Our Team

SVQF relies on the help of its dedicated team of volunteers and consultants.

Casey Baker

Casey Baker

Growing up with five younger siblings, Casey Baker has always loved helping others. This love drove her to get a B.S. in Elementary Education from The Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State Casey directed her energy towards Trilogy, an organization that raises money for kids with cancer, and was the president her senior year. During her studies she also traveled to Ghana, where she spent four months teaching and improving the overall curriculum, instructional techniques, and facilities of the school. Upon returning to the states, she started a pen drive and collected over 1,500 pens in just two months, helping to alleviate disruptions in Ghanaian classrooms.

Casey is excited to bring her knowledge of fundraising, education, and African culture to SVQF. She has a passion for improving the conditions of developing countries and hopes to continue leading a life full of meaningful and sustainable contributions.

Mergim Cahani

Mergim Cahani

Mergim Cahani is an adjunct assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science, Math, and Sciences and a senior analyst with the Department of Information Technology, both at St. John’s University in New York. Previously he worked with the United Nations, the NGO “GOAL Ireland”, as a technology consultant in NYC, and has been part of the SVQF team since its foundation.

Mergim graduated summa cum laude from St. John’s University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and from Polytechnic Institute of New York University with a Master of Science in Computer Science. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree, with honors, from the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University.

Bert Kelley

Kelley

Bert Kelley has advised on legal and business matters for more than twenty years, practicing in both corporate and law firm settings.
His degrees include a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. His research on legal and business issues has appeared in Law and Policy (Blackwell Oxford Publishing, England), CBS News, and other media and publications.

Mr. Kelley has taught in the area of business law to both graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Maryland and Georgetown since 2005, and consults with Georgetown Advisory in Washington DC.

Mahyar Sadri

Sadri

Having had a keen interest in art and storytelling from a very young age, Mahyar’s path into the animation industry was an inevitable one. Born and raised in London, UK, he was blessed to be exposed to a wide range of experiences and cultures from a young age. Mahyar graduated from University College School with Advanced Levels in Maths, Physics, Art, and English Literature and continued this blend of arts and science, obtaining a BA(Hons) in Computer Visualization and Animation at the National Centre of Computer Animation, Bournemouth University. He shortly after moved to Los Angeles, finding employment at Vicon House of Moves, a premier motion capture and animation house.

Spreading messages throughout the world and helping to bring positive change through animation is a passion of his. He hopes to continue this ethos with future SVQF projects, using his films to aid in the education and development of communities across the world.

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Legal services provided pro bono by Kaye Scholer LLP.