Our Team

Leadership Team
Brandi Bailey
Board President
Tara Bailey
Secretary
Tessema Bitew
Treasurer
Bob Black
Executive Director
Elias Omer
Project Committee Chair
Deb Fernandes
Board Member
Tim Jacobson
Board Member

Staff

Melody Sargent
Operations Manager
Sue Black
Bookkeeper

Volunteer Support Staff

Maya Dinguana
Admin, Marketing, Blogging, Graphic Design

Maya Dinguana is an invaluable volunteer who has been with us since 2023 and supported us in various roles in marketing, blogging and directly helping the administrative staff.  Maya's blogs are a great perspective on volunteering and international development that have been well received and valuable to others. 

Rachel Black
Graphic Design

Rachel has been an incredible help to our team, providing web design, graphic design skills and more! From our online interactive Annual Reports she developed to our big marketing print at events, Rachel has blessed us with her creative skills everywhere and we are so thankful!

Kristen DeKruyf
Admin, Marketing, Project Volunteer Communications, Graphic Design, Social Media Management

Kristen has been with us since 2021, Kristen has helped with various roles in volunteer coordination, project volunteer communications, administrative, marketing and graphic design. Kristen's bubbly spirit always makes working on large projects together more enjoyable. We are very thankful for her skills and dedication.  

Marcela Guerra
Admin, Marketing, Communications, Graphic Design, Social Media, Administrative Coordinator

Marcela started with us in 2018 as a Volunteer Coordinator and very quickly showed how talented she was! Marcela has helped us develop digital experiences that have helped us retain volunteers and donors. Marcela is extremely knowledgeable in technology and has impressive organizational skills that really help a team work together. Marcela is very versatile and has helped us with every department of this charity to improve multiple functions and abilities. Thank you Marcela!

Ken Wong
Media Coordinator

Ken is a super volunteer! Ken has provided us with his incredible photography and videography skills here in Canada at our Annual General Meetings and around the world!- Like the Dominican Republic and Ethiopia! Ken has gone the extra mile (literally) to capture success stories for us to share with caring Canadians. 

Queen Njoku
Grant Research and Writing

Queen has diligently worked to find and secure grants for various projects of Devxchange. Thanks to her, many projects have been able to get the funding they need to do incredible things.  Queen is a hard worker and so appreciated by her team!

Ida Tsui
Group Trip Coordinator

Ida Tsui is friendly, cheerful and incredibly organized in her work with us. Ida will make you feel comfortable and excited for your upcoming trip with us! Interested in visiting one of our projects or another volunteer opportunity around the world? Let us know!

Patricia Kikuthi
Online Fundraising Progress Coordinator

Patricia is a long time volunteer who has dedicated her time to ensuring our online fundraising progress is recorded and shared across our website campaign pages! Patricia is a lovely human, a pleasure always, and so important to our day to day operations!! 

Urvi Vaity
Grant Research and Writer - Practicum Volunteer

Urvi came to Devxchange through Capilano University in Vancouver. Thanks to Urvi deciding to do her practicum with us, we have been so lucky to have her! Urvi is researching and writing multiple grants for Devxchange and helping us reach more potential funding sources than we ever could in the past. Urvi wants to work in finance when she is finished her schooling and we believe she will be a wonderful asset wherever she finds herself. 

Kaido Whims
Google Ads and SEO Specialist Volunteer

Kaido has blessed our organization with his incredible knowledge of Google Adwords and SEO. Since Kaido has come on, its undeniable that our website has been exploding with traffic and we can't thank him enough. Thanks to Kaido we are reaching a wider audience and we are so excited to see where this takes us! Thanks Kaido!