History
Go Global Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on raising money for international projects.
Go Global Foundation sets out to become a major conduit for channeling funds and resources to existing projects that help children and women worldwide.
Founder
Go Global Foundation was launched in January 2017 by Gina Guddat. Ms. Guddat has vast experience in humanitarian work across the globe. She has worked in Kenya, Vietnam, Nicaragua, India, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, Hungary, Mexico and Nepal.
Organizations have called on her to train their staff and provide better services to the women and children in shelters, orphanages, schools and safe houses for survivors of sex trafficking, violence, trauma and neglect. Gina has also provided countless hours of counseling sessions and wellness workshops to thousands of victims around the world. She has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and runs a thriving group practice in Seattle, where her expertise is couple’s counseling, relationships and women’s issues. She is honored to be a 6 year contributor to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers
board of directors
Alla Weinstein
Alla is an experienced senior level executive and visionary entrepreneur with over fifteen years of success founding and growing multiple businesses based on leading edge technology within the renewable energy space. Creates sustainable revenue pipelines and builds ‘best practices’ alliances, joint ventures and strong cross-border partnerships. Bilingual with fluency in English and Russian. Ms. Weinstein serves as a trusted advisor, marine renewables expert, confidante to Boards and appointee on various strategic initiatives. Leverages contacts, resourcefulness and an entrepreneurial mindset to secure multi-million dollar funding to create new companies, open new markets, embrace change, and positively impact society and the environment.
Serene shalhub
Sherene is a board-certified vascular surgeon at UW Medical Center. Since joining UW Medicine in 2013, she has received a PRAISE Award and was named a rising star by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences.
Dr. Shalhub provides personalized care to patients suffering from rare vascular conditions. She believes in creating active partnerships with her patients to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Dr. Shalhub earned her M.D. and M.P.H. at the University of South Florida. Her clinical interests include treating aortic and peripheral arterial aneurysms and dissections in patients with genetically triggered vascular diseases. Dr. Shalhub’s research interests include the genetic basis of aortic and arterial aneurysms and dissections, elucidating the mechanism of rapid aneurysmal degeneration of the descending thoracic aorta post aortic dissection and vascular trauma management.
Janet leister
Janet has over 30 years’ experience working with small to medium size businesses in marketing, business development, and international exports. As manager of international marketing for agriculture in Washington state, she and her international team helped hundreds of companies make over a $1 billion of new export sales. She worked closely with industry, federal and state government to open up new markets in China, Middle East, India, Russia, and more.
She worked in economically disadvantaged areas in Hawaii to improve their economic infrastructure and she successfully led enterprise development and business planning training for minority businesses.
Her education includes a Bachelor’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University, a Master’s degree in English as a Second Language from the University of Hawaii, and a Master in Business Administration also from the University of Hawaii.
don roof
Don has many years of experience as an innovative technology leader. Working with Amazon, Inmar and The Clearing House, he has led the development of software products across multiple domains, including streaming services, consumer devices, financial and automotive.
He currently works with Rivian, an electric vehicle company, where he oversees the in-vehicle infotainment software teams. He is passionate about bringing sustainability to the automotive space, preserving our environment and reducing our carbon footprint. In addition to these leadership roles, Don is an advocate for people in crisis, where he utilizes his technology experience to help bring awareness and improve the condition of impacted people globally.
Anna Monastyrsky
Anna is an Information Technology executive with over twenty years of experience in e-commerce and small business innovation and research. She currently works at Amazon as a Sr. Software Development Manager, leading multiple teams of engineers in developing new solutions for Amazon Fulfillment Centers. Anna’s professional passion is promoting diversity in the Tech industry; she organizes and manages the Women Engineering at Amazon mentoring group which focuses on helping women engineers grow their careers and leadership skills. Anna was born in Russia and speaks both fluent English and Russian. She received her Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Kyiv Polytech University. She has three adult children and lives in downtown Seattle.