Leadership

Patricia is the founder of Latina Public Relations, one of Brazil’s leading Public Relations agencies since 1992. In addition, Patricia advised several nonprofit organizations, including UNICEF, Ronald McDonald’s House, Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and Public Interest Registry (.org/.ngo internet domains). Patricia Calazans has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Universidade Catolica de Pernambuco and a degree in Digital Marketing from UC Berkeley — Haas School of Business.

Before becoming Latina PR CEO, Amanda worked for Meta and Accenture. Amanda is an activist for indigenous rights in the Amazon and teaches yoga and meditation across low-income communities in Latin America. Amanda studies Psychology at Purdue University, her brother’s alma mater.

Dr. Chang has over 22 years of expertise working with adolescents and young adults. His focus is on working with youths and young adults who have or are at risk for severe mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder, and related neuropsychiatric disorders. He is an expert on PANS/ PANDAS, which can be related to strep infection and other inflammatory processes. Symptoms include anxiety, sensory amplification or motor abnormalities, behavioral regression, deterioration in school performance, mood disorder, urinary symptoms, and sleep disturbances.

Dr. Kiki Chang received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Molecular Biology and his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine and did a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. He co-founded Stanford PANS Clinic, where he was a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services. Dr. Kiki Chang is currently in clinical practice in Palo Alto, CA, and at the University of Texas at Houston as an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Rex Northen is an entrepreneur and environmental advocate with a long history of building companies. He has worked with hundreds of companies ranging from startups to global corporations. From 2009 to 2014, Rex was executive director of the Cleantech Open, the world’s largest accelerator for cleantech startups, where he worked with a growing team to help green entrepreneurs tackle energy and environmental challenges and to build the organization from its California roots to an international organization. He has recently acted as senior trainer Global Cleantech Innovation Program in South Africa, Morocco, Thailand, and elsewhere and now works intermittently with startups to assist with strategy and fundraising. Rex has a Masters from the University of Oxford.