Gigi Pomerantz, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, is the Founder and Chair of YoutHaiti. Gigi is a retired Family Nurse Practitioner, after 38 years of practice in Milwaukee, WI. She also practiced in Israel for three years, where she lived with her family. She served as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and as the chair of the Quality Improvement Committee and a prior board member of Managed Health Services, a Medicaid HMO. Gigi has been involved in non-profit and social justice work for many years and has served as Vice-President of Intergroup Relations of the Milwaukee chapter of the American Jewish Committee and as previous President of Congregation Shir Hadash and Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee, a Milwaukee-based social justice non-profit. She first traveled to Haiti in 2006 and fell in love with the people and the country. Her nursing background drew her to look at prevention as the first priority for health work. Gigi believes that nothing is more basic than the human need and right for sanitation with dignity!