Sarah Armstrong (Director), established A Brighter Tomorrow for Africa because of her interest in building on her international experience and dedicating herself to working in the area of humanitarian relief and other issues pertaining to Africa. She has been to the continent several times including trips to Sierra Leone as well as Kenya and Tanzania. Before the founding of A Brighter Africa for Tomorrow , Ms. Armstrong established her own marketing communications consulting firm, Mosaic Company , where she continues to work with non-profit environmental and humanitarian organizations. Prior to becoming a consultant, she was Director of Organizational Relations at AARP where she worked with the CEO to develop a comprehensive plan that articulated the mission and built consensus for the function of partnerships. She  established partnerships with a number of US and international organizations. Additionally, Ms. Armstrong spent a number of years at Porter Novelli, the fourth largest international public relations firm, where she was Senior Vice President. Ms. Armstrong worked at the American Red Cross National Headquarters for ten years– always in a marketing communications capacity and providing support to both national and international disasters as well as other Red Cross issues. Before the Red Cross, she worked for advertising agencies both in New York and Washington, DC. She attended Dickinson College and also studied at the Universite de Montpellier III in Montpellier, France. She spent six years in France, speaks French and has studied Swahili. She is now learning Krio, the language of Sierra Leone.

Susan Maguire’s career spans 20 years in social marketing and communications. She is currently with the Academy for Educational   Development (AED) where she is the Director of Social Marketing in the Center for Social Marketing and Behavior Change. In this role, she implements social marketing programs, qualitative research, and provides training for organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Throughout her career she has worked extensively in health and social issue topic areas including sexual health and international child survival. At AED, Susan is leading a social marketing initiative for Planned Parenthood , which focuses on improving sexual health outcomes in the U.S. She also serves as senior communications advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development program “Strengthening the Social Acceptance of Family Planning in the Philippines” and leads a program for the American Psychiatric Foundation to improve teen mental health. Recently, Susan also directed the development of communication strategies for the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival. 

Prior to joining AED in 2000, Susan was VP for an international public relations firm, Porter Novelli where she managed teams working on the Legacy Foundation tobacco prevention campaign, the White House Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, the award-winning Florida “Truth” anti-tobacco campaign, and multiple mental health awareness campaigns for the National Institute of Mental Health . She began her career at NBC News in New York and Washington as associate producer and production manager for documentaries, affiliate news services, the “Today Show” and “Meet the Press”. 

Ann Stingle devoted her career to humanitarian issues resultingfrom international armed conflict and natural disasters. She served asthe Executive Director of the Crimes of War Educations Project atAmerican University in Washington D.C. Prior to that she was the Manager of Media Relations and International Spokesperson for the American Red Cross. Her international assignments have taken her to Kuwait, El Salvador, South Africa, Mali, Somalia, Burundi, the Democratic Republicof the Congo, Honduras and Albania, as well as staff-on-loan with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. She first became involved with the Red Cross in Vietnam. 

Currently retired, Mrs. Stingle is a playwright and freelance writer. She continues to be deeply concerned about humanitarian needs in Africa, particularly those impacting women and children. 

Mrs. Stingle earned a Master of Arts degree in International Communication from the American University in Washington D.C. and a Bachelor of Science degree fromSouthwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where she received the Citation of Merit as outstanding alumna. She lives with her husband in Fairfax, Virginia.