Some of my closest friends today, are from my 2017 World Fellows cohort. I also had some wonderful professors who I continue to be in contact with, who I know truly care about my work and are there to engage if needed. Yale's campus provided the perfect setting to slow down and reset.
2017
Lorna Solis
Lorna Solis is Founder and CEO of Elevate, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving gifted young women who have been forced from their homes by conflict or climate change the opportunity of a first-class, STEM-focused education at a partner university and employment with a Fortune 500 partner company.
She is also Founder and CEO of GritTekkie, a company that aims to fill staffing needs in technology for leading companies worldwide by unlocking access to highly talented, skilled, credentialed pools of labor drawing from underserved groups, including refugees and internally displaced people.
Previously, Lorna was Director for Latin America and Africa at Institutional Investor, focusing on increasing foreign direct investments for infrastructure projects. She also worked at IDEA on Wall Street, covering Latin America, and at Water & Air Research—an environmental consulting firm—on creating national parks in Honduras and Brazil.
Lorna graduated from the University of Florida, as well as the Harvard Kennedy School's Global Leadership & Public Policy Executive Program. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, a member of the Young Global Leaders Group advisory board, a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of the Humanitarian System, and a member of the Women's Empowerment and Gender Parity (2011-2012). Lorna is also an Organizational Partner of Global Dignity Day. She is a board member of the UNHCR Innovation Council and at the Humanitarian Innovation Project at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre.
Lorna is also a figurative sculptor whose work has been exhibited in NYC and has won numerous awards.
