she spent a semester in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. While majoring in anthropology with a minor in health education, the time spent in these countries allowed her great insight into the diversity of different cultures and the complexity of different social economic standards. Barbara currently lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon with her husband, Fred. She is blessed to have her daughter, Stephanie, and two grand sons, Derek and Ethan. living close by. She also has three wonderful step daughters also living close by. Her hobbies, in addition to her family, include hiking, traveling, reading and she is currently learning how to play the piano. She looks forward to working with the One Ummah Foundation and feels very honored to be able to work with a group of such well respected, spiritual and devoted people that have and will make a difference in many lives of people that have not had the opportunities that so many of us take for granted.
After college, Barbara worked in the health industry in various positions from private nursing to hospital administration.She moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon in 1982 and began working for the Mountain Park Home Owners Association. Barbara has worked for the Mountain Park Home Owners Association for 25 years. She is currently the Executive Manager. The Association is one of the largest home owners associations in the state of Oregon. She has been a volunteer for Special Olympics, Our House Hospice Center, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts and Raphael House Women’s Shelter.
Mohammad Saeed Rahman is the founder of several business ventures and two non-profit organizations. His ventures include Rubicon Global Asset Management, Rubicon Global Holdings, Rubicon Global Research, AlwaysOn Network, Maui-Rubicon Broadband and Z-Motors US.
Mr. Rahman has 25 years experience in the financial industry as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Wachovia and Vice President for Private Clients at Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Rahman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Portland State University. He attends Reed College and is currently working towards his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) at Reed. Mr. Rahman was an adjunct professor at the School of Marketing & Finance at Portland State University for eighteen years and has served as a Board Member for the Portland State Endowment Foundation.
Mr. Rahman is the founder of the One Ummah Foundation and founder & chairman of the Institute of Halal Investing, an independent global nonprofit think tank on Islamic finance, banking & investing.
David Streight is executive director of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education , a national organization that provides resources and educational opportunities to elementary, middle, and secondary schools for the moral and spiritual development of children and for high-quality instruction about the world's religious traditions. He has also served as co-director of Religious Studies in Secondary Schools, a coalition of teachers in public, private, and Catholic schools working to upgrade the quality of teaching about religions.
A nationally certified school psychologist who spent three decades teaching in public, Catholic, and private independent schools, he has also translated a half-dozen books, primarily on Islam, for academic presses. In 1990 the National Endowment for the Humanities named him one of 50 "teacher-scholars" in the United States.
