The Global Community Book 2016-2023

“Atlantic Fellows celebrate and pursue possibilities for social change collaboratively, through developing strong connections with values-based organizations and other Fellows in the global Atlantic community. They recognize the power and duty of privilege to respond intelligently, with empathy and a sense of urgency in this time of myriad human needs. Change for the better is not only possible, it is our shared human imperative. ”

CHRISTOPHER G. OECHSLI, BOARD CHAIR OF THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE Artwork at The Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation, Ireland, visited by Atlantic Fellows and program staff during the convening, Conversations on Hope, in December 2022.

Credit: Paul Sharp.

Welcome to the Atlantic Fellows community

Our vision is to harness the power, leadership and creativity of the Atlantic community to build a flourishing ecosystem of global changemakers who connect and collaborate across borders, developing (k)new perspectives, knowledge and skills resulting in more equitable organizations, communities and nations.

Our world is complex, uncertain and full of ambiguities. Although there has been progress, social and economic inequalities persist, with already endangered groups of people suffering disproportionately. These inequalities were amplified even more during the global pandemic. In the context of demographic and social change, rapid urbanization, climate change and shifts in economic power and technology, there is an urgent need for collective action.

The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) established the Atlantic Fellows in 2015 to culminate the foundation’s long history of investing in people and in their vision, opportunity and ability to realize a better world. There are 793 Atlantic Fellows globally of which 710 have completed one of the seven Atlantic Fellows programs. This number will grow to more than 2,700 over the next two decades.

Atlantic Fellows are exceptional leaders in their fields of work, each with a deep resolve for a more equal and just world. United in their pursuit of equity, Fellows come from all walks of life and a variety of professions. They include advocates, artists, journalists, lawyers, business professionals, health practitioners, government officials, academics and researchers. They are not passive recipients or beneficiaries of change but rather the agents of change in the communities they serve.

Through working collectively across diverse settings and contexts, they seek to bring (k)new solutions to advance equity — “(k)new” meaning solutions that recognize and legitimize our longer histories, knowledge and ways of being.

After completing one of seven Atlantic Fellows programs with the shared pursuit of equity, Fellows join both a lifelong local community and a global community, the latter being supported by the Atlantic Institute. They are provided with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act. By working collectively, Fellows can accelerate the eradication of underlying systemic causes of inequity, locally and globally, to achieve greater impact than they would on their own.

There are more than 100 staff working with the seven Atlantic Fellows programs worldwide and at the Atlantic Institute. Their ongoing knowledge exchange, shared learning and alignment of activities strategically benefits the Atlantic community as a whole.

There are now 793 Fellows, who are active in nearly 80 countries. Over the next two decades, the number of Fellows is expected to grow to 2,700

Active Fellows by country as of June 2023

Improving

brain health and reducing the impact of dementia worldwide.

BASED AT THE GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE

JALAYNE ARIAS

Associate professor, Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University

Atlanta, United States

Investigating the legal and ethical challenges associated with the individual and social burden linked with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through public policy initiatives.

MIRCEA BALASA

Neurologist, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Promoting an early diagnosis through the use of novel biomarkers and new modalities of patient engagement for an early identification of cognitive decline in the general population.

NICOLE BATSCH

Gerontologist and global consultant

Chicago, United States

Understanding how people with dementia can lead more meaningful lives under human rights’ objectives.

ELEONORE BAYEN

Professor of medicine, Sorbonne University and director of the Neuro-Rehabilitation, Department of Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France

Designing, testing and validating new prototypes monitoring cognitive disorders; studying patterns of disability, clinical evolution, and unmet care needs; analyzing socioeconomics datasets.

ALISSA BERNSTEIN SIDEMAN

Assistant professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, United States

Researching ways to improve the diagnosis and care of people living with dementia in primary care settings, and creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural context of patients and their caregivers, with attention to social determinants of ill health.

DOMINIC CAMPBELL

Director, Creative Aging

International; curator/producer of Creative Brain Week; arts officer, Irish Hospice Foundation Dublin, Ireland

Developing and sustaining project prototypes, infused with art and creativity, backed by solid evidence and responding to need and local circumstance to help reduce the fear of age and its related illnesses among elders.

MARÍA CARMONA-IRAGUI

Faculty neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Barcelona, Spain Researching cognitive impairment and biomarkers in the continuum of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease and in Down syndrome for insights into the biological and epidemiological contributors to Alzheimer’s disease.

LAURENT CLERET DE LANGAVANT

Assistant professor in neurology, Université ParisEst Créteil (UPEC). Paris, France

Analyzing large populationbased studies from different continents to offer a global perspective on dementia risk factors, to discover new dementia risk factors and to generate predicting algorithms of dementia.

Raising awareness of dementia in 40,000 speech and language therapists in Brazil and studying methods for improving communication among people with neurological diseases.

Exploring the role of community services such as Alzheimer cafés in supporting social citizenship, and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions.

Myshall, Ireland

Delivering bespoke consultancy in service reform and training solutions to dementia service providers and innovators who seek to provide personalized care and support for people living with dementia.

Working to use modern technology and software platforms for early detection of dementia and cognitive training; co-founder of Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab.

ELISSAIOS KARAGEORGIOU

Division chief, Sleep and Memory Center; scientific director, Neurological Institute of Athens Athens, Greece

Elucidating brain rhythm patterns of dementia syndromes across the sleepwake cycle, with the goal of improving diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response, and promoting dementia health.

Argentina

Providing primary care dementia training and education packages for general practitioners for improving the early diagnosis of dementia, and developing treatment and prevention strategies.

Berkeley, Calif., United States

Connecting brain science with social justice by hosting, writing and producing the video series “Citizen Brain,” and by creating a theatrical monologue about empathy and democracy.

Producing a radio program about aging and the creative process, showing how brains benefit from musical engagement. Also developing a musical curriculum for adult day health.

BÁRBARA COSTA BEBER

Assistant professor of speech and language pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre, Brazil

CHRISTINE FITZGERALD Postdoctoral researcher, National University of Ireland Galway Galway, Ireland

ELAINE HOWARD Independent consultant, Dementia Focus

HANY IBRAHIM Consultant geriatrician and senior lecturer, Ain Shams University Hospital Cairo, Egypt

SILVIA KOCHEN

Neurologist and director, Neurosences and Complex Systems Unit, Hospital El Cruce Buenos Aires,

JOSH KORNBLUTH Monologuist, filmmaker and video host

HEIDI CLARE LAMBERT Music educator and performer Cotopaxi, Colo., United States

Assistant professor, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine; assistant director, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit St. Louis, United States

Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia. Developing a program in Cuba to train health care providers and educate the community about aging, mental health and dementia.

Senior lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom

Investigating the role of diet in brain aging and dementia by analyzing population data and testing scalable dietary interventions for brain health.

Associate professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Understanding how computerized tools can be integrated into scalable, multidisciplinary interventions for the longterm care of brain health.

Senior researcher, Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Geriatric Medicine; scientific coordinator, Radboudumc Alzheimer Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Understanding and improving strategies to promote physical and cognitive functioning and prevent functional decline, falls, fear of falling and dementia.

FRANÇA RESENDE

Deputy coordinator, Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging at the Brazilian Academy of Neurology

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Studying the effects of latelife literacy acquisition as a dementia prevention tool through improving memory and increasing connections between brain areas.

ADRIÀ ROFES

Assistant professor, University of Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

Enhancing our understanding of brain behavior relations and applying this knowledge to improve assessment and treatment protocols for neurological conditions leading to aphasia.

Multimedia editor, Atlantic Institute

Dublin, Ireland

Hearing from a wide range of people working in the dementia space; her podcast series, “Dementia is Global,” aims to raise global awareness about brain health to change attitudes and policies.

Science writer, Neurology Today

Boise, Idaho, United States

Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a U.S. support group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.

ELISA DE PAULA

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

JAMIE TALAN

JORGE LLIBRE GUERRA

CLAIRE MCEVOY

ROGERIO PANIZZUTTI

GEESKE PEETERS

Chief science officer, Altoida Inc.

Thessaloniki, Greece

Improving computational biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and developing a responsible strategy to implement this technology and utilize machine intelligence for disease prevention.

Developing strategies to address the stress and burden-related stigma among caregivers of patients with early onset dementia, caused by the e280a mutation in Antioquia.

Entrepreneur focused on brain health and equity; owner, Three Home Village Assisted Living facility Fairfax, Calif., United States

Researching how animalassisted therapies and interventions could affect care and improve outcomes in a variety of environments and applications; in particular, the use of therapy dogs with dementia patients.

Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/ Information Technologies Institute

Thessaloniki, Greece

Developing computerized memory tests for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, including the first serious game that older adults can use on their own to screen for signs of subtle cognitive decline.

IOANNIS TARNANAS

LINA VELILLA

Research associate, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia Medellin, Colombia

ADAM WASKOW

STELIOS ZYGOURIS

Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, Khanyo Ngcobo and Paul Modjadi with Tracey Naledi, board member of the Global Brain Health Institute (at the center). Credit: Gustavo Graf.

Associate director, Center for Life Course and Vulnerable Population Research, University of California, San Diego; and assistant professor Solana Beach, Calif., United States

Investigating how the stress of war and displacement affects dementia rates in refugees in the Middle East. Co-designed the Atlantic Fellows Thematic Forum in Jordan for learning about migration and health.

Director of school and community engagement, University of California, San Francisco, Dyslexia Center San Anselmo, Calif., United States

Translating brain health science into mechanisms for cultivating justice and equity in health and education.

Founder and creative director, Virtual Brain Health Center

Poland, Ohio, United States

Developing innovative brain health and memory programs and services. Implementing population health approaches for individuals and carers, aimed at dementia risk prevention.

Clinical lecturer, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast; consultant geriatrician, Queen’s University, Belfast, and The Belfast Trust Belfast, United Kingdom

Advancing perioperative research and care.

Contributing to the global literature on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Associate professor of medicine and sociology, University of California, San Francisco

London and San Francisco, United Kingdom and United States

Examining the influence of structural racism, culture and ethics of neoliberalism on the provision of quality end-of-life care in older adults with and without dementia in the U.S. and U.K.

Associate professor, Departments of Psychology and Neurosciences, Dokuz Eylul University

Izmir, Turkey

Developing and using computerized cognitive training programs as an intervention for people with cognitive impairment and for the prevention of cognitive decline in the aging population.

Deputy director of service policy, design and implementation, NHS England

Dungannon, United Kingdom

Engaging in health care policy development and implementation; and previously developed an advance care planning policy for Northern Ireland.

Neurologist, Clinica de la Sabana, Instituto Roosevelt and Intellectus- Hospital San Ignacio Bogota, Colombia

Conducting epidemiological research to understand better the situation of dementia patients and their caregivers in Bogota. Studying cognitive impairment in different vulnerable populations.

ELIZABETH DZENG

DERYA DURUSU EMEK-SAVAS

CORRINA GRIMES

ALEJANDRA GUERRERO BARRAGÁN

TALA AL-ROUSAN

PHAEDRA BELL

KRYSTAL L. CULLER

EMMA CUNNINGHAM

Associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, United States

Improving models of care and policies for older adults living with, dying from, and grieving dementia, prion disease, and other serious illnesses; currently holds a number of leadership roles in training and research.

Head of the Geriatric Department, Centre Hospitalier Nivelles-Tubize Nivelles, Belgium

Working to create an integrated care facility for the management of patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia.

Experimental psychologist and research fellow, University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Assistant professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, United States

Pursuing the relationship between musical expertise and the development of dementia, and exploring the mechanisms underpinning this association, and music as therapy.

Developing interventional studies targeting improved sleep and cognition, which have the potential to help prevent the onset and progression of dementia in high-risk populations.

Faculty, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Mexico City, Mexico

Part of 10/66 Dementia Research Group, carrying out population-based research into dementia in low- and middle-income countries.

Postdoctoral fellow, Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Researching the relationship between hearing loss and the development of dementia through neurocognitive assessment of older adults with hearing loss.

Clinical fellow in stroke and emergency care, NHS Scotland

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Improving the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of stroke. Developing multicenter studies and programs to diminish stroke risk factors and work to identify populations at high risk of stroke.

Geriatric and internal medicine specialist

Guadalajara, Mexico

Improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies for older adults living with HIV and HIVassociated neurocognitive disorder. Promoting dementia awareness and early diagnosis in Mexico.

MARIANA LONGORIA IBARROLA

DAVID LOUGHREY

JERÓNIMO MARTIN

LUIS ARNOLDO MUÑOZ NEVÁREZ

KRISTA HARRISON

SANDRA HIGUET

CATHERINE JORDAN

YUE LENG

Geriatric medicine specialist

Guadalajara, Mexico

Establishing innovative ways of bringing palliative and supportive care to people with dementia, and developing tangible policies or strategies that raise awareness of advanced directives.

Psychiatrist and sub-investigator, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia; Ph.D. student in clinical medicine, University of Antioquia Medellin, Colombia

Working to determine factors related to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Co-designing a nonpharmacological intervention for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, mild stage and their caregivers.

Havana, Cuba

Introducing technologybased cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.

Neurology resident, University of Louisville

Louisville, Ky., United States

Studying the economic and psychological burden of informal caregiving for dementia in Brazil.

Director, Scientific Programs and

Outreach, Alzheimer’s Association

Chicago, United States

Leading research programs and initiatives to accelerate the Alzheimer’s Association’s scientific agenda.

Head psychologist, Neurological Institute of Athens; staff psychologist, Athens Medical Center

Athens, Greece

Evaluating whether cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is an effective treatment intervention in patients with mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers.

Neurologist and assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

San Francisco, United States

Developing an anatomicalspecific and linguistically adapted Chinese Language Assessment in PPA battery for the Chinese-speaking population. Studying impacts of cultural characteristics on social cognitive functions.

Senior neurologist and sleep physician at the Neurology Department, Movement Disorders and Sleep Division, Sourasky Medical Center. Tel Aviv, Israel

Investigating nonmotor manifestations of synucleinopathies, including cognitive, sleep and autonomic disturbances to be used as biomarkers for this specific group of diseases.

CLAIRE SEXTON

KONSTANTINA SYKARA

BOON LEAD TEE

JENNY ZITSER

BRENDA PÉREZ CERPA

CLAUDIA PATRICIA RAMOS-PEREZ

ANA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ SALGADO Neuropsychologist

TALITA ROSA

Deputy director, Centre for Genomic and Precision Medicine, University of Ibadon; senior research fellow, Neuroscience and Ageing Research Unit

Ibadan, Nigeria

Nurturing leaders in Africa for collaborative work to improve brain health. Clinical, research and advocacy work focusing on vascular and degenerative brain disorders.

Developing engagement in accessible participative music as a resource for social inclusion, communicative partnerships and community integration across the lifespan. Training musicians and health professionals in communicative musical interaction.

Cape Town, South Africa

Working to make epidemiological data on brain health in Africa more accessible by wrangling routine data into interactive data visualizations to inform policy and research.

Senior research fellow, Centre for Dementia Research, Leeds Beckett University

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Promoting inclusive policies to support and improve the quality of life from early adulthood to older age.

Associate professor, Department of Health and Communication, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Santa Maria, Brazil

Promoting the social inclusion of older adults living with aphasia and raising awareness of health professionals to the power of art in improving communication and the quality of life.

Director of marketing and business development, Age NI (Northern Ireland)

Holywood, United Kingdom

Driving change in the aging agenda to improve the wellbeing of older people.

Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another’s humanity. Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigma around age and race.

Developing strategies to reduce the economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia through public policy interventions that better support individuals, family care partners, and the public programs that fund care.

RUFUS AKINYEMI

JANE BENTLEY Music specialist Glasgow, United Kingdom

KIRSTY BOBROW Public health physician and epidemiologist

LAURA BOOI

LENISA BRANDAO

SIOBHAN CASEY

GABRI CHRISTA Associate professor of professional Practice; director of Movement Lab, Barnard College, Colombia University New York, United States

WALTER DAWSON Assistant professor, Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Ore., United States

MYRIAM DE LA CRUZ PUEBLA

Neurologist/researcher, Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute; Ph.D. student, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Evaluating a music-based rehabilitation program for stroke patients and deepening understanding of the neurological mechanisms underlying conditions to improve treatment.

LAIS FAJERSZTAJN

Associate researcher, Laboratory of Environmental and Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Investigating urban and environmental health to understand the effects of air pollution on neurodegenerative diseases.

MIRIAM GALVIN

Associate professor in intersectional research methodology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Working on research tracking patient and caregiver journeys, interaction with health services, as well as the conceptualization and assessment of quality of life and caregiver experiences.

SANA-E-ZEHRA HAIDRY

Scientific researcher and research consultant, University of Groningen; research consultant, Hashmanis Hospital Castricum, Netherlands

Employing a model to destigmatize, prevent and manage dementia. Addressing the lack of awareness about dementia in low- and middle-income countries.

AGUSTÍN IBAÑEZ

Professor/director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; associate research professor and research group team leader, GBHI, Trinity Dublin, Ireland

Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.

STEFANIA ILINCA

Technical adviser for longterm care, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Vienna, Austria

Focusing on innovation and service design in health and long-term care systems, strengthening care delivery for people with complex needs, supporting integrated care models and improving access to needed care over the life course.

OPHIR KERET

Senior neurologist, Clalit Health Services, Rabin Medical Center

Petah Tikva, Israel

Determining the unique features of young onset Alzheimer’s and dementia in diverse and disparate populations of Israel.

EMI KIYOTA

Associate professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore

Creating socially integrated communities that value elders through Ibasho (a notfor-profit organization) and consulting in the design of communities and cities.

Lima, Peru

Assistant professor and neuropsychologist, University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana

Using photography to create social awareness of how older Peruvians living in different regions of the country age, focusing on how different living conditions influence the aging process for better or worse.

Leading efforts to improve dementia diagnosis by translating, culturally adapting and validating tablet-based and paper-based cognitive and functional assessments for the Botswana population.

General practitioner, MD Link

London, United Kingdom

Developing a home-based primary care program for cognitively impaired, isolated older adults in rural Jamaica.

Assistant professor in intellectual disability, Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Including people with Down syndrome in all aspects of dementia research.

Neuropsychologist, São Paulo, Brazil, postdoc at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

São Paulo, Brazil

Advancing dementia research, prevention and treatment with multicultural populations. Developing strategies to evaluate cognition in populations with low levels of education. Working on developing screening tools to identify cognitive decline.

Doctoral researcher, Genetics of Aging and Neurodegenerative Dieases, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, United States

Establishing best practice for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dementia, supported by the development of an international, multidisciplinary network.

Neurologist and researcher, Instituto Peruano de Neurosciencias

Lima, Peru

Specializing in dementia prevention, timely diagnosis, and proper management; seeking to contribute to the reduction of health inequities among vulnerable populations.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Making brain health practical and relevant. Promoting an understanding of traditional and cultural practices which promote brain health.

MAIRA OKADA DE OLIVEIRA

STEFANIE PIÑA-ESCUDERO

MARITZA PINTADO-CAIPA

KIRTI RANCHOD Neurologist

ALEX KORNHUBER Photographer

LINGANI MBAKILE MAHLANZA

SHAMIEL MCFARLANE

EIMEAR MCGLINCHEY

Dance

San Francisco, United States

Promoting positive aging through movement-based, creative engagement with elders in various settings.

Research assistant professor, Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Investigating trajectories of frailty and cognitive decline among older adults in Ireland and how these trajectories impact on patterns and costs of care, functional decline and caregiver burden.

Professor and associate director, Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology, The American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt

Leading the Egyptian Longitudinal Study of Aging to try to reshape the current understanding of aging.

Neuro-psychiatrist,

San Jose, Costa Rica

Developing mental health strategies for successful aging and leading efforts to understand and optimize treatments for people living with dementia.

Writer, artist, and anthropologist

South Burlington, Vt., United States

Practicing a blend of creative writing, comics, art and anthropology, and believing in the power of the arts for social change. Offering ways to heal from and end global challenges of dehumanization, dementia, racism, and genocide.

Brain

Great Shefford, United Kingdom

Improving cognitive, medical and care outcomes through evidence-based design of hospitals, housing, towns and cities and care settings. Advocating for design that supports people living with cognitive and sensory impairments.

Principal architect, DDS Architects Ltd.

Great Shefford, United Kingdom

Translating research and inclusive building design principles into everyday use to ensure they are accessible to people living with cognitive and/or sensory impairments.

Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English, California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, Calif., United States

Recently published “Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain,” written with Dr. Bruce Miller, based on her experience of coming to terms with her father’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

DANA WALRATH

GREG WALSH

Health specialist and co-founder, DDS Architects

FIONA WALSH

CINDY WEINSTEIN

ROWENA RICHIE

theater artist and movement educator

LORNA ROE

MOHAMED SALAMA

JORGE MARIO LEON SALAS

Hospital Clinica Biblica

Physician and clinical academic in cardiovascular prevention and brain health

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Working to treat patients presenting for management of hypertension and primary prevention of heart disease and stroke.

Arts in Health practitioner; founder, Arts, Culture, and Health Collaborative Ethiopia; theater producer, director and writer Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Designing and promoting art-based interventions and culturally oriented prototypes to enhance the health care system for mental health, dementia, Down syndrome, and post-conflict trauma. Promoting study, application and training in arts in health.

Founder and executive director, Arts in Medicine Projects

Manchester, United Kingdom

Advancing arts in health innovation and collaboration through interdisciplinary practice in the global south and north to support institutions and individuals working with different populations.

Senior lecturer (associate professor) in global health policy, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Improving understanding of the impact of health and social care system design on patterns of care and spending for those with dementia and their families/ caregivers. Aiming to reduce the devastating financial toll of dementia.

Coordinator, age-friendly cities’ protocols, International Longevity Center Brazil; director in successful aging and dementias, Crônicos do Dia a Dia Porto Alegre, Brazil

Exploring positive ways to communicate dementia with empathy and compassion in different settings: from books to social networks to connect different generations.

Sphere Scholar, School of Public Health, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Researching the relationship between cognitive reserve and cognitive decline by analyzing population data from high-, middle- and low-income countries to identify mid-life risk factors for dementias. Developing a training program for caregivers.

Lecturer and consultant, Ain Shams University

Fifth Settlement, Cairo, Egypt

Improving the lives of people living with cognitive impairment by providing the best clinical settings and maximizing the research outcomes to patients with dementia in Egypt.

FERNANDO AGUZZOLI-PERES

ARIANNA ALMIRALL SÁNCHEZ

AYA ASHOUR

MERON SISAY ABEY

KUNLE ADEWALE

EMILY ADRION

WILBY WILLIAMSON

Assistant

Seattle, United States

Promoting resilience, brain health and well-being for health care teams. Developing support for people engaging in equity work, expanding practices and competencies for distress tolerance.

Vic, Spain

Developing strategies to increase the understanding of how risk factors render the sex-specific brain vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology. Developing personalized prevention programs.

Lima, Peru

Leading efforts to run a behavioral neurology clinic in Peru. Creating a network in frontotemporal dementia and exploring difficulties relating to diagnosis. Researching the validation of cognitive screening tests and the genetics of dementia.

Associate professor in neurogeriatrics, CHU LilleUniversity of Lille Lille, France

Developing collaboration between pre-clinical and clinical work, and between neurology and geriatrics. Leading a translational work of a murine model and a cohort of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

Developing and strengthening long-term care and social care systems and practices, so they become more equitable through inclusion and by enhancing the quality of life for people with cognitive impairment.

Examining the role of lifestyle factors on the aging brain, with the aim of developing targeted lifestyle interventions that promote healthy brain aging.

Exploring the health and well-being benefits of participating in the arts in health practice for people living with dementia and their families.

Working for the Galician Health Service as a clinician with an interest in dementia and behavioral neurology. Aiming to improve communication between clinicians and patients, and increase patient access to nonpharmacological care and support.

SARAH D’ALESSIO

Policy analyst, Ministry of Health, Government of Bermuda Hamilton, Bermuda

NAIARA DEMNITZ Postdoctoral researcher, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance Copenhagen, Denmark

KARIN DIAMOND

Artistic director, Re-Live Cardiff, United Kingdom

CLARA DOMINGUEZ VIVERO Neurologist, Servicio Galego de Saúde Santiago de Compostela, Spain

ANNE BROWNING

dean for well-being, School of Medicine, The University of Washington

ANNA BRUGULAT-SERRAT

Neuropsychologist and postdoctoral researcher, Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center

SHEILA CASTRO-SUAREZ

Neurologist, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas

YAOHUA CHEN

Neurologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Alzheimer’s Unit, and in other cognitive disorders, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Developing strategies to improve the diagnostictherapeutic framework in Alzheimer’s disease, especially considering the atypical presentations. Currently working with sleep-related biomarkers.

Research fellow, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, United States

Unraveling the neural mechanisms that underlie the emergence of visual artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia.

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital

Mechelen, Belgium

Engaging in mixed-methods research and development of interventions to address (palliative) care needs and improve quality of life throughout the care trajectory of older adults, including those with dementia and other serious illnesses.

Assistant professor of ethnomusicology; chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz., United States

Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning. Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.

Researcher, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development Limoges, France

Developing new aging and brain health research in sub-Saharan Africa to better understand the burden of dementia and raise awareness. Encouraging initiatives that support caregivers and train health care professionals.

Assistant professor of nursing, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

San Francisco, United States

Evaluating existing and developing new models of hospice and palliative care for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.

Head of Unidad de la Memoria en el Hospital El Pilar and Neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Barcelona, Spain

Researching and leading a multidisciplinary clinic to improve the diagnosis and clinical care of people living with frontotemporal dementia and their families.

Nairobi, Kenya

Leading efforts to increase understanding of brain health among health care workers and the general population in Kenya, with a focus on age-related neurodegenerative disorders.

MAËLENN GUERCHET

LAUREN HUNT

IGNACIO ILLÁN GALA

WAMBUI KARANJA Consultant

NEUS FALGÀS MARTINEZ

ADIT FRIEDBERG

JONI GILISSEN

JENNIE GUBNER

IRINA KINCHIN

Health economist, Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

Strengthening local health and social care planning in the face of limited resources through the use of economic evaluation toward outcomeorientated provision by commissioners and providers of health and care services.

BEATRIZ MARCELA

MAR MEZA

Coordinator, MMENTE program; head of clinical intervention, LatAmFINGER-Perú, Hospital

Central Fuerza Aérea del Perú

Lima, Peru

Working to develop a comprehensive care program for the management of patients with cognitive disorders and caregiver support. Developing geriatric services to optimize care of chronic diseases, such as dementia, affecting the Peruvian elderly.

Certificated music therapist; host/producer of “Can You Hear Me?” audio program

Woburn, Mass., United States

Using music for individual and community aims, with a particular interest in equitable access to creative wellness opportunities for people of all ages and levels of ability or experience.

Neuroscientist, FUESMEN

- Fundación Escuela Medicina Nuclear

Mendoza, Argentina

Researching new neuroimaging biomarkers of neurodegeneration and the artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis of dementia.

DIDEM ÖZ

Associate professor and neurologist, Dokuz

Eylul University

Izmir, Turkey

IEVA PETKUTĖ

Creative director, Socialinai meno projektai; co-founder/ lead, Association Dementia Lithuania; research assistant, Global Brain Health Institute

Vilnius, Lithuania

Developing an electroencephalography model to monitor the electrical activity of the brain for diagnosis and differentiation of dementia, and investigating clinicopathological correlation.

Leading local and international arts, health and well-being initiatives developed with heart and shaped considering accessibility, inclusivity, based on cross-disciplinary collaboration and aiming for societal change.

SILVIA RODRIGO-HERRERO

Consultant neurologist and neuropsychologist, Hospital

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Punta Humbria, Huelva, Spain

Researching early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in patients around the region of Andalusia (Spain), especially in patients with a low educational level.

Neurologist, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Developing nonpharmacological interventions and introducing technology-based tools that may be integrated into current health programs for older adults and patients with dementia.

NICOLE ROGERS CASTILLO

CHEYENNE MIZE

SEBASTIAN MOGUILNER

Malmo, Sweden

Conducting research on the health care utilization of people living with dementia and their caregivers, primarily in Sweden. Estimating the costeffectiveness of different interventions in clinical settings.

Public

Lagos, Nigeria

Researching environmental risk factors for brain health and planetary health, focusing on Alzheimer’s disease, arts and health interventions, urban design mental health awareness and research.

Assistant professor, Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Unraveling the genetic underpinnings and neural mechanisms of lifestyle factors in patients living with dementia.

Neuropsychologist and researcher, Clinical and Scientific Institutes Maugeri Bari Bari, Puglia, Italy

Researching and treating cognitive, language and communication disorders in patients with primary progressive aphasia.

Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University; affiliated researcher, California Institute of Rural Studies

Fresno, Calif., United States

Developing communitydriven approaches to research, and creative teaching and learning around aging, brain health, and Disability Justice in rural and immigrant communities in California.

Social

São Paulo, Brazil

Founder of Reliving Memories social program that uses passion (football, music, cinema, and literature) as cognitive and social activities for older adults and people with dementia; working as a filmmaker and storyteller for social impact projects.

Adviser, Ministry of Health, The Republic of Lithuania

Vilnius, Lithuania

Advising on long-term care coordination and implementation at the Ministry of Health of The Republic of Lithuania.

Research assistant professor, Northwestern University; visiting researcher, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Researching early risk factors for dementia and working with community partners to promote brain health and well-being across the lifespan.

CARLOS CHECHETTI

entrepreneur, filmmaker and storyteller

MARIUS ČIURLIONIS

FRANCESCA FARINA

FUNMI AKINDEJOYE

health specialist

FAHEEM ARSHAD

PETRONILLA BATTISTA

SANJIB SAHA

Researcher, Lund University

DVERA SAXTON

SARAH FOX

Patient and public involvement and engagement officer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Bury, United Kingdom

Working with people living with dementia and their friends and families to empower them to play an active role in shaping research and policy.

ADOLFO GARCÍA

Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andres; associate researcher, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Mar del Plata, Argentina

Combining neuroscience and language science to capture early markers of neurodegenerative disorders.

GRÁINNE HOPE

Founder and director, Music & Health Ireland; professional cellist Meath, Ireland

Working to improve the experience and quality of life for those living with dementia through music.

Dancer, researcher and creative aging teaching artist

New York City, United States

Building creative communities with people living with dementia through the transformative power of dance. Researching and advocating for the value and role of the arts in brain health across the life course.

DEARBHLA KELLY

Clinical research fellow/ Ph.D. candidate, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke & Dementia, Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford Boston, United States

Researching the overlap between renal and neurological diseases.

HANAN KHALIL

Associate professor, Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology Irbid, Jordan

Working to increase awareness, improve patient care and improve understanding of mental health through epidemiological and intervention research.

TOMÁS LEÓN

Psychiatrist, teaching course coordinator and speaker, Hospital del Salvador, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, and Universidad de Chile Santiago, Chile

Researching dementia care, implementation of memory units, dementia teaching, and psychopharmacology in the elderly.

MILTON LÓPEZ

Associate professor, Department of Preventive Medicine School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua). Managua, Nicaragua

Practicing geriatric and gerontology medicine, with a strong passion for providing primary care and clinical care to the elderly people in nursing homes, rural and urban communities.

MAGDA KACZMARSKA

NAHUEL MAGRATH GUIMET

Mananging director and clinical neuropsychiatrist, Ageing and Memory Centre, Neurological Research Institute

Raúl Carrea (FLENI)

Lincoln, Argentina

Researching frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and education.

BERENICE WERLE

Director, Moriguchi Institute; vice president, Brazilian Geriatrics Society

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Creating friendly and accessible environments for people with dementia, caregivers and family members of people with dementia.

Clinical neuropsychologist; member of the Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology Group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Brazil (UFMG)

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Using research to improve diagnosis and to make cognitive-behavioral evaluation simpler and more accurate.

Head of geriatrics and medical director, Sabar Health

Kefar Sava, Israel

Practicing and building different models of care, trying to find a balance between giving the patients the best care, reducing hospitalization, and tailoring personal treatment options.

KAREN MEENAN

Patient and public involvement and communications/dissemination coordinator, HRB Dementia Clinical Trials Nework Ireland, Dementia Trials Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Working with people living with dementia and their carers, developing theater and radio broadcasts. In particular working with people affected with Lewy Body Disorders and their caregivers to raise awareness of this disease and build community.

Harare, Zimbabwe

Researching interventions for dementia that are culturally acceptable for use in Zimbabwe, and establishing how technology can be utilized to carry out these interventions.

Clinical consultant, San Francisco Department of Public Health

Richmond, Calif., United States

Working to create a collaboration across subSaharan Africa to ensure the prioritization of brain health in public health.

Principal investigator, Computational Neurogenomics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Brisbane, Australia

Using big data, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to investigate the genetic and neuroanatomical basis of neurodegenerative diseases in diverse global populations, with a focus on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

PRIMROSE NYAMAYARO Research manager, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe

OBIORA OKOYE

MIGUEL RENTERÍA

LUCIANO MARIANO

INBAL MAYAN

SUSANNE ROEHR

Associate professor, Massey University

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Using cohort studies and epidemiological methods to identify modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia as well as their social determinants. Conducting lifestyle interventions to mitigate dementia risk.

MOLLIE ROSE

Owner and teacher, Pilates in Common

San Francisco, United States

Working to increase equity in the health care system by exposing a wider population to preventative movement practices.

NICKY TAYLOR

Research fellow, Leeds Beckett University; Theatre and Dementia Research Associate, Leeds Playhouse Leeds, United Kingdom

Working toward more hopeful narratives of dementia by creating opportunities for people living with dementia to be at the heart of research and the stories we tell.

KURIPACHA TITUAÑA VEGA

Geriatric physician; part-time teacher in the technological career of integral care for the elderly at Pontificia Universidad

Católica Sede Ibarra

Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador

Developing programs that serve older people living with dementia, especially in Indigenous people living in poverty.

MARÍA MARTHA

UNAUCHO PILALUMBO

Neurophysiologist; neurologist, Hospital Universidad Tecnica

Particular de Loja

Loja, Ecuador

Improving the lives of people living with dementia through neurological diagnosis and management.

LINA ZAPATA

Psychiatrist and researcher, Fundación Valle del Lili

Cali, Colombia

Working to improve brain health care, focusing on dementia prevention, dementia diagnosis, individualized treatments, and genetics research of neurodegenerative diseases in diverse populations.

JONATHAN ADRIÁN

ZEGARRA VALDIVIA

Postdoctoral researcher, Achucarro Basque Center for Neurocience; Cajal Institute, CSIC; and School of Medicine, UAM, Madrid

Bilbao, Spain

Working to identify biomarkers for early detection of mild cognitive impairment and dementia through the study of neurobiology, metabolism and brain health physiology.

Neurologist; postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pa., United States

Researching the impact of imaging and bloodbased biomarkers in characterizing and predicting neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Turkey

Working to improve diagnoses of neurodegenerative dementias to identify cognitive disorders and increase the future quality of this research and clinical care.

Project lead, Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality, University of Luxembourg; founder, Project We Forgot Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Using design and development to enable brainhealthy communities and interventions for persons living with dementia and their carers.

Researching blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease to identify lowcost, minimally invasive biomarkers for early diagnosis.

San Francisco, United States

Spreading awareness of dementia through clinical research. Promoting the idea of embracing aging, learning from previous generations through younger generations connecting with the them.

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Working with artists and scientists to help build intergenerational connections between people living with dementia, caregivers and the broader community.

Bridging biography, brain health and neuroscience through the creation of multidisciplinary performance and written works.

Developing policies and strategies that support the strengthening of the health system in response to an aging population and dementia.

TSELMEN DARIA Postdoctoral researcher, Gladstone Institute

GILLIAN FALLON Volunteer organizer, Wesleyan University

DOMINIC GATELY Actor, writer and theater-maker Leeds, United Kingdom

MUTHONI GICHU Head, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Ministry of Health, Kenya Embu, Kenya

CRISTIANO SCHAFFER AGUZZOLI

YAVUZ AYHAN Faculty member and associate professor of psychiatry, Hacettepe University Ankara,

MELISSA CHAN

MARCIA COMINETTI Associate professor, Federal University of São Carlos São Carlos, Brazil

SANDRA GIMÉNEZ

Faculty sleep medicine specialist, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Researching sleep in patients with neurodegenerative processes and assessing the relationship between sleep disturbances and the risk of cognitive decline.

RAQUEL GUTIÉRREZ

ZÚÑIGA Neurologist

Madrid, Spain

Evaluating and treating patients with cognitive decline associated with vascular brain damage, and studying better ways to help them.

Attending physician, Stroke and Cognition Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus Eilabun, Israel

Reducing social disparities and creating dementia diagnosis and testing methods for different cultures, especially for those in need from low socioeconomic status, for timely diagnoses and treatment.

Neuropsychologist and postdoctoral scholar, University of California San Francisco, United States

Examining the effects of racism and gendered racism on the cognitive functioning of Black older adults; examining how psychological coping strategies influence this stress-cognition relationship.

FASIHAH IRFANI FITRI

Neurologist, Universitas Sumatera Utara

Medan, Indonesia

Developing cognitive tools for a culturally diverse population to improve early detection of dementia and cognitive screening programs. Conducting public campaigns to raise awareness of dementia.

Postdoctoral researcher, Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital

Santander, Spain

Working to achieve earlier and more accurate diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Research coordinator with the outreach program at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco Buenos Aires, Argentina

Leading research and promoting evidence about the nutritional effect and importance of oral habits in the development of dementia.

Founder and chairperson, Leaders Who Dare To Dream Foundation

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

Using arts activism and advocacy work to push for robust programs that cater to at-risk members of our communities.

CARMEN LAGE-MARTÍNEZ

LUIS MARTINEZ

PAUL MODJADJI

RAFI HADAD

TANISHA HILL-JARRETT

Scientist, KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network; assistant professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada

Investigating sex- and gender-specific risk factors at the population level to support dementia prevention and progression.

Specialist psychiatrist and honorary lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, South Africa

Undertaking dementia clinical care and research aimed at improving service provision in a local context. Exploring and promoting locally appropriate and person-centered dementia care.

Applied neuroscience research manager, Teknon Medical Center

Barcelona, Spain

Developing new neuroimaging techniques to identify the network implicated in Alzheimer’s disease as an optimal target for noninvasive brain stimulation.

Dublin, Ireland

Creating work about the indeterminate relationship between humans and space. Producing spaces that are transformative and stimulate the senses for one’s milieu and well-being. Developing an art practice that is more inclusive.

Chief medical officer and specialist public health physician/ senior lecturer, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital

Nnewi, Nigeria

Creating global awareness of brain health and evidencebased research. Deploying cognitive assessment tools for use in primary health care facilities in lower- and middle-income countries to aid in dementia screening, diagnosis and demystification.

Doctoral researcher, University College London

London, United Kingdom

Exploring the psychosocial dimensions and cultural factors that shape how people of Black ethnicity experience and respond to dementia.

Associate research professor, Institute of Translational and Cognitive Neuroscience

Bogotá, Colombia

Promoting public policies for brain health in Colombia and other Latin American countries based on the interactions between epigenetics, environmental factors and social determinants of health.

Associate professor, Inje University

Busan, Korea, Republic of Aiming to provide an interdisciplinary, clientcentered approach to dementia based on a comprehensive assessment of cognitive function and the preferences of dementia patients.

CHUKWUANUGO OGBUAGU

MOÏSE ROCHE

HERNANDO SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA

SO YOUNG SHIN

TATYANA MOLLAYEVA

KHANYO NTOKOZO NGCOBO

RAFAL NOWAK

MICK O’KELLY Artist

Stanford, Calif., United States

Developing technology to build an objective, personalized and preemptive brain health future, as well as developing neuroscienceinspired policy to put brain health at the center of socioeconomic recovery and resilience.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Treating patients with psychological and behavioral symptoms of dementia, and psychoeducating caregivers on how they can help relatives without compromising their own psychological stability.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Building new knowledge and skills in developing quality scientific evidence, creating public awareness and informing policymakers in order to reduce stigma and enhance the quality of life for people with dementia.

ERIN SMITH

Student and researcher, Stanford University

SELAM YOSEPH

Assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Psychiatry Training Program, Addis Ababa University

YARED ZEWDE

Head of neurology, Addis Ababa University

From left: Atlantic Fellows Berenice Werle, Luciano Mariano, Lenisa Brandao, Fernando Aguzzoli, Barbara Costa Beber, and Maira Okada de Oliveira (not pictured) lead a Patient Public Voice meeting at Instituto Moriguchi in Brazil. Credit: Global Brain Health Institute.

Fellow in cognitive and behavioral neurology, Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Centre, Israel

Sakhnin, Israel

Specializing in cognitive and behavioral neurology to understand genetic, lingual, and psychosocial differences in dementia.

Research and training director, Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Advocating for dementia through research, training, care and raising awareness.

Assistant professor, School of Medicine, Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Albert Einstein Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exploring delirium and understanding its long-term effects on cognition, function and survival.

Assistant professor of neurology, Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Improving dementia prevention, diagnosis, care and public awareness of dementia in Ethiopia.

Filmmaking and screenwriting instructor, Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop

Long Beach, Calif., United States

Creating informed and empathetic narratives of dementia through film and television direction and screenwriting.

Playwright, North Coast Repertory Theater

Beverly Hills, Calif., United States

Harnessing creativity and empathy to help us on this journey to brain health.

Associate director, Learning and Teaching, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania

Taroona, Australia

Researching live imaging of brain circuitry to visualize synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex and structural rearrangements in response to injury, aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Associate professor, Department of Neurology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea

Providing clinical care and conducting research on dementia and cognitive impairment to improve global brain health.

MAISON ABU RAYA

MOHAMMED ANBESSIE

THIAGO AVELINO DA SILVA

BINIYAM AYELE

ZACHARY BANDLER

JAKE BRODER

ALISON CANTY

HANNA CHO

Founder, teacher and administrator, Artelírica Arts and Music Academy

Medellin, Colombia

Using music and movement to improve quality of life for people living with dementia.

Co-founder and project director, Samvedna Senior Care

Gurugram, India

Specializing in neuropsychology and providing services for people living with dementia and mental health conditions.

Medical scientific researcher, the National Institute of Public Health Cuernavaca, Mexico

Undertaking public health research related to nutrition, aging and cognitive function in older adults, with the aim of developing effective nutritional interventions.

Associate professor, Neurology Department, Cairo University

Cairo, Egypt

Raising awareness about neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular focus on Huntington’s disease, among health professionals and the public to improve the quality of care.

EMMANUEL EPENGE

Assistant professor, Protestant University of Congo

Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Researching cognitive and biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease and caring for patients with cognitive disorders.

MACARENA ESPINA

Assistant to professor, research assistant, designer, University of Chile, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

La Unión, Chile

Working as a designer on transdisciplinary projects which aim to understand and address the needs of users in situations of vulnerability, such as people with dementia.

SOL FITTIPALDI

Team leader in cognitive neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andres (UdeSA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Researching socio-cognitive processes in people living with neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders, with the goal of improving early diagnosis and prevention.

Research assistant and project lead, Health Equity Action Research Lab, Western University

London, Canada

Identifying culturally safe lifestyle strategies to reduce dementia risk and promote brain health and healthy aging in Indigenous populations.

JOYLA FURLANO

CATHY CORREA-LOPERA

JAYASHREE DASGUPTA

VANESSA DE LA CRUZ

SHAIMAA EL-JAAFARY

Psychiatrist and head of Neurogenetics Research Center, Neurogenetics Research Center, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas

Lima, Peru

Exploring and promoting the connection between the arts and brain health through music, writing and performance.

Establishing research collaborations to improve access and care for individuals with dementia across diverse populations.

Associate professor and vice president for academic affairs,

Sakhnin, Israel

Using expertise in gerontology and nursing to improve and promote the cognitive reserve by increasing social activities, education and more.

Engaging in policy analysis, stakeholder engagement and political advocacy to campaign and develop research partnerships to improve the lives of people with brain injury and their families.

Rockville, Md., United States

Improving the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers through innovation across arts programs, grants, communications and policy.

Using economic theories to study the social and economic values of health and social care and develop policies that improve value and achieve more equitable service distribution.

Studying and researching the potential use of dance as a complementary therapy to promote the quality of life and well-being for older adults with and without neurological disorders.

Teaching and researching healthy aging, vulnerable populations, older people’s health, health systems, and implementation science to improve global brain health.

MICHELLE MOSESEISENSTEIN

Public health analyst, Health Resources and Service Administration

KIM-HUONG NGUYEN Research fellow, The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia

ALINE NOGUEIRA HAAS

Associate professor, Department of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Porto Alegre, Brazil

DOYIN OGUNYEMI Senior lecturer, Department of Community Health and Primary Care, University of Lagos Lagos, Nigeria

MIKE HANRAHAN Author/musician/ songwriter/ performer, Dublin, Ireland

MARYENELA ILLANES

RABIA KHALAILA

Zefat Academic College

GRÁINNE MCGETTRICK Policy and research manager, Acquired Brain Injury Ireland Bray, Ireland

VERONICA ROJAS

CARSTENSEN

Mixed media instructor, Creative Growth Art Center

Berkeley, Calif., United States

Using the arts to serve adults with developmental disabilities or older adults, many with dementia.

PRABHA SHRESTHA

Nursing lecturer (adult/geriatric nursing), Kathmandu University

School of Medical Sciences

Banepa, Nepal

Providing geriatric nursing care and training, assessing cognitive health, and researching challenges of older adults.

LUCY STIRLAND

Postdoctoral clinical lecturer, University of Edinburgh Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Providing care of dementia and mental illnesses in older people and conducting research on the brain health and mental health of people with multiple chronic conditions.

NATALIA TRUJILLO

Full professor, University of Antioquia

Sabaneta, Colombia

Evaluating bio-cognitive markers to improve preventive actions against dementia

VALENTINE UCHEAGWU

Lecturer and researcher, Psychology Department, Nnamdi

Azikiwe University Awka

Onitsha, Nigeria

Identifying affordable diagnostic markers for predicting the early onset of dementia in resource poor settings.

CHI UDEH-MOMOH

Postdoctoral researcher, Imperial College London

Worcester Park, United Kingdom

Developing a multidisciplinary dementia prevention strategy to improve health outcomes

ANUSHA YASODA-MOHAN

Postdoctoral research associate, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

Researching the mechanism of action of tinnitus, which shares risk factors with dementia; advocating for brain health literacy through the transdisciplinary collaboration of arts and science.

Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Claire Sexton, addresses a crowd at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego, U.S., in July 2022.

Credit: Camellia Latta.

Combating health disparities and promoting equity.

BASED AT THE FITZHUGH MULLAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH WORKFORCE EQUITY

Engaging in advocacy, technical assistance and program coordination to improve public health in Uganda.

Associate professor of emergency medicine, Bellevue New York University Medical Center New York, United States

Chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, American Association of Colleges of Nursing Hillsborough, N.C., United States

Supporting survivors of torture and refugees, advocating and researching the medical and mental health effects of immigration, and looking for new collaborations and vistas.

Leading efforts that increase understanding and dismantle the historical and current system structures that are barriers to higher education and inclusive practices within those institutions.

Washington, D.C., United States

Advising on quantitative data and other measures to better understand and address health equity issues for veterans.

Nursing student, Duke University

Portland, Maine, United States

Integrating data and information from clinical, socioeconomic and environmental sources to advance evidence-based practices that optimize outcomes and address inequities.

Partnering through telehealth with individuals living medically and socially complex lives to help them navigate the challenges of their health and the health care system.

Washington, D.C., United States

Leading strategies and community to advance social mission across the training programs and institutions educating and deploying the U.S. health workforce.

Chief of the family medicine section, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates

Bethesda, Md., United States

Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training focused on transforming health care delivery systems aimed at improving access, quality of care and cost effectiveness for vulnerable populations.

THOMAS MERRILL

SCOTT NASS

Regional medical director, Aledade Santa Rosa, Calif., United States

TOYESE OYEYEMI

Executive director, Social Mission Alliance

MARIA PORTELA MARTINEZ

MARY AJWANG

Program officer, UNAIDS Kampala, Uganda

SARAH BATTISTICH

BRIGIT M. CARTER

KENNETH T. JONES

Supervisory program analyst and data lead, VHA Office of Health Equity

Enhancing mental health service delivery by providing equitable policies grounded in human rights.

Leading research and monitoring and evaluation of maternal and child health interventions in India to assess whether rural public health interventions are delivered effectively and equitably.

Providing inspiration, instigation and support for projects, organizations and foundations focused on equity, social justice and authentic community engagement.

Supporting Indigenous communities and city, county and state COVID-19 responses with Partners In Health to implement equitable pandemic responses as well as stronger public health systems.

Tallahassee, Fla., United States

Leading in family medicine and rural health to promote health equity for underrepresented communities and champion well-being globally via partnership, engagement, primary care, research and education.

Teaching on global health and human rights, the right to health, mental health and the social determinants of health; and coordinating interdisciplinary and international research on these themes.

Providing subject matter expertise to support clinical growth among Veteran Affairs hospitals in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

JOEDRECKA S. BROWN SPEIGHTS Professor and chair of family medicine and rural health, College of Medicine, Florida State University

CARLA A. ARENA VENTURA Full professor, College of Nursing, University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

YVONNE YIU

Health systems specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Irvine, Calif., United States

CAROLINE MAE RAMIREZ Physician and mental health advocate Taguig City, Philippines

NEHA RAYKAR Associate director, IDinsight New Delhi, India

ZULAYKA SANTIAGO

Founder and creative director, Libélula Consulting Durham, N.C., United States

SARA SELIG Associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, United States

Assistant professor, University of North Texas Health Science Center

Euless, Texas, United States

Practicing health care in a local public health department, working primarily in infectious disease management. Serving patients and the community, advocating for health equity for all.

Chief executive officer, Greening Youth Foundation

Atlanta, United States

Introducing at-risk, underrepresented and system-involved youth to the transformative and healing power of the outdoors.

Family and community medicine physician, Contra Costa Health Services; core faculty, Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program

San Francisco, United States

Bringing a radical love, tender heart and strident values to reimagine and cultivate spaces of belonging where we can collectively heal, dismantle racism and oppression, and manifest equity and justice.

Executive director and lecturer in law, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, UC Hastings College of Law

Menlo Park, Calif., United States

Developing medical-legal collaborations in education, research and clinical service that advance equity in the care of older adults.

Director of student health services, Gallaudet University.

Washington, D.C., United States

Providing patientcentered primary care to multicultural, urban underserved patients, including deaf adults and children. Implementing “food as medicine” programs.

Vice chair of equity and associate professor, University of California, San Francisco

Oakland, Calif., United States

Challenging the status quo of health care, developing curricula for equity-focused health professions, and pursuing healthier societies.

Secretary of health, Municipality of Quilmes

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Living to pursue health equity and social justice in Argentina. Working every day to contribute toward guaranteeing health as a human right.

Public health specialist and adjunct associate professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India New Delhi, India

Working with a keen interest in reproductive and child health, adolescent health, health communications, health equity and advocacy/ policy.

JAMES HUANG

V. KAI KENNEDY

JONATAN KONFINO

ANJALI SINGH KULKARNI

AMANDA BROSNAN

LESFORD H. DUNCAN

ANGELA T. ECHIVERRI

SARAH M. HOOPER

Leading the primary health care program that will ensure provision of quality, accessible, affordable and equitable health care to rural communities in the Philippines.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Supporting global LGBTQ+ leaders, championing health equity in government programs and funding opportunities, and curating fashion art that expands society’s understanding on gender diversity.

Strengthening clinical operations to optimize health outcomes and workforce development at a federally qualified health center that provides care in underresourced communities in Chicago.

Practicing general dentistry, directing a youth nonprofit organization to develop a generation of health care leaders to care for underresourced communities, and writing children’s books to inspire.

Inpatient medical director, Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Services, George Washington University Hospital

Washington, D.C., United States

Improving health care access and quality across multiple domains by overseeing consultation and inpatient psychiatric services. Working to decrease stigma in mental health, and caring for marginalized populations.

Leading medical services for the Sierra Leone army and clinical services to protect against COVID-19.

Developing a strategy for reforming school-based health and physical activity in U.S. schools.

DEBORRAH G. LIAO Municipal health officer, Gamay Rural Health Unit Gamay, Northern Samar, Philippines

JORDI LUKE

Chief executive officer, Haus of Transcendent

EMILY MACDONALD Director, business operations, Erie Family Health Centers Chicago, United States

CHRISTINA T. ROSENTHAL Founder, Determined to be a Doctor Someday Collierville, Tenn., United States

ZEINA SALIBA

STEPHEN SEVALIE Commanding officer of the Joint Medical Unit, Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces Freetown, Sierra Leone

TYLER SPENCER Founder and executive director, Grassroots Health Mexico City, Mexico

ADEKEMI

Founder and executive director, Dentalcare Foundation

Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

Leading oral health advocacy and breaking down barriers to oral health for underserved communities to ensure equitable access for all in Nigeria.

Policy and campaigns officer, Health Poverty Action

London, United Kingdom

Working toward health systems strengthening and inclusivity in Iraq and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.

Associate academic dean of rural health at Texas Tech University Health Sciences

Center Permian Basin

Alpine, Texas, United States

Researching health workforce programs to enable more health career students to choose a career caring for patients who otherwise might not receive health care.

ESPERANZA

Director of health initiatives, United Way for Southeastern Michigan

Detroit, United States

Partnering across community and health to develop a network and infrastructure to share data, collaborate on care management, and build a proactive and equitable care system that meets people’s needs.

Malawi program manager, Give Directly Zomba, Malawi

Leading in the field of social cash transfers to combat social inequities as the Malawi program manager for Give Directly, an organization that focuses on social cash transfers.

Quezon City, Philippines

Leading policy and planning for COVID-19 and vaccination program policies, and health systems integration standards for disease prevention and control for universal health care.

FINDconnect program manager, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Oakland, Calif., United States

Improving access to resources addressing social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities among adolescents with complex trauma in Oakland.

Founder, The Oasis Alliance

Washington, D.C., United States

Improving the lives of trauma survivors by co-creating personal spaces that promote mental health and well-being.

ESNATT GONDWEMATEKESA

RAZEL NIKKA M. HAO

Director for policy and planning, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines

ARTANESHA L. JACKSON

DANIELLE WOODHOUSE JOHNSON

KIKELOMO ADENIYAN

ALAQ AL-MUWALI

ADRIAN N. BILLINGS

FELICIDAD CANTÚ

Researching the availability and accessibility of mental health wellness services for law enforcement officers in Ohio, and developing a resource guide for creating and funding wellness bureaus.

of public health and emergency management to nurture more equitable, prepared and resilient organizations and communities.

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Leading gender equality and developing women in leadership, as the chapter development manager, AsiaPacific & Middle East at Women in Global Health.

Developing policies and strategies, researching, writing opinion pieces, advocating for universal health care, decolonizing global health, mentoring and connecting social issues to health care.

Enabling grassroots leaders to disseminate health information and services by creating inclusive and interactive tools, alongside implementing community codesigned and co-led health initiatives.

Owasso, Okla., United States

Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training that focuses on the integration of behavioral health into primary care.

El Cerrito, Calif., United States

Leading comprehensive programming and teams to improve capacity for obstetric fistula treatment and eradication, in collaboration with partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia.

Washington, D.C., United States

Developing pediatric community-based initiatives in concert with community partners. Fundraising and grant writing. Leveraging voices of teens and young adults to inform health care.

ANNE LAUX Peace officer training compliance officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, Office of the Ohio Attorney General Brecksville, Ohio, United States

JESSICA MILBERG-HAYDU Director, national office emergency preparedness, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Los Angeles, United States Planning and building relationships at the intersection

SHUBHA NAGESH Chapter development manager

- Asia-Pacific & Middle-East, Women in Global Health

IFEANYI MCWILLIAMS NSOFOR Physician and health policy advocate, Upswell LLC Silver Spring, Md., United States

MONALISA PADHEE Program head, Women Wellness Initiative, Barefoot College Harmara, India

BRANDI M. PAYTON Clinic administrator, Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center

LINDSEY POLLACZEK

Vice president of programs, Fistula Foundation

HOPE ELIZABETH RHODES

Medical director, Children’s Health Center-THEARC, Children’s National Hospital

Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Providence, R.I., United States

Collaborating with artists and artisans worldwide to create culturally contextualized patient education tools to improve information equity and health literacy among lowresource populations.

Head of business planning & development, Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences

Lahore, Pakistan

Leading image building, communication, community health awareness, fundraising and donor relations and corporate services functions of a notfor-profit academic-medical institution.

Founder and principal consultant, Well Placed LLC

New Orleans, United States

Creating healthy places and supporting equitable community development that ensure the health and wellbeing of all.

Founder and chief executive officer, Safe Access Project

New Delhi, India

Building an ecosystem to advance equitable health care for the LGBTQ community in India through education, advocacy and community organizing.

ELLIOT KORANTENG

TANNOR

Senior lecturer and consultant nephrologist, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Kumasi, Ghana

Promoting kidney health in Ghana and beyond, leading Kidney Health International, researching into kidney disease and championing health equity in the management of kidney diseases globally.

Monrovia, Liberia

Engaging underserved communities to recognize environmental determinants of health and health equity. Adopting innovations that lead to improvement in plastic waste management in Liberia.

Abuja, Nigeria

Promoting high quality and equitable access, and the delivery of primary health care through developing strategic actions and using evidence to shape national policy.

Director of product development, American Medical Association

Geneva, Ill., United States

Identifying and disseminating innovative approaches to U.S. medical schools, including new approaches to recruitment, admissions and retention to build a more representative physician workforce.

ABRAHAM L. B. FREEMAN Founder, Environmental Rescue Initiative

HYELADZIRA D. GARNVWA

Senior health financing officer, National Primary Health Care Development Agency

KEVIN HECKMAN

BILAL ASIM

MONIQUE E. BROWN

SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY

ELIZA SQUIBB

Associate professor, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina

Columbia, S.C., United States

Working toward social justice and health equity for LGBTQ individuals and the community through education, research and health policy.

Founder & psychotherapist, Diasporic Healing LLC

Fort Washington, Md., United States

Increasing accessibility to mental health support through the creation of community spaces and recruitment, training and development of Black immigrants to be community wellness facilitators.

Assistant professor, University of Arizona

Phoenix, United States

Researching and developing interventions to reduce health inequities.

Associate professor of law and founding director of the MedicalLegal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law

Carlisle, Pa., United States

Researching legal and policy issues at the intersection of U.S. health law and immigration law. Advocating for equitable access to health care. Preparing law students to work for health justice.

Director of international policy and advocacy, Health

Global Access Project (GAP)

Nairobi, Kenya

Advocating for increased access to high-quality HIV treatment, policies and science in collaboration with communities of people living with HIV and key populations.

Mental health and psychosocial support specialist, UNICEF

Eastern Caribbean

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Developing national child/ youth-related policies, programs, strategies and communication campaigns to promote protection, well-being and holistic development. Promoting mental health/gender equity.

Co-founder and chief executive officer, Creative Frontiers

Cookeville, Tenn., United States

Leading a creative company focused on behavior change to reach underserved communities with effective health messaging that is entertaining, culturally relevant and informative.

Executive director and founder, REMI East Africa

Kampala, Uganda

Utilizing diverse tailored approaches ranging from research, innovation, grant advising, advocacy and policy toward attainment of health equity, gender equality and sustainable development.

MAUREEN MILANGA

BERTRAND MOSES

SYED MUSTAFA H. NADIR

ROSE MARY NAKAME

LIAM C. HEIN

GABRIELLE JACKSON

GILBERTO LOPEZ

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF

Nairobi, Kenya

Advocating for the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls and women with disabilities in Kenya.

Public health analyst, Health

Resources and Services

Administration (U.S.)

Rockville, Md., United States

Leading efforts to strengthen care coordination strategies to improve access, delivery, and quality of treatment and care in rural communities.

Senior consultant, Rede Group

Portland, Ore., United States

Advocating to improve child health by testing innovative community and state solutions, centering equity and anti-racism, and cocreating policy and systems change.

Epidemiology

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bridging health care, research and policy with public health by disrupting the system responsibly for a sustainable and equitable future. Providing essential primary care to vulnerable populations.

Infectious disease physician, clinical instructor and translational health policy research fellow, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina

Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States

Utilizing politics and policy to improve health care access in rural U.S., including COVID-19 policy. Researching social innovation for sexual and reproductive health in resource-limited settings globally.

Division chief, Health Policy

Development and Planning Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines Muntinlupa, Philippines

Improving the Philippine health system through the development and advocacy of legislation that enables a productive, resilient, equitable and peoplecentered health system for universal health care.

Associate

Boston, United States

Developing solutions to institutional racism in hospital access. Leading a community health program in Palestinian refugee camps. Refining public health approaches to COVID-19.

MEGAN L. SRINIVAS

LINDSLEY JEREMIAH VILLARANTE

BRAM P. WISPELWEY

physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

MILDRED OMINO Administrator, University of Nairobi

NKEMAKOLEM OSIAN

ELENA RIVERA

PETER GAN KIM SOON

and medical officer of health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Focusing on eliminating barriers to quality health care access in hard-toreach and underserved communities in Nigeria.

Working to design projects that promote health and well-being as well as raise awareness of harmful practices against women’s and girls’ health.

Strengthening primary health care by addressing social inequalities affecting access to health care in rural areas and refugee camps.

Director, community

corps - Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Services, City of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, United States

Combining key tools from transitional justice and conflict resolution with trauma-informed practices to help communities reconnect and heal from violence.

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Leading key senior relationships and the design and implementation of large-scale, health-system improvement efforts and networks globally.

Achham, Nepal

Promoting oral health and nutrition, and supporting programs that work with underserved and marginalized populations.

Targeting individual needs, so all patients can reach their best health whatever their socioeconomic status.

Improving access to care for minorities and developing systems to build surgical programs.

PEDRO DELGADO Vice president, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

PRATIKSHA DHUNGANA Dental surgeon, Nyaya Health Nepal

REGINA DUPERVAL Medical director, Kay Mackenson Clinic Port-au-Prince, Haiti

QUSAI HAMMOURI Orthopaedist

MUHAMMAD

SADDIQ AHMAD

Founder and chief executive officer, Rural Health Mission Nigeria Gombe, Nigeria

ZAHRAA AL-SARRAF Pharmacist; regional manager, International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation Baghdad, Iraq

SARA LAVINIA BRAIR

Director general, White Nile State Khartoum, Sudan

KATE DAUGHERTY

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Associate professor and director of public health dentistry and teledentistry, A.T. Still University

Phoenix, United States

Developing and implementing non-traditional health care delivery models to decrease and eliminate barriers to care.

Regional community health coordinator, South Carolina

Department of Health and Environmental Control

Walterboro, S.C., United States

Developing community coalitions, building sustainable communities and addressing root causes of health inequities.

Program analyst, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, VHA Office of Health Equity

Washington, D.C., United States

Improving workforce diversity, cultural competency and minority staff pipelines at the Veterans Health Administration.

Charleston, S.C., United States

Building collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, programs and communities to promote childhood health and development.

Giza, Egypt

Building capacity for young health care stakeholders to be “champions of change” for health awareness and equity using “gamification.”

Improving neonatal, maternal and newborn health in settings with limited resources and poor communities.

Co-creating “women’s circles” with community health workers and training them to facilitate groups that will provide mental health care with a gender lens.

Industrial

Lima, Peru

Creating comprehensive responses to tuberculosis, with a focus on human rights, gender rights and vulnerable populations.

NAGLAA FATHY LITHY Senior program specialist, Center for Development Services

MARX ITABELO LWABANYA Medical director, Nundu Deaconess Hospital Kinhasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

ANA ORTEGA

Community psychologist, Partners in Health/Compañeros en Salud Chiapas, Mexico

OSCAR RAMÍREZ

engineer, Partners in Health/Compañeros en Salud

SCOTT HOWELL

BRENDA HUGHES

SHANNON JORDAN

PAIGE KNOWLSON Executive director, Pattison’s Academy

Developing strategies with a comprehensive approach to ensure health care for caregivers and children, promoting early childhood development in Peru.

Baltimore, United States

Recruiting and training health care activists and organizers to push for policies that create a just health care system.

Working with community members to design and implement innovative solutions for more inclusive economic systems in community development.

HAYDEÉ RUMALDO Project coordinator, Partners in Health/ Socios En Salud Lima, Peru

AKSHITA SIDDULA Community Organizer

CLAIRE THOMAS Economic development coordinator, East Side Neighborhood Development Company Minneapolis, United States

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity at an All Fellows Convening in Miami, Florida, in February 2022.

Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity U.S.+ Global.

Program manager for community outreach, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Memory and Aging Center

San Francisco, United States

Advocating for long-term investments to improve health literacy and access to care in often marginalized communities.

Health systems strengthening consultant, Stability, Services and Reform Program

Atlanta, Ga., United States

Strengthening and developing health care status and services for Palestinians through policies, despite political and social barriers.

Product manager, UnitedHealth Group

Greater Minneapolis, Minn., United States

Identifying and advancing health equity initiatives across products and services at UnitedHealth Group.

Chief environmental health specialist, Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASM+PH) Center for Research and Innovation

Metro Manila, Philippines

Generating evidence and translating it to policy, programs and innovations that protect the health of our planet and its people. Bringing environmental health science and technology to the hands of Filipinos, where it should be.

Workers’ health coordinator, Women in Informal

Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)

Brussels, Belgium

Leading research, movement building and advocacy on health justice for informal and migrant workers at the global level.

Integrated medicine licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), Northwestern Medicine

Chicago, United States

Integrating health care for the co-management of disease through multidisciplinary education and the development of shared clinical pathways to target complex factors contributing to health disparities.

Broadcast journalist and news anchor, GHOne TV, Excellence in Broadcasting (EIB) Network Accra, Ghana

Reporting on science, global health inequities, racism and sustainable development.

Lecturer, Bahir Dar University College of Medicine and Health Sciences

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Researching and leading projects to target lifelimiting disparities and inequity of rehabilitation services in Ethiopia. Addressing the health needs of his community through integrating Indigenous knowledge and local wisdom with scientific bases.

GLORIA ANNETTE AGUIRRE

RANA AL QAWASMI

SAGAL ALI

GEMINN LOUIS APOSTOL

CHRISTY ADEOLA BRAHAM

SARAH CHAMBERS

RIDWAN KARIM DINI-OSMAN

BELAYNEW ADUGNA ENDESHAW

Director

Cleveland, United States

Building strong support systems while improving the quality of life through long-term policy and social change.

Group psychologist/ lieutenant, U.S. Navy

Honolulu, United States

Leading a national U.S.based LGBTQ+ health nonprofit organization, and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the U.S. Navy health care system focused on improving access to gender affirming care for active-duty service members.

Focusing on harm reduction, social and mental wellbeing, and HIV prevention and treatment for priority populations (i.e., people who use/inject drugs, sex workers, LGBTQIA+ community, and people living with HIV) in Mauritius.

Senior projects officer, Physician Learning Program, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta Alberta, Canada

Focusing on understanding the relationships between lifestyle and risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes.

Pursuing the rights of persons with disabilities to live and be included in the community on an equal basis with others.

Akron, Ohio, United States

Developing and implementing policies to improve connections between community and correctional health systems. Improving community behavioral health systems to reduce the role of the criminal justice system for people with unmet mental health needs.

Delhi, India

Working on improving the sexual and reproductive health of young girls and women.

NONSIKELELO MATHE

FELICIA MBURU Director, Article 48 Initiative Nairobi, Kenya

DANIEL MISTAK

Acting president and director of health care initiatives for justice-involved populations, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

KUHIKA SETH Manager, health systems research, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

GULNAR FEERASTA

of programs, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland

NICHOLAS GRANT

SHATYAM ISSUR

Director, Collectif Urgence Toxida Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius

MAYMUNAH YUSUF KADIRI Psychiatrist-in-chief, Pinnacle Medical Services Lagos, Nigeria

A leading voice in Nigeria on mental health and wellness.

Building systems to achieve great results while empowering her compatriots for the good of the community.

Pediatrician,

Founder and executive director, ZuZu for Health and Education

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Developing strategies to reduce the gaps in the Mexican health system to provide quality pediatric care in marginalized areas through the inclusion of health personnel such as local physicians, nurses and community health workers.

Designing various projects and teaching manuals that promote mental health for women and youth, as well as audio educational materials for blind and visually impaired students.

ANTHONIKA TITUS

General manager and medical director, God’s Littlest Angels Petion-Ville, Haiti

LAILA ZULEMA GARCÍA ULLOA

Partners in Health, Mexico (known locally as Compañeros En Salud) Chiapas, Mexico

MELIKTE PAULOS WELDETENSAYE

Right to left: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity U.S. + Global Tyler Spencer and Rose Mary Nakame; Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, Nhlanhla Mnisi; and Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Maira Okada de Oliveira, learn about social entrepreneurship in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity at the Convening on Displacement and Health, in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2022.

Credit: Masoumeh Tajik.

Some of the 2023 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity at their Initial Convening in Washington, D.C. Credit: Abby Greenawal.

Creating a community for health equity in Southeast Asia.

BASED AT THE EQUITY INITIATIVE AT CMB FOUNDATION

Co-founder and executive director, myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project

Myanmar

Providing education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who are in indentured servitude at tea-shop restaurants. Working to develop policies and strategies to address inclusivity and equity in education.

Director, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Leading research into maternal and child health and the health system in Cambodia. Leading in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Working to develop a national health management and leadership training curriculum.

Vice rector and director of the Center for Population, Hanoi University of Public Health

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Publishing widely in scientific journals; undertaking research studies on health and health care in Viet Nam on topics including the social determinants of health, noncommunicable diseases and universal health coverage.

Founder and chief executive officer, Center for Social Initiatives Promotion

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Helping build a new sector for social entrepreneurship in Viet Nam and the region.

CHALERMSAK

KITTITRAKUL

Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign, AIDS Access Foundation

Bangkok, Thailand

Working to ensure that policies on the promotion of access to treatment for HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are developed and implemented effectively and systematically.

JEREMY LIM

Partner, Oliver Wyman; co-founder and chief executive officer, AMiLi

Singapore, Singapore

Working on increasing the use of technology to improve health equity and access to care.

Chief executive officer, FamilyDoc Medical Technology Co. Ltd.

Beijing, China

Advancing the use of mobile technology to help 1.5 million doctors deliver high-quality primary care for everyone, anytime, anywhere across China.

Executive director and morning news producer, Vietnam National Television

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Overseeing content development for national television on social issues, including gender and domestic violence, women’s health and HIV/AIDS.

LIU CHENHUI

THU HA NGUYEN

TIM AYE-HARDY

CHHORVANN CHHEA

HOANG VAN MINH

OANH PHAM KIEU

Chief executive officer, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Leading the organization toward conservation excellence and efficiency. Protecting biodiversity and preserving its habitats, combating illegal wildlife trade and implementing plastic pollution reduction programs in major coastal cities.

Deputy director general, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Practicing social justice through ideas and the implementation of the Community Development Program and the White Cane Initiative for the Blind in Viet Nam.

Chief physician, Lao Medical Care Center

Ban Phonxay, Xaysetha District, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Strengthening primary health care by focusing on the community-based health service through private sector involvement. Running two community medical centers providing over 100,000 outpatient visits a year.

Research consultant and honorary assistant professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, UK

Working on the prevalence and measurement of child labor, especially hazardous work. Evaluating complex social interventions with working children.

Addressing the psychological, physical, social and economic problems of people affected by leprosy in China.

Director, Thailand Research Center for Health Service Systems, Chulalongkorn University

Bangkok, Thailand

Focusing on health service systems in Thailand, including universal coverage, quality management, health sector financing and health security schemes. Also working to promote equity and quality in education.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Nurturing children’s habit of reading and improving their literacy skills in remote areas of eastern Indonesia, having set up over 100 libraries and trained thousands of local teachers.

SI ZHANJIE Director, Aizhen Yunnan, China

JIRUTH SRIRATANABAN

NILA TANZIL

Founder and chief executive officer, Travel Sparks; founder and chief executive officer of Taman Bacaan Pelangi

NATALIE PHAHOLYOTHIN

THI THUY TRAM PHAN

SOULIVANH PHOLSENA

NICOLA POCOCK

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE

PATRICK E. ARITAO

Director of prosecution and aftercare, Center to End Online

Sexual Exploitation of Children, International Justice Mission

Calamba, Philippines

Rescuing victims of trafficking from places of exploitation and using casework lessons to derive system remedies.

LYNNA CHANDRA

Ashoka Fellow; founder and trustee, Rachel House children’s hospice

Singapore, Singapore

Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all, having founded the first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.

DENG RUI (RITA)

Associate professor, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University

Kunming, Yunnan, China

Teaching students and conducting research contributing to the improvement of health for ethnic minorities, especially women and young girls.

DO THUY DUONG

Chief executive officer and founder, TalentPool

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Designing and implementing leadership development programs to enhance the quality of women’s lives.

WAI WAI HAN

Senior research, evaluation and learning manager, Save the Children International, Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar

Enhancing social justice in health through research into vulnerable populations. Initiating efforts to improve the evidence generation, research use and development of learning culture in the areas of health, nutrition and child protection.

ARIEL CARINGAL HERNANDEZ

School director, Global Mindanaw Polytechnic

Northern Mindanao, Philippines

Combating rural poverty and promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.

BEVERLY LORRAINE HO

Director of health promotion and communications service, Health Promotion Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines Manila, Philippines

Helping put into operation the mandate of the Universal Health Care Act in the Philippines, ensuring all Filipinos are health literate and have healthy living and working conditions.

Director, Lamsonthi Hospital

Lopburi, Thailand

Working with the government to train caregivers and redirect health care resources toward home care.

SANTI LAPBENJAKUL

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Researching on health care access and social protection for marginalized populations, including migrant, refugee and stateless populations.

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Advocating for LGBTI in Viet Nam, focusing on raising public awareness, legal advocacy for lawmakers, media and youth and the public and private sectors.

Country program manager, Australian Volunteers (Myanmar)

Yangon, Myanmar

Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.

Founder and director, Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC); board member, Vietnamese Federation on Disabilities

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Empowering communities of people with disabilities (PWD). Having advocated the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Vietnamese policies on PWD, she is actively monitoring its implementation.

in Southeast Asia

Bangkok, Thailand

Leading efforts to empower communities to carry out health impact assessments to encourage them to negotiate with policymakers, with a focus on mining and coalfired power plants.

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Conducting research across multiple disciplines, with a particular focus on health and economic-development issues to enhance equity.

Chief executive officer and co-founder, Health at Home

Bangkok, Thailand

Combining expertise in geriatric medicine with a passion for home health care technology to serve Thailand’s growing elderly population.

Co-founder and president, VIDA Digital Identity

Jakarta & Singapore, Indonesia

Enabling digital trust and catalyzing financial inclusion through VIDA, a digital identity network that makes it easy and safe for anyone to prove they are who they say they are when transacting and interacting online

SOMPORN (NUI) PENGKAM Founder and director, Community Health Impact Assessment Platform

ALAY PHONVISAY Associate professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, National University of Laos

KANAPON (TUM) PHUMRATPRAPIN

SATIRIANTINAH (SATI) BUR RASUANTO

THARANI LOGANATHAN

Public health medicine specialist and medical lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya

LUONG THE-HUY Director, iSEE Institute

PAN MYAT MON

NGUYEN THI LAN ANH

Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University

Beijing, China

Focusing on health, food and drug safety across China.

Head of Nursing Department, Viet Nam National Children’s Hospital

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Developing training programs and policies to support community health, such as those ensuring patient safety and supporting parents in caring for and understanding their child’s medical care needs.

DAVID JR.

Founder/CEO of REACH Foundation, Inc., Independent Living Learning Centre Inc. and Academia Progresiva de Manila, Inc.

Manila, Philippines

Facilitating multisectoral collaboration in advancing community and schoolbased access to quality and inclusive health, therapy and education resources that equip families and children of all abilities and needs for life.

Attorney and law reform specialist, Law Center, University of the Philippines

Iligan City, Philippines

Developing coherent positions, using the rightsbased approach primarily, to ensure that government agencies’ requests for legal assistance to their bills, rules and regulations are in line with the constitution and laws.

Co-founder, Kawsang

Tel Aviv, Israel

CARMENEZA

Strategic policy adviser, Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, Timor Leste Dili, Timor-Leste

Working with local communities to co-create innovative solutions and drive the development of their communities.

Working toward a just and equal society through fair, inclusive public policy formulation and implementation.

Focusing on health care in detention and health policy for refugees.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Focusing on health care for athletes, sports enthusiasts, and increasing quality of life through exercise for all ages.

DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO

NUR KHAULAH FADZIL Health field officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SOPHIA BENEDICTA HAGE Clinic director and sports medicine doctor, Royal Sports Performance Centre

BUI THI THUY

ABELARDO APOLLO

ABDEL JAMAL DISANGCOPAN

SHI NAN

CHANNÉ SUY LAN

Executive director, Sun Community Health

Yangon, Myanmar

Strengthening health systems to tackle health and social inequity issues for the poor and vulnerable populations, through the strategic purchasing of primary health care services to improve quality in the non-public sector.

Founding member and director, Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.

Vice chancellor, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai, China

Researching social and environmental change and child health; and taking part in a national, large-scale early child development intervention program in Shanghai and rural western China.

Director, Mindanao Programme, Community and Family Services International Cotabato City, Philippines

Working to improve the resilience of Internally Displaced Persons; training para-social workers to serve as a social service catalyst in Bangsamoro communities; and facilitating training in mental health and psychosocial support.

Director, Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department

Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations. Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.

Associate professor, Ramathibodi Medical School, Mahidol University

Bangkok, Thailand

Applying systems thinking to address complex issues of health systems, such as the governance of Univeral Health Care, communitybased health interventions, strategic health workforce planning and decision support tools.

Medical officer, National Health Plan Implementation

Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Focusing on monitoring Myanmar’s National Health Plan toward improving the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, especially the distribution of health facilities.

Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Supporting hospitals to improve services in collaboration with local government to strengthen Indonesia’s health system. Researching the inequitable distributions of hospitals and health services of remote areas in Indonesia.

KOUNG LO

BORWORNSOM (ACK) LEERAPAN

BAWI MANG LIAN

ELISABETH LISTYANI

HAN WIN HTAT

HOANG TU ANH

JIANG FAN

NORAIDA ABDULLAH KARIM

SHARON LOW

Co-founder and managing partner, The Knowledge House

Singapore, Singapore

Designing and operationalizing assessment, evaluation and research including the setting up of monitoring systems.

TIARA MARTHIAS

Senior technical adviser, Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

Jakarta, Indonesia

Working to address inequities in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health through health systems research.

NGUYEN THI THAI LAN

Lecturer in social work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Hanoi, Viet Nam

Creating change through supporting access to health and social services for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, such as children in special circumstances, persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDs patients and marginalized groups.

NGUYEN TRAN NGUYEN

Official, Office of People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province

Dong Thap, Viet Nam

Working to expand health insurance coverage and health service provision, with a focus on the growing elderly population.

ANA P. SANTOS

Journalist

Manila, Philippines

PAIROJ SAONUAM

Assistant chief executive officer, Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth)

Bangkok, Thailand

MAY SRIPATANASKUL

Founder and chief executive officer, LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy

Bangkok, Thailand

KOTCHAKORN

VORAAKHOM

Founder and chief executive officer, Porous City Network

Bangkok, Thailand

Writing about culturally taboo topics, such as sexual and reproductive health, to bridge the gap between vulnerable women in Philippine society and legislators who draft policies that affect their rights.

Seeking to empower individuals and organizations for a healthy society and environment.

Developing humancentered work processes that allow people to tackle social challenges through collaboration.

Working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities through landscape architecture.

Lecturer, Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University

Beijing, China

Working to bring greater recognition to the importance and feasibility of reducing health inequities and facilitating China’s contribution to global health equity.

Nutrition specialist, UNICEF Indonesia

Kupang, Indonesia

Leading on the provision of technical and high-level advocacy to the Government of Indonesia to address child wasting, by scaling up the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM).

Specialist, Law Enforcement Development, Forced Labor Programs in APAC, International Justice Mission

Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

Building the capacity of public law enforcement to rescue and protect workers from domestic or crossborder forced labor and labor trafficking

Co-founder, Rumpun Nurani Foundation; chairwoman, Indonesian Family Advocacy Institute

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Improving the provision of access and quality health care to individuals and families through collaborative work with providers, health practitioners, government and society.

Four-time municipal mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines Siargao Islands, Philippines

Innovating local governance in areas of public health, focusing on social determinants such as education, climate change, environmental management, and income and social protection.

Senior project officer, MY Voice with The Centre for Child Rights and Business (TC) Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

The MY Voice project in Malaysia combats forced labor and child labor in the production of Malaysian palm oil and garments. When someone is exploited, TC improves their access to remedies.

Senior lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman Manila, Philippines

Pursuing ethnographic and qualitative research on medical, social and environmental issues relevant to the Philippines and the region. Writing for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and other publications.

ALFREDO MATUGAS CORO II

LETCHIMI DEVI DORAISAMY

PAUL GIDEON LASCO

BLANDINA ROSALINA BAIT

GIDEON CAUTON

RENNTA CHRISDIANA

XU JIN

Project manager, International Committee of the Red Cross

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Aiming to ensure access to quality and affordable physical rehabilitation services for people with disabilities in Viet Nam.

PHETDAVANH LEUANGVILAY

Technical officer, WHO Health Emergency Programme, WHO, Lao PDR country office

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Strengthening public health emergency preparedness and response capacity through engaging with stakeholders to implement the national health security plan, ensuring equitable access to health services.

Professor and deputy director, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Beijing, China

Helping lead the Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Board member of a nonprofit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.

Founder and chief executive officer, Semur Nusantara Consulting; founder, Asgar Muda Foundation

Jakarta, Indonesia

Building solutions to tackle maternal deaths and stunting, using data analytics. Driving up community empowerment across Indonesia to improve the local economy, a social determinant of health equity.

Artist, curator and founding director, Queer Forever!

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Exploring issues of queer aesthetics and activism, working through art and film projects, and exhibitions that are usually collaborative and participatory.

Managing director, Buddhism for Health

Takeo Province, Cambodia

Improving access to quality health care services for the poor and vulnerable. Strengthening the capacity of local government officials in developing responsive local investment plans and accountability.

Project manager, Peace Resource Collaborative Foundation

Bangkok, Thailand

Promoting peace, human rights, reconciliation and conflict transformation in Thailand and neighboring countries.

Chief executive officer, Center for Health Care Improvement Research

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Bringing together all available resources, domestically and internationally, to support the improvement of health care services in Viet Nam.

NGUYEN QUÓC THANH

SAM OEUN SAM

RATAWIT OUAPRACHANON

PHAN THI NGOC LINH

LE THI NHAT

XIAO LONG

GORIS MUSTAQIM

POONKASETWATTANA

Executive director, APCOM Foundation

Bangkok, Thailand

Developing a broad range of projects to advance the health, rights and well-being of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Strengthening primary health care systems in low-resource settings; focusing on health workforce in education, health facility management, quality improvement and health informatics.

Executive director, Child Helpline Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Advocating for child protection and cybercrime laws to criminalize online child sexual exploitation and improve access to quality mental health/ counseling support services in Cambodia.

Media consultant, film producer, journalist and co-founder, Lao New Wave Cinema Production Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Producing socially responsible documentaries about life in Laos and Southeast Asia, with a focus on social, health and environmental issues.

Facilitator and coordinator, Inner Journey and Transformation Game

Bangkok, Thailand

Facilitating selftransformation and well-being, using the Transformation Game, brain-based therapy and energy healing. She is coordinating a network of well-being professionals and organizes the Sacred Mountain Festival.

RAPEEPONG SUPHANCHAIMAT

Senior researcher, International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand Nonthaburi, Thailand

Focusing on research into universal health coverage, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Researching the health of migrants and vulnerable populations by applying principles of epidemiology and econometrics.

Researcher, writer and social activist; post-doctoral fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin, U.S. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Conducting research and advocating for the rights and protection of older adults, refugees and migrant workers. Currently delving into the intersection between bioscience and theology, and studying end-of-life care among faith minorities in the U.S.

Associate professor, Child Health Advocacy Institute, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center

Shanghai, China

Establishing an early child development monitoring system, identifying a target population with equity analysis, and carrying out interventions to improve child health and development.

PANUSART (MIDNIGHT)

NATARAJAN RAJARAMAN

Executive director, Maluk Timor Dili, Timor-Leste

SEAN SOK PHAY

VANNAPHONE SITTHIRATH

KRITAYA SREESUNPAGIT

RAUDAH MOHD YUNUS

ZHANG YUNTING (EDWINA)

Expert associate partner, Mckinsey & Company

Beijing, China

Counseling more than 100 senior health care leaders to achieve better, more accessible systems at a lower cost, as a thought leader of China’s health care system transformation and as former chief executive officer of a large hospital group.

CELYN CELYN

Senior operations manager, Civil Health and Development Network (Karenni State)

Loikaw, Myanmar

Promoting innovative and participatory approaches to improve health access and health equity in hard-toreach communities, with a special focus on women and children.

SORNCHAI

CHATWIRIYACHAI

Founder and artistic director, Malongdu Theatre; program director, Ashoka Thailand Bangkok, Thailand

Pioneering the practices of “Theatre of the Oppressed” in Thailand and developing the capacity of social changemakers and seekers to stand up for social justice.

Director, Thailand and Myanmar Campaigns, International Rivers

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Organizing river communities to slow down dam projects that threaten the local ecosystem and the livelihoods of those who depend on the river and its resources.

AMINA EVANGELISTA SWANEPOEL

Executive director, Roots of Health

Puerto Princesa, Philippines

Empowering women and girls to make informed decisions and advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Lawyer and municipal mayor, Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental Davao City, Philippines

Improving education and health services delivered to the communities and addressing issues related to HIV, mental health and depression, LGBTQ concerns, safe drinking water and Indigenous people.

Hospital coordinator and

Bank head, Cotabato Regional and Medical Center; lecturer, Islamic Perspective, Mindanao State University Cotabato City, Bangsamoro

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines

Advocating for Ibadahfriendly health facilities and reforming health education through including Islamic concepts. Mobilizing community leadership and bridging social divides to improve health equity. Advocating for a green and sustainable hospital.

JASON JOHN JOYCE

SHERJAN PANGATO KALIM

Blood

PIANPORN DEETES

ZHANG KUN

Developing high-capacity medical education and improving quality of care at health care centers. Integrating transformative medical education into medical education reform and building innovative ideas into curriculum development.

Provincial health officer, Aklan Province Department of Health

Philippines

Achieving health equity and improving the overall health of all Akeanons, especially the underprivileged and the vulnerable. Working to develop and maintain a people-centered health system.

Indonesia

Driving the implementation of the United Nations Youth Strategy (Youth2030) worldwide, and cultivating a coalition of emerging Indonesian trailblazers committed to championing equity and justice

Singapore

Integrating genomics into routine health care for reducing the burden of chronic diseases and health care costs.

Addressing cross-border health challenges and enhancing the effectiveness of infectious disease prevention.

Supporting the Government of Timor-Leste to achieve sustainable economic and human development goals, and promoting sustainable and equitable opportunities for vulnerable populations in Timor-Leste.

Supporting community participation to address social development challenges. Also working to apply social and political economy analysis to promote a more equitable society.

Advocating for equitable policies at the Ministry of Health and working to preserve and restore eyesight. She is involved in national development with a focus on cultivating future leaders.

ALFRISON PALOGA Epidemiologist and health quarantine officer, Port Health Office of Jayapura Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia

SARA MARIA PEREIRA National disability inclusive development adviser, Governance for Development (GfD), Cardno Dili, Timor-Leste

THORN PITADOL Lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University Bangkok, Thailand

NOOR AFFIZAN RAHMAN Medical superintendent and consultant ophthalmologist, Ministry of Health, Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

LE KHAC BAO Director, Medical Education Center, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

LESLIE ANN LUCES

Kalibo,

ANGGA DWI MARTHA Program management officer, United Nations Jakarta and New York,

JOANNE YUEN YIE NGEOW Associate professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, National Technological University Singapore Singapore,

RENARD SIEW

Climate adviser, Center for Governance and Political Studies; adjunct professor, University

Tun Razak (UNITAR)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Combating climate change and transforming society toward sustainability. Striving to find innovative ways to promote more sustainable and equitable opportunities for marginalized communities.

PHETDAVANH SIPASEUTH

Specialist in land tenure rights and natural resources management

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Providing interactive coaching and capacity building for civil society groups on land rights, natural resources and land governance topics.

SUGI

Researcher and founder of Yayasan Sejuta Harapan (Hands of Hope) Kupang, Indonesia

Conducting research into the impacts of climate change. Supporting the poor and marginalized people in East Nusa Tenggara province to enable them to gain better access to education and health services.

Refugee health researcher; Ph.D. candidate, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore

Researching social injustice and supporting Rohingya refugee community in addressing health inequities.

TRINH

Pianist and founder, Wonder Research, Practice and Arts Foundation

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Enabling others to see wonder in the arts and to experience their transformative power, especially through music. Working to promote empathy and social and cultural understanding through the power of music.

VIENGNAKHONE VONGXAY

Public health lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Public Health, University of Health Sciences, Laos

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Teaching and researching adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and the relationship between health literacy and health-seeking behaviors in adolescents.

MAI TRANG

FRANSISKA FALENTINA

SOK TENG TAN

Humanitarian physician and public health consultant; director for public health, International SOS Basco, Batanes, Philippines

Enhancing community health resilience of diverse Indigenous groups in the Pacific region through the implementation of evidencebased, gender-sensitive and culturally responsive public health interventions.

Founder/president, Proud To Be Us Laos

Vientiane , Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Aiming to enable a positive environment for the marginalized community through advocacy as a founder of Proud To Be Us Laos, a LGBTI rights movement.

Research coordinator, EcoCulture Study Group

Sakonnakhon, Thailand

Implementing socioecology system and health restoration planning processes and action in communities contaminated by mining pollution, and developing community participation and social engagement.

Deputy director, Open Government Products, Govtech Singapore

Singapore, Singapore

Working at the intersection of health care and technology as a public servant from Singapore, with an interest in advancing equity in Southeast Asia.

Chief executive officer, TaejaiDotcom; lecturer, Puey Ungphakorn School of Development Studies, Thammasat University

Bangkok, Thailand

Creating a civic technology platform and a community to democratize social changes of the citizens, by the citizens, for the citizens: moving capital toward impact.

Assistant professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Researching public health and well-being through interdisciplinary action; passionate about justice, equity and intersectionality, with a focus on global health and the role of social sciences in this field.

Lecturer, Social Development Department, Prince of Songkla University; secretary, Deep South Relief and Reconciliation Foundation

Pattani City, Thailand

Believing that people should have equal access to medical care, and that everyone should be equipped with the knowledge and skills to care for themselves and their families when struck by illness or a disaster situation.

Fostering the engagement of community and decisionmakers in planning and initiating solutions to narrow the gap between vision care services and underserved communities.

NOEL BERNARDO

ANAN BOUAPHA

BAMPEN CHAIYARAK

CHAN CHI LING

ADA CHIRAPAISARNKUL

DONG DONG

ALISA HASAMOH

LE QUANG TRAM TINH Senior program manager, The Fred Hollows Foundation Da Nang, Viet Nam

NAW PUE PUE

MHOTE (TEE TAR)

Deputy director, Burma Medical Association (BMA); coordinator, Health Information System Working Group

Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand

Setting an ultimate goal of establishing an information lab to assist evidence-based decision making and increase international awareness about health and human rights violations in minority communities of Myanmar.

NGUYEN HOANG

CHIEU ANH

Co-founder, PiSEL

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Working to improve mental health and social connections as a psychological counselor and pioneer educator; co-founded initiatives for building healthy ecosystems to raise children by creating harmonious relationships between schools and families.

MARIA SHAIRRA

ALYSSA P. BELLO

Co-founder and behavioral insights and innovation head, AHA! Behavioral Design Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

Facilitating communityfocused behavior change, as an applied behavioral scientist, by developing, testing and scaling behavioral interventions in four challenge areas: public health; happiness and kindness; financial inclusion; and civic engagement.

ROSADALIMA DEE PANDA

Program and core team member of WISE-WASH in Southeast Asia Foundation; founder, Bidara Community Nagekeo, East Nusa

Tenggara, Indonesia

Developing community development programs in WISE-WASH in Southeast Asia and activities for children and youth for better access in informal education. Founder of the Bidara Community, which provides safe spaces for youth.

PHAM THI NGOC BICH

Founder, Slow Food Community in Hanoi, Vietnam; founder, CEO for MuaVe Collective Hanoi, Viet Nam

Promoting/advocating good, clean and fair food for all, food culture exchange and green and open public spaces.

CHANDAVIENG

PHIMMAVONG

Academic staff, Faculty of Public Health, University of Health Sciences

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Focusing on her main goal of promoting comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services for young people in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

BENNY PRAWIRA

Suicide prevention advocate, lived-experience expert consultant, and mindfulness trainer Jakarta, Indonesia

Meeting the needs of equity-deserving groups by involving lived-experience experts; and founded the first youth-based suicide prevention community in 2013.

COLLINS SANTHANASAMY

Founder, The M Exchange; specialist, public health in disasters Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Building community resilience through tailored disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs focused on health, education and economic empowerment: Collins is a medical doctor who specializes in public health in disasters.

Co-founder, director and consultant, RAISE Global Health; project consultant, AMPC International Health Consultants; independent researcher.

Bandung, Indonesia

Working as a global sexual reproductive health rights and public health professional in advisory/ consultancy, research, advocacy/activism and global health decolonization.

ITTINAT SEEBOONRUANG

National consultant, Deutsche Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation (DSIK)

Heidelberg, Germany

Providing consultancy in workshop design and delivery, strategic planning and leadership training; as a process facilitator specializing in mental health, he combines music therapy approaches into group process work.

SAY SIVUTHA

Social protection specialist

Phnom Penh , Cambodia

Working at the General Secretariat for the National Social Protection Council in Cambodia (GSNSPC) on coordinating relevant stakeholders in drafting the Roadmap on the Move toward Universal Health Coverage in Cambodia.

Assistant chief, Group Integrated Care, National Healthcare Group Singapore, Singapore Building a population health system in Singapore, for better health equity and people-centered care.

Freelance researcher specializing in conflicts, media and human rights; documentary producer; restaurant owner Chiangmai, Thailand

Advocating for human rights and democracy as a conflict and human rights researcher, fixer and documentary producer, and social entrerpreneur from Myanmar.

TRAN

Team lead, Healthcare System

Strengthening Program; International Center Advisory Board Member, Research and Inclusion Development Action (IDEA)

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Building a better understanding of the importance of a disabilityinclusive health system and policies.

Head, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Puthisastra

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Leading a quality nursing and midwifery program, involving curriculum improvement and research; interested in gerontology.

Grants officer, British Red Cross Yangon, Myanmar

Focusing on interests in humanitarian and public health issues and managing challenging projects in conflict settings.

PUTRI WIDI SARASWATI

CLIVE TAN

EAINT THIRI THU

QUYNH TRANG

SREYPEOV TUN

NAY-LIN TUN

G. VILLANO

Head, policy and planning, Commission on Population and Development IX Philippines

Identifying populations at risk for health disparities and providing guidance on how better resource allocation can address social injustices and health inequities.

Goverment relation executive, Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initatives

Jakarta Pusat , Indonesia

Strengthening primary health services for vulnerable groups. Having developed an innovation model in primary health care, currently working to improve the leadership capacity of local governments and authorities for fair and equitable services.

HAIBIN ZHOU

CEO, Easy Inclusion Consulting; secretary general, International Labour Organization (ILO) Global Business and Disability Network-China Chapter Beijing, China

Leading consultancy services delivery advancing employment and vocational training. Advocating rights to employment for persons with disabilities; leading collaboration and policy dialogue among businesses, universities and other partners.

Senior officer, United for Global Mental Health; chair, board of trustees, MentalHealthPH Inc. Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Leading work on the integration of mental health into HIV and TB programming across 30 countries; concurrently, serving as the chair of the board of trustees of MentalHealthPH Inc. in the Philippines.

JOSE AUGUSTUS

EGI ABDUL WAHID

YVES MIEL H. ZUNIGA

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia at a learning session to improve their skills of community organizing. Credit: Kim Cruz.

The 2022 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia engaged in refining their project ideas.

Credit: Kim Cruz.

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, Ittinat Seeboonruang (in the center), discusses the River of Life during an opening retreat in Hue, Viet Nam. Credit: Kim Cruz.

Building a healthier, more equal South Africa.

MICHELLE BROTHERTON

Advocate, Rhodes University

Makana, South Africa

DUDUZILE (DUDU) DLAMINI

Advocacy manager, Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force

Pretoria, South Africa

NTOMBIZANELE

(ZANELE) FIGLAN

Head of environmental health, City of Cape Town Belville, South Africa

Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights and health care systems.

Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work. As well as advocating for sex workers, she is an international ambassador of Coalition of Children Affected by AIDS.

Advocating for environmental health as a determinant of health to be at the center of human health.

THANIA GOPAL Communications officer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

Exploring the role of the media in influencing and developing more equitable and socially just health systems.

AMY GREEN

Editor, Health-e News Service

Johannesburg, South Africa

Reflecting socially just media practices and content in mainstream media and lifting marginalized voices that are usually inaccessible to traditional media houses.

NIKKI GREEN (NEE VERMEULEN)

Coordinator for communitycentered programs, the Centre for Social Development, Rhodes University

Cape Town, South Africa

Reimagining the ways in which corporate and NGO spaces can be connected and developed to enhance access to resources and opportunities for social change.

THAMSANQA

HAMILTON HUKWE

Chairperson, Abahlali Base Freedom Park

Johannesburg, South Africa

Organizing and mobilizing communities in the southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.

Site manager, Mother Mentor, Enable

Ngqeleni, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Providing support, counseling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence mostly related to HIV and AIDS.

KHULULWA JAMPO

Advocating for health systems’ responsiveness and championing sexual and reproductive justice for sex workers and queer persons through influencing policy and implementation.

Advocating for social justice and human rights through education and policy change, grassroots organizing and mobilization, building alliances and community resilience.

Providing support and guidance to women-led, not-for-profit organizations on good governance and best financial management practices. Advocating for parental involvement in sexual and reproductive health education.

Lead occupational therapist, private mental health care

London, England, United Kingdom

Developing services and a model of care for mental health care users, supporting recovery and community integration.

Promoting access to sexual and reproductive health and justice for girls and women in rural and peri-urban areas through advocacy and strengthening leadership skills.

Underberg, South Africa

Strengthening girls’ and women’s leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle patriarchal structures and systems, advance climate change adaptation strategies and restore ecosystems in communities.

Advocating and mobilizing for policy reform to ensure affordable and accessible health for all. Using an intersectional feminist, decolonial research and praxis lens to advance health systems thinking and eradicate gender-based violence.

Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes center stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, equitable, high-quality health care.

LANCE LOUSKIETER Ph.D. candidate, researcher and educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

TRACEY MALAWANA Deputy general secretary, Equal Education Tembisa, South Africa

NOMATHAMSANQA ‘THAMI’ MNGXEKEZA Operations manager, Kozi Foundation Cape Town, South Africa

SHANNON MORGAN

KODWA MPEPHO Director, Women and Girls Leadership Foundation Pretoria, South Africa

SIBONGILE MTUNGWA Director, Women’s Leadership and Training Programme

SHEHNAZ MUNSHI Research project manager, Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity, University of the Witwatersrand Linden, South Africa

BERNARD MUTSAGO Nutritionist, public health researcher and activist, South African Medical Association Johannesburg, South Africa

Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for poor people.

Conducting evidence-based research that contributes to policy strengthening health systems in South Africa, predominantly using quantitative data to address health equity.

Cape Town, South Africa

Promoting socioeconomic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.

South Africa

Advocating for environmental justice, working with the health sector and communities.

Cape Town, South Africa

Identifying the processes and levers that reduce social stratification and lead to social innovation and transformation.

Promoting recycling in townships in South Africa.

Cape Town, South Africa

Advancing policies and programs to reduce chemical and other environmental exposures in air, water, soil and food, to protect people and provide communities with healthier environments.

Kimberley, South Africa

Developing new anthropology courses and a program, based on her master’s research that drew on public health, developmental origins of health and disease, and epigenetic findings.

KENTSE RADEBE

Project manager, Systems Innovation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

WENDY SOMLAVI Founder, Wheely in a Wheelie Cape Town, South Africa

LENA STOFILE Environmental health manager, City of Cape Town

CARINA TRUYTS

Lecturer in social anthropology, Sol Plaatje University

LINDI MZANKOMO Senior budget analyst, Public Finance, National Treasury (Department of Finance), South Africa Pretoria, South Africa

NOLUTHANDO NDLOVU Researcher, Health Systems Trust Durban, South Africa

TINASHE T. NJANJI Coordinator, People’s Health Movement South Africa

MAFOKO PHOMANE

Environmental health campaign manager, groundWork, South Africa Johannesburg,

Eastern Cape, South Africa

Building an activist oral health workforce, with a focus on grassroots community and peer-topeer engagement to realize, preserve and protect society’s right to quality oral health services.

Advancing the rights and improving the lives of young people and women living on farms, through experiential knowledge after living on a farm herself. Addressing social injustices and inequalities through a human rights context.

Founder, TuksRes Women in Leadership Academy; Stanford Biodesign Fellow, Stanford University; founder, Women Leaders Planetary Health South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Working at the intersection of health, sustainablity and innovation to catalyze change in South Africa.

Contributing to educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding the intersectionality of education and health within aspects of adolescent girls and young women.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Assisting in the identification, planning, implementation and evaluation of environmental public health activities.

Using theater and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction. Working with young men to help them deal with their emotions to become better fathers.

Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Australia

Implementing the finding TB missing cases strategy with the goal of ending TB by 2030, funded by the National Department of Health through the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Advocating for equal access to health care for LGBTIQ+ communities.

LUQMAN YESUFU

Public health inspector, Alberta Health Services

BULELA VAVA

Interim national president, Public Oral Health Forum

CHALEEN ARENDSE Co-director, USAWA Learning and Healing Stellenbosch, South Africa

CYAN BROWN

LUNGILE QUINY DUBE Director/chairperson, USAWA for Learning and Healing Durban, South Africa

SIBUSISO FIHLANI

Drama therapist, Drama for Life Roodepoort, South Africa

AMANDA PHAPHAMA FONONDA

Program director, TB program

ATHOLL KLEINHANS Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Akasia, South Africa

HASEENA MAJID

Public health project consultant, USAWA - Equitable Solutions for Health & Education Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Public private partnership facilitator for equitable access to primary health services. Affiliated to the uMgungundlovu District Municipality for civil society responses to HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF).

PATRICK MDELETSHE

Field researcher, SECTION27 Khayelitsha, South Africa

Working with civil society to address inequality and striving for social justice for all. Mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building. Building civil society voice from below for health system strengthening.

NTEBALENG MORAKE

Curriculum and education coordinator, Social Justice Coalition

Cape Town, South Africa

Building a South Africa that addresses the injustices of the past while seeking alternatives for a just and equal society.

Country director, REPSSI (The Regional Psychosocial Support Initiatives) Johannesburg, South Africa

Advocating for access to community-based mental health care and treatment services in underserved communities. Addressing bottlenecks in the health system with design strategies that enhance service delivery.

SIPAMANDLA MPIKELELI

Development and CSI manager, South African Sugar Association

Pretoria, South Africa

Advancing rural development through job placement opportunities for young people in the sugar cane value chain; bursaries to rural communities studying agriculture, science and engineering; supporting enterprise initiatives for women and the youth.

ANDILE MTHOMBENI

Project manager, Plus 94 Research

Johannesburg, South Africa

Assisting the South African National Aids Council as a trustees member. Also represented students in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning.

BAYANDA NDUMISO

Political advocacy coordinator, Triangle Project

Cape Town, South Africa

Advancing the civil, political and electoral participation of LGBTQI+ people in local and national decision-making processes.

SAMSON PHAKATHI

Senior field officer, The Endangered Wildlife Trust

Mpophomeni, South Africa

Mobilizing communities in rural South Africa to engage with conservation projects that provide environmentally-friendly alternative livelihoods.

ERIC MOTAU

Social worker, Epilepsy

South Africa

Acornhoek, South Africa

Advocating for the right to education for children with learning impairments. Collaborating with other stakeholders to develop learning tools that could be used to accommodate their learning needs.

Pharmacist, Department of Health, South Africa

Xhora, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Addressing inequities in access to medication in a rural community by ensuring availability and ways of ensuring adherence to treatment as a way of eradicating the disease burden.

Business case development manager, Transnet National Ports Authority

Durban, South Africa

Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from underprivileged communities to succeed in industry.

Public health medicine specialist, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital; lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Training future public health medicine specialists and working to improve health care and health equity. Advocating for improved clinical and corporate governance, and overall health systems strengthening.

National RTCQI/CLI manager, SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development)

Consulting Ltd; director, HACCSA

Cape town, South Africa

Strengthening, monitoring and promoting quality HIV and laboratory services in South Africa. Passionate about sexual reproductive health rights, primary health care access and health systems strengthening.

Cape Town, South Africa

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

Impact and learning manager, Shonaquip Social Enterprise

Wynberg, South Africa

Leading efforts to build ecosystems for inclusion for people with disabilities, their families and service providers.

Founder, Healthy Rural Societies

Mtubatuba, South Africa

Consultant at WHO on research and policy to monitor tobacco industries in Africa. Head of research and professor of public health at Rural Health University in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

RENÉ SPARKS

RAZIA VALLIE Program manager, Western Cape Health Department

ERNA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

GANZAMUNGU ZIHINDULA

VINKEY SIBUYI

ANELE NTOMBIKAYISE SIGCAU

SYLVIA SIYO

HARSHA SOMAROO

KANYISA BOOI

Founder and campaign manager, Matriarch and Sons

Pretoria, South Africa

Creating and executing health communications campaigns and strategies that are engaging by employing a fusion of pop culture and politics.

BERTHA CHIGUVARE

Program officer, Lawyers for Human Hights; board member, Vumbanani for Peacebuilding Makhado, South Africa

Working as a researcher, child protection specialist and program manager to promote community development and human rights activism.

THATO HELMUT

MATHABATHE

Procurement and supply chain management specialist, National Department of Health Global Fund Midrand, South Africa

Contributing toward medicine access expansion using pharmacy innovation and technology.

NONKULULEKO

‘NKULI’ MBULI

Communications and advocacy strategist, Embrace Movement for Mothers

Johannesburg, South Africa

Using media and communications as a tool for social change.

NWABISA DLOVA

Social worker, Masimanyane

Women’s Rights International

East London, South Africa

Advocating for the rights of women, social justice and sexual reproductive health, rooted in intersectional PanAfrican feminism.

ZIMBINI MADIKIZA

Project assistant and community monilizer, Rural Health Advocacy Project

Mthatha, South Africa

Building social collective power through equipping rural communities with the skills and knowledge of realizing their potential toward the advancement of social change. Enhancing agency to advocate for greater access and improvements to health care.

IVANA MERCKEL

Community coordinator

Johannesburg, South Africa

Promoting the need for accessible, comprehensive and holistic health education with community participation.

INNOCENTIA MGIJIMA

Human rights lawyer, Africa Albinism Network; Ph.D. candidate, University of Witswatersrand

Pretoria, South Africa

Advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa.

Project developer, Waste for Change

Durban, South Africa

Teaching leadership, gender equity and enviromental sustainability.

Cluster manager, Soul City Institute for Social Justice

Krugersdorp, South Africa

Advocating for social justice for young women and girls, and their rights in accessing sexual reproductive health services in a youthfriendly environment that is underpinned by intersectional feminism.

Environmental health practitioner, Bongani Regional Hospital

Welkom, South Africa

Implementing sustainable, green initiatives in the hospital environment that aim to reduce the carbon footprint, as well as the use of harmful chemicals (especially pesticides) and waste minimization strategies in the health sector.

Founding member, PHELA (Public Health Education, Liaison and Advocacy) Foundation

Johannesburg, South Africa

Facilitating the inclusion of patients as a prominent stakeholder group in the development and implementation of health services and strategic health policies.

TLAMELO

MMAMOHLAKOANA

MOTHUDI

Master’s student of law, University of Cape Town; co-chair of health cluster, Makhanda Circle of Unity; house warden/ manager, Allan Gray Residence Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa

Working as a health advocate for the advancement of health equity with a particular interest in policy, public interest law, health research, public resource management and social accountability monitoring.

MQUSHULU

Program manager, Next Up Roodepoort, South Africa

Mentoring youth leaders across South Africa.

Ph.D. candidate, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

Building an inclusive society where people living at the far margins of society can equally participate and benefit from the social and economic pipeline.

Comprehensive care nurse and nurse trainer, Department of Health, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Advocating within civil society organizations for improved health of marginalized communities.

NTOMBOHLANGA

ALDRIDGE MUNYORO

JUDIAC RANAPE

NOMFUNDO MKHABA

MPHO MOGAPI

TSHEPO MOKHADI

LEBO MOLETE

AZEEZA RANGUNWALA

Africa regional coordinator, groundWork

Pretoria, South Africa

Working with a focus on climate change and health as an intersectional feminist (also known as the Scientivist).

KUVASHNA SINGH

Pharmacist, Department of Health; master’s candidate (Public Health), Rhodes University

KwaZulu, South Africa

Working toward improving health care in the public sector.

BIBI-AISHA WADVALLA

Managing editor, Health-e News Service

Johannesburg, South Africa

Bridging the health information divide through journalism that helps individuals make informed health choices and advances health equity.

YVETTE ANDREWS

Nurse, Department of Health

Cape Town, South Africa

Working with community health workers on the issue of health care access for marginalized communities.

PINKIE SAIDY BROWN

Provincial lead, Y+SA

Itsoseng, North West, South Africa

Advocating for the inclusion of queer women and people living with HIV; providing women and girls space to learn about their bodies and exercise their rights to sexual health.

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa Lebo Molete (at the center), at a cross-program event with Atlantic Fellows Angela Rutter (left) and Laura Booi (far right) and Jemma Stringer from the Atlantic Institute.

Credit: Lee Atherton.

Komani, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Addressing mental health for social change, with a decolonial approach that is holistic and community based, situating the lived experiences of the people of South Africa and wider Africa.

Developing the agency of young women and children, and the LGBTIQPA+ community; developing literacy and working toward the inclusion of youth in the provincial economy of the Eastern Cape.

Promoting communitydriven and school-focused health education programs in marginalized communities, with a particular interest in providing a decolonized education system and alternative education models.

Ensuring the provision of public health services in rural communities and hospitals; providing physiotherapy services to Limpopo Academy of Sport.

Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Strengthening literacy, youth leadership and the well-being of young women and girls in communities through engagement programs.

Advocating for gender equality and sexual reproductive health rights, as a change driver targeting rural areas in particular.

Organizing to eradicate gender-based violence in communities and supporting LGBTQI+ communities; Nonzaliseko is a health promoter and support group facilitator for communities in the Eastern Cape province.

Improving access to sexual reproductive health rights, with a passion for sanitary dignity, maternal care and preventing gynecological ills; exploring sustainable social entrepreneurial models that provide solutions in Africa.

TENDAI CHISIRIMUNHU Master’s student in psychology Cape Town, South Africa

ABONGILE DAVANI Co-founder, Siyakholwa Reading and Writing Drop-in Centre East London, South Africa

NANGAMSO KOZA Education development strategist and independent consultant

MMABATHO LANGA Physiotherapist (specializing in rural health) Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa

YOLISA LAWRENCE Programs coordinator, SGS Consulting Gqeberha, South Africa

CINCINITIA LEBJANE Founder and director, Resoketswe Lebjane Foundation

NONZALISEKO MAGIDIWANE Community activist Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha, South Africa

NQOBIZWE MAHLANGU Medical student Durban, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

Using innovative learning tools to bridge the gap between the law, people and the state around matters relating to environmental ecology.

Advocating for the use of drama therapy as a key component of the public health system; trying to tackle the issue of mental health in South Africa.

Master’s student, University of the Witswatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

Supporting vulnerable individuals through community development and advocacy, and volunteering at a refugee center; this social worker is aiming to complete a master’s degree in migration and displacement.

Fostering a movement for the development of youth in communities; mobilizing community and youth to address policy around land and land occupation.

Cape Town, South Africa

Working to improve access to information about genderbased violence, health care and the prevention of injustices relating to sexual and gender-based violence.

Volksrust, South Africa

Working within communities and civil society movements to address inequality and strive for social justice for all; mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building.

PRECIOUS MAZIBUKO Community scholar, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Centre for Civil Society

ZANDILE MQWATHI Social behavior change communications manager, Pact South Africa Centurion, South Africa

LINDILE NGWENYA

BELLS TWANI Member, Intlungu YaseMatyotyombeni Movement Cape Town, South Africa

NWABISA ZANTSI Co-founder, Fulfill the Dream Academy

VUSIMUZI ZWANE Program manager, Southern Africa Movement of Mining Affected Communities (SAMMAC)

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa, Atholl Kleinhans, with Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Wambui Karanja, at Creative Brain Week 2023. Credit: Alex Kornhuber.

Sibusiso Vonde-r Fihlani leads the singing of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa at the Global Atlantic Fellows Annual Convening in July 2022. Credit: Jack Taylor.

Connecting Changemakers. Advancing Equity.

Executive coach and managing director, Black Leadership Institute, Institute for Nonprofit Practice

Columbia, Md., United States

Supporting Black social impact leaders and their teams through the provision of executive coaching, transformative programming, and training and developmental opportunities.

Senior lecturer, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

Teaching sociology and convening the Critical Labour stream at the University of Cape Town; and researching diverse ways in which women’s lives and livelihoods around sites of extraction across southern Africa are impacted by mines and mining.

Professor of law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, United States

Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice; and creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.

Principal, Black Futures Lab Atlanta, United States

Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.

National field secretary, Movement for Black Lives

Atlanta, United States

Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the American South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.

Durban, South Africa

Developing community projects and funding to assist talented people from disadvantaged communities to access education in the creative industries, and helping in grassroots training and economic development in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Energy

research associate, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, City University of New York New York, United States

Providing technical policy support for sections of the South African trade union movement around the Just Energy Transition; and contributing to local and international debate on climate change, PanAfricanism and free education, among other issues.

Cape Town, South Africa

Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for South Africa’s Colored communities.

MARY HOOKS

CHRISTOPHER JOHN

Social responsibility and funding officer, AFDA (The School of Creative Economies)

BRIAN KAMANZI

policy

KELLY-EVE KOOPMAN Director and co-creator, Coloured Mentality

OBENEWA AMPONSAH

ASANDA-JONAS BENYA

DEVON CARBADO

ALICIA GARZA

Developing a framework to situate ableism as central to every form of systemic oppression while leading efforts to dismantle all carceral institutions.

Incubating initiatives that transform our response to violence; and challenging the need for prisons and centering community-led governance.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool for shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa. Imagining new political and economic paradigms to end racial injustice globally.

Head of the department of jurisprudence and associate professor, University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.

Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.

Improving services and leadership capacity of organizations working toward criminal justice reform. Writing books, including “Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song.”

Exploring the histories of racialization and resistance, and the ways that race is constructed and contested.

Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.

NEO MUYANGA Composer and installation artist Cape Town, South Africa

MARLON PETERSON President and chief executive officer, The Precendential Group; host of “DEcarcerated” podcast series; author Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA Writer, researcher and strategist, Kaepernick Endeavors Boston, United States

RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS Director of housing, PolicyLink Los Angeles, United States

TALILA LEWIS Community lawyer and organizer Washington, D.C., United States

RUKIA LUMUMBA Executive director, People’s Advocacy Institute Jackson, Miss., United States

NTOMBIKANINA MALINGA

Founder and director, UCU Consulting

JOEL MODIRI

President

Los Angeles, United States

Building a multiracial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents in Los Angeles to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.

New York, United States

Developing an infrastructure of a strategic Black response to the needs of, and injustices facing, the Black community; and campaigning for changes in employment, the economy, voting, criminal justice, news and entertainment.

Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate society’s most marginalized people to have equal opportunities and combat racism.

Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, and convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.

Alexandria,

Leading AmeriCorps, the U.S. federal agency that deploys more than $1 billion and 250,000 AmeriCorps members annually to address the nation’s most pressing challenges, improve lives and communities, and strengthen civic engagement.

Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.

Contributing to national discourses on race, class and gender through various media and artistic interventions as a playful activist, serious artist and media maverick.

Founding

Westchester, Ill., United States

Organizing civil rights activism and leading Equity and Transformation, a nonprofit organization that won the first recreational cannabis policy to include reparations for the war on drugs.

MICHAEL SMITH

Chief executive officer, AmeriCorps

Va., United States

THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN

Executive director, Equality Labs

Weehawken, N.J., United States

SARAH SUMMERS

Co-creator, Coloured Mentality

Cape Town, South Africa

RICHARD WALLACE

executive director, Equity And Transformation (EAT)

ALBERTO RETANA

and chief executive officer, Community Coalition

RASHAD ROBINSON

President, Color of Change

SIYABONGA SHANGE

Sales executive, NMI DSM Durban, South Africa

HOLIDAY SIMMONS

Founder, Southern Soul Wellness Atlanta, United States

Chicago, United States

Researching the meanings of land and agrarian livelihoods of Black people who were dispossessed of their land and stripped of property rights by colonial and apartheid regimes. Exploring implications for agrarian change today.

Promoting leadership development in social impact and cultural spaces globally, with a special interest in the African diaspora.

Building power in Black communities for over 25 years. Using community organizing to win equity in public education.

Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

Creating sustainable models for social justice work and cross-sectoral collaboration, and facilitating dialogues focused on race, social justice and transformation.

Building a framework, based on compassion, through which white people effectively work with one another on whiteness and racism, then scale up to have systemic impact.

Leading community engagement efforts to transform relationships between safety officials and the communities they are meant to serve.

BUSISIWE DLAMINI Dialogue practitioner Johannesburg, South Africa

BETSY HODGES Adviser, Betsy Hodges LLC Washington, D.C., United States

REGINA HOLLOWAY Vice president of Global Strategic Community Impact, Axon Chicago, Ill., United States

SITHANDIWE ‘STHA’ YENI Ph.D. candidate, University of Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa

CEDRIC BROWN Vice president, Global Leadership Programs, Obama Foundation Winston-Salem, N.C., United States

JITU BROWN

National director, Journey for Justice Alliance

ZAKIYA CARR JOHNSON Principal, Odara Solutions Washington, D.C., United States

MITCHELL LITTLE

Executive director, Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, City of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pa., United States

Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.

BONGIWE LUSIZI

Founding director, Creative Academy

Johannesburg, South Africa

Promoting African bow music as well as arts, crafts, dance, poetry, creative writing and other creative activities to build a progressive heritage movement.

DORAH MAREMA

Portfolio head for municipal sustainability, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Leading sustainability efforts with a range of stakeholders in sectors that include small-scale agriculture, environment, climate change, renewable energy, gender and land rights at local, national and international levels.

NHLANHLA MNISI

Researcher, University of Pretoria

Johannesburg, South Africa

Working on how watermonitoring tools can be Indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.

KOKETSO MOETI

Founding executive director, amandla.mobi

Johannesburg, South Africa

Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.

CONSTANCE MOGALE

National coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust

Johannesburg, South Africa

Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.

ELANA NEEDLE

Founder and principal consultant, Needle Strategies LLC

New York, United States

Leading partnership development, strategy, organizing and campaign support for racial justice organizations fighting for an equitable multiracial democracy.

WILNEIDA NEGRON

Director of research and policy, Coworker; and co-founder of Startups & Society Initiative

New York, United States

Working on the frontlines of fostering new multiissue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.

Working to see social justice embedded and normalized in business, academic and religious spaces.

Executive director, Equality Collective

Johannesburg, South Africa

Providing backbone support to increase collective participation and action to drive more responsive and accountable governance as a rural organizer.

Community organizer and former senior pastor, Holman United Methodist Church

Los Angeles, United States

Deconstructing and dismantling schemes, systems and structures that violate the humanity and dignity of Black people to achieve a more just and equitable world.

Co-founder and associate director, Paralegal Pathways Initiative at Columbia Law School

New York, United States

Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.

Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.

Leading strategies to decolonize development efforts through the redirection of capital, cultural influence and opportunity.

DYLAN VALLEY Filmmaker and educator, University of Cape Towm Cape Town, South Africa

DELORIS “DELA” WILSON Founder and managing director, Axle Impact Studio Los Angeles, Calif., United States

LOVELYN NWADEYI Inclusion strategy manager EMEA, Netflix Amsterdam, Netherlands

TESS NOLIZWE PEACOCK

KELVIN SAULS

DEVON SIMMONS

KEVIN BECKFORD

Co-founder, The Hustlers Guild; senior director of programs, partnerships and strategy, Honored Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Supporting policy and outreach for U.S. public schools; also the co-founder of The Hustlers Guild, a nonprofit that uses hip hop to expand access and opportunity to Black and Latinx youth in the innovation space.

TEMBINKOSI BONAKELE

Former commissioner, South African Competition Commission

Johannesburg, South Africa

Teaching as visiting professor of law at Wits Law School and an adjunct professor in the Business School of Nelson Mandela University.

AMBROSE CARROLL

Founder and senior pastor, Renewal Worship Center; founder and chief executive officer, Green the Church Oakland, Calif., United States

Leading the congregation at Renewal Worship Center; also leading Green the Church, an organization at the intersection of the U.S. Black faith community and environmental justice.

STACEYANN CHIN

Writer, activist and performance artist

Kingston, Jamaica

Telling powerful stories as a poet, activist and entertainer, attempting to bridge the divide between African Americans and the Caribbean, and between Africa and its fragile connection to its diaspora.

JESSICA FEIERMAN

Senior managing director, Juvenile Law Center

Philadelphia, Pa., United States

Co-leading a national effort to end the harmful and discriminatory practice of imposing fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.

ALEXANDRA FITZGERALD

Director of legal affairs, Mothers 2 Mothers (m2m)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Serving as the legal director of Mothers 2 Mothers, an organization dedicated to delivering integrated primary health care services to women, children, adolescents and entire families by employing women living with HIV as community health workers.

NYLE FORT

Minister, activist and scholar

Newark, N.J., United States

Working with organizers, educators, creatives, faith leaders and local residents to build a global society rooted in the principles of love, freedom, and justice.

ARISSA HALL

Leader and organizer, Blackseed

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Utilizing experiences as a leader and organizer in the movement for liberation to grow BlackSeed, a cannabis equity consultant company that supports equity and justice through a reparative framework.

Coordinating a democratic process to build a broadbased and sustainable alliance that represents communitybased organizations, social movements, NGOs and trade unions across South Africa’s nine provinces.

President and chief executive officer, SA2020

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Leading SA2020 as the organization drives progress toward a shared community vision in San Antonio.

Senior researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

Pretoria, South Africa

Serving as a senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Founder and president, United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA)

Pretoria, South Africa

Leading the United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA), representing the interests of hundreds of domestic workers across South Africa.

Cape Town, South Africa

Serving as a South African public interest lawyer with the Department of Economic Development in the Western Cape, focused on public policy and regulatory reform.

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Overseeing sustainability and communications strategy at Tides Advocacy. Also supporting work on the organization’s reparations framework and leveraging storytelling to shift narratives about the power of grassroots organizations.

Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa

Serving as a senior lecturer in African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Also, a feminist teacher, researcher and published poet.

Co-founder, Movement for Collective Action and Racial Equity (Movement for CARE)

Cape Town, South Africa

Building Movement for CARE, a municipalist movement focused on meaningful local participatory governance and active citizenship, and cultivating solidarity among marginalized communities.

SIBONELO MCHUNU

Public interest lawyer, Western Cape Department of Economic Development

JESSICA MOFIELD

Chief advancement officer, Tides Advocacy

DANAI MUPOTSA

AXOLILE NOTYWALA

MINHAJ JEENAH

Executive director, My Vote Counts

Cape Town, South Africa

KIRAN KAUR BAINS

KHWEZI MABASA

PINKY MASHIANE

ZAKIYAH SHAAKIR-ANSARI

Advocacy director and New York city director, Alliance for Quality Education

Valley Stream, N.Y., United States

Serving as the advocacy director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), the leading statewide organization fighting for educational justice in New York State.

KHAYELIHLE

“KHAYA” SITHOLE

Accountant, academic, activist and independent analyst

Johannesburg, South Africa

Working with civil society and advocacy organizations on matters relating to youth development, education, land reform and economic justice as a chartered accountant, writer and academician.

KAREN-ANN DANIELS

Director of programming and artistic director, Folger Theatre

Washington, D.C., United States

Widening access to the experiences of creating and seeing theater to communities that historically have not had access, including incarcerated communities; telling stories as an actor, director, playwright, vocalist and musician.

NASSER ELEDROOS

Policy counsel, Color of Change

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Exploring racially equitable approaches to the design, implementation and accountability of algorithms and information systems in U.S. law.

EDGAR VILLANUEVA

Founder and chief executive officer, Decolonizing Wealth Project

New York, N.Y., United States

Leading Decolonizing Wealth Project, which aims to collectively promote a world vision in which everyone can live their best lives, thrive in their cultures and bring about healing from generations of colonial trauma.

SYDELLE WILLOW SMITH

Co-founder, Sunshine Cinema

Cape Town, South Africa

Co-leading Sunshine Cinema as a documentarian and media advocacy strategist working across Africa.

ARIA FLORANT

Co-founder, Liberation Ventures

Washington, D.C., United States

Leading Liberation Ventures, a U.S. nonprofit organization that is building the power to win federal, comprehensive reparations for Black Americans.

Policy officer, European Union Delegation to South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Elevating issues of migration, regional integration and the strengthening of a civil society that can add vibrancy to South Africa’s democracy.

MUSA GWEBANI

Oakland, Calif., United States

Driving public and private resources to the communities most impacted by racial and economic injustice, with a particular focus on Black communities; sometimes working for municipal government or as an external partner.

Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Durban, South Africa

Working with young people in townships and incarcerated people to tell Indigenous stories and facilitate theater workshops.

Vice president, Aspen Institute

Washington, D.C., United States

Building diverse, equitable and inclusive systems and economies for out-of-work adults, with an emphasis on marginalized populations.

Curating interventions, festivals, programs, and public art to draw attention to the politics of space and place making, healing justice, spatial and gender justice, heritage, and memory. Practicing artist and facilitator.

Upper Marlboro, Md., United States

Leading a foundation that focuses on programs for gender, racial and social equity; advocating for the equality and empowerment of Deaf people in South Africa.

Promoting equity in education as founding executive director of an organization that trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship and leadership skills.

West Orange, N.J., United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Empowering Black, Indigenous and other communities of color, strengthening the internal practices of organizations that partner with them on strategy, organizational culture, diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism.

Empowering Black women and youth to tell their stories as a founder and co-director at Osibakhulu Development Initiatives; also working as operations and finance manager at the Institute for Economic Justice.

TSHEPISO MOKOENA Executive director, Tshepiso Mokoena Foundation

BRANDON NICHOLSON Executive director, The Hidden Genius Project Oakland, Calif., United States

JENNIFER NJUGUNA Chief operating officer, Common Future

LINDIWE NKUTHA Operations and finance manager, Institute for Economic Justice

MELISSA JONES

Executive director, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative

ONGEZWA MBELE

MONIQUE MILES

UKHONA NTSALI MLANDU

Founder and head curator, makwande.republic Cathcart, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Catalyzing and incubating multisector initiatives to advance long-term solutions to urgent issues facing the United States and achieve equitable outcomes for Black, Brown and other historically underserved communities.

Co-founder,

Cape Town, South Africa

Amplifying the voices, stories and creativity of people of color, African LGBTQIAP+ people and feminists.

Associate research supervisor, postgraduate studies, African Film and Dramatic Arts Academy (AFDA) Durban, South Africa

Serving as a supervisor at a leading film school in South Africa; researching civic intervention documentary, post-colonial theory and African philosophy.

Raleigh, N.C., United States

Leading a progressive research and advocacy organization to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security.

Washington, D.C., United States

Cultivating leadership of movements that foster effective, powerful coalitions and cross-issue solidarity; currently supporting youth power and building power across the climate and racial justice movements.

Facilitating a just transition to a post-mining economy that is socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and economically diversified in the southern Africa region.

Cape Town, South Africa

Promoting sustainable food sourcing and farming practices that protect farmland against urban sprawl and development that put farmers’ livelihoods at risk.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Writing contemporary news stories within the context of South Africa’s racialized past, which continues to have an impact on the country’s racialized and gendered present.

DANY SIGWALT

Managing director, Green Leadership Trust

SIYANDA SIKO Head of sustainability programs, Sibanye-Stillwater

Johannesburg, South Africa

NAZEER SONDAY Chairperson, Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food and Farming Campaign

NOLWAZI TUSINI Broadcast journalist and gender activist

DARANEE PETSOD

Senior adviser, Hyphen Takuapa, Phangnga, Thailand

XENA SCULLARD

Queer Feminist Film Festival

MAHORO SEMEGE

REGGIE SHUFORD

Executive director, North Carolina Justice Center

Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, Bongiwe Lusizi, sings and plays an African bow instrument at the Global Atlantic Fellows Annual Convening in July 2022. Credit: Jack Taylor.

Working toward real-world solutions to global inequalities.

BASED AT THE INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITIES INSTITUTE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

OLUFOLAHAN

FOLA ADELEKE

Data privacy lawyer

Halifax, Canada

Working on transparency and corporate accountability; with a current focus on the monetization of our personal data and its impact on the right to privacy and access to information.

SAIDA ALI

Global program manager, Hivos Foundation

Nairobi, Kenya

Working on gender equality, diversity and inclusion issues with particular attention to social and economic rights related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics.

SEBASTIAN BOCK

Germany director, Transport & Environment (T&E)

Berlin, Germany

Working on the transformation of the transport and automotive sector in Germany at Europe’s leading clean transport campaign group.

Deputy director, Global Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Washington, D.C., United States

Leading the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation engagement with influential constituencies across North America, focusing on public education, economic mobility and public policy. Speaking and writing on race, gender, inequality and philanthropy.

JOSEPH HASSON

Senior program officer for human rights, Sigrid Rausing Trust

London, United Kingdom

Identifying, assessing, and supporting grantee organizations at local and national levels to advance universal human rights and justice.

TRACY JOOSTE

Head of Special Programmes, International Budget Partnership South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Working with grassroots organizations to advocate for equitable access to housing, water, sanitation and health services. Leading a gender equity portfolio to secure policies and budgets designed to help urban poor people and serve women’s needs.

PRIYANKA K

Ph.D. student at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

New Delhi, India

Studying as a doctoral candidate in sociology and a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Co-founded Chitrakoot Collective, a grassroots feminist organization working on all things genderrelated.

Head of Democratic Renewal Team, Open Society Foundations

- Europe and Central Asia

Berlin, Germany

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe. Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.

MELANIE R. BROWN

ROSE LONGHURST

Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues. Managing a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a drone community “for good.”

Leading the implementation, management, supervision and evaluation of campaign organizing for Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia.

Building a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Finding creative and collaborative ways of bringing people together, building community and opening up opportunities for children and young people.

Empowering disability activists in Africa and Asia, and campaigning for equality and disability inclusion.

Working on projects ranging from how international nongovernmental organizations work in the Global South to those focused on human and disability rights.

Director of policy and advocacy,

United Kingdom

Working on public policy reform at the intersection of anti-corruption and tax justice to increase the accountability of elite individuals and corporations to citizens and societies.

Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities.

Creating the space to build people’s narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.

JOHNNY MILLER Photographer, Unequal Scenes; News Fellow, Code for Africa; founder, africanDRONE Mukilteo, Wash., United States

MASANA MULAUDZI Senior manager, Campaign Organizing (Movement Building), Wikimedia Foundation Johannesburg, South Africa

JACK NISSAN Director, The Tinderbox Collective; board member, Music Education Partnership Group/ We Make Music Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom

FREDRICK OUKO ALUCHELI Co-chief executive and transformation officer, ADD (Action on Disability and Development) International Nairobi, Kenya

LOUIS OLANYA OYARO Human rights consultant Heidelberg, Germany

LOUISE RUSSELLPRYWATA

OpenOwnership Gillingham,

JANE SLOANE Senior director, Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, The Asia Foundation Sausalito, Calif., United States

APPU ESTHOSE SURESH Founder and chief executive officer, Pixstory New Delhi, India

Gender team leader, UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in the Arab States region

Amman, Jordan

Working on advancing gender equality in the Arab region, with interest and experience in research and projects for policy and legal reform, care and informal work, and social protection focusing on disadvantaged communities.

Feminist justice and peace activist

Yerevan, Armenia

Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.

National project coordinator, International Labour Organization (ILO) Kathmandu, Nepal

Promoting women’s decent employment and public investments in the care economy and coordinating a UN Women-ILO joint program in Nepal.

Founding coordinator, Act Now — People-Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland; a fellow for peace and leadership, Social Change Initiative

Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Building a people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socioeconomic rights.

Ph.D. student in Economic History Department, London School of Economics and Political Science

London, United Kingdom

Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily converted into increased consumption rather than leisure. Focusing on climate change and inequality implications.

Organizing Institute assistant director, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

Takoma Park, Md., United States

Focusing on training organizers to have the skills needed to win campaigns that build workers’ power and improve wages and working conditions.

Program and impact lead (Fellow Engagement), Atlantic Institute

Bicester, United Kingdom

Working with Global Atlantic Fellows and Atlantic Fellows program staff worldwide to facilitate collective actions that address global inequities through co-created thematic gatherings and workshops.

Director of strategy and learning, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Working with activists around the world to translate human rights norms into tools for collective analysis and action on inequalities.

RANIA M. TARAZI

HILLARY VIPOND

LAUREN BURKE

TANYA CHARLES

ALLISON CORKERY

MILENA ABRAHAMYAN

KRIPA BASNYAT

NICOLA BROWNE

Independent consultant and philanthropy adviser

London, United Kingdom

Working with a group of European donors to encourage conversations around the impact of structural racism on social inequalities and to move funding toward underresourced racial justice movements in Europe.

Founder and head of product, Open Function Group; colead, Information Mediation Group, GovStack initiative London, United Kingdom

Supporting governments and non-governmental organizations in scaling health, humanitarian and child protection interventions via secure, responsible dataintegration, automation and interoperability initiatives.

Lead trainer, No Means No Worldwide Leiden, Netherlands

Working with a sexual violence prevention organization that supports and trains organizations in high-risk environments to deliver a rape prevention curriculum to boys (intervention and positive masculinity) and girls (empowerment and selfdefense).

Founder and chairman, LEGSAfrica (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies for Africa). Dakar, Senegal

Nurturing leadership against inequality through democratic and economic governance policies and systems-monitoring research into public-private power relations in extractive industries and the promotion of young entrepreneurs.

Nairobi, Kenya

Working toward gender equality and an end to violence against women and girls, including those with disabilities; mentoring of young women and girls in pastoral communities; advancing the rights of the marginalized.

Nairobi, Kenya

Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level.

Nairobi, Kenya

Building change as a grassroots gender, policy and development champion, with a focus on social, economic and leadership training for widows and schoolgirls, and working with male champions to change harmful traditional practices around widowhood.

Head of International Affairs Department, Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, Government of Chile

Santiago, Chile

Leading the International Affairs Department and focusing on the intersectional factors that intervene in gender inequality.

EVERLYN MILANOI KOIYIET Human rights lawyer; cofounder, Center for Women’s Rights Advocacy

JAMES MURAGURI

Founder and chief executive officer, Institute of Public Finance Kenya

ROSELINE ORWA

Founder and chief executive officer, Rona Foundation

ANITA PEÑA SAAVEDRA

RENATA CUK

TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS

CRAIG TINASHE DUBE

ELIMANE HABY KANE

Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, and empowering people and governments through data, technology, and innovation.

Program director, The Oxford Character Project, University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

Focusing on systems change and responsible leadership at the Oxford Character Project; previously at BRAC in Bangladesh, leading a project providing one million women with access to digital financial services.

Social justice, labor and community activist; consultant Kwekwe, Zimbabwe Leading/facilitating community-based initiatives to strengthen community cohesion and participation in interrelated socioeconomic issues, with a focus on children and youth education. Advocating inclusion and leadership for vulnerable groups.

Co-founder and director, Quid; co-founder and board member, Advocacy Hub São Paulo, Brazil

Specializing in advocacy, civic engagement and public policy, with extensive experience of working with civil society organizations, movements, funders and in the public sector.

GABRIELLA RAZZANO Executive director, OpenUp Cape Town, South Africa

ANJALI SARKER

MAUREEN SIGAUKE

PEDRO TELLES

Fellows participate in the “How do we talk to people across political and ideological divides?” The “fireside chat” was at the AFSEE Leadership Summit in January 2023. Credit: Catarina Heeckt.

Principal sustainability strategist, Forum for the Future

Singapore, Singapore

Leading a program, Protein Challenge Southeast Asia, to enable food justice; and working on land reclamation and sand use in the region.

Coordinator, Social Action for Community and Development (SACD)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Working toward a just economy, social justice, gender justice, people participatory democracy and systemic change.

Renegade economist; host of “Upstream” podcast; coach and facilitator, Right Livelihood

San Francisco, United States

Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and facilitating.

National co-director, Standing Together; co-owner, Green Brothers Bookstore

Tel Aviv, Israel

Organizing people with the aim of building a political alternative of social justice, equality and peace. Coordinating struggles against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and injustices and inequalities.

JOAN JONES

Executive director, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Washington State Council

Seattle, United States

Leading progressive change in the United States Workers Rights Movement and building a more equitable world for all people, especially those who experience marginalization across various forms of intersectional identities.

Dalit rights activist and founder, DalitWomenFight.org

New Delhi, India

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

London, United Kingdom

Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia and researching how to link redress for human rights violations to the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights and the reduction of structural inequalities.

Founder and curator, Safety First for Girls (SAFIGI)

Lusaka, Zambia

Using art to build tools toward girls’ safety (via Safety First for Girls) and increase digital citizenship in local communities (via Digital Grassroots). An expert in internet governance, inequality and innovation.

ASHA KOWTAL

HOBETH MARTÍNEZ CARRILLO

ESTHER MWEMA

MADHUMITHA ARDHANARI

SOPHEA CHREK

DELLA Z DUNCAN

ALON-LEE GREEN

Oxford, United Kingdom

Drawing on research and practice to forge alliances to strengthen the narrative of how tax justice underpins equality, militates against discrimination and supports the realization of human rights.

Advocacy officer, UNICEF

Weehawken, N.J., United States

Advocating for children’s rights, promoting access, demand and equity for public services needed by children and women, especially the most marginalized.

Youth engagement and campaigns organizer, Just for Kids Law London, United Kingdom

Engaging with young people who have been excluded from mainstream education to enable them to become social action leaders in transforming the use of school exclusions and advocating for a more inclusive education system.

Senior program manager, Funders for a Just Economy Program, Neighborhood Funders Group New York, United States

Working on issues at the intersections of labor rights and economic justice, decolonizing development policies, women’s rights, gender justice and feminist philanthropy.

CRYSTAL

Director, Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective Nairobi, Kenya

Working to influence macrolevel economic policies from a Pan-African feminist analysis across regional and global spaces.

Executive director, Pollination Melbourne, Australia

Working as an Indigenous equity practitioner across political, social, economic and environmental spheres.

SIMEONI

AMANDA YOUNG

LIZ NELSON

Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights, Tax Justice Network

FOLUKE ADETOLA OJELABI

MICHAELA RAFFERTY

LEANNE SAJOR

Lisbon, Portugal

Creating spaces of collective learning and creative action to fight urban inequalities, with children, young people and women. Connecting experiences of grassroots activism to spread existing but marginalized models of change.

Co-founder and executive director, Entramada

Santiago, Chile

Generating networks of cooperation and articulation of the social fabric in local spaces and strengthening local communities via work framed as “the good living concept.”

CHOONG WENG WAI

Ph.D. candidate, University of Warwick; Deputy director of research, Khazanah Research Institute

London, United Kingdom

Researching the everyday reproduction of poverty, inequality and exclusion, with a focus on the political economies of Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

Belgrade, Serbia

Tackling housing and other social inequalities among the most vulnerable communities in Serbia, and bringing economic and social rights back to the agendas of decision-makers.

Regional Development

Undersecretary’s Adviser, Government of Chile

Santiago, Chile

Addressing the strengthening of subnational governments and Chile’s decentralization process.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Building and communicating ecological and social transitions toward fairer, inclusive and sustainable livelihoods for all.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Providing expertise on campaigning on global poverty, social and economic justice issues, and sustainable development.

Founder, Instituto de Estudios sobre Desigualdad (INDESIG); associate professor, University of Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Mexico

Working on a deconstruction of myths of meritocracy and other narratives that justify inequality, with academic research, activism and dissemination though social networks.

ANDREA ENCALADA GARCÍA

MAURO FERNANDEZ

Founder and president, Sociedad y Naturaleza

CLAIRE GODFREY Public policy specialist and campaign strategist

MÁXIMO ERNESTO JARAMILLO-MOLINA

KITTI BARACSI

Learning coordinator, TuTela Learning Network; learning and research consultant

MARIA CARRASCO

CHRISTOPHER

DANILO CURCIC Program coordinator, A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights

GEORGIA HADDAD NICOLAU

Director and co-founder, Instituto Procomum; strategic dialogue facilitator for civil society organizations

São Paulo, Brazil

Working for the Commons; facilitator in collective construction processes; founder/project director of the Procomum Institute, an organization focused on culture, technology, politics and citizenship.

IMOGEN RICHMONDBISHOP

Researcher and adviser on ESCR and Tech, Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International London, United Kingdom

Focusing on how technologies are being used to exacerbate inequality and create new forms of rights violations.

MOHAMMED-ANWAR

SADAT ADAM

Programs and policy influencing lead, Oxfam Accra, Ghana

Working with civil society in designing national, regional, and global influencing strategies, coalition- and network-building to influence governments, international institutions, private sector, and other institutions.

TYEHIMBA SALANDY

Sociologist, University of the West Indies; director, Institute of Indigenous Knowledge, Empowerment and Research Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

Working on decolonizing global and local spaces and self through dialogue, alternative media and Indigenous knowledge.

VIVIANA OSORIO PÉREZ

Equality and inclusion consultant, Solidarity Center Medellín, Colombia

Working on transforming the care economy, promoting the elimination of gender-based violence at work, advancing intersectionality in labor law, expanding women’s power in the union movement, and addressing deepened precariousness in value chains.

OABONA SEPORA

Lecturer, Institute of Development Management; executive director, Friends of Diversity Gaborone, Botswana

Advancing the rights of key populations in Botswana within the areas of legal and policy reform, mental health and civic action.

MIRILOVE TAY

ACQUAH-HAGAN

Finance and administration officer/ gender focal person, German Development Cooperation (GIZ, Ghana); management consultant; co-founder, WODIF Ghana Accra, Ghana

Promoting digital and financial literacy as a sustainable tool for addressing inequalities and alleviating poverty, and supporting development partners with gender mainstreaming initiatives in Ghana.

BARBARA VAN PAASSEN

Feminist economics and climate justice advocate; creator and host of “People vs Inequality Podcast” Amsterdam, Netherlands

Supporting changemakers in their work for social justice by drawing on her own experience in policymaking, research, advocacy and campaigning.

Program officer, Resettlement and Integration, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

London, United Kingdom

Working to make refugee policy and governance structures more transparent, accountable and inclusive, with the aim of providing an opportunity for economic integration in host countries/ countries of asylum.

Energy access specialist; Ph.D. candidate, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy, University College London

London, United Kingdom

Providing expertise in projects that aim to increase access to sustainable energy services for households, public facilities and enterprises in eastern and southern Africa.

Global economic governance officer, Center for Economic and Social Rights

London, United Kingdom

Studying the connections between infrastructure, information and inequality, and seeking to enable processes of critical activism, citizen research and democratic engagement.

International policy and advocacy lead, Tax Justice Network

London, United Kingdom

Working in international human rights organizations and forging alliances across movements and geographies to advance economic justice at a global level.

Amplifying the voices of the Adivasi (the Indigenous people of India) and sharing their experiences through her nonprofit organization, Adivaani.

Producing storytelling campaigns to address educational inequalities for Indigenous youth in Mexico.

Field organizing specialist for the Solidarity Center, Mexico; Founder, Observatorio de Plataformas (Platform Observatory) Mexico City, Mexico

Challenging the poor working conditions and human rights violations for workers in platform economies, and presenting alternatives for decent work and ethical consumption.

RUBY HEMBROM Founder and director, Adivaani Kolkata, India

MYRIAM HERNANDEZ Education inequalities adviser and documentary film producer Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

KRUSKAYA HIDALGO CORDERO

IRENE WAKARINDI

AISHA ABDULAZIZ

RAFAEL BARRIO DE MENDOZA

SERGIO CHAPARRO HERNANDEZ

South Asia lead, 1t.org, World Economic Forum

Maharashtra, India

Working on forest conservation and restoration, keeping Indigenous communities at the center as part of the World Economic Forum’s efforts to accelerate nature-based solutions.

Accra, Ghana

Working with national and international development and human rights organizations in Africa and the U.K. to advance human rights and transitional justice.

Gender equity and social inclusion manager, Porticus Global Nairobi, Kenya

Developing structures through policies, strategies, and operational frameworks that are inclusive and enable equity for all genders and the socially excluded.

Climate justice activist and researcher; Resistance Studies fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Paris, France

Focusing on building the next generation of leadership within the climate justice movements for the rapid phaseout of fossil-fuels; and developing just, decentralized alternatives and movement networks to tackle the climate crisis.

Partnerships specialist, No Means No Worldwide

San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago

Working with community organizations to end sexual and gender-based violence globally.

United Kingdom

Working alongside marginalized groups to use the power of human rights for economic, social and cultural change.

London, United Kingdom

Providing expertise on digital inequalities and inclusive governance.

London, United Kingdom

Challenging dominant norms of global philanthropy in innovation, and analyzing equitable and inclusive funding practices that emphasize local voice, power, and agency for leading systems transformation.

KEVIN LIVERPOOL

CLARE MACGILLIVRAY Director, Making Rights Real Tranent, Scotland,

JENNY MCENEANEY Senior improvement policy adviser on cyber, digital and technology, Local Government Association

JITE PHIDO Senior program manager for innovation, Results For Development

ISHRAT JAHAN

MAKMID KAMARA Director, Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund

CAROLINE KIOKO

MADHURESH KUMAR

Working with diverse networks in Southeast Asia, particularly those involving rural and Indigenous women and the LGBTQ community in defense of land, water, territories and human rights.

Helping the Atlantic Institute to facilitate connections among the hundreds of Fellows and understand the impact they are making in challenging inequalities.

Working as a community mobilizer to bring together different ethnic groups from Myanmar.

Working to push for fiscal and economic justice in Mexico and Latin America, from a human rights and inequalities perspective.

Building movements and facilitating community engagement to promote systemic change and climate justice.

Deploying Pan-African and intersectional feminist tools of inquiry to examine and understand systemic injustices and their manifestations, and challenging and dismantling structural inequalities in a world increasingly controlled by plutocrats.

Researching disability rights, ableism and neurodiversity, and promoting the social model of disability as a tool to address institutional and discursive roots of inequality and exclusion experienced by individuals with a disability.

ZEPHANIE REPOLLO Southeast Asia co-director, Just Associates Siaton, Negros Oriental, Philippines

DANIEL SALAZAR MURILLO Data analyst lead, Atlantic Institute Oxford, United Kingdom

JAMES AUNG Operations manager, Organic Roots Myanmar Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

CARLOS BROWN SOLÀ Founder and economic and fiscal justice specialist, SUR Instituto del Sur Urbano Mexico City, Mexico

AMANDA SEGNINI Climate justice activist and co-founder, Engajamundo Sao Paulo, Brazil

LEAH ERYENYU Political economy analyst Kampala, Uganda

HAMIDREZA VASHEGHANIFARAHANI Researcher and civil society professional Tehran, Iran

Coordinator, Right to the City program, Civil Association for Equality and Justice

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Coordinating various research and advocacy projects to promote slum residents’ rights, encourage governments to guarantee their participation in public policy design and promote equal treatment for all inhabitants of Buenos Aires.

Labor activist and researcher

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Building a movement against the ravaging effects of the occupational disease of silicosis in western India, particularly among stonecarving workers.

Campaigner, Amnesty International Malaysia

Putrajaya, Malaysia

Designing and executing campaigns on death penalty abolition, freedom of expression, police reform, migrant and refugee rights and more.

Feminist movement builder and civil society professional Johannesburg, South Africa

Curating and facilitating platforms for dialogue and learning for African women as a pathway to achieving social justice and systems change.

Activist and civil society professional Sylhet, Bangladesh

Working with others in the Global South to decolonize the governance of environmental commons and investments for climate justice.

Coordinator, Collective Media Cooperative Limited

Geneva, Switzerland

Working on editorial projects for movements, organizations, publishers and individuals working toward the common good and focusing on the intersection of three perspectives: sociality, digitality and decoloniality.

Co-founder, Laboratorio 9x18, Pontificia Universidad

Católica de Chile

Bristol, United Kingdom

Developing public policies on social housing and deprived neighborhoods.

Principal education officer, Education District 1, Lagos

Lagos, Nigeria

Working with the government and nongovernmental organizations in the area of education to ensure that every child in Nigeria, irrespective of status or location, has access to quality education.

ENAMUL MAZID KHAN SIDDIQUE

T.O. MOLEFE

SEBASTIÁN MUÑOZ PÉREZ

STEPHANIE NWAORONI AKINWOYA

ROSARIO FASSINA

PRIYANKA JAIN

LILY JAMALUDIN

NALEDI KEKANA

Global lead on economic justice and public services, ActionAid International

London, United Kingdom

Creating inclusive spaces to discuss power, women’s rights and economics. Providing expertise on economic justice, focusing on fiscal policy and the impact on financing of genderresponsive public services, social protection and environmental policies.

Digital

Noida, India

Working in journalism and development communications, using data and artificial intelligence to trace and document intersectional inequalities across themes: from climate change and public health to discriminatory legislation and religious persecution.

Nonprofit specialist

Panama City, Panama

Establishing partnerships with communities in Panama and leading infrastructure, health, gender equality and economic initiatives alongside local and international organizations.

Head, Knowledge Management and Policy Unit, Nature Sustainability and Local Development Center

Lingayen, Philippines

Facilitating local development initiatives and capacity building in communities, conducting research on environmental justice and climate change adaptation and advocating human rights and sustainable development.

ROOS SAALBRINK

SALMAN USMANI

communications specialist

GABRIELA VALENCIA

RHOMIR YANQUILING

Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, Madhumitha Ardhanari, tests a Virtual Reality project created by another Fellow Myriam Hernández (second from left) at the program’s Leadership Summit in January 2023.

Photo credit: Catarina Heeckt.

Harnessing Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity for social impact.

BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

MARCUS AKUHATA-BROWN

Pou Whakatere, deputy secretary

Māori, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Government

Wellington, New Zealand

Leading a multidisciplinary business group, Ātea a Rangi, which incorporates the best of strategy, policy, capability development and relationship management to lead the Ministry in its priority to effectively partner with Māori.

DURKHANAI AYUBI

Writer and restaurateur

Waterfall Gully, S.A., Australia

Working to decode what power could look like, based on a reconstructed sense of identity, and communicating this through speaking and writing. Making and sharing traditional Afghan food to shift boundaries.

ROXANNE BAINBRIDGE

Director, Center for Indigenous Health Equity Research

Cairns, Australia

Developing and evaluating the social and emotional learning strategies implemented in Queensland boarding schools, to help remote Indigenous students better engage in life and learning.

Leading consultant, Deaf Indigenous community consultancy

Shepparton, Vic., Australia

Working with many complex Indigenous communications styles, especially for Deaf and hard of hearing peoples, as a proud BirriGubba, Woppaburra Deaf woman and qualified disability cultural consultant.

NICHOLAS EAKIN

General manager, Campaign

Sustainability, From the Heart Central Coast, N.S.W., Australia

Developing a neuroscienceanchored multidisciplinary measurement and evaluation framework of human flourishing to inform self-determined social equity from personal, organizational and policy objectives.

SEAN GORDON

Managing director, Gidgee Group Consulting and Partnerships Pty. Ltd.

Hamilton, N.S.W., Australia

Working on the social and economic disparity of Indigenous Australians, ensuring that legislation, policy and programs have a positive impact, leading to opportunities for Indigenous economic empowerment and independence.

ARIADNE GORRING

Co-chief executive officer, Pollination Foundation

Melbourne, Australia

Elevating community-based climate solutions, unlocking incentives to sustain nature, and weaving local and global communities of practice to accelerate a just transition to a climate-resilient future.

NICOLE JENKINS

Executive director, The Centre - Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre

Lismore, N.S.W., Australia

Ways of working guided by community development principles to ensure the voices of community are elevated.

JODY BARNEY

Independent consultant

Alice Springs, Australia

Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge center in Alice Springs.

Associate professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Health, Univeristy of New South Wales; deputy national rural health commissioner Coolamon, N.S.W., Australia

A proud Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) working on the health and mental health of her mob.

Executive director, Koorie Women Mean Business

Melbourne, Australia

Building an Aboriginal-led national peak body to lead and inform approaches to ethical research, protection of traditional knowledge, and sustainable, ethical business with Aboriginal landholders for Aboriginal products.

Minister counsellor for strategic communications, Australian Embassy (in U.S.) Washington, D.C., United States

Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the IndoPacific.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Leading the Atlantic Institute to support Atlantic Fellows across the world to accelerate the eradication of inequities for fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.

Australia

Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.

Canberra, Australia

Leading the COVID-19 primary care response for Indigenous and remote communities, in partnership with the Indigenous health sector, and continuing work to empower women, especially those exiting prison.

EVIE O’BRIEN Executive director, Atlantic Institute

DEAN PARKIN Director, From the Heart Melbourne,

MICHELLE STEELE Chief First Nations officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation

MAGGIE KAVANAGH

FAYE MCMILLAN

LEANNE MILLER

DAMIEN MILLER

Executive director and professor of education, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology

Brisbane, Australia

Developing dynamic approaches to embedding First Nation perspectives into western educational systems through professional development capacity building, using digital pedagogies and curriculum frameworks.

Senior adviser, National Indigenous Australians Agency

Dubbo, N.S.W., Australia

Co-designing strategies with Indigenous regional governance bodies to achieve equity. Seeking to close the gap in disadvantage through policies aimed at decision-making rights and empowerment.

Assistant secretary - access and inclusion, Australian Department of Education

Canberra, Australia

Leading national early childhood education policy and program reforms to increase access and inclusion, through a senior executive role in government. Pride Champion, driving inclusion of LGBTQI+ people across the Department of Education.

Head, advocacy and growth, Phantm

Melbourne, Australia

Establishing and enabling collaborations, disrupting entrenched and extractive systems, and advocating for an inclusive and regenerative economy.

Melbourne, Australia

Developing The International Alliance of First Nations Nurses, connecting and fostering their sense of resilience and mutual commitment to increase recognition, value and voice of First Nations nurses at an international level.

Fremantle, Australia

Building Indigenous business capability through the implementation of Indigenous procurement targets and strategies. Opening doors of opportunity to Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Melbourne, Australia

Building the power of Indigenous peoples through organizing and campaigning. Working in partnership with existing campaigns, allies, networks and initiatives to power people, campaigns and solutions.

Director, Aboriginal culture and healing, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet VIC

Melbourne, Australia

Delivering evidenced-based Indigenous Australian strategy and outcomes, supported by the ability to develop trusting and ethical relationships with the Indigenous community and colleagues from across the sector.

JANINE MOHAMED

Chief executive officer, Lowitia Institute

HEATH NELSON

General manager, community and partnerships, Fortescue Metals Group

KARRINA NOLAN Director, Original Power

CHARLES O’LEARY

PETER ANDERSON

ALISON BENTICK

PENELOPE JONES

JONATHAN KNEEBONE

Engaging in treatymaking debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and selfdetermination from Indigenous and nonIndigenous peoples in the U.S. and New Zealand would positively affect discussions in Australia.

Disrupting dominant economic discourse by demonstrating how entrepreneurial public servants can shape markets and enable just, inclusive, circular and regenerative economic development for the Māori and Pasifika urban diaspora.

Professor and director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney Adelaide, Australia

Focusing on developments in Indigenous nation-building and governance following colonization.

Ph.D. candidate, RMIT University; co-founder and director, Goompi Projects and Goompi Give and Grow North Stradbroke Island, Qld., Australia

Exploring models of storytelling of First Nations’ resilience to reclaim the telling of our own stories whilst empowering today’s generation of young people to reflect, transform and be proud of their identity, culture and existence.

Melbourne, Australia

Advancing social and economic outcomes of First Peoples, specializing in the co-design, development and implementation of strategic policy frameworks to facilitate social and economic equity for First Peoples.

Developing an innovative, locally driven health promotion program to strengthen and develop Indigenous communityled approaches to health improvement, and increase community engagement and ownership of wellness.

Supporting First Nations to become digitally empowered, enabling them to prosper from the new digital economy.

Founder and strategist, Full & Frank; executive director, TEDxBrisbane Brisbane, Australia

Amplifying the impact of global changemakers by teaching social entrepreneurs, thought leaders and advocates to deliver compelling, strategically-crafted presentations that inspire action and do justice to their ideas.

RAYMOND ORR

Associate professor and department chair, University of Oklahoma Norman, Okla., United States

TANIA POUWHARE General manager, community and social innovation, Auckland Council Auckland, New Zealand

DARYLE RIGNEY

PEKERI RUSKA

ALEX SPLITT

Manging director, Bundyi Girri Consulting

JUDITH (HUTI) WATSON Executive director, Jureda Tairawhiti, New Zealand

SHANE WEBSTER Chief executive officer, Jawun Adelaide, Australia

JUANITA WHEELER

Director of strategic support, Aboriginal Housing Office Killara, N.S.W., Australia

Reimagining lawful relationality with First Australians through cultural and economic collaboration with migrant communities.

General manager, Indigenous programs and community investment; chair, Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Council, Accor Pacific Sydney, Australia

Working on better engagement between First Nations peoples and the tourism industry. Creating opportunities for cultural preservation, social and economic equity, and a more authentic tourism story for Australia.

General manager, Te Taumata Hauora o Te Kahu o Taonui IMPB; Director of Health, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua Auckland, New Zealand

Exploring the implementation of Indigenous knowledge, customs, practices, spiritual beliefs, and frameworks as Māori advocate for autonomy in the delivery of greater health and social service outcomes for Māori.

Director, human services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Brisbane, Australia

Exploring how to redesign family services to work alongside families in building their restoration.

Co-founder and director, Goompi Give and Grow Ltd. and Goompi Projects

North Stradbroke Island, Qld., Australia

Developing a strengthbased approach to identify opportunities and ways to empower the Quandamooka community that ensure members are spiritually and mentally strong, immersed and proud of their culture, and create positive outcomes.

Blockchain Ltd. Wainuiomata, New Zealand

Working to lift the transformative capability of whānau, hapū and iwi to grow collective prosperity through Indigenous-centered design and emergent technologies.

Associate director, NSW/ ACT, Indigenous Business and Community, National Australia Bank East Maitland, N.S.W., Australia

Exploring how First Nations communities can build economic sovereignty through coordinated action to support the Nations’ other sovereign objectives.

Manager, housing and

support, Kāinga Ora–Lower South Region Auckland, New Zealand

Exploring the experience of whānau involved in statutory child protection processes to develop resources and supports to improve their participation and equity.

TEGAN BURNS

KAYE-MAREE DUNN Director, Making Everything Achievable, Ahau NZ Ltd; chief executive officer, Indigital

ADAM FLETCHER

RACHAEL GALWAY

well-being

INDU BALACHANDRAN

MARC BENNIE

BOYD BROUGHTON

RAYMOND BRUNKER

Creative director, The ELLA Foundation and Eco Dancers

Sydney, Australia

Elevating the importance of dance for First Nations communities and exploring how to make Australia’s dance industry more inclusive, diverse and accessible.

Senior manager, First Peoples Engagement

Geelong, Vic., Australia

Strengthening young Indigenous men’s cultural and spiritual connections to country through dance, storytelling and cultural land management.

Chief adviser, curriculum futures, Ministry of Education; and chair, Nōna Te Ao Charitable Trust

Gisborne, New Zealand

Empowering future Māori leaders by motivating rangatahi Māori into vocational training and educational pathways.

Cultural awareness and cultural heritage protection facilitator

Hope Vale, Qld., Australia

Designing a project to reveal Indigenous narratives of historical events in Australia by co-authoring a book in which they strongly push for acceptance in the Australian curriculum.

Learning and program development manager, Aboriginal Carbon Foundation

Sydney, Australia

Building an assetsbased, community-driven development (ABCD) planning process for remote Indigenous communities to dismantle the “problem narrative” perpetuated by non-Indigenous decisionmakers.

Pou Whakahaere Kaupapahere (Policy Manager), Te Tira Whakamātaki

Auckland, New Zealand

Empowering whānau-led environmental policy and research, centering our whakapapa relationship with the environment while remedying the violent impacts of settler colonialism.

Director of First Nations, Foundation of Young Australians

Melbourne, Australia

Using experience in media and storytelling to share their matriarchal story and the lesson within.

Strategic projects manager, Leadership Victoria; cofounder and director, Common Cause Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Building collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Victoria.

LISA MCMURRAY

TE TAIAWATEA MOKO-PAINTING

MERIKI ONUS

ANGELA RUTTER

ELLA HAVELKA

DEAN HETA

SAMUEL HUGHES

HAROLD LUDWICK

Director, People and Partnerships - Te Ara Tahi, Te Ari Taiwhenua, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand

Maungaraki, New Zealand

Centering joy, abundance and whanaungatanga, being relationally connected, as the foundation for Mana Motuhake, Māori sovereignty and agency.

Director, social justice and regional engagement, The Fred Hollows Foundation

Alawa, N.T., Australia

Working to define allyship accountability (and development of a tool/criteria for its assessment) from an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspective, while working with non-Indigenous allies to understand that accountability is action.

Senior policy officer, First Languages Australia

Battery Hill, Qld., Australia

Working with Indigenous language custodians to increase community control in interactions with government, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language education, data, media and place names.

Former chief executive officer, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation Heywood, Vic., Australia

Working on native title, cultural strengthening and heritage as well as community development; exploring ways to recognize and respect cultural landscapes.

Journalist and consultant Australia

Founder, Black Rainbow, an Indigenous LGBTIQA+SB suicide-prevention foundation Darwin, Australia

Working in philanthropy, social investment and Indigenous affairs to develop approaches for improving collaboration, engagement and knowledge in the sector.

Improving the health, wellbeing opportunities and suicide prevention for First Nations sexuality and gender minority groups.

Chief

Springfield Lakes, Qld., Australia

Championing the self-determination of Queensland’s Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector in exercising sovereignty, supporting communities and negotiating with state agencies.

Director, Aboriginal cultural heritage, land and economy, Aboriginal Affairs

New South Wales

Mangrove Mountain, N.S.W., Australia

Developing an Aboriginal cultural heritage land acquisition strategy to improve access and control of Aboriginal sites and landscapes for Aboriginal communities.

TRACY WILLIAMS

DAMEYON BONSON

KARLA BRADY

executive officer, Inala Wangarra

JONATHON CAPTAIN-WEBB

KATRINA SMIT

JAKI ADAMS

CAROLYN BARKER

DAMEIN BELL

General

Building carbon forestry projects from the ground up that meet Traditional Owner aspirations.

Building systems to navigate and bridge the cultural interface in First Nation and Australian institutional and organizational contexts, so that Indigenous people can thrive.

Chief executive officer, Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ; creative director, Black Friars Theatre Company Clover Park, New Zealand

Nurturing young Pasifika leaders for South Auckland through performance-based activism, heritage literacies and polycultural leadership.

Developing a Gumbaynggirr language meditation and well-being program to connect Goori children and youth to country, strengthen their identity and create selfawareness and mindfulness through leading a balanced lifestyle.

Marsden Park, N.S.W., Australia

Utilizing Indigenousinformed investment principles as a tool for investors to influence company and business behavior toward genuine Indigenous and community empowerment.

Activating communityled regeneration through Indigenous and place-based practices; creating a new way forward to empower local community and government representatives to collaborate on a location-specific regenerative future.

Progressing non-Indigenous allyship in the community sector in support of selfdetermined Māori authority in Aotearoa. Building commitment and capability in Pakeha-led community organizations to take antiracist and decolonial actions.

Zealand

Campaigning as an activist for Māori rights, environmental protection and constitutional transformation; recently co-led the #ProtectIhumatāo campaign to protect ancestral land in Auckland from corporate desecration.

SIMBA MAREKERA

Head, investment management, Brightlight Group

TARA MOALA Managing director, Rākau Tautoko, a social enterprise; community outcomes manager, Tāmaki Regeneration Company Auckland, New Zealand

SARAH MORRIS

Freelance social and systems change consultant; co-chair, HuiE community, Aotearoa Hutt Central, New Zealand

PANIA NEWTON Lawyer and activist for Māori land rights; co-founder of the campaign and battle to protect ancestral land at Ihumātao Mangere, Auckland, New

MICHAEL COLEMAN

manager, partnerships, Greenfleet Black Rock, Vic., Australia

TUI CRUMPEN

Director, Kaiela Institute; Aboriginal academic Shepparton, Vic., Australia

MICHELLE JOHANSSON

CHRISTIAN LUGNAN

Chief financial officer, Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation (BMNAC) Coffs Harbour, N.S.W., Australia

Aboriginal academic; lecturer in rural Aboriginal health, Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne

Shepparton, Vic., Australia

Working to address the lack of inclusion and afforded value of Indigenous peoples in their own country; advocating for the elimination of deaths in custody of Aborginal people.

Specialist adviser, youth economy, Community Social Innovation Unit, Auckland Council; freelance social change specialist. Hobsonville, New Zealand

Working alongside local youth development organizations and key strategic partners, enabling rangatahi (youth) to find their own solutions to economic autonomy.

First Nations art curator; cultural dancer and educator; consultant Kallista, Vic., Australia

Facilitating community voices, connecting past and present and highlighting the continuity and importance of cultural values; empowering community to care for country and heal trauma.

Principal adviser, treaty partnerships, Abuse in Care, Royal Commission of Inquiry; chair person, Wainuiomata Community Board

Wainuiomata, New Zealand

Looking at the next 40 years of te reo Māori revitalization in our Kōhanga Reo; prioritizing language concepts, sovereignty and access and decolonizing how reo Māori is used in bilingual settings; empowering families and community.

Aboriginal cultural coordinator, Bush Heritage Australia

Nhulunbuy, N.T., Australia

Identifying key cultural protocols to support selfdetermination as a proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman; unpacking intergenerational trauma and using her people’s cultural resilience to empower.

SHONELLA TATIPATA

Director, Centre of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics (CoATSIS) Engagement Management Unit, Australian Bureau of Statistics Watson, A.C.T., Australia

Investigating how the interactions of data and First Nations’ narratives can contribute to more equitable systems for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Project manager, TIPU MAHI, South Island Māori Health Workforce Development Project Nelson, New Zealand

Revitalizing knowledge and use of taonga puoro (traditional Māori musical instruments) to reindigenize approaches to mental and physical health and wellbeing.

STEPHANIE SALEE

HOLLY WEIR-TIKAO

RAYLENE NIXON

JEWELZ PETLEY

STACIE PIPER

TE AWA PUKETAPU

Spoken word poet

Rothwell, Qld., Australia

Developing an international residency for Pasifika and Indigenous spoken word artists and practitioners to strengthen their voice, leadership capability and connection to culture.

Program coordinator, Te Tohu

o Te Ora O Ngati Awa

Whakatane, New Zealand

Leading change by reclaiming spaces of Māori wāhine (women) leadership and participation in decision making that benefits people, environment, culture, economy, social factors and the long-term sustainability of our communities.

National reconciliation lead; possum skin cloak maker; cultural educator Dunscreek, N.S.W., Australia

Strengthening elders’ connections to family, community and culture through collective storytelling and participation in cultural practices by placing Aboriginal culture at the forefront of dismantling colonial systems.

Senior project officer, team focused on chronic care for Aboriginal people, New South Wales

Agency of Clinical Innovation Mascot, N.S.W., Australia

Developing a collaborative decision-making process in health care to create change that rebalances power dynamics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accessing the health care system.

Consultant/facilitator, First Nations strategy, partnerships and outcomes across New South Wales

Lake Haven, N.S.W., Australia

Building enduring relationships of equality and ensuring fair exchange in all interactions by applying modern leadership practices such as a values-based, collaborative, and enquirybased approach.

Curator and conservator, State Library Victoria

Altona, Vic., Australia

Seeking to build Indigenous capacity and utilize platforms to elevate Indigenous art and culture. In doing this, she wants to recenter our place in the world and make systemic change.

Regional director, Yuendumu, Northern Territory government

Alice Springs, Australia

Empowering Warlpiri elders through the repatriation and research of their ancestors’ artifacts and collections held around the world in many institutions as well as in private collections.

Co-founder and CEO, Tati

Tati Kaiejin, First Nations-led nonprofit organization focusing on sustainable environmental practices

Irymple, Vic., Australia

Decolonizing natural resource management through First Nations-led programs, education and employment to heal country, improve community wellbeing and restore justice for First Nations peoples.

LILLIAN GORDON

JADE HADFIELD

KARL HAMPTON

MELISSA KENNEDY

MARINA ALEFOSIO

TONI BOYNTON

KERRI CLARKE

DAVID FOLLENT

KETI MARSH-SOLOMON

Social change advocate and consultant

Hamilton, New Zealand

Recognizing the economic and cultural power of Māori communities. Creating a future where ancient practice meets modern tools in a way that is restorative and prosperous.

HAYLEY MCQUIRE

Chief executive officer, National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition; co-chair, Learning Creates Australia Reservoir, Vic., Australia

Designing a learning hub for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to be connected with thought leadership from activists, academics, community leaders and elders to supplement their senior secondary/tertiary studies.

Victorian Aboriginal inclusion officer, Victorian Electoral Commission Frankston, Vic., Australia

Creating stronger relationships between Maori and the many Aboriginal communities by sharing cultural and creative practices and walking a journey of cultural revitalization together.

Director, management and consulting team, KPMG

Auckland, New Zealand

Specializing in partnering with Māori, public- and private-sector organizations, and communities to support major social reforms and investments that reduce inequities, increase inclusion and improve lives.

JOSHUA PREECE

Senior resident medical officer, New South Wales Health

Sydney, Australia

Focusing passionately on the social determinants of health and advocating for young First Nations voices in crafting foreign policy.

Obstetrician and gynecologist; co-chair, Queensland

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Clinical Network Bogangar, N.S.W., Australia

Developing a novel clinical governance framework embedded in Indigenous knowledge and systemic cultural safety that places health equity, health justice and anti-racism as core hospital business.

Manager, Whanganui Women’s Refuge

Whanganui, New Zealand

Focusing passionately on whānau caregivers having equitable access to resources and support. Hoping to achieve this in a way that is collaborative and builds on existing strengths and safety.

Founder and director of Indigenuity Limited.

Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Creating knowledge pathways to homeownership for Māori families.

ALICIA VEASEY

JO VOICE

INEZ WHITE FAITALA

JEREMY NIKORA

TIARE “DEIDRE” OTENE

Building excellence in aged care for First Nations people by exploring models of holistic care including facility design and development, care components, the role of kin and community workforce in care and sustainable business practices.

BRIAN WYBORN

Director and senior wealth adviser, JBWere Camp Hill, Qld., Australia

Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program Pou, Dr. Jackie Huggins, with Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, Jonathon Captain-Webb.

Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity.

The 2023 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity learn on the Gunditjmara Country at Budj Bim UNESCO world heritage site with 2021 Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, Damein Bell.

Credit: Colleen Hamilton.

Governing Board

Chris is president and chief executive officer of The Atlantic Philanthropies and also serves on the Atlantic Institute Governing Board. He led Atlantic’s grant-making through its four program areas and Founding Chairman grants. His responsibilities included working with The Atlantic Philanthropies Board to complete all of Atlantic’s active grant-making by 2016 and conclude all operations by 2020. Chris has over 35 years of experience in international business, law, philanthropy and policy development in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Previously, he was counsel to U.S. Sen. Russell Feingold, and worked with private law firms in the U.S. and Asia. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles and received an M.A. in foreign affairs and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Kofi Appenteng is president of the Africa-America Institute (AAI), founded in 1953 with a mission of promoting enlightened engagement between Africa and America through education, training and dialogue. With more than 15,000 African alumni from more than 50 African countries, AAI has tremendous reach and is a trusted brand. Kofi has 30 years of domestic and international experience as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and board director. He serves as chair for Africa at Delphos International and is a member of the advisory board of The RockCreek Group.

Cyan is a medical doctor with a passion for helping build healthier, more inclusive and more sustainable health care systems and communities. She completed her medical training at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and her master’s in public health with a global health specialization through King’s College London. Her work focuses on the intersection of climate change, health innovation and gender equality. Cyan is the founder of Women Leaders Planetary Health in South Africa and the Global Women in Leadership Academy. Currently, she is a biodesign fellow at Stanford University where she hopes to develop skills to use health innovation as a tool for health equity.

CHRISTOPHER G. OECHSLI Chair of the Atlantic Institute Governing Board (AIGB)

KOFI APPENTENG President, Africa-America Institute

CYAN BROWN

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in South Africa, co-chair of the Global Atlantic Fellows Advisory Board (GFAB)

Anne is an educator and advocate for well-being. Having focused on issues of equity, access and belonging in higher education earlier in her career, she has pivoted toward a broader understanding of compassion and well-being within systems. As the associate dean for wellbeing at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, her focus has been on developing novel supports for all members of the health care team during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently taking an ecosystem approach to addressing issues of well-being at the system-level within health care.

Elizabeth Kiss oversees the world’s oldest graduate scholarship, the Rhodes Scholarship, as well as several partnership programs (including the Atlantic Institute). Before joining the Rhodes Trust, Elizabeth served for 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia; and from 1997 to 2006 she was the founding director of Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. She is a scholar of moral and political philosophy and she has published on moral education, human rights, ethnic conflict and nationalism, feminist theory and transitional justice. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University.

James McCluskey has been deputy vice-chancellor (Research) at The University of Melbourne, since 2011. He trained in Perth as a physician and pathologist before spending four years at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. He has worked at Monash University, Flinders University and the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. He led the development of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, and served as a director of independent medical research institutes in Melbourne.

ANNE BROWNING

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity U.S.+ Global, co-chair of the Global Atlantic Fellows Advisory Board (GFAB)

ELIZABETH KISS Warden of Rhodes House and chief executive officer of the Rhodes Trust

JAMES “JIM” MCCLUSKEY Deputy chair of Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Advisory Board

International program director for gender, racial and ethnic justice, the Ford Foundation; Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity governing board member

Nicolette Naylor is a Pan-African feminist lawyer and senior philanthropic executive, who has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of justice, feminism and philanthropy. She has led the Ford Foundation’s Southern Africa office and International Program on Gender, Racial & Ethnic Justice where she was responsible for directing the Foundation’s strategy and team in the Southern African region as well as global programming on gender, racial and ethnic justice. Her work has focused on increasing resources and financial support for civil society in the Global South and a commitment to strengthening the feminist funding ecosystem for Black and Indigenous feminist movements as well as LGBTIQ+ and gender expansive movements. She retired from Ford Foundation in September 2022 and is now providing consultant support to philanthropic organizations, feminist movements, civil society organizations and academic institutions whilst completing her book project, which spans deeply personal and political reflections, celebrations, and critiques of her time in philanthropy.

Executive director of The Equity Initiative/Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia

Phuong joined the China Medical Board staff in September 2015. He is a U.S. board-certified physician in both internal medicine and pediatrics. He earned a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and his doctorate in medicine at the Medical College of Georgia. He received his Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and his MBA from the University of Hawaii. Phuong began working with The Atlantic Philanthropies in 2000 as a consultant for the Viet Nam program and, subsequently, established the Atlantic representative office in Ha Noi. From 2003 to 2013, he was the Atlantic’s country director in Viet Nam, where he was responsible for overseeing a grantmaking portfolio of over U.S.$384 million for the population health and higher education programs. In 2013, he founded a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, Resources for Health Equity.

Mvuyo sits on various boards on development, health and education. He currently is the chairperson of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa and is former vice chancellor of the University of Fort Hare (2008-2016). He served as provincial director-general from 1998 to 2004, after being permanent secretary of the Department of Health and Welfare from 1994 to 1997. In 1994, he received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights for his role in the anti-apartheid struggle.

NICOLETTE NAYOR

LE NHAN PHUONG

MVUYO TOM

Deputy chair of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa

Right to left: Dr. Elizabeth Kiss, Professor Carolyn Hamilton and Pankaj Mishra at the Atlantic (K)new Leadership convening, Thailand, 2022. Credit. Jack Taylor

Chair of the AIGB, Christopher G. Oechsli, speaking at the Atlantic (K)new Leadership convening, Thailand, 2022. Credit: Jack Taylor.

DIRECTORY OF GLOBAL ATLANTIC FELLOWS PROGRAM STAFF

GLORIA AGUIRRE

Community outreach gloria.aguirre@gbhi.org

Gloria works with underserved and underrepresented populations, supporting brain health through the arts, community engagement and outreach at the Memory and Aging Center of the University of California, San Francisco.

RONAN BREATHNACH

Fellow support ronan.breathnach@gbhi.org

Ronan is the first point of contact for incoming and current Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, based at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity. He assists Fellows with relocation and any administrative challenges.

CIARAN CONNEELY

Administration and operations conneec@tcd.ie

EOIN COTTER

Learning experience eoin.cotter@gbhi.org

Ciaran leads the operations team at the Trinity Institute of Neuroscience and provides high-level management support to help develop strategic initiatives. He managed the Global Brain Health Institute program at Trinity College Dublin during the startup phase.

Eoin primarily works with the learning experience team to lead coordination and oversight of the design, development and delivery of the learning experience.

AMANDA DELANEY

Administration and operations amanda.delaney@gbhi.org

Administration and operations aura.demare@gbhi.org

Administration and operations laura.galaviz@gbhi.org

Administration and operations rosalie.gearheart@gbhi.org

Amanda supports administration and operations at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

Aura oversees the pilot award program and supports regional impact efforts, with a particular focus on subawards, contracts and preparing funding proposals.

Laura is responsible for leading and coordinating an initiative to create and support a network of regional mentors as part of the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program at the Global Brain Health Institute.

Rosalie serves as a senior adviser for the Global Brain Health Institute’s executive committee and senior management team.

AURA DEMARE

LAURA GALAVIZ

ROSALIE GEARHEART

Anne-Marie leads on implementing strategy, as the chief operating officer of the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

carmen.hart@gbhi.org

Carmen works closely with the site director at the University of California, San Francisco, and staff to coordinate, manage and plan key aspects and activities of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program.

Barbara is responsible for financial planning at the Global Brain Health Institute.

shireen.javandel@gbhi.org

Shireen works with Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health to facilitate research studies, and supports faculty and Atlantic Fellows in preparing funding proposals, building collaborations, creating research protocols and managing data.

Niall is responsible for developing and sharing messaging, media and news for the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health community.

camellia.latta@gbhi.org

Camellia develops opportunities for connection and learning with and for Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health in the Global Brain Health Institute’s alumni community; facilitates collaboration across the broader Atlantic Fellows network; and leads work on arts strategies and partnerships.

Brian works to develop effective interventions, strategies and policies that can improve the well-being and quality of life of people with dementia and their care partners.

Kailey works with the Global Brain Health Institute’s monitoring and evaluation team to provide ongoing support for the monitoring and learning activities of the Atlantic Fellows program, which includes looking at indicators of impact.

ANNE-MARIE GLYNN Administration and operations anne-marie.glynn@gbhi.org

CARMEN HART Administration and operations

BARBARA HEWITT Administration and operations bhewitt@tcd.ie

SHIREEN JAVANDEL Regional impact

NIALL KAVANAGH Communications niall.kavanagh@gbhi.org

CAMELLIA LATTA Alumni relations and special initiatives

BRIAN LAWLOR Site director brian.lawlor@gbhi.org

KAILEY MATEO Monitoring and evaluation kailey.mateo@gbhi.org

Learning experience

mindy.matice@gbhi.org

Bringing her expertise in education and training, Mindy works with the faculty to design a better classroom and online learning experience for Fellows.

Regional impact

andjelika.milicic@gbhi.org

Andjelika supports datarelated needs for projects ranging from neuroscience to clinical and social research. She assists researchers in setting up databases, data analysis, maintaining datasets and managing datasharing policies.

Communications

helen.murray@gbhi.org

Helen is responsible for leading communications activities that promote the mission and work of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.

Administration and operations

oliveiec@tcd.ie

Technology

andrew.philipoff@gbhi.org

Andrew is responsible for the upkeep, configuration and operation of the program’s systems.

Communications

caroline.prioleau@gbhi.org

Caroline helps communicate the mission and work of the Global Brain Health Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program through stories and images.

Administration and operations

kyle.pustateri@gbhi.org

Kyle oversees all aspects of operations of the Global Brain Health Institute’s University of California, San Francisco site, working closely with colleagues at Trinity College Dublin.

Elaine supports administration and operations.

winnie.tsou@gbhi.org

Winnie brings extensive experience in project management, software development and web technologies to the program.

ANDREW PHILIPOFF

CAROLINE PRIOLEAU

KYLE PUSATERI

WINNIE TSOU Technology

MELINDA MATICE

ANDJELIKA MILICIC

HELEN MURRAY

ELAINE OLIVEIRA

Site

victor.valcour@gbhi.org

Victor works to position the Global Brain Health Institute as a leader in this field. He works with the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health as they return to their home communities to enhance the collective success of the institute and the Fellows.

Learning

mary.warbelow@gbhi.org

Mary works with Atlantic Fellows and the Global Brain Health Institute’s team to provide technical support and expertise to training. She supports projects related to mentorship, curriculum development, leadership and other experiential learning.

Administration

evelyn.wong@gbhi.org

Evelyn is responsible for Global Brain Health Institute’s financial management and reporting, as well as managing many of the site-specific operations at University of California, San Francisco.

Monitoring and evaluation

stacey.yamamoto@gbhi.org

Stacey is responsible for collecting and analyzing program data to inform continuous improvement efforts while also tracking progress toward organizational impact goals.

VICTOR VALCOUR

director

MARY WARBELOW

experience

EVELYN WONG

and operations

STACEY YAMAMOTO

The Global Brain Health Institute Annual Conference in Mexico City, May 2023.

Credit: Gustavo Grant

selam@gwu.edu

jcblancha@gmail.com

guenevere.burke@gmail.com

Selam manages the overall design and implementation of the fellowship program. She has over ten years of experience in public health research and health systems strengthening.

Janice is professor of emergency medicine at The George Washington University and a member of the fellowship’s Global Atlantic Fellows team.

Guenevere is the co-founder and current director of the fellowship. She is a practicing emergency physician, and continues to teach medicine and health policy.

lbutler@gwu.edu

Leigh Anne is responsible for the management of administration, finance and reporting functions for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity U.S. + Global program.

atlanticfellows.org

Shadelle is responsible for handling the operations and logistics for the fellowship program. She manages the event planning for convenings and other team events.

As leadership learning lead, Kate coaches Atlantic Fellows in the use of leadership, organizing and change-management methods to advance and sustain health equity.

Olivia serves as a program coordinator for the fellowship program. Prior to joining the program, she worked in a variety of nonprofit communications settings that addressed economic inequity, community health and food security issues.

Beth is working with the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity team to implement a communications strategy that advances recognition of the fellowship, the individual Fellows and the urgent need for health equity.

SHADELLE GREGORY Operations coordinator shadelle.gregory@

KATE HILTON Leadership learning lead k.hilton@atlanticfellows.org

OLIVIA JEFFERSON Program coordinator olijeffer@gwu.edu

BETH MECHUM Communications lead bmechum@gwu.edu

SELAM BEDADA Associate program director

JANICE BLANCHARD

Global Atlantic Fellow Faculty

GUENEVERE BURKE Program director

LEIGH ANNE BUTLER Manager, Mullan Institute Research Operations

Khadidiatou is the health equity instructional lead; and an associate teaching professor in the department of prevention and community health; and director of the Public Health Communication and Marketing program at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Moira brings her knowledge of research administration and an eagerness to implement systems to maximize support in areas of graduate medical education, health workforce equity, behavioral and reproductive health and fellowship in health equity.

Tamara is building a strongly connected community of Global Atlantic Fellows. She is the Global Atlantic Fellows’ primary point of contact and coordinates program activities and events.

Sharon is responsible for the finance functions of the program. She manages the budget and collaborates with departments on financial tasks and contracts. She has supported sponsored projects for six years and has a master’s in project management.

As the leadership associate, Rawan brings in cases and examples from around the world showing how leadership practices are applied in the Global South, and also supports in the teaching of leadership and organizing.

RAWAN ZEINE Leadership associate rawanzeine@gmail.com

KHADIDIATOU NDIAYE Health equity learning lead kndiaye@email.gwu.edu

MOIRA SECREST Manager, sponsored projects moira@gwu.edu

TAMARA TUR Global Atlantic Fellow lead ttur@gwu.edu

SHARON WHITE Research program manager sgwhite@gwu.edu

KIM CRUZ

Communications manager

kcruz@cmbfound.org

DUONG HOANG QUYEN Program executive qduong@cmbfound.org

Kim helps communicate about the program’s work and mission toward health equity in Southeast Asia and China.

Quyen directs program operations in addition to playing key roles in the fellowship program and recruitment.

SIRAPRAPA MORRODKUTE

Program assistant siraprapa.morrodkute@ atlanticfellows.org

Siraprapa handles the Fellows’ online learning platform, and supports the execution of events and community-building activities.

Phuong leads the strategic direction of the program and provides executive oversight for operations.

ARTHUR RIEDEL

Knowledge and learning manager ariedel@cmbfound.org

Arthur helps manage an efficient and effective monitoring and evaluation process across the program in Southeast Asia.

MAYTIWA

THAVORNPINITTHAM Fellows relations manager mthavornpinittham@ cmbfound.org

May is in charge of the Fellows community, equity communities beyond the Fellows, and public communications and networking.

KANOKRAT THOMTHONG Office manager k.thomthong@atlanticfellows.org

WANROB WARARAS Program associate wwararas@cmbfound.org

Kanokrat (Nok) oversees daily operations and logistics for the program.

Wanrob supports community building activities and operations for the fellowship program.

LE NHAN PHUONG Executive director ple@cmbfound.org

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, Ratawit Ouprachanon and Gideon Cauton, (second from left and middle respectively), are among the panel discussants at the annual convening in Thailand. Credit: Jack Taylor.

Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia, Kritaya Sreesunpagit, was one of a number of Global Atlantic Fellows who took part in Creative Brain Week, Dublin, 2023. Credit: Alex Kornhuber.

Siphokazi is the executive support to the chief operating officer as well as other senior leadership team members, supporting clinical/patient and regulatory-related activities at the program. She has previous experience in Finance, Operations, and Support Services for the Department of Health.

Phindiwe focuses on program administration.

Lance is the program director, focusing on the strategic implementation of the Fellowship program startegy and ensuring alignment with the overall vision and mission.

Thembisa assists with housekeeping duties at the program’s offices.

Siphokazi provides institutional and strategic oversight and leadership of the fellowship to achieve its vision, mission and goals.

Thandokazi is responsible for the management of the fellowship program activities, curriculum development and implementation and Fellow development.

Sisa is responsible for all finance-related activities.

Sarurai is a chartered accountant with more than ten years’ progressive experience in finance, audit and risk. She is passionate about building strong financial systems and ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of an organization.

SIPHOKAZI MTHATHI Chief operating officer sipho.mthathi@tekano.org.za

THANDOKAZI TABATA Fellowship program manager thandokazi@tekano.org.za

SISA NTWALANA Finance officer sisa@tekano.org.za

SARURAI MANGWANDA Finance director sarurai@tekano.org.za

SIPHOKAZI KONDILE Executive personal assistant siphokazi@tekano.org.za

PHINDIWE DLULANE Senior program administrator phindiwe@tekano.org.za

LANCE LOUSKIETER Program director lance@tekano.org.za

THEMBISA LUGALO Office assistant thembisa@tekano.org.za

Left to right: Joy-Marie Lawrence, non-executive director of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa with one of the Fellows, Amanda Fonanda, and Fellows from other programs, Oxford, May 2023. Credit: Lee Atherton.

From left to right: Siphokazi Mthathi, with Dr. Maria C. Carillo and Dr. Guenevere Burke as panel speakers at the Atlantic (K)new Leadership convening, Thailand, 2022. Credit: Jack Taylor.

Chief of staff

a.davechand@atlanticfellows.org

Ashika ensures strategy alignment by connecting strategic thinking, planning and implementation across the organization. She facilitates the realization of the vision and priorities in addition to providing problem-solving and strategic support.

t.gray@atlanticfellows.org

Terry manages the budget and financial operations, including fellowship scholarship payments and reimbursements. She also is responsible for managing organizational operations for the overall program and the Columbia University-based office.

d.hannah@atlanticfellows.org

Daryl oversees narrative and communications, including the literary journal “Moya” and podcast “Race Beyond Borders,” the website and other digital media properties.

MANOELI-LESAME

s.manoeli@atlanticfellows.org

Sebabatso provides institutional oversight and supports the strategic direction of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity program. She works with the team to build the fellowship experience and to create the program’s literary magazine, “Moya,” and podcast, “Race Beyond Borders,” both of which explore the global Black experience.

l.mbuli@atlanticfellows.org

Associate director, communications

m.oyebolu@atlanticfellows.org

n.richard@atlanticfellows.org

Nolwazi coordinates the fellowship to ensure a successful experience for Fellows, including the implementation of virtual and immersive retreats. She also supports the creation of the literary magazine, Moya, and podcast, “Race Beyond Borders.”

Dupe manages external communications including content creation, social media and newsletters. She also supports narrative change projects across the program including work on the “Race Beyond Borders” podcast.

Nigel leads the program’s leadership development supports for Fellows including coaching and project development, and he co-facilitates fellowship sessions including both the virtual and immersive retreats.

n.royer@atlanticfellows.org

Nicole is responsible for the overall success of the funded opportunities offered to Fellows, including project funding, capacity-building funding, growth funding, travel vouchers, leadership coaching and any new funding opportunities that may arise.

NOLWAZI LAETITIA MBULI Senior program manager

MODUPEOLA “DUPE” OYEBOLU

NIGEL RICHARD Senior program director and facilitator

NICOLE ROYER Program manager

ASHIKA DAVECHAND

TERRY-ANN GRAY

Associate director, finance and operations

DARYL HANNAH

Senior director, narrative strategy

SEBABATSO

Executive director

yasmeen@leadershippathways.co.za

Yasmeen co-facilitates fellowship sessions including the virtual and immersive retreats. She also is a founding director of Leadership Pathways, which focuses on the intersections of leadership development, systems transformation and the advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion.

m.shin@atlanticfellows.org

a.webb@atlanticfellows.org

g.winters@atlanticfellows.org

Meredith supports financial operations in the U.S. including financial reconciliation and tracking of payments, and provides day-to-day administrative support to programs, operations, activities, initiatives, special projects and events.

Amanda coordinates the program’s Fellow selection process and supports the implementation of the Global Atlantic Fellow communitybuilding and funding opportunities.

Gil leads the development of the financial and investment strategy of the program, creating necessary processes and infrastructure. Gil is also responsible for operations, organizational risk management, compliance, and certain components of legal and informational technology.

YASMEEN RUBIDGE Facilitator

MEREDITH SHIN Financial coordinator

AMANDA WEBB Program coordinator

GIL WINTERS

Director, finance and operations

Nigel Richard, senior program director, on a panel at the Atlantic (K)new Leadership Convening, Thailand, July 2022.

Credit: Jack Taylor.

A.Akhtar2@lse.ac.uk

Asmaa oversees the lifelong fellowship strategy and programming. Her overarching aim is to ensure that the program’s Global Atlantic Fellows are strongly connected to each other, the program and the wider Atlantic community and have access to continuous learning.

S.M.Camacho-Felix@lse.ac.uk

Sara is a practitionerresearcher whose praxis focuses on equitable and reflexive pedagogies in higher education. She is responsible for the delivery of academic programming and pedagogy during the active fellowship year.

e.ceccato@lse.ac.uk

A.Ishkanian@lse.ac.uk

Emma is the communications manager for the International Inequalities Institute, where the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program is based. She oversees the program’s marketing and communications planning, strategy and activities.

Armine provides institutional and strategic oversight for the fellowship to achieve its vision, mission and goals, and supports the team to build a powerful and effective program.

m.lavenaire@lse.ac.uk

g.kunnath@lse.ac.uk

George is an assistant professorial research fellow. He contributes to fellowship curriculum development, teaching and mentoring.

A.S.Kurt-Dickson@lse.ac.uk

Aygen works toward developing and implementing the International Inequalities Institute’s funding and knowledge exchange strategy, including for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program’s portfolio.

Maël is a research fellow in racial inequality. He contributes to fellowship curriculum development, teaching and mentoring.

s.leppanen1@lse.ac.uk

Saaga is in charge of the development and delivery of communications and marketing strategies and activities to promote the program and the work of Fellows.

GEORGE KUNNATH Assistant professorial research fellow

AYGEN KURT-DICKSON Policy fellow (funding and knowledge exchange strategy)

MAËL LAVENAIRE Research fellow

SAAGA LEPPÄNEN Communications and marketing officer

ASMAA AKHTAR

Program manager (global engagement and impact)

SARA CAMACHO FELIX Program lead and assistant professorial lecturer

EMMA CECCATO Communications manager

ARMINE ISHKANIAN Executive director

f.mendes-fialho@lse.ac.uk

A.Nazaryan@lse.ac.uk

Fabricio is a research fellow. He contributes to fellowship curriculum development, teaching and mentoring.

Anastasia provides administrative support to various program project initiatives, including the academic-practitioner collaborations (AcPrac) and the Atlantic Equity Challenge (AEQ).

FABRICIO MENDES FIALHO Research fellow

ANASTASIA NAZARYAN Project support officer

Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, Christopher Choong Weng Wai (center), with Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam (pictured left). Credit: AFSEE.

Research fellow (impact and evaluation)

fiona.belcher@unimelb.edu.au

Fi is a researcher and educator who is focusing on the evaluation and impact of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program.

nfioritti@unimelb.edu.au

sangita.iyer@unimelb.edu.au

luther.lyon@unimelb.edu.au

Nathan is responsible for internal and external communications, publicity, social media and the website.

Sangita supports a range of strategic projects for the team, including Fellow selection and lifelong engagement. She also provides logistical support for program delivery.

Luther is a research assistant, and holds a Master of Social Policy and Bachelor of Arts.

elizabeth.mckinley@ unimelb.edu.au

Elizabeth provides strategic direction, leadership and management of the program, and leads on stakeholder relations.

nikki.moodie@unimelb.edu.au

Nikki is a proud Gomeroi woman and is responsible for program team leadership and research translation.

david.pollock@unimelb.edu.au

makayla.preston@unimelb.edu.au

Dave coordinates academic programming, curriculum design and delivery and scholarly support for Fellows.

Makayla is well experienced in administrative duties and supports the smooth delivery of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program.

ELIZABETH MCKINLEY Executive director

NIKKI MOODIE Program director and deputy director

DAVID POLLOCK Program course coordinator

MAKAYLA PRESTON Administration officer

FI BELCHER

NATHAN FIORITTI Communications officer

SANGITA IYER

Program support officer

LUTHER LYON Research assistant

hineani.roberts@unimelb.edu.au

asha.steer@unimelb.edu.au

joanna.wilson@unimelb.edu.au

s.woodcock@unimelb.edu.au

Hineani is the communications lead and is passionate about decolonizing narratives and strength-based digital storytelling.

Asha is a research assistant who supports Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity programming and assisted with the Global Atlantic Fellows cross-program flagship convening on Indigenous health in 2023.

Jo is an office professional who provides support to the leadership team and the secretariat function for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program advisory board.

Shannon is a white colonist historian and they are head tutor for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program.

HINEANI ROBERTS

Communications lead

ASHA STEER Research assistant

JO WILSON Executive coordinator

SHANNON WOODCOCK Head tutor

A traditional smoking ceremony as part of the Indigenous Approaches to Health Equity Thematic Convening, hosted by the Institute with Atlantic programs for Social Equity and Health Equity U.S. + Global. Credit: Hineani Roberts.

KATHERINE BOND

Partnerships lead katherine.bond@ atlanticfellows.org

Katherine is responsible for building effective strategic relationships with valuesaligned organizations to mutually enhance knowledge, capability and impact.

TANYA CHARLES

Program and impact lead (Fellow engagement) t.charles@atlanticfellows.org

Tanya is responsible for the development and design of programming for both Atlantic program staff and Global Atlantic Fellows who are working to challenge inequities.

YAN CHEN (COVERING FOR JEMMA STRINGER WHO IS ON PARENTAL LEAVE) Program and impact lead (innovation and special projects) yan.chen@atlanticfellows.org

Yan supports and helps organize events and projects that foster knowledge exchange, experience sharing, connectivity and collaboration in the Global Atlantic Fellows program community.

ABI DIAMOND

Associate executive director (communications and Impact) abi.diamond@atlanticfellows.org

Abi is responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of our strategy and approaches for assessing and amplifying the impact of the Atlantic community. She is also focused on developing the communications strategy.

KHALIL GOGA

Associate executive director (community and programming) k.goga@atlanticfellows.org

Khalil is responsible for leading the design and implementation of programs in support of the work of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff, and the development of a strongly connected lifelong community of action.

MARIA JEFFERY

Communications lead m.jeffery@atlanticfellows.org

Maria is responsible for the creation and distribution of publications, newsletters, events and other emails, Hub content, social media and branding across all communications channels and at events. She also oversees the branding and distribution of Institute gifts.

OLIVIA LAWRENCE

Executive assistant (temporary) executive.assistant@ atlanticfellows.org

The executive assistant coordinates the executive director’s diary and manages communications on her behalf; supports the Atlantic Institute Governing Board, program directors and the Global Atlantic Fellows Advisory Board; and organizes Institute property bookings.

DAVID MALLINSON

Team coordinator (convenings) d.mallinson@atlanticfellows.org

David provides operational support to the Atlantic Institute team to ensure the smooth running of the Institute’s activities. He also provides support for convenings and programs in support of the work of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff.

Lucy provides support to the communications lead and the multimedia editor, with a particular responsibility for the creation of social media content.

Mel is the financial link between the Institute and Rhodes Trust. She provides budget support to the Atlantic Institute team, assists in building the Institute’s annual budget and provides spend analysis.

Patronella is responsible for designing and implementing programs in support of regional and continental efforts in Africa and works toward building a strongly connected lifelong community of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff.

Evie provides overarching strategic and operational leadership to the Institute and promote’s the Institute’s values, vision and mission. She works with Fellows, programs and host organizations to create a flourishing global community of changemakers.

Amanda’s role is to design and deliver a nonprecedentsetting fund for Atlantic Fellows’ collaborative projects, with responsibilities including the design of the fund’s objectives, and application and review processes.

Kim provides support as coordinator for grants and funding in support of the work of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff.

Shanjitha provides support for convenings and programs in support of the work of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff.

Daniel compiles, analyzes and protects community data to support decisionmaking and the efforts of the programs and Global Atlantic Fellows.

AMANDA ODUKA Program and impact lead (grants) amanda.oduka@ atlanticfellows.org

KIM OOI Team coordinator (grants and funding) kim.ooi@atlanticfellows.org

SHANJITHA RAJASINGAM Team coordinator (convenings) shanjitha.rajasingam@ atlanticfellows.org

DANIEL SALAZAR MURILLO Data analyst lead daniel.salazarmurillo@ atlanticfellows.org

LUCY MERCER Communications executive lucy.mercer@atlanticfellows.org

MEL NASH Finance coordinator finance@atlanticfellows.org

PATRONELLA NQABA Program and impact lead (Africa) p.nqaba@atlanticfellows.org

EVIE O’BRIEN Executive director e.obrien@atlanticfellows.org

SUKH SANGHERA

Techology Platforms Lead s.sanghera@atlanticfellows.org

Sukh is responsible for maintaining and developing the Institute’s IT systems, as well as providing technical support and training to Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff.

JEMMA STRINGER

(ON PARENTAL LEAVE UNTIL OCT 2023)

Program and impact lead (innovation and special projects) jemma.stringer@ atlanticfellows.org

Jemma designs and facilitates programs in support of the work of Global Atlantic Fellows and program staff, underpinned by critical and inclusive pedagogy.

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

Multimedia editor f.sweeney@atlanticfellows.org

Fionnuala provides editorial guidance to the Institute team, producing multimedia presentations and tools amplifying the work of Global Atlantic Fellows. An Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, she is interested in the care needs of people living with dementia.

ALICE WROE

Augmented and virtual realities lead alice.wroe@atlanticfellows.org

Alice explores how extended reality (XR) can further the equity missions of Fellows, developing and commissioning XR work that champions (k)new solutions and interrogates what it means to be human when digital.

Atlantic Fellows from across the programs at the Global Atlantic Fellows Annual Convening, Thailand, 2022.

Credit: Jack Taylor.

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