Mimi Alemayehou has been a leader on development finance and international development in the public and private sectors for more than 20 years. Mimi is currently Managing partner of Semai Ventures and a Senior advisor to Three Cairns Group, a mission driven investment and philanthropic firm focused on the climate crisis. She previously served as … Continued
Marielena Hincapié is a Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Immigration Law and Policy Program. Most recently, Marielena served as the executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the NILC Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF) until November 2022. Marielena began her tenure at NILC in 2000 as a … Continued
In 2017, Anne Gates retired as president of MGA Entertainment, the largest privately held global toy company in the United States. Prior to that she spent more than twenty years at the Walt Disney Company, in various roles including Executive Vice President and CFO of the Consumer Products Division, based in Los Angeles, and Managing … Continued
Nancy Lindborg has served as the president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation since August 2020. The Foundation awards more than $300 million in grants domestically and internationally to advance its mission of working with people and communities to create ensuring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Nancy … Continued
Michael C. Camuñez is President and CEO of Monarch Global Strategies LLC, a binational business advisory firm providing C-Suite strategic advice, project development expertise, government relations and supply chain sourcing for companies doing business globally, with a particular emphasis on Mexico and Latin America. Michael has significant experience as a senior executive, independent director, counselor, … Continued
Katherine is an elementary school educator with deep experience in classroom teaching, math intervention, and teacher preparation. She currently serves as an instructional coach in mathematics at a public school in San Francisco. In addition to teaching, she has spent time in international service; working in refugee camps in rural Thailand and education programs in … Continued
Stephen H. Lockhart, MD, PhD, a board-certified anesthesiologist, is Chief Medical Officer for Sutter Health, a not for profit system of hospitals, physician organizations and research institutions in Northern California. A Rhodes Scholar, he obtained his Masters degree in Economics from Oxford University, and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell. As Chief Medical Officer, he … Continued
David Orr is a Product Manager at Google, teaching computers to understand human languages. He has been a startup founder, an angel investor, a computer software engineer, a researcher working on internet search, and a director of technology for startups. He has published in the fields of linguistics and computer science. He holds a BS … Continued
Sierra received her Ph.D. from the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Her research investigates the ways in which nature, pleasure, and purity are negotiated within the food system. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the politics of quality and the production of heritage in the making of American whiskey. Sierra … Continued
Jason Burnett is the CEO of Crosswalk Labs, a company that tracks greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. to help local communities make more effective climate mitigation decisions and track progress towards their climate goals. Jason served as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA from 2012 to 2016 and as a Carmel-by-the-Sea city councilmember from 2010-2012. During … Continued