The LAMP for Haiti Foundation
Shining a light in Haiti's darkest places

Pamela Hawes has a degree in Business. For the past 17 years, she has been an accountant with Cohen, Engel & Co., located in Jenkintown, PA.

Dr. Morgan graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1991 and completed a Residency in Internal Medicine (Chief Resident 1994-1995) at Loyola University in 1995. Dr. Morgan first visited Haiti in 2002. He has returned many times since then providing medical services to residents of Cite Soleil, Pele, San Fil, and Jeremy.  He has worked with Medecines Sans Frontiers at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Port-Au-Prince and with Father Richard Frechette, M.D., C.P., at St. Damian’s Hospital in Petionville.

Mr. Griffin is a principal in the law firm of Morley Surin & Griffin, P.C., in Philadelphia. He received his law degree magna cum laude from Suffolk University Law School. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Griffin was a federal law enforcement officer for 10 years, conducting investigations in inner-city Brooklyn and Boston. He received the U.S. Department of Justice Public Service Award for his investigation of a multi-million dollar drug and murder ring Brooklyn, and received an Outstanding Service Award from the U.S. District Court in Boston.  Mr. Griffin has supported human rights and justice projects in Haiti for many years. He is the author of the University of Miami Center for the Study of Human Rights Haiti Human Rights Investigation: November 11-21, 2004 and has conducted numerous other investigations into the human rights conditions in Haiti. With a commitment to inform Americans of the desperate poverty in Haiti, Tom has also led groups on education and service missions there.

Kathy Henry is the firm’s first Hiring & Pro Bono Partner, focusing exclusively on legal recruiting and managing the firm’s pro bono efforts. Kathy has also performed extensive pro bono work, representing asylum seekers including child soldiers from the Congo, a sex slave from Liberia and an Egyptian Coptic Christian through the Political Asylum Immigration and Refugee Project. She has represented victims of domestic violence on a pro bono basis before the Suffolk Country Probate and Family Court through the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Family Law Project for Battered Women. For her efforts, in 2004, Kathy was one of ten leaders from across the state to be appointed to the Boston Bar Association’s first Public Interest Leadership Program. In 2006, Kathy was honored as a recipient of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Jaycees’ TOYL Award, as one of Ten Young Outstanding Leaders in Boston. She is listed as a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star. Kathy is also involved in community work. From 1996 to 2003, she volunteered each summer at Camp Birch in New York to work with children and families affected by HIV and AIDS. She served on the Northeastern University School of Law Alumni/ae Board of Directors, and currently serves on the Boston Bar Association’s Public Service Committee. She is a board member of The LAMP For Haiti Foundation, a non-profit providing medical care and human rights advocacy to the urban poor of Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince.

Desirée Wellborn Wayne is an attorney with many years of experience as a criminal prosecutor. Most recently she was the chief prosecutor for the International Tribunal on Haiti. She has spent the past 10 years in dedicated volunteer service focusing on issues effecting immigrants, the poor and children.