I dream of being an agent of change for a better future, where women are empowered and enabled to take control of their lives. Pathfinder not only dreams of the same future but works towards making it a reality.
NIVERT RIHAN, Pathfinder Egypt
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Pathfinders are highly skilled professionals dedicated to our mission. Our locally led organization is run from the countries we serve, allowing decisions to be made close to our work, and delivering optimal impact and accountability.
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Adam Miller
As CEO of Centauri Health Solutions, Adam Miller brings more than 20 years of experience in executive health care roles with expertise in strategy, product development, sales, marketing, dis...
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Adetoun Ilumoka
Dr. Adetoun Ilumoka was born and raised in Nigeria, mainly in the city of Lagos. A qualified solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, she has practiced and taught law in Niger...
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Alan Jones
Alan Jones (AJ) is a Senior Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), where he is responsible for Direct Private Investment in North Ameri...
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Andrea Roberts
Andrea Roberts is a research scientist at the Harvard University and a psychiatric epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on mental health and ...
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Barry White
Ambassador Barry White is the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, serving from 2009 to 2013. Before entering the foreign service, Ambassador White served as CEO of Foley Hoag, LLP and as chair...
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Bill Tate
Bill Tate is retired after a career working as staff to a Member of Congress for 23 years. Bill Tate is a longtime supporter of Pathfinder, and has served on the board. Tate was an Editorial...
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Bill Weihl
Bill Weihl is the Founder and Executive Director of ClimateVoice, a non-profit initiative launched in February 2020 that is focused on encouraging companies to go “all in” on climate –...
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Brenda Lee Pearson
Brenda Lee Pearson is a passionate advocate for gender and social inclusion. She has implemented international development activities that target women, girls and vulnerable populations in m...
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Brenda Radichel Quaye
Brenda has owned and managed Venstar, LLC for over 20 years. Venstar, LLC is the holding company for the commercial real estate investments of Ms. Quaye in Minnesota. The company owns an...
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Brian Atwood
J. Brian Atwood served as dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs from 2002 to 2011, where he was widely credited for raising the school’s profile and national ranking. Atwood served...
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Caroline Ham
Caroline Ham is the first woman elected mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan. A recipient of the Kalamazoo Network’s Glass Ceiling Award and the Lifetime Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA o...
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Carolyn Magill
Carolyn Magill is CEO of Aetion, Inc, a healthcare technology company delivering real-world evidence for life sciences, payers, providers, and regulatory agencies. She previously served in s...
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Charlotte Young
Charlotte Young is the General Counsel at the National Audubon Society. For more than 100 years, Audubon has embraced the mission of protecting birds and the places they need.
Previously, sh...
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Claudia Morrissey Conlon
Dr. Claudia Morrissey Conlon, MD, MPH is a physician and served as USAID’s leader on maternal health. Claudia’s life work has centered on increasing gender equity and improving women’s...
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Dan Pellegrom
Dan Pellegrom served as President and CEO of Pathfinder International from February 1985 to February 2012. During his tenure Pathfinder grew from an annual budget of $8,000,000 to over $100,...
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Daniel Anderson
Daniel Anderson is a writer and serves on faculty in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Republic, Yale Review, Southern Re...
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David Eichenbaum
David Eichenbaum is a Washington based Democratic media consultant. Prior to that, he served as a campaign manager and press secretary on several U.S. Senate races. David has helped to elect...
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Debra Snider
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Debra Snider is an author, speaker, and mentor who currently serves as an advisor to several organizations that provide resources, services, and education with the goal of empowering women. ...
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Deepak Krishnamurthy
Deepak is the founder and managing partner of Gaia Equity, a founder friendly firm investing in enterprise software, climate tech and healthcare.
Prior to Gaia, Deepak was the EVP and Chief ...
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Denise Holmes
Denise Holmes is an attorney and higher education association executive. In 13 years on the program/policy staff of a national association, she developed and operationalized national and glo...
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Deogratias Niyizonkiza
Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza, VHW’s visionary founder and CEO, is a leading advocate for the most impoverished people in the world. His compassion, expertise, and life expe...
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Diana Farrell
Diana Farrell serves on the Board of Directors for eBay, The Urban Institute and the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition, Ms. Farrell is a Trustee of the Trilateral Commission ...
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Doug Cameron
Dr. Doug Cameron is a technology investor and advisor in food, agriculture and applied biology. He is co-president of the investment firm, First Green Partners. He is a senior advisor to the...
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Douglas Alexander
Douglas Alexander was a Member of the UK Parliament for eighteen years, including as a Member of the British Cabinet under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for nine years serving as the Secretary...
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Ellie Hamburger
Dr. Ellie Hamburger is a primary care pediatrician and Medical Director for the Pediatric Health Network, a Children’s National affiliated clinically integrated network. Dr. Hamburger has ...
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Estelle Brouwer
Estelle Brouwer served for the past six years as the former executive director of Women’s Advocates. In 1974, Women’s Advocates became the first shelter for people fleeing domestic viole...
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Faith Mitchell
Faith Mitchell is an Institute fellow working with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Health Policy Center. She is also developing the Urban Institute’s American Transformat...
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George Todd
George Todd is currently the Executive Chairman at Kalsec, Inc., a global food ingredient company. George’s passions are sustainability, education and family planning. He was Chairman of...
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Hamutal Gouri
Hamutal is Founding Director of Impact Storytelling: consulting, training, and storytelling for social change. Hamutal is a cultural critic, lecturer, consultant, and storyteller for social ...
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Hanneke Willenborg
Hanneke Willenborg is focused on driving a more equitable society while building sustainable business models. Currently she as CEO at OLLY, a fast growing health and nutrition company based ...
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James Schwartz
James Schwartz, a 40-year veteran of the apparel industry is the CEO and President of MGF Sourcing, headquartered in Columbus Ohio.
Mr. Schwartz graduated from IndianaUniversity, where he re...
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Janeen Haythornthwaite
Janeen Haythornthwaite is a lecturer at Tate Britain, lecturing on British and International art. She is also a director of jaggedart, a central London art gallery that shows contemporary ar...
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Jennifer Rider
Jenny is a communications strategist and storyteller with more than 25 years of experience serving Fortune 500 companies and NGOs, including CNN, The New York Times Company, The Walt Disney ...
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy has been in the international energy business for over 40 years, giving him a broad grounding in other economic activities because little can be constructed, operated or moved without...
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Jerry White
Jerry White shares in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. He is a social entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist. A Senior Ashoka Fello...
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Jessica Nordell
Jessica Nordell is an award-winning author and science writer known for blending rigorous science with compassionate humanity. Her first book, The End of Bias: A Beginning, shortlisted for t...
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Jim McLean
Jim McLean is the founder of Silicon Valley Data Capital and a co-founder of Silicon Valley Data Science. Jim has over 20 years of successful venture capital investing focused on early stage...
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Jocelyn Childs
Jocelyn Gamble Childs is a former petroleum geologist turned architect, filmmaker and mother of three. Jocelyn is passionate about reproductive health. Ms. Childs holds a M.A. in Architectur...
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Jonathan Foley
Dr. Jonathan Foley is a renowned climate scientist, sustainability expert, educator, and public speaker. He is also executive director of Project Drawdown — the world’s leading resource ...
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Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Coolidge Wheeler is retired after a distinguished career at USAID. After a brief stint in the Army Air Corps, he graduated from Bowdoin in 1948 and later received his master’s degre...
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Josh Kohnstamm
Presidents’ Council
Josh Kohnstamm is a natural products marketing executive and a former editor, political operative, and government communications director. He is founder of Kohnstamm Communications, an agenc...
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Jude Kelly
Jude Kelly CBE is CEO and Founder of The WOW Foundation. She founded WOW to celebrate the achievements of women and girls and confront global gender injustice. Starting as a three-day festiv...
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Kate Brennan
Kate Brennan is a retired health care attorney with three decades of experience in the public and private sector.
Kate focused her legal career on innovation in the health care sector. She s...
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Katey Pelican
Dr. Pelican’s work focuses on strengthening the multi sectoral systems needed to address the world’s most complex challenges arising at the interface of people, the planet, prosperity, p...
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Katharine Wilkinson
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher, and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine. As principal writer and editor-in-chief at Project D...
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Katherine Bourne
Katherine Bourne is a consultant in global public health, with a particular interest in maternal, child and newborn health, reproductive rights and health, gender and HIV.
Ms. Bourne...
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Kathleen Harrington
Kathleen Harrington is a former Mayo Clinic executive who most recently served as president of the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce before retiring in 2022. As Chair of the Division of Gov...
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Kathleen Motzenbecker
Kathleen is the U.S. Partnerships Lead at Alight (formerly the American Refugee Committee), a global non-profit that serves 3.5 million displaced people around the world. She previously se...
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Kathleen Regan
Ms. Regan has over 25 years of experience advising and investing in healthcare companies. Currently, she is EVP & COO at The Commonwealth Fund. In 2012, she served as a senior advisor to...
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Kathy Baughman McLeod
Kathy Baughman McLeod is a Global Climate Resilience Executive at the Climate Resilience Project. Previously, as the Senior Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resili...
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Kitty Lansing
Kitty has long been involved with advocating for access to quality healthcare for women and their families, domestically and internationally. She served on the Illinois Planned Parenthood Bo...
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Laura Walker
Laura R. Walker is the 11th president of Bennington College.
Prior to joining Bennington, she served as the President and CEO of NEW YORK Public Radio. Under her leadership, NYPR became...
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Lauren Baer
Lauren Baer is an attorney and foreign policy expert who served for six years as an official in the Obama administration, acting as a senior advisor to Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton a...
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Lenny Mendonca
Lenny Mendonca is the former chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom. He is also a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a lecturer on inequality at the Sta...
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Lisa Danzig
Dr. Danzig brings more than 20 years of infectious disease R&D experience, including advancing novel vaccines and diagnostics from research stage through clinical development. Most recen...
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Lucia Riddle
R. Lucia Riddle is the Owner of Sister Strength, LLC, a fitness company devoted to the wellness, cardio/strength training and physical conditioning needs of women 50 years of age and older. ...
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Mahesh Desai
Mahesh Desai is an experienced leader in the technology services industry. Over the years, Mahesh has been a key architect of growth at Infosys, CGI and TietoEVRY, driving growth across Euro...
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Margot Fahnestock
Margot Fahnestock is a philanthropy and policy expert in family planning and reproductive health. She’s currently Vice President, Strategic Development for nonprofit pharmaceutical organiz...
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Mariam Claeson
Mariam Claeson, M.D. M.P.H., is the former Director of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Woman Every Child at the World Bank (2016-2019). Prior to joining the GFF she served as D...
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Mario D’Amico
Mario D’Amico is a leading international advertising and communications executive and former Global Chief Marketing Officer for Cirque du Soleil and Chief Marketing Officer for TNC.
At Cir...
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Marnie Wells
Marnie Wells is a cross-sector leader who builds community solutions for the common good. Partnering with leadership teams, Marnie creates innovative and scalable business models that increa...
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Mary E. Taylor
Dr. Mary E. Taylor is a consultant and Associate Professor of Community Health at the Arctic University of Norway. She has devoted more than four decades to the promotion of essential public...
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Megan Murray
Megan Murray is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician with over 25 years of experience studying tuberculosis and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Murra...
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Melissa Butts
Director/Producer Melissa Butts is an award-winning visual storyteller who blends a passion for bringing inspirational stories to life while connecting to diverse global audiences. Melissa b...
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Michael Nakamoto
Michael brings two decades of experience contributing to social and environmental progress through understanding how systems work, developing lasting solutions to complex problems, and takin...
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Michael Osterholm
Dr. Osterholm is an epidemiologist, COVID-19 expert and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and formerly served as a COVID-19 adv...
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Michelle Pohlad
Michelle Marie Grabanski Pohlad is a dynamic transformational visionary and coach who is most invigorated when guiding people to reach their fullest potential rooted in love. Her hunger for ...
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Molly Wallace
Molly Wallace is The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Interim Lead, Global Policy and Government Relations. She leads TNC’s work to expand what is possible in conservation through transformati...
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Murtala Mai
Strategic, collaborative, and versatile international development leader with 26 years leading or directing teams delivering expansive, complex, multi-million-dollar, multi-country, outcome ...
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Normand Smith
Normand is a Boston based attorney, formerly chair of the Pathfinder Board of Directors. He received a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton University, and JD and LLM degrees from Boston Univer...
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Pat Cooper
Pat has over 30 years of private and public sector experience as a public policy analyst, strategic planner, entrepreneur and civic leader. Pat is an early co-founder and member of Beyond Ou...
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Patricia Haslach
Ambassador Patricia Haslach specializes in global trade, international development, and conflict stabilization across geostrategically complex regions. As a Principal at Brooch Associates, P...
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Patrick Fine
Patrick Fine is an international development professional with deep experience in global health, education, humanitarian response, and building resilient communities. He has served in senior...
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Peter Agre
Peter Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature and responsible for numerous physiological processe...
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Phil Kirshman
With 35 years of financial management experience, Phil is a recognized leader in the sustainable and impact investing. Phil is the director of impact investing at Manchester Capital Manageme...
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Purnima Mane
Dr. Purnima Mane is an internationally recognized expert on gender, population and development, and public health who has devoted her career to advocating for population and development issu...
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Radhika Shah
Radhika Shah resides in Pune, India. She is a leadership coach and advisor with a particular interest in serving youth and adolescents.
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Ralph Tate
Ralph retired from a 30-year career in investment management, most recently with Standish, Ayer and Wood in Boston. Ralph serves on the board of Kestrel Land Trust and Amherst Academy and is...
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Rhett Buttle
Rhett Buttle is the Founder of Public Private Strategies, a consulting firm that is exclusively focused on where the public and private sectors meet. The firm is a leader in engaging busines...
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Richard Berkowitz
Dr. Berkowitz is professor of obstetrics and gynecology, director of quality improvement, and associate director of the residency program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Co...
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Richard Smith
Richard Smith is chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, the Point of Care Foundation, which promotes compassionate, dignified care, Patients Know Best (a company that gives patie...
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Ron Bloom
Ron Bloom is a Managing Partner and Vice Chair in Brookfield’s Private Equity Group, responsible for investment origination, analysis and execution across North America.
Prior to joining B...
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Roopa Dhatt
Dr. Roopa Dhatt is the executive director and co-founder of Women in Global Health. She is a practicing internal medicine physician, implementing partner and steering committee member of the...
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Rosemary Murrain
Rosemary Lombard is the Executive Director. Lombard runs CMBM’s daily operations. Her gift for incubating engagement and cross-cultural understanding has led CMBM to establish partnerships...
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Sabah Husain
Sabah Husain is an experienced technology banking professional at Wells Fargo. A first-generation Pakistani-American, Sabah has seen the discrepancies that exist in women’s healthcare on a...
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Sahra Noor
Sahra Noor is a Nairobi based nurse, global health consultant and certified executive coach specializing in health systems improvement and leadership development. She is the founder and prin...
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Sally Rockey
Dr. Sally Rockey is the inaugural Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. Prior to this role, Dr. Rockey was a leader in federal research, overseeing the oper...
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Sarah Degnan Kambou
Sarah Degnan Kambou is an intrapreneur with leadership experience directing gender equity and social justice initiatives in Africa, South Asia, the UK and Europe. Her technical areas of exp...
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Sarah Stoesz
Sarah Stoesz has served as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) since 2001. Under Sarah’s leadership the organization has grown from a two-state regi...
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Sharon Allison
Sharon Allison has served as a leader in reproductive health globally, in the United States, and in Texas. Sharon is the former president of the board of International Planned Parenthood Fed...
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Sheila McMillan
Sheila has held senior leadership roles in the health care industry for Fortune 20 companies to community non-profits. With a financial background, she has been involved with over a dozen ma...
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Shelly Lakly
Michelle (Shelly) Lakly, Ph.D., is a leader in global conservation action with over 20 years experience leading global teams at mission driven nonprofit organizations. She thrives on build...
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Sofia Latif
Sofia Latif is a leader of grantmaking and global operations at Avaaz Foundation, a campaigning movement with over 65 million members, empowering people from all walks of life to take acti...
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Sophia Lynn
Sophia Lynn currently serves as executive director of the Crow’s Nest Research Center, a non-profit organization located in Stafford, Virginia and dedicated to conservation, wetlands resea...
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Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly an award-winning author and activist. She writes and speaks frequently on topics related to gender norms, inclusivity, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence, and te...
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Stephanie Schriock
Since Stephanie Schriock became president in 2010, EMILY’s List has seen unprecedented growth, helped elect record numbers of women to the House and Senate, and recruited and trained thous...
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Suzanne Koepplinger
Suzanne Koepplinger is a seasoned nonprofit and philanthropic professional with over 20 years’ experience in executive leadership and creative problem-solving. She is a highly effective ne...
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Terry Gamble Boyer
Terry Gamble Boyer is a writer and philanthropist. She is the co-founder and president of the Caldera Foundation. She focuses on the issues of climate change, energy, water and land manageme...
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Thomas O’Neil
Tom O’Neil is a managing director with broad private- and public-sector experience, including leadership roles in boardrooms and C-suites of companies in the consumer, financial services, ...
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Tibebeselassie Awethahegn
Tibebe Awethahegn is an Ethiopian businessman based in Addis Ababa.
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Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at...
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Valerie Spencer
Val is a community leader and has over 30 years of experience in philanthropy, primarily focused on issues relating to women, girls, and people with special needs. In the last 15 years, Val ...
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Vânia Cury
Vânia Bueno Cury is a São Paulo based communication professional focused on human and organizational development. For more than 25 years she has been working strategically to improve the c...
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Virginia Blaser
Virginia Blaser recently retired as the CEO and board chair of a global tech company, focusing on machine learning and AI development in open-source intelligence. Prior to her work in the pr...
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Yogesh Rajkotia
Dr. Yogesh Rajkotia founded ThinkWell in 2011 to support human capital development around the world. Convinced that a break from the status quo of development assistance was urgently needed,...
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Yves Daccord
Yves Daccord is a renowned humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. His current focus is on the theme of security, social contract and the role of cities at...
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Zeenat Rahman
Zeenat Rahman is the Project Director of the Inclusive America Project at the Aspen Institute. She is an expert on global youth issues, interfaith and diversity engagement, and is a former d...
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