Person Type: Associate World Fellow

Mai Ichihara

Mai Ichihara graduated from Yale in 2020 with a joint degree, Master of Environmental Management and Master of Global Affairs from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She is specializing in water resource management with a regional focus in the Asia Pacific. At Yale, she focused on understanding equitable approaches to sustainable development, and she is a strong advocate of integrating ecosystem services, local knowledge, and participatory engagement into urban and rural development interventions.

Allegra da Silva

Allegra da Silva is Brown & Caldwell’s PFAS National Municipal Coordinator and Regional One Water Leader, working to improve water and wastewater treatment, expand the field of water recycling and reuse, and evaluate alternative sources of water. She works with clients to address the removal of pathogens and emerging contaminants in order to expand alternative water supplies safely for the protection of public health and benefit of the environment. Allegra has nearly two decades' experience in engineering and public health. She is working on a number of innovative research and development projects to improve water treatment and reduce energy consumption. She is serving on an industry panel to provide guidance…

Leslie Brown

Leslie Brown is Senior Advisor with the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI).  OTI was created by executive order under Mayor Eric Adams consolidating all NYC tech agencies and offices, including NYC Cyber Command, 311, DOITT, Office of Data Analytics, and the Office of Information Privacy with a combined contract procurement portfolio of $6.4 billion.  In this role Leslie preps the Chief Technology Officer and other principals for legislative hearings and other public-facing tech and innovation stakeholder domestic and international engagements.  Leslie works to advance OTI’s legislative agenda in collaboration with internal subject matter leads and the NYC City Hall Intergovernmental Affairs team to foster knowledge sharing and engagement on shared…

Jasmeet Ahuja

Jasmeet Ahuja is a senior associate at Hogan Lovells where she focuses on technology law. Previously, she spent six years working in Washington, DC on U.S. policy towards South Asia. As the senior adviser on South Asia on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, she helped draft foreign policy legislation on Pakistan and lobbied for the right of Sikh-Americans to wear turbans while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Jasmeet began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Pentagon and as a director of South Asia in the U.S. Department of State. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from…

Tianyi Xin

Tianyi "Tian Tian" Xin is a litigation associate at the Washington DC based law firm of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2019. Before law school, she served for five years as an active duty Military Intelligence Officer in the US Army. Most recently in uniform, she worked as a speechwriter to the Commanding General of Fort Hood and III Corps, where she deployed in 2016 to Baghdad as part of the counter-ISIL coalition. Prior to working as a speechwriter, she was stationed in Camp Red Cloud, South Korea and deployed in 2014 as individual augmentee to the 2nd Ranger Battalion in eastern Afghanistan….

Geng Ngarmboonanant

Geng Ngarmboonanant is a J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School, where he is Co-President of the Yale Law Democrats, Vice President of the National Security Group, and Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. He is also a member of the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, which is engaged in federal litigation on the 2020 Census, and he was co-lead of the technology policy team for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. Before law school, Geng served as a legal fellow at the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he drafted bills, memos, and speeches on issues ranging from social media regulation to the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian electoral…

Molly A. Martínez

Molly Anna Martínez serves as Executive Administrator (COO) of Plymouth Church, renowned for its role in racial justice, women's rights, and food security. Additionally, as a certified end-of-life doula, she is working to address gaps in hospice care for persons of color, providing coaching on compassionate listening as an essential tool for health and organizational reform.  Prior to Plymouth, Molly has held positions at World ENABLED, a disability-rights organization and International Disability Alliance, working to build relationships across business, government, and non-profit sectors on inclusive city design. Molly holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University with a specialization in organizational development.

Robert Klee

Robert Klee is a lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment and previously served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Prior to joining state service, Robert was an appellate litigator at Wiggin and Dana LLP, in New Haven where he also was a member of their Energy and Climate Change and Sustainable Development practice groups. Earlier in his career he clerked for Judge Mark R. Kravitz of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut and Judge Barrington D. Parker of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Robert has published a number of articles on environmental law and policy, sustainability,…

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