Director
Benjamin is currently Vice President of Voodoo Robotics and a professional genealogist, but spends most of his time on pro bono projects. As a member of the Board of Directors, he is raising money for clean drinking water infrastructure for the AAH schools, clinics, and outreach schools. He also hopes to help to engage corporate sponsors to help with the secondary school and community development projects. He is married to Inga Schoenbrun, who is Assistant Principal of Arlington Traditional School and a REACH for Uganda volunteer.
He was a lead business and systems analyst for approximately 25 years for Federal government clients in the health and homeland security sectors, primarily for Oracle Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton. He became interested in children’s health and rural community development initiatives while leading efforts to define and document the business processes for the NICHD National Children’s Study and USDA Rural Development. Benjamin earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan, and worked on mapping and excavation projects in the Roman cities of Corinth in Greece, and Carthage and Lamta in Tunisia. He became interested in water infrastructure in Africa in the 1990s when mapping ancient Roman cisterns in Lamta, Tunisia. He looks forward to the installation of the gravity water solution for Bududa, using the Roman water engineering concept of the inverted siphon.
