Coaching Fellows — 2020 Cohort 2
Farwa Akbari
Farwa is greatly excited and passionate about opportunities designed to culminate a better world. Farwa is currently studying Public Health and biology at the University of Michigan. Deeply devoted to public service, Farwa heads a mental-health awareness non-profit, Finding Light. Farwa is committed to living a purposeful and joyous life, and spreading positivity.
Silvia Alonso
I am a scientist, working on pro-poor solutions to the global challenges in agriculture and health. Working in Africa, I am passionate about supporting young scientists from developing countries develop their scientific skills and build their capacity to become future global leaders in research.
Lavanya Anand
Lavanya is Vice President at VestedWorld, an Africa-focused impact investment firm. She is passionate about innovation and investment in emerging markets as a tool for economic development and poverty alleviation. She is currently based in Nairobi and spends her time supporting entrepreneurs.
Leah Angle
Leah leads the Product Design team at DoSomething, the largest non-profit for young people and social change. She leverages design to inspire millions of young people to make an impact in their communities. Leah holds an MA in Communication from Pratt Institute.
Leah Anyanwu
Leah is a passionate educator and life-long learner. She believes that access to a quality education is a human right and that everybody deserves a chance to self actualize. Leah started her career as a classroom teacher before moving to Nairobi to work in international development.
Lisette Anzoategui
Lisette works within the international development field to utilize right-fit monitoring, evaluation, and learning in conflict-affected settings. She is a technical specialist with a passion for creating usable, innovative data capture and M&E systems in fragile areas.
Sarah Ash
Sarah is a psychologist who strives to empower and promote healing amongst individuals and families through therapy and advocacy. She also serves as a consultant to schools supporting high need students. Sarah practices and supervises at a public hospital in Cambridge, MA and has a private practice.
Riffat Ashrafee
Riffat is a Project Manager at Simprints, a non-profit technology company using biometric technology to improve transparency and effectiveness of last mile services. She is passionate about diversity inclusion and specializes on capacity building of marginalized communities.
Lilliane Ballesteros
Lilliane is the Executive Director for Latino Community Fund of WA State. She spends each day collaborating and growing with a group of incredible leaders investing in Latino communities across the state. Building capacity and power through community-led efforts is at the forefront for her.
Kelsey Barrett
Kelsey is a researcher and strategist working in global health innovation. As a Technical Officer at Unitaid, Kelsey works to improve access to new tools and service delivery interventions through research, partnerships, and policy change.
Heather Beem
Heather is the CEO & Founder of Practical Education Network, a STEM education NGO aiming to enable millions of children across Africa to learn with their hands. She is based in Ghana where she moved in 2016 after completing her PhD at MIT. She also teaches engineering at Ashesi University.
Allison Blajda
Allison is a Lead Consultant and Associate Partner at Vera Solutions, working at the intersection of social impact and technology. She is a proud generalist who is passionate about project management, women's leadership, and the effective use of data in the social sector.
Leah Blezard
Leah currently works for Partners In Health Sierra Leone on the Community-Based Programs team, where she and a team of incredible Community Health Workers work to extend healthcare services to the most marginalized communities in Sierra Leone and advance the global health equity agenda.
Erica Boonstra
I'm a Dutch Argentine American from the south side of Chicago who loves solving problems, connecting people to strategy, and designing better ways of doing things. I'm currently leading the strategy function at International Justice Mission as we work to protect vulnerable people from violence.
Bruna Bouhid-Sollod
I proudly fight to protect immigrant families like my own from deportation. I serve as the Communications Director of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country, where we organize to achieve liberation and dignity for immigrants and all people.
Anthe Maria Bova
Anthe is General Counsel & Director of Pro Bono Programs at NYCLA, a non-profit that provides free civil legal aid to the indigent, including in the areas of disability rights, civil rights and social services law; she hopes to develop more holistic and efficient approaches to societal inequities.
Whitney Buchmann
Whitney is passionate about building thriving communities that are locally rooted and globally minded. She works alongside people that are affected by the inequitable distribution of power and resources to ensure they are central to creating change. Her current work is with the Camden Coalition.
Joan Chan
Joan advocates for philanthropy to provide risk capital to drive innovative public programs. She currently works with funders to expand the social impact of their capital. She is passionate about equity and social justice to ensure vulnerable communities have opportunities to flourish.
Rebecca Chavez
Rebecca is a public health professional passionate about social justice in food systems. As Business Development Manager for Equitable Food Initiative she works to transform food systems in the Americas into a critical part of building a future with improved health, equity, and peace.
Jessica Cho
Jess is passionate about disrupting inequitable practices and building just, inclusive systems. As the Chief of Staff at The Primary School, she leads strategic planning and performance management, diversity, equity and inclusion, learning and development, and other strategic initiatives.
Debra Cohen
Debra is the Digital Director at Arena, an organization that convenes and trains the next generation of progressive candidates and campaign staff. Prior to Arena, Debra managed a digital team at Sierra Club working to retire coal plants and worked on President Obama's re-election campaign.
Jocelyn Cordell
As B4YT Int’ Programs Director, Jocelyn aims to empower youth to become educated citizens through the arts. A UNA Fellow, classical vocalist, and recovering perfectionist with an MA in Conflict Resolution, she embraces the interdisciplinary to develop programs in peacebuilding and youth development.
Geoanna Corneby
Geo works with NGOs & social enterprises to advance a personal goal to help create a more equitable and sustainable economic system. She is currently a consultant at Aidenvironment, a mission-driven consultancy dedicated to eliminate deforestation from agricultural value chains.
Kataney Couamin
Kataney Couamin, daughter of Haitian immigrants, ensures the utmost effectiveness of Philadelphia's workforce system. Kataney's expertise fosters the strategic development of public welfare. She holds a Bachelor's of Sociology, a Master of Counseling, and is an MPA candidate at Villanova University.
Cassy Cox
Cassy found her calling at the IRC in New York City. Since then Cassy has gone on to lead strategic program delivery in East and West Africa. Currently, at DataKind, she developed a global strategy to use data science to create systems change in the international development sector.
Ariel Dekovic
As Head of Global Communications at ICLEI, Ariel brings her background in strategy, communications and sustainable development to advocate for change in cities around the world. With both an MBA and a career working for NGOs, she is passionate about skills-building for social impact warriors.
Juliette Devillard
Juliette is a strategic thinker, community builder and project manager working to transition society to cleaner, greener, and more sustainable ways of life. At Activate, Juliette helps scientists and engineers with innovations that can impact society to take their idea from concept to impact.
Stefanie Dringus
Stefanie is a global public health specialist, experienced in designing and evaluating complex health interventions and is passionate about HIV, adolescent health and teaching. Originally from Canada, Stefanie resides in the UK and holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Roxanne Earley
Roxanne is passionate about community engagement, placemaking, and economic development for social impact. As an urban planner with ten years of experience in education, nonprofit building, and the arts, she brings a strategic solutions-oriented lens to improving public service and urban ecosystems.
Ashley Echols
Ashley is deeply passionate about the intersection of women and climate action. Using her background in environmental engineering, she currently works for the Clinton Foundation's climate initiative to accelerate renewable energy transitions and promote gender equity in small island nations.
Claudia Ehing
Claudia leads the climate and energy project of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Asia, based in Vietnam. She is passionate about social justice, gender equality and promoting a social-ecological transformation. In her work, she tries to create multistakeholder platforms for change.
Ginny Fahs
Ginny is a software engineer, social entrepreneur, and digital rights activist. She works at Consumer Reports Digital Lab and co-founded #MovingForward, a social movement to make VC fundraising more equitable. Previously she wrote code at Uber and was a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Jaime Feeman
A proven strategic leader currently leading financial management and strategy execution as Director of Finance & Strategy at Dog Tag Inc., Jaime has prior experience in management consulting and a strong passion in working with others to maximize results and social impact.
Jennifer Fei
As a Program Manager at the Immigration Policy Lab, Jennifer manages a research portfolio focusing on the intersection of refugee integration policy design and human-centered artificial intelligence. She is passionate about evidence-based policymaking, systems-level change, and economic empowerment.
Lucia Ferrarese
Lucia is passionate about social impact and systemic change. As a Senior Associate at Acumen and a Lecturer in conflict resolution strategies at Columbia University, Lucia is dedicated to empowering students and local change-makers to lead and create social change.
Stephanie Flores
Stephanie has spent her career working towards educational equity. She is the Director of Strategy and Learning at OneGoal, where she designs people-centered strategies to support students pursue their postsecondary aspiration and co-leads her team's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training.
Dayna Fondell
Dayna is a public health nurse working with health systems and governments to implement new workflows, curriculum, and programs to better serve patients with complex health and social needs. Passionate about harm reduction, human-centered design, and social justice. Aspiring amateur carpenter.
Antoinette Foster
With a PhD in neuroscience, Antoinette aims to dismantle systemic racism embedded within the scientific enterprise. As the Director of Community Transformation at Oregon Health and Science University, she directly impacts systemic racism through policy reform, education, and community empowerment.
Ali Fraenkel
Devoted to all-things-community & creation, Ali brings an unwavering spirit as a facilitator, artist, experience creator, & expression guide. Ali has been on a 7 year journey co-creating the Ascienzo Family Foundation with her hometown community, innovating philanthropic pathways & purpose.
Tatu Gatere
I am an entrepreneur, an architect and the Co-Founder & CEO of Buildher; an organization that equips disadvantaged women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality in within the construction industry.
Karly Gelardi
Karly's career has afforded her the opportunity to teach, develop teachers, and lead recruitment for the fastest growing charter network in the US, IDEA. She is launching a teaching certification program in Florida and Texas with a focus on building effective and culturally responsive educators.
Kristen Giambusso
Kristen serves as Deputy Director of a hospital-based disaster and humanitarian crisis response team. Her work focuses on preparing responders to integrate with partners and communities to provide professional, culturally-sensitive responses to vulnerable populations around the world.
Leah Goldmann
Leah is a feminist activist and practitioner, currently working on preventing violence against women globally. She is always looking for book recommendations, hiking adventures, and collaborative efforts to smash the patriarchy.
Gabrielle Gonzalez
Gabrielle is a native New Yorker with 8+ years in the social impact space. She works in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at Change.org. She combines her innate ability to connect others, her passion for inclusion, and human-centric approach to build healthy and meaningful work cultures.
Alexandra Gordon
Alex is a public health practitioner who is passionate about eliminating preventable disease. As a Senior Program Officer at the J.C. Flowers Foundation, she equips communities affected by malaria with the tools, resources, and knowledge necessary to eliminate the disease.
Kandasi Griffiths
Currently based in Togo with a healthcare NGO, Kandasi is an international development strategist and project manager. From design to implementation of sustainable solutions, she pursues equity by making the global personal, considering complex issues from the community level.
Rose Haft
Rose has been part of world class engineering teams since high school, where she worked on VR that is still more advanced than what is on the market today. She helped to build the most fuel efficient college vehicle in America (and top 10 in the world), the first MOOC Prof-Desk, cutting edge healthcare applications and is also currently working on a cutting edge product for the augmented reality industry.
Raina Han
In her role at The Asia Foundation, Raina works to align the private sector's social impact and corporate responsibility strategies with programs that improve the lives of adolescent girls and women, the marginalized, and the underrepresented across a dynamic and developing Asia-Pacific region.
Danielle Harris
Danielle is a global health professional dedicated to increasing women's access to quality reproductive healthcare. As a Senior Program Manager with WCG Cares, Danielle manages donor-funded projects piloting new and improved contraceptive methods to meet women's needs in low-resource settings.
Esmeralda Herrera
A first-gen American raised in the Bronx, Director of Programs and Community Relations, Esmeralda manages an accelerator in the South Bronx for local social entrepreneurs. She is passionate about empowering and connecting POC and women entrepreneurs with resources to revitalize the local economy.
Anna Hiller
Anna is a freelance data scientist passionate about helping NGOs, think tanks and civil society organisations to get a better understanding of hate speech and disinformation on social media in South East Asia. Her work is mainly based on natural language processing and social network analysis.
Madeline Holland
Madeline is the Co-CEO at Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB). Madeline joined TBB as an early-stage start up in 2016 after years of working and volunteering with immigrants and refugees to the US. She is based in New York and holds a Bachelor's degree from Harvard University.
Olivia Hough
Olivia is the Managing Director of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, considered the biggest community of impact- entrepreneurs in Cambodia. A mental health advocate, she is the founder of 'The Happiness Project Cambodia' where she leads workshops that promote good mental health through discussion and art.
Hera Hussain
Hera is the founder of CHAYN - a global, award-winning project that creates open resources on the web to address gender-based violence. Chayn has reached more than 360 000 through its resources which are designed with survivors of abuse.
Stacie Irwin
For the last decade, Stacie has leveraged her background in agriculture and social sciences to help teams to design and deliver services that improve economic opportunities for rural people. After 7 years of international work, primarily in West Africa, she is now transitioning focus back to Canada.
Gabriela Ivens
Gabi is a human rights researcher focusing on using technology to expose human rights violations. She works as the Head of Open Source Research at Human Rights Watch and is passionate about training others and learning new approaches.
Luisa Izuzquiza
Luisa Izuzquiza is a freedom of information activist based in Brussels, Belgium. Luisa does research, gives advice on, campaigns, and litigates for access to information on Europe's migration and border control policies. Her work has a special focus on the EU's border police, Frontex.
Erica Johnson
Erica has experience with international organisations across the arts, environment and wellbeing sectors. Currently managing operations at The Wellbeing Project, she is passionate about cultivating inner wellbeing and catalyzing a shift to a more human-centered social change culture.
Sophia Jones
Sophia enjoys helping to advance the lives of young women & girls to ensure they are equipped and have a voice. She believes when you are whole, confident and show up in your full potential you can achieve whatever it is you want. She has a background in Community & Human Services with a focus in Community Advocacy and Non Profit Management.
Uchechi Kalu
Uchechi Kalu is the Founder and Co-host of The Buddy Pass, a podcast that tells the untold stories of African Americans who have left the American Dream to thrive in unexpected countries around the world. She's lived all around the world, most recently in China, and can't wait to explore more.
Payal Kapadia
Payal is passionate about equity work, specifically in the field of education. Formerly a classroom teacher, she now leads a coaching team at OneGoal NY that supports high school teachers in the postsecondary access and success space. Additionally, Payal helps lead the regional DEI work at OGNY.
Liza Katsman
Liza is a recent UCLA MBA grad, navigating her career towards building better organizations and employee culture, while promoting diverse and equitable environments within and adjacent to her professional work. She hopes to help tech/startups create more inclusive and accessible environments.
Lauren Kee
Lauren is committed to making the path toward personal fulfillment and leadership more equitable. At The Posse Foundation, she supports diverse groups of college students with career development. With a background in consulting and yoga teaching, she embeds empathy and efficiency into her work.
Latrina Kelly-James
Latrina believes that equity and liberation is a core of organizational culture. She is Chief of Equity & Racial Justice at Center for Popular Democracy and has led capacity building efforts with grassroots healing & violence reduction organizations, leading with a lens of harm, justice and healing
Farhanaz Kermalli
Farhanaz is a Program Director for Internews South Sudan, where she brings her passion for access to information and accountability in international development. A former U.S. government policy analyst, this southern California native is grounded in teams that lead with inclusion and compassion.
Shaunna-Marie Kerr
Shaunna-Marie believes that all people should have access to the tools necessary to achieve their own definitions of success. Recognizing the power of place and identity as determinants in education and employment, she is passionate about the economic empowerment of equity-seeking groups.
Juvaria Khan
Juvaria is passionate about ensuring equal representation in our highest courts. A civil rights lawyer by background, she is the founder of The Appellate Project, which promotes racial equity in cases before the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal.
Naria Kiani
Naria is Senior Planning Coordinator at KDI. She partners with policymakers and residents in underserved communities to establish resident-led land use using planning and design strategies. Naria holds a BS in Public Policy and Planning from the University of Oregon and an MA in Planning from UCLA.
Hee Sung Kim
Hee Sung has been working on making financing work for under-served segments in developing countries at the UN Capital Development Fund for the last ten years. She's worked with energy entrepreneurs in Uganda, and fintechs in Malaysia who want to improve financial health of low income users.
Kyungmi Kim
Kyungmi Kim is a digital strategist , social entrepreneur, and dance artist. She worked at Ogilvy &Mather and BBDO and co-founded ZeroGravity&Co providing community regeneration through arts to the cities with projects for Korea, New Zealand and New York. She holds a MBA from Oxford University.
Amanda Kistler
Amanda is a human rights advocate working at the intersections of environmental justice, accountability and internationalism. As Vice President at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), she shapes its strategic vision into achievable plans to protect people and the planet.
Zawadi Kitsao
I have over 10 years experience in finance having worked in various sectors including the automotive industry, financial and management consulting and social enterprises which include water and sanitation services and youth employment.
Jillian Kowalchuk
Jillian Kowalchuk, MSc, BA is an award-winning entrepreneur, business coach and TEDx speaker. She is passionate about navigating technology enabling equality by inclusive and data-led design.
Charlotte Lapp
Charlotte Lapp is the Statewide Manager for the Ending Exploitation Collaborative. Throughout her career, Charlotte has worked to find points of intersection across varying industries to build partnerships that propel social activism forward. She lives in Seattle with her husband and dog, Watson.
Elisabeth Lembo
Liz is passionate about the advancement toward health and education equity for children and families in underserved U.S. regions. She has worked in the education field for the past six years, as an elementary school teacher, in nonprofit spaces, as well as in city and federal policy roles.
Elyssa Lewis
Elyssa is passionate about the power of learning to accelerate impact. In her current role at the Skoll Foundation, she is responsible for supporting the organization's strategic learning culture, centering equity and inclusion as core tenets, and leading strategy on combating disinformation.
Daniela Litowitz
Daniela co-founded Casa de Ayni, a holistic social impact school in Mexico based on the Andean concept of sacred reciprocity. She has built ventures and coached entrepreneurs in the US, Israel and South America and previously served as Social Enterprise Specal Advisor at Columbia University.
Mirit Lugassi
Mission-driven leader with a varied career in the finance, fintech, and legal industries. Recently moved to NYC from London to promote gender equity. Holds an LL.B Law, BA Economics, MBA and a NY lawyer. Member of the Women in Law Committee of NYSBA and a Board Advisor at Founders Pledge.
Marta López Fesser
Marta is the Head of Corporate Partnerships at UNICEF Spain and is thrilled to be working with the private sector to advance children´s rights at a time when the roles of institutions, corporates and communities are finding common understanding. If its good for children, its good for businesses.
Palika Makam
I'm a media activist supporting directly impacted communities to use video, storytelling and technology to expose human rights abuses and advocate for their rights. I'm currently the U.S. Senior Program Coordinator at WITNESS where I lead our immigrant rights and criminal justice work.
Sandra Mamitzsch
Sandra Mamitzsch is a Berlin based political scientist working with a global community of social and technical innovators. She leads the GIG efforts to contribute to Careables, an open platform for health & care, promoting co-creation, sharing and local adaptation of assistive tech products.
Mahlet Mamo
Mahlet is a fervent advocate for immigrants and refugees, possessed with finding solutions that create access to opportunities for newcomers. She currently works at a U.S based Nonprofit, Upwardly Global as a National Account Manager.
Ciera Martinez
Ciera is a biologist, data scientist, and open science advocate. She works as the Research Lead of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science. Ciera works on research and training efforts to make environmental research transparent and accessible to all.
Danielle McAdams
As a Manager on Comcast's Community Impact team, Danielle creates employee volunteer opportunities and manages the nonprofit board service program. Passionate about women's empowerment, she holds a leadership role on Comcast's Women's Network (PHL) and the Future Leaders Board for WICT Global.
Angele McCaie
Angèle is the General Manager of Rogerville, a small French Acadian municipality New Brunswick, Canada of a population of 1,200 citizens. Angèle is passionate about finding creative solutions to public challenges and is a feminist and minority rights activist.
Sarah McIntosh
Sarah is a fundraising professional with experience working on both sides of the funding spectrum. Thus far in her career she has helped to give away over $12 million in grant funding, and raised over $9 million in grant funding. She recently wrapped up a Master's Degree in Organization Development.
Melody Mitugo
An impact-driven process engineer who is passionate about the smart use of technologies to tackle the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. Currently a Planning and Analysis manager at Sanergy, working to develop sustainable solutions in sanitation and organic waste management
Emily Moder
Emily is the COO of SteamaCo, which uses smart technology to make utility services more efficient, affordable and reliable for customers across Africa and Asia. Her goal is to prove that a more sustainable and inclusive version of the electrical grid is possible.
Sara Murdock
I'm an Indiana Jones of business--I excavate, assess, and improve social impact programs. I've got the entrepreneur bug and am constantly innovating. I trained as a choreographer in college and still see power as a story we create with humans in time and space, rather than a fixed, ossified entity.
Mithula Naik
Mithula Naik is the Head of Design Research and a founding member of the Canadian Digital Service (CDS), the central digital services team in the Government of Canada.
Ranu Nath
Ranu is passionate about using research and evaluation to promote and protect migrant and refugee rights. On her free time, you can find Ranu walking her dog, taking care of her plants, and making and sharing food with loved ones.
Tamiko Nettles
Tamiko is a lifelong educator that develops impactful programs to motivate leaders and build effective teams. Tamiko cares about people. She collaborates with others to launch new initiatives that improve educator experiences, end homelessness, and empower communities.
Patricia Njoya
Patricia currently works in Finance for Pur Projet, a social enterprise. She previously spent 10 years working for an accounting firm and made the change to align values and experience. She is passionate about using her experience to help her organization pursue its mission.
Sibonelo Nongcula
As a Business Development Manager at Numeric, Sibonelo is responsible for the financial health and sustainability of the organisation. Her belief that every child has the right to a quality education is what has kept in working in development focusing on education for over 8 years.
Marion Ntiru
Marion has worked in finance & philanthropy, and is passionate about the intersection of business, social impact & Africa. Currently she manages the portfolio of The ELMA Growth Foundation, which supports organizations with scalable models of improving the lives of low-income communities in Africa.
Marilyn Nyanteh
Marilyn is a budgeting professional, and she uses her expertise to help organizations monitor their costs and associated revenues to ensure that their spending is in line with their values. She is the Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, NY.
Meghan O'Brien Lowery
Meghan is passionate about inspiring change. Her greatest joys include empowering others to find their voice, shift their perspective, educate their experience and unearth their power. Meghan is passionate about best practices, collective action, reshaping philanthropy and relational literacy.
Ana Pantelic
Ana Pantelic, PhD is a social entrepreneur and international development professional working at the confluence of systems change, social innovation, and economic opportunity. A prolific public speaker and researcher, she is a native of Serbia and is currently Social Policy Manager at UNICEF Uganda.
Amy Patanasinth
Amy spent the last decade working at the intersection of development, governance and stabilization. She is passionate about supporting change agents who work to make their communities safer. As USAID Deputy Country Representative, she manages assistance to the democratic transition in Malaysia.
Sanjana Patel
Sanjana's work has focused on partnerships, including in her current role at UNICEF USA. Previously, she played roles in creating new social impact initiatives, including at Health Security Partners, UNDP, Starbucks, and GlobeMed. She holds an MBA from Northwestern and enjoys watercolor painting.
Linda Patentas
Linda is an international development practitioner specializing in human rights in global supply chains. She currently leads BRAC's efforts to advance Bangladesh's garment sector. Linda is passionate about creating equitable supply chains, particularly those fueled by women in the Global South.
Katherine Pavelich
As Executive Director and Co-founder of Elevate Education International, Katherine is passionate about leveraging education to build productive economies and thriving societies. She holds an MA in education policy from Georgetown University and has advised education projects in 11 countries.
Patchara Piampongsant
Patchara is a career coach who works with refugees and immigrants to help them find and keep their jobs. She believes that diversity and meaningful work are key to an inclusive society where everyone has a chance to thrive. Patchara has experience in non-profits, higher education and government.
Héloïse Pichot
Héloïse believes environmental sustainability will only by reached once people's basic needs are fulfilled. She made access to clean energy her mission. She currently works for Burn Manufacturing designing and testing new business models to bring clean cooking to the next billion.
Lucy Purdon
Lucy works with Privacy International. She enjoys targeting companies that exploit people and their data, exploring how to prevent data exploitation in the election cycle and how to protect those targeted through their use of technology because of who they are or what they do
Helena Quinn
Helena's drive is to influence how new and emerging technologies are regulated and used for the benefit of society at large. After a stint at the UK's data protection regulator working on AI explainability, she is now a Data and Technology Insight Adviser at the Competition and Markets Authority.
Elle Ramel
Elle Ramel is the Chicago Director for GET Cities (Gender Equality in Tech). Prior to her role, she was the project manager of the Michael Reese Hospital redevelopment and a part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's economic development team. She is also the co-founder of City Open Workshop.
Mary Rocheleau
Mary Rocheleau is a humanitarian technologist, passionate about building technology products to advance humanitarian aid and development. She currently works on the Technology for Development team at Mercy Corps focusing on predictive modeling, and holds degrees in Computer Science and Psychology.
Caitlin Ruffman
Caitlin prioritizes work that brings equity, accountability and transformation to a world where oppression is deeply embedded. Meaningful change starts small, with values based work and community care. She believes it's her responsibility to build toward an equitable world for future generations.
Sofia Salazar
Sofia Salazar (they/them) is a life coach and the co-founder of BirthBabyBody, an online hub of classes for new parents that creates inclusive spaces in perinatal and parenting education. An educator at heart, they empower people to nurture a deeper connection to themselves and those around them.
Mariana Sarmiento
Mariana is a a specialist in environmental policy and strategy and works in biodiversity finance. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Policy and Management from Yale University and holds a Bachelors from Tulane University. She is the mother of two girls an lives in Colombia.
Shanehi Shah
Shanehi is passionate about all things social justice. After 12 years in the public and private sectors and various fields, she now works as a social impact consultant. Her mission is to help us, as a society, access our deepest, most radical empathy and harness our kindness for meaningful change.
Selene Shen
Selene is passionate about women’s advancement through leadership development. Having worked both corporate and educational consulting fields, she is now transitioning to the adult development space and aspires to become a leadership coach. She strives to build a collaborative learning community and safe space for women to develop as leaders and realize their full potential.
Pratyusha Sibal
Pratyusha is deeply committed to women-centered change and her passion to work towards gender justice stems from a myriad of personal experiences. Her past work experiences have centered around supporting engagement on gender equality programming that enhances women’s legal, economic and political rights in the Asia Pacific.
Caroline Simangaliso Makumbe
Caroline is a Child Rights Activist. Her passion stems from amplifying the voices of the marginalized. She is the Child Rights Officer at the Graça Machel Trust and Founder of the CarolMaks Voice, a Motivational Speaking Company which inspires women and children to live their full potential.
Kathryn Spencer
At the Skoll Foundation, Kathryn sources high-potential social impact organizations, conducts due diligence on strategic investment opportunities, and manages partnerships with portfolio organizations pursuing lasting, large-scale social change.
Prashanthi Subramaniam
Prashanthi is a communications specialist working on climate change, gender equality and environmental sustainability. Her passion lies in strategy and storytelling for impact and shining a spotlight on issues, ideas and people who matter. She works with the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand.
Emily Sullivan
For a decade, Emily has worked toward the advancement of young people's sexual and reproductive health. She is passionate about ensuring communities around the world have the power, evidence, and resources they need to improve the lives of the most vulnerable, especially adolescents.
Fatima Sy
Fatima is a communications strategist dedicated to using the transformative power of narrative to help build a better world. She has developed campaigns for numerous pressing social issues. She's currently at Autodesk, working at the intersection of tech, design, sustainability and social impact.
Lauren THEIS
Lauren believes in the power of technology to transform disconnected data into meaningful information to improve public health service delivery. She supports the Lao PDR Ministry of Health to strengthen and utilize information systems as Program Manager on CHAI's Health Systems Strengthening team.
Leah Taub
Leah is driven by innovative approaches to creating social impact. She leads mobile technology-enabled partnerships and programming in Southeast Asia for Viamo. Previously she worked on global U.S. government-funded public health and nutrition programming, and in the private sector media industry.
Martina Taverna
Martina is the Director of Business Innovation at Arifu, a mobile chatbot providing skills training via even the most basic phones in Africa. She is passionate about supporting Africa-focused social enterprises to scale. She is currently consulting for AI for Good, a chatbot supporting abused women.
Leslie Tsai
Leslie is the Director of Social Impact at the Chandler Foundation, where she leads the foundation's global grant-making portfolio. A lawyer by background, she is passionate about international development and has worked in non-profit, philanthropic, and multi-lateral institutions.
Natalie Tung
Natalie is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of HomeWorks Trenton, a free community-based after-school residential program. Through the HomeWorks model, Natalie hopes to break systems of educational and gender inequity for young women in marginalized communities around the world.
Jen Turner
Jen works with Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada as a Policy Advisor where her work focuses on child poverty, mental health and youth engagement. She is passionate about public policy and creating systems change.
Anina Tweed
Anina shapes and stewards partnerships with leading corporate and foundation donors to support networks of female community health workers in East Africa. She is passionate about directing philanthropic dollars in a way that empowers women to be their own advocates.
Erin Tyburski
Erin is passionate about cultivating talent & building systems for scalable impact. She held operations & leadership roles with agroforestry social enterprises for 10 years before joining a consulting firm to scale Arcadia, which embeds top local talent with African businesses to catalyze growth.
Ayushi Vig
Ayushi is a philanthropy organizer, educator, and advisor who believes in unleashing wealth to enable abundance for all. She grew up in New Delhi, and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ayushi enjoys reading, practicing yoga, dancing, baking, and adventuring.
Zoe Wake Hyde
I am an open publishing advocate, working to create more just and equitable educational and academic publishing systems. I believe in the power of open practices to transform how knowledge is created and shared globally, and to ensure that historic structural inequalities are broken down.
Meg Watkins
As an MBA and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Meg brings a passion for creating more equitable opportunity to her work at CARE, a leading international development NGO. Meg is particularly interested in making sure that funding relationships prioritize the rights and voices of local communities.
Connie Wu
Connie is an advocate for child rights with extensive experience supporting marginalised children and their families across Sub-Saharan Africa. At SOS CVI, she is dedicated to harnessing the power of collaboration and partnership to strengthen systems and ensure the best care of all children.
Xin Xin
Xin is a fundraising professional with human rights grantmaking experience. She believes movement-led philanthropy and donor of color activism support the revolutionary transfer of power necessary for social justice movements. Xin is an intersectional feminist, pro-Black, and anti-capitalist.
Shahrzad Yavari
Shahrzad is a public health strategist and a women's rights advocate. She is passionate about equitable distribution of opportunities globally, in health and in the workforce for women. As a Program Director, Shahrzad has launched and scaled an immunization strengthening program in 23 countries.
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Ademide Adefarasin
Ademide is passionate about the power of design for social impact. As a business design lead at IDEO.org she brings together strategy, policy and design to solve big problems and ideate solutions for organizations working at the heart of global inequity and injustice.
Rosalind Aguilera
Rosalind's enthusiasm for sport and social justice lead her to Cape Town, South Africa where she founded Resilient and Victorious United Women's Football Club (RVU) in the township of Khayelitsha. RVU serves as a safe place for girls to play, get help, learn, thrive, and build community.
Leila Akahloun
Leila is passionate about social justice issues. She serves as Advisor to Graça Machel where she advances women's and children's rights globally. She holds a BS in International Politics from Georgetown and an MA in International Relations from the U of Chicago.
Rhonda Allen
As Chief Membership and Partnership Officer at ISTE, Rhonda leads strategy and programming for 500,000 change makers around the world. With the pursuit of equity as her life's work, Rhonda works in proximity with educators, communities, and partners to accelerate innovation in education and beyond.
Lindz Amer
Lindsay 'Lindz' Amer creates LGBTQ+ and social justice media for kids and families through their multi-media production company, Queer Kid Creative. They spread their message of queer joy through their webseries, family podcast, and live song and story events across the country.
Karishma Arora
With an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship & an experience of over 7 years, Karishma is a passionate development sector professional. She has worked under several verticals in this sector & is currently Chief of People and Operations at Intelehealth - a tech non-profit working in primary health care.
Stephanie Arrowsmith
Stephanie is the Network Development Lead at SecondMuse, a collaborative innovation agency dedicated to building ecosystems & communities towards social and environmental impact. She also co-founded Impact Hub Jakarta to support the connectivity & growth of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia.
Teesa Bahana
Teesa Bahana is the Director of 32° East Ugandan Arts Trust, she has supported the execution of projects such as KLA ART Labs for research and critical thinking through public practice and is currently overseeing 32° East's capital project, fundraising for Kampala's first purpose-built art centre
Charlene Barina
Charlene is a public health professional who is concerned about how biased datasets reinforce existing disparities in health outcomes. She is excited to dig into work to change how health technologies and systems are designed and developed to shine a light on, and start closing, these gaps.
Barbara Barreno-Paschall
Barbara is dedicated to promoting civil rights and the rule of law and to helping communities thrive. She has experience in the public and private sectors and serves in a quasi-judicial role at a state human rights agency. Barbara was born and raised in the Los Angeles area and lives in Chicago.
Genevieve Barrons
Genevieve leads network expansion for Segovia Technologies, a fintech company that aims to reduce the cost and complexity of sending money into Africa. Previously she was the Country Director of GiveDirectly Malawi, which provides unconditional cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty.
Fouzia Bencheikh
By day, Fouzia is the Applied Learning Officer at Malala Fund where she supports education activists with the skills needed to advance access to girls' education. By night, she is a board member for Teaching for Change, an organization advancing multicultural education and social justice in the U.S.
Sriya Bhattacharyya
Dr. B is a psychologist working with individuals, communities, and structures to heal and liberate from oppression. She uses art & trauma-informed approaches. At present, she is a Fellow at Harvard Medical School & Albert Einstein College of Medicine and works at a public hospital in the Bronx, NY.
Caroline Blayney
Caroline has experience with international organizations in program delivery, policy, and partnerships. After working in the Middle East and East Africa for nine years, she now lives in New York. She is passionate about how non profits use finances and partnerships to deliver their mission.
Laura Buckley
Laura is a social justice advocate and head of Care Management Initiatives at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. She is passionate about equity and harm reduction and fights to improve health and social outcomes for people with complex needs. |
Agnieszka Bulacik
Agnieszka is a creative facilitator working in culture, arts, and education. Co-founder of new visions - an organization that transforms existing narratives to create a more equitable and inclusive world; exercising a compassionate and critical approach aims to drive sustainable systemic change.
Sandra Butler
Talent is equally distributed around the world, but access to resources is not. This core tenet has driven my career in global health and my work training women in salary negotiations. Today, I lead partnerships, strategy and growth for a design-thinking team at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Samantha Carter
Sam is a Research Advisor at Founders Pledge, where she works with entrepreneurs to ensure that their philanthropy is as impactful as possible. She is passionate about using research and data to address poverty and inequality.
Courtney Chang
Courtney is a creative problem-solver passionate about applying systems thinking, human-centered design, and business principles to public health and social justice issues. At IDEO.org she leads the Billion Girls CoLab to drive collaboration and innovation for adolescent girl health in East Africa.
Aaileen Charleston
Aileen is an international development practitioner focused on women’s rights. She is particularly passionate about the intersections between race, class and gender. She has been able deeply impacted by the experience of working with women and girls from diverse feminist movements in the U.S., Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, Kenya and France.
Bhavana Chilukuri
Bhavana is Director of Programs at Dalberg Catalyst, a 501c3 that builds multi-stakeholder initiatives to address today's most critical social and environmental challenges. She is passionate about all things global health: from promoting childhood nutrition to ending loneliness and social isolation.
Tara Collins
Tara is the Director of Marketing at neverthirst, a nonprofit serving clean and living water to unreached communities in Africa and Asia. She longs to see an end to the global water crisis, see marketing used for good, and catalyze new audiences to transform lives through generosity.
Paola Yamilet Constantino Diaz
I am a pro-environment entrepreneur at heart, committed to catalyse solutions that harvest opportunities from waste streams and make a change for climate and water issues, especially in developing countries. My vision: everyone can make a difference but we need community and true collaboration.
Natalie Copuroglu
Natalie has spent the last decade working at the intersection of development, human-centered design and technology. She designed interventions in Africa for NGOs & social enterprises and worked with startups in Europe, Africa and Asia. She's now working at an impact venture studio in Latin America.
Anjum Dhamija
Anjum is a Program Officer for CITIIS, a smart cities program with Govt. of India. She brings a unique mix of experience in technology products and training in design and innovation tools to public sector. She believes in approaching impact through empathy in her personal and professional action.
Simmi Dixit
Simmi is a humanitarian and migration specialist, who manages humanitarian programming with Oxfam (in)Canada for conflict and disaster responses worldwide. She is super stimulated by feminist ethics and intersectional analysis, seeking to integrate both in her work.
Laurie Drake
Laurie is the Director of Research and Learning at MASS LBP, Canada's home for democratic innovation and public strategy. She works with governments to create ambitious public engagement programs that allow citizens to tackle some of our toughest policy challenges. She's also wrapping up her Ph.D.
Cherrelle Druppers
Cherrelle is a co-founder and director of a nonprofit organisation that provides life skills education to children in vulnerable communities through dance. She believes that socials and emotional learning should be an essential part of every curriculum, in every school, for every child.
Carey Dunfey
Carey is a systems thinker passionate about growing equitable urban ecosystems. Her professional foundation in experiential education, hospitality, and urban planning has shaped her worldview and approach to practice, believing in the process of developing innovative solutions from the ground up.
Maria Dyshel
Maria is an impact-driven technologist and social entrepreneur, passionate about solving problems and improve people's lives using digital technology and artificial intelligence. She has recently co-founded Tangible AI to empower social impact organizations to build AI-powered solutions.
Kaathima Ebrahim
Kaathima is the CEO of on NPO in the Early Childhood Development sectorin South Africa. Kaathima has a diverse background across the public, private and social sectors. She is a strategic thinker, with a passion for improving systems to increase organisational impact to the people they serve.
Mackinnon Engen
Mackinnon is Executive Director at Watsi. She has a passion for helping people and organizations come together to tackle complex challenges and create measurable, sustainable impact. As a global health and humanitarian professional, her experience has spanned the UN, NGO, and academic sectors.
Emily Feenstra
Emily loves working at the intersection of social impact and innovation. She is the Chief Operating Office of Henry Health, a Washington DC based start up focused on providing culturally sensitive self care and mental health resources. Previously she was an Education investor at Omidyar Network.
Lisa Fencik
Lisa works as a community nutritionist in early childhood intervention. She feels her purpose most when engaging with others around early childhood development, caregiver-child bonding and mealtime experiences. She is grateful to be able to contribute to NYC's efforts to reduce health disparities.
Cecilia Flatley
Cecilia is a global health specialist, program manager, and scientist, currently focused on malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa. Cecilia strives to cultivate leadership skills, especially among women, on her teams and promote social justice in all aspects of her professional and personal life.
Laura Francois
Laura is a social impact strategist and storyteller, the co-founder of social impact studio, ANEWKIND and social entrepreneurship academy, The Spaceship. Laura has worked at the intersection of sustainable development and creative economies across Asia.
Allyson Fritz
Allyson works alongside West African development champions to support their vision for an educated and empowered generation of girls. Program Director for the OASIS Initiative in Niger, she draws on her MSW in Management & Planning to provide technical expertise to newly emerging national NGOs.
Alison Frost
Alison Frost is a Silicon Valley native and Development Manager for Housing Trust Silicon Valley, a Community Development Financial Institution serving the greater Bay Area. She believes that housing is a human right and is working to make her community one where anyone can afford to build a life.
Katherine Geusz
Katie is passionate about mobilizing diverse stakeholders to combat climate change. As Director of Programs at Greentown Labs, Katie oversees Greentown Launch, an accelerator that helps climate-focused technology get deployed by fostering partnerships between startups and corporations.
Emily Gosselin
Emily is an international development practitioner specializing in building financial access and inclusion for rural women. She has worked with non-profits and microfinance institutions across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with expertise in partnership development, operations, and strategy.
Sulakshana Gupta
I am a Social and Behaviour Change Communications specialist with over 12 years' experience designing, fundraising for and implementing multi-media for development projects in East and West Africa. I am driven by a desire to be innovative and create long term sustainable impact.
Mahrukh (Maya) Hasan
Maya is a social researcher, designer, and strategist passionate about communications and tech for good. She is committed to dismantling systems of oppression by amplifying the voices and talents of women of color in solving complex social problems. Maya is also founder and director of Azura Labs.
Jumana Hashim
I am a public health professional passionate about healthcare and education access, especially among the most vulnerable populations. I am an advocate for private and public sector collaboration when developing and implementing evidence-based initiatives. I like to cook, play rugby, and travel.
AnnaLise Hoopes
AnnaLise believes deeply in the power of education for social change. She is the founder of The Changemaker Project, a nonprofit empowering youth in 22 countries to #bethechange they wish to see. AnnaLise is also an artist, writer, entrepreneur, and mindfulness facilitator.
Iran Huffels
Iran is passionate about building an equitable society where everyone can achieve their fullest potential. She designs and implements a global accelerator programme for impact startups. While her career cuts across different disciplines and regions, people have always been at the centre of her work.
Julia Hug
I am passionate about using evidence to generate social change. I am a Senior Associate at Instiglio, a non-profit consultancy working to improve the impact of social services by tying funding to results. Before this, I worked at Oxford Policy Management on a range of quantitative research projects.
Lauren Hunter
Lauren Hunter serve as the Director of Diversity Recruitment and Retention for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. In this role, Lauren oversees the agency's diversity recruitment and retention strategy, ensuring that diversity and inclusion are embedded within HR policies and procedures.
Julie Hyde
Julie is a Manager of Regional Operations & Strategy at UNICEF USA, where she serves as a project manager and consults on strategic planning for the organization. Her passion is helping mission-based organizations maximize impact while striving to help those most in need.
Kathleen Jean-Pierre
KC leads global operations for CrossBoundary Energy, which sells solar electricity to African businesses. A systems designer at heart, KC sees renewable energy as a path to generating jobs and disconnecting economic growth from environmental destruction. She calls Nairobi, Kenya home.
Regina Jefferson
I am a native San Franciscan, a social justice advocate, and very dedicated to helping others achieve their career goals. I believe that people can achieve great things when they put their mind to it. Thus, my mission is to train, heal, and guide the people of my community to gain self-sufficiency.
Sindhuja Jeyabal
As the co Founder and CTO of Dost Education, Sindhuja is passionate about making quality education accessible to everyone. She brings over 10 years of expertise in user-centered design, product development and technology to build engaging digital experiences that make learning fun.
Jenna Judge
Jenna is committed to supporting linkages among the vast network of ecosystem monitoring scientists to answer critical questions about how Puget Sound is doing and how well recovery efforts are working, to inform policy, management, and recovery efforts supporting a resilient Puget Sound ecosystem.
Alanda Kariza
As a behavioural economist, Alanda founded Advis, a behavioural insights consultancy and collective, dedicated to innovating public services and building digital products to help citizens make better choices for their financial and physical wellbeing. She's also an author of 11 books.
Kara Keating Bench
Dr. Keating Bench is a family medicine physician practicing in a federally qualified community health center north of Boston. She is passionate about improving health outcomes among underserved populations, patient by patient.
Genevieve Kelly
Genevieve is the General Manager & CEO of HappyTap Vietnam, a small startup that produces and sells an award-winning handwashing device designed for low-resource settings. She could talk forever about toilets, human-centered design, social enterprise and/or cultural norms.
Jen Kendall
Jen works with public libraries, largely in rural areas. She is an advocate for marginalized groups, celebrating access to libraries for all, while ensuring collections and policies are inclusive by design. She is happiest when she can direct someone to a book or resource that enriches their lives.
Zakiya Keys
Hello! My name is Zakiya Keys and I live in Houston, Texas with my husband and our three pets. I attended Texas A&M University where I studied Psychology. Understanding how people ``work`` has always been a passion of mine and all of my hobbies and interests stem from that initial love of psychology!
Nora Kiefer
Nora works to create a more differentiated image of Africa in German parliament. As a political scientist & psychologist, she is passionate about foreign policy & conducted research in Africa & Southeast Asia. Justice is her driver: As a certified trainer, Nora works with disadvantaged communities.
Kristine Kim
Kristine is a development practitioner working to improve the apparel value chain at both global and local levels. She leverages public private partnerships within the sector to create a more inclusive and circular economy for society and environment.
Kathryn Kosmides
Kathryn Kosmides is a longtime entrepreneur and activist. With a passion for ending gender-based violence in the digital age, she founded Garbo - a new kind of background check solution.
Flora Kwong
Flora is a finance and operations professional with a background in audit and finance. She is committed to social justice and equal opportunities initiatives. She is intent on helping organizations pursue these missions through innovative financial strategies and operational systems.
Irene Laochaisri
Irene has structured meaningful conversations and facilitated capacity building programs for global organizations ranging from from the United Nations to Unilever. Her work unleashes people's capacity to be compassionate and culturally-mindful leaders, no matter where they are in the world.
Kate Lewis-LaMonica
Kate is a manager at the Bridgespan Group. She leads teams to provide nonprofit and foundation leaders with strategy consulting and leadership development that addresses pressing their strategic challenges to scaling social impact. Her work spans education, youth services, technology and healthcare.
Melissa Liu
Melissa is passionate about poverty alleviation and access to basic needs for everyone. She left her corporate job in 2019 to move to Cambodia and work at Energylab, to push the energy transition in a region that will determine the future of climate change globally.
Julia Lowndes
Julia is a marine ecologist championing kinder, better science in less time through open data science. She has 7+ years designing and leading programs to empower teams with skillsets and mindsets for collaborative, reproducible research - including Openscapes, which she founded as a Mozilla Fellow.
Averie MacDonald
As a reporter, researcher and educator, Averie has spent her career championing young people's ideas and innovations. An evangelist for sisterhood, Averie recently worked with Girl Guides of Canada shaping new programming to help Canadian girls connect and discover their capacity to create change.
Laetitiah Magara
Laetitiah is on a mission to build a conscious career while doing good in the world. She has strong international experience working in Kenya, USA, China and the UK. She has worked with the public and private sector on projects spanning the education, social entrepreneurship and hospitality spaces.
Patricia Malila
Patricia is a Program Officer at Segal Family Foundation (SFF). She manages SFF's capacity building program in Malawi and supports due diligence on potential & current partners in Southern Africa. She has a BSocSc Hons degree in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Tara Marwah
Tara is an Austrian-Indian economist currently working for the Government of Rwanda. She is passionate about lessening global economic inequality and constantly figuring out how exactly to do that.
Claire McAndrew
Claire is an advocacy strategist focused on policy and political change for health and social justice. Her passion is making non-profits and campaigns more impactful and strategic. For the past 12 years she was a Director at an organization fighting to improve health care for all in the US.
Casey McDermott
Casey (she/her) is a dedicated humanitarian aid worker, passionate about social justice and evidence-based decision making. Previously field-based with UNDP and MSF, she is currently working for CARE Canada. Casey holds a BA from McGill University and an MSc from the London School of Economics
Linet Mera
Linet is ED at the Unconscious Bias Project, a nonprofit delivering creative solutions to tackling bias in workplaces & classrooms. As a Colombiana w/a PhD in Molecular Bio, she weaves 10 years of diversity, equity, & inclusion program design with her passion for connecting & supporting communities.
Lauren Miranda
Originally from Minnesota, I've lived all over the country as well as in France and South Africa before laying roots in the San Francisco Bay area where I now live with my husband and two cats. I love adventuring around the bay, baking, DIY projects, and doing work that makes a positive impact.
Sruti Modekurty
Sruti is the Platform Lead at OpenAQ, building open source technology to help communities around the world fight air pollution. She has a diverse engineering background spanning industry, government and nonprofit sectors. Her passion lies at the intersection of tech, cities, and the environment.
Melissa Mogollón
Melissa is a fashion designer creating a deep conscious change in the way her country, Colombia, perceives war actors which are integrating in society. Her enterprise works with exguerrillas, victims of conflict and community to desmystify that those affected deeply cannot forgive and live in peace.
Angelica Molero
Angelica is motivated by the role that learning, collaboration and inclusion play in unlocking human potential. Whether partnering with nonprofit or private sector organizations, she is energized by enhancing culture, building trust and strategizing about ways to attract and develop talent.
Caitlin Morelli
Caitlin is a creative strategist energized by opportunities to redesign more equitable, sustainable systems. She currently works at Common Future as the Senior Manager of Organizational Advancement. She is a New York native, Northeastern graduate, Venture for America alumna, and avid traveler.
Paola Mosso
Paola is a dedicated social justice feminist technologist supporting civil society with complex data and technology challenges. At The Engine Room, she leads the Technology Team ensuring the organization's strategic technical decisions and oversees the organisational security portfolio. |
Erin Murray
Erin is an environmental storyteller, passionate about sharing stories of marginalized communities to highlight the human connection to natural systems. Working within the Puget Sound, Erin uses her science training in order find solutions to support an environmentally resilient future.
Veena Muthusamy
Veena has spent her life unraveling her passion for sustainability and has found her sweet spot in nurturing empathy in corporate environments. She believes that building inclusive leaders is key to the paradigm shift that envisions business as a force for good.
Ariane Niyonsaba
I am Ariane Niyonsaba from Burundi. I became orphan at 2 years old and from that time I was raised by my auntie. In 2015, I fled to Rwanda and I got financial support to continue my studies. Now, I am working in CHANCEN International as an Application and Student Monitoring Manager.
Uloma Ogba
Uloma is the co-founder and CEO of Give Girls A Chance, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of girls and young women from low-income communities in Nigeria through education and skills training. She is passionate about contributing to girls and women's empowerment.
Annie Olszewski
Annie Olszewski serves as Director of Programs for Impact Capital Managers (ICM), a network of VC and PE funds investing for impact. Prior to ICM, Annie worked at The Wing, a mission-driven startup focused on the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women.
Leslie Pace
Leslie is passionate about increasing food access, educating about regenerative farming practices, and connecting people to the land where there food comes from. When not on the farm, you can find her making art or food concoctions in her 1971 renovated Airstream or exploring nearby wilderness.
Mariya Parodi
Mariya Parodi is the senior press officer at Amnesty International USA. During her career, Mariya has worked in human rights communication for UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, PEN America, StoryCorps, and the OECD. Mariya is a dual master in human rights and in humanitarian action.
Harshini Parvatha
A healthcare researcher who studied Genetics & Molecular Biology at Boston University, Harshini co-founded RED, which connects patients to safe blood on-demand. She's passionate about accessible healthcare in low income regions and leads Learning & Education at YPO Next Generation, Hyderabad Chapter
Mi'Lisa Patton
Mi'Lisa is a communications consultant, specializing in public relations and social media strategies. She is the founder of SocialOur, a growing community for entrepreneurial women of color. She is passionate about empowering women and girls globally through authentic connection and collaboration.
Erika Piquero
Erika is an international human rights specialist working in Business and Human Rights. She is passionate about the intersection of human rights and environmental justice, and efforts that break down siloed approaches to these issues. When not working, she enjoys reading and time spent in nature.
Katie Plichta
Katie is a Director of Partnerships for d.light design, responsible for business development in Asia and Latin America. She is passionate about making clean energy access ubiquitous in off-grid regions of the world, where energy scarcity is holding back development. She holds a JD/MBA from Stanford.
Lara Powers
Lara Powers has been at the forefront of U.S. anti-trafficking efforts for nearly 9 years, working on survivor leadership and empowerment issues, national hotline development and management, statewide anti-trafficking response systems, policy advocacy, and trauma-informed care.
Ness Radich
Weaves her passion for people, community and inclusion into life and work. Currently setting up the Socio-Ecological Learning Environment, a wellbeing and resilience nature-based educational space for people, community and ecology in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Tara Ramanathan
Tara Ramanathan has spent over 15 years working on addressing social injustices through activism, user-centered design and decolonizing international aid. Her North Star is to design solutions with, not for, people. She got her MBA from University of Oxford Said Business School and is currently Director of Energy for Health at Nexleaf Analytics.
Marica Rizzo
Marica and leads Community Strategy for Acumen Academy. She is a passionate community builder and joined Acumen in 2015 to design programs to amplify the impact of innovators creating change around the world. She loves finding new ways to use digital tools to build meaningful experiences.
Jessie Roth
Jessie is a writer, artist, and activist who believes in the power of personal narrative and storytelling to spur social change. She is the Manager of Institutional Giving at WITNESS and Director of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a mental health training institute.
Liz Rush
Liz Rush is the Anti-trafficking Technology Director at Seattle Against Slavery where she leads the development and implementation of software that helps connect victims of trafficking & commercial sexual exploitation to advocates while also deterring sex buyers with decoy victim chatbots.
Jazmine Russell
Jazmine is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a transformative mental health training institute centering rights-based, peer centered, and holistic approaches to healing. She is also a holistic practitioner, online course creator, and loves living in the forest.
Carey Salerno
Carey Salerno is the executive editor & director of Alice James Books. She is the author of two books of poetry, including TRIBUTARY, which is forthcoming from Persea Books in 2021. Salerno teaches poetry writing, publishing, and other courses for the University of Maine at Farmington.
Hannah Schiff
Hannah Schiff is an impact investing and development economics specialist committed to using the tools of the private sector to create a more just world. As Director of Impact at Nuveen, she is building a strategy to create and measure positive impact from investments across asset classes.
Vishna Shah
Vishna is passionate about campaigning for positive changes in the life of some of the most marginalised children in W&C Africa. In her role as Head of Advocacy and Communications, she is dedicated to finding innovative ways to influence decision makers to have policies in place to protect children
Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell
Yasmeen is passionate about building leadership, opportunity, and community. As the managing director of strategic engagement for Service Year Alliance, she works to make national service part of growing up in America by nurturing relationships and partnerships across sectors.
Maddie Shang
Maddie started in Venture Capital, completed|CFA L3, and became a self-taught coder. She is a 2x founder, Sr. Data Scientist & open-source AI / Blockchain Researcher. Her work in AI is currently funded by Facebook. She also founded, scaled & leads Women Who Code Data Sci & it's 1k+ global members.
Irene Shao
Irene is a product leader with eight years in the education technology space. Having worked at Khan Academy, VIPKID, and having founded BEAM, Irene is deeply passionate about solving for education inequity and providing a quality education to anyone, anywhere.
Prateeksha Singh
My professional practice sits at the confluence of Systems, Foresight and Design Research, while also drawing from a background in Accounting and Finance. I am currently working with the United Nations Development Programme's Asia Pacific Regional Innovation Centre as the Head of Experimentation.
Samantha Stevens
Sam works on policy and strategic initiatives at the Congressional Hunger Center, where she was previously a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow. Her goal is to move people from thinking about solving hunger as something you do with a donation, to something you do with your vote.
Meredith Stilwell
Meredith is a sexual and reproductive health and rights professional working in the field of philanthropy. She believes that everyone should have the autonomy to control their own reproductive health decisions. She aims to help create equitable, inclusive programs that benefit women & girls globally
Shaanika Subramanyam
Shaanika works on programs and product at Everwell Health Solutions, supporting the global expansion of patient management and adherence based solutions to support patients with TB/and HIV. She's excited about the intersections of technology, development, and digital infrastructure for society.
Reina Thurmer
Reina is an advocate for First Nations Health and assists Indigenous individuals with accessing medical care. She is currently working towards becoming an Indigenous physician with the hopes of practicing in northern and rural communities providing culturally safe care to marginalized populations.
Paula Uniacke
As senior program officer at The Asia Foundation, Paula supports programs across Asia to advance women's empowerment and gender equality and oversees portfolios on women's climate resilience and education. She is committed to promoting women's leadership and building capacity on equality issues.
Fanny Villiers
Originally from France, I have been living in Mexico since 2014. Prior to leading the operation of the biotech startup microTERRA; I created a crowdfunding platform for social and environmental initiatives, donadora.org. I have MSc from emlyon Business School in Economics and Social Business.
Callie Wade
Callie is passionate about access to quality health services being available for all people, regardless of their ability to pay. She works to transform this goal of Universal Health Coverage into a reality as a Program Manager on CHAI Ethiopia's Health Financing Team in Addis Ababa.
Sara Watson
Sara M. Watson is an independent writer and technology critic. She writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology, culture, and society with a focus on personal data. Her writing appears in The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, and other publications.
Amy Westermann
Amy is a public health specialist with expertise in patient education, tech, and clinical research. As the Executive Director of ClinWiki she leads partnership and community building around clinical trials in various diseases. She is passionate about improving patient outcomes by advancing research.
Kate Wharton
Kate Wharton is a social entrepreneur focused on sustainable development in emerging and frontier markets. Her work has spanned investment facilitation, civilian protection, energy, and technology, with a current focus on nature-based solutions to climate change. Kate holds an MBA from Stanford.
Feifei Zeng
Feifei is a Chinese migrant, raised in Italy, and educated in the U.S., passionate about the empowerment of migrant youth and young women. As a Project Manager at CET Platform Italy, her work is built around the framework of Erasmus Plus, an EU programme to support education and training of youth
Selena Zhang
Selena is Director, Strategy & Special Projects at the Canadian Urban Institute. She works across sectors, bridging policy and practice, to build more just and equitable cities where everyone can thrive. She spends her free time worrying about how our (in)actions today will be remembered tomorrow.
Pommelien da Silva Cosme
Pommelien is passionate about people and the environment. She moved to Morocco in 2016 after finishing her masters to pursue a career in sustainable development. She started working for a non-profit in Marrakech and now manages their programme in the High Atlas as the Morocco Programme Director.
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Charlotte Aberdein
Charlotte is a global health specialist who advocates for policy change to prevent disease and improve access to care. She has experience working in low-income, political complex contexts. She is passionate about the right to health and driven by a commitment to improving health equity.
Sara Amadi
Sara is the Country Manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Uganda. She is happiest when working at the intersection of public health, technology and human rights issues. She holds a BSc in Global Resource Systems from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
Adina Appelbaum
Adina is an immigration attorney and social entrepreneur. She founded the Immigration Impact Lab, CAIR Coalition's federal courts & appellate impact litigation project to improve the law for broad groups of immigrants. Adina also writes about empowering immigrants with personal finance information.
Rebekah Bambling
Rebekah is the Director of College Counseling at KIPP NYC. Her passion focuses on College Match strategy and increasing college access for first gen under-represented students. She is working to build the knowledge and skill set of educators nationwide to move toward education access equity.
Lilian Baraza
Lilian guides Team Leaders on all employee related strategies and decisions by developing procedures that support Sanergy's people agenda and individual employee cases. With over 8 years experience in HR including Staffing, Performance Management, Employee Relations, Compensation and Benefits.
Vera Belazelkoska
Vera Belazelkoska is a political economist working in Business and Human Rights. She leads program design and implementation at Ulula, leveraging her social innovation, community engagement and partnership-building skills to help organizations monitor modern slavery risks in global supply chains.
Mariella Belli Yaringano
Finance professional with 11+ years of experience supporting organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the US. Building a sustainable and inclusive economy by supporting and investing in innovative and scalable market-based solutions addressing social and environmental problems.
Jessica Blackshaw
Jess is the ED of YCore, a Bay Area nonprofit that gives young professionals the tools and community to be more effective partners and advocates for the social sector. She has a passion for helping people connect more deeply to their values, community, and role in creating positive social impact.
Andrea Bouch
Andrea has spent her career exploring social impact and sustainable development from many different angles. Her work in philanthropy, impact investing, education, and tech all share a common theme of searching for innovative ways to bring about true change. Baby elephants are her happy place.
Sarah Carroll
Sarah is a grassroots organizer passionate about crafting a humane, sustainable, just food system. She is the founder and director of Greener Pastures, an organization on a mission to end factory farming by making ethical eating and food policy activism easy, inspiring, and actionable.
Anna Gabriella Casalme
As the founder and CEO of Novelly, Anna Gabriella Casalme is dedicated to creating a genuinely youth-driven civic engagement experience. She brings over 5 years of experience at the intersection of child health and well-being, design thinking, and technology.
Joyce Chen
Joyce is the Director of Operations at Simprints, a non-profit social enterprise that uses technology to improve transparency and effectiveness in global development. She is passionate about social justice, equality, and development ethics.
Caitlin Cockcroft-McKay
I'm a humanitarian aid worker specialised in the area of mental health and psychosocial support, predominantly in war-zones. I've worked in South Sudan, Iraq, Yemen and now in Afghanistan. I love reading, baking, travelling, yoga, and cats.
Kori Crockett
Kori is committed to transforming the lives of first generation and low-income college students. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Propeller Collective, a nonprofit organization helping students from these backgrounds flourish as they cross social class boundaries.
Poonam Daryani
Poonam Daryani is a public health advocate invested in anti-oppression and community-rooted approaches. She is currently a Fellow with the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership, where she works at the intersection of public health, social justice and human rights on gender and sexuality issues.
Katie Davey
Katie is the founder of Femme Wonk, an organization seeking to amplify gender and inclusion in policy and current affairs. She is also a 2019/20 Action Canada Fellow. Katie is formerly the Senior Advisor for Policy and Stakeholder Engagement in the New Brunswick Premier's Office. |
Emily Davis
Emily is a policy specialist with the United Nations Development Programme where she supports Asia-Pacific governments to design strategies to finance inclusive, sustainable development. Previously she worked in foreign aid policy and as Chief of Staff for China's first microfinance platform.
Cassie Denbow
Cassie is passionate about ensuring that community leaders and organizations at the frontlines of Feminist movements have the resources they need to thrive. When not working, she can be found near food - cooking it, sharing it, eating it, and one day soon, she'll get back to growing it too.
Bao-Tram Do
Bao-Tram (BT) is a grantmaker, civic leader, and creative strategist. She works at Seattle Foundation as a Program Officer, directing philanthropic investments to build a healthy democracy. BT received her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a Gates Millennium Scholar.
Stephanie Dobrowolski
Stephanie Dobrowolski is the co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of Rising Academies, a growing network of high quality schools in West Africa. Her role focuses on how to effectively deliver quality education at scale and achieve learning gains for all students.
Hilary Duff
As a journalist, Hilary has spent her career highlighting the intersectional solutions that exist to environmental and social challenges. She recently worked with Harvard University to create educational case studies examining how human health is affected by anthropogenic environmental change.
Shahira Esmail
Shahira is a Director at Climate Smart Group, where she leads with passion to develop scientifically rigorous solutions for reducing GHG emission from the agricultural, forestry and clean-tech sectors. She is also a Board Member for the Bay Area's Women's Environmental Network.
Stephanie Farmer
Stephanie is motivated by inspiring others to transform into the best version of themselves. Before starting at The Coaching Fellowship she worked at the National Science Foundation where she assisted the Public and External Affairs teams with outreach and stakeholder engagement.
Katrin Fritsch
Katrin Fritsch is co-founder of MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture, an independent think tank that operates at the intersection of technology and society. She advocates for sustainable tech and bold visions of the future.
Anna Fruehauf
I am passionate about bringing the advancements of modern medicine to the most marginalized communities in the world. I currently work for PIH Sierra Leone, focusing on community-based and primary care, and have previous experience at the WHO, the German government and the Nepalese NGO sector.
Efua Gambrah-Sampaney
Efua believes that every individual has the right to quality education and healthcare and is passionate about making this a reality for all. She enjoys working on technology that seek to improve livelihoods. Efua is currently the Director of DevOps and Technical Support at Viamo.
Mai-Ling Garcia
Mai-Ling is passionate about designing technology for public good in cities. She currently works to make government simpler & easier to use at the City of Oakland. As Digital Engagement Officer, she leads a team of designers, content strategists, & developers to improve digital government services.
Rachel Gilbert
Rachel works as a Research Analyst at IFPRI. Rachel focuses on the intersection of food choice, agriculture, and poverty. She is passionate about using rigorous evidence to understand and improve the lives of people who face difficult choices about how to feed themselves and their families.
Alysha Glenn
Alysha believes in the power of individuals to stand up for one another, defend human rights, and rebuild our collective humanity. A philanthropy specialist, she has channeled this action by leveraging critical funds and advising on growth for leading social justice orgs: WITNESS, IRC and HRW.
Amber Gonzales-Vargas
Amber is on a mission to leverage the energy and potential of Latinxs. In her role as Senior Program Manager, Amber manages the strategic vision and execution of the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the U.S. She uses storytelling to help shape a new narrative about Latinxs everywhere.
Ana Lucia Grajales
Ana works to delivering world-class customer experiences for last-mile rural customers at Fenix Intl, a Pay As You Go solar energy company. She is passionate about data to inform a customer journey that unlocks trust and value and impact.
Julia Green
Julia is a Consulting Manager with the Kaiser Permanente and outdoor enthusiast. Julia is passionate about bringing design thinking to quality and safety improvements in healthcare delivery.
Clara Sofía Gómez Botero
Clara Sofía's passion is linking financial sector to generating positive impact to society. She currently works for WWF in environmental financial market regulation and creating green financial mechanisms. She has worked with housing sector creating mechanisms and policies for low-income families.
Geraldine Hepp
Geraldine is part of the founding team at Amani Institute and co-founder at EAST (East African Soul Train). She is passionate about designing experiences, learning journeys and networks that shift perspectives and unlock our potential to build a thriving world in healthy relationship with the planet
Brenda Herrera Moreno
Brenda identifies as a queer transnational woman of color. These social locations and lived experienced uniquely placed her to found In.Visible Paradigms, an organization that creates and facilitates conversations for white allies to critical understand their own responsibilities in anti-oppression.
Samantha Hindle
Samantha is dedicated to helping scientists share their results in a way that is more equitable and transparent. As Content Lead at bioRxiv and co-founder of PREreview, she works to increase awareness, acceptance, and uptake of open science practices to accelerate scientific progression.
Erin Howe
Erin is passionate about participatory processes to research and evaluation for social change. She is a Principal Consultant at Strength in Numbers, leading on philanthropic strategy. She uses data to align resources with needs for LGBTQ people, sex workers, people who use drugs and people of color.
Jessica Huang
Jessica co-founded Zimba, a social enterprise working to improve safe water access, and has run capacity-building programs in 20+ countries. Trained first as an engineer, she is completing a doctorate in public health at Harvard and earned her master's in ``Learning, Design & Technology`` at Stanford.
Lauren Ito
Lauren Ito is a designer, poet, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a community designer for IDEO's innovation portfolio, Lauren supports leaders enact social change across topics spanning circular economy, health, and mobility in cities, to name a few.
Kristin Jackson
Kristin is currently the senior manager of community and corporate partnerships. In this role, she leads both the vision and execution of community and corporate stakeholder development with the ultimate aim of building new champions for KIPP DC. Kristin is a native of Los Angeles, California and obtained a bachelor of arts in communications and art history from Boston College.
Sam Johnson
Sam is an enthusiastic advocate for disaster preparedness and resilience education. Through her work at the American Red Cross, she believes preparedness education can be made accessible for all communities. She hold a MS in Disaster Resilience Leadership from Tulane University.
Macauley Kenney
Macauley is engaged in using entrepreneurship for socioeconomic change, and has an extensive history working with early/mid-stage ventures operating in emerging markets. She holds a master's in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a certificate in sustainability from the Sloan School of Management.
Elinor Keshet
Elinor is a policy advisor at Ontario's Policy Innovation Hub. She helps ministries tackle complex policy challenges and teaches public servants how to respond more flexibly to change. In her free time she volunteers at Kensington Hospice, collects taxidermy, and once biked from Toronto - Pittsburgh
Shahzarin Khan
Shahzarin's interests lie at the intersection of gender, health, and youth. She has experience in the roles of project and product management, operations, and partnerships. She is currently supporting grant management at the Packard Foundation in the theme of sexual reproductive health in India.
Sarah Kiden
Sarah is a Marie Curie Research Fellow and a PhD Student on Open Design of Trusted Things (OpenDoTT), a joint project between the University of Dundee and Mozilla. She is exploring possibilities for smaller-scale Internet of Things (IoT) technology for grassroots communities and neighbourhoods.
Hayley Kornblum
Hayley is a Senior Associate at Instiglio, a non-profit organization working to improve the impact of social services in developing countries by tying funding to results. She was previously an ODI Fellow in Zanzibar, where she worked to build capacity in health financing for the Ministry of Health.
Camilla Kuckartz
Camilla works for the Tony Blair Institute Rwanda project. She is based at the Rwanda Development Board as a Strategic Advisor to the Chief Skills Officer. Camilla is passionate about Youth Empowerment and finding inclusive and innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges.
Alexandra Kulinkina
As a researcher and M&E specialist, I promote using data for decision making to improve the quality of health care around the world. My other interests include environmental disease surveillance and water and sanitation development for neglected tropical disease control.
Maira Kuppers
Maira is an international mediator, who has worked for non-governmental organizations, research organizations and the United Nations, including five years in Afghanistan, on subnational governance and conflict transformation.
Elana Laichena
Elana is the Founder & CEO of Acacia Innovations, a social enterprise in Kenya which provides an eco-friendly alternative to firewood made of sugarcane waste. She's proud to be providing livelihoods to 90+ Kenyans. She holds a Masters in City Planning from Pratt Institute, NYC.
Julia Lang
Julia is a community builder striving to end homelessness. As a Director at Downtown Streets Team, she is developing transformational communities of unhoused folks who are improving themselves while beautifying their surroundings. Julia strives to foster a sense of belonging, place, and purpose.
Lilian Lehmann
Lilian is an international development professional, committed to shifting how the sector optimizes and scales impactful programs globally. She is driven by a curiosity to explore the interconnectedness of the world at large. When not on the go, she seeks peace swimming or diving in the ocean.
Elaine Leung
I'm passionate about making the world a better place. I'm dedicated my life to ocean conservation as a marine biologist studying threatened animals around the world. In 2016, I started a charity called Sea Smart to get kids excited about our oceans and inspire them to love and protect our oceans.
Christine Livet
Christine is a systems thinker & management consultant aiming to transform the way that development programs, industries and businesses create lasting change in emerging markets. She is currently with Open Capital Advisors based in Nairobi, working with impact companies to raise capital for growth.
Christina Lukeman
Christina has held positions in investor relations, partnership development, project management and communications. She has a passion for working in social impact through client-facing roles across accelerators, investment funds and with start-ups. She lives between San Francisco & Mexico City.
Magogogdi Makhene
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene is a writer and entrepreneur. She's CoFounder of KYNDRED Company, a babeland startup helping women jumpstart their creativity through immersive experiences and digital tools. KYNDRED Co is doing for Creativity what Headspace did for mindfulness. She's working on a novel.
Tomoko Matsukawa
Tomoko is an Associate Director at Acumen working on expanding its Fellowship program to new geographies globally. She was the first instructional designer hired by Acumen and is passionate about anything talent development, organizational development, and coaching. She is from Tokyo, based in NYC.
Alexandria McBride
Alexandria McBride is the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Oakland. As CRO, Alexandria leads cross-departmental initiatives to create a more equitable and responsive government, and engages community leaders and other stakeholders to build a more vibrant and connected Oakland for all.
Cynthia (Cyndi) Mendoza
Cyndi is a Sport for Development enthusiast, who leads on Learning and Research at Laureus, an organisation which supports nonprofits that use sport for good. She is passionate about bridging the gap between evidence and grassroots organisations through beneficial partnerships that enable learning.
Maxime Michel
Maxime is a passionate feminist dedicated to restoring dignity in Canada & abroad. At CARE Canada, she leads a diverse, empowered team who deliver humanitarian programs worldwide. As a Helping With Furniture board member, she raises funds to deliver more furniture to people restarting their lives.
Sarah Miers
As an Investment Principal at Mulago, Sarah sources, evaluates, and makes recommendations on social investments. She's worked for a variety of funders - including foundations, corporates and multilateral donors - and is passionate about channeling resources to high impact, scalable solutions.
Audrey Misquith
Audrey is a development professional focused on advancing the financial health of low and moderate income people including women, youth and seniors. In her current role, as a Research and Insights Advisor for the UN Capital Development Fund(UNCDF), she develops insights from UNCDF's work in Asia.
Marie-Laure Moens de Hase
Marie-Laure is passionate about the holistic health and wellbeing, and social entrepreneurship. She believes in the power of love and compassion. She's the COO and Coordination Lead of The Wellbeing Project, whose mission is to catalyse a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers.
Lena Mohr
Lena is one of the founders of Ready to Code, a non-profit in Germany that inspires girls to work in tech and connects women in IT. With her background in UX design, she loves to create inspiring events that connect people from different backgrounds.
Melanie Mossard
Melanie's passion (and work at Impact Hub!) is about empowering the next generation of Cambodian changemakers, helping them to reveal their talents, and be part of the sustainable change they want to see in their country. She an alumnus of Frontier Incubators and loves cycling across the country.
Kellie Nadler
Kellie uses human-centered design to expand access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Californians. As Deputy Director of Corrections to College, they are a systems-change practitioner working with more than 50 colleges aiming to better serve justice-involved students.
Alex Nana-Sinkam
Alex is a global development professional especially passionate about access to mental healthcare worldwide. She is a portfolio manager for IDEO's open innovation practice, focusing on expansion in East Africa, and also serves as Director of Partnerships for Mental360, a youth advocacy org in Kenya.
Antonella Napolitano
Antonella Napolitano is Policy Officer at Privacy International, where she works on policy development on migration and social media intelligence. An analyst of the impact of technology on politics and society, she has worked to engage people for social change and build communities.
Leah Newman
Leah has over 8 years of experience designing, developing, implementing, managing and scaling projects related to mobile communication and economic development. As 3-2-1 Product Director for Viamo, Leah currently works to connect millions of basic mobile phone users to free, quality information.
Katharina Norden
Katharina aims to transform debt collection into a tool that helps people in deep financial hardship to reclaim free and self-determined lives. She is passionate about radical responsibility in leadership and involved in shaping EHF, a global community of high impact entrepreneurs in New Zealand.
Rebecca Offensend
Rebecca invests in early-stage startups enhancing labor rights in supply chains with Working Capital Fund. She is also deeply passionate about impact investing, the future of work, and gender parity. She holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Ines Osman
Inès is a passionate French-Algerian human rights lawyer and is the co-founder and director of MENA Rights Group, a legal advocacy NGO which provides legal counseling to victims of abuses and lobby for legal and policy reform in the Middle East and North Africa.
Fatima Peterson
As the Director of Institutional Philanthropy at Prosperity Now, Fatima Peterson works to secure millions in revenue each year to advance the organization's economic justice mission. She is passionate about bringing people together through stories to create meaningful connections and change.
Maria Potoroczyn
Maria Potoroczyn is VP of Strategy, Innovation & New Ventures at Citibank's Global Consumer Bank. Maria is also Co-Founder and Board Director of WIN: Women in Innovation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to close the gender gap in the field of innovation.
Ana Gabriela Power
Ana Gabriela is a global health practitioner and currently serves at the END Fund working on control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases. Originally from Nicaragua, the local and global context continues to inform her journey and commitment to social justice and human rights.
Nicole Pumphrey
Nikki is committed to shaping an economy that works for everyone. One that promises equitable opportunity and outcomes and where all skills are valued. She is the Deputy Director for the Welcoming Center, a nonprofit at the nexus of immigrant integration and PHL's inclusive economic growth strategy.
Megan Rafuse
Megan is a mental health innovator focused on helping ambitious leaders believe they are enough. As co-founder of Shift Collab, Megan's unique approach has grown the company to be a leading provider of therapy, education and training to top companies and individuals across North America.
Eliza Ramos
Eliza founded Circles International to help social justice leaders cultivate resilience, prevent burnout and sustain their impact. She believes that emotional health and wellbeing are critical components for today's healing and social justice movements. She holds an MPH and MSW.
Lisa-Marie Rudi
Lisa is a lawyer specialized in international criminal law. She investigates war crimes and crimes against humanity, represents victims in their quest for justice and builds the capacity of grassroots organizations to document atrocity crimes and push for justice. Lisa has worked in West-Africa and South-East Asia.
Daniela Saderi
Daniela Saderi, PhD, is Co-Founder and Project Director at PREreview, a platform for the crowd-sourcing of preprint reviews. She recently obtained a PhD in Neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University and she is passionate about fostering transparency and openness in academia.
Carrie Shaw
Carrie Shaw works at the intersection of health education and virtual reality storytelling. She is the CEO and founder Embodied Labs, an immersive education and wellness platform for professional and family caregivers and the older adults they serve.
Katherine Sladden
Katherine is a campaign strategist and founder of Chorus Campaigns. Chorus Campaigns is a collective that connects people that want to change the world with the support and expertise they need to do it. Previously Katherine was Campaigns Director Change.org the world's largest petition platform.
Tokiwa Smith
Tokiwa Smith is an alumna of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University ; Ms. Tokiwa Smith is a Chemical Engineer, Social Entrepreneur and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educator. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc.
Meghan Smith
Meghan builds community-centered experiences for women to develop sexual agency and has invested in many youth sexuality education programs. In her role at Enterprise for Youth, she creates opportunities for youth to gain more self-awareness.
Divya Sooryakumar
Divya is passionate about uplifting adolescent girls and their leadership. She focuses on getting grantmaking resources directly in the hands of girls and young women, amplifying the stories of women who were once girls, and scouring history to find the answers to our current problems.
Bettina Stuffer
Bettina is an In-House Consultant at German Red Cross within the Digital Welfare Unit. She is passionate about innovation for social change, capacity building, women's leadership and gender equality. She was previously based in South East Asia working on human rights & women's leadership development
Almudena Toral
Almudena Toral is a visual journalist and filmmaker. She currently leads the enterprise video team at Univision News Digital, covering migration issues in the U.S. and Latin America. Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo, 3 Emmys, 2 Murrows, POYi and more.
Meredith Treadwell
Meredith is the Head of Operations in Cote d'Ivoire for Fenix International, overcoming distribution challenges to provide clean solar energy to rural homes. Meredith has been scaling social impact organisations for the last 6 years, including with One Acre Fund in Burundi and Kiva.
Jessica Utichi
Jessica is project manager of the Global Distributors Collective. A collective of over 140 last mile distribution companies around the world. She is co-founder of The Green Angels, a start-up carbon neutral company whose mission it is to support individual's transition to a plastic free lifestyle.
Amanda Valenta
Amanda Valenta is an Energy Specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development where she focuses on climate change mitigation through deployment of renewable energy as well as promoting gender equity in the power sector.
Titania Veda
Titania is a storyteller and social impact strategist who connects stories to people and people through stories. Her work cut across issues (refugee and immigration, education, economic empowerment ) and sectors (government, private, civic) in Asia, the US, and Africa.
Heather Viola
Heather works with the government of Laos to ensure financial sustainability for immunization in the face of declining donor aid. Before this, she worked for the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation and completed her MPH in global health at Harvard. She also loves to sing, read, and travel.
Nicola Vöhringer
Nicola is the director of the DAAD office in Canada, an international organization dedicated to academic exchange. She is passionate about education as a means to alleviate inequalities and to promote a self-determined life. She has been working and teaching in Germany and Tajikistan.
Kate Williams
Kate believes that education has the ability to transform individuals and societies. Kate is a technical specialist with over 8 years' experience designing and managing non-formal education programs that support learners to develop character, connection to culture, and skills for life and work.
Julie Wimmer
Julie is an immigration attorney focusing on access to justice issues at the intersection of immigration & criminal law in Texas. Julie has a JD from Harvard and a BA from the University of Texas-Austin. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay and loves her/all dogs.
Rebecca Witinok-Huber
Becky is a systems social scientist working with communities to address environmental health and social inequalities. In winter 2019, Becky will complete her Ph.D. on gender and agricultural extension in Liberia. She works with TerraGraphics Int. Foundation on human health risks in Kyrgyzstan.
Alexandra Wong
Alex has worked at the nexus of non-profit, business, and gov. for her entire career. She is currently at REDF, a philanthropy that funds employment social enterprise, and provides hands-on technical assistance to grantees. She is passionate about advancing equity and justice through grant-making.
Cawo Yassin Ali
Cawo is a Water and Sanitation Specialist with MSF, working in global humanitarian contexts. Currently a PhD student at Tufts her interests lie in improving global access to safe water and sanitation. An avid traveller, Cawo enjoys overland travel and collecting stories from around the world.
Catharine Young
Dr. Catharine Young holds a doctorate degree in Biomedical Sciences and serves as the Chief Foundation Officer and Executive Director for the Shepherd Foundation, an organization seeking to revolutionize treatment, care and education for rare cancer patients and their families.
Lungile Zakwe
Lungile Zakwe is a proud literary and education activist and leader with a huge interest in bridging inequalities. She is the Founder, President and Facilitator of AFRO-Freedom Book Club; a public book club that focuses on African writers to inspire dialogue and civic engagement in the community.
Coaching Fellows — 2019 Cohort 1
Shreya Agarwal
Shreya works at Digital Green, a non-profit supporting smallholder farmers in Asia and Africa improve their incomes by helping them access better quality information via digital tech. Before that she worked at McKinsey and graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a MPA. |
Anstes Agnew
Anstes is the Country Head of the Tony Blair Institute in Rwanda, leading a team working to accelerate economic growth. She is committed to tackling development by putting governments in the driver's seat. She's passionate putting more dollars to work to improve citizen's health and livelihoods.
Maya Alkateb-Chami
Maya Alkateb-Chami is the Managing Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. A Fulbright scholar and UNESCO cultural heritage expert, her prior management and consulting work spans the sectors of international education, culture and the arts, and serving displaced populations.
Norah Alkhamis
Norah's passion lies in cultural heritage, and specifically in promoting collaborative and accessible research on the subject in the Gulf region. She co-founded Heritage Studies Collective, a non-profit network that encourages an effective community of heritage studies researchers within the region.
Megan Ashley
Megan is the Marketing Director at World Relief, a global humanitarian organization. She's happiest at the intersection of strategy, systems creation, and wordsmithing, and is currently leaning into the areas of gender justice and intersectional feminism. An avid reader, traveler, and card shark!
Allishia Bauman
Allishia is an engaged community steward leading with love & joy to bring about radical social change. In her day job, she serves as the Chief of Staff for City Year, an organization that believes in the potential of all young people. Fun fact: Allishia loves TEDTalks and has actually given one!
Eva Bernard
Eva is an international development professional. Currently consultant for UNICEF on education issues, she previously worked at the World Bank and for the French Embassy in the US. She has a background in public affairs and economics. |
Elisabeth Best
Elisabeth is a change agent who is passionate about business as a force for good. At BSR, Elisabeth works with companies on sustainability strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reporting and leads the Future of Reporting group. She is also a yoga teacher and stand-up comedian.
Hilary Best
Hilary is a Policy Advisor at Ontario's Policy Innovation Hub where she supports teams to enhance and measure the impact of their work. She has worked across public, private and non-profit sectors to support measurable change on issues ranging from youth employment to gender based violence.
Eva Blum-Dumontet
Eva works for the NGO Privacy International, where she leads on the work on economic and social rights. She has investigated government and corporate surveillance and documented the impact of data exploitation. Her work is influenced by her interest in gender issues and intersectionality.
Christin Bohnke
Christin is a Partnerships Manager, creating networks and acquiring funding for refugee projects in Germany, Jordan and Lebanon. With a background in research on gender and migration and a Ph.D. in postcolonial studies, she is passionate about erasing inequality through education and advocacy.
Elizabeth Bollwerk
Elizabeth is a museum technologist and President of the Museum Computer Network. Her current work focuses on managing open, respectful, and trustworthy platforms for sharing and working with data and developing programs that empower individuals to cultivate their digital capacity and data literacy.
Sarah Castle
I've dedicated my career to inspiring stewardship of our natural landscapes. I'm the co-Director of The Cairn Project, a nonprofit grant making organization expanding outdoor access for girls. I'm also a PhD research scientist working to understand how land use and global change impact soil health.
Rebecca Chan
Rebecca is passionate about activating and aligning resources in service of communities that traditional systems have failed. She is the National Economic Development Program Officer at LISC, where she uses arts and culturally-based strategies as tools for inclusive economic development.
Deeptha Chittor Umapathy
Deeptha is consummate joy-seeker and works as a senior design researcher, to create more joy for the bottom of the pyramid through well designed products and services. When not working she is exploring 'soul projects' that bring animals and people together in mutually enriching ways.
Helene Christensen
Helene is passionate about the social impact of women and girls' truest expression of themselves. As a coach, writer, feminist and global advocate she has been developing initiatives for women and girls' rights and empowerment under the UN in Southern Africa and the Arab States the past decade.
Emma Colenbrander
Emma is Head of the Global Distributors Collective, a collective of last mile distribution companies around the world. She is a Trustee at Ashden and a co-founder of Pollinate Energy, a multi-award winning social enterprise in India that brings clean energy products to urban slum communities.
Nicole Crescimanno
Nicole Crescimanno is an organizer, connector, and artist who is deeply concerned about climate change. Nicole is working to build a strong and active group of young climate leaders from across New York State to enact bold state-level climate policy.
Camila Daminello
Camila is a transdisciplinar conservationist dedicated to fostering the reconciliation of natural ecosystems and human wellbeing. As CSF’s Program Manager, she is thrilled to play an active role in creating and leading relevant projects worldwide that contribute to decisions towards environmental and social justice between people and other species, across different generations.
Messay Derebe
Messay is an impassioned advocate for access to art for all. She is the co-CEO and co-Founder of goARTful, an DC-based art platform that seeks to democratizes access to visual art using a subscription model. She is also a Program Officer at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
Hannah Dithrich
Hannah is a Senior Research Associate at the Global Impact Investing Network, an industry non-profit that scales the practice of impact investing. Hannah has a long background in social impact, having worked in microfinance, investment, and as a Fulbright Scholar with UN Refugee Agency.
April Dodd
I have been working with food since 2010. I've spent much of my career in the kitchen, making everything from pickled beets in Vermont to cupcakes in Nairobi. From 2017-2019, I had the opportunity to be a Leland Congressional Hunger Fellow, which exposed me to the world of food policymaking.
Jennifer Easterday
Jennifer is an attorney specializing in technology, human rights law and peacebuilding. Her work with NGOs and international tribunals focuses on ethical technology and strengthening international responses to armed conflict and mass human rights abuses.
Jasmine Edwards
Jasmine A. Edwards, is the CEO and Founder of i-Subz, a recruiting and placement marketplace for substitute teachers and schools that serve low-income students. She is a graduate of Digitalundivided's BIG Incubator Program and is currently a Fellow in Camelback Ventures 2019 Education Fellowship.
Sophie Elsner
Sophie believes in the power of collective action as a tool for social change. As an attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, she works with low-income tenants in Austin, Texas to amplify their voices as they fight for safer, healthier and more dignified living conditions.
Aeriel Emig
Aeriel is focused on how technology can be used to provide affordable and convenient access to financial services in underserved markets. Currently Chief of Staff at FINCA Impact Finance, a network of 20 community-based MFIs and banks, Aeriel oversees strategy and program management efforts.
Amanda Epting
Amanda leads a network of innovators and inclusive business enthusiasts at MIT D-Lab's Practical Impact Alliance. She has spent the last 11 years working across corporate, startup, and international NGO ecosystems on how to build inclusive businesses and technology in emerging markets.
Briana Evans
Briana plans and manages public health interventions in San Mateo County's Office of Diversity and Equity. There she works with community leaders to amplify the voices of marginalized folks and ensure better health for all. Her passion is helping people connect through difficult conversations.
Zeina Fayyaz Kim
Zeina is an Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund where she invests in entrepreneurs who are diversifying the education workforce. She lives in Berkeley, CA when she isn't traveling to see family or take in new places and experiences. She has her MBA from UC Berkeley and BA from Harvard.
Jo Flatt
Jo works with people to make their cities better. From residents to Mayors, Jo believes that everyone has a role to play in building their city. Jo builds national networks, applies learning to change mindsets, and collaborates across sectors to inspire local action.
Beth Foster
Beth is a Portfolio Associate with EWB Ventures, an early stage impact investing fund. She began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda and since then has worked to support entrepreneurs creating solutions to systemic challenges faced by marginalized groups. She holds an MBA from Berkeley.
Mai-Ling Garcia
Mai-Ling is passionate about designing technology for public good in cities. She currently works to make government simpler & easier to use at the City of Oakland. As Digital Engagement Officer, she leads a team of designers, content strategists, & developers to improve digital government services.
Caitlin Garozzo
I have spent the past 10 years of my career engaged in workforce development. I believe that access to work means more than just a job - it means stability, engagement, belonging, and self-worth. My work is focused on creating learning opportunities for job seekers that guide them as they shift.
Karen Goldfeder
Karen Goldfeder oversees corporate partnerships with top brands (including Coca-Cola, H&M, and JetBlue) at DoSomething, the largest org for young people and social change. A professor Non-Profit Business at NYU, she earned her BA from Boston College, and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Katrina Gordon
Katrina manages the Social Innovation Fund at Humanity United, a foundation of The Omidyar Group. She supports social enterprises developing technology to enable greater transparency & accountability in corporate supply chains. She is passionate about creative movement and holds a BerkeleyHaas MBA.
Adriana Groh
Adriana is interested in the intersections of technology, society and government. She is the co-founder of the initiative Wepublic, a political communications channel, and the director of the Prototype Fund, a funding program for Public Interest Tech. Her research focus is on Democratic Innovations.
Mansi Gupta
Mansi is the founder of Unconform Studio, a design and strategy firm focused to create systems level change for women. Mansi has years of experience applying the design process in social impact, technology, and sustainable fashion manufacturing.
Lisa Gutermuth
Lisa is the Senior Program Manager at Ranking Digital Rights, where she works to improve ICT companies' respect for privacy and freedom of expression. From satellite imagery to digital security trainings, she is driven to address issues of power and autonomy in the tech industry.
Laura Guzman
Laura has centered her work around the intersection of technology, international development, and social justice. Currently, she is the Communications Manager at The Engine Room, an international organization dedicated to supporting civil society in effectively using of data and technology.
Liz Hague
Liz uses her law degree to mobilize the next generation of public service leaders at Equal Justice Works. She also serves on the Board of Directors of CASS, a grassroots organization that seeks to end public gendered harassment in DC using intersectional, community-based solutions.
Erin Harless
Erin Harless is the Manager of Research & Learning at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she helps the organization to understand, strengthen, and communicate the impact of our ventures and to produce insights that inform the education sector.
Shaina Horowitz
| Shaina is focused on motivating diverse stakeholders to collaborate in service of pressing challenges and providing the platform to achieve significant impact, an approach she's honed in her current role at New Lab and in the past working for the NYC Mayor's Office and Bloomberg Associates. |||
Sophie House
Sophie is a lawyer and researcher at NYU's Furman Center. Her work focuses on housing, homelessness, and urban policy, with a particular interest in how cities provide restrooms and other hygiene and sanitation resources. She holds an MPhil from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Maeve Hume-Nixon
Maeve is a medical doctor and researcher who is committed to improving the health of vulnerable populations in diverse settings. She is currently coordinating a large clinical trial based in Fiji that aims to prevent infections in mothers and babies, whilst undertaking her PhD.
Irene Ikomu
A lawyer and consultant working in the governance and democracy sector in East Africa. I am currently a Hurford fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. In 2014, I was awarded the young female lawyer of the year award by the Uganda Law Society
Yoojin Jang
Yoojin founded WomanUp with the mission to encourage Korean women to leave their comfort zones and step up for leadership opportunities. Reach out to share your ideas on creative ways to empower more women! She graduated from UC Berkeley and will be attending the Wharton School for her MBA.
Jenny Johnston
Jenny invests in global early-stage entrepreneurs using innovative technologies to enhance their customers' financial well-being and economic empowerment, with a focus on Latin America. She also supports portfolio companies across the US, Africa, and LatAm on operational projects and research.
YoonJi Kim
Yoonji's Partnerships work at CareerVillage.org and Global Ties US supports her passion of bringing people together. From bridging students to the career advice they need to thrive in the workforce to connecting people across cultures, she's committed to collaboration for social impact.
Mallory Knodel
Mallory Knodel is the Head of Digital for ARTICLE 19. She is a co-chair of the Human Rights and Protocol Considerations research group of the Internet Research Task Force, a chairing adviser to the Freedom Online Coalition and an executive board member of eQualitie.
Anna Kopacz
Anna's personal mission to our planet and humanity is to build the nexus between the new and the essential for sustainable communities of change , as a natural motivator that seeks the truth and authenticity within people.
Molly Lauria-No
Molly is a global health practitioner focused on implementation and dissemination research. She brings with her a long-held commitment to research that focuses on implementation science approaches to bridge gaps between scientific evidence and the implementation of effective programs in West Africa.
Cath Lawson
Cath is a Regional Manager at WWF, the world's leading independent conservation organisation, supporting work in Africa and Asia. With an MA in Biological Anthropology and an MSc in Primate Conservation, she is passionately committed to finding conservation solutions that work for people and nature.
Siobhan 'Chevy' Lazenby
Chevy is intrigued by the intersection of global health equity, social innovation and data science. She has worked with NGOs and governments to implement digital health projects in 11 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. She will be boosting her skills to up her impact through grad school in 2019.
Anastasiya Litvinova
Anastasiya leads initiatives in financial innovation for impact investors and supports social enterprises as a virtual CFO - facilitating the flow of capital to impact-focused businesses in developing markets and enabling them to scale while creating lasting positive changes in the world.
Kristina Lunz
Kristina is a human rights activist, co-founder and Germany Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, and advisor to the German Federal Foreign Office. She was also recently named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Growing up working-class she earned two master's, from UCL and Oxford Uni.
Catherine Macdonald
Catherine received her PhD from the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami in 2017. Her dissertation studied interactions between humans and wildlife. She is a summa cum laude and phi beta kappa graduate of Amherst College, and was a 2007-2008 Thomas J. Watson Fello
Nia Martinez
Nia's passion is to create innovative learning solutions to drive increased capacity and, as a result, better livelihoods. As the founder of Innovative Global Learning Solutions LLC, she provides consultancy to global organizations to facilitate the development of learning strategies.
Catherine Mazhandu
Experienced in Agribusiness. I have experience in multiple parts of the supply chain: origination, distribution, logistics and marketing. I have lived in multiple geographies in Africa and South East Asia and currently live and work in marketing for rice distribution in Accra.
Daphne McCurdy
Daphne is passionate about the intersection of governance and conflict, and has worked for years supporting activists throughout the Middle East fighting for democracy in their countries. As Deputy Country Representative at USAID, she currently oversees stabilization assistance to Syria.
Hannah Metcalfe
Hannah Metcalfe is passionate about technology, business, and socioeconomic change. She has focused her career on global technology in emerging markets working on projects in Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, India, China, and Bangladesh. Hannah is currently the Country Director for Viamo in Tanzania.
Laura Mitchell
Laura Mitchell loves connecting people and ideas. She currently leads communications at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, and was previously on the founding team at Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. She's worked on creative projects on journalism, art, data, and more.
Amber Moore
A conservationist, Amber has worked on coastal habitat conservation in the US. She currently represents Puget Sound in a community dedicated to developing a shared vision for salmon recovery in WA. She enjoys hiking and travel and is passionate about working towards a healthy environment for all.
Sara Mortensen
Sara is inspiring others and making positive change in the world through the power of reading. As Communications Manger at Words Alive, she helps others understand how a love of reading can change your life. In her spare time, she volunteers for The Harry Potter Alliance and Sister District Project.
Michelle Moses-Eisenstein
Michelle works to ensure that millions of patients have access to primary health care, regardless of their ability to pay. She serves as is a mentor to students pursuing public health degrees, and performs in musical theatre fundraisers for public health and other social justice causes.
Lydiah Muya
Lydiah is a Program Manager at an accelerator program supporting early stage growth entrepreneurs in Kenya. She enjoys working with local entrepreneurs and designing programs that drive impact. She believes in the potential of local trade and value chains to work profitably and for the poor.
Wali Mwalugongo
Responsible for research, design and development of new sanitation products and services for the expansion of our Toilet Network at Sanergy. With over 5 years' experience in this field, my expertise spans research, project management, as well as monitoring and evaluation of public health programs.
Neha Narula
My research interests are in cryptocurrencies and distributed systems. I received my PhD in computer science from MIT in 2015, gave a TED talk on the future of money, was named to WIRED's list of 25 leaders shaping the next 25 years of technology, and was listed on Fortune's Ledger 40 under 40.
Rasha Natour
Rasha is a Palestinian American who has dedicated her career to social justice. With over 10 years experience working with NGOs committed to social change, Rasha currently works at CARE. She is a Fulbright Scholar and received her Masters from the London School of Economics before moving to D.C.
Stephanie Nguyen
Stephanie is deeply committed to closing the opportunity gap through education and empowering youth. She previously worked at KIPP and she currently works at WestEd, a research, development, and service agency, which works to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children.
Jenna O'Brien
An advocate for community driven solutions, Jenna has worked on capacity building programs in both the U.S and West Africa. She has spent the majority of her career at the intersection of education, equity, and philanthropy - with a passion for social justice and women's empowerment.
Kasia Odrozek
Kasia runs Mozilla's Internet Health Report, a compilation of research and stories explaining what's key to a healthier internet. She is a long-time open internet and digital rights advocate and a believer in the ability of people to reinvent the way power and ownership are distributed in tech.
Noa Oldak-Moradian
Noa Oldak-Moradian is a human rights and social justice advocate passionate about genocide prevention, refugees, and minority rights. She currently focuses on grassroots organizing and community building in order to develop capacity for change and impact on local and global justice issues.
Vanessa Paesani
Vanessa's mission is contributing to a future where gender doesn't restrict opportunity. Measuring and standardizing performance returns through R I D D L is the deepest pathway for achieving that - and helping others achieve their missions. She's so looking forward to The Coaching Fellowship!
Neda Pajooman
Neda has dedicated her career to building relationships and critical funds within the charitable sector, currently at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada. Neda believes in our potential to lead with our strengths in order to contribute back to society and organizations in a meaningful way.
Charlotte Parker
Charlotte is connecting the dots between philanthropy and systems change at Acumen, a nonprofit venture fund that invests in innovative companies serving people living in poverty. She honed her love of community building and sense of humor as a fourth grade teacher through Teach for America in South Texas. Previously, she helped to found and launch the NationSwell Council.
Paz Petersson
Paz works on creative programming, storytelling, & project management at Human Rights Watch. Together with human rights experts, she programs an annual conference & takes on cross-departmental projects to keep supporters apprised of the organization's work. Paz holds a labor studies MA from CUNY.
Clara Raven
I use my broadcast experience with the BBC and ABC to set up media development initiatives with the aim of building healthy and vibrant media in developing economies, one that promotes good governance by providing people with information on government policies and giving citizens a voice.
Taylor Schaffter
As the Learning & Development Manager at Denver Public Library, I seek to create opportunities for our staff and teams to grow in order to support the mission of the library. I'm also focused on systems change and how the scaffolding around our efforts can improve results.
Ingrid Schoeman
Ingrid Schoeman developed drug-resistant tuberculosis working as a dietitian in a public hospital in South Africa. She was in a coma due to liver failure from the toxic TB treatment. TB changed her life and today she is a passionate TB advocate. Ingrid is the Operational Manager at TB Proof.
Kate Seaman
Kate believes in the powerful role of education in creating understanding, and in the importance of asking difficult questions. Kate is the Assistant Director at The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. She holds a PhD in Peace Studies from Lancaster University in the UK.
Rebecca Sharp
Becca is passionate about helping non-profits run better through lean, data-driven approaches to operations. She leads growth, systems, and people operations at IDinsight, a fast-growing non-profit whose mission is to use data and evidence to combat poverty worldwide.
Kamardip Singh
Kamardip is passionate about connecting local grassroots activists globally, exchanging strategies and tactics for sustainable social change. She focuses on feminist, anti-racist organizing, as well as sustainable healing practices to combat gender-based violence.
Udeitha Srimushnam
Udeitha Srimushnam is the Founder and Chief Practitioner of CommonGround Communications. Udeitha specializes in issues management communications - developing, deploying and measuring successful communications campaigns in diverse advocacy and community engagement engagements across the country.
Sarah Stamatiou Nichols
Sarah is passionate about using research and evaluation for social impact. As Director of Research and Impact at Impact Hub, she manages impact measurement and management, research, and evaluation of a global community of 16,000 social innovators.
Heidi Sumser
Heidi Sumser works at the intersection of finance and climate change for the Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF), managed by responsAbility Investments, a leading impact investor. She manages relationships with financial institutions in Latin America and helps them build a green loan portfolio.
Chelsea Takamine
Chelsea manages programs for OpenIDEO, working at the intersection of international development, human-centered design, and open innovation. Committed to health equity, she's held roles at FHI 360, PHI, and was a Global Health Corps Fellow in Uganda. She enjoys camping with her dog and is a new mom.
Leezel Tanglao
Leezel is a bridge journalist at the intersection of editorial, product, audience, business development, marketing, and sales. Leezel started her own consulting firm, StatFury. She was recently selected for Reynolds Journalism Institute Non-residential Fellowship to build a tool to measure impact.
Zoë Tersche
Zoë is a caretaker turned freelance writer turned digitalist. Storytelling has always been at the core of her work - from painting a broader picture of sexual expression to stopping executions. These days, she manages the web presence of the criminal justice reform initiative #cut50.
Kathryn Than
Kathryn is a philanthropic advisor and consultant. She has expertise in partnering with individuals and families to develop giving strategies and source opportunities for social impact investments. She is passionate about environmental health, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility.
Tiffany Tong
Tiffany is co-founder and CEO of Aeloi, a fintech social enterprise creating digital token powered finance for microenterprises. She has worked in statistics, tech, and development in Africa and Asia for the last decade; building bridges between World Bank offices and farmer field schools.
Olivia Trabysh
Strategic communicator, activist, editorial creative, and facilitator, Olivia harnesses the resources of multiple stakeholders to advance women's rights globally for progressive social justice organizations. Conflict resolution + her rural West TX roots are always on her mind.
Mary Ulseth
Mary is passionate about cultivating inclusive, engaged and empathetic communities. For the past six years, she has been working throughout Southeast Asia leading outdoor education programs that encourage youth to discover more about themselves, their community, and the world around them.
Raquel Vazquez Llorente
Raquel is a lawyer specialised in the application of technology to international investigations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and mass-scale human rights violations. Raquel has worked in conflict and post-conflict environments in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
Melissa Wah
Melissa is the public affairs strategist for the New Brunswick Women's Council, an independent public advisory body on women's equality. She's part of a small but dedicated team working to make systems-level change to create a more equatable society.
Rebecca Walker
Passionate about the power of human potential, Rebecca is the Regional Director for Southeast Asia at the JUMP! Foundation, a non-profit social enterprise which uses experiential education to advance a world in which individuals realise their potential as conscientious leaders and global citizens.
Weikang Wang
Ella has more than 13 year work experience focusing on environment protection in both private sector and international organizations. Her specialties range from communications to sustainable agriculture, climate & energy, green finance etc.
Hannah Weitzer
Hannah has spent her career working at the intersections of education and social justice. She co-founded Seachange Collective to provide capacity building, strategic planning, and program design to strengthen and amplify the work of people and groups engaged in social justice-driven work.
Elyssa White
Elyssa is passionate about solving thorny urban challenges across multiple sectors. She currently runs a public-private partnership in SF around family homelessness with Hamilton Families and worked previously for the City of New York launching a public-private partnership for women entrepreneurs.
Fiona Wilson
Fiona leads the Clinton Foundation's clean energy work in the Africa region, serving as Senior Regional Manager for the Clinton Climate Initiative. She works with governments and utilities in island nations to develop and de-risk renewable energy projects and accelerate renewable energy transition.
Audrey Worthington
In the 3 years since ``boomerang-ing`` back to her hometown of Akron, OH, Audrey's mission has been to encourage the success of families and small businesses through strategic investment, economic inclusion, and civic participation. Audrey is a locavore, dog person, and Olympic-style weightlifter.
Lucy Zhang
Lucy is the Co-Founder and CEO of SetSail, an online education company that promotes cross-cultural exchange by teaching critical thinking and communication skills to prospective international students, particularly those from China. Lucy received her BA from Harvard and MBA from Wharton.
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Safiyyah Abdul-Khabir
Safiyyah leads digital campaign strategy for national and local nonprofits. Prior to her current position at Media Cause, Safiyyah's work focused on sustainability and empowering entrepreneurs in the cleantech sector. She holds a degree in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
Liz Alarcon
Liz Alarcón is a communicator, social entrepreneur and latinamericanist. She manages Pulso, a digital venture aimed at engaging 1 million Latinx voters by 2020. She also comments, writes and keynotes on culture and politics in Latin America, Latinos in the U.S. and U.S.-Latin American relations.
Tassya Andini
Tassya is a big-believer that financial literacy is the key to advanced society & prosperous life, especially for women. She has worked in financial industry for some time and currently commited to an organization which goals is financial inclusion - to give easier access to affordable loans.
Courtney Avery
Courtney is a yoga teacher and birth doula with a masters of public health and experience in global health research. She created Intimate Health Yoga, combining evidence-based sex ed, yoga, and integrative medicine to empower people to take control of their sexual health and pleasure.
Blair Ballard
Blair is breaking down the environmental and social barriers that prevent people from accessing mental healthcare by using her background in behavioral science and marketing. She co-founded The Stanford Lab for Brain Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and is a second year MBA student at Stanford.
Rachel Balsham
Rachel is Deputy CEO of MFS Africa, Africa's largest digital payments hub, where she leads investor relations, strategic partnerships, and the company's impact strategy. She is passionate about developing robust ecosystems in financial services, investment, and tech innovation in Africa.
Emily Bensen
I am a dynamic advocate for health for all. I am the Deputy Director of Integrate Health, a growing global health non-profit whose mission is to end preventable deaths in neglected communities.
Alison Boess
For the last decade, Alison has worked to make responsible financial services available to the unbanked and underserved. She is experienced in leading teams at the frontiers of financial inclusion and is passionate about scalable, market-based innovations that can be a force for change.
Julie Brown
Julie currently leads Impact Water Uganda. Impact Water is a social enterprise that sells safe drinking water systems to schools on micro-credit. So far, her team has installed systems in 1,850+ schools across the country, impacting the lives of over 1,000,000 school children in Uganda every day.
Joanna Laursen Brucker
Joanna is an innovative educator who seeks to use research and strategic design to ensure education is culturally relevant and accessible to all. She is the COO of the interdisciplinary social science research think tank, New Knowledge Organization Ltd.
Jacqueline Brysacz
Jacqueline is a nurse practitioner and founding member of the Chaco Fund, a non-profit scholarship fund that provides young rural Bolivia women with access to tertiary education. Her passion for serving those in greatest need is rooted in her experience training female beekeepers in Bolivia.
Amy Curtis
Amy graduated with degrees in history and urban planning from the University of Virginia and University College London. She's currently helping students pursue work they love at Minerva Schools at KGI. She's a secret (not so secret) anglophile, loves literature and hopes to always support students.
Katy Dutile
Katy is the Managing Director of EarthEnable Uganda, a social enterprise that improves health by selling earthen floors to upgrade unsanitary dirt floors. Katy is committed to building scalable and sustainable businesses in East Africa.
Madeleine Elish
Madeleine Clare Elish is a cultural anthropologist whose work examines the social impacts of AI and automation on society. She currently leads the Intelligence & Autonomy Initiative at Data & Society, a non-profit research institute in New York.
Lizeth Flores
Over the last decade, Lizeth Flores has worked to shift the narrative of what it means to be an immigrant, Latinx, and a woman, through her efforts as an an activist and writer. She currently resides in Los Angeles, and is part of the team at the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
Nicole Gagliardi
Nicole helps underdogs in the non-profit sector build capacity to deepen impact. With a background in community development and social planning, she is currently working with the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough, leveraging community knowledge and engagement to drive positive change.
Skylar Gieseke
As Program Manager at The Coaching Fellowship, Skylar believes that positive social impact occurs only when those driving the effort are living their full potential. With a background in art, behavioral health and non-profit management, Skylar previously worked in developing peer delivered behavioral health services in her hometown of Lincoln, NE.
Desi Gonzalez
Based in Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA, I design digital experiences for culture and learning. I've previously worked at the Andy Warhol Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, and La Victoria Lab, an innovation design studio in Peru. I also serve on the board of the Museum Computer Network.
Kathara Green
Kathara Green helps to build the social impact ecosystem by providing spaces for learning, sharing new ideas, and building connections. Kathara is currently Program Manager at the Skoll Foundation, where she curates sessions and programming for the Skoll World Forum.
Deepali Gupta
A global health and education advocate, Deepali has worked on campaigns in Asia and the US. Originally from India, she recently moved to Indonesia and currently works with the World Bank. She enjoys live music and travel, and is fascinated by the power of storytelling.
Jeannette Gusko
Jeannette has been advocating citizen empowerment and women's rights at Change.org, as DACH lead at GoFundMe and as co-founder of inclusive campaigning training Campaign Bootcamp Germany. Since beginning of 2018 Jeannette works in fundraising and strategy for the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.
Caroline Gutman
Caroline is CEO and co-founder of Nu Market, a social enterprise focused on expanding ethnic minority women artisans' market access. She's an award-winning documentary photographer and did a Fulbright in China photographing women artisans and researching their impact on local economic development.
Ksenia Gutsol
Ksenia is a manager at Instiglio, a non-profit consultancy that helps make social programs more effective in solving the world's most pressing issues by tying funding to results. Ksenia supports Instiglio's Latin America strategy and manages results-based financing projects across the region.
Elena Haba
Elena is passionate about enabling individuals that are improving the lives of vulnerable or underrepresented populations. She is currently the Director of Investments at EWB Canada, where her aim is to support social entrepreneurs in building more sustainable and inclusive economic systems.
Liza Hester
Liza believes in the power of collaborative teams to transform violent conflict. She works closely with global negotiation experts to capture systemic lessons of their work and support the next generation of peacemakers. Liza is particularly drawn to the Middle East and collective trauma studies.
Anika Horn
Anika Horn is an ecosystem builder for social change. With a Masters of Science in Sustainability and her experiences in startup acceleration across Europe, Australia, the U.S. and now Canada, she helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs launch, manage and grow socially responsible businesses.
Asehli Howe
Asehli is co-founder of Survivor Alliance, a social enterprise engaging society in a positive sexual revolution. A self-identified social justice entrepreneur and educator, she is combining education, community, creativity, and healing to end the cycles of sexual violence.
Christina Hunn
Christina leads the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School, a program of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie organized with universities in Munich,Mexico City,Shanghai and Cape Town. Prior to that she worked for Muhammad Yunus in Colombia where she helped starting social businesses to fight poverty.
Isabel Huston
Isabel is dedicated to creating inclusive, empowering spaces for diverse leaders to learn and grow. At LEE, she connects educators work in policy and advocacy, and helps them build an understanding of their personal identities as leaders in the fight for a more equitable education system.
Priya Iyer
Priya's passion & purpose is to tackle intergenerational mental health issues for people of color. She's used her expertise in data analytics, social justice and human-centered design to improve the health of underserved populations in 10 countries. She holds an MPH in Epidemiology from Columbia.
Cate Johnson
Cate is adventurous, collaborative, and heart-centered. An innovation champion and nature enthusiast, Cate facilitates human-centered design sprints for global leaders, serves on the SXSW Pitch Advisory Board, and recently co-launched a tech conference in Canada.
Frederike Kaltheuner
Frederike is an advocate for justice in a world made of data. Privacy professional, security, data ethics.
Noushin Ketabi
Noushin Ketabi is a Co-Founder of Vega Coffee, the first online marketplace for farmer roasted coffee. She leads Vega's operations. Noushin is a certified coffee roaster and licensed Q Grader-a professionally trained cupper accredited by the Coffee Quality Institute to grade Arabica coffee.
Wren Keturi
Wren is a passionate labor activist who has spent the last six years working with working people across the country to build power in our workplaces, in our communities, and in our halls of government. She is currently the Midwest Campaign Lead with the Industrial Unit of the Communications Workers of America, a union representing 600,000 workers and growing.
Christine Kim
Director of Strategic Partnerships at Simprints, with academic and field experience in international development and an intense passion for social justice. She engages with donors who are aligned with Simprints to tackle the biggest challenges in tech4good. She likes hiphop dancing and football.
Melissa Kircher
Melissa is a freelance writer and artist committed to crafting beautiful, thought-provoking written and visual content. She has a passion for stories and cultivating space for diversity in all genres of literature and art.
Allyson Krupar
Ally is a scholar-practitioner focusing on education, human rights, programming, advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation. Her work work focuses on education for those affected by conflict, migration, and displacement, specifically continuing learning in low-resource or low-income areas.
Miho Kubagawa
Miho is a Senior Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund where she supports entrepreneurs who are designing and launching innovative public schools. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and recently graduated from Harvard University with her doctorate in education leadership (EdLD).
Shannon Lambert
Shannon has dedicated her nonprofit career to changing the world one smile at a time. As VP & Regional Director for Americas & Europe at Smile Train, she is committed to implementing locally driven, sustainable solutions for free, comprehensive treatment for babies born with cleft lip/palate.
Laura Lara-Brady
Laura is passionate about equity and higher education. She currently works implementing a vision for change for the Community College system in CA focused on increasing graduation, decreasing time and cost, and eliminating achievement gaps. Her work is being replicated across the state.
Elisa Lindinger
Elisa is the director of the Prototype Fund, a public funding program which supports independent software developers and their projects in Germany. She focuses on researching open digital infrastructure ecosystems and how to best support them, as well as bottom-up ways towards digital innovation.
Oyana Lusk
Oyana works for Fenix International, a renewable energy and financial services company serving rural customers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oyana focuses on Country Expansion, leading Fenix into new markets including Zambia, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and others.
Elise Mann
Elise works at the intersection of human rights, health equity and social impact. She supports community health initiatives at Partners in Health in Malawi and previously, managed an international reproductive health advocacy initiative at the Aspen Institute. Elise loves sunshine, mountains, and coffee.
Renee McKeon
Renee McKeon is passionate about helping others maximize their potential to reach their goals & about improving the food system. She has lived in DC for 5 years and loves this gorgeous city for all it offers and its inspiring and fascinating people.
Nadya Mileva
Nadya's passion is to bring about a sustainable change in the world and see the implementation of innovative and smart tech solutions which are in line with the environment. She is the Business Development Manager at a social enterprise in Uganda, which provides save drinking solutions to schools.
Innae Park
Innae believes in the power of partnership, connecting people from all perspectives to lead to social impact. As Director of Corporate Partnerships at Teach For America, she focuses on opening the door for companies to help the education sector ensure all children receive the education they deserve.
Diksha Radhakrishnan
Diksha's focus lies in improving the access and quality of public health services. She has 7 years of experience in designing, prototyping & testing evidence based interventions for impact at scale, supporting governments of India and Kenya to implement innovative solutions in health and education.
Priyanka Rao
At FHI 360, Priyanka leads with passion to support innovations with potential to drive large-scale impact and solve global problems vis purposeful collaboration. She has 10+ years of cross-industry experience in health, education, tech, economic development and impact investing in Asia, Africa & US.
Gina Rautenberg
Gina Rautenberg is a freelance writer and the founder of 78 Cents Project, a pro-bono resume consultancy dedicated to eradicating the gender wage gap. By offering free resume assistance & career guidance, she empowers and activates women to land the job they're dreaming of and the wage they deserve.
Leanne Sajor
Leanne is a Filipina feminist organizer, political educator & project manager. She has worked with grassroots groups and NGOs in the US and regionally across the Asia Pacific, focusing on gender, socio-economic justice and development issues. She manages the Economic Policy program at ESCR-Net.
Cathryn Sanderson
With over 10 years in the nonprofit sector, Cathryn carries a strong interest in health and wellness and human services. She strives to use fitness as both a connector for communities and for helping individuals find their potential in sport and beyond.
Kathryn Savasuk
Kathryn helps impact investors deploy capital more effectively to achieve maximum impact. At the GIIN, Kathryn works closely with leading impact investing organizations to address common challenges and share best practices with the intention of responsibly scaling the industry.
Daniella Sawaya
Daniella is dedicated to fostering a vibrant, inclusive local food system. Through her role at Kitchen Table Advisors and beyond, she harnesses the power of creative and immersive storytelling to amplify the stories of communities of color and to bring folks together around a shared love of food.
Rupika Singh
Rupika is a Manager at IDinsight where she supports partner organization by generation and use of evidence in making programmatic and policy level decisions to improve social impact. She has experience of managing large scale research studies in agriculture and financial inclusion sectors in India.
Melissa Stoller
Melissa has 10 years of experience in philanthropy and manages Bank of the West's CSR efforts in its Northwest region. She is passionate about financial inclusion and community development and has a drive to develop programs and strategies that create positive social and economic impact.
Rosie Talcott
Rosie works as a consultant at Taproot Foundation where she connects nonprofits with the specialized pro bono support they need to achieve their missions. She works between the corporate and nonprofit sectors and believes in the power of building bridges and finding common ground.
Nae Tanaka
Nae is passionate about empowering high school students to succeed holistically, from academics to becoming a more self-aware, growth-oriented, empathetic version of themselves. In a previous life in finance and management, Nae uses her business acumen to shape the education system.
Madiha Tariq
Madiha Tariq is the Deputy Director of the ACCCESS Community Health & Research Center where she oversees health promotion and disease prevention programs focused on immigrant and refugees. She is passionate about health equity and creating an infrastructure focused on empowering the grassroots.
Jen Timm
As Head of Consulting at Agora Partnerships, Jen leads a team of consultants in providing strategic consulting to social entrepreneurs to across Latin America. Previously, Jen worked directly with entrepreneurs as a consultant and worked in education reform in the United States.
Norette Turimuci
Norette has over 15 years of experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In her work at Resonate, she pursues her passion of unlocking the leadership potential of women in East Africa. She is a mother of 3, loves meeting new people and trying different cuisines.
Joy Turner
Joy is passionate about educational equity and works to ensure first year teachers are prepared. As the Managing Director of Institute Programming for Teach for America Los Angeles, she designs the learning for over 250 new teachers and leads the team of coaches and facilitators that support them.
Sonam Velani
From Mumbai to New York, Sonam is passionate about cities and the technology that drives them forward. Her expertise is in housing, infrastructure, and economic development. Sonam is currently a Senior Advisor to NYC's Deputy Mayor, and has previously worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs.
Isharna Walsh
Isharna is the founder of Coral, an venture-backed app designed to help us cultivate a healthier and happier approach to sexuality. Sexuality is an integral part of our health and happiness - let's work on it! Isharna is passionate about using technology and business to facilitate positive impact.
Sivan Wunder
Sivan is dedicated to helping public health organizations use technology and data to improve quality, access, and the patient experience of healthcare. She currently leads the Product Management & Analytics team at the San Francisco Health Plan, which aims to ensure universal health coverage in SF.
Suk-Ann Yee
Suk-Ann is a senior biologist with Coast Ridge Ecology, where she works to protect endangered species and implements local conservation efforts in San Francisco, CA. She is headed to the Ecuadorian Amazon to support Pachamama Alliance's Sacred Headwaters Initiative in December 2018.
Coaching Fellows — 2018 Cohort 1
Oluwayemisi Ajumobi
Yemisi is a Health Systems Specialist working on designing effective systems for preventing and controlling the spread of infectious disease outbreaks. She is passionate about establishing a regionally scalable sports-4-development innovation center in West Africa for promoting healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
Elizabeth Andrews
Elizabeth is currently managing a global leadership development program at a startup in Bangkok focused on women in Asia as well as running her own yoga business. Her previous experience in facilitation, service innovation and research has taken her across Africa, Southeast Asia and South America.
Jamie Arkin
Jamie is the Uganda Country Manager for Viamo Inc where she works with partners to help them integrate innovative ICT approaches to Behavior Change Communication and Monitoring & Evaluation. With a background in International Development she loves applying tech solutions across sectors.|
Meg Battle
Meg is a Manager at IDinsight in Manila, where she supports international development policy makers generate and use rigorous evidence to improve their programs. She has a background leading and supporting community-based public health programs, primarily in Battambang, Cambodia.
Brianna Booth
Brianna is transforming sexuality education to create a more intimate world. Her approach is kind, not severe; works to integrate sexuality, not manage it into submission; and recognizes the need for sexuality to become a strength of individuals, relationships, & communities rather than a liability.
Christa Brown
Christa is the manager of the San Francisco Financial Justice Project, a first-of-its kind city-led effort to assess and reform how fines and fees impact low-income people. Throughout her career, Christa has managed programs and advocated for policies the break the generational cycle of poverty.
Daisy Chang
Daisy is passionate about finding innovative and research-backed solutions to globally pervasive problems and has worked in entrepreneurship, agriculture, energy, health, and education. She is committed to creating innovative, local, and sustainable solutions to challenges in West Africa.
Joyce Chen
Joyce is a cofounder of The Seventh Wave, a nonprofit arts + literary org that tackles timely social issues via editorial work, events, mentorship, and education. She believes in storytelling as a way to engage communities in difficult but necessary conversations in order to enact positive change.
Zuzia Danielski
Zuzia is a multimedia storyteller, providing human rights organizations with strategic guidance for more effective communications. She is the Communications Director for IMPACT, an international non-profit transforming how natural resources are managed in areas where human rights are at risk.
Hannah Darnton
At Skoll, Hannah works to identify social entrepreneurs with the potential to drive large-scale social change and solve the worlds most pressing problems. Prior to Skoll, Hannah worked in human rights and anti-human trafficking in multiple countries across SouthEast Asia and West Africa.
Azra Dhalla
Working in healthcare and social impact for 10+ years, Azra focuses on solving critical issues in health and advocating for quality and equitable access to services. She is passionate about the intersection of health and technology and its ability to drive change and accelerate impact. |
Sophie Dresser
Sophie is Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting Manager for Internews in South Sudan. Disillusioned with antiquated development approaches, she was determined to do development better. Sophie has worked with numerous organizations to employ data-driven, dynamic approaches to drive their impact.
Jessie Duan
As the co-founder of Code.X, Jessie empowers youth in developing countries to become changemakers. She leverages her experiences as a product engineer and high school computer science teacher to equip students with the problem-solving skills to identify and build technology for their communities.
Sophie Eckrich
As Co Founder and CEO of the ethical fashion company Teysha, Sophie has led the creation of a supply chain which empowers artisans in Latin America to express their talents, while bringing handcrafted goods to the world market. Sophie is passionate about international development, fashion and travel
Natalie Evans
Nat Evans leads Strategic Partnerships at Nexleaf, a nonprofit designing sensor technologies and data analytics to improve human and planetary health. Nat is passionate about sustainable innovation, social equity and the environment. She enjoys filmmaking and comedy. Nat holds a B.A. from Harvard.
Abianne Falla
I am the co-founder of CatSpring Yaupon. I previously received my MBA from Acton, an entrepreneurship program after working for both lululemon athletica and Ernst & Young in Washington DC. Born and raised in Texas, I had to import my British husband. We currently live in Austin with our dog.
Lissa Glasgo
Lissa helps impact investors and entrepreneurs understand the social and environmental change they contribute to within the communities they reach. At the GIIN, she develops tools and guidance that help investors measure, analyze, and strengthen their impact.
Serri Graslie
Serri is the Director of Digital Training on NPR's Training team. In that role, she serves as editor and publisher for npr.org/training and helps public media journalists create intentional, distinctive stories for digital audiences.
Jessica Hansen
From the UN to refugee camps to classrooms, Jessica has worked globally to positively impact the world and help others unleash their capacity to do the same. At Kiva, she builds partnerships and programs to educate and inspire others to find innovative means of overcoming global challenges.
Jamilla Harper
Jamilla utilizes principles of community-driven, asset-based development with extremely low-income communities in the USA and Kenya. As Kenya Associate Director of Kounkuey Design Initiative, she bridges community vision to local and national resources for youth, housing and economic development.
Dima Ikhwan
Dima is the co-founder and CEO of Eewah Improv Theatre Co. From her career as a finance consultant, she noticed that the best strategies and plans fail due to poor organizational culture. she founded Eewah as a means of spreading the mindset of collaboration in her home country of Saudi Arabia.
Shruti Jagirdar
Shruti is trained in statistics, economics and public policy and is passionate about working with policymakers to ensure decisions are driven by evidence and effective programmes are scaled up.
Sarah Jewell
Sarah Jewell loves working with visionary leaders to turn their big picture plans into reality. She is the director of Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA, which was founded by 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee to support women and girls' rights and leadership in Liberia and West Africa.
Fatima Kamenge
Fatima Kamenge has spent most of her life traveling and living between a few African countries and Canada. She is a professional migrant and is looking forward to redefining the immigrant experience in the world. She cannot wait to build more bridges between the most remote and the closest cultures.
Darlene Laure Karamutsa
I am the Life skills empowerment and social impact manager at Abahizi Rwanda. I lead a program that teaches employees about Health and nutrition, Financial literacy, Leadership, English and provides a counseling program.
Emily (Emi) Koch
Emi is the founder of Beyond the Surface International, a nonprofit working with marginalized, remote coastal communities for socio-ecological resilience through nonviolent communication tools. Emi is pursing a Masters in Marine Biodiversity & Conservation at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Sarah Koch
Sarah is passionate about centering communities in their own solution-building. She is the founder and Executive Director of Development in Gardening (DIG), a non-profit that develops sustainable gardens providing access to high quality food for nutritionally vulnerable people around the world.
Cynthia Koenig
Cynthia’s interests lie at the intersection of business, innovation & impact. She has helped launch many ventures, from community-run ecotourism businesses to a national strategy for sustainable tourism. She is the founder of Wello, an award winning social venture that co-creates innovations designed to provide better, reliable access to safe water.
Alana Kolundzija
Alana is an innovative global practitioner who excels at bridging the gap between research and implementation. She works at the intersection of gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and social justice. Alana founded Collective Impact to foster cross-sector collaboration.
Marguerite (Meg) Lembo
As the Principal of Harlem Village Academies West Elementary, Meg is responsible for ensuring exceptional academic and social-emotional outcomes for the school's 500+ students. She is passionate about closing the opportunity gap that exists for children in New York City through this work.
Laura Leslie
Laura is passionate about education and social activism. As program manager for The Tiyya Foundation, she oversees Tiyya's adult and youth programs which provide community support to families of refugees, low-income immigrants, and displaced Americans. She also manages the 100+ volunteers per year.
Verena Liedgens
After closing her company Agruppa, Verena is a social entrepreneur without an enterprise, exploring new avenues to generate impact . She is passionate about food systems, business model innovation and using markets to create a more inclusive future.
Jocelyn Light
Jocelyn cares deeply about equitable access to opportunity and is passionate about creating diverse and safe teams within which individuals can thrive and contribute fully. She is currently leading a multinational team of Project Managers who design and implement M4D interventions globally.
Sara Llansa
Sara is passionate about increasing access to educational opportunities. Presently, she is the Director of EMERGE, which is a program that empowers and prepares high performing students from underserved communities to attend and graduate from selective colleges and universities across the nation.
Dorcas Masatia
Am the Operations Director at Maisha Meds. I have extensive experience leading complex field operations in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi; with a background in carbon financing, audits and survey administration at Evidence Action and operational research and development at Innovations for Poverty Action.
Erin Mattingly
Ms. Mattingly is a speech-language pathologist (SLP), strategic consultant, and the Chief Programs Officer of the Traumatic Brain Injury Warrior Foundation (TBIWF). She has over twelve years of experience treating survivors of brain injury and, with her co-founders, recently launched TBIWF.
Lais Miachon
Lais is a World Bank Health Specialist from Brazil. She works globally with ministries of health in the development and implementation of health policies and programs, focusing on sexual and reproductive health and nutrition. She's interested in the transgenerational transfer of healthy habits.
Jennifer Moeller Gulland
Jennifer M̦ller-Gulland, a water economist, is an independent advisor to UNDP, the World Bank and other clients, on questions related to water management. She works with governments, private sector and civil society in developing countries to catalyze change, which enables sustainable development.
Noella Moshi
As Programs Lead at West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE), Noella is helping to level the playing field for systematically excluded youth in Nigeria. She is passionate about increasing access to quality education in Africa.
Melizsa Mugyenyi
Melizsa is a partnerships and resource mobilization specialist who is passionate about unlocking funding for important causes. She supports nonprofits to grow their income and influence, and is currently Head of Partnerships at the Aga Khan Foundation East Africa, a leading poverty reduction agency.
Dana Murchison
A passionate science communicator, Dana has centred her work around creating moments of engagement and discovery. As Head of Programs at the Canadian Museum of Nature, she currently leads the development and delivery of programming that educates and inspires audiences about the natural world.
Kelsey Parker Nawalinski
Kelsey works as a registered nurse in the Neuro ICU and serves on the Penn Medicine Opioid Stewardship and Education task force. She is passionate about harm reduction, working with Prevention Point Philadelphia to staff a mobile wound care clinic focused on providing humane care for IV drug users.
Bianca Nepales
Bianca works to create equitable outcomes for all students in Los Angeles. She currently develops community-based programming for over 200 teachers and advocates as a Director of Corps Member and Alumni Impact with Teach For America Los Angeles. Bianca also teaches part-time at Loyola Marymount.
Kathryn Padgett
Kathryn is drawn to thoughtful technologies and teams with grit. She is the Deputy Director at Saha Global, whose work in Ghana is getting the cleanest water to the poorest people. She has a lasting love of human-centered design, mostly-accurate maps and motos.
Evgenia Peeva-Kirova
Evgenia is founder & CEO of Teach For Bulgaria, an independent non-profit that aims to provide access to quality education to all children in her country by enlisting Bulgaria's most talented young professionals to be effective teachers and change agents in education and society.
Janae Phillips
Janae is changing how we think about leadership development. As a program designer and community organizer she's made a career of finding magic in what's mistaken as routine. She's the Director of Leadership and Education at the Harry Potter Alliance, and hopes one day she can impress SUE the T.rex.
Laetitia Poelman
I am Project Management and Supply Chain Management professional, I have studied and worked in six different countries and have experience in East and West Africa working for both social enterprises and NGOs. I am currently re-thinking how we create impact around us and how to improve mine!
Lisa Putkey
Passionate about peace, justice and community wellbeing, Lisa directs the San Mateo County Pride Center -the first LGBTQ+ center in her home county. She previously worked as a Peace Studies teacher, program administrator, community organizer, youth program coordinator, and union representative.
Zara Rahman
Zara Rahman leads the Research and Engagement team at The Engine Room, an international non-profit organisation supporting civil society to use tech and data more effectively. Her work has focused on the intersection of technology, power, and social justice.
Laura Ruiz
Laura is the Colombia Fellows Program Manager for Acumen.Passionate about human potential,social impact and leadership,she's working on adapting and launching the renowned program in her birth country.As an Acumen Fellow herself,she's in a journey to support building a Colombia post-conflict.
Sarah Snidal
Sarah is a Senior Associate for New Vaccine Introduction on the Global Vaccines Delivery Team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Sarah's work focuses on accelerating access to life-saving vaccines, such as HPV, in Africa and Asia and identifying opportunities to strengthen global policy.
Andrea Sorce
Andrea's passion for economic empowerment stems from her service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras and El Salvador, where she worked to promote entrepreneurship and financial inclusion in rural and indigenous communities. She now manages similar programs for refugees with the IRC in San Diego.
Amanda Stek
Amanda is passionate about using data to improve development effectiveness. She currently works with Social Impact Inc. as a Senior Program Manager where she manages and implements utilization-focused evaluations throughout Asia. She lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Meghan Stevenson-Krausz
Meghan serves as Program Director at Spark, where she works to advance gender equality. She is passionate about equalizing opportunities, especially for under-represented populations, and the power of visual media to build bridges. In her spare time she enjoys bringing together friends over food.
Katie Suter
As Senior Manager of College Match, Katie works with KIPP College Counseling teams to surface bright spots and challenges, and supports the network with training and tools. Katie is passionate about serving a network that prepares first-generation students to be leaders and live choice-filled lives
Katherine (Katie) Taylor
Katie is co-founder & CEO of Khethworks, which makes solar powered irrigation systems that enable small-plot farmers to cultivate year round. Driven by the transformative power of affordable & reliable irrigation, Katie & team moved to India in 2016 to launch Khethworks.
Hima Tk
Hima is the Founder of InquiBox, a start-up that aims at developing 21st-century skills including creativity, curiosity and critical thinking in children, with a focus on experiential learning through play. She is a NASA Datanaut; and also works with non-for-profits in addressing diversity and coaching SMEs in developing countries.
Katie Wartman
Katie is passionate about the potential for innovation to solve systemic problems, particularly in developing regions. Katie helps social entrepreneurs enhance their impact through financial modeling and strategic management. Leading the finance team at Sanergy, she has been a driving force in scaling the organization's safe sanitation value chain through organizational restructuring, publications, and strategic finance work.
Kimberly Wolf
As Co-Founder and Deputy Executive Director of Girl Up Initiative Uganda, Kim is dedicated to empowering girls to speak their truths while challenging deeply held gender inequalities. Kim is a social entrepreneur, yoga teacher, and nature lover splitting her time between Norway, Uganda and the US.
Cara Wood
As Senior Manager of Reporting & Contributions at World Relief, Cara enjoys using her background as a CPA to help maximize the organization's financial resources. She is passionate about building up under served communities from within by investing in and elevating the voices of indigenous leaders.
Nadila Yusuf
Nadila is a Posse Alum and Fulbright Scholar and is a graduate of Wheaton College and UPenn. She serves on the National KIPP Foundation team and manages the national persistence strategy and projects for the network. Nadila is passionate about women's leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Coaching Fellows — 2017 Cohort 3
Lola Aleru
Lola is dedicated to enabling access to STEM education for disadvantaged communities and leveraging technology to create solutions for challenges faced in Africa. At Global Minimum we inspire a generation of young African innovators and leaders through maker education and project-based learning.
Michelle Arnold
Michelle is the Acting Manager at the Government of Ontario's Social Enterprise Unit. Through the implementation of Ontario's Social Enterprise Strategy, she works on a series of program and policy initiatives designed to accelerate the growth of the social enterprise sector.
Katherine Baird
As International Projects Manager at The Change.org Foundation, Katherine works with partners on programs that put people's lived experiences at the center of social change campaigns. She is passionate about tackling inequality and lack of access to resources in social movements and civil society.
Meredith Baker
Meredith Baker currently serves as the Country Director for the Democratic Republic of Congo with Voto Mobile/Human Network International. Ms. Baker is an ICT4D specialist with more than seven years of experience in the global digital health sector.
Marcela Berrios
Marcela is a Nicaraguan American and has dedicated her work to social justice, equity and cultural diversity. In 2012 she joined Global Glimpse, a non-profit that prepares US high school juniors to be responsible global citizens through travel. She now serves as the VP of International Programs.
Hayley Bron
Hayley has focused her career on developing emerging leaders within social enterprise in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously running fellowships for EWB Canada and working with youth leaders in small-holder farming communities, she is currently the Director of People and Culture at PEG Africa.
Julia Burchell
Julia is passionate about the power of business to bring positive social as well as commercial impact. She currently leads projects aiming to unlock the transformative power of mobile technology at a national level in emerging markets for the GSMA.
Emily Caruso
I am passionate about nurturing and restoring people's relationships with nature. As the incoming Director of Global Diversity Foundation, I oversee field projects for community conservation in Morocco and a global environmental leadership training programme. I live on a rural smallholding in Italy.
Lakeya Cherry
Lakeya is the CEO of the Network for Social Work Management, an international organization dedicated to strengthening social work leadership in health and human services. She's passionate about social justice and believes that by investing in leaders you are investing in stronger communities.
Arianna Cisneros
Arianna has spent 6 years in Philanthropy as a Program Officer and consultant developing, implementing, and evaluating strategies that advance equity. She has experience in early childhood development and education, policy and advocacy, and research and evaluation at regional and global levels.
Chiara Condi
I am an advocate for women's entrepreneurship, innovation and rights. I launched Led By HER an incubator to help women who have suffered from violence become entrepreneurs through courses, mentoring and events. We have a community of 250 volunteers, large companies and international organizations.
Andy Coravos
Andy Coravos is a software engineer and digital rights activist. She's the CEO & co-founder of ElektraLabs.com, a digital medicine platform. Andy is on the Board of VisionSpring, an affordable eyewear social enterprise. Previously, she co-founded CODE@HBS and worked at KKR and McKinsey.
Joy Crook
As Chief of Staff of private development at World Relief, Joy finds it a privilege to effectively share the compelling story of community-led transformation across the world. She is continuing to explore her passions for international business and women in leadership through a Global MBA from IE.
Alyza Devraj
Alyza is passionate about finding opportunities where technology innovation, and a lean, user-centered approach can make international development more efficient. She believes in bringing the rigour of the tech world to the fight against poverty and inequality. She currently does Product for myAgro.
Amira Dhalla
Amira Dhalla is the Lead for Women and Web Literacy at Mozilla working to create a more equal, open and accessible web for everyone. Amira has worked for many years building communities and movements among nonprofits, startups, social enterprises and technology-focused organizations.
Jacklina Eshaya
Jacklina is a social entrepreneur who is deeply engaged in Social Activism and change. She is the co-founder of Beinco, a social venture that facilitates transformative entrepreneurial workshops to enable communities and organizations to realize their collective wisdom and co-create positive change.
Jessica Feingold
Jess helps great social entrepreneurs grow their impact. With Kiva, she has been a driving force in scaling Kiva US to new cities, creating corporate engagement programs, and launching a fund to support refugee entrepreneurs. Previously, she was Director of Partnerships at Ashoka Changemakers.
Nadiya Figueroa
Nadiya has a passion for working with emerging leaders and social change initiatives. She is Dean of Scholarships at the Rhodes Trust, Oxford. Her experience spans strategic projects, policy advisory, coalition building from her home in the Caribbean to her alma maters Stanford & Oxford Universities
Maria Franco
Maria Franco searches for lasting solutions to poverty that can scale. She runs two fellows programs at the Mulago Foundation that focus on the design of an impact model and building an organization that can deliver. Prior, Maria ran impact evaluations at MIT's Poverty Action Lab in Chile.
Susanne Gaerte
Susanne is passionate about Sport and development. She currently works at the German Olympic Sports Confederation where she is responsible for projects all around the world to use sport as a tool to contribute to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, e.g. in Namibia, Turkey, Rwanda, Uganda or Brazil.
Kathryn Garnett
Kathryn is passionate about promoting wellbeing. She has done this through advocacy, developing peer support networks, curating wellbeing festivals and being part of The Big campaign team which empowers people to connect with their neighbours to improve peoples sense of belonging to where they live.
Emily Graslie
Emily Graslie is Chief Curiosity Correspondent for The Field Museum in Chicago, and the creator, host, writer and producer of The Brain Scoop, an educational YouTube channel that explores the research and collections work of natural history museums. Loves anything that makes her go, 'Huh. Cool!'
Hanna Guy
Hanna co-owns Dorsu, an ethical clothing company operating in Kampot, Cambodia, creating high quality clothes, and selling to conscious individuals and companies across the world. Hanna leads a passionate, progressive team who are committed to doing business right by people and the planet.
Elena Harman
Elena Harman leads Vantage Evaluation, specializing in transforming how organizations think about and use evaluation. With the brain of an evaluator and the heart of a capacity-builder, her dream is that evaluation will become an indispensible strategic tool for all purpose-driven organizations.
Judith Hartl
Judith is a trainer, poet, and engineer by training. She lives, loves and works in Tanzania where she builds up talent systems for Mobisol, an East African solar off-grid company. Judith is looking for ways to enhance her impact in making organizations more human, so people can truly develop within.
Casey Hogle
Casey is committed to aligning resources behind social causes she believes in. She is currently leading development at Indivisible, an organization that exists to serve 6000 groups that are defending progressive policy across the country. Her background is in peacebuilding in the MENA region.
Dana Holliday Kraus
Dana is a graphic designer and social entrepreneur. Through her design agency, Holliday Ink, she partners with purpose-driven companies to accelerate impact. She is also the Co-Founder and Creative Director of SOLO Eyewear, an eco-friendly sunglass company that restores vision for people in need.
Sarah-Marie Hopf
Sarah-Marie is a German-American social innovation strategist and designer. Through Ashoka U, she equips universities globally to embed social innovation into their culture, programming and operations. Through Thriving in a Noisy World, she builds community and tools to unleash the power of quiet.
Blaire Horner
Blaire connect the dots of the work of the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood. She leverages her background in strategic planning, finance, and project management to work with her team to invest in high quality early education projects that close opportunity and achievement gaps.
Sunkyo Im
Sunkyo is the Director of Customer Experience and Talent at Fenix International, a next generation energy company with a mission to transform the quality of life of our customers through innovation in energy and financial services.
Priyanka Jaisinghani
You'll always find Priyanka working at the intersection of social innovation and entrepreneurship. As the co-founder of a global mentorship program, GirlzFTW, she works to connect girls to inspiring mentors. Priyanka is also driving impact through her work as Managing Editor of Conscious Magazine and as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
Aude Joël
Aude has a 10-year experience in the environmental sector and she is an expert in communications and sustainability. In 2015, she started a social startup incubator in Mexico City dedicated to find new solutions to water issues. She is passionate about positively impacting the world.
Melissa Kaminker
Melissa manages operational partnerships between One Acre Fund and financial service providers with the goal of improving the poor access that smallholder farmers currently have to revenue generating agrifinance products and services.
Julia Kloiber
Julia Kloiber is the Co-Founder of Code for Germany and the Prototype Fund. She works as a Head of Strategy and Civic Tech for the Berlin based non profit Open Knowledge Foundation. She's passionate about growing open communities and applying creative solutions to difficult problems.
Courtney Lawrence
Courtney Lawrence is a Southeast Asia based founding CEO and curator of Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership (DSIL) Course. Currently Courtney serves as Adjunct Facultat Thammasat University, School of Global Studies and Social Entrepreneurship (GSSE). Her academic research focuses on the intersection of sustainable economic development, social enterprise and design thinking.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee protects the Pacific Northwest environment as Director of Policy and Planning for Puget Sound Partnership. She previously advised the White House on law and policy by using creative problem solving approaches to tackle complex challenges in science, technology, and marine conservation.
Nadia Lehzam
Nadia moved to Pakistan in 2010. She now runs Ecole des Lumieres, the only Western-owned school in the country. Because a school is only as good as its teachers, she aspires to make training, for private primary & preschool teachers and especially parents, the rule rather than an exception.
Ashley Lewis
Ashley Lewis is an Investment Officer with Accion Venture Lab, a fund focused on fintech for financial inclusions, and leads the organization's investment work across West Africa. She is also the co-founder of Invest With Impact, the first talent agency for the impact investing space.
Mriganka Lulla
What bothers Mriganka most, is the lack of basic human dignity afforded to all, based on where they are born. Currently Associate Director with Microenergy Credits in Nairobi, she led the development of the world's first clean-energy mobile loan. She has worked across S.Africa, the USA and India.
Rui Ma
Rui is a founder of Rookie Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to investing in the best student-led startups in Asia. She has nearly 15 yrs experience in tech and investing, and is currently focused on neurotechnology and mental health. She's an advisor to several funds and startups globally.
Jessica Marati Radparvar
Jessica is the founder of Reconsidered, a boutique consultancy that helps organizations build impactful social responsibility strategies, communications and community - all with the goal of driving positive behavior change.
Lucy Marcil
Lucy is a pediatrician & the co-founder of StreetCred, an anti-poverty intervention providing free tax preparation to low-income families in pediatric clinics. She became interested in the health-wealth connection as a Peace Corps volunteer working with a women's microfinance initiative in Namibia.
Gloria Medina
Gloria is the new Partnerships and Community Engagement Manager at NYC Kids RISE, a non-profit that provides scholarships for low income public school kindergarteners. Passionate about social justice, and a native New Yorker, Gloria received her BA in Philosophy from Wellesley College.
Emily Mertens
Passionate about financial inclusion and community-led development, Emily currently works at Kiva, managing two of Kiva's three volunteer programs. She has also worked in rural finance in Senegal, West Africa and with refugees in Sacramento, CA.
Kristy Mordhorst
Kristy is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and the Founder & President of the Young Professionals in International Affairs (YPIA). She founded YPIA with the goal of creating an interconnected international community that better understands the world around us.
Aida Murad
I live to make meaningful connections (partnerships) that lead to higher impact and innovation where 1+1=100. Overall I'm a social entrepreneur, artist, motivational speaker and food critic but most importantly I am a life-long learner, thinker and aim to live a meaningful and impactful life.
Cezarina Niculae
Cezarina is originally from Romania and now living in Mexico. She is passionate about social entrepreneurship and moved to Latin America to consult and accelerate impactful ventures across the region. Her interests include design thinking, marketing, business and financial consulting and coaching.
Shubra OHri
Shubra is a Chicago based attorney seeking to incorporate international human rights principals to domestic civil rights advocacy. At the People's Law Office, she represents people who have suffered from police misconduct, government misconduct and wrongful convictions.
Erin Pangilinan
Erin is a designer and software engineer hybrid and entrepreneur. She works on artificial intelligence and augmented reality focused on advancing Alzheimer's research. She co-founded two education and professional development organizations, Filipino Americans in Silicon Valley Tech and ARVR Academy.
Tatiana Peralta Quiros
Tati is a World Bank Transport and Technology Specialist from Costa Rica. She focuses on operationalizing, mainstreaming and piloting the use of digital data, analytics & innovative tech for transport. She has studied Transport Engineering Urban Planning & Mathematics from Harvard University and MIT
Laura Piper
As Sr. Manager, Product Marketing and Community at Kiva, Laura uses customer and marketing insight to help build impactful products to create opportunity across the globe. She believes technology has the power to build empathy and connection, which can spark positive social change wherever you are.
Deepa Ranganathan
Deepa is a young, brown, Indian feminist passionate about amplifying the voices and stories of young feminist activists. She is interested in learning about new media and technologies that shape strategic communications and storytelling and believes in the immense power and reach of social media.
Ash Rogers
As the Executive Director of Lwala Community Alliance, Ash leads a team of 140+ in an all-out effort to reduce maternal & child mortality. Previously, Ash worked for Segal Family Foundation, Komo Learning Centres & HELP International. Ash is a mother, a survivor, and an advocate for women's health.
Irene Shao
Irene is passionate about education equity and providing access to quality education to all students. She currently works at Khan Academy, where she oversees Asia markets to spread the mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Donna Sinar
Donna works at the intersection of gender justice + philanthropy. She works with partners on both sides of the resource mobilization aisle - grantseekers and grantmakers - to move meaningful change for women, girls and trans folks forward. Channeling critical resources to activists is her activism.
Ashley Terada
As a former high school English teacher, education has always been Ashley's passion. She currently works to support first and second year teachers and the coaches and mentors who support them. Ashley works full-time for Teach For America and is part-time faculty at Loyola Marymount University.
Kristen Thompson
Kristen is the General Manager of Numeric in Cape Town. Numeric addresses the critical shortage of maths skills in South Africa by delivering high-impact after-school maths classes to 2200 children each week and by training maths teachers. Kristen believes in changing the world one teacher at a time
Lisa Wang
Lisa Wang is a 4x USA National Champion & Hall of Fame Gymnast, the Founder & CEO of SheWorx, the global platform empowering 20K+ women to build successful companies through access to top investors. She is a columnist for Forbes driving gender parity in entrepreneurship. She is a graduate of Yale.
Amara Warren
Amara manages strategic projects at the KIPP Foundation, an education organization that supports a network of 200+ college-prep public charter schools across the U.S. She is passionate about education equity, civic engagement, social justice, and entrepreneurship.
Anna Watson
Anna is a socially driven facilitator, strategist and storyteller. She designs and runs social enterprise programmes in New Zealand. Her passion lies in the potential of the outdoors as a way to tapping into one's potential.
Samantha Williams
Samantha Williams is the Chief of Staff at Teach For All, where she works with the CEO to ensure the overall effectiveness of the global organization. Before joining the executive team, Samantha spent five years heading and establishing Teach For All’s organizational presence in Africa.
Christina Wu
Christina is co-founder of Global Agents, which invests in early stage social enterprises globally. Today, she is the Community Manager for the European Venture Philanthropy Association, a network of social investors, which aims to strengthen co-investment/collaboration across its members.
Jane Yang
Jane is part strategic problem-solver, part data storyteller, and part teacher. A self-identified intrapreneur, her sweet spot is getting the hidden back office magic to work so that program-facing folks can deliver the most positive impact possible. Jane currently calls Chicago home.
Coaching Fellows — 2017 Cohort 2
Anthonia Akitunde
Anthonia Akitunde is the founder and editor in chief of mater mea, a site that celebrates Black women at the intersection of career and family. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, and more.
Rose Atkinson
As R&D Manager at SolarNow in Uganda, Rose works on introducing and improving products to market and technology to operations; aiming to give customers a quality and sustainable energy experience. Rose’s passion for creating impact is expressed through 4Es: energy, engineering, education, equality.
Karin Attia
Karin Attia is a freelance peacebuilder, human rights researcher and conflict prevention consultant. She is currently working on curriculum development for the Peace Project and as a communications manager for Young Peacebuilders. Passionate about women and girls’ rights, and conflict resolution.
Emma Blomkamp
Emma is Research Coordinator of The Policy Lab at The University of Melbourne. With a background in arts and cultural policy, and experience leading social innovation projects, she now focuses on exploring creative and participatory approaches to policy design and evaluation.
Julia Buzan
Julia is interested in the intersection between social justice, data-driven decision-making, and design. She previously managed Vera Solutions' consulting business in Africa where she supported social impact organizations to design and implement data systems. She is currently a Director at OpenFn.
Thea Carlson
Thea Maria Carlson is Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association, bringing vitality and renewal to the food system through regenerative agriculture. She is a leader, facilitator, educator, and farmer dedicated to building living soil, growing nutritious food, and nurturing vibrant communities.
Angie Carrillo
I'm an entrepreneur. My passions are education, gender equality and using exponential technologies to have a positive impact in the world. In Peru, I teach entrepreneurship and I have a non profit to teach girls to code. In the past, I worked as a business consultant for large Fortune 500 companies.
Shena Cavallo
Shena is a Program Officer at the International Women’s Health Coalition in New York, an international non-profit that works to advance the sexual and reproductive health of women, girls and adolescents by supporting women’s movements around the world.
Siobhan Collins
Siobhan is a Manager on Ceres' Water Program, a NGO advocating for sustainability leadership across the capital markets. Her current focus is on advancing freshwater solutions to mitigate the global water crisis - working with a global network of stakeholders from companies, investors and partners.
Rachel Connors
Rachel is the co-founder and Chief Enthusiasm Officer of Yellow Leaf Hammocks, a social enterprise dedicated to defeating poverty through artisan job creation. She is passionate about empowering women in developing economies and spearheading a consumer revolution in socially conscious shopping.
Allison Corkery
Allison directs the Rights Claiming and Accountability Program at the Center for Economic and Social Rights. She's committed to ensuring that human rights activists have the research and advocacy tools they need to understand and address socioeconomic injustices as human rights violations.
Caitlin Corneliess
Caitlin Corneliess is a Senior Program Development Advisor at Pathfinder International. She designs sexual and reproductive health programs and writes grant proposals to address public health challenges of low access to contraception, high HIV rates, and high maternal mortality in 19 countries.
Nadia Costanzo
Nadia leads business development and manages lending partnerships in 10+ countries across Africa at Kiva. She believes that social investors have the responsibility to go out of their comfort zone, seek risk, and target the most underserved to make a real impact, and strives to do this every day.
Nicole DeMarsh
Nicole leads the Uganda office of Open Capital Advisors, a management consulting and financial advisory firm. She works with high-impact organizations across Africa to help them scale and raise capital to finance their growth.
Julie Doupé
Julie is passionate about providing access to education and opportunity for everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status. She currently works at Khan Academy, where she manages corporate partnerships to support its mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Patricia Eloizin
Patricia is a Haitian-American changemaker who is driven to connect traditionally underserved and forgotten communities to the networks and resources they need to thrive. She is excited about opportunities to get more involved in impact investing in Latin America.
Alexis Ettinger
Alexis is passionate about developing and investing in entrepreneurial approach to social change. At the Aspen Institute, she leads a portfolio of partnerships and programs to accelerate the impact of their global community of 2300 entrepreneurs and their social ventures.
Julia Firestone
Julia is a community builder and connector, managing social impact partnerships for Project Literacy, where she works to build capacity for literacy organizations around the world. She also runs a NYC-based women in social good networking group and serves as an ambassador for Continuum Collective.
Michelle Glauser
Michelle Glauser is a software engineer, community organizer, diversity and inclusion advocate, and founder. She created the #ILookLikeAnEngineer ad campaign and founded Techtonica, a nonprofit that offers free tech training and jobs to local women and non-binary femme adults with low incomes.
Sabrina Natasha Habib
After stumbling over an infant in an unsafe, make-shift daycare center in one of Nairobi's urban slums, Sabrina co-founded Kidogo, a social enterprise that provides high-quality, affordable Early Childhood Care & Education to low-income families living in East Africa.
Flavie Halais
Flavie Halais is a French, Montreal-based freelance journalist writing about social issues at home and abroad. She is the creator of Refugee Economics, a multiplatform reporting project looking at the economic dimension of forced displacement, focusing on East Africa.
Katie Hallaran
Katie co-founded Kinyei & Soksabike to improve youth employment pathways through responsible tourism in Cambodia. She currently works on market based development initiatives at Pact Ventures and is preoccupied with ICT’s transformative power, social business models that disrupt markets, and coffee.
Monica Hayden
Monica Hayden serves as a Senior Program Director at uAspire, a nonprofit that supports students through the college affordability process. In this role, she oversees program partnerships, strategy, and implementation in the Bay Area. Monica is committed to educational equity and social justice.
Jara Hendrikx
Jara is a Dutch-Chilean medical doctor. She is passionate about gender equality and access to healthcare. Through her work in a public hospital in Chile she advocates for these issues on a daily basis. She also currently studies an MSc program in Global Health Policy to amplify her social impact.
Jennifer Kabaker
Jennifer has dedicated her career to education equity. Whether working to support teachers as they grow or helping policymakers understand the implications of their decisions, she brings an analytical eye to ensuring that students receive the opportunities they need to succeed.
Doreen Kessy
Doreen is COO at Ubongo, a social enterprise that creates edutainment content for learners in Africa. At Ubongo she is instrumental in the growth of the organization, innovating, failing forward and finding ways to continually deliver fun learning to over 5 million kids in East Africa!
Shougat Nazbin Khan
Shougat Nazbin Khan is an advocate of education & clean energy technologist from Bangladesh. She founded H.A. Digital School & College that seeks sustainable development through quality education. Shougat is Commonwealth Youth Awarde '16, Asia Young Person of the Year '16 & Green Talent Awardee '15
Hilary Kinka
Hilary is a public health and social enterprise consultant. She is currently working with Population Services International to introduce a financially sustainable business model that will increase the health impact of social franchising in East Africa.
Terah Lyons
Terah Lyons is a former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she led a policy portfolio in the Obama Administration focused on emergent technology related to machine intelligence, including AI and autonomous systems.
Katherine (Katie) MacDonald
Katie is an entrepreneurship enthusiast with experience in international development, business acceleration, and strategic partnerships within the cleantech sector.
Raïsa Mirza
A human-centered designer, photographer and social entrepreneur, Raïsa delivers impactful products and services to customers at the base of the pyramid. After 3 years implementing new delivery models at One Acre Fund in East Africa, she joins GRID Impact, a behavioral research and design collective.
Hodan Mohamed
Hodan Mohamed, BA (UofT), M.A. (OISE) diaspora Somali Canadian with a focus on community researcher, public policy, leadership facilitation, social justice, gender equity and youth advocacy.
Síle Molloy
Síle is an Epidemiologist at St George’s, University of London involved in research to reduce morality associated with cryptococcal meningitis in resource-limited settings. She is passionate about advocating for improved access to essential antifungal drugs across Africa
Nadia Muijrers
Nadia is a management consultant, facilitator and lecturer. She is half Dutch, half Bahraini and has always been fascinated by interpersonal and cross-cultural dynamics. She has a passion for tackling people-centered issues in organizations and in society.
Emilia Roig
Emilia is an intersectional feminist currently founding the European Center for Intersectional Justice, a Berlin-based organisation fighting intersecting forms of inequality and discrimination in Europe. She’s passionate about social justice and committed to advancing equality and justice for all.
Claudia Scheckel
Claudia is a postdoc in neuroscience at the University Hospital Zurich and is very passionate about the importance of science for our society. Having studied different disease paradigms in the past, Claudia is currently transitioning into a biotech startup aimed at developing novel therapeutics.
Astrid Schrader
Astrid worked globally with governments, startups, NGOs and international organisations as a trainer, project leader or management consultant. She is the Founder of The Arc, providing leadership retreats for young visionaries: Tech startup CEOs, artists, bankers or social entrepreneurs - you name it.
Laura Smitheman
Laura's passion is social innovation. Co-founder of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, Cambodia's largest co-working community and first social impact incubator, her focus is the design and implementation of diverse programs. She is an INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program Alumni and loves exploring new places
Samantha Stein
Samantha is the Founder & CEO of Hacktivision, a crowd-source impact innovation accelerator. Hacktivision brings together technologists, industry experts, & end-users to help corporations innovate around the sustainable development goals.
Danielle Sweeney
Danielle is the CFO of CoSchool, a for-profit social enterprise in Colombia. She believes personal success, and cohesive communities need young people who have developed key life skills (self-awareness, conflict resolution, grit & decision making) - skills the traditional education doesn’t deliver.
Josie Swords
Josie is a passionate advocate for young women's leadership: currently the Co-Chair of YWCA Great Britain, undertaking Masters research on young women's leadership and Artificial Intelligence (those things do go together!), and working in digital transformation for local government in the UK.
Yuliya Tarasava
Yuliya's career path is explained by the desire to demystify and humanize finance and passion to create. She co-founded CNote, a financial technology company that is transforming financial products to bring back inclusivity, integrity and democratize financial freedom.
Marilyn Waite
Marilyn’s vision is a world where social cohesion, environmental consciousness, intergenerational equity, and economic health drive business practices. Author of Sustainability at Work, she leads the energy practice at Village Capital, founded SustainableVisit, and serves on two non-profit boards.
Eloise Waldon-Day
Eloise is Program & Systems Manager at Resonate, a startup using storytelling to unlock women’s leadership in East Africa. A SAIS graduate with experience working with survivors of sexual violence in the UK and South Africa, she works to build communities where women feel supported and valued.
Nell Watson
Nell Watson FBCS, FIAP, FRSA is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker who grew up in Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends.
Coaching Fellows — 2017 Cohort 1
Shira Abramowitz
After co-founding a student business and sailing around the world as the associate director for the global accelerator, Unreasonable at Sea, Shira has spent the past few years as the content and programming director at Summit Series crafting conversations and content from the mountains to the sea.
Jamie Alexander
Jamie is a climate change and sustainable development consultant with clients including USAID, IDEO and the UN. Jamie is also in the process of establishing her own business to provide consumers with innovative new ways to practice more sustainable consumption in their everyday lives.
Lajuanda Asemota
With over a decade of experience in across education, technology, and social impact organizations, Oakland native Lajuanda M. Asemota has proudly worked with thousands of global entrepreneurs and executives to fuel innovation at the intersection of technology and social impact.
Rohini Bhalla
Rohini is the founder of One World Dialogue (OWD), a non-profit transforming how communities come together to solve social issues. OWD is building a culture of peace through art, design and education. She is a strategy consultant, passionate about how business and tech build positive impact.
Tabitha Bonilla
Tabitha Bonilla is a professor at the Institute for Policy Research. She examines the impact of rhetoric on voter support of candidates and public policies. She is particularly interested in finding ways of using rhetoric to bridge divides between polarized communities.
Julia Bossmann
Julia Bossmann is the president of Foresight Institute, a leading non-profit for breakthrough technologies. She speaks on Artificial Intelligence, innovation, the future, and how technology transforms society. Julia serves on the Global Future Council at the World Economic Forum.
Emma Brooks
Emma is a community builder. As Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Camp Reset (a summer camp and digital detox for adults), Emma is focused on creating a movement for play and wellness. Previously, she was extensively involved in establishing and growing TEDxToronto to be one of Canada’s top TEDx events.
Taylor Buonocore
Taylor is a problem solver and partnership builder. Passionate about leadership and talent, she builds small teams that are designed to catalyze big change. Taylor has worked with private and public sector organizations in the US, Africa and Asia. She currently leads the work of Born Free Africa.
Kailey Cartwright
Passionate about social and economic justice for young adults, Kailey has served at Year Up for over 8 years. Currently serving as the Director of Staff Learning, Kailey is leading the development and implementation of onboarding training for over 500 new staff members to the growing organization.
Kate Cincotta
Kate is passionate about finding simple solutions to complex global problems. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Saha Global, a non-profit that provides affordable clean water to the poorest of the poor.
Stephanie Cox
Stephanie is an Anthropologist, who is passionate about creating spaces that positively impact the humans entering it. Initiating one of the first job fairs for refugees in Europe lead hear to start her organisation 'Tawila', which has the mission to kickstart refugee integration across Europe.
Sarah Endres
Sarah is a Program Coordinator at Global Health Corps, a nonprofit building the next generation of leaders for health equity. Previously, she trained and supported student leaders as a Program Director at GlobeMed. Sarah gets excited about design thinking and leadership as a tool for social justice.
Agustina Fainguersch
Agustina is a tech entrepreneur. She attended the GSP at Singularity University in NASA where she founded Muzi:remote health diagnostics for developing countries.Partner and the US Managing director at Wolox, she co-founded BA Tech,Code for BA and is currently working on an impact startup accerator.
Noa Gafni
Noa Gafni Slaney is the Founder and CEO of Impact Squared, which works with social causes to elevate their message, motivate people to act and evaluate their impact.
Jessica Galeria
Jessica Galeria is Director of Strategic Development at TechSoup, a nonprofit social enterprise that builds global social sector capacity. Jessica is a career nonprofit professional with an MBA from UC Berkeley and a strong desire to make social benefit organizations more efficient and effective.
Meg Gray
As the Director of Portfolio Operations at Kiva, Meg is focused on increasing efficiency to facilitate sustainable growth. Through a mix of process development, product management and testing new ideas, she loves making things work better, especially when alleviating poverty is the goal.
Alice Grindhammer
Alice has traveled to the fringes of Global Markets and implemented Waste Management processes in extreme environments. In Agora Rollberg Alice is engaged in developing an interdisciplinary space around circular practices, as a prototype for a regenerative lifestyle.
Ellen Halle
Ellen works for the World Bank's Trade & Competitiveness Group in Nairobi, where she is focused on private sector development. Passionate about the power of business to engender change, she previously worked across Africa with I-DEV International and with healthcare fund Oxeon Partners in the US.
Khadija Hamouchi
Khadija is the CEO and Founder of SEJAAL, a mobile application that connects young people to learning resources in the Middle East and North Africa to become leaders of their own life. She aims to become a one-stop shop for education for youth.
Andrea Herrera Moreno
Having grown up internationally, Andrea is a world citizen. After 7 years in the US working in community & youth development, she will start 2017 in Beijing. Andrea is creating community spaces that promote self-driven learning, civic engagement, & youth leadership for a stronger global community.
Laura Husak
Laura works to cultivate sustainable food systems in Canada and internationally. As a program management officer at the International Development Research Centre, she implements a fund that invests in research-based innovations to improve the food security of smallholder farmers in the Global South.
Zahra Kassam
Zahra is Founder & CEO of Monti Kids, a start-up that helps parents maximize their child’s potential from birth to age 3. Monti Kids is designed to reach families at all income levels through its donation program. She has been nominated for the 2016 Dalai Lama Unsung Heroes of Compassion Awards.
YeSeul Kim
YeSeul Kim is many things, but at her core, she is a social entrepreneur. She founded the MIT Leadership Training Institute in order to activate a pay it forward movement. She is currently working on publishing her first book (focusing on the intersection of business and love) and working on other storytelling projects.
Katrina Klett
Katrina Klett is a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Science, in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Division. In addition, she is the co-founder of Elevated Honey Co, a social enterprise helping beekeepers and elevating consumer safety through a healthy supply chain.
Ariele Le Grand
Ariele is a community based psychotherapist and a Senior Program Manager with the Policing Project at NYU Law School, where she leads community engagement efforts. She previously developed programs around mental health and opioid abuse prevention with the Clinton Foundation.
Rachel Lewis
Rachel is a Portfolio Manager at Kiva based in Nairobi, Kenya working across eight African countries. She is passionate about using flexible social capital to support and unlock potential for the next generation of African entrepreneurs who are making a difference in their communities and beyond
Beth Lyons
Beth Lyons is the executive director of the New Brunswick Women's Council, an independent public advisory body on women's equality on Canada's East Coast. She is also a member of YWCA Canada's Board of Directors.
Diana Madson
Diana Madson is Founder and Executive Director of the Mountain Pact, which mobilizes mountain communities across the American West on federal policy issues related to climate change and public lands. She also directs the Sierra Climate Adaptation & Mitigation Partnership at Sierra Business Council.
Erina McWilliam-Lopez
Erina is the Social Impact Programs Director at the Middlebury Institute's Center for Social Impact Learning where she oversees learning and talent development in order to connect social enterprises and impact funds around the world with purposed-driven professionals.
Katja Mlinar
As a human rights lawyer Katja worked in Asia,Africa,Europe advocating/lobbying for stronger rights and recognition of minority populations. Katja co-founded UrbanLab, a nonprofit working in low-income urban areas towards sustainable communities that are empowered, inclusive, healthy and equitable.
Madeleine Moore
I’m a public health professional-turned-marketer-turned-design strategist. I help organizations use design thinking to build better products, services and programs and guide them on how to incorporate it into their everyday work. I believe a user-centered approach is the best way to drive desired customer behaviors.
Karla Mora
Karla is a passionate development economist dedicated to reforming production practices and supporting livelihoods through quality job creation and access to capital. As the Founder and Managing Partner of Alante Capital, she invests in the sustainable and ethical production of apparel and textiles.
Katharine Mullock
Katharine is a labour economist at the OECD in Paris where she engages with policy makers around the world to improve the matching of skills and jobs.
Lauren Murphy
Lauren is an international development and gender finance specialist with experience in SME banking, microfinance, women’s entrepreneurship, and the private sector in Latin American and the Caribbean. She’s currently an Investment Officer at the Inter-American Investment Corporation.
Carolyn Nash
Carolyn Nash is the founder of the Myanmar Center for Civic Leadership. She designs and oversees programs on peacebuilding, inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue, and youth empowerment. She has worked previously on political and social development projects in Indonesia, East Timor, Kenya, and Uganda
Shannen O'Brian
Shannen O'Brian is the Founder and Executive Director of Create Change Foundation, a non-profit that eduates and trains girls and youth to lead of sustainable model of change that is creating equality and prosperity for marginalized youth in the developing world.
Mary Phillips
Mary Phillips is an Associate Program Manager at Population Services International. Phillips was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent a year researching “safe spaces” for adolescent girls. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Hamilton College.
Chaya Pomeranz
Chaya is a CEO of ARINGO, an educational consulting company and is a Global Shaper and Rotary member. Chaya previously served as Chairperson of the World Union of Jewish Students, founded several non-profits focusing on youth development and works globally to empower women and youth.
Amelia Reese
As Executive Director at City Seed, Amelia provides leadership and innovative direction to run dynamic, community-based food justice programming. She draws upon her background in public health and food security work with refugee and immigrant populations, and experience in implementation research.
Rachel Reichenbach
Rachel is a director at Arabella Advisors, where she advises foundations on strategy development, evaluation, and project implementation. She is passionate about social justice and human rights and works with her clients to address these challenges around the world.
Ruthie Rosenberg
Ruthie develops aspirational sanitation products and services for residents of urban slums at Sanergy, a social enterprise in Nairobi, Kenya. She is passionate about harnessing the value of human waste instead of flushing it away, and is quite fond of a good toilet pun.
Lorenn Ruster
Lorenn Ruster is passionate about the intersection of moral leadership, exponential technology and the role of corporations in creating social impact through cross-sector collaboration. She is an Acumen Global Fellow who worked in solar energy in Uganda and an alumnus of Singularity University.
Jenny Schechter
Jenny Schechter is Co-Founder and CEO of Hope Through Health, which is reimagining the way primary healthcare is delivered in Togo, West Africa. Jenny is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow with the Mulago Foundation and recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service.
Aisha Sheikh
Aisha is a strategy consultant at Stanford, and design teacher at Nueva School in Silicon Valley. Using innovation strategies like design thinking for problems like climate change, she trains corporates and students. Aisha has also worked in social impact design in Toronto, Nairobi, Amman and London.
Caroline Sutcliffe
Caroline is the Founder and Executive Director of Chai Khana, an NGO working to promote confidence-building and support innovative media development across three conflict zones in the South Caucasus. She is passionate about civic activism, feminism and social entrepreneurship.
Kendra Thorogood
Kendra believes in providing equal access to opportunity for all. As the Portfolio Manager for Europe & Central Asia at Kiva, she supports organizations located in 11 countries to leverage crowdfunding to better serve those most in need. She currently calls Istanbul home.
Ashley Tillman
Ashley’s committed to tackling challenges of equity and cultivating diverse communities by applying interdisciplinary, data-driven social science research and community-based solutions. She honed her skills while working at Stanford, OpenIDEO and the University of Colorado Entrepreneurship Center.
Nadia Tonova
Nadia serves as Director of the National Network for Arab American Communities, a project of ACCESS that brings together 24 Arab American nonprofits in 12 states. She’s a nonprofit leader, activist, community and movement builder, wife and mom who is passionate about racial and social justice.
Rachel Wald
Rachel Wald leads GLG’s Social Impact Fellowship. She previously was Metrics Manager at Grassroots Business Fund, and on the founding team of The Mission Continues. She graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Duke. In her spare time, Rachel sees as much theater as her wallet will allow.
Coaching Fellows — Summer 2016
Komal Ahmad
Komal is the founder and CEO of COPIA, a company that has recovered over 820,000 pounds of food, and is on its way to feeding 1 million people. Komal was recently chosen by Toyota as Toyota’s Mother of Invention for her efforts in solving what she believes to be the world’s dumbest problem: hunger.
Alina Akhyar
As a ‘Public Health Specialist/Expert’ have accumulated professionally rich & strategically sound experience in different thematic areas, specializing in Health System Strengthening (HSS), EPI interventions, Maternal and Child Healthcare (MnCH), Nutrition, Family Planning & Reproductive Health.
Simone Alexander
Simone Alexander loves community building and is the founder of Oleada where she’s exploring the world of cross-cultural physical spaces and the creation of engaged, multidisciplinary communities. Her previous role at TED nurtured her love for global multidisciplinary community building.
Kari Bancroft
Kari is the Lead Instructor at Ada Developers Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented skilled software developers in tech. She is also on the Board of Directors for RailsBridge. She is very passionate about increasing diversity in the technology industry through.
Amy Benziger
Amy Benziger is CMO for Parsley Health. Previously, Amy served as the Managing Director of Lovesocial, a social impact agency, and Producer of the Social Capital Markets Conference. Amy is a proud board member of The International Crisis Group and National Public Radio.
Katie Crank
Katie is a lawyer and social worker who seeks to improve justice system responses to both victims and defendants through her work at the Center for Court Innovation. She is also the co-founder of PupJournal, a media company that promotes the wellbeing of dogs and the humans who love them.
Elizabeth Davidson
Elizabeth is a Portfolio Manager at Kiva based in Nairobi, Kenya and working across nine African countries. She strives to support the next generation of African leaders and entrepreneurs who are making a difference in their communities and beyond.
Rebecca DeLaRosa
A passionate advocate for health justice and policy guru, Rebecca has lead effective campaigns on access to clean drinking water, driver licenses for immigrants, farmworker rights, and sugary beverage fees in the state of California. Rebecca speaks Spanish and Mandarin and enjoys playing soccer.
A. Dara Dotz
Dara, a pioneer in the field of additive manufacturing, is Design Lead and Co-founder of Field Ready, a nonprofit manufacturing humanitarian supplies as needed, where needed post-disaster. Her focus and passion are on supporting those living in the extremes, from outer space to the edge of disaster.
Ashley Emerson
Passionate about public health, Ashley has spent her career focused on international and national projects addressing the sustainable access to healthcare and education. Through partnership-based solutions, she works to find connections between need, resources, and creative solutions!
Victoria Fram
Victoria Fram is the Managing Director and co-founder of VilCap Investments, an investment fund focused on early-stage companies solving social and environmental problems around the world. She previously worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Metropolitan, a private equity fund of funds.
Evelyn Gomez
Evelyn is a STEM educator that is passionate about bringing hands-on STEM experiences to underserved communities. As DIY Girls’ Director of Programs, Evelyn is responsible for the program success ensuring seamless team management and development, program delivery, and quality control and evaluation.
Sophia Hage
Sophia is a sports medicine doctor who is passionate about health promotion and social impact. She is currently a Medical Director and also a practicing doctor at Royal Sports Performance Centre, a clinic that helps people, including athletes, achieve their healthy lifestyle goals and start their journey to better health.
Jamila Headley
Jamila is the Managing Director of Health GAP, an org that campaigns to ensure people living with HIV worldwide have access to treatment. Nonprofit leader, policy wonk, activist, she is passionate about building people power for health justice. She is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in Public Health.
Laurin Hodge
Laurin often says she did not pick prison; prison picked her. It was the unexpected incarceration of her mother, which motivated her to craft a social entrepreneurial career as a millennial woman of color. She oversees the day-to-day development of the organization and serves as the vision keeper.
Sara Johnson
Sara is passionate about supporting social entrepreneurs who will change the world. In 2016, Sara joined Zasaka – a for-profit social enterprise increasing income for smallholder farmers in Zambia. Prior to Zasaka, Sara Johnson managed the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program at the Mulago Foundation.
Anna Kim
Anna Kim leads advocacy and communications for health at the International Rescue Committee. She works to influence policies and practices to improve the health outcomes of populations affected by humanitarian crisis. She serves on the board of SAFER, Students Active For Ending Rape.
Romy Kraemer
Romy is the Managing Director of the Guerrilla Foundation. Previously, she developed and was the Director of the DO School’s social entrepreneurship education program. She will defend her PhD on transnational anti-mining activism this year and also teaches Business Ethics and CSR.
Christine Lai
Christine Lai is a cross-sector collaboration catalyst, connecting ideas, individuals, and organizations for positive social change. She is invested in creating access to opportunity at massive scale, and inspired and invigorated by communities and bringing people together to do epic things.
Tina Lee
Tina is at the intersection between technology and social impact. Tina develops new public-private partnership opportunities at NetHope to support technology programs in the NGO humanitarian community. At GPF, Tina worked with philanthropists to advance international giving and social investing.
Viktoriia Liezina
Head of 1+1 Production, TV Producer. Creating TV content, that positively changes people’s imagination of the world. Motto – together everyone achieves more. Aim is to create a platform to connect women from the former Soviet territories, to give them instruments for self-confidence and leadership.
Emily Lutyens
Emily is a British-Japanese TCK who has lived and worked in 8 countries, is deeply committed to social impact and is currently building and running LegWorks, a social enterprise that aims to revolutionise access to high-quality prosthetics for amputees around the world.
Jess Mack
Jess is a passionate advocate for gender equity. She’s worked as a researcher, consultant, & writer on issues of reproductive rights worldwide. She currently leads advocacy & communications for Global Health Corps, a global community of emerging leaders building the movement for health equity.
Nikita Maheshwari
Nikita is the Founder of Move Up, a nonprofit which empowers hundreds of under-served women to start small businesses and find employment. She is passionate about combining technology and grassroots mentoring to connect women with companies looking for talent. PM at Nutanix, McKinsey & Cal Alum.
Nicole Manapol
Nicole is a social impact consultant who has dedicated her career to empowering organizations and individuals to enact transformational change. With experience working across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, what she loves most about her work is seeing human potential realized.
Stephanie Marienau Turpin
Stephanie Marienau Turpin is a leader in connecting the non-profit sector and the impact investing movement. She is now Managing Director of Pact Ventures’ work scaling high-potential, early-stage impact enterprises in emerging markets.
Dawn McDougall
Dawn is a civic tech/open gov professional passionate about building community in Philadelphia. She is the executive director of the emerging nonprofit, Code for Philly using tech and data as a mode of civic engagement. Her work promotes the role of civic innovation in transforming urban systems.
Karen Mok
Karen is a global product and community builder with a vision to increase access to economic opportunity through technology. She currently works on expanding online infrastructure globally at Stripe; prior to this she co-founded a social enterprise building mobile applications for illiterate women.
Katy Moonan
Katy Moonan is passionate about community-led development and the arts. She is the Founder and Director of ArteSana (prev. Tejo Holyoke), a social enterprise increasing economic, educational, and creative opportunities for women in Holyoke, MA. She is a strong believer in chocolate on the daily.
Anna Moran
Anna is the Co-founder of SocialStarters, an international volunteer programme matching skilled professionals with social entrepreneurs who need support. They currently run their 6 week Immersion Programmes in India, Sri Lanka and Brazil.
Victoria Morozov
Victoria is the Founder & Chairperson of ‘The Moldova Project’ Charity. She works with Europe’s most vulnerable families, supporting them to find long-term solutions so that they can have happier, safer and more independent lives.
Jana Nelson
Jana is the Government Relations and Corporate Responsibility Director for Latin America for Bacardi. She was born and raised in the Brazilian Amazon, served as a U.S. diplomat for many years, and in her spare time has 2 social entrepreneurship projects: The Orange Book and USMexico Young Leaders.
Nupur Nischal
Nupur Nischal is a Physician, Digital Health Innovator, and Design Enthusiast. She is passionate about creatin engaging interventions for patients that encourage them to adopt healthy behaviors. She is a Clinical Fellow in Healthcare & Patient Experience Innovation at Thomas Jefferson University.
Chloe Safier
Chloe Safier is a gender justice & global development consultant who has worked with FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, Oxfam, and UN Women. She specializes in strengthening gender equality through innovative program design, advocacy, coordinating partnerships, research & supporting feminist activism.
Tamira Samuel
A former Glamour Magazine’s Top 22 College Women in America in 2005 and 2004 USA Today’s Academic College Team Honoree, Tamira serves as the Houston Independent School District’s New Teacher Support Manager in the Office of School Leadership and is the Founder of Voices Collective Network.
Anna Schneider
Anna is co-founder and CTO of WattTime, a cleantech nonprofit that connects people and smart devices to cleaner electricity. Her passion for climate solutions has led to a Echoing Green Climate Fellowship, Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy, and a PhD from UC Berkeley.
Claudia Sosa Lazo
Claudia is an MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management, who’s passionate about human-centered design, business strategy, and environmental sustainability. Previously, she led product design projects to create affordable agricultural equipment for Myanmar farmers at Proximity Designs.
Karin Underwood
Karin is the Kenya Health Program Manager at One Acre Fund, an award-winning social enterprise serving smallholder farmers. She manages a portfolio of health work, which has including testing and scaling up the sale of health products like reusable sanitary pads to over 200,000 farmers in Kenya.
Jessica Yurasek
Jessica is a Social Strategy Manager at Praytell Agency where she primarily leads creative strategy and community management for Twitter @video. Previously she managed communications for the nonprofit Amazon Watch, and launched two nonprofits that promote truth through journalism and storytelling.
flora awiti
I am a Counseling Psychologist in HIAS Refugee Trust Kenya, an NGO that deals with urban refugees. As a Psychologist I strive to make a positive impact in the life of refugees through the restoration of hope. To me one of the greatest successes in life is the impact you leave on an individual life.
Coaching Fellows — Spring 2016
Hala Al Khalifa
Passionate about the power of education, Hala is a project manager at the Bahrain Ministry of Education by day and non-profit activist by night. She is a member of the WEF Global Shapers Community and the founder of Wish Youth Service program, a mentoring program targeting disadvantaged youth.
Zara Basharat
I am passionate about bringing about behavioural/perception change by leveraging the network and outreach of media in Pakistan. I am currently the communications lead for Raftaar – a nationwide media campaign that aims to push for reforms in the areas of taxation and energy.
Meredith Bates
Meredith Bates is the Chief Impact Officer at the New Forests Company, maximizing the social, economic and environmental impacts of their sustainable forestry operations throughout rural East Africa. She loves creating shared value business models that are scalable and transformative.
Tamya Bustamante
From a mixed British & Bolivian heritage, Tamya works as a coach/programme manager in a criminal justice charity. She supports ex-offenders into work and to sustain work. She is passionate about women’s rights & empowering marginalised communities through creative personal development.
Mashall Chaudhri
Mashall runs Reading Room Project (RRP), which builds vibrant community learning environments for Pakistani students. RRP teaches them intensive English, Digital Literacy and how to self-learn. She believes learning is a joy and thinks every human on the planet should have the chance to be literate.
Patricia Chin-Sweeney
Patricia is Co-Founder of I-DEV, a global strategy & investment advisory firm focused on frontier markets business growth. Patricia led I-DEV’s expansion into Africa and oversees global strategy consulting for SMEs and the NGOs/investors that support them. She has an MBA from NYU Stern.
Elaine Chou
Elaine is a Principal at Omidyar Network, where she evaluates investment opportunities in high-impact social entrepreneurs. Elaine previously worked in microfinance in China, and in M&A investment banking. She holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from NYU.
Courtney Cooper
Courtney has spent a decade working in public service, primarily on foreign policy and national security issues in Latin America and South Asia. She currently serves as the Director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff at the White House.
Renee DiResta
Renee DiResta is part of the founding team at Haven, the automated freight procurement platform. She’s an angel investor in IoT & HW startups, co-author of the book, 'The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand' and a data-driven policy advocate for immunization.
Sonya Fierst
Sonya manages the SF Bay Area branch of Grameen America, a micro-finance institution that provides affordable capital to low income women starting businesses. Her branch has disbursed over $25 million to 3,500 entrepreneurs throughout the Bay Area and maintains less than 1% portfolio at risk.
Aria Finger
Aria is CEO of DoSomething.org, the largest org for young people and social change in the world. She uses her expertise on all things youth + tech to lead a diverse team that activates millions of young people to make a difference. NYU Adjunct. YGL. Founder TMI Agency. Proud mom.
Jennifer Foth
Jennifer is a Senior Associate for Immunization Strategic Planning & Execution with the Global Vaccine Delivery team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Jennifer’s work focuses on strengthening the performance of national immunization programs in Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda.
Dana Frasz
Dana is a visionary and determined systems thinker, innovator, and leader in the sustainable food movement. With a passion to reduce waste and hunger, Dana launched Food Shift in 2012 to develop new models that strengthen food recovery infrastructure, provide jobs, and improve access to nutrition.
Kyla Fullenwider
Kyla Fullenwider is an entrepreneur, educator, and social designer and faculty at the School of Visual Arts and at Johns Hopkins/ Maryland Institute College of Art where she teaches social design and entrepreneurship. She is currently serving as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow.
Rebecca Furst-Nichols
Rebecca is passionate about women and girls’ empowerment and transforming harmful gender norms. At the UN Foundation she has helped to build Data2X, a global program on improving gender data so that statistics accurately reflect women and girls’ lives.
Salome Heusel
Salome Heusel is the Deputy Director of the TEDx Program at TED Conferences, LLC (www.ted.com) where she directs program strategy and manages all aspects of the TEDx department. Her main interest lies in brand and community building, a passion she pursues at her work every day.
Gwen Hopkins
Gwen is Chief of Staff at Global Health Corps, a nonprofit building the next generation of leaders for health equity. Previously, she managed a network of community clinics in Los Angeles and led a reproductive health initiative at the Aspen Institute. Gwen is passionate about social sector talent.
Ashley Jablow
Ashley Jablow is a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow working on tech innovation projects in the federal government. Previously she led challenge strategy and client relationships for OpenIDEO at IDEO. She’s excited about designing for collaboration, empathy and impact.
Leticia Jáuregui
Born and raised in Mexico City, Leticia has presented her work on remittances, women’s entrepreneurship, women’s economic empowerment and gender equality at the Wharton School of Business, the OAS, the OECD and the WEF Davos Annual Meeting, amongst others. In 2008, Leticia founded Crea.
Zeba Khan
Zeba Khan is a writer and social commentator focused on Islam, and more generally, race, religion and politics in the U.S. She’s written for numerous outlets including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNN, and The Root.
Katherine Krug
Katherine focuses her energy on helping people reach their potential. Most recently, Katherine became the first solo woman to break the $1M mark on Kickstarter and secured five offers for investment on Shark Tank for BetterBack: a posture strap that allows you to effortlessly sit in perfect posture.
Natalie Langsdorf
Natalie is the Program Director at Girls on the Run of the Bay Area, a nonprofit that builds confidence in girls through a curriculum-based running program. She is passionate about improving processes and engaging people in building healthy communities.
Sasha Laundy
Sasha is a founding data scientist at Polynumeral, helping organizations like NASA and WNYC do cool stuff with their data. She was previously an early employee at Codecademy, and before working in tech, taught physics and neuroscience. She founded Women Who Code and is an alum of the Recurse Center.
Maria Lynne Dayton
Maria is the CXO and Co-founder of Transterra Media – an innovative online marketplace that is changing the way companies source news and marketing video. She has a proven track record of creating impactful projects and disruptive technology solutions to entrepreneurs and civil society groups.
Meghan Mahoney
Meghan is a monitoring and evaluation professional committed to improving social programs by measuring effectiveness and distilling lessons for strategic implementation. Currently a Policy Manager at J-PAL, she works to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by rigorous evidence.
Neha Misra
Neha Misra is the Co-Founder & Chief Collaboration Officer of Solar Sister, an award winning social enterprise empowering African women with their own clean energy businesses to bring light, hope and opportunity to over 400,000 people so far. In 2015, Neha climbed the highest mountain in Africa.
Jasmine Mora
Jasmine spearheads communications efforts for Members of Congress in Washington, DC. As Communications Director, she finds creative ways to inform and engage Americans in the political process. Jasmine has over 6 years of work experience in government, politics, and education.
Sterling Morriss
Sterling Morriss is Senior Manager of Fellowships at Equal Justice Works, where she both manages and raises the funds for the largest postgraduate public interest legal fellowship program in the country. She also serves on the Board of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless in DC.
Heddy Nam
Heddy is a seasoned organizer & social justice advocate who is a native of Seoul, grew up in NYC, and resides in LA. She serves as Director of the South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z), an inter-sectoral collaborative working to move South LA residents to economic opportunity.
Maria Omulubi
Maria is passionate about agricultural development and education. She is currently a Program Manager at One Acre Fund, where she manages a team of 1,300 across rural western Kenya to provide farmers with quality agricultural inputs and training.
Mercy Owuor
I am the Community Programs Director at Lwala Community Alliance, a health and development organization in Western Kenya. I am a community health and development specialist passionate about community-led development as a means to improving the well-being of local communities.
Liana Paris
Liana Paris has nine years of experience in social impact consulting and humanitarian aid operations in Jordan, Iraq, Brazil and the U.S. She is passionate about building strategy, systems and teams for organizations that do good in the world.
Heather Payne
CEO of HackerYou & Founder of Ladies Learning Code. Angel Investor. One of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.
Sabeen Perwaiz
Sabeen is the Executive Director of Florida Nonprofit Alliance, the collective voice for nonprofits in Florida. She is a former Aspen Ideas Fellow and Executive Producer of TEDxJacksonville. An avid traveller, she has visited 35 countries and hopes to visit 100 in her lifetime.
Karolle Rabarison
Karolle has experience in communications and partnerships for social impact. She leads communications strategy for the Online News Association, working to connect digital journalists to professional development opportunities. Her interests include technology, media, culture, gender and human rights.
Maggie Raible
As Recruitment Manager for the KIPP network of college-prep public charter schools, Maggie helps identify, prepare and select leaders to found high-performing schools across the nation. She is passionate about increasing educational equity and also worked at Teach For All and DC Public Schools.
Jackie Rotman
Jackie Rotman is Executive Director of Spark, the largest network of Millennial donors for gender equality. Previously, Jackie founded and nationally expanded Everybody Dance Now! to positively transform the lives of at-risk youth through dance. Jackie obtained her BA in Public Policy from Stanford.
Melissa Sariffodeen
Melissa is a Co-Founder of Ladies Learning Code. She’s a fierce advocate for providing women and youth the critical skills, confidence and opportunities they need to become passionate builders – not just consumers of technology and to thrive in our increasingly digital world.
Jen Scott
Jen Scott is the founder of Rise, a collaborative funding and thought leadership platform that supports women and their enterprises in emerging markets. A passionate champion for women’s economic empowerment, Jen’s vision is to create environments that invest in women to lead, succeed and thrive.
Shiza Shahid
Shiza Shahid is a social entrepreneur, television personality, speaker and women’s rights advocate. Shiza co-founded the Malala Fund. She is passionate about leveraging philanthropy, venture capital, technology and the media to drive scalable social impact and women’s empowerment.
Samantha Stein
Samantha is the Founder & CEO of Hacktivision, a crowd-source impact innovation accelerator. Hacktivision brings together technologists, industry experts, & end-users to help corporations innovate around the sustainable development goals.
Emerita Torres
Emerita Torres is passionate about health, public policy and good governance. With nearly a decade of public sector experience, Emerita is in the process of establishing her own social enterprise aimed at increasing low-income communities’ access to quality food, health education, and fitness.
Sara Usinger
Sara is currently co-running Avatech, one of Irans first startup Accelerators running a six month program to support iranian entrepreneurs. Her passion for entrepreneurship roots in the question how entrepreneurship can help to solve some of the worlds biggest challenges.
Marisa Viana Da Silva
Marisa is currently the Executive coordinator of RESURJ. She is from the Brazilian Amazon and has been a social justice advocate since the age of 18. She has led young feminist organizing at the global, regional, and national levels. Marisa is a Master in Public Health from Columbia University
Shruthi Vijayakumar
Shruthi is passionate about developing young people and rethinking how we do business to create a thriving, sustainable, and peaceful future. She is the Learning & Development Manager at Inspiring Stories, supporting young social entrepreneurs across NZ, and a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum.
Claire Walsh
Claire Walsh is a Policy Manager at J-PAL at MIT where she works with policymakers to ensure that poverty reduction programs are informed by scientific evidence. She previously worked for NGOs working to improve the quality of education and employment opportunities for youth in East Africa.
Katherine Williams
Katherine works with Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative, partnering with governments in Africa and Asia to design and scale up school-based deworming programs. She is a runner, an optimist, a Global Health Corps alumna, and has Masters degrees in social work and public health.
Coaching Fellows — Fall/Winter 2015
Mara Abrams
Mara is the Co-Founder of The Flow Collective, a co-working space and tech school focused on mindfulness and diversity. Previously she served as Global Partnerships Manager for the Nike Foundation, as well as led an organization teaching journalism to citizens in conflict / underreported regions.
Hallie Applebaum
Hallie Applebaum is an Open Innovation Specialist at the World Bank in DC. She works globally with entrepreneurs and governments to use technology, art, open innovation, and design thinking to develop tools and policy that modernize government and enable economic development.
Alex Berke
I help New Yorkers with chronic illnesses navigate the health insurance system as a health care lawyer. I am interested in improving the health care system for the people who use it.
Julia Chou
Julia Chou is the President and co-founder of Binti, which helps find a loving family for every child through making adoptions easier and more affordable. Julia previously worked at Google and YouTube, helping to bring mobile technologies to emerging markets.
Nelly Corbel
She dreams of a citizen driven world where solidarity rhymes with growth. She has served in a number of leadership positions, co-founded the Lazord Foundation and chaired a series of collective decision-making conferences for recommendation formulation in the Euro-Med region around civic education.
Jennie Cox Bell
Jennie works to increase opportunity and access to higher education for all students. Currently, she is National Director of Partnerships for College Advising Corps, a nonprofit that increases the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing college.
Jessica Fleuti
Jessica has spent a decade in the nonprofit sector developing high-impact programs for students, corporate leaders, and policymakers. She currently curates the Skoll World Forum’?an international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Ann-Elise Francis
I am passionate about entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment. As VP of Mentorship & Partnership of Unreasonable East Africa, I get the best resources to help social entrepreneurs unlock their business potential. I sit on junior boards of several nonprofits focusing on women and youth empowerment.
Andrea Gamson
Co-founder of SocialStarters, a one yr old start-up that creates the spaces & opportunities to ignite the social changer in you. _SocialStarters currently match global skilled professionals seeking a more meaningful career, with social entrepreneurs in developing countries who need their support.
Rebecca Harper
Rebecca is developing a 50MW power project using a unique biogas resource in Lake Kivu to fuel Rwanda’s growth. She spent 4 ys launching two companies committed to social impact before transitioning to the power sector. She graduated from Princeton in Astrophysics but remains earth-bound.
Cynthia Hellen
Cynthia Hellen is a Peruvian-American, entrepreneur, writer-producer-director and technologist. She is the Founder and CEO of SMPLCT Lab, a global creative company that takes a human-centered, designed-based approach to help develop sustainable products, services and experiences.
Frederique Irwin
Frederique is the founder of Her Corner, a organization for women business owners committed to growth in their business. Through the use of peer groups, accelerator programs, and role models, Her Corner has helped hundreds of women grow their businesses.
Cher Jacques
Cher Jacques has over 10 years of experience in international development, financial inclusion, impact investing and social entrepreneurship. Cher is the Regional Director for Africa at Kiva, and sits on the board of directors for the African Entrepreneur Collective.
Ruby Johnson
Passionate about young women led change, Ruby is Co-Director of FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, a global fund supporting young women’s leadership in over 60 countries and innovating in philanthropy. Ruby has diverse experience in gender equality and human rights in Cambodia and Mexico & beyond.
Wes Kao
Wes Kao is the director of Seth Godin’s altMBA, a 4-week online workshop for fast-growing companies who want to create change in the world. Alumni are from like Kickstarter, Chobani, Nike, Hubspot, Google, Lululemon. As the general manager, she leads growth strategy, product, and operations.
Corinne Kappeler
Corinne is a passionate advocate for community-centered movements and their power to change the world. She is the Executive Director of Girl Develop It, a national nonprofit that offers affordable, judgment-free software development classes to adult women.
Jennifer Kye
Jennifer Kye is a legal aid attorney and Borchard Fellow in Law and Aging at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. Her work focuses on increasing low-income seniors’ access to health and disability benefits through direct representation, community education, and policy advocacy.
Tania Laden
Tania moved to Kenya in 2011 and co-founded LivelyHoods with the mission to create jobs for youth and women in slums. As Executive Director, she has grown the organization to 8 branches throughout Nairobi that train sales agents to distribute life-changing products in their own communities.
Brittany Lane
Brittany is Editor of UNREASONABLE.is, working at the intersection of entrepreneurship, storytelling and social change. Previously, she worked for Soccer Without Borders and led trips with Nat Geo Student Expeditions. She is especially passionate about increasing economic opportunities for women.
Eugenia Lee
Eugenia is passionate about anthropology, community, and culture. She consults on impact and international development. A global adventurer, she’s worked on three continents, with a focus on East Africa. Eugenia has written for The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and Public Radio International.
Julie Legault
Anytime science advances faster than our ability to understand it, it can produce fear, suspicion, and uncertainty. Using her extensive design background, Julie Legault works to translate these complex advancements into relatable, playful experiences that can help shift cultural acceptance.
Theresa Leigh
Theresa is an entrepreneur and neuroengineer, focusing on dynamic networks, deep learning, predictive modeling, and A.I. ethics. She currently serves on Working Groups at Harvard University, advising stakeholders on exponential technologies, innovation, and digital privacy. Singularity GSP alumna.
Sharlene Leurig
I am a writer and advocate working to illuminate sustainable pathways for future water security. I direct the program to shift global water infrastructure at the national nonprofit Ceres, and in my free time I’m immersed in the politics of water in Central Texas, where I live.
Tamara Manik-Perlman
Tamara is the co-founder and CEO of NextRequest, a web platform that streamlines public records requests. A 2013 Code for America Fellow, she is committed using design thinking to build cities, governments, and technologies that are equitable and delightful.
Wendy Martinez
With ten years’ experience in international development, Wendy is passionate about empowering others to rise above poverty. An entrepreneur at heart, she is in the processing of establishing her own socially responsible business to provide women in poor communities income generating opportunities.
Pálína Björk Matthíasdóttir
Pálína is an advisor with the Icelandic Foreign Service, focusing on international development finance. She transitioned from the private to the public sector after realizing that following her passion for human rights and poverty alleviation was more important than a well-paid career in finance.
Jourdan McGinn
Jourdan is the Kenya Program Manager for One Acre Fund, an award-winning social enterprise serving over 300,000 small-holder farmers across Africa. Jourdan leads 1AF’s marketing, business expansion and operations, seeking to support more farmers as they grow themselves out of poverty.
Kellea Miller
Kellea Miller is a global women’s rights consultant and researcher. She specializes in transforming funding and data into powerful social justice resources. She works with leading funders, including Global Fund for Women, UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, and Astraea Foundation.
Jessica Minhas
Jessica Minhas is a writer, media commentator, and the Founder and CEO of I’ll Go First – a nonprofit organization dedicated to leveraging advances in healthcare technology in order to make mental health care accessible to marginalized trauma populations throughout the developing world.
Rosalinda Natividad
Rosey is Founder of Incite, an enterprise that has helped secure $100M for organizations, nationally. She is active in student venture, anti-human trafficking, & economic development efforts along the U.S./Mexico border. Impatient with the state of the world, Rosey desires a better tomorrow, today.
Megan Nesbeth
Megan is the Program Manager for General Assembly (GA)’s Opportunity Fund. She is a StartingBloc fellow and previously worked for Middlebury College and the American School of Tangier. Amongst other things she is interested in design, urban planning, organizational development, and travel.
Afua Osei
Afua Osei is a Co-Founder of She Leads Africa, a community that provides smart young African women with tools and opportunities to build successful careers and businesses. She previously worked at the White House and EMILY‘s List and graduated from Allegheny College and the University of Chicago.
Becky Palmstrom
Multi-platform journalist, trainer and production manager. Specialist on humanitarian and development contexts and a focus on Myanmar/Burma. Her work has appeared on National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition, BBC Radio 4/World service’s Crossing Continents, From Our Own Correspondent and PRI.
Cecilia Paradi-Guilford
Cecilia develops programs at the intersection of technology and sustainable development. Her goal is to help equip youth to participate in the 21st century economy as empowered actors, creative problem solvers, and drivers of bottom-up innovation for resource efficiency and resilience.
Darya Pilram
I’m an anthropologist teaching critical thinking and red-teams for the DoD. I’ve conducted extensive global fieldwork with projects in Latin America, Kenya and Afghanistan. I’m interested in applying critical thinking and entrepreneurship to contemporary security, diplomacy and global health issues.
Jona Repishti
As the Network coordinator for the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN), Jona Repishti supports a diverse, global network of over 450 innovators working in 50+ countries to design, develop, and disseminate low-cost technologies to improve the lives of people living in poverty.
Sonia Sarkar
Sonia Sarkar is Chief Policy & Engagement Officer at the Baltimore City Health Department. She discovered her passions, public health and social entrepreneurship, as an advocate/staff member at Health Leads, a national nonprofit. Sonia is a Truman Scholar, a WEF Global Shaper, and a published poet.
Sarah Seiter
Sarah Seiter is the Associate Curator of Natural Sciences at the Oakland Museum of California, where she makes exhibits that celebrate the art, history and science of California. She can also be found riding her bike around her adopted city and volunteering for civic tech group Open Oakland.
Shebani Sethi Dalai
As a resident physician and psychiatrist in training at Stanford Health Care, Shebani’s professional work is in the overlap of obesity and psychiatric illness to improve pt care. She is a leading advocate and innovator in mental health as it relates to nutrition and clinical management of obesity.
Rebecca Slaughter
Working to better change the world in many different avenues. Through pictures and fashion I am able to contribute a confidence and empowerment that travels through consumers. I have a passion for mentoring the younger generation to future build into our society as a hole and inspire those in need.
Sanja Sontor
Sanja is a co-founder and CEO of Edu:Manufaktura, a social start-up with aim to bring higher education opportunities closer to the Western Balkan students. Previously, Sanja worked as an analyst and a consultant in the US and Portugal. She holds a Master’s of Public Policy from HSoG.
Alessondra Springmann
Sondy is a planetary astronomer developing the future of space exploration. Presently at the University of Arizona, she spent two years at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico using radar to detect asteroids. She’s worked for NASA and JAXA, and taught in Jerusalem and Accra.
Asya Tabdili
Asya is a social entrepreneur focused on leveraging technology to (re)create systems, institutions and organizations that enhance global collaboration and consciousness. An adventurer at heart, she has explored 40+ countries and has worked within social impact while in Iran, India, France, the USA.
Nomusa Taylor-Dube
Nomusa Taylor-Dube is the managing director and lead consultant at Taylor-Dube Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy & operations consulting for new businesses in East Africa, leveraging mobile & web tools.
Kristy Tillman
Kristy Tillman serves as the Design Director for Society of Grownups, a new venture with a mission to change the face of financial literacy for young adults. There she is dedicated to leading teams responsible for crafting digital, brand and spaces experiences.
Nina Vasan
Dr. Nina Vasan is a Psychiatry Resident at Stanford and co-author of #1 Amazon Best Seller ‘Do Good Well’. A Clinical Advisor at Lyra Health, Nina aims to develop systems, technologies, and policies that optimize mental health for all. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
Tracey Vitchers
Tracey Vitchers is Chief Development Officer at Sexual Health Innovations, a nonprofit dedicated to creating technology that advances sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. She is a leader in the college sexual assault prevention movement and serves as Chair of the Board at SAFER.
Hanan Youssef
Hanan is a tech start-up builder and supporter. She founded Catalyst, an early stage investment and acceleration program supported by A15, in MENA. She focuses on products that improve local access to services, and accelerates their growth through capital, mentor-ship and business development.
Coaching Fellows — Summer 2015
Yomi Abiola
Yomi Abiola is the founder of Stand Up For Fashion (STUFF) a platform that generates creative solutions to social issues within the fashion industry. She is a Model, activist, journalist, and Associate to the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights.
Rasha Abu Safieh
After 9 years of professional career in the ICT sector, currently I am living my dream by being the learning manager & Co-founder of Gaza Gateway, the 1st ICT outsourcing social Enterprise in Palestine. On a personal level, I’ve two adorable daughters, write Arabic poetry and loves classical music.
Suzanne Andrews
Suzanne recently transitioned from market analysis and agriculture technology to a project working on coordinating social welfare services for vulnerable children. She is interested in strengthening coordination between health and social welfare services and the roles and capacity of the workforce.
Aine Campbell
I am a fashion model of mixed Chinese & British heritage. I’m passionate about promoting sustainable fashion through my work as a model. My project Beyond the Runway helps models develop new careers outside modeling. I’m on the advisory board of The Model Alliance, a labor group for models.
Lauren Capelin
Working alongside leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and community champions, Lauren has played an instrumental role in growing collaborative consumption into a global economy and movement over the last 5 years. She is passionate about social innovation business models, and is also a yoga teacher.
Felicia Curcuru
Felicia is the co-founder and CEO of Binti. Binti’s mission is to use technology to make adopting a child easier and more affordable for parents. Felicia previously worked at FundersClub and McKinsey. She graduated from the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania.
KJ Erickson
Kjerstin Erickson (KJ) is the founder and CEO of Simbi, an online marketplace for freelancers to cashlessly exchange services. Previously, she founded FORGE (serving 70k African refugees), was a Skoll Scholar at Oxford (MBA, Social Entrepreneurship) and a dropout at Stanford (BA, Public Policy).
Alison Fahey
As a Policy Manager at J-PAL at MIT, Alison works to improve the effectiveness of poverty reduction efforts by ensuring policy is informed by rigorous evidence. She previously worked on programs supporting economic growth and service delivery in Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Jordan.
Ruvani Fonseka
Ruvani Fonseka is passionate about gender equity and health. She is currently a LankaCorps Fellow, working with Women in Need, Sri Lanka’s only organization providing psychological and legal support to survivors of domestic violence, and studying women-headed households across the country.
Alanna Ford
Alanna is Innovator-in-Residence at PSI, an international development organization that provides health products for women in 65 countries. Her professional experience spans 5 continents, and her work has been featured in the Guardian and Huffington Post.
Elana Fox
I am a social entrepreneur and systems builder. I recently transitioned back to the US after several years working abroad to begin work as a co-director of FoodLab Detroit, a network of over 145 good food entrepreneurs committed to growing triple-bottom-line food businesses in Detroit, Michigan.
Felicity Furey
Felicity co-founded Power of Engineering which has inspired over 2,800 year 9 and 10 high school students across Australia about creative and innovative engineering careers. She is a Founder of Machinam which creates alternatives to traditional textbooks and aims to increase diversity in STEM.
Kelly Gallo
By profession, I advise companies on sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues at BSR. With passion, I support women’s empowerment and international development initiatives through volunteer work ranging from teaching in Tanzania to serving as a board member for SparkSF.
Cosima Gretton
Cosima is a doctor, health tech consultant and entrepreneur. She works with Outcomes Based Healthcare on a project using machine learning and smartphone behaviometrics to monitor health outcomes in diabetics. She is the founder of AXNS Collective, creating new ways of engaging the public with science.
Jacky Habib
Jacky Habib is a freelance writer and a fellow at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. She has worked in TV, radio and online media and trained citizen journalists and reporters in Ghana through Journalists for Human Rights.
Bethany Halbreich
Bethany is passionate about unlocking the world’s creative potential. She’s most recently worked with THINK Global School to empower the next generation of leaders through travel and cultural immersion and is now pursuing several exciting passion projects.
Beth Holzman
Beth integrates social & environmental issues into strategy development and execution. At Shift, she helps companies embed human rights into business decisions. Previously, she led Timberland’s efforts to integrate social responsibility, and advised companies on reporting and engagement at Ceres.
Sarah Ireland
I am a Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Adviser and during my career in humanitarian aid have led and supported emergency responses across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. I have a Bachelor of Journalism, a Masters of International Studies and am currently studying a Masters in International Law.
Bibiana Jurado
World citizen, passionate for social change through entrepreneurship, sustainability advocate & music lover. Colombian lawyer, graduate of the Paris School of International Affairs and fellow of LGT Venture Philanthropy.
Tia Kansara
Tia is an award-winning entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. (KH), a partnership with Dr Rod Hackney (Past President Royal Institute of British Architects and Union of International Architects). KH are the first sustainable lifestyle consultancy in the UK.
Nafessa Kassim
Nafessa is the Director of Global Engagements & founding team member at MovingWorlds. Previously Nafessa worked in Indonesia & India on global development projects and has worked in juvenile justice. She holds a dual Master’s in Global Public Health & Social Work focused on Social Entrepreneurship.
Nafeesa Ladha
Nafeesa Ladha is a dedicated and driven professional with over 10 years of experience in health care with a passion for global impact. Her projects have included work in Africa, Canada and the Middle East in community health, capacity building and quality improvement.
Halla Hrund Logadottir
Halla is the Director of Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavik University. She’s an energetic world lover who’s been working for Harvard, the OECD, the Foreign Service in Brussels and farmers in Togo, before moving back to Reykjavik. In her spare time, hiking and dancing are her favorite activities!
Emma Mayerson
Emma Mayerson is the founding Director of Alliance for Girls, a membership association of 90 organizations and individuals serving more than 216,000 girls in 5 Bay Area counties. Ms. Mayerson is an experienced organizer and advocate for women and girls.
Katalina Mayorga
Katalina is the co-founder and CEO of El Camino Travel. El Camino curates off-beat experiences for groups of 10-12 people to unique locations. The trips all come with a creative photographer in tow, so that their travelers can live in the moment rather than worrying about capturing the moment.
Kathryn Minshew
Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of TheMuse.com, a career platform helping over 20 million millennials find great jobs and get the career advice they need when they need it. Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on The TODAY Show and CNN, and previously worked at McKinsey & CHAI.
Gissou Nia
I am a human rights lawyer and Iran expert. I’ve led non-profit organizations dedicated to human rights in Iran for almost 4 years now. Prior to my Iran work, I worked on war crimes and crimes against humanity trials at international criminal courts in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Amanda Parker
Amanda joined WWF in 2010, focusing on land use change, sustainable agriculture, and fundraising projects in S. America. Amanda is completing an EMBA at IE University in Madrid. She is originally from the USA and is passionate about nature, traveling, animals, photography, and scuba diving.
Kathryn Peters
Kathryn Peters is a co-founder of Democracy Works, an organization that brings the awesomeness of the Internet to the process of voting. Her work has served over a quarter of a million voters nationally.
Lelemba Phiri
Lelemba is the group head of talent and managing director for Zambia and Malawi for Zoona, a mobile payments business that enables people in Africa to send and receive money when they need to most. She is an award winning financial educator, keynote speaker and development professional.
Carol Reiley
I’m on a mission to save the world through robotics. Roboticist for the past 15 years in industry/academia/startup. Research interests are on the development of intelligent robotic systems that can aid humans in performing skillful tasks more effectively.
Tylea Richard
Tylea Richard is the founder of Thundress, an intimate apparel company for “raw” and low-impact underwear. She has several years of experience in social compliance, logistics, sourcing, and product development. Tylea currently splits her time between Brooklyn NY and a one-room cabin in Massachusetts.
Suzan Song
I am a child/adolescent & adult psychiatrist with a passion for preventing violence and helping survivors realize their life-potential. My work spans sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. with invisible populations in areas of armed conflict (survivors of torture, former child soldiers).
Coryell Stout
A social enterprise practitioner with a background in corporate strategy, operational management, impact investing, microfinance, and international development, Coryell is Chief Operating Officer of One Degree Solar, an award-winning manufacturer of off-grid energy and technology solutions.
Sheila Warren
VP of Alliances & General Counsel of TechSoup Global, a nonprofit social enterprise that supports NGOs in 140+ countries. Designed and launched www.ngosource.org. Successfully lobbied the Treasury Department and IRS to change US grantmaking laws for the first time in 20 years. Harvard Law grad.
Jenna Wortham
Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at the New York Times magazine. Her work examines how the Internet is (re)shaping society, cultural norms and hidden hierarchies. She is also working on an art book called BlackFuture.us.
Samantha Wright
Samantha is passionate about the power of storytelling to create global change. As Girl Rising’s VP of Global Programs, Samantha sets the vision for how to best use powerful storytelling to inspire action that gets girls into classrooms. She is currently leading the set-up of Girl Rising India.
Rahama Wright
Rahama Wright is a social entrepreneur passionate about women’s economic development. Her socially responsible business markets a high end shea butter skincare line sourcing ingredients from cooperatives in Ghana. Products are sold in Whole Foods Markets & provide living wages to women shea farmers
Courtney Young
Courtney Young is the founder of Think Young Media Group, LLC, a creative media firm based in NYC and Southwest Louisiana. She is a board member of Hollaback and a co-founder of the platform Heartmob. She is currently working on her first book, a collection of short stories entitled, I Surrender.
Coaching Fellows — Winter 2015
Adela P (Pakistan). Aditi C (USA). Amisha P (USA). Anna C (USA). Belma M (USA). Brittany L (USA). Brittany M (Singapore). Burcu B (USA). Chaula G (USA). Claire N (USA). Dana H (USA). Debbie S (USA). Diana K (Germany). Elaine T (USA). Elizabeth C (USA). Emily R (Egypt). Erin Z (USA). Esther W (Zambia). Faiza H (Chile). Fallon C (Colombia). Gwendolyn F (USA). Jennie T (USA). Julie M (USA). Kalsoom L (Pakistan). Kate H (USA). Katie R (USA). Laura Z (USA). Lauren T (USA). Lindsey T (USA). Maggie V (USA). Manasa T (USA). Mariana C (Brazil). Mary L (USA). Megan C (Chile). Meghan L (USA). Misan R (Nigeria). Morgan C (Australia). Nafessa K (USA). Nicole C (USA). Nithya R (USA). Olivia C (UK). Olusola A (Nigeria). Patricia S (USA). Rachel A (USA). Rathi M (Cambodia). Rosa S (USA). Tracy C (USA). Tracy L (USA). Viviana C (Colombia).
Coaching Fellows — Summer 2014
Abby H (USA). Amanda B (USA). Amy R (USA). Anika H (Germany). Ariam M (USA). Ariane M (USA). Ayesha S (United Arab Emirates). Caroline R (United Kingdom). Chanteclaire L (USA). Christine M (USA). Christine S (United Arab Emirates). Claire C (USA). Cody M (USA). Danya C (USA). Doris H (USA). Elena R (Spain). Ellen C (USA). Emily C (USA). Emily L (USA). Emmy N (USA). Erika M (USA). Erin J (USA). Hannah D (USA). Jamie L (Kenya). Jordan W (USA). Karima M (Trinidad and Tobago). Kelly N (USA). Kopceip J (Cameroon). Kristin K (USA). Laura S (Netherlands). Laura T (USA). Lisa M (USA). Liz K (USA). Maxie M (USA). Meg D (USA). Meg R (USA). Michelle A (Ecuador). Nona M (Tajikistan). Rasha A (Palestinian Territory, Occupied). Ravneet T (USA). Samantha S (USA). Sheree R (Australia). Sherry E (USA). Tammy T (USA). Vanessa H (USA).
Coaching Fellows — Spring 2014
Ailian G (Mountain View, CA, USA). Amanda L (Santa Monica, CA, USA). Anna W (Raleigh, NC, USA). Aspa L (Berlin, Germany). Aubryn T (New York, NY, USA). Aurelie S (Barcelona, Spain). Bettina S (Berlin, Germany). Carolien W (Berkley, CA, USA). Claire C (Mountain View, CA, USA). Cynthia K (Brooklyn, NY, USA). Debbie B (Livingston, NJ, USA). Eden F (Princeton, NJ, USA). Evelina Z (Copenhagen, Denmark). Jaclyn F (New York, NY, USA). Jessica H (Washington, DC, USA). Julia L (New York, NY, USA). Julia S (Palo Alto, CA, USA). Lamiaa B (Casablanca, Morocco). Marion K (Walnut Creek, CA, USA). Meghan H (Austin, TX, USA). Michelle L (Washington, DC, USA). Nan L (San Francisco, CA, USA). Nicola N (London, UK). Noor E (Amman, Jordan). Omotola A (Ibadan, Nigeria). Rafah A (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Roshen S (Durham, NC, USA). Saroja C (Berlin, Germany). Sharon Z (Los Angeles, CA, USA). Taylor R (San Francisco, CA, USA). Teresa G (Los Angeles, CA, USA). Tiffany B (Brooklyn, NY, USA). Tiffany H (Oakland, CA, USA).