2025

Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter

Co-Founder and General Partner

IMPAQTO Capital

Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter is an impact investment leader and ecosystem builder working at the intersection of capital, climate, and community in Latin America. She is the Co-Founder and General Partner at IMPAQTO Capital, a locally rooted fund manager deploying catalytic capital across the Andean region. Currently, she is leading the design of a new impact investment fund focused on the Andean Amazon. Michelle serves as Strategic Ambassador for Andean Amazon Initiatives at the Amazon Investor Coalition, is a member of the Private Sector Task Force for IDB Invest’s Amazonia Forever program, and advises Jumpscale on resilience circles and Indigenous-led entrepreneurship in the Amazon. Previously, Michelle was Executive Director of Strategy at SOCAP Global, where she shaped content and global dialogue around impact investing, and consulted with the Skoll Foundation to curate the Skoll World Forum. She is also co-founder and former CEO of IMPAQTO, a pioneering B Corporation that supported thousands of entrepreneurs through coworking, acceleration, and ecosystem-building across Latin America. Michelle holds an MSc in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. She finds her home in Quito with her husband Matt and their twin boys, Jude and Elias—drawn to the Andes as both a grounding place and source of inspiration for the work ahead.

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The 2025 World Fellows

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Yale World Fellows. These 16 extraordinary individuals are leaders working in environment, technology, politics, media, the arts, human rights, international development, and justice sectors around the world. They include a Nigerian singer-songwriter, a Turkish politician, and a Pakistani police superintendent. “World Fellows are operating with remarkable savvy and often immense courage on the frontlines of the fight for a better world,” said Emma Sky, director of Yale’s International Leadership Center, which houses the World Fellows program. “In this era of global upheaval and uncertainty – which drives many to cynicism and apathy – the 2025 World Fellows are daring to envision and build...

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