Dustin Pattison, Executive Director
Dustin graduated from CSU, Chico with a degree in Music Business. He was the founder and director of Catacombs, an art café in Chico that held concerts for local and national bands and hosted discussion groups on religion, politics and issues of social justice. After an extended trip to Malawi, Africa in 2003, Dustin now focuses his time and energies on strategies to help African communities successfully respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis. He currently serves as Bola Moyo's Executive Director. He is an accomplished songwriter and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

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Desirée Cooper, Former Executive Assistant
Desirée is a senior at Portland State University majoring in Community Development with an emphasis on Economic Development.  She developed a keen interest in development issues in Africa when she interned for the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa several years ago. She spent Summer 2007 working with us as Executive Assistant after completing her internship with Bola moyo. She will spend several months this winter and fall interning and teaching at a community center in rural coastal Kenya, and afterward will join her husband in England where he is attending graduate school. She aspires to work in the field of development and human rights advocacy in sub-Saharan Africa.  She loves travel, film, hiking, and her husband (not necessarily in that order).

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Patty Narvaez, Former Intern (2006-2007)
Patty graduated from Portland State University in April 2007, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with a focus on Latin America.  She is passionate about social and economic justice, human rights, and diversity.  She aspires to work in the field of grassroots international "development." In the past she has done community work in Latin America, and she thoroughly enjoyed learning more about Africa through her work with Bola Moyo. She will likely spend the next couple of years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Asia. She loves travel, art, music, and film.