Harouna Saley Abdoulaye
Harouna Saley Abdoulaye. Dynamic, and committed leader and manager with 21+ year of experience in organizational management, strategic planning, and business development focusing on social cohesion and peace consolidation, on countering stigmatization and reducing the filling of marginalization of community at risk, on community mobilization and on countering violence extremism with community based resilience approach. Exceptional interpersonal talents, able to bring together community leaders, local organizations, and government agencies to consolidate strategies of dialogue, and stability. Excellent project management skills, capable of building effective and enthusiastic teams to complete projects on time, within budget, and with tangible impact. Harouna Abdoulaye participated as a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly on the Rehabilitation and Reintegration process of former violent extremists in September 2017. He is also a facilitator and leadership advisor and experienced in Art of Living and personal development. He is seeking opportunities to share his experiences and to learn and adapt from others experiences in order to foster his sense of creativity and innovation.
Micheline Ntiru
Micheline Ntiru is an impact leader with over 20 years of professional experience across Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. She has held leadership positions with multinationals and leading NGOs such as Nokia and Care International respectively, as well as with startups and academia. Fluent in nine languages—including Swahili, French, Spanish, and Portuguese—Micheline considers herself a global citizen and delights in working across diverse cultures. Micheline currently serves as a senior facilitator, leading strategic workshops for senior C suite founders and leaders as well as managers of non for profit organisations globally. As facilitator with Stanford Unversity, she led over 90 workshops for founders and C-suite leaders across 20 countries in Africa and India. Workshop topics included strategic leadership development, change management, crosscultural communication, human centric design, corporate governance, innovative finance approaches and impact investment, among others. Furthermore, Micheline is a certified executive coach, offering executive coaching to corporates, small businesses, and non-profit professionals from Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Most of her coaching relates to helping leaders cultivate confidence and authority to enhance their impact within their organizations as well as improving self-awareness, empathy and wellness. Key clients for her coaching include Yale University, Stanford University, One Acre Fund, Care International KCB Bank as well as The Gates Foundation. Micheline is also a public health specialist and has deep technical expertise as an operator in the healthcare and agribusiness sectors with UNICEF and in development finance and impact finance with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She has led this work across 40 countries in Africa and 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Additionally, Micheline serves as a keynote speaker and moderator at prominent forums such as the UN General Assembly, COP, Africa Tech Summit and Women Who Build Africa among others. Micheline is a Venture Partner with the impact funds Delta 40 and eHA Impact Ventures (EIV), where she focuses on advising startups in the agricultural, green energy and health sectors. Driven by her entrepreneurial spirit, Micheline co-founded “We Three Queens of Africa,” a women’s social enterprise and multimedia platform dedicated to empowering and mentoring women while showcasing African narratives. Her insights into social enterprise and business have been featured in BBC Africa, New Vision, and the Stanford Review. She is also an experienced board member andserves as a non-executive director of E Health Group, I&M Bank Uganda, among other organizations. Micheline holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, UK and a BSc from Mt Holyoke College and is passionate about education, south-south partnerships, wellness and empowering young girls and women.
Emefa Modey
Dr. Emefa Modey is a public health professional and academic with focus on Maternal and child health, specifically, Family planning, Sexual and Reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy. Her research spans several critical areas, including Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy. Emefa is currently a lecturer at the University of Ghana, School of Public Health in the department of Population family and reproductive health (PFRH). She is also an honorary assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in the faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health and a team member of the LSHTM Communications and Student Experiences workstream, as part of the joint Online MSc in Sexual Reproductive Health Policy and Programming (SRHPP). In addition to her teaching roles, she is a faculty member of the World Health Organisation Human Reproduction Programme (WHO HRP) Alliance for research capacity building scholarship scheme, where she mentors students. She is actively engaged with the Policy Imperatives Working Group (PIWG),of the Africa Research, Implementation Science, and Education Network (ARISE). As a passionate advocate for equitable access to health care and minimizing health disparities, she has a deep sense of empathy and cultural competence. She actively engages in initiatives focused on her mission of transforming and advancing development and healthier societies in Africa, with a commitment to reducing disparities, enhancing health outcomes for women and children, and building local capacity. Emefa holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Ghana School of public health, department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health. Her academic journey includes a Master of Science in International Health from the University of Leeds Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Ghana.
Pragya Mishra
Pragya loves convening and is a champion for SDG 17. In her nine years of work experience, she has always found herself bringing diverse stakeholders together for a common cause, and has built collaborations for social impact. She recently completed a 14 months fellowship in the US where she served at the American Express. She managed the AMEX Leadership Academy Alumni Network of over 4300 social purpose leaders. In addition to her role of organizing learning events, she launched Alumni Taskforce – a global volunteer group of 60 alumni to promote alumni led initiatives. Prior to the fellowship, Pragya worked at Ashoka in India. As part of the Fellowship team she helped design and implement programs on leadership development and impact strategy for a network of 400 Ashoka Fellows working on all 17 SDGs. She also designed a unique event concept – Changemaker Dinner, engaging over 250 senior social, business and media entrepreneurs and promoting cross-sectoral collaborations. At the beginning of her career, Pragya lived in an indigenous village in central India for three years and led a grass-root movement bringing all the stakeholders together to build the first school in the area. Pragya has a Master’s Degree in Social Entrepreneurship and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counseling and Communication. She is adaptive and nimble and by working at the grassroots, national and international levels she has developed strong people’s skills and cultural intelligence. She is curious and loves learning from people and places.
Harouna Abdolaye
Dynamic, and committed leader and manager with 21+ year of experience in organizational management, strategic planning, and business development focusing on social cohesion and peace consolidation, on countering stigmatization and reducing the filling of marginalization of community at risk, on community mobilization and on countering violence extremism with community based resilience approach. Exceptional interpersonal talents, able to bring together community leaders, local organizations, and government agencies to consolidate strategies of dialogue, and stability. Excellent project management skills, capable of building effective and enthusiastic teams to complete projects on time, within budget, and with tangible impact. Harouna Abdoulaye participated as a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly on the Rehabilitation and Reintegration process of former violent extremists in September 2017. He is also a facilitator and leadership advisor and experienced in Art of Living and personal development. He is seeking for opportunities to share his experiences and to learn and adapt from others experiences in order to foster his sense of creativity and innovation.
Crystal White
Crystal Y. White is a facilitator and organization development practitioner helping mission driven leaders and teams live out their greatest values. She has served as executive director of a gender equity nonprofit; co-founded an arts and social justice youth organization; and co-founded a women-owned consulting cooperative. Drawing on her background in collaborative design and process facilitation, she assists organizations in addressing strategic challenges via culture and systems change. As a coach, she supports primarily Black and brown emerging and mid-career professionals navigating leadership growth and workplace engagement. A first-generation college graduate, Crystal holds an MS in Organization Development and BA in International Studies, both from American University. She currently resides in northeast Ohio, enjoys travel and planning adult and family field trips, and finds her center meandering through museums and the woods.
Alejandra Ortiz Medrano
Alejandra Ortiz Medrano has dedicated a large part of her professional life to education and the design of processes that allow people and groups to develop their potential for the benefit of the systems to which they belong. She was dean of educational innovation and socio-environmental projects at the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (UMA) in Mexico, where she co-designed various workshops focused on the development of environmental entrepreneurs in areas such as tourism, law, business, and education, through diverse tools like systems thinking, action research, and potential based projects. She has codesigned syllabus and programs, including the bachelor in entrepreneurship and socio-environmental projects at UMA. Originally a biologist and evolutionary ecology PhD, she left academia but not her passion for science, and is also dedicated to science communication. Passionate about learning, she has taken several workshops and courses that apply in her work, including Kaospilot’s the arts and crafts of facilitating learning spaces, Collective transformations (ecosynomics) diploma, Biomimicry immersion, and the work that reconnects immersion. She is also a mindfulness-certified teacher.