THE SWAP TEAM
Expresses its diversity through experienced leadership in a multitude of sectors along side the new ideas of graduate students and community mainstays that collaborate with local organizations and constituents to facilitate exchanges and way finding for the future of non-profit organization partnerships.
501(c)(3) Board of Directors
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ANDREW TRAPP
Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering
Andrew Trapp is Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He and his research group ARCHES are dedicated to developing solutions that ensure scarce resources reach those who most need them. He is the solution architect of Annie MOORE for refugee resettlement in concert with HIAS, Past President of the INFORMS Sector on Public Sector Operations Research and serves on the editorial board of Operations Research.
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SARAH STANLICK
Assistant Professor, Integrative and Global Studies
Director of the Great Problems SeminarI am a social scientist and community-engaged researcher who studies how technology can empower, connect, and support populations experiencing vulnerability and/or marginalization.
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MIKE MITCHELL
SWAP Co-Founder & Board Chair; Nonprofit Executive Director
Mike is a social sector entrepreneur with a background in nonprofit leadership across numerous organizations. His work has included time in housing, immigration, workforce development, and veteran’s issues, and his passion has been in meeting mission effectively through thoughtful innovation which has included but not be limited to technology. He currently leads No One Left Behind, a veterans nonprofit committed to keeping America’s promise to allies who served with us in Afghanistan and Iraq and assuring that promise becomes part of American policy to assure support of similar allies in any future conflict. In his free time, he invests time in SWAP and other nonprofit innovations that seek to elevate the nonprofit sector’s ability to meet mission.
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KRISTOPHER MADORE
Treasurer
Kristopher is an attorney under Madore Law, LLC. His practice offers limited scope representation, fractional general counsel services, and consulting to tax exempt organizations and social enterprises. Kristopher is licensed to practice law in MD, DC, and PA, has an MBA and MSM, and is a licensed nonprofit consultant. Kristopher also has developed databases and cloud software and spent 9 years as a consultant and Director of Operations of a Baltimore-area IT managed service provider.
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PJ SAWCHUK
Secretary
PJ is a Principal at a Technology Advisory who regularly helps organizations solve problems through the marriage of people and technology. Prior to founding his practice in 2020, he was in technology and operations leadership roles at a software company and large law firm. In addition to SWAP, PJ serves in a volunteer capacity with several other organizations.
CORE TEAM
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JENNIFER PAZOUR
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jennifer Pazour, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jen’s research and teaching focus on the development and use of mathematical models to guide decision making for logistics and supply chain challenges. Her team creates new ways to harness underutilized resources, so resources with lower marginal costs can be accessed and deployed when and where they are needed. This enables organizations to think differently about how resources are acquired, managed, and allocated to requests. More information can be found: http://jenpazour.wordpress.com/
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Weixiao Huang
Passionate. Innovative. Tenacious.
Passionate. Innovative. Tenacious. Huang Weixiao brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the fields of resource allocation and market design within the nonprofit sector. Since 2021, she have been working on the SWAP system's design, development, deployment, and refinement. She has strategically and efficiently addressed diverse organizational demands and met the unique constraints of resource sharing, leading to significant achievements in the R&D of the SWAP system and the collective impact focused community building.
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ANDREW TRAPP
Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering
Andrew Trapp is Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He and his research group ARCHES are dedicated to developing solutions that ensure scarce resources reach those who most need them. He is the solution architect of Annie MOORE for refugee resettlement in concert with HIAS, Past President of the INFORMS Sector on Public Sector Operations Research and serves on the editorial board of Operations Research.
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SARAH STANLICK
Assistant Professor, Integrative and Global Studies
Director of the Great Problems SeminarI am a social scientist and community-engaged researcher who studies how technology can empower, connect, and support populations experiencing vulnerability and/or marginalization.
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RITA HAMLET
SWAP Project Coordinator
Rita is a Grants Specialist with Howard County Library System in Maryland. She also belongs to several non-profits in Howard County, including the Howard County Garden Club, serves on the board of the Howard County Historical Society, and acts as a liaison for the Friends & Foundation of Howard County Library System.
In past years, she was Project Coordinator for EC250, Inc., and was also a previous volunteer for the Howard County Conservancy.
Having lived in Howard County for 50 years, Rita has deep connections, and the grants she has written have funded many of the Library's educational initiatives, including Project Literacy, Career Pathways for Skilled Immigrants, HiTech STEM Education for Teens, and mobile units On the Road to Kindergarten.
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YUNUS TELLIEL
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Rhetoric
Yunus Dogan Telliel is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Rhetoric. He is the co-director of WPI's AI Futures Collaborative. His main research interests lie within the ethics of technology design (AI, robots, algorithm-based platforms). He is also interested in economic anthropology, the anthropology of markets, and the future of work.
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ALEXANDER TEYTELBOYM
Associate Professor in Economics, St. Catherine's College of the University of Oxford
CollaboratorAlexander Teytelboym is an Associate Professor in Economics at St Catherine's college of the University of Oxford. He is OUBEP Director as well as Harassment Advisor. His main research interests lie within market design -- for example, matching markets and auctions -- and network economics. He is also interested in the applications of economic theory to many policy areas, including environment, energy, and refugee resettlement.
https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/people/alex-teytelboym#collapse2451101
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CARLOS A. MOREL FIGUEROA
Ph.D. Student
In the Decision Science and Engineering Systems program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). His research interests are in operation research applications that improve supply chains and distribution logistics.
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Özge Aygül
Data Science Ph.D. Student
Özge is a Ph.D. student in the Data Science program at WPI. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Data Science. Her research interests include interactive platforms powered by mathematical optimization for the greater social good, enabling decision-makers to make impactful choices efficiently.
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DARREN COLE
Computational Media Ph.D. student
After graduation, Darren wants to teach and make art. “I want to work with underrepresented communities and help them gain knowledge of the hurdles they will face in the future”.