Our Board Members

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Tessie San Martin, Ph.D., serves as the Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund and is the Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, a global nonprofit with a staff of more than 2,000 experts in over 50 countries around the world. FHI 360 works to expand economic opportunity, improve health and well-being, and respond to humanitarian crises.

Prior to joining FHI 360, San Martin was CEO and President of Plan International USA, an international child rights organization providing development and humanitarian assistance. Dr. San Martin has also held senior executive positions at Abt Associates, where she was Group Vice President for International, The World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), where she was Director for the Operations Group, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was the partner in charge of the USAID and international financing institutions accounts. Dr. San Martin is a trusted advocate for aid effectiveness, serving as co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) and is chair of the board of Friends of Publish What You Fund, which supports greater aid transparency. San Martin has been published in media such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has a doctorate in political economy and government from Harvard University, a master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Matt Frazier is a partner at Dalberg Advisors, a strategic advisory firm focused exclusively on social impact.  Matt leads Dalberg’s Global Policy and Advocacy practice.  In that context, he has worked with dozens of philanthropies and nonprofits to set their advocacy strategies, launch strategies for organizations new to advocacy, and determine ways to best measure, evaluate, and learn from their advocacy efforts. In addition, Matt leads teams in country policy and advocacy power mapping, to help understand and influence governments’ policies and budgets.  He also possesses nearly twenty years of experience helping organizations improve their organizational efficiency in the context of strategic evolution and major organizational changes such as rapid growth, major funding changes, and external shocks such as the COVID lockdown and hybrid working.  This includes working alongside dozens of organizations to develop associated implementation and change-management plans. Prior to joining Dalberg, Matt was the Director of Operations at the ONE Campaign. There, his portfolio included global strategic planning, analytics and measurement, grants management, and organizational development. Earlier in his career, Matt spent five years at McKinsey and Company, in the London and Boston offices.

Kyle Matous is the Director of Government Relations at Advocacy Associates, where he utilizes over a decade of experience on and off Capitol Hill to help clients influence lawmakers and achieve their policy goals. Prior to joining AA, Kyle was the Senior Director for U.S. Government Relations at the ONE Campaign, a non-profit advocacy organization founded by Bono that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Before that, Kyle worked for Congressman Pete Sessions in a variety of roles, most recently as his Chief of Staff and as the Policy Director for the House Committee on Rules where he helped manage every bill that went to the floor of the House of Representatives under a rule.

Nora O’Connell is the principal and founder of NKO Strategies, a consulting firm with a social justice mission to help non-profits with policy, advocacy, research, training, and strategy to address systemic inequality. Prior to that, she spent 11 years at Save the Children, most recently helping to craft the organization’s global vision for shifting power from international to local actors in humanitarian and development. She also served as Save the Children U.S.’s Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy and other roles leading the organization’s policy and advocacy portfolio on international development, including on aid effectiveness, gender equality, tax and governance policy, global health, food security, U.S. budget and appropriations. She also played a leadership role in the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), the pre-eminent coalition working to advance locally led development in U.S. foreign policy, co-chairing the Accountability and Ownership Working Group. She also launched the organization’s Global DATA Fellowship focused on assessing policy implementation and impact to strengthen the use of evidence in advocacy.  Prior to joining Save the Children, she spent nearly a decade helping to build Women Thrive Worldwide as the leading NGO shaping US policy on global women’s issues, serving as Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs. Women Thrive received InterAction’s Mildred Leet award for their advocacy to advance gender integration within Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) as an essential tool for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction, which resulted in the MCC being the leader on this within US foreign policy.  She served as deputy campaign manager for Chellie Pingree’s U.S. Senate campaign and led the Women and the Economy program at the Center for Policy Alternative, which was the premier NGO developing progressive policy solution across the 50 states during an era of intense devolution.  She also worked at the Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC), where she helped advance better policies for children in the child welfare system through strategic communications.  She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Psychology and minor in Ethnic Studies. Nora serves as the Secretary of Friends of Publish What You Fund.

Sally Paxton serves as the Executive Director of Friends of Publish What You Fund. She is an accomplished executive with many years of senior level experience in legal, public policy, and international affairs in the private, public, and non-profit arenas. She founded The Paxton Group, LLC, providing strategic advice on policy and advocacy for primarily non-profits clients covering a range of issues, including global health, labor law, transparency and data, and global development. She has significant management experience, with a proven track record of effective oversight of multi-million-dollar budgets and projects. She also served many years as the U.S. Representative to Publish What You Fund, and provided advice to SEEK Development, USGLC, the World Bank, among others. She is an active member of the working group of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Director of Global Health at the Gates Foundation based in Washington. DC., and was primarily responsible for external relations, issue advocacy, and public policy research on global health matters. From 2001-2006, she served as the Executive Director for Social Dialogue at the International Labor Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, based in Geneva Switzerland. She was responsible for one of the four major departments at the UN which included negotiating with donor governments and multilaterals worldwide as well as overseeing technical projects. Prior to that, she was with the Clinton Administration, serving both as a Special Associate Counsel to the President at the White House and then Deputy Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor. After attending Georgetown University Law Center, graduating cum laude, she became a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski, doing both trial and appellate work. Prior to her legal work she served as a Legislative Director for Representative Millicent Fenwick. Sally graduated with honors from Middlebury College in Vermont.