Former DNA Bridge Consortium
The Consortium formed in November 2020 to unite experts on family reunification. The Consortium drafted and published a strategy in 2021 in Science Magazine.
In late 2022, DNA Bridge evolved into a non-profit entity. Below are its original consortium members.

Saul Rodriguez
Universidad Gerardo Barrios
San Miguel, El Salvador

Richard Selden
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of ANDE Corporation, a Rapid DNA technology company
Cambridge, MA

Mishel Stephenson
Laboratory Director of the Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Team
Guatemala

Jonathan Tabak
Director of Global Market Development for Human Identification at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a laboratory equipment and reagent company and provisor of human identification technologies
New Orleans, LA

Patrícia Vásquez
Forensic geneticist with Pro-Búsqueda
El Salvador
strategy team

Kathryn Hampton
Senior Officer of the Asylum Program at Physicians for Human Rights
New York, NY

Diana Madden
Research Coordinator at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Ranit Mishori
Senior Medical Advisor to Physicians for Human Rights and Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Armani Niko Porter
DNABridge Outreach Coordinator
Durham, NC
advisory board
steering committee

Sara Huston
Research Assistant Professor at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago & the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Chicago IL

Elizabeth (Liz) Barnert
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Maria Veronica (Vero) Svetaz
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Medical Director of Aqui Para Ti/Here for You youth development program, and Diversity Committee Chair for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
Minneapolis, MN
operations team

Howard Cash
President and CEO of Gene Codes Corp, and President of Gene Codes Forensics
Ann Arbor, MI

Michael Hennessey
Director for Human Identification, Gene Codes Forensics
Ann Arbor, MI

Mariana Herrera Piñero
Director of the Argentin Banco Nacional de Datos Geneticos (Genetic Data National Bank)
Argentina

Andreas Kleiser
Director for Policy and Cooperation at the International Commission on Missing Persons
The Netherlands

Thomas J Parsons
Former Director of Science and Technology at the International Commission on Missing Persons
Costa Rica

Fredy Peccerelli
Forensic anthropologist, Director and founding member of the Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Team
Guatemala

Jennifer K Wagner
Assistant Professor of Law, Policy, and Engineering in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs at Penn State and a licensed attorney
State College, PA

Curren Warf
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (retired) at BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia School of Medicine in Vancouver. He previously was a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He is Emeritus fellow of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Thomas J White
Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Formerly, he was the Senior VP of Research & Development at Celera Corp and at Roche Molecular Systems
Berkeley, CA

Dan Berger
Partner at the law firm of Curran, Berger & Kludt, an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, on the Legal Advisory Board of the Presidents’ Alliance on Immigration & Higher Education, and a member of the USCIS Case Assistance Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Northampton, MA

Carla Easter
Assistant Director for Education, Outreach, and Visitor Experience at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC

Henry Erlich
Senior Scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute and a full Adjunct Professor at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital
Oakland, CA

Ana Forcinito
Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Human Rights Program. She is also the holder of the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Cristina Kapustij
Chief of the Policy and Program Analysis Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute
Bethesda, MD

Michael Stebbins
Science policy advisor
Washington, DC

Eric Stover
Faculty Director and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at the Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
DNA Bridge
is a 501(c)3 organization
mailing:
2102 University Dr
Durham, NC 27707
office:
2607 Westridge Road
Los Angeles, CA 90049
email: info@DNAbridge.org
phone: 410.533.7387
federal tax ID: 94-3291996
CA corp #: C2066193
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