Board of Directors

Hannah Akre

Co-Founder, Executive Director     

Hannah Akre co-founded Gloves Go Global in 2012 and spearheaded the organization’s transition to Health Goes Global in 2019. She has served as Director of the organization since inception in 2012. Her unwavering passion for global health and preventative medicine has taken her to communities in Kenya, Haiti, Costa Rica, Panama, and Guyana. She aims to embrace local norms in conjunction with preventative health implementation. She is interested in shedding light on public health issues in the United States, as well, and caring for those in our own neighborhoods. Hannah has obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Molecular Biology from Colgate University, a Masters of Medical Science from the University of Vermont, and graduated medical school from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine where she was a “Care for the Underserved” Scholar. She now works in Washington DC at Georgetown University National Rehabilitation Hospital as a resident doctor specializing in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She enjoys fly fishing and planting vegetable gardens.

Geneva Stolze

Co-founder

Geneva began her journey as an international humanitarian at a young age, building houses in Mexico, organizing sports leagues for the deaf in Argentina, teaching Spanish at an international humanitarian aviation organization, Wings of Hope, and translating with the same organization in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She routinely volunteered with orphanages, medical clinics, and a crisis pregnancy center in Kenya. After graduating from Duke University, she moved to Spain and began teaching at the American School of Madrid. Her passion for helping others and her hobby of photography evolved into working with the World Health Organization’s vaccination initiatives throughout Asia and the Pacific. She moved to Geneva Switzerland, where she published photography for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mines Victims Unit, of her work in Cambodia, and later held multiple exhibitions in Mexico City. 

She returned to the United States in 2008 to complete the post baccalaureate program in pre-medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, where she began collecting unused laboratory gloves from students, and later coordinating university wide collections. Through her partnership with the clinics in Kenya, as well as with Wings of Hope, she connected the surplus of gloves, which would otherwise be trashed, with a great need. Her goal was to protect healthcare workers and patients alike by eliminating hand to hand contraction of diseases, using free channels of distribution of gloves that would otherwise go to waste. Pairing surplus with need to prevent disease was the founding principle of Gloves Go Global, which would later evolve into Health Goes Global to encompass various other preventative health initiatives.

Betsy Assoumou

Chief Financial Officer

Betsy joined Health Goes Global in July 2019 as Chief Financial Officer. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry at Williams College, Betsy earned a Master of Science in Accounting/Master of Business Administration at the D'Amore-Mckim School of Business at Northeastern University. As a certified public accountant, Betsy gained six-and-a-half years of experience working in audit services, public and private industry accounting. Betsy is thrilled to have the opportunity to use her accounting experience to promote preventative health around the world. Betsy hopes to impact medicine in the future by decreasing health disparities for minority populations. She earned a Master of Medical Science from the University of Vermont and is a third year medical student at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. In her free time, Betsy enjoys a variety of fitness classes and spending time with her dog, Harper.

Alexandra Lazares

Alexandra is the co-founder and CEO of Glendi, a Mediterranean lifestyle brand with a mission to help people live healthier, happier lives through the Mediterranean lifestyle. Her brand sells handmade, high quality fashion and jewelry products from the Mediterranean region. Every purchase supports the local Mediterranean economy and artisans who specialize in making unique, handcrafted goods. Previously, Alexandra worked as a Senior Product Manager for Amazon developing privately branded products in the Consumables space. She is also an investor in SpringTide Ventures, a Venture Capital firm with a mission to invest in healthcare startups with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is excited to use her supply chain and product background to scale Health Goes Global's mission of preventative healthcare.