Board of Directors

JEFF_KINNEY — Board Member
Jeffrey Kinney

Mostafa — Board Member
Mostafa Analoui

Anup-Khattar — Board Member
Anup Khattar

Board Member

Regina Duchin Kraus, Esq.

Community Engagement Officer
Katherine C. McKenzie, MD. FACP

Board Member
Jennifer S. Milano, Esq.

Robert Statchen Head Shot — Board Member
Robert Statchen, Esq.

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Board Member

Jeffrey Kinney

Jeff is retired, having spent the majority of his career in corporate banking, and more recently as a nonprofit executive with a large human services organization. His nonprofit responsibilities included oversight of marketing, fund raising, advocacy, and strategic planning. Jeff has served on numerous nonprofit boards in New England and has a passion for serving refugees and immigrants.

Board Member

Mostafa Analoui

Mostafa is the Carlton Highsmith Endowed Chair of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Business at Quinnipiac University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Brown University (Providence, RI). Mostafa has served in the business and scientific leadership roles in various universities and corporations, including Pfizer and IBM. He has served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Private and Public companies in the US and Canada. He received his PhD from Purdue University and engaged in several collaborative and nonprofit initiatives in the US and internationally. Mostafa has authored more than 130 publications, including journal articles, a book and book chapters, and technical reports.

Board Member

Anup Khattar

Anup is a retired IT Executive with over thirty years of experience in strategic planning, operations management, and governance. Nowadays, he brings his experience managing diverse workforces to his passion for nonprofit management, and has recently completed a highly selective and intensive deep immersion program on nonprofit management through UConn’s Department of Public Policy. Anup also holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA. He is passionate about using his skills to aid vulnerable populations with necessities like education, housing, and food. In addition, Anup actively volunteers for many organizations including Foodshare, Inspirica, Habitat for Humanity, the Town of South Windsor Senior Center and the United Way.

Board Member

Regina Duchin Kraus, Esq.

Regina has been retired from the private practice of law since 2022. She earned a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1991, having completed a BA in Speech Pathology and Audiology from George Washington University. However, she is not fully retired from legal work and currently, she represents Afghan refugees in their applications for asylum to The Department of Homeland Security. Regina has been actively involved in community non-profit work for many years. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Women’s Giving Circle of the Waterbury Foundation. She was formerly a Board Member of IRIS from 2017 to 2023. She was a Trustee of the Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut Foundation, a member of the Foundation’s Executive Committee and a member of the Grants Committee. Prior to that tenure, she was on the Board of the VNA of Southern Connecticut.

Community Engagement Officer

Katherine C. McKenzie, MD. FACP

Kate is a faculty member at Yale School of Medicine. She currently directs the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine (YCAM), which she founded. In this capacity, she performs forensic evaluations of asylum seekers at Yale and in detention facilities, leads the asylum medicine teaching program at Yale, mentors clinicians across North America, and lectures extensively on topics of asylum, detention, and physician advocacy. She is a past recipient of the Leonard B. Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine and Yale’s Faculty Award for Achievement in Clinical Care. Kate’s work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Time magazine, CNN, and many other publications. She is consistently named a “Top Doctor” by Connecticut Magazine, in addition to being certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1995.

Board Member

Jennifer S. Milano, Esq.

Jen worked as an attorney in private practice for 25 years, and now focuses on volunteer work with a particular interest in international human rights. She has served on several nonprofit boards and been an active community volunteer in her hometown of Guilford since she moved there in 2004. Jen has been an IRIS volunteer since 2008,and especially enjoys forming friendships with the refugees she has helped resettle.

Board Member

Robert Statchen, Esq.

Bob is currently a Clinical Professor of Law at Western New England University School of Law where he directs a Small Business Legal Clinic. His clinic creates the opportunity for upper-level law students to provide transactional legal services to low-income entrepreneurs. Prior to teaching, he practiced privately in Connecticut for ten years. His legal career began as a JAG in the Air Force for four years. Assigned by U.S. Air Force to work with the recently created Bosnian Department of Civil Aviation, Bob was negotiated and drafted air traffic control agreements between neighboring countries during the immediate post-war period. Bob served 26 years in the Connecticut Air National Guard, until 2023.

Board Fellows

Jason Kertayasa

IRIS means hope, helping refugees and immigrants rebuild their lives and strengthen our communities.

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33 Dixwell Ave #380
New Haven, CT 06511

Email: info@irisct.org
Phone: 203.562.2095

IRIS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
EIN 06-0653044

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