Board of Trustees & Management
ABOUT PREVAL FOUNDATION
Claude Préval
Founder
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Claude founded the not-for-profit organization Preval Foundation to advocate and elevate childhood education and fight extreme poverty. His philanthropy efforts are focused in impoverished countries around the world. Claude is a published author and award winning artist with experience as an engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and policy advisor. He currently serves as an advisory contributor to several startups and non-profit organizations.
The Claude Preval Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded to confront extreme poverty and elevate children education. The foundation leads effective, efficient and sustainable solutions designed to a comprehensive approach that combines a dynamic economic growth program with access to essential social infrastructure such as education, healthcare, and empowerment of youth.
Our education mission is to help building schools, establish strong, permanent and comprehensive programs with the necessary infrastructure to provide training, tools, and opportunities to enable those who are impoverished to lift themselves out of poverty.
Our healthcare aim is to help provide robust health and nutrition programs to save children’s lives and ensure they grow healthy.
Preval Foundation works to improve the education, health and nutrition of children, with special attention to poor and vulnerable communities. We work in hard-to-reach and impoverished communities, as well as with families hard hit by natural disasters and conflict.
For instance, in Haiti, our goal is to provide a long-term, comprehensive socio-economic development program to address the lack of schools and poverty throughout the country. We also want to help create vibrant regional communities that anchor the rural populations in their places of residence and stem out-migration towards overpopulated and economically depressed urban areas. A better standard of living and education strengthens economic growth, and can attract much needed professionals such teachers, doctors, nurses, and entrepreneurs to further enrich and diversify regional life.
Kate Schuster
Vice Chair & Global Director
Kate Schuster oversees the Preval Foundation’s Operations and Development programs. She also oversees compliance, publications, relations, research and data analytics. Kate is a lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in consulting and private law practice.
Kate is an accomplished public speaker and has written articles for Benefits Law Journal, Employee Relations Law Journal, and Employee Benefits Journal. She has also served as a faculty member for programs sponsored by the American Law Institute/American Bar Association, Health Enhancement Research Organization, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, and Employee Benefits Institute of America.
Kate is on the advisory board of BNA Tax Management's Compensation Planning Journal and the steering committee of the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network's DC chapter.
Kate earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and a law degree, with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was an associate editor for the law review. She is a member of the Illinois Bar.
Evelyne Gadant
Vice President & International Humanitarian Affairs Director
Evelyne has worked in public affairs for over a decade. After several years in the office of Kaufman Campaigns Consultants, she worked in several public affairs roles, including head of consulting services for BIBA Medical. From 2006 to 2010 she served as a councillor, sitting as a cabinet member in the Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
As the Director of International Humanitarian Affairs, Evelyne provides senior level counsel and guidance to many groundbreaking humanitarian campaigns for the Preval Foundation.
Evelyne is a French native and received a Master's degree in International Affairs and Foreign Policies from the prestigious Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in Paris, France.
Sabrina Wang
Vice President, Policy and Humanitarian Response, Senior Legal Counsel
Sabrina has extensive experience advising on complex issues relating to investments in private equity, venture capital and hedge funds, real estate investments, estate planning and charitable giving. Her clients include fund managers, real estate investors, film/television producers, and business owners and executives.
Sabrina began her career at Arthur Andersen in San Francisco, with a focus on serving high-net-worth individuals. Thereafter, she worked at WTAS LLC and Deloitte.
Sabrina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and a minor degree in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Law degree from San Jose State University.
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