Meet our amazing team & Alumni

The OSMS team has included engineers, medical professionals, scientists, researchers, makers, designers, software developers, organizers, activists, international development professionals, and translators. Our professional team works with dedicated volunteers across the globe to provide high-quality information and guidance to communities all over the world.

Current Team

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Sabrina Merlo

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Head of Local Response

Sabrina Merlo has a long career in celebrating makers. She currently serves as Local Response Lead at Open Source Medical Supplies, building an international network and community of practice across makers, engineers, manufacturers, local organizers, experts, and institutions around the world working in their regions to meet supply challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Before OSMS, Sabrina spent 10 years at Maker Faire, the internationally recognized festival brand celebrating makers and creative culture. Sabrina produced the flagship events in 2018 and 2019. She also developed the global network of community-driven Maker Faire events that annually reached 220 events in 44 countries reaching over 1.4M people annually. Prior to Maker Faire, Sabrina produced science and tech experiences for NASA and The Exploratorium, and directed brand building campaigns for MOTO Development Group and Code for America.

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Christina Cole

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Head of Documentation

Christina has a background in healthcare documentation and previously worked in the medical-legal sector. She enjoys raising rabbits and volunteers at local farms and maker spaces.

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Victoria Jaqua

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Medical Community Lead

Victoria specializes in radiologic technology, cardiac procedures, and staff education. She has a background in art and design, especially earth crafts and fabric technology.

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Katie Emerick

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Data Management Lead

Her work as a senior technical writer by day, a history of being a maker in many mediums, and passion for learning new things and connecting people are all crucial to Katie’s work with OSMS. She lives in sunny Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, their three children, dog, and tortoises. When she isn’t working, you can find her writing, knitting, playing board games, or hiking and camping in the high desert with her family.

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Sophia Janowitz

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Designer

Sophia Janowitz seeks out opportunities to make things, especially when that means collaborating—which has led to creating chickens out of bathmats for Lincoln Center, drawing llamas for a poetry book by Sarah Kay, and illustrating pineapples for Paris’s Jardin des Plantes. She holds a master’s degree in Typography design, and sometimes she makes things that aren’t plants or animals.

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Angela Forgues

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Head of Medical Research

Angela Forgues is the Head of Medical Research at Open Source Medical Supplies. By day, she is a Program Manager in Research and Analysis at Aurora WDC, a boutique strategy and technology firm, where she serves as a healthcare and life sciences expert for health/pharma/life science engagements.

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Gerald Brown

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Lead Back End Engineer & DevOps

Equal parts Dwight Schrute and Ben Wyatt, Gerald obsesses over subjects others would consider mundane: mechanical keyboards, minimalistic terminals, and min-maxing turnip farming. In his adolescence, he sang in a punk band, played accordion in an indie band, and only ever played piano live. Other interests include: FOSS, standup comedy, *nix, horror films, the Python programming language, and hobbyist game development.

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OSMS Alumni

Gui Cavalcanti

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Former Co-Executive Director

Charlene Charis Chow

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Former Lead QA Engineer

Anthony Dace

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Former Visual Storyteller

Tobias Deml

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Former Global Impact Data Lead

David de Weerdt

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Former Global Network Lead

Kimly Do

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Former Technical Documentation Lead

Aysh Heneghan

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Former Medical Research Technology Lead

Ja’dan Johnson

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Former Head of Communications

Josh Leslie

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Former Lead Front End Engineer

Kate Rowe

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Former Head of Technology

Devon Rowland

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Former Operations & Social Media Strategy Lead

Molly Wenig Rubenstein

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Former Co-Executive Director

Thank you, OSMS Community!

From a Facebook group of a few dozen people to an international organization with a community of more than 74,000 engineers, makers, medical professionals, crafters, and people who just want to help, Open Source Medical Supplies has been a labor of love from the beginning. The following members have been major contributors to building Open Source Medical Supplies and fighting COVID-19 through building resilient and open source communities.
Thank you to everyone who has made this organization possible!

Adam Shrey • Adrian “Bunny” Sauriol • Alessandra Nölting • Alex Fox • Bear Kaufman • Ben Brautigam • Brendan Lake • Bri Skillings • Brooke Filsinger • Callie Parker • Demetrius Norman • Dom Sessa • Dorothy Jones-Davis • Eliza Passell • Helene Horowitz • Iris Luckhaus • Jeff Wetzel • Jen Vargas • Jess Hobbs • Jessica Margolin • Jia-En Danny Chen • Jim Ankrom • Jocelyn Songer • John Kalil • Jonathan Myers • Josh Hildebrand • Justi Sexton • Karen Jordan Pfarr • Kyle Horton • Leigh Christie • Lisa Storc • Matteo Borri • Max Firke • Megan Brewster • Mimi Marquis • Molly Stratton • Nathan Parker • Nicole Vassallo • Owen Satre • Patricia Leung • Paulius Briedis • Rachel Sadd • Rusty Oliver • Samm Maloney • Sarah Miller • Sean Campbell • Sean Munger • Shannon Hoover • Shawn Groberg • Steve Young • Vasumathi Raman • Yajur Sondhi •