I'm co-founder of Preciva Incorporated, a business currently developing new screening and diagnostic tests for cervical cancer, with a mission to make screening more accurate, more accessible and more supportive of personal health autonomy for women in both low-and high-income countries. I hold a PhD in Sociology and will complete a Masters in Public Health in early 2008. In addition to my business hat, I'm an academic researcher specializing in health care and displaced populations in an African context; right now I have collaborative projects underway with Ethiopian and South African scholars as well as with other researchers at Oregon State University. I'm also a mother of two first graders, an avid traveler, an activist for reform of our health care system in the United States and a volunteer with the African Women's Coalition of Portland, Oregon.