Founder And Executive Director
CurrentPolish-American from Michigan, Donna’s interest in the Middle East began in 1990 when she initiated a symbolic message to the people of Iraq as a way to end the then stand-off without going to war. Some 10,000 people participated when her New York Times op-ed, Small Lights in the Darkness, was translated into Arabic and presented to the Iraqi Women’s Federation a week before the First Gulf War began. Encouraged by Jerome Wiesner, president emeritus of M.I.T. and former science adviser to President Kennedy, she seeks ways to use technology creatively enough to link good neighbors across the world for education, development, justice, and peace. In 2003, Donna founded Rebuilding Alliance, a U.S. nonprofit that rebuilds communities in areas in conflict and brings the world together to make them safe.
