Monday Meetings

Peru Country Directors 2012

Ibada Wadud

Ibada is an interdisciplinary sustainability professional from Washington, D.C. She began her career in development in 2005 at a women's prison in Quito, Ecuador. Following this experience, she received her BA in Global Justice and Human Rights with minors in Spanish and Hispanic Cultures and Biology. She went on to work as a cultural ambassador and language assistant with the Ministry of Education and Science in Spain. She received her MA in 2008 in Human Rights and International Development from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, graduating summa cum laude. Ibada was pre-admitted to the joint PhD program, but after one year of working on her dissertation decided to begin laying the foundation for a social enterprise focused on fashion as a tool for inclusive, sustainable development. Since then, she has redirected her interests in order to pursue a more creative path, exploring the relationships between biodiversity, poverty and design. In 2011, after working with Leaders for Social Change at Yale, she was awarded a grant from Fondazione Zegna to conduct research in sustainable development and social innovation in the fashion industry at The University of Ideas (UNIDEE) in Italy. When she is not working she is traveling, knitting, watching TED videos, reading the latest issue of Entrepreneur  and/or Marie Claire (sometimes simultaneously!), collaborating with other aspiring changemakers, and studying sustainable design at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Iba is also known as The Ethical Fashion Missionary, her ardent blogging personality.

Jared Baird

Jared Baird was born in Up-state New York and raised in western North Carolina.  He is currently studying public health at Brigham Young University with plans to eventually have a career in global epidemiology.  His interest in international development and humanitarian aid began with his 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mexico City, and exploded with his experience last year as a volunteer for HELP in El Salvador.  While he is currently studying public health, he is very interested in all aspects of development including micro-finance and home development/construction, as well as all health projects.  In his free time, Jared loves to be outdoors no matter what the activity. From snowboarding, hiking, climbing or soccer, anything outside is worth pursuing.  

Yours Truly, HELP Headquarters