Board of Directors

	Jill Youse Jill Youse is the founder of the International Breast Milk Project. Youse is an honors graduate of Truman State University is currently pursuing her Masters in Non-Profit Management Degree at Hamline University in Minneapolis. She currently lives in Minnesota with her husband, 2 daughters, and 2 dogs. Youse has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Time.com, ABC World News, DarynKagan.com, and was named the December 2006 Women’s Health Magazine Action Hero. Email Jill Youse.
	Dominique Brown, Logistics and Operations Advisor Dominique Brown is the Chief Operating Officer for the Quick International Courier Group of Companies around the world. She oversees the global operations, strategic development, and quality assurance programs for the company. Ms. Brown has been an integral part of Quick International since 1983, and has helped to provide innovative logistics solutions for major industries including life sciences, aviation, high-tech, entertainment and financial. As a veteran of the logistics industry, Ms. Brown previously held management positions in international sales, international operations and customer service.
	Laura Wylie Laura Wylie is currently a manager for Deloitte Tax LLP working in New York, NY. She specializes in international taxation, but has experience with a variety of tax and financial accounting issues. Wylie has a BS in Accounting from Truman State University, and a MS in Taxation from the University of Illionis Champaign-Urbana. She is a licensed CPA and a member of the ASCPA (and, coincidentally, the ASPCA). She is currently expecting her first child in January and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two rescued pit bulls.
	Alexandra Metzl Ali is currently a 3rd year law student at New York University School of Law and resides in New York City with her husband Josh. After graduation, she plans to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP in their New York office as an associate specializing in real estate law. Throughout law school, Ali has focused her studies on the legal and tax aspects facing non-profit organizations and will bring her experience to the Breast Milk Project. Ali graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University majoring in Modern American History. She originally hails from Baltimore, Maryland. On her free time, Ali enjoys triathlons, long distance running, ballet and modern dance, traveling and attending opera and classical music performances. Ali is inspired by the Breast Milk Project – its founders and donors - and hopes one day to be a donor herself.
	Vuyi Nkomo, MD Dr. Vuyisile Nkomo was born in Durban, South Africa. He came to the United States after high school (Woodmead high school) and attended undergraduate schools Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon and Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his MD degree in 1994 from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, after which he did his residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the Mayo Clinic. He received his MPH degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, as part of his cardiology fellowship. He is a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic and his area of interest is heart valve diseases. He works with Jill because he thinks she is exceptional and a model citizen and IBMP is a brilliant idea.