Executive Director

Joe joined the HOLA Foundation in 2017 traveling to Nicaragua to observe the organization’s annual public health brigade. In the following years Joe has returned to Nicaragua to conduct needs assessments and to help launch HOLA’s OBGYN program. Away from HOLA, Joe has worked as an English teacher in South Korea and a ski instructor in Japan before shifting into a career in Real Estate Development. Joe became the organizations Executive Director in 2018 and has been heavily involved in the organization’s strategic planning, fundraising and the expansion of the in-country Nicaragua team. Joe has also sat on the HOLA board since 2017.

Clinical Director

David Baulesh DO attended medical school at Rocky Vista University in Parker CO. He then completed a 4 year residency in Emergency Medicine at Beaumont Farmington Hills Hospital in Detroit, MI. Currently he works doing Locums Tenens as an Emergency Medicine Physician, traveling to areas in need across the country. He co-founded HOLA in 2008, then served as Executive Director before becoming the Vice-Chairman on the Board of Directors.

Director of Research and Evaluation

Sara attended medical school at the University of Washington, then completed her Masters in Public Health at the Colorado School of Public Health and Ob/Gyn residency at the University of Colorado. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Currently she resides in Seattle where she works at the University of Washington as the medical director of the Ob/Gyn clinic at Harborview Medical Center.