50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Biographical Sketches of Staff

Sameer Dossani, Director
Sameer has been campaigning against the World Bank and the IMF since the early 1990s, when he was a student activist at McGill University, Canada. Since then he has had the opportunity to study the finer points of Structural Adjustment, especially with regard to service privatization, with the Globalization Challenge Initiative, also known as the Citizens’ Network on Essential Services. Most recently, Sameer was the Executive Director of the NGO Forum on the Asian Development Bank, based in Manila, Philippines. In Manila, Sameer had the opportunity to work closely with Asian NGOs and peoples’ movements working for economic justice.

Ruth Castel-Branco, Outreach and Communications Coordinator
"Originally from Mozambique, Ruth moved to the US to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There she joined the Student Labor Action Coalition as an organizer and worked on a number of international labor solidarity campaigns. After completing her undegraduate degree in human geography in December 2005, she took a research assistant position for a diploma course in poverty analysis at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. Ruth first experienced the contradictions of structural adjustment programs and service privatization as a healthcare-NGO worker in Mozambique. Since then has been committed to understanding, challenging and fundamentally changing the policies of the IMF and World Bank.

Njoki Njoroge Njehû, International Organizer
Njoki is a Kenyan national who worked with women's groups and the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya for over a decade. She grew up learning from the work of Kenyan women, especially her mother, Lilian Njehû, a grassroots and community activist. Before joining the 50 Years Is Enough Network she worked at Greenpeace International for three years focusing on the international toxic trade and on biodiversity and oceans issues. She joined the 50 Years Is Enough Network in July 1996 and was named director in October 1998. She is a founding member of the International Coordinating Council of the World Social Forum and the Africa Social Forum. Njoki also works with Solidarity Africa: Network In Action.

Soren Ambrose, Senior Policy Analyst
Soren learned about the impact of structural adjustment policies while working on a Ph.D. in African literature at the University of Chicago. After a 1992 visit to Nigeria, he determined that activism on IMF/World Bank issues was more imperative than his academic work, and joined the Chicago chapter of the 50 Years Is Enough Campaign when it formed in 1994. He moved to Washington, DC in 1995 and worked for Nicaragua Network, which donated much of his time to the 50 Years Is Enough Network. He became a full-time Network employee at the end of 1999. He is a spokesperson and represents the Network worldwide.