Our Board & Advisory Board

Bailey Ulbricht (@b_ulbricht) is the founder and current board chair of Paper Airplanes. She is also a second-year law student at Stanford Law School, where she focuses on international humanitarian law, human rights law, and US foreign policy.

Prior to law school she spent a year in Turkey on a Fulbright teaching English and six months on the Turkish–Syrian border, where she worked as a humanitarian education worker with refugee communities, through which she was awarded a Davis Peace Grant. Bailey has two masters’ degrees in Islamic Law and Islamic Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her BA in International Relations from Carleton College.

Muriel is currently a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar at the New York University School of Law, where she will focus on the intersection of immigration, criminal, and international law.

Prior to joining the Board in 2019, Muriel worked as the chief operating officer for Paper Airplanes. In this role, she oversaw the organization's budget, fundraising, and public relations. Muriel is a member of the Board's Finance and Fundraising Committee.

Muriel has a BA from Swarthmore College. She has spent substantial time abroad in France and Jordan, and is fluent in French, Spanish, and Arabic.

After graduating from Carleton College with a BA in Political Science, Mike moved to Seattle where he managed retail businesses at Amazon. He is currently the director of product development at Wyze Labs.

While in school Mike traveled to the Syrian border to understand the realities and perspectives of Syrian refugees, studied nationalism across Europe, and served as a policy intern for Senator Harkin.

Gabrielle (Gabby) Wimer graduated in 2016 from the University of Chicago where she studied the history of medicine and human rights. She first joined Paper Airplanes as a tutor in the fall of 2016 and quickly fell in love with the organization and its mission. Through January 2021, Gabby lived in Amman, Jordan, and served as our managing director. Prior to that Gabby worked in Guatemala running a program she co-founded called MealFlour which collaborates with local organizations to teach people how to raise mealworms as a more affordable source of protein. In her spare time, she likes to hike, read, and continue her quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Demetri (Robert) Fadel proudly served as Paper Airplanes executive director from 2019 to 2021. He is currently an administrative officer at MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and an advisor and mentor at R2 Social. He has an MBA from Boston College, an MA in Energy and Environmental Policy from Boston University; and a BA from UMass, Amherst. Educational technology and learning for refugees, as well as conflict-affected populations, have been his passions since helping to launch and grow One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the MIT Refugee Action Hub (ReACT). Almost immune to jet lag, Demetri enjoys making and eating peanut butter and hummus and is an avid fan of the beautiful game of football (soccer).