Region: North and South America
Nikita Lalwani
Nikita Lalwani is a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. She previously served as a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. At Yale Law School, from which she graduated in 2020, she was the Yale Law Journal's Executive Editor for Articles & Essays and helped advocate for a fairer census as a team leader in the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. She was also the co-president of the Yale Law National Security Group, co-director of the Yale chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project, and a Kerry Fellow at the Jackson…
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Emlyn Jones
Emlyn Jones is a Family Medicine Physician at Kaiser Permanente in California. She completed a joint MD/Master of Health Science Research degree at the Yale School of Medicine in 2007. While at Yale, Emlyn participated in a clinical research fellowship with the Doris Duke Foundation investigating the economics of substance abuse treatment and also traveled to South Africa to investigate the immune response to hepatitis B vaccination in HIV positive children. She received her undergraduate degree from Emory University. During that time, she worked in Tanzania for Population Services International, as a Technical Trainer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa and interned for the Carter Center's Trachoma…
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Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Gabriella Gómez-Mont is Founder and CEO of Experimentalista, a novel type of nomadic and creative office specialized in cities – and that constantly shifts shape to accommodate high-level, transdisciplinary collaborations across the world. She was also the Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City, and the founder of Laboratorio para la Ciudad (2013 – 2018), the award-winning experimental arm and creative think-tank of the Mexico City government, reporting to the Mayor. As director of the Lab she headed a highly transdiciplinary team: from urban geographers, political scientists, internationalists, lawyers, civic tech experts etc., to artists, historians, architects, designers, future thinkers and philosophers, amongst others. The Lab was created to tackle urban challenges, creating novel transdisciplinary…
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Marcelo Furtado
Marcelo Furtado has over 30 years of experience working in the sustainability field, committed to advancing environmental and social justice through advocacy and philanthropy. Most recently, he became a Principal at Finance for Biodiversity leading the food transition initiative and co-leading the secretariat of the Task Force on Nature Markets. He was a founding partner at the start-up ZCO2/BlockC, a traceability platform for environmental assets using blockchain technology. He was the CEO of Alana Foundation and Arapyaú Institute, family foundations that promote sustainability, social justice and education. Marcelo is a co-founder and was the facilitator of the Brazilian Coalition on Climate Forest and Agriculture, a multi-stakeholder forum with representatives from academia, business and civil society to implement a…
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Mary-Ann Etiebet
Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is a physician, researcher, and strong advocate for women's health, with extensive experience working with international development partners to design, manage and evaluate programs that address the needs of vulnerable and at risk populations. As the Executive Director of Merck for Mothers, Mary-Ann is responsible for successfully implementing a robust set of innovative programs across the globe, designing new high-impact partnerships, managing relationships with important external stakeholders, and serving as an internal and external ambassador of the initiative. She combines clinical expertise as a Board Certified Infectious Disease physician with global experience in healthcare strategy, health systems strengthening and performance improvement in the private, public and non-profit…
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Alisha Bjerregaard
Alisha Bjerregaard is a Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and human rights consultant. Her work focuses on advocating for women's rights and reproductive rights. Prior to working as a consultant, Alisha was a Clinical Lecturer in Law and the clinical teaching fellow in the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, where she supervised law students on a wide variety of human rights projects and co-taught the Lowenstein Clinic seminar. Previously, Alisha was a Legal Adviser in the Africa Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She was based in Nairobi, Kenya and worked on advocacy and litigation strategies to advance…
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Livia Sobota
Livia Sobota is a Brazilian career diplomat with nearly two decades of experience in public service. She heads the International Cooperation Unit at the Brazilian Embassy in Colombia, focusing her work on that country’s most vulnerable regions. She also served at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in New York. Livia represented Brazil in several UN negotiations on sustainable development, as well as in cross-regional initiatives on humanitarian assistance and building peaceful, just, and inclusive societies. Notably, Livia was one of the three leading negotiators for 130+ developing countries during the 2016 review of the UN Development System. Previously, she worked as an advisor to the Office…
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Elizabeth Addonizio
Elizabeth Addonizio is a partner at Cranemere, a global investment holding company. Prior to joining Cranemere, she worked at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking and Corporate M&A and Strategy Divisions. Elizabeth served on active military duty at U.S. Central Command for eighteen months, working as a strategic analyst on the personal staff of General David H. Petraeus. As an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve since 2004, she has supported the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, the Navy Warfare Development Command, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a Henry Luce Scholar, Elizabeth worked in the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University and in…
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Sarah Toomey
Sarah Toomey is an engagement manager at the Camber Collective, a strategy consulting firm helping clients navigate complex change. She graduated from Yale College in 2011 and from Yale's School of Management in 2017. Prior to Yale she worked as a Strategy & Research Analyst at the One Acre Fund in Nairobi, Kenya and as a Strategy & Operations Consultant at Deloitte Consulting in Washington, D.C. At the One Acre Fund Sarah led internal consulting projects to improve the livelihoods of over 300,000 smallholder farmers in East and Southern Africa. Sarah previously worked at Deloitte where she was a fellow within the Emerging Markets practice and provided technical assistance to…
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Daniel Weisfield
Daniel Weisfield is a founder of Three Pillar Communities, a values-driven real estate investment firm. Three Pillar Communities acquires and operates manufactured housing communities in the United States. The firm has a two-part mission: to deliver safe, reliable housing to residents and safe, reliable returns to investors. As a consultant at McKinsey & Company, Daniel co-authored the McKinsey Global Institute’s report on tackling California’s high housing costs. His research on real estate and housing has been featured in the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Daniel holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management, and a B.A. in humanities,…
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