Brian Somers

University of California Berkeley, 2008

Brian started Volunteer Alliance after returning home from a volunteering trip in 2007 at the African Childcare Center. He manages the website and the organization legal stuff. In his professional life he works in the solar energy industry helping people around the world power their lives with sunshine. He lives in Oakland, CA and likes to spend his free time riding bikes, kickboxing, skateboarding, and tinkering on his car and mopeds. Some might say he also has a slightly unhealthy obsession with his dog Cham, but whatever you would too.  

Cameron West

The University of Sydney, 2009

Cameron has been with Volunteer Alliance since the end of 2009. After Brian pitched the idea over 2-10 jugs of sangria on holiday, Cameron joined the team almost immediately. Despite studying exercise science, Cameron now works as an internet marketer. He has been involved in the business and strategic plans for Volunteer Alliance, and the online marketing of the website (makes sense). Cameron loves the NBA (despite living in Australia), Google, starting new websites and working on Volunteer Alliance late while listening to bad pop.

Dan Vallentyne

Dan joined Volunteer Alliance after being hired as contractor to do some design work for the site. The more he spent working on the site, the more the charms of the organization worked into his system until he decided he just couldn’t live without it and joined. Dan believes in the power of the internet to transform our lives for the better. Currently, Dan is a gun for hire working on a number of interactive mobile and desktop projects.

Volunteer Alliance Ambassadors

Volunteer Alliance Ambassadors are super volunteers who represent our organization in various places around the world. Meet them here or to learn more and become an ambassador yourself, contact us here.