Meet our amazing team.

The OSMS team includes engineers, medical professionals, scientists, researchers, makers, designers, software developers, organizers, activists, international development professionals, and translators. Spread across 5 time zones, our professional team works with hundreds of dedicated volunteers to provide high-quality information and guidance to communities all over the world.

Executive

Gui Cavalcanti

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Co-Executive Director

Gui is the founder and co-Executive Director of Open Source Medical Supplies. Previously, he founded Breeze Automation, an effort with Otherlab, Inc. to develop mass-produced low-cost robots; MegaBots, a viral entertainment company creating gigantic battling robots for international robot duels that earned 40 billion impressions in the press over 4 years; and Artisan’s Asylum, one of the largest makerspaces in the Northeast featuring 40,000 square feet of shop facilities and micro studios and $1M/yr earned income as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. He has extensive experience building virally-growing communities and companies around hardware design and fabrication, combined with experience creating nonprofits for the greater social good.

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Molly Wenig Rubenstein

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Co-Executive Director

Molly is co-Executive Director of Open Source Medical Supplies. She also works with MIT D-Lab, designing programming to strengthen local support ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Previously at D-Lab she ran a grants and mentorship program for a network of local innovation centers in 15 countries in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia, working to build local resilience and promote the development of inclusive and innovative solutions to local challenges. Before joining the D-Lab team in 2015, Molly spent four years co-managing the rapid growth and development of the Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts, one of the largest and longest-standing grassroots community makerspaces in the U.S, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. She has been training and mentoring collaborative community innovation, fabrication, and entrepreneurship programs since 2013.

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Medical

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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Victoria Jaqua

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Medical Research 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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Aysh Heneghan

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Medical Research Technology Lead

Aysh Heneghan is the Medical Team Research Lead for Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS). He is a math and science teacher with experience in lab research and technical writing. While volunteering at his local maker space (Future Forge NM) to develop prototypes and produce protective gear he is also working with the OSMS Medical team to document standards, engineering requirements, and other details that support the continued development of medical designs for the open source community.

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Local Response

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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David de Weerdt

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Global Network Lead

David is Global Network Lead at Open Source Medical Supplies, focused on supporting OSMS’ global partnerships with peers in countries around the world, each in a national coordinating role similar to OSMS in the USA: supporting makers and medical people who are fighting COVID in their communities. He also is Founder and Catalyst of Local Climate Banks, a startup global network in which local impact investment organizations seek to halt climate change and to restore environmental balance by investing in their own communities. In his past he has been a CEO three times: of boutique translation agency GuildTree Global, of social media platform Sceneverse, and of rural wireless internet service provider Everus Communications. He is also a long-time community organizer around democracy issues.

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Tobias Deml

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Global Impact Data Lead

Tobias Deml is a Los Angeles-based, Austrian filmmaker who specializes in social impact entertainment and cause marketing, reaching millions of viewers and creating tens of thousands of impact conversions. A graduate of UC Berkeley, his thesis focused on “Cinema of Change: The Persuasive Impact of Narrative Motion Pictures on Society and Individuals”​. Tobias has shot 8 feature films and his work was distributed on Netflix, Amazon Prime and theatrically. He owns and manages LA-based Prodigium Pictures LLC, a production company specializing in social impact entertainment, and co-founded “Cinema of Change”, a magazine bringing together scientists and artists pursuing impact. During COVID-19, Tobias retooled to utilize both his film producing and industry diplomacy and inter-organization coordination skills to contribute to the fight against the virus. After weeks of searching for a productive organization, he began running the global tally for OSMS and has since expanded into partnership building and impact data tracking and visualization.

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Katie Emerick

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Community Data Management Lead

Katie Emerick is a longtime maker in many mediums, and has history of working for volunteer organizations – from robotics clubs to wildlife rehabilitation centers. Katie studied Communications & Culture at Michigan Technological University, where she served as the CFO-COO of the FIRST Robotics Enterprise Program. Her technical experience, as well as her passions for learning new things and connecting people are crucial to her role on the Local Response team. She now resides in sunny Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, their three children, and two dogs. When she isn’t working, you can find her knitting, playing board games, or hiking and camping in the high desert with her family.

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Documentation

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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Kimly Do

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Technical Documentation Lead

Kimly Do has worked at an aquarium feeding sharks, a used bookstore, a sushi restaurant, an educational camp for girls building ROVs, and several robotics research companies. She is a hang glider pilot, a boardgamer, a pole dancer, a tea drinker, and a proud BTS fan. Appropriately aligned as chaotic neutral, it is fairly easy to bribe her with dumplings and genuine thoughtfulness.

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Communications

Ja’dan Johnson

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Head of Communications

Ja’dan hails from Kingston, Jamaica where he studied Advertising & Design. He moved to South Florida to pursue a career at the intersection of social impact, technology, and design. Ja’dan is an IDEO and IBM trained Enterprise Designer. Before joining the OSMS team, he founded NextGen Creators, a Caribbean based nonprofit training youth to become software engineers.

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Devon Rowland

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Operations & Social Media Strategy Lead

Devon Rowland is a an artist, a communicator, and an organizer who spends a lot of time thinking about how to support her communities, maintain authenticity in workspaces, and what record to put on next.  After ten years running her own business, Devon volunteered to manage a facebook group in March and by April was signing on to be an official team member of Open Source Medical Supplies.  When not on Zoom, Slack, or email, Devon will likely be found dancing in her kitchen, extolling the virtues of Baltimore city, or reading a book with dragons in it.

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Anthony Dace

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Visual Storyteller

Originally from Clovis, NM Anthony studied the practices behind social entrepreneurship in south Florida. Sparking his interest in working with mission driven organisations with a focus on economic, social and cultural impacts. He would define himself as a “thoughtful creative’, working with different digital mediums and is a proud dog dad.

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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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Technology

Kate Rowe

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Head of Technology

Kate Rowe is an experienced Product Manager and has enjoyed leading various engineering and design teams. She recently took a hiatus from the software world and fulfilled her dream of owning a dahlia flower farm. She lives in a tiny house, enjoys impromptu dance parties on her porch, and is learning to sail in Thailand next year.

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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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Josh Leslie

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Lead Front End Engineer

Josh has contributed his time since late March to building and refining various aspects of the OSMS website. His main work has been designing and coding the front-end Project and Category library pages working in tandem with key team members.

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Charlene Charis Chow

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Lead QA Engineer

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Thank you, OSMS Community!

From a facebook group of a few dozen people to an international organization with a community of more than 70,000 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 • 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 •