Lori Trumbo March 2015

Hi! I’m Lori Trumbo, and I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. My husband, Andrew, and I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. I am an RN and work in the Newborn ICU at the University Hospital here. I enjoy traveling and love trying and cooking foods from around the world.  I have taught neonatal resuscitation in Mongolia and helped in an orphanage in China. I volunteer as an education coordinator with Love Without Boundaries.

Vietnam has long been on my list of places I would like to visit, and I am excited to be able to do it in a meaningful way with COPI! I look forward to meeting you all!

Raina Zeeh and Tamia Wardle March 2015

Raina Zeeh and Tamia Wardle, formerly known as Raina and Tamia Larson, are sisters. Don’t be alarmed if you find them either hysterically laughing or occasionally arguing with each other over something for no good reason. They are sisters and best friends, and they are very excited to experience this mission trip together.

 

Raina has traveled to Vietnam twelve times, and this is her eighth time as leader of a mission team for Children of Peace International. She is binh’s “right hand man”…ahem, “woman”, and she’s the boss (even though she is the younger sister). She also serves as the database manager for COPI recording all donations, and she organizes a silent auction/ dinner fundraiser for COPI each year in the fall. She is married to a very supportive husband, Curtis Zeeh (who has also led a few mission trips) and is the mother of two amazing children, Thane and Nina, who just happen to be adopted from Vietnam. When she is not serving with COPI, her profession is a nurse, and her title is cath/EP clinical coordinator in the cardiology department of University of Utah Medical Center.

Tamia travels all over the world, but has only been to Vietnam once, as a tourist, when Raina adopted her daughter. She has wanted to go back ever since. When she is not traveling, she is utilizing her professional skills as a graphic designer. Her designs have been seen locally and internationally, and you will even see them in Vietnam. Yes, Vietnam. The illustrations on the hygiene posters were designed by Tamia along with the COPI logo and the invitations for the annual COPI fundraiser. Since graphic design is no longer a lucrative occupation, she also works part time as a pastor’s assistant at her church. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Rod Wardle, and has two incredible children, Arthur and Emma.

Raina and Tamia are anxious to check this off their “things to do with my sister” bucket list, and look forward to working with the rest of the 2015 Spring COPI mission team!

Jenna and Terry Sebraneck march 2015

JENNA SEBRANEK

Hi Team! I’m Jenna Sebranek, a second year family medicine resident physician at Mayo Clinic in La Crosse, WI.   As a family doctor, I treat everyone from birth to death, but my favorite parts of family medicine are women’s health, obstetrics, and seeing the babies I delivered grow. My husband, Terry, and I are originally from a town of 5,000 in Wisconsin and we’re looking to go back there to practice full spectrum family medicine after completion of residency.  He continues to work as a financial advisor in our home town, and is looking forward to losing the commute in the near future! 

We are excited to meet everyone and for the trip.  We are lucky to be doing this trip with a great friend from residency, who we’ve become close with over the past year, Courtney Nibbe.  We hope to make some great memories.  Between medical school and undergrad we did medical mission work in Jamaica, and continue to be very active with that group.  However, this year we wanted to do something different.  I first heard about COPI from faculty and senior residents who have completed the trip in the past, and thought it sounded like a marvelous opportunity to not only do work abroad but also get to see the whole county.  Terry and I have no children but have two crazy dogs, and we thought it was the perfect time in life to go on an adventure and give back all at the same time!  This will definitely be a highlight of my residency, and I’m very much looking forward to it!

TERRY SEBRANEK

Greetings future friends! My name is Terry Sebranek. During the day, I’m a partner and financial planner at Rewald, Sebranek & Frawley. My nights and weekends are spent volunteering in our community and being available for my wife during residency. I am the president of our local college’s Foundation and also help out with 4-H and hospital committees.              

I enjoy gardening, cooking and spending time on our 4^th generation farm with my family who all live nearby. Because we split our time between Richland Center and LaCrosse, WI, I spend a fair amount of time commuting and taking care of our homes while Jenna is at the hospital. 

I’m excited and honored to be part of the upcoming Spring 2015 trip. While the trip will be both inspiring and rewarding, I’m looking forward to spending two and a half weeks with Jenna. The last time we were together for two uninterrupted weeks was undergrad (or maybe a trip to Alaska during med school).