Our Team
A Drink for Tomorrow is a 100% volunteer-run organization. From Board members and those who manage the day-to-day operations of the organization to interns, no one receives any pay for their efforts, as everyone wants to see as close to 100% of the money we generate go directly into clean water projects as possible.
Take some time to learn about the people who spend their time outside of jobs or classes working to maintain and grow this organization.
A Drink for Tomorrow's Board of Directors
Stephanie Weaver - Board Chair, Founder and Executive Director
Stephanie graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University where she earned BA in Psychology with a minor in Spanish. During college Stephanie gained professional experience in the non-profit industry through five internships in this sector. She has held internships in various roles ranging from Donor Relations Intern to Grassroots Programs Intern, and has interned for organizations with both domestic and international reach.
Stephanie served as Director of Marketing, Relations and Communications for a national non-profit organization during her senior year of college and worked as a Program Coordinator for the American Red Cross after graduation.
Passionate about fighting global health issues and international poverty, Stephanie is committed to spending her time outside of work molding an organization that is inclusive, engaging and empowering; one that provides an easy way to contribute to an overwhelming crisis.
Chris Welsh - Board Vice Chair, Campaign Director
Chris graduated from St. Joseph's University in 2001 with a BA in Political Science. He worked as a community organizer in the Bronx as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in 2001. He graduated magna cum laude from Temple Law School in 2005 and has been practicing as a trial attorney at the Defender Association of Philadelphia for the last five years.
Chris joined A Drink for Tomorrow's Board of Directors in August of 2010.
Melissa Dunn - Board Secretary and Treasurer, CFO
Melissa graduated summa cum laude and with Honors from Ursinus College in 2007. As a Business and Economics major and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Melissa has spent the past two years specializing in not-for-profit accounting and tax provisions.
Melissa brings to A Drink For Tomorrow not only experience in the not-for-profit industry but also sympathy for those in need of clean water. She primarily focuses on financial aspects of the organization, from creating and monitoring budgets to preparing financial and tax reports.
Lou Anne Bulik - Board Member
Lou Anne Bulik has over 20 years of experience in university communications. She currently serves as assistant vice president of university relations at Widener University in Chester, PA. In a previous life, she was an English and Humanities professor and founded a small business, Tours on Tape, which created literary and cultural walking tours of New York City on audio cassette.
Lou Anne has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University and a BA in history from Georgetown. She drinks more water than almost anyone she has ever met, so the issue of bringing clean drinking water to people who have none is near and dear to her heart.
Paul J. Weaver - Board Member
Paul J. Weaver has a background as a corporate financial and operations executive. He now works in Mergers and Acquisitions with RLS Associates, a Wilmington, Delaware based investment banking firm, and also provides part time and interim CFO consulting services to middle market clients. While with Tyco Toys, Mr. Weaver was a member of its executive committee which took the company public and grew it to be the third largest toy company in the world. A graduate of Rutgers University, he has a foundation in big five public accounting and extensive international business experience. In addition to consumer goods, he has worked in aviation services, packaging & photonics manufacturing industries and as a business consultant to the US Navy.
Mr. Weaver acted in an advisory capacity during A Drink for Tomorrow's start up, and initial fund raising and funding events, before joining the board in 2010. He will continue to use his financial background and business acumen to assist with ADFT's strategic and tactical planning and organizational development.
Meghan Tumolo - Board Member
Meghan Tumolo is Development Officer in Major Gifts at United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Prior to her role at United Way, she was Director of Development for Wynona's House, a child advocacy organization, in Newark, New Jersey. She also worked at Safe Horizon in New York City and Family Services in Burlington County, NJ.
Meghan received her Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Fairfield University in Connecticut and her Masters of Public Administration from the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University, Camden. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two cats.
Michael Conley - Board Member
Michael Conley is an attorney at Offit Kurman, in the Philadelphia office. He is Chair of the Insurance Recovery Group and a Principal in the Labor & Employment and Litigation Department. Mr. Conley graduated from Villanova University Law School and holds a B.A. from George Washington University. He is a former In-House Counsel for Belmont Holdings Corp. and has been selected by his peers to Best Lawyers in America, 2009, 2010, and 2011 as reported by U.S. News & World Report. Mr. Conley is a frequent author on a broad array of topics relating to insurance recovery and commercial law and has spoken before regional and national business and trade organizations. Prior to joining Offit Kurman, Mr. Conley was Co-Managing Shareholder of Anderson Kill's Philadelphia office and a senior shareholder in its Insurance Recovery and Corporate and Commercial Litigation Departments. He was also head of the Philadelphia Business Group and chair of Philadelphia's Commercial Litigation Group.
A Drink for Tomorrow's Volunteer Staff Members
Benjamin Kohler - Vice President
Ben graduated summa cum laude and with Honors from Temple University in 2002, where he earned a BA in Public Relations. He received his JD from Temple University, Beasley School of Law in 2005. Ben clerked for the Honorable Jack Anthony Panella, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in Bethlehem, PA, from 2005 to 2008. Thereafter, he entered private practice as an insurance defense attorney for one year, before returning to Judge Panella's chambers in October, 2009.
Ben joined ADFT to help coordinate its newest fundraising campaign, Raise a Drink for Tomorrow and after becoming increasingly involved in the organization, moved into the position of Vice President.
Jessica Bodine - Graphic Designer
Jessica Bodine is currently a full-time Graphic Designer for a local advertising agency and a freelancer in her spare time. She graduated summa cum laude from Moravian College where she earned her BA and majored in Graphic Design. During her time at Moravian, Jessica interned for the Lehigh Valley Alliance for Sustainable Communities and created designs promoting sustainable practices in the campus community. She is grateful that A Drink For Tomorrow has allowed her to again apply her knowledge of design to a greater good.
Jessica began working with A Drink For Tomorrow during its early stages when she designed its logos. She has become more involved in designing promotional materials as the organization continues to grow, and is excited to be part of this outreach to impoverished communities.
Carly Weaver - Video Production
Carly is currently a senior at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. She is completing a degree in Telecommunications Production, with an emphasis in Religion. Originally from New Jersey, she traveled to the west coast to pursue her education and a career in Television and Film Production. She has interned with an independent production company called Studio Lambert, and is currently interning for the Discovery Channel in Los Angeles. Carly has worked with many volunteer organizations throughout high school and college, and has a passion for helping those less fortunate. She hopes to intertwine both production and service, and inspire and inform the masses through the art of media.
Carly has produced and directed several short videos to promote A Drink for Tomorrow and raise awareness about the water crisis. She will be working on a few more specialized videos for certain ADFT projects, and hopes to get the message out in an engaging and entertaining way.
Maddie Breslin - Director of Communications and Grant Writing
Maddie earned her BA from Georgetown University in 2008. While in college, living in a city that is commonly believed to have one of the worst school systems in the country, she was first exposed to the educational disparities that exist between impoverished and more affluent communities in the United States. In response to this injustice and in deep appreciation for her own educational opportunities, she dedicated much of her time to working with DC youth, including as a tutor and mentor, and working and volunteering at a public charter school. Learning about the lack of clean drinking water in impoverished communities around the world struck a similar chord, as this need is even more basic.
Maddie began volunteering with ADFT in a general capacity soon after its inception, and is looking forward to contributing to this important cause through writing grants and drafting other communications for ADFT.
Aliza Burns - Executive Assistant
Aliza graduated cum laude from George Washington University in 2009 with a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Marketing as well as Event Management. She has experience in marketing and public relations, grant proposal writing and non-profit administration.
Aliza hopes to one day be involved in corporate social responsibility while still assisting ADFT in bringing clean water to those who are in need.
Mimi Bach - K-12 Outreach
Mimi has recently retired from the Collingswood school system in Collingswood, NJ after 33 years of years of service to the district. During her tenure in this small inner ring suburb just east of Camden and Philadelphia, she taught and coached a variety of students from a cross-section of backgrounds and experiences. Dedicated to the concept of social justice issues since her own Catholic high school experience, Mimi spent her career as a Social Studies teacher and coach advocating for community and global awareness, opportunity for all, and individual commitment to making a positive difference in the world around one. Identifying one's gifts and using them to make the world a better place is a shared value of all humanity. After attending an early fundraiser for ADFT, Mimi realized that continuing her work in area classrooms would be a way to continue the mission that she promoted for so many years as a teacher.
Bobbie Herbs - Communications Advisor
Bobbie is a marketing executive at Canoe Ventures, where a cable TV industry consortium is developing interactive television applications and other advanced television solutions. As a runner, she was first introduced to the work of ADFT at the 2010 6K run at Moorestown High School. Considering what it takes to run 3.75 miles; she was impressed and disheartened by the distances many women and children of developing countries must walk for potable water. Meanwhile her daughter is graduating from Moorestown High School and headed to college next year. At this major intersection of life, she began putting her marketing savvy to work for ADFT. In her spare time she's writing news releases and contributing in other ways to get the word out about ADFT's critical mission and continued needs to develop strong relationships among donors and strategic partners.
Interns
Maria Selde - Community Outreach Intern
Maria Selde is a junior at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA majoring in International Relations and minoring in both Business and Faith-Justice Studies. Her travels to the Dominican Republic, Uganda, and Tanzania exposed her to the harsh realities life in third world countries. Being inspired by the people in those countries who are denied access to clean water and basic needs cultivated her passion for justice. Maria works on campus as a Placement Liaison for the Faith-Justice Institute at Saint Joseph's University as well as Service Site Coordinator for Back On My Feet for the weekly service program.
Working as the Community Outreach Intern, Maria will spread the word about A Drink for Tomorrow's mission via the surrounding universities and colleges in Philadelphia. She hopes to encourage and stimulate the importance of the basic human right to clean water to college students through developing relationships and inspiring others become active in the cause and raise awareness.
Allie Sheaffer - Community Outreach Intern
Allie Sheaffer is a junior at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia PA, dual majoring in Elementary and Special Education with a minor in Faith-Justice studies. She has been involved with social justice issues from a young age, volunteering in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit and later volunteering abroad in Ghana and Tanzania. She experienced first-hand the impact clean water can have on a community while living in a rural village in the Volta Region in Ghana. In Tanzania she learned about how a lack of clean water can be catastrophic for struggling communities. These experiences have shaped her views on the world and have made her strive to become a committed global citizen. At St. Joseph's University, Allie is a Placement Liaison for the Faith-Justice Institute, a member of the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society, as well as a leader of the SJU Poverty Awareness Week.
As a Community Outreach Intern, Allie will be working with various universities, educating college students on the global water crisis as well as ADFT's campaign to bring clean water to developing nations.
Tirza Calderon - Outreach and Expansion Intern
Tirza Calderon is currently a junior at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill completing a degree in International Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Environmental Studies and a minor in Biology. With her father being from and her extended family living in El Salvador, she has had the opportunity to experience life in a Third World country. Being exposed to and living among these experiences has fueled her passion to bring the fundamental human right of access to clean and safe drinking water to those in need.
Tirza is excited to begin outreach and expansion projects that will help promote ADFT throughout the Philadelphia and Bucks County regions. She will be networking with restaurants in the area to promote the "Turn Wine into Water" campaign and reaching out to regional universities and colleges to build long-term relationships with various campus organizations. Through her work, Tirza is looking forward to building relationships with groups and organizations that will embrace the mission of ADFT, while also heightening the general understanding of what people without access to clean, safe water experience and how a little help can go a long way.
Joanna Barlow - Community Outreach Intern
Joanna Barlow is a sophomore at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA, majoring in Sociology with minors in Faith-Justice Studies and Environmental Studies. Service and social justice have been passions of Joanna's since her freshmen year in high school. Her service immersions and service-learning classes in college have enabled her to learn more about global issues and reach beyond her local community. The Global Water Crisis is an issue that struck Joanna immediately after learning about its devastating impact. Her passion to remained involved in advocacy and activism around clean water continues as she gains more knowledge about the issue. At Saint Joseph's University, Joanna is a Placement Liaison for the Faith-Justice Institute, on the Poverty Awareness Week Committee and a Weekly Service Participant.
