Senior Staff
Richard Leach, Acting President and CEO
Richard Leach currently serves as acting president and CEO of Friends of WFP. He also serves as a senior advisor to the World Health Organization and Alliance for Representative Democracy. Richard established Friends of WFP in 1997 and led it until 2004. During the period he directed the organization, it generated over $25 million dollars from the private sector and led the effort that resulted in passage of national legislation that created a global school meal program (Congress provided $100 million in funding for the first year of the program's operations). In 1997, Rick also established a global campaign for the World Wildlife Fund that united its 25 country offices around a common plan of action. In 1993-96, he ran a nationwide initiative for the Clinton administration to increase childhood immunization rates. During this period, the immunization coverage rates increased from 50 to 80 percent. In 1996, he transformed the initiative into a division of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to his service with the administration, he was the foreign policy advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hunger. Rick has also served on the American Bar Association’s taskforce on the reform of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, authored articles on international human rights and microenterprise development and practiced law from 1985 to 1988.
Kevin Sturtevant, Vice President for Development
Kevin Sturtevant joined Friends of WFP in 2009 after a long career in fundraising and consulting. Kevin, a native of Washington, DC, spent the last eight years as a consultant and senior vice president for Ketchum, Inc., the country’s oldest fundraising consulting firm. In that position, he served clients engaged in major gifts campaigns with goals ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion and led the team of Ketchum consultants throughout the United States. His client list included the American Dental Association Foundation, the American Red Cross, Shelter (headquartered in the U.K.), Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Auburn University, KidsPeace International, the US Air Force Memorial Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Center. Before Ketchum, Kevin spent several years raising funds for various organizations such as Reading Is Fundamental and the Human Rights Campaign. He received both his bachelor’s degree in political science/international service and master’s degree in non-profit management from American University in Washington, DC. He has served on several boards and is currently Vice President of the Williams Syndrome Association, based in Troy, Michigan.
Daniela Colaiacovo, Vice President for Communications
Daniela Colaiacovo joined Friends of WFP in 2006. She has extensive experience in international communications, media relations and journalism. Daniela previously served as director of media relations for Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group. She was also the communications director for Families USA, a health policy organization, where she organized major media campaigns to promote universal healthcare, fight Medicaid cuts and educate seniors about the shortcomings of the Medicare Prescription Drug Law. In addition, Daniela has managed international media relations for Conservation International and developed training activities for journalists in developing countries, while working at the International Center for Journalists. She is a native of Argentina, raised in Brazil, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Daniela holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a Master of Science in broadcast journalism from Boston University (BU). She is a recipient of BU’s Dennis Kauff Memorial Reporting and Producing Award.
Margot Hoerrner, Vice President for Outreach
Margot Hoerrner joined Friends of WFP in 2006 as the national coordinator of Walk the World. She is now Friends of WFP’s vice president of outreach. A graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Bennington College in Vermont, Margot has a background in education, project management and nonprofit leadership that provides a broad field of expertise. Margot has spent much of her personal time over the last 20 years traveling the world solo, with a particular interest in rural regions of developing countries. She came to Friends of WFP from Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, working on rebuilding the education infrastructure in the tsunami-destroyed regions of Aceh.
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