Leaders
Board members
Trevor Patzer
Trevor Patzer is co-founder and full-time executive director and Secretary of the Little Sisters Fund, Inc. He is honored to have received multiple honors for his work with the Fund.
Prior to launching the Little Sisters Fund, Trevor managed 5-Star spa projects in Bhutan, the Maldives, and the Turks and in Caicos. He began his professional career at Andersen Consulting, and also worked for the teacher placement agency, Carney Sandoe & Associates. He has also worked in admissions and as head crew coach for Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA.
He loves the outdoors, is a sub-three hour marathoner, and is at home in any mountain range, from the Himalayas and the Rockies, to the Andes and the Alps. He is also passionate about travel and experiencing new cultures. Trevor speaks French and has a working knowledge of Hindi and Nepali.
Born and raised in Sun Valley, Idaho. Trevor holds a Masters in Educational Administration from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of Brown University and of St. Paul’s School.
Saudamini Siegrist
Saudamini Siegrist is currently a program office in Jerusalem and previously worked out of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Center (IRC) as a Project Officer for Child Protection in February 2004. Her previous experience includes two years in the Humanitarian Policy Unit of Emergency Operations at UNICEF Headquarters, where she worked on issues related to children and armed conflict, international criminal justice, monitoring and reporting of serious violations against children in conflict, and adolescent programming during emergencies and in transition. Recent projects include preparation of the children’s version of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission report; UNICEF IRC publication Birth Registration and Armed Conflict; UNICEF publication Adolescent Programming in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations; and the upcoming publication, Children and Truth Commissions, that is being prepared by UNICEF IRC in partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). She assisted in the writing and editing of the seminal study, The Impact of War on Children, authored by Graça Machel and has provided key contributions to a number of publications, including the Child-Friendly UN Guidelines on Matters of Justice Involving Child Victims and Witnesses; International Criminal Justice and Children; Women War and Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building; and Children Affected by Armed Conflict: UNICEF Actions. She holds a Doctorate from New York University and a Masters Degree from Columbia University.
Saudamini has been a member of the Little Sisters Fund Board of Directors since inception in 1998.
Quentin Koffey
Quentin Koffey is an investor at Elliot Management in New York and has been a Little Sisters Fund board member since 2001.
He received his JD & MBA from Stanford University in the spring of 2007. Prior to returning to school, Quentin was an economic analyst at the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington, DC. He has written and lectured about trade, investment and political issues concerning Sino-American relations.
Quentin is an accomplished athlete and loves the outdoors. After graduation from Yale College, Quentin lived in China for 2 years and is fluent in Chinese.
Dana Remus
Dana Remus is a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. In 2008/2009, she clerked for Associate Justice Alito of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor at Drexel University's College of Law and an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Dana graduated from Yale Law School, Harvard College, and St. Paul’s School. She has been a Little Sisters Fund board member since 2003.
Alisa Newman Hood
Alisa Newman Hood is an advisor to Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C, where she served as General Counsel until September 2011. She was previously legal counselor at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. From 2004 until 2007, she was a senior associate in the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance department of the international law firm White & Case LLP (New York and Washington, DC offices). Prior to that, Alisa served as petroleum legal adviser to the Prime Minister of East Timor. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, DC, and has an undergraduate degree from Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) and a law degree from Georgetown Law (Dean's List). She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches a seminar on the international oil and gas industry, and has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.