The Global Community Book 2016-2022

GLOBAL COMMUNITY 2016 – 2022

“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 Cerro el Pino, a district of La Victoria in Lima, Peru. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated inequities already faced by marginalized communities in many parts of the world.

Credit: Alex Kornhuber, Atlantic Fellow.

Welcome to the Atlantic Fellows community Our mission is to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies 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 more than 700 Atlantic Fellows globally of which 580 have completed one of the seven Atlantic programs. This number will grow to more than 3,000 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.

“If each of these programs figures out a way to make a difference to dismantling inequities in their part of the world, that’s good. But the bigger agenda is the collective work of making a difference all over the world in a collaborative, mutually informative, mutually inspiring way. That’s the highest hope.”

Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, deputy chair of the AP Board

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There are now 713 Fellows, who are active in around 70 countries. Over the next two decades, the number is expected to grow to 3,500.

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Canada

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France 5 Belgium

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Portugal US

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Spain

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1 Bermuda Cuba

Mexico 7 Nicaragua 1 Costa Rica 2

Trinidad &

3 Tobago

Colombia 8 Ecuador

Senegal 1

1 1 Haiti 1 Jamaica

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Ghana Nige Sierra 1 4 9 Leone 1 Liberia Demo Republ Co

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Active Fellows by country as of April 2022

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1 Sweden

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2 Lithuania

Germany 1 Austria m 1 Serbia

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Armenia

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Greece

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Egypt 4 Israel

1 Pakistan

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India

Uganda

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3 Ethiopia 13 Kenya

1 Zambia 1 Malawi 2 Zimbabwe

2 Botswana

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Lao PDR

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Myanmar

Sudan

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Nepal

10 22

8 8

Republic of Korea

Vietnam

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Cambodia

Philippines

10 10 Brunei Darussalam 1 15

Malaysia

Indonesia Singapore

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Timor-Leste

53 Australia

17 New Zealand

Improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia worldwide.

BASED AT THE GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE

2016 Fellows

JALAYNE ARIAS

MIRCEA BALASA

NICOLE BATSCH

ELEONORE BAYEN

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

Neurologist, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Gerontologist and global consultant

Barcelona, Spain

Chicago, United States

Assistant professor in NeuroRehab (Physical and Rehab Medicine), Sorbonne Université; Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Atlanta, United States

Paris, France

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.

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

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

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

ALISSA BERNSTEIN

DOMINIC CAMPBELL

MARÍA CARMONA-IRAGUI

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

Director, Creative Aging International; curator/producer of Creative Brain Week; and arts officer, Irish Hospice Foundation

Faculty neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

LAURENT CLERET DE LANGAVANT

San Francisco, United States

Barcelona, Spain

Paris, France

Dublin, Ireland

Creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural context of patients and their caregivers, with attention to the social determinants that cause and perpetuate ill health and disease.

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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.

Assistant professor in neurology, Paris-Est University

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.

Analyzing large, populationbased cohort studies to generate a global perspective on dementia risk factors in the general population in two different continents.

BÁRBARA COSTA BEBER

CHRISTINE FITZGERALD

ELAINE HOWARD

HANY IBRAHIM

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

Postdoctoral researcher, National University of Ireland Galway

Independent consultant, Dementia Focus

Galway, Ireland

Myshall, Ireland

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

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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.

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

SILVIA KOCHEN

JOSH KORNBLUTH

HEIDI CLARE LAMBERT

Neurologist and director, Neurosciences and Complex Systems Unit, Hospital El Cruce

Monologuist, filmmaker and video host

Music educator and performer

Division Chief Sleep & Memory Center and scientific director, Neurological Institute of Athens

Cotopaxi, Colo., United States

Berkeley, Calif., United States

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

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

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.

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2016 Fellows

JORGE LLIBRE GUERRA

CLAIRE MCEVOY

ROGERIO PANIZZUTTI

GEESKE PEETERS

Assistant professor, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; assistant director for Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIANTU); cognitive neurologist

Senior lecturer in nutrition and aging research, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Public Health, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast

Associate professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Senior researcher, Radboud University Medical Centre, Department of Geriatric Medicine; scientific coordinator, Radboudumc Alzheimer Centre

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Utrecht, Netherlands

Belfast, United Kingdom

St. Louis, Miss., 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.

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

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

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

ELISA DE PAULA FRANÇA RESENDE

ADRIÀ ROFES

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

JAMIE TALAN

Assistant professor, University of Groningen

Journalist; multimedia editor, Atlantic Institute

Science writer, Neurology Today

Groningen, Netherlands

Oxford, United Kingdom

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

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.

Assistant Neurologist, Hospital das Clínicas UFMG-EBSERH; assistant professor, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais

Boise, Idaho, United States

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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

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

IOANNIS TARNANAS

LINA VELILLA

ADAM WASKOW

STELIOS ZYGOURIS

Chief scientific officer, Altoida Inc.

Research Associate, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia

Entrepreneur focused on brain health and equity; owner of Three Home Village Assisted Living facility

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

Thessaloniki, Greece

Medellin, Colombia

Thessaloniki, Greece

Fairfax, Calif., United States

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.

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.

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.

Atlantic Fellow, Rowena Richie, teaching a body dynamics class with older adults in San Francisco. Credit: Alex Kornhuber, Atlantic Fellow.

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2017 Fellows

TALA AL-ROUSAN

PHAEDRA BELL

KRYSTAL L. CULLER

EMMA CUNNINGHAM

Assistant professor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Education leader and social intervention designer

Founder and creative director, Virtual Brain Health Center

San Diego, United States

San Francisco, United States

Poland, Ohio, United States

Clinical lecturer in ageing in the Centre for Public Health and consultant geriatrician, Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Trust Belfast, United Kingdom

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.

Developing a program for young adults to partner with older adults to mitigate risk factors for dementia and other health challenges through regular, meaningful interactions across generations.

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

Advancing perioperative research and care.

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

ELIZABETH DZENG

DERYA DURUSU EMEK-SAVAS

CORRINA GRIMES

ALEJANDRA GUERRERO BARRAGÁN

Assistant professor of medicine and sociology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, United States

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

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

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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.

Advance care planning lead, Department of Health, Northern Ireland; head of Business Change, Encompass Northern Ireland (Health and Social Care Board)

Neurologist, Clinica de la Sabana, Instituto Roosevelt Bogota, Colombia

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Engaging in health and social care policy development and implementation; and currently developing an advance care planning policy for Northern Ireland.

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

KRISTA HARRISON

SANDRA HIGUET

CATHERINE JORDAN

YUE LENG

Associate professor and Medicine Associate Director of Training in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Program

Head of the Geriatric Department, Centre Hospitalier Nivelles-Tubize

Experimental psychologist

Assistant professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Dublin, Ireland

Nivelles, Belgium

San Francisco, United States

San Francisco, United States

Developing evidence and interventions to address palliative care needs of people with dementia, prion disease, and other serious illnesses through clinical interventions, care system or equitable policy.

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

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.

MARIANA LONGORIA IBARROLA

DAVID LOUGHREY

JERÓNIMO MARTIN

Postdoctoral fellow, Trinity College Dublin

Clinical Fellow in Stroke and Emergency Care, NHS Scotland

LUIS ARNOLDO MUÑOZ NEVÁREZ

Dublin, Ireland

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

Geriatric and internal medicine specialist Guadalajara, Mexico

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

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.

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

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2017 Fellows

BRENDA PÉREZ CERPA Geriatric medicine specialist Guadalajara, Mexico

CLAUDIA PATRICIA RAMOS-PEREZ

ANA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ SALGADO

TALITA ROSA

Psychiatrist and sub investigator, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia

Neuropsychologist

Neurology Resident, University of Louisville

Havana, Cuba

Louisville, Ky., United States

Medellin, Colombia

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.

Working to determine factors related to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Introducing technologybased cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.

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

CLAIRE SEXTON

KONSTANTINA SYKARA

BOON LEAD TEE

JENNY ZITSER

Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach, Alzheimer’s Association

Head Psychologist , Neurological Institute of Athens; Staff Psychologist, Athens Medical Center

Assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

International Sleep Research Training Program Fellow, Psychiatry Department, Sleep Division, Stanford University

Chicago, United States

San Francisco, United States

Athens, Greece

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

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

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.

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

Program community members and global Atlantic Fellows gathered at Trinity College Dublin for an inaugural Creative Brain Week, in March 2022.

Credit: Global Brain Health Institute.

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2018 Fellows

RUFUS AKINYEMI

JANE BENTLEY

KIRSTY BOBROW

LAURA BOOI

Senior research fellow, University of Ibadan

Music specialist

Public health physician and epidemiologist

Research fellow, Centre for Dementia Research, Leeds Beckett University

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Ibadan, Nigeria

Cape Town, South Africa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

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, building communicative partnerships and community integration across the lifespan.

Developing and testing mobile phone messaging through clinical trials to support treatment adherence in adults with high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care settings.

Leading efforts to build inclusive communities through co-producing research with people living with dementia, and developing social entrepreneurial ventures to connect and support dementia-focused leaders.

LENISA BRANDAO

SIOBHAN CASEY

GABRI CHRISTA

WALTER DAWSON

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

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

Associate professor of professional practice; director of Movement Lab, Barnard College, Colombia University

Assistant professor, Oregon Health and Science University

Holywood, United Kingdom

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.

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Portland, Ore., United States

New York City, United States

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.

MYRIAM DE LA CRUZ PUEBLA Neurologist and researcher, The Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute; Ph.D. student, Autonomous University of Barcelona

LAIS FAJERSZTAJN

MIRIAM GALVIN

SANA-E-ZEHRA HAIDRY

Associate researcher, University of São Paulo

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

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

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dublin, Ireland

Castricum, Netherlands

Barcelona, Spain

Researching headaches to develop clinical, neurophysiological and genetical studies.

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

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.

Employing a model to destigmatize, prevent and manage dementia.

Addressing the lack of awareness about dementia in low and middle-income countries.

AGUSTÍN IBAÑEZ

STEFANIA ILINCA

OPHIR KERET

EMI KIYOTA

Director, Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez; research associate professor, Trinity College Dublin

Technical adviser for long-term care researcher, WHO Regional Office for European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

Senior neurologist (hospital), Clalit Health Services, Rabin Medical Center

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

Petah Tikva, Israel

Singapore, Singapore

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

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

Vienna, Austria

Buenos Aires/Santiago, Chile/Argentina

Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.

Focusing on understanding the effects of demographic aging on health and social policy in Europe, including patterns of use of care among the elderly.

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2018 Fellows

ALEX KORNHUBER Photographer Lima, Peru

LINGANI MBAKILE MAHLANZA

SHAMIEL MCFARLANE

EIMEAR MCGLINCHEY

General practitioner, MD Link

Assistant professor and neuropsychologist, University of Botswana

Fulham, United Kingdon

Assistant professor in intellectual disability, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

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.

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

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

MAIRA OKADA DE OLIVEIRA

STEFANIE PIÑA-ESCUDERO

MARITZA PINTADO-CAIPA

KIRTI RANCHOD

Specialist, Genetics of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Neurologist and researcher, Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias

Neurologist

Neuropsychologist, Hospital Santa Marcelina Private Clinic Sao Paulo, Brazil

Johannesburg, South Africa

Lima, Peru

San Francisco, United States

Developing strategies to evaluate cognition in populations with low levels of education. Working on developing screening tools to identify cognitive decline in individuals with low levels of schooling.

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

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

Making brain health practical and relevant.

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

ROWENA RICHIE

LORNA ROE

MOHAMED SALAMA

JORGE MARIO LEON SALAS

Dance theater artist and movement educator

Academic health services researcher

Associate professor and associate director, Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology, The American University in Cairo

Neuro-psychiatrist, Hospital Clinica Biblica

Dublin, Ireland

San Francisco, United States

San Jose, Costa Rica

Cairo, Egypt

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

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.

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

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

DANA WALRATH

FIONA WALSH

GREG WALSH

CINDY WEINSTEIN

Writer, artist and anthropologist

Principal architect, DDS Architects Ltd.

Managing director, DDS Architects Ltd.

Great Shefford, United Kingdom

Great Shefford, United Kingdom

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

South Burlington, Vt., United States

Pasadena, Calif., 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.

Designing inclusive environments to support the health and well-being of people with dementia.

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

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.

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2019 FELLOWS

WILBY WILLIAMSON

MERON SISAY ABEY

OLAKUNLE ADEWALE

EMILY ADRION

Physician and clinical academic in cardiovascular prevention and brain health

Theater artist, owner of theater production company; Arts in Health Project, Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Center

Founder and executive director, Arts in Medicine Projects

Lecturer (assistant professor) of global health policy, University of Edinburgh

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Lagos, Nigeria

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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

Exploring how the arts could strengthen the health care service, social equity, and establishing arts in a brain health center for research and training in Ethiopia.

Facilitating arts in health engagements in Africa and the United States. Raising awareness of dementia and trying to reduce the stigma often faced by those with cognitive disabilities.

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.

FERNANDO AGUZZOLI-PERES

ARIANNA ALMIRALL SÁNCHEZ

AYA ASHOUR

Coordinator of “age-friendly cities” protocols, International Longevity Center Brazil; Director in Successful Aging and Dementias, Crônicos do Dia a Dia

Sphere Scholar, School of Public Health, Trinity College Dublin

Lecturer and consultant of neurology, Ain Shams University Fifth Settlement, Egypt

Dublin, Ireland

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.

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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.

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.

ANNE BROWNING

ANNA BRUGULAT-SERRAT

SHEILA CASTRO-SUAREZ

YAOHUA CHEN

Assistant dean for well-being, University of Washington

Neuropsychologist and postdoctoral researcher, Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center

Neurologist, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas

Associate professor in neurogeriatrics, CHU Lille - University of Lille

Seattle, United States

Lima, Peru

Vic, Spain

Lille, France

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.

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.

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.

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.

SARAH D’ALESSIO

NAIARA DEMNITZ

KARIN DIAMOND

Policy analyst, Ministry of Health, Government of Bermuda

Postdoctoral researcher, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance

Artistic director, Re-Live

CLARA DOMINGUEZ VIVERO

Bermuda

Neurologist, Servicio Galego de Saúde

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Exploring the health and well-being benefits of participating in 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.

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2019 Fellows

NEUS FALGÀS MARTINEZ

ADIT FRIEDBERG

JONI GILISSEN

JENNIE GUBNER

Neurologist, posdoctoral researcher, Alzheimer’s Unit/ Neurology/Hospital Clínic de Barcelona; Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, San Francisco (Grinberg Lab)

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

Postdoctoral researcher, Endof-Life Care Research Group, Dept of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; and Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant professor of ethnomusicology; chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, University of Arizona

San Francisco, United States

Barcelona, Spain

Tucson, Ariz., United States

Mechelen, Belgium

Developing strategies to improve the diagnostictherapeutic framework in Alzheimer’s disease, especially considering the atypical presentations.

Currently working with sleep-related biomarkers.

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

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.

Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning.

Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.

MAËLENN GUERCHET

LAUREN HUNT

IGNACIO ILLÁN GALA

WAMBUI KARANJA

Researcher, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)

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

Neurologist, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Consultant

Limoges, France

Nairobi, Kenya

Barcelona, Spain

San Francisco, United States

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.

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

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

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.

IRINA KINCHIN Health economist, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

BEATRIZ MARCELA MAR MEZA Coordinator of the MMENTE Program Head of clinical intervention at LatAmFINGER - Perú, Hospital Central Fuerza Aérea del Perú Instituto Peruano de Neurociencias

CHEYENNE MIZE

SEBASTIAN MOGUILNER

Music therapist and owner, Wishing Well Music LLC; host/ producer of audio program “Can You Hear Me?”

Neuroscientist, FUESMEN - Fundación Escuela Medicina Nuclear Mendoza, Argentina

Louisville/Boston, United States

Lima, Peru

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

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.

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.

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

DIDEM ÖZ

IEVA PETKUTĖ

SILVIA RODRIGO-HERRERO

NICOLE ROGERS CASTILLO

Associate professor and neurologist, Dokuz Eylul University

Arts researcher/creative director, NGO Socialiniai meno projektai; co-founder and lead, Association Dementia Lithuania; research assistant, Global Brain Health Institute

Consultant neurologist and neuropsychologist, Hospital Juan Ramon Jimenez

Neurologist, Universidad de Chile

Izmir, Turkey

Santiago, Chile

Punta Humbria, Spain

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.

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

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

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2019 Fellows

SANJIB SAHA

DVERA SAXTON

FUNMI AKINDEJOYE

FAHEEM ARSHAD

Researcher, Lund University

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

Consultant

Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences

Lund, Sweden

Lekki, Nigeria

Bengaluru, India

Fresno, Calif., United States

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.

Developing communitybased approaches to research design, problem solving, and creative teaching and learning around aging and brain health in rural and immigrant communities in California.

Promoting Alzheimer’s disease awareness, supporting existing dementia care, and researching the epidemiology and environmental risk factors of brain health.

Working to understand the pathophysiological and structural underpinnings of frontotemporal dementia.

PETRONILLA BATTISTA

CARLOS CHECHETTI

MARIUS ČIURLIONIS

FRANCESCA FARINA

Neuropsychologist and researcher, Clinical and Scientific Institutes Maugeri Bari

Social Entrepreneurship, Revivendo Memorias social program (NGO)

Adviser, Ministry of Health

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

Vilnius, Lithuania

São Paulo, Brazil

Bari, Italy

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

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Dublin, Ireland

Developing a social program that uses passion—such as sport, music, movie, poetry, and art—as cognitive stimulation to increase socialization to improve quality of life for older adults and people with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.

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

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

SARAH FOX

ADOLFO GARCIA

GRÁINNE HOPE

MAGDA KACZMARSKA

Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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

Artistic director and founder, Kids’ Classics CLG

Dancer, researcher and creative aging teaching artist

Dunboyne, Ireland

New York City, United States

Bury, United Kingdom

Mar del Plata, Argentina

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

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

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

Building creative communities for people living with cognitive impairment through the transformative power of dance.

DEARBHLA KELLY

HANAN KHALIL

TOMÁS LEÓN

MILTON LÓPEZ NORORI

Clinical research fellow and Ph.D. candidate, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford

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

Psychiatrist Teacher Course coordinator speaker, Hospital del salvador Superintendencia de Salud Neuromedica Brainlat - Universidad Adolfo Ibañez Universidad de Chile EGIA

Geriatrician and gerontologist; associate professor, Medicine School at UNAN-Managua; president, Alzheimer´s Foundation of Nicaragua

Irbid, Jordan

Boston, United States

Researching the overlap between renal and neurological diseases.

Managua, Nicaragua

Santiago, Chile

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

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

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.

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2020 Fellows

NAHUEL MAGRATH GUIMET

LUCIANO MARIANO

INBAL MAYAN

KAREN MEENAN

Managing director and clinical neuropsychiatrist, Ageing and Memory Centre at the Neurological Research Institute Raúl Carrea (FLENI)

Neuropsychology and assistant lecturer, Private clinic/FUMEC

Geriatric resident, Clalit Medical Services inMeir Medical Center

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Kefar Sava, Israel

Patient and public involvement and communications/Dissemination Coordinator, HRB Dementia Clinical Trials Network Ireland (Dementia Trials Ireland or DTI)

Lincoln, Argentina

Dublin, Ireland

Researching frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and education.

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

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.

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.

PRIMROSE NYAMAYARO

OBIORA OKOYE

MIGUEL RENTERIA

SUSANNE RÖHR

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

Clinical consultant, San Francisco Department of Public Health

NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Associate professor, Massey University

Albany, United States

Harare, Zimbabwe

Palmerston/ North ManawatūWhanganui, New Zealand

Brisbane, Australia

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

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

Using genetics, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence to understand brain diseases, with a focus on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, and mental health.

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

NICKY TAYLOR

KURIPACHA TITUAÑA VEGA

Owner and teacher, Pilates in Common

Theatre and Dementia Research Associate, Leeds Playhouse

San Francisco, United States

Otley, United Kingdom

Geriatric physician; volunteer (geriatrician), Fundación Venciendo Fronteras

MARIA MARTHA UNAUCHO PILALUMBO Neurophysiologist; and neurologist, Hospital Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja

Cotacachi, Ecuador

Loja, Ecuador

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

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

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

BERENICE WERLE

LINA ZAPATA

Director, Moriguchi Institute; vice president, Brazilian Geriatrics Society

Institutional psychiatrist, Fundación Valle del Lili

JONATHAN ADRIÁN ZEGARRA VALDIVIA

Cali, Colombia

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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

Postdoctoral researcher at Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience; Cajal Institute, CSIC; and School of Medicine, UAM, Madrid, Spain Bilbao, Spain

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

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

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

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2021 Fellows

YAVUZ AYHAN

MELISSA CHAN

MARCIA COMINETTI

TSELMEN DARIA

Faculty member and associate professor of psychiatry, Hacettepe University

Consultant, Dementia Singapore

Associate professor, Federal University of São Carlos

Doctoral student, Ulm University

Singapore, Singapore

Ulm, Germany

São Carlos, Brazil

Ankara, Turkey

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

Using design and development to provide intervention 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.

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

GILLIAN FALLON

FASIHAH IRFANI FITRI

DOMINIC GATELY

MUTHONI GICHU

Volunteer organizer, Wesleyan University

Neurologist, Universitas Sumatera Utara

Actor, writer and independent artist

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Medan, Indonesia

Leeds, United Kingdom

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

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

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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.

Creating interdisciplinary performance work driven by the philosophy that, in brain health, knowledge is healing.

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

SANDRA GIMÉNEZ Faculty sleep medicine specialist, Autonomous University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

RAQUEL GUTIÉRREZ ZÚÑIGA Neurologist Madrid, Spain

RAFI HADAD

TANISHA HILL-JARRETT

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

Neuropsychologist and assistant professor, University of South Florida

Eilabun, Israel

Tampa, Fla., United States

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

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

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.

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.

CARMEN LAGE-MARTÍNEZ

LUIS MARTINEZ

PAUL MODJADJI

TATYANA MOLLAYEVA

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

Neurologist, University of Buenos Aires

Founder and chairperson, Leaders Who Dare To Dream Foundation

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sandton, South Africa

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

Santander, Spain

Toronto, Canada

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

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

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

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

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2121 Fellows

RAFAL NOWAK

CHUKWUANUGO OGBUAGU

MICK O’KELLY Senior lecturer, University of Ulster

Specialist psychiatrist, College of Medicine of South Africa and University of KwaZulu-Natal

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

Durban, South Africa

Nnewi, Nigeria

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

Undertaking dementia clinical care and research aimed at improving service provision in a local context.

Creating global awareness of brain health and evidencebased research backed up by a team of global experts.

Developing an art practice that is more inclusive to people with cognitive impairment.

MOÏSE ROCHE

HERNANDO SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA

CRISTIANO SCHAFFER AGUZZOLI

SO YOUNG SHIN

Associate research professor, Institute of Translational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CONICET, Favaloro University and the INECO Foundation)

Neurologist, São Lucas Hospital of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Busan, South Korea

Applied neuroscience research manager, Teknon Medical Center Barcelona, Spain

Doctoral researcher, University College London London, United Kingdom

KHANYO NTOKOZO NGCOBO

Dublin, Ireland

Associate professor, Inje University

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Bogotá, Colombia

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

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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.

Spreading knowledge about prodromal manifestations of neurodegenerative disorders across disciplines and fighting stigma by changing the narrative of dementia from deficit to proficit.

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

ERIN SMITH

SELAM YOSEPH

YARED ZEWDE

Student and researcher, Stanford University

Assistant professor of psychiatry, University of Gondar

Lenexa, Kan., United States

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Assistant professor of neurology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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.

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

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.

Atlantic Fellows connecting in person in Brazil to discuss ways of advancing equity in brain health and improving the health services for people living with dementia.

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Combating health disparities and promoting equity.

BASED AT THE FITZHUGH MULLAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH WORKFORCE EQUITY

2017 Fellows

MARY AJWANG

SARAH BATTISTICH

Program officer, UNAIDS

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

Kampala, Uganda

New York, United States

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

BRIGIT M. CARTER Associate dean for diversity and inclusion, Duke University School of Nursing Hillsborough, N.C., United States

Tallahassee, Fla., United States

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

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 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.

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.

KENNETH T. JONES

THOMAS MERRILL

SCOTT NASS

TOYESE OYEYEMI

Supervisory program analyst; data lead, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Health Equity

Data architect, Derick Dermatology

Complex care physician, MedZed

Executive director, Beyond Flexner Alliance

Santa Rosa, Calif.,United States

Portland, Maine, United States

Washington, D.C., United States

Washington, D.C., United States

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

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Developing data and information flows for operational improvement and the measuring and monitoring for health system quality improvement.

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.

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

MARIA PORTELA Chief of the Family Medicine Section, George Washington University

CAROLINE MAE “GINGER” RAMIREZ

NEHA RAYKAR

ZULAYKA SANTIAGO

Associate director, IDinsight

Candidate, MMSc Global Health Delivery, Harvard Medical School

New Delhi, India

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

Bethesda, Md.,United States

Taguig City, Philippines

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.

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.

SARA SELIG

CARLA A. ARENA VENTURA

YVONNE YIU

Associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Full professor, University of São Paulo

Health systems specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Boston, United States

Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Irvine, Calif., United States

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.

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.

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

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2018 Fellows

AMANDA BROSNAN

LESFORD H. DUNCAN

ANGELA T. ECHIVERRI

JORDI EQUITABLE

Physician assistant, Tarrant County Public Health

Associate executive director, Outdoor Outreach

Group director, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Euless, Texas, United States

San Diego, United States

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

Baltimore, United States

San Francisco, 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.

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

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.

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.

JAMES HUANG

SARAH M. HOOPER

V. KAI KENNEDY

JONATAN KONFINO

Medical director of Family Medicine, Unity Health Care

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

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

Secretary of Health, Municipality of Quilmes

Washington, D.C., United States

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oakland, Calif., United States

Menlo Park, Calif., United States

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

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

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

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

ANJALI SINGH KULKARNI

DEBORRAH G. LIAO

EMILY MACDONALD

CHRISTINA T. ROSENTHAL

Public health specialist and adjunct associate professor, Public Health Foundation of India

Municipal health officer, Rural Health Unit-Gamay

Director, Business Operations, Erie Family Health Centers

Chief executive officer, Paradigm Dental Center LLC

Gamay, Northern Samar, Philippines

Chicago, United States

Collierville, Tenn., United States

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

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

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.

ZEINA SALIBA

STEPHEN SEVALIE

TYLER SPENCER

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

Commanding officer, joint medical unit, Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces

Founder and executive director, Athletes United for Social Justice/The Grassroot Project

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Mexico City, Mexico

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

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

New Delhi, India

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.

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2019 Fellows

ADEKEMI KIKELOMO ADENIYAN Founder and executive director, Dentalcare Foundation Ado Ekiti, Nigeria

ALAQ AL-MUWALI

ADRIAN N. BILLINGS

Masters of Sciences student, King’s College London; resident doctor, Al-Kadhimiya Teaching Hospital, Baghdad

Chief medical officer, Preventative Care Health Services; associate professor, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Permian Basin

London, United Kingdom

Alpine, Texas, United States

ESPERANZA FELICIDAD CANTÚ Director of Health Initiatives, United Way for Southeastern Michigan Detroit, United States

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

Working toward health systems strengthening and inclusivity in Iraq and the MENA region.

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

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.

ESNATT GONDWEMATEKESA

RAZEL NIKKA M. HAO

JESSICA MILBERG-HAYDU

ARTANESHA L. JACKSON

Director for Policy and Planning, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines

Director of National Office Emergency Preparedness, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

FINDconnect Program Manager, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Los Angeles, United States

Oakland, Calif., United States

Planning and relationshipbuilding at the intersection of public health and emergency management to nurture more equitable, prepared and resilient organizations and communities.

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

Malawi program manager, Give Directly Zomba, Malawi

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

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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.

DANIELLE WOODHOUSE JOHNSON Manager of Operations, FHI 360 Washington, D.C., United States

ANNE LAUX

SHUBHA NAGESH

Peace officer training compliance officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, Office of the Ohio Attorney General

Chapter Development Manager, Asia-Pacific & Middle-East, Women in Global Health Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

IFEANYI MCWILLIAMS NSOFOR Chief executive officer, EpiAFRIC Abuja, Nigeria

Brecksville, Ohio, United States

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

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.

Leading community followup and research programs in Dehradun, India; and bringing intervention services into the community for families whose children are born with disabilities.

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

MONALISA PADHEE

BRANDI M. PAYTON

LINDSEY POLLACZEK

HOPE ELIZABETH RHODES

Program head, Women Wellness Initiative, Barefoot College International

Clinic administrator, Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center

Vice president of Programs, Fistula Foundation

Interim medical director Children’s Health Center-THEARC, Children’s National Hospital

Harmara, India

Owasso, Okla., United States

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

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

Calif., United States

Washington, D.C., 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.

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.

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2020 FELLOWS

ELIZA SQUIBB

BILAL ASIM

MONIQUE E. BROWN

SHUBHAM CHOUDHARY

Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Project intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital Center for Telemedicine; master’s candidate, Johns Hopkins University

Senior project officer, Healthy Places by Design

Founder and chief executive officer, Safe Access

New Orleans, United States

New Delhi, India

Providence, R.I., United States

Baltimore, United States

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

Studying public health at Johns Hopkins, focusing on health leadership, global health, and health informatics, and leading the Johns Hopkins Asia Pacific Public Health Network.

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

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

ELLIOT KORANTENG TANNOR

ABRAHAM L. B. FREEMAN

HYELADZIRA D. GARNVWA

KEVIN HECKMAN

Founder, Environmental Rescue Initiative

Senior health financing officer, National Primary Health Care Development Agency

Director, product development, American Medical Association

Senior lecturer; consultant nephrologist, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Monrovia, Liberia

Geneva, Ill., United States

Abuja, Nigeria

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.

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Engaging underserved communities to recognize environmental determinants of health and health equity.

Adopting innovations that lead to improvement in plastic waste management in Liberia.

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

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.

LIAM C. HEIN

BERTRAND MOSES

ELENA RIVERA

GABRIELLE JACKSON

Associate professor, University of South Carolina College of Nursing

National Coordinator of Child Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Senior health policy and program adviser, Children’s Institute

Co-founder, UndocuBlack Network

Portland, Ore., United States

Fort Washington, Md., United States

Columbia, S.C., United States

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

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

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

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

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.

GILBERTO LOPEZ

MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF

MAUREEN MILANGA

SYED MUSTAFA H. NADIR

Assistant professor, Arizona State University

Assistant professor, Penn State Dickinson Law

Co-founder and chief executive officer, Creative Frontiers

Phoenix, United States

Carlisle, Pa., United States

Director, International Policy and Advocacy, Health Global Access Project

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Researching and developing interventions to reduce health inequities.

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.

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

Leading a behavior changefocused creative company that reaches underserved communities with effective health messaging that is entertaining, culturally relevant and informative.

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2020 Fellows

ROSE MARY NAKAME

MILDRED OMINO

NKEMAKOLEM OSIAN

PETER GAN KIM SOON

Executive director, REMI East Africa

Administrator, University of Nairobi

Kampala, Uganda

Nairobi, Kenya

Public health analyst, Health Resources and Services Administration

Epidemiology and medical officer of health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Rockville, Md., United States

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.

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

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

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

MEGAN L. SRINIVAS

LINDSLEY JEREMIAH VILLARANTE

BRAM P. WISPELWEY

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

Division chief, Department of Health - Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau

Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States

Muntinlupa, Philippines

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

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.

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Associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 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.

2021 FELLOWS

ZAHRAA AL-SARRAF

SARA LAVINIA BRAIR

KATE DAUGHERTY

PEDRO DELGADO

Pharmacist; regional manager, International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation

Director general, White Nile State

Community impact director, Hopeworks Camden

Vice president, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Philadelphia, United States

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Khartoum, Sudan

Baghdad, Iraq

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

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

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

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

PRATIKSHA DHUNGANA

REGINA DUPERVAL

QUSAI HAMMOURI

SCOTT HOWELL

Dental surgeon, Nyaya Health Nepal

Medical director, Kay Mackenson Clinic

Director of pediatric orthopaedics, Northwell Health

Lalitpur, Nepal

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Assistant professor and director of public health dentistry and teledentistry, A.T. Still University Phoenix, United States

Promoting oral health and nutrition, and supporting programs that work with needy 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.

Developing and implementing nontraditional health care delivery models to decrease and eliminate barriers to care.

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2021 Fellows

BRENDA HUGHES

SHANNON JORDAN

PAIGE KNOWLSON

NAGLAA FATHY LITHY

Regional community health coordinator, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

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

Executive director, Pattison’s Academy

Senior programs specialist, Center for Development Services

Charleston, S.C., United States

Gîza, Egypt

Washington, D.C., United States

Walterboro, S.C., United States

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

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

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

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

MARX ITABELO LWABANYA

ANA ORTEGA

OSCAR RAMÍREZ

HAYDEÉ RUMALDO

Medical director, Nundu Deaconess Hospital

Community psychologist, Compañeros En Salud

Industrial Engineer, Socios En Salud

Project coordinator, Socios En Salud

Kinshasa, Congo, the The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Angel Albino Corzo, Mexico

Lima, Peru

Lima, Peru

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.

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

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

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MUHAMMAD AHMAD SADDIQ Chief executive officer, Rural Health Mission Nigeria

AKSHITA SIDDULA

CLAIRE THOMAS

Community organizing director, Right to Health Action

Economic development coordinator, East Side Neighborhood Development Company

Baltimore, United States

Gombe, Nigeria

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

Minneapolis, 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.

Atlantic Fellow, Jordi Equitable, is a multidisciplinary artist who curates fashion art to expand society’s understanding on gender diversity and health equity issues.

Credit: Lee Atherton.

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Creating a community for health equity in Southeast Asia.

BASED AT THE EQUITY INITIATIVE AT CMB FOUNDATION

2016 Fellows

TIM AYE-HARDY

LIU CHENHUI

CHHORVANN CHHEA

OANH PHAM KIEU

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

Chief executive officer, FamilyDoc Medical Mechnology Co. Ltd.

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

Founder and chief executive officer, Center for Social Initiatives Promotion

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Beijing, China

Yangon, Myanmar

Providing education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who are in indentured servitude at teashop restaurants.

Working to develop policies and strategies to address inclusivity and equity in education.

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

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.

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

CHALERMSAK KITTITRAKUL

JEREMY LIM

HOANG VAN MINH

THU HA NGUYEN

Partner, Oliver Wyman; cofounder and chief executive officer of AMiLi

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

Executive director and Morning News producer, Vietnam National Television

Singapore, Singapore

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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

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

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

Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign, AIDS Access Foundation Bangkok, Thailand

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

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NATALIE PHAHOLYOTHIN

THI THUY TRAM PHAN

SOULIVANH PHOLSENA

NICOLA POCOCK

Chief executive officer, World Wide Fund for Nature, Thailand

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

Chief physician, Lao Medical Care Center

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Global Health, United Nations University

Bangkok, Thailand

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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

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.

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

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.

JIRUTH SRIRATANABAN

NILA TANZIL

SI ZHANJIE

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

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

Director, Aizhen

Bangkok, Thailand

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Working on migration, forced labor, and health, especially the health needs of trafficked fishermen.

Yunnan, China

Jakarta, Indonesia

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.

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.

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

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2017 Fellows

NGUYEN THI LAN ANH Founder and director, Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) Viet Nam

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE PATRICK E. ARITAO Director of Prosecution Department, International Justice Mission

LYNNA CHANDRA

DO THUY DUONG

Asjok Fellow; founder and trustee of Rachel House children’s hospice

Chief executive officer and founder, TalentPool

Singapore, Singapore

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Manila, Philippines

Empowering communities of people with disabilities.

Having advocated the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, she is actively monitoring its implementation.

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

Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all.

Founded first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.

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

WAI WAI HAN

ARIEL CARINGAL HERNANDEZ

BEVERLY LORRAINE HO

LUONG THE-HUY

Director of Health Promotion and Communications Service, Health Promotion Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines

Director, iSEE Institute

Research scientist, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar Yangon, Myanmar

Enhancing social justice in health through research of vulnerable populations.

Initiating efforts to improve the practice of evidencebased policy-making by mentoring and facilitating data to the policy program in Myanmar.

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School director, Global Mindanaw Polytechnic Northern Mindanao, Philippines

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

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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.

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

SANTI LAPBENJAKUL

CHANNÉ SUY LAN

THARANI LOGANATHAN

PAN MYAT MON

Director, Lamsonthi Hospital

Regional lead, InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia

Medical lecturer, Social and Preventative Medicine Department at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaysia

Country program manager, Australian Volunteers (Myanmar)

Lopburi, Thailand

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Yangon, Myanmar

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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

Designing solutions to help people elevate their dignity and living conditions through improvements in health, education and economic development.

Focusing on achieving universal health coverage and providing financial risk protection to households.

Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.

SOMPORN (NUI) PENGKAM

ALAY PHONVISAY Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Managemen, National University of Laos

KANAPON (TUM) PHUMRATPRAPIN

SHI NAN

Founder and director, Community Health Impact Assessment Platform in Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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.

Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.

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

Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University

Chief executive officer and founder, Health at Home

Beijing, China

Focusing on health, food and drug safety across China.

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2017 Fellows

SATIRIANTINAH (SATI) BUR RASUANTO

DENG RUI (RITA)

Co-founder and chief commercial officer, VIDA Digital Identity

Associate professor, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University

Jakarta, Indonesia

Kunming, Yunnan, China

Enabling Digital Trust and catalyzing financial inclusion through VIDA, a technology company providing a frictionless and secure digital identity system. Supporting entrepreneurs, investing and health equity issues.

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

Atlantic Fellows meeting in Phuket, Thailand, in March 2022 for their first in-person learning event.

Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia.

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2018 FELLOWS

HOANG TU ANH Founding member/vice director, Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population Hanoi, Viet Nam

ABELARDO APOLLO DAVID JUNIOR

ABDEL JAMAL DISANGCOPAN

CARMENEZA DOS SANTOS MONTEIRO

Founder, Independent Living Learning Centre (ILLC)

Attorney/Law Reform Specialist IV, Law Center, University of the Philippines

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

Iligan City, Philippines

Dili, Timor-Leste

Manila, Philippines

Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.

Advancing access to quality and inclusive health and education resources that equip children of all abilities and needs.

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

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

NUR KHAULAH FADZIL

JIANG FAN

SOPHIA BENEDICTA HAGE

HAN WIN HTAT

Health field officer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Vice chancellor, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Clinic manager and founding member, Medifit Clinic

Executive director, Sun Community Health

Jakarta, Indonesia

Yangon, Myanmar

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Shanghai, China

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

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.

Focusing on issues of sexual and gender-based violence and on promoting healthy lifestyles.

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.

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2018 Fellows

NORAIDA ABDULLAH KARIM

BORWORNSOM (ACK) LEERAPAN

Director for Mindanao Programme, Community and Family Services International

Health systems researcher and faculty member, Ramathibodi Medical School, Mahidol University

Cotobato City, Philippines

BAWI MANG LIAN

ELISABETH LISTYANI

Medical officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar

Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, University Gadjah Mada

Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Bangkok, Thailand

Working to improve the resilience of the Internally Displaced Persons. Training para-social workers to serve as a social service catalyst in the Bangsamoro communities.

Applying systems thinking to solve complex issues, such as regional governance of Thailand’s universal health coverage, communitybased health interventions for vulnerable populations and patient safety in health workforce planning.

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

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

SHARON LOW

TIARA MARTHIAS

NGUYEN TRAN NGUYEN

Director, Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department

Research manager, REACH Initiative Syria

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

Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Singapore, Singapore

Lecturer, Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University Gadjah Mada

Dong Thap, Viet Nam

West Java, Indonesia

Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations.

Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.

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Supporting assessment, evaluation, and research projects in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Assessing geographical equity in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.

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

ANA P. SANTOS

PAIROJ SAONUAM

MAY SRIPATANASKUL

NGUYEN THI THAI LAN

Journalist

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

Founder and chief executive officer, LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy

Lecturer, Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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.

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.

BUI THI THUY

KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM

XU JIN

Manila, Philippines

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

Founder and chief executive officer, Porous City Network

Lecturer, Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Bangkok, Thailand

Beijing, China

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.

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

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

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2019 Fellows

BLANDINA ROSALINA BAIT

GIDEON CAUTON

RENNTA CHRISDIANA

Nutrition officer, UNICEF Indonesia

Director, National Law Enforcement Development, International Justice Mission

Commissioner, Yogyakarta Hospital Supervisory Board

Kupang, Indonesia

Yogykarta, Indonesia

Manila, Philippines

ALFREDO MATUGAS CORO II Municipal vice mayor and former mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines Del Carmen, Philippines

Leading field implementation of UNICEF’s landmark research project on the management of severe acute malnutrition, which contributed to the effective scale up process of this life-saving intervention for children.

Building the capacity of public law enforcement to rescue and protect children in vulnerable communities against violent offenders, with current project focused on the online sexual exploitation of children.

Improving quality health care and empowering patients through collaborative works with providers, health practitioners, government and society.

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

LETCHIMI DEVI DORAISAMY

ZHANG KUN

PAUL GIDEON LASCO

LE THI NHAT

President, Evercare Health Group

Grants officer, DAI Global LLC

Beijing, China

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

Country project manager, International Committee of the Red Cross MoveAbility Foundation

Manila, Philippines

Hanoi, Viet Nam

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.

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

Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Supporting Malaysia’s reform toward a more democratic, inclusive and accepting home for all its people.

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Developing the group strategy and strong relationships with local communities. Leading, inspiring and managing the top leadership teams.

Ensuring the company’s profitable growth.

PHETDAVANH LEUANGVILAY Technical officer, WHO Health Emergency Programme, World Health Organization

XIAO LONG

GORIS MUSTAQIM

PHAN THI NGOC LINH

Professor and deputy director, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Founder and chief executive officer, Semur Nusantara Consulting

Chief executive officer, Center for Healthcare Improvement Research

Jakarta, Indonesia

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Beijing, China

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 of Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

Board member of a nonprofit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.

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

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

RATAWIT OUAPRACHANON

SEAN SOK PHAY Executive director, Child Helpline Cambodia

PANUSART (MIDNIGHT) POONKASETWATTANA

NATARAJAN RAJARAMAN

Educator, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University

Executive director, APCOM Foundation

Dili, Timor-Leste

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Bangkok, Thailand

Educating and conducting research to promote peace, human rights, reconciliation and conflict transformation in Thailand and neighboring countries.

Executive director, Muluk Timor

Bangkok, Thailand

Advocating for child protection law and cybercrime law to criminalize online child sexual exploitation in Cambodia. Developing the online helpline platform to give children increased protection.

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.

Providing low cost primary care to migrant workers in Singapore; and strengthening the health systems in TimorLeste.

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2019 Fellows

NGUYEN QUÓC THANH

SAM OEUN SAM

VANNAPHONE SITTHIRATH

KRITAYA SREESUNPAGIT

Artist, curator and founding director, Queer Forever!

Managing director, Buddhism for Health

Consultant, Vajira Hospital

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Takeo Province, Cambodia

Media consultant, film producer, journalist and co-founder, Lao New Wave Cinema Production

Bangkok, Thailand

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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

Improving access to quality health care services for the poor and vulnerable.

Strengthening capacity of local government officials in developing responsive local investment plans and accountability.

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

RAPEEPONG SUPHANCHAIMAT

ZHANG YUNTING (EDWINA)

RAUDAH MOHD YUNUS

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

Researcher and public health specialist, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA

Shanghai, China

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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

Conducting research and advocating for the rights and protection of older adults, refugees and migrant workers. Building and training young minds to stand up for equity and social justice from the health perspective.

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, applying epidemiology and econometrics.

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Creating networks of support for health care professionals to remove obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential.

2021 FELLOWS

LE KHAC BAO

CELYN CELYN

Executive vice director of the Medical Education Center, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Senior progam manager, Civil Health and Development Network Loikaw, Myanmar

SORNCHAI CHATWIRIYACHAI

PIANPORN DEETES Director Thailand and Myanmar Campaigns, International Rivers

Founder and artistic director of Malongdu Theatre

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

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

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

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.

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.

JASON JOYCE

SHERJAN PANGATO KALIM

LESLIE ANN LUCES

ANGGA DWI MARTHA

Lawyer and municipal mayor, Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental

Pathologist and head of Blood Bank, Cotabato Regional and Medical Center, Mindanao

Provincial health officer, Aklan Province Department of Health

Public policy specialist, UNICEF Indonesia

Kalibo, Philippines

Jakarta, Indonesia

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.

Working to implement the United Nations’ system-wide Youth Strategy (Youth2030) and building a network of emerging young leaders in Indonesia focused on equity and justice.

Davao City, Philippines

Cotabato City, Philippines

Improving education and health services delivered to the communities and addressing issues related to HIV, mental health and depression, and LGBTQ concerns.

Advocating for Ibadahfriendly health facilities and reforming health education through inclusion of Islamic teachings, mobilizing community leadership, bridging social and economic divides to improve health equity.

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2021 Fellows

JOANNE YUEN YIE NGEOW

ALFRISON PALOGA

SARA MARIA PEREIRA

THORN PITIDOL

Associate professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University; senior consultant, the National Cancer Centre Singapore.

Epidemiologist, Port Health Office of Jayapura

National Disability Inclusive Development Adviser, Governance for Development (GfD) Cardno

Lecturer, researcher, and assistant professor, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University.

Dili, Timor-Leste

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Singapore, Singapore

Integrating genomics into routine health care for reducing 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.

NOOR AFFIZAN RAHMAN

RENARD SIEW

PHETDAVANH SIPASEUTH

Deputy head of ophthalmology, Ministry of Health and consultant eye surgeon

Adviser, Center for Governance and Political Studies, Kuala Lumpur

Specialist in land tenure rights and natural resources management

AMINA EVANGELISTA SWANEPOEL

Muara, Brunei Darussalam

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Preserving and restoring sight and reducing avoidable blindness among underprivileged schoolchildren. Also working to promote and solve a diverse range of health equity challenges.

Combating climate change and transforming society toward sustainability.

Striving to find innovative ways to promote more sustainable and equitable opportunities for the elderly.

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Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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

Executive director, Roots of Health (ROH) Puerto Princesa, Philippines

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

FRANSISKA FALENTINA SUGI

SOK TENG TAN

TRANG TRINH

VIENGNAKHONE VONGXAY

Concert pianist, music educator, and founder of Wonder

Kupang, Indonesia

Researcher; Ph.D. candidate at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

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

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.

Researching social injustice and examining the effects of social capital on the wellness of Rohingya refugees. Also trying to understand the health literacy of refugees and build non-communicable disease profiles of refugees.

Researcher and founder of Yayasan Sejuta Harapan (Hands of Hope)

Hanoi, Viet Nam

Singapore, Singapore

Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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.

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

Fellows compete in a friendly game to learn about politics, history and socioeconomic development in Southeast Asia and China.

Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia.

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Building a healthier, more equal South Africa.

BASED AT TEKANO

2017 Fellows

MICHELLE BROTHERTON

DUDUZILE (DUDU) DLAMINI

Advocate, Rhodes University

Advocacy manager for Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force; and founder of Mothers for the Future

Makana, South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa

NTOMBIZANELE (ZANELE) FIGLAN

THANIA GOPAL

Head of Environmental Health, City of Cape Town

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

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights and health care systems. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy.

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.

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

AMY GREEN

NIKKI GREEN (NEE VERMEULEN)

THAMSANQA HAMILTON HUKWE

KHULULWA JAMPO

Coordinator for communitycentered programmes, Centre for Social Development, Rhodes University

Chairperson, Abahlali Base Freedom Park

Ngqeleni, South Africa

Editor, Health-e News Johannesburg, South Africa

Mother Mentor Programme, Enable

Johannesburg, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Through socially just media practices and through content in mainstream media that reflects marginalized voices usually inaccessible to traditional media houses, unlike Health-e News

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

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

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

LANCE LOUSKIETER

TRACEY MALAWANA

Ph.D. candidate; researcher and educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division, University of Cape Town

Deputy general secretary, Equal Education Tembisa, South Africa

NOMATHAMSANQA ‘THAMI’ MNGXEKEZA

SHANNON MORGAN Lead occupational therapist, private mental health care

Operations manager, Kozi Foundation

London, United Kingdom

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

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/ introduction, grassroot 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.

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

KODWA MPEPHO

SIBONGILE MTUNGWA

SHEHNAZ MUNSHI

BERNARD MUTSAGO

Director, Women and Girls Leadership Foundation

Director, women’s leadership and training program

Pretoria, South Africa

Underberg, South Africa

Research project manager, Sheiham/Wits Family Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity, University of the Witwatersrand

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

Johannesburg, South Africa

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.

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, eradicate genderbased violence and address intergenerational trauma.

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.

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LINDI MZANKOMO

NOLUTHANDO NDLOVU

TINASHE T. NJANJI

MAFOKO PHOMANE

Senior budget analyst, Public Finance, National Treasury (Department of Finance)

Researcher, Health Systems Trust

Coordinator, People’s Health Movement South Africa

Environmental health campaign manager, groundWork, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

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

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

KENTSE RADEBE

WENDY SOMLAVI

LENA STOFILE

CARINA TRUYTS

Innovation Director, DG Murray Trust (DGMT)

Founder, Wheely in a Wheelie

Environmental health manager, City of Cape Town

Lecturer in social anthropology, Sol Plaatje University

Cape Town, South Africa

Kimberley, 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.

Developing new anthropology courses and program, based on her master’s research that drew on public health, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, and epigenetic findings.

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

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

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Promoting recycling in townships.

2019 FELLOWS

BULELA VAVA

CHALEEN ARENDSE

CYAN BROWN

LUNGILE QUINY DUBE

Interim national president, Public Oral Health Forum (POHF)

USAWA Learning & Healing

Founder, TuksRes Women in Leadership Academy; Tsuha Fellow, University of Western Australia; founder, Women Leaders Planetary Health South Africa

Director/chairperson, USAWA for Learning & Healing

Cape Town, South Africa

South Africa

Durban, South Africa

Johannesburg, 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.

LUQMAN YESUFU Public health inspector, Alberta Health Services (AHS)

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.

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.

SIBUSISO FIHLANI

AMANDA PHAPHAMA FONONDA

ATHOLL KLEINHANS

Drama therapist, Drama for Life Johannesburg, South Africa

Director, TB and HIV Care

Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University

Durban, South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa

Working with communities in realizing and advocating for their health rights through approaches that seek to promote health based on a knowledge of its range of social determinants.

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

Edmonton, 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, as well as working with young men to help them deal with their emotions to become better fathers.

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HASEENA MAJID

PATRICK MDELETSHE

NTEBALENG MORAKE

ERIC MOTAU

Founder, USAWA for Learning & Healing; senior optometrist, Majid Optometrist; deputy chair, Active Citizens Movement -Pietermaritzburg

Field Researcher, SECTION27

Curriculum and education coordinator, Social Justice Coalition

Country director, REPSSI

Khayelitsha, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

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 GBVF.

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.

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

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

ANDILE MTHOMBENI

BAYANDA NDUMISO

SAMSON PHAKATHI

Development and CSI Manager, South African Sugar Association

Research assistant, University of South Africa (UNISA); Country Champion, ICOYACA-AFCFTA

Curriculum developer, Equal Education

Senior field officer, The Endangered Wildlife Trust

Cape Town, South Africa

Mpophomeni, South Africa

A highly driven individual who is passionate about socioeconomic, health and educational inequalities within South Africa and the continent at large.

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

Pretoria, South Africa

Johannesburg, 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; and supporting enterprise initiatives for women and the youth.

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Assisting the South African National Aids Council as Trustees Member, also appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning (2017).

VINKEY SIBUYI Social worker, Epilepsy South Africa Acornhoek, South Africa

ANELE NTOMBIKAYISE SIGCAU

SYLVIA SIYO

HARSHA SOMAROO

Pharmacist, Department of Health

Business case development manager, Transnet Port Terminals

Xhora, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

Public health medicine specialist, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital; senior lecturer, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand; President, Public Health Association of South Africa Johannesburg, 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.

Addressing inequity when it comes to access to medication in a rural community by ensuring availability and devising ways to ensure adherence to treatment as a way of eradicating disease burden.

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

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.

Acting to address the social determinants of health.

RENÉ SPARKS

RAZIA VALLIE Program manager, Western Cape Health Department

ERNA VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

GANZAMUNGU ZIHINDULA

National RTCQI/CLI Manager, SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development) Consulting Ltd; director, HACCSA

Cape Town, South Africa

Research and policy, African Tobacco Control Alliance; head of research, Institut Superieur pour le Development Rural

Impact and learning manager Wynberg, South Africa

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.

Mtubatuba, South Africa

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

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

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 DRC.

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2021 Fellows

KANYISA BOOI

BERTHA CHIGUVARE

NWABISA DLOVA

ZIMBINI MADIKIZA

Founder and campaign manager, Matriarch & Sons

Program officer, Lawyers for Human Rights; board member, Vumbanani for Peacebuilding

Social worker, Masimanyane Women’s Rights International

Project assistant and community mobilizer, Rural Health Advocacy Project

Johannesburg, South Africa

East London, South Africa

Makhado, South Africa

Mthatha, South Africa

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

Humanitarian worker with more than 10 years of experience in program management, community development and human rights activism.

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

Building social collective power through equipping rural communities with skills and knowledge of realizing their potential toward the advancement of social change and enhancing their agency to advocate for improved and effective access of health care services

THATO MATHABATHE

NONKULULEKO ‘NKULI’ MBULI

IVANA MERCKEL

INNOCENTIA MGIJIMA

Coordinator

Communications and advocacy strategist, Embrace Movement for Mothers

Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

Pretoria, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Contributing toward medicine access expansion using pharmacy innovation and technology.

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Using media and communications as a tool for social change.

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

Advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa.

NOMFUNDO MKHABA

MPHO MOGAPI

TSHEPO MOKHADI

LEBO MOLETE

Project developer, Waste for Change

Cluster manager, Soul City Institute for Social Justice

Environmental health practitioner, Bongani Regional Hospital

Founding member, PHELA Foundation

Durban, South Africa

Krugersdorp, South Africa

Odendaalsrus, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Teaching leadership, gender equity and enviromental sustainability.

Advocating for social justice for young women and girls and their rights in accessing sexual reproductive health services in a youth-friendly environment underpinned by intersectional feminism.

Implementing sustainable hospital green initiatives aimed at reducing the carbon footprint, use of harmful chemicals (especially pesticides) and waste minimization strategies in the health sector.

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

NTOMBOHLANGA MQUSHULU

ALDRIDGE MUNYORO

JUDIAC RANAPE

Program manager, Next Up

Ph.D. candidate, University of the Witwatersrand

Master’s candidate (law), University of Cape Town (UCT); co-chair, MCU Health cluster, Makhanda; house warden/ manager, Allan Gray Residence

Roodepoort, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Comprehensive health nurse and nurse trainer, Department of Health

Mentoring youth leaders across 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.

Cape Town, South Africa

Makhanda, South Africa

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.

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

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AZEEZA RANGUNWALA

KUVASHNA SINGH

BIBI-AISHA WADVALLA

Africa regional coordinator, groundWork

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

Managing editor, Health-e News

Pretoria, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

KwaZulu, South Africa

Intersectional feminist (also known as the Scientivist) focusing on climate change and health.

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Working toward improving health care in the public sector.

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

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa are tackling the social and economic inequities that have a negative impact on the health of many of the country’s people. Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa.

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2022 Fellows

YVETTE ANDREWS

SAIDY BROWN

ABONGILE DAVANI

Nurse, Metro Health Services

Provincial lead, She Decides; brand ambassador, Inside My Purse

Former literacy mentor, Nal’ibali Trust; former approvals evaluator, AIDS Foundation of South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Itsoseng, South Africa

East London, South Africa

TENDAI CHISIRIMUNHU KATHEMBA Master’s student in psychology; counselor, AbantuLives; member, executive committee representing South Africa, Global Mental Health Peer Network Cape Town, South Africa

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

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.

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.

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

MMABATHO SARAH LANGA

YOLISA LAWRENCE

CINCINANTIA LEBJANE

Physiotherapist, Limpopo

Programs coordinator, SGS Consulting; assistant lecturer, Nelson Mandela University; research fieldworker, strategic analytics and management

Founder and director, Resoketswe Lebjane Foundation; branch secretary, Treatment Action Campaign

NONZALISEKO MAGIDIWANA

Polokwane, South Africa

Mbombela, South Africa

Gqeberha, South Africa

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

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

HIV/AIDS counselor and tester, Perinatal HIV Research Unit; health promoter and leader of a community HIV support group Gqeberha, South Africa

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.

NQOBIZWE MAHLANGU

PRECIOUS P. MAZIBUKO

Medical student, University of KwaZulu-Natal; marketing director, Nomandla Leadership Academy

Community scholar, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal; project facilitator/coordinator, Durban South Community Peace Builders

Durban, South Africa

Durban, South Africa

ZANDILE VERONICAH MQWATHI

NANGAMSO KA NOMAHLUBI-KOZA

Social behavior change communications manager, Pact SA; program coordinator, Higher Health; facilitator/consultant, International Youth Foundation

Education development strategist; executive director, Kwankqubela; creative manager, Ingomso Komani, South Africa

Centurion, South Africa

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.

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.

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.

LINDILE NONTOBEKO NGWENYA

BELLS TWANI

NWABISA SIYAMTHANDA ZANTSI

VUSI ZWANE

Master’s student, University of the Witwatersrand; volunteer and mentor, Refugee Children’s Project

Chairperson, coordinator, organizer and field worker Cape Town, South Africa

Founder and director, Fulfill the Dream Academy Cape Town, South Africa

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.

Program manager, Southern Africa Movement of Mining Affected Communities; national deputy secretary, Sebenza Community Development Group Volksrust, South Africa

Fostering a movement for the development of youth in communities; mobilizing community and youth to address policy around land and land occupation.

Working to improve access to information about genderbased violence, health care and the prevention of injustices relating to sexual and gender-based violence.

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.

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Connecting Changemakers.

Advancing Equity.

BASED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION

2018 Fellows

OBENEWA AMPONSAH

ASANDA BENYA

DEVON CARBADO

ALICIA GARZA

Coach, facilitator and storyteller, Obenewa Amponsah & Associates

Senior lecturer of sociology, University of Cape Town

Principal, Black Futures Lab

Johannesburg, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Associate vice chancellor and professor of law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Oakland, Calif., United States

Los Angeles, United States

Advancing racial and gender equity through training to help organizations become more diverse and inclusive spaces; supporting individuals/ teams through coaching, management, and leadership development.

Lecturing in sociology at the University of the Cape Town where her thesis was on the construction of gendered identities of women who work in the mines.

Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice. Also creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.

Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.

MARY HOOKS

CHRISTOPHER JOHN

BRIAN KAMANZI

KELLY-EVE KOOPMAN

Co-director, Southerners On New Ground

Social responsibility and funding officer, AFDA, The School of Creative Economies

Independent researcher, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

Director and co-creator, Coloured Mentality

Durban, South Africa

Cape Town, 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.

Contributing to local and international debates on social justice issues. Cofounded the Alternative Energy Popular Education Programme.

Atlanta, United States

Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.

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Cape Town, South Africa

Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for the colored community.

TALILA LEWIS

RUKIA LUMUMBA

NTOMBIKANINA MALINGA

JOEL MODIRI

Community lawyer and organizer

Executive director, People’s Advocacy Institute

President and chief executive officer, Sastela

Jackson, Miss., United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor of law and head of Department of Jurisprudence, University of Pretoria

Washington, D.C., United States

Pretoria, South Africa

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, challenge the need for prisons and centers community-led governance.

Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool for shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa. Imagining new political economic paradigms for ending racial injustice globally.

Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.

NEO MUYANGA

CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA

MARLON PETERSON

RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS

Composer-in-residence, National Arts Festival, South Africa; composerin-residence, Johannesburg International Mozart Festival

Associate director for advocacy, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

President, The Precedential Group

Director of Housing Policy, PolicyLink

Brooklyn, N.Y.,United States

Philadelphia, United States

Boston, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.

Collaborating with young people for a more just, humane world. Exploring the histories of racialization and resistance, and the ways that race is constructed and contested.

Improving services and leadership capacity of organizations working toward criminal justice reform. Founder and CEO of The Precedential Group Social Enterprises, and host of the DEcarcerated Podcast series. In 2021, his book “Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song” was published.

Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.

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2018 Fellows

ALBERTO RETANA

RASHAD ROBINSON

SIYABONGA SHANGE

HOLIDAY SIMMONS

President and chief executive officer, Community Coalition

President, Color of Change

Youth pastor, Grace Family Church

Founder, Southern Soul Wellness

New York, United States

Durban, South Africa

Atlanta, United States

Building a multiracial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.

Developing an infrastructure of a strategic Black response to the needs and injustices of 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 people in the lowest levels of society to have equal opportunities and combat racism.

Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.

MICHAEL SMITH

THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN

STHANDIWE ‘STHA’ YENI

SARAH SUMMERS

Chief executive officer, AmeriCorps

Co-creator, Coloured Mentality

Alexandria, United States

Executive director, Equality Labs

Ph.D. candidate, University of Western Cape

Weekawken, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.

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.

Los Angeles, United States

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.

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Cape Town, South Africa

Contributing to national discourses on race, class and gender through various media and artistic interventions, as a playful activist, serious artist and media maverick.

RICHARD WALLACE Founder and executive director, Equity and Transformation (E.A.T.) Chicago, United States

Organizing civil rights activism and leading Equity and Transformation (E.A.T.), a nonprofit organization that won the first recreational cannabis policy to include reparations for the war on drugs.

Credit: Sydelle Willow Smith, Atlantic Fellow.

Atlantic Fellow Constance Mogale received a Solidarity Grant to set up a honey-making social enterprise for her community in Goedgevonden Village, South Africa.

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2019 Fellows

CEDRIC BROWN

JITU BROWN

BUSISIWE DLAMINI

BETSY HODGES

Social impact leader

National director, Journey for Justice Alliance

Dialogue practitioner, Democracy Works Foundation

Adviser, Betsy Hodges LLC

Chicago, United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

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.

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.

REGINA HOLLOWAY

ZAKIYA CARR JOHNSON

MITCHELL LITTLE

BONGIWE LUSIZI

Vice president of community impact, Axon

Founder, Odara Solutions; founder, Black Women Disrupt

Founding director, Creative Academy

Chicago, United States

Washington, D.C.,United States

Executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Opportunity

North Carolina, United States

Washington, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Philadelphia, United States

Leading community engagement efforts to transform relationships between safety officials and the communities they are meant to serve.

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Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.

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

KOKETSO MOETI

CONSTANCE MOGALE

NHLANHLA MNISI

Head of Municipal Sustainability, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

Executive director, amandla.mobi

National coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust

Water resources manager and aquatic ecologist

Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Krugersdorp, South Africa

Leading sustainability efforts with a range of stakeholders in sectors including small-scale agriculture, environment, climate change, renewable energy, gender and land rights at local, national and international levels.

Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.

Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.

Working on how water monitoring tools can be Indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.

ELANA NEEDLE

WILNEIDA NEGRON

LOVELYN NWADEYI

TESS NOLIZWE PEACOCK

Principal and founder, Elana Needle Consulting and adjunct assistant professor, Silver School of Social Work, New York University

Strategic adviser, Ford Foundation

Inclusion strategy manager EMEA, Netflix

Executive director, Equality Collective

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Eastern Cape, South Africa

Working to see social justice embedded and normalized in business, academic and religious spaces.

Innovating to advance access to justice and building the capacity and infrastructure for collective participation in rural areas. Working for quality and equality in education and early childhood development services.

New York, United States

New York, United States

Leading partnership development, strategy, organizing and campaign support for racial justice organizations fighting for an equitable multiracial democracy.

Working on the frontlines of fostering new multiissue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.

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2020 FELLOWS

KELVIN SAULS

DEVON SIMMONS

KIRAN KAUR BAINS

KEVIN BECKFORD

Community organizer; senior pastor, Holman United Methodist Church

Global ambassador for education programs; and research assistant, Incarceration Nations Network

Director of community impact, SA2020

Co-founder, The Hustlers Guild

Los Angeles, United States

New York, 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.

Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.

Directing SA2020’s community impact program, supporting the organization’s mission to drive progress toward a shared community vision in San Antonio.

Supporting policy and outreach for the public school network; 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.

DYLAN VALLEY

DELA WILSON

TEMBINKOSI BONAKELE

AMBROSE CARROLL

Filmmaker and educator, University of the Witwatersrand

Founder, Axl Impact Studio

Commissioner, South African Competition Commission

Pastor, The Church by the Side of the Road

Johannesburg, South Africa

Berkeley, Calif.,United States

Positioning the Commission as a world-class regulatory agency and one of South Africa’s best performing public institutions. Serving also as an adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and the Nelson Mandela University Business School.

Leading The Church By The Side of The Road as moderator of the Home & Foreign Mission District Association and vice president at large of the California State Baptist Convention.

Los Angeles, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.

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Leading strategies to decolonize development efforts through the redirection of capital, cultural influence and opportunity.

Brooklyn, N.Y.,United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

STACEYANN CHIN

ALEXANDRA FITZGERALD

JESSICA FEIERMAN

NYLE FORT

Writer, activist and performance artist

Legal policy adviser, Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa

Senior managing director, Juvenile Law Center

Minister, activist and scholar; co-director of the Maroon Project

Philadelphia, United States

Newark, N.J.,United States

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Telling powerful stories as a poet, activist and entertainer, attempting to bridge the divide between African Americans and the Caribbean, between Africa and its fragile connection to its diaspora.

Serving as a legal policy adviser at the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa.

Co-leading a national effort to end the harmful and discriminatory practice of imposing fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.

Working with students, organizers and local residents to impact issues of social justice through political education, civic engagements and leadership development.

ARISSA HALL

MINHAJ JEENAH

KHWEZI MABASA

PINKY MASHIANE

Abolitionist, movement leader and storyteller, Blackseed

Executive Director, My Vote Counts

Work rights advocate

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Senior researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

Pretoria, South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa

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 community-based organizations, social movements, NGOs and trade unions across South Africa’s nine provinces.

Serving a senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Leading the United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA), representing the interests of hundreds of domestic workers across South Africa.

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2020 Fellows

SIBONELO MCHUNU

JESSICA MOFIELD

AXOLILE NOTYWALA

DANAI MUPOTSA

Public interest lawyer, Western Cape Department of Economic Development

Executive director, New York Mayor’s Office to Prevent Gun Violence

Former general secretary, Social Justice Coalition

Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Cape Town, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

New York, United States

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.

Leading the city’s efforts to synchronize its anti-gun violence initiatives that respond to the individual, familial and communitybased needs of historically disinvested and marginalized communities of color.

Serving as an activist and the former general secretary of the Social Justice Coalition, a grassroots social movement campaigning for safe, healthy, and dignified communities in some of South Africa’s most underdeveloped townships.

Serving as a senior lecturer in African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Also, a feminist teacher, researcher and recently published poet.

ZAKIYAH SHAAKIR-ANSARI

KHAYELIHLE SITHOLE

EDGAR VILLANUEVA

SYDELLE WILLOW SMITH

Advocacy director, New York State Alliance for Quality Education

Accountant, academic, activist and independent analyst

Principal, Decolonizing Wealth Project

Co-founder, Sunshine Cinema

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Brooklyn, 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.

Working with civil society and advocacy organisations on matters relating to youth development, education, land reform and economic justice, as a chartered accountant, writer and academician.

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.

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Cape Town, South Africa

Co-leading Sunshine Cinemas as a documentarian and media advocacy strategist working across Africa and based in Cape Town.

2021 FELLOWS

KAREN ANN DANIELS

NASSER ELEDROOS

ARIA FLORANT

MUSA GWEBANI

Director of programming and artistic director, Folger Theatre

Managing director, Center for Law, Information and Creativity, Northeastern University

Co-founder, Liberation Ventures

Project manager, Open Society Foundation

Washington, D.C., United States

Washington, United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Boston, 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.

Leveraging technology and data science to advance policies for ending mass incarceration and surveillance; and protecting civil rights and liberties across the United States.

Serving as a co-founder of a U.S. nonprofit organization that is building momentum toward a comprehensive financial and nonfinancial federal racial repair program by providing resources to truth, reconciliation and reparations efforts.

Elevating issues of migration, regional integration and the strengthening of a civil society that can add vibrancy to South Africa’s democracy.

Kelvin Sauls, a community organizer and senior pastor, at an Atlantic Meal in San Fransciso. Atlantic Meals for Fellows were hosted by the Institute in four cities between October and November 2021. Credit: Cindy Chew.

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2021 Fellows

MELISSA JONES

ONGEZWA MBELE

MONIQUE MILES

UKHONA NTSALI MLANDU

Executive director, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative

Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Managing director, Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions

Director, Greatmore Studios

Durban, South Africa

Washington, D.C., United States

Driving public and private resources to 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.

Working with young people in townships and incarcerated people to tell Indigenous stories and facilitate theater workshops.

Building diverse, equitable and inclusive systems and economies for out-of-work adults, with an emphasis on marginalized populations.

Curating festivals, programs and public art interventions to draw attention to the politics of space and place making, spatial and gender justice, heritage and memory.

TSHEPISO MOKOENA

BRANDON NICHOLSON

JENNIFER NJUGUNA

LINDIWE NKUTHA

Executive director, Tshepiso Mokoena Foundation

Executive director, The Hidden Genius Project

Chief operating officer, Common Future

Operations and finance manager, Institute for Economic Justice

Upper Marlboro, Md., United States

Oakland, Calif., United States

Weehawken, N.J., United States

Johannesburg, South Africa

Leading a foundation that focuses on programs for women and girls and advocates for the equality and empowerment of Deaf people.

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.

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.

Cape Town, South Africa

Oakland, Calif., United States

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DARANEE PETSOD

XENA SCULLARD

MAHORO SEMEGE

REGGIE SHUFORD

Senior adviser, Hyphen

Co-founder, Queer Feminist Film Festival

Postgraduate associate research supervisor, African Film and Dramatic Arts Academy (AFDA)

Executive director, American Civil Liberties Union

San Francisco, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Philadelphia, United States

Durban, South Africa

Developing high-impact, public-philanthropic partnerships and collaborations to address urgent issues facing the United States and advance long-term solutions to achieve equitable outcomes for all.

Amplifing the voices, stories and creativity of people of color, African LGBTQIAP+ people and feminists.

Serving as a supervisor at a leading film school in South Africa; researching civic intervention documentary, postcolonial theory and African philosophy.

Leading work to preserve and promote freedom of speech, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom and equal treatment under the law.

SIYANDA SIKO

DANY SIGWALT

NAZEER SONDAY

NOLWAZI TUSINI

Country coordinator, Partnership for Action on Green Economy

Executive director, Power Shift Network

Chair, PHA Food & Farming Campaign

Interim co-executive director, Iranti

Johannesburg, South Africa

Washington, United States

Cape Town, South Africa

Supporting countries that wish to put sustainability at the heart of their economic policies to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement.

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.

Promoting sustainable food sourcing and farming practices that protect farmland against urban sprawl and development that risks farmers’ livelihoods.

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.

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Working toward real-world solutions to global inequalities.

BASED AT THE INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITIES INSTITUTE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

2017 Fellows

OLUFOLAHAN (FOLA) ADELEKE

SAIDA ALI

FREDRICK OUKO ALUCHELI

SEBASTIAN BOCK

Gender lead, support to Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation or cutting, Action Aid UK

Program officer, Disability Rights Program, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa; founder, Riziki Source

Team leader for Germany, 350.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Working on transparency and corporate accountability; current focus is on the monetization of our personal data and its impact on the right to privacy and access to information.

Integrating deep understanding of girls’ and women’s rights and how social norms perpetuate gendered inequalities and unequal power. Providing strategic guidance and management to the program hub, and practical tools, strategies and capacity building.

Supporting organizations for persons with disabilities in seven Eastern African countries through grantmaking and advocacy to promote disability rights and amplifying the voices of often marginalized parts of society.

Building and strengthening grassroots movements fighting the coal, oil and gas industry; working to stop financial flows into fossil fuel companies and infrastructure.

MELANIE R. BROWN

PATRICIO ESPINOZA

JOSEPH HASSON

TRACY JOOSTE

Interim deputy director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; adjunct professor, American University”

Senior research analyst, Chambers and Partners

Senior program officer for Human Rights, Sigrid Rausing Trust

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

International Budget Partnership (IBP) South Africa; member of the board of directors, Isandla Institute

Senior lecturer, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Washington, 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. Speaker/ writer on race, gender, inequality and philanthropy.

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Berlin, Germany

Cape Town, South Africa

Working on research projects related to inequalities, elites and education in Chile.

Identifying, assessing, and supporting grantee organizations, at local and national levels, to advance universal human rights and justice.

Advising International Budget Partnership South Africa and its grassroot partner organizations.

Supporting research and advocacy for improved basic services to informal settlements across South African cities. Calling for greater accountability in how cities spend their budgets.

PRIYANKA K

ROSE LONGHURST

JOHNNY MILLER

MASANA MULAUDZI

Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; co-founder, Chitrakoot Collective Cambridge, United Kingdom

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe

Photographer, Unequal Scenes; News Fellow, Code for Africa; founder, africanDRONE

Programs director, Sonke Gender Justice

Berlin, Germany

Johannesburg, South Africa

Mukilteo, Wash., United States

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 organisation working on all things gender.

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe.

Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.

Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues.

Managing an NPO dedicated to creating a drone community “for good”.

Responsible for the implementation, management, supervision, and evaluation of Sonke’s programs.

JACK NISSAN

LOUIS OLANYA OYARO Consultant on disability rights (Global South)

LOUISE RUSSELLPRYWATA

JANE SLOANE

Director, Tinderbox Collective; board member, Music Education Partnership Group/ We Make Music Scotland

Heidelberg, Germany

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

Focusing on research, training and policy intervention to support the realization of the rule of law and access to justice in South Sudan, working directly with the government of South Sudan.

Director of Policy & Programs, Open Ownership

Senior director, Women’s Empowerment, The Asia Foundation

Gillingham, United Kingdom

Sausalito, Calif., United States

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.

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2017 Fellows

APPU ESTHOSE SURESH

RANIA M. TARAZI

HILLARY VIPOND

Founder, Pixstory

Gender specialist, International Organization; program and policy adviser, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development; program manager, Oxfam

Ph.D. student in Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science; founding member, Universal Basic Services Taskforce

Amman, Jordan

London, United Kingdom

Currently working on gender equality in the Arab region, current and previous interest and experience in research and projects for policy and legal reform, care and informal work and social protection focusing on disadvantaged communities.

Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily converted into increased consumption rather than leisure. Focusing on climate change and inequality implications.

New Delhi, India

Creating the space to build people’s narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.

Left to Right: Atlantic Fellows from India, Ruby Hembrom, an Indigenous cultural practitioner, and Ishrat Jahan, a development professional, with Amanda Segnini, a climate activist from Brazil, at the new AFSEE office at LSE. Credit: Catarina Heeckt.

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2018 FELLOWS

MILENA ABRAHAMYAN

KRIPA BASNYAT

NICOLA BROWNE

LAUREN BURKE

Feminist justice and peace activist

Co-founder, Reclaiming Narratives

Yerevan, Armenia

Kathmandu, Nepal

Founding coordinator, Act Now - People-Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland; fellow for peace and leadership, Social Change Initiative

Organizing director, Labor Network for Sustainability Takoma Park, Md., United States

Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.

Co-created Reclaiming Narratives, a feminist intersectional collective, to work through feminist research and advocacy, knowledge production, feminist pedagogy and feminist cross-movement building.

Building a people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socioeconomic rights.

Leading a team to be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful laborclimate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.

TANYA CHARLES

ALLISON CORKERY

RENATA CUK

TAYLOR ERSKINE DOWNS

Program and impact lead; Senior Fellow engagement, Atlantic Institute

Director of Strategy and Learning, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

Program officer, Open Society Initiative for Europe

Oxford, United Kingdom

Johannesburg, South Africa

Founder and head of Product, Open Function Group; co-lead, Information Mediation Group, GovStack initiative (The ITU)

Barcelona, Spain

London, United Kingdom

Working with Senior Atlantic Fellows and program staff from across the seven Atlantic Fellows programs to facilitate collective actions that address global inequities through co-created thematic gatherings and workshops.

Working with activists around the world to translate human rights norms into tools for collective analysis and action on inequalities.

Focusing on economic justice in gig work and care work, challenges to unregulated “big tech”, and supporting building workers’ power through organizing, greater visibility and collective bargaining.

Supporting governments and NGOs as they scale health, humanitarian, and child protection interventions via secure, responsible dataintegration, automation, and interoperability initiatives.

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2018 Fellows

CRAIG TINASHE DUBE

ELIMANE HABY KANE

EVERLYN MILANOI KOIYIET

JAMES MURAGURI

Lead trainer, No Means No Worldwide

Founding and chairman, LEGSAfrica (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies for Africa)

Human rights lawyer; cofounder, Center for Women’s Rights Advocacy (CWRA)

Founder and chief executive officer, Institute of Public Finance Kenya

Dakar, Senegal

Nairobi, Kenya

Working with a sexual violence prevention organization that supports and trains organizations in highrisk environments to deliver a rape prevention curriculum to boys (intervention and positive masculinity) and girls (empowerment and selfdefence).

Nurturing leadership against inequality through democratic and economic governance policies and systems monitoring, research into public-private power relations in extractive industries, and promoting of young entrepreneurs.

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.

Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level.

ROSELINE ORWA

GABRIELLA RAZZANO

MAUREEN SIGAUKE

ANITA PEÑA SAAVEDRA

Chief executive officer and development director, Rona Foundation

Research fellow, Research ICT Africa; founder of OpenUp South Africa; legal consultant

Social justice, labor and community activist; consultant

Nairobi, Kenya

Cape Town, South Africa

Research associate, Laboratorio de Transformaciones Sociales; Ph.D. student, Universidad Deigo Portales

Leiden, Netherlands

Kwekwe, Zimbabwe

Nairobi, Kenya

Santiago, Chile

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.

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Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, as well as advancing human rights (particularly access to information and privacy) in digital and innovation contexts.

Leading and facilitating community-based initiatives aimed at strengthening community cohesion and participation in interrelated socioeconomic issues, with a special focus on children and youth education. Advocating inclusion and leadership for vulnerable community groups.

Building the free exercise of sexual and reproductive rights across Latin America and the Caribbean. Fighting for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights in the Chilean constitution.

ANJALI SARKER Program manager, 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.

PEDRO TELLES Co-founder and director, Quid; co-founder and board member, Advocacy Hub São Paulo, Brazil

Advocacy, civic engagement and public policy expert with extensive experience of working with civil society organizations, movements, funders and in the public sector.

Atlantic Fellow Louise Russell-Prywata, whose interest lies in strengthening accountability and advancing transparency in company ownership. Credit: Andrew Davies.

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2019 Fellows

MADHUMITHA ARDHANARI Senior sustainability strategist, Forum for the Future Singapore, Singapore

HOBETH MARTÍNEZ CARRILLO Researcher on AFSEE’s Atlantic Equity Project “Peace and gender (in)equality: lessons from the Colombian Peace Agreement of 2016”

SOPHEA CHREK

DELLA Z DUNCAN

Coordinator, Social Action for Community and Development (SACD)

Renegade economist; host of “Upstream” podcast; Right Livelihood coach and facilitator

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

San Francisco, United States

Bogotá, Colombia

Working toward climate justice and resource equity, and pursuing an Master of Science in Inequalities and Social Science (LSE) to understand how climate injustice intersects with dimensions such as race, poverty and gender.

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.

Working toward a just economy, social justice, gender justice, people participatory democracy and systemic change.

Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and facilitating.

ALON-LEE GREEN

JOAN JONES

ASHA KOWTAL

ESTHER MWEMA

National co-director, Standing Together; co-owner, The Brothers Green Bookshop, Tel Aviv

Executive director, SEIU Washington State Labor Council; founder and president, National LGBTQ Workers Center

Dalit rights activist and founder, DalitWomenFight.org

Founder and curator, Safety First for Girls (SAFIGI); founder and chief strategist, Digital Grassroots; inter-agency coordination analyst, UN Women

Tel Aviv, Israel

New Delhi, India

Seattle, United States

Lusaka, Zambia

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.

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Cultivating a voice for working people in the Pacific Northwest. Leading an LGBTQ movement for economic justice and workers’ rights.

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.

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.

LIZ NELSON

FOLUKE ADETOLA OJELABI

MICHAELA RAFFERTY

LEANNE SAJOR

Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights, Tax Justice Network

Advocacy/planning officer, UNICEF

Economic justice program officer, Mama Cash

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

New York, United States

Young persons development officer (school exclusions), Just for Kids Law

New York, United States

London, England, 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.

Advocating for children’s rights, promoting access, demand and equity for public services needed by children and women, especially the most marginalized.

CRYSTAL SIMEONI

AMANDA YOUNG

Director, Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective

Indigenous advocate, University of Melbourne

Nairobi, Kenya

Melbourne, Australia

Working to influence macrolevel economic policies from a pan-African feminist analysis, across regional and global spaces.

Working as an Indigenous equity practitioner across political, social, economic and environmental spheres.

Coordinating campaigns led by young people with lived experience of school exclusions to highlight the underlying inequalities and injustices in school exclusions.

Strengthening solidarities and deepening impact among social justice and human rights movements and organizations globally, to address inequalities from the bottom up.

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2020 Fellows

MOHAMMED-ANWAR SADAT ADAM

KITTI BARACSI

MARIA CARRASCO

Learning coordinator, TuTela Learning Network; learning and research consultant

Director, Entramada Social Consultancy Company; lecturer in social policy, Talca University

Lisbon, Portugal

Santiago, Chile

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Working for social and economic justice via research, policy, and the strengthening of civil society’s safe and vibrant spaces in order to hold the powerful to account and uphold human rights.

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.

Tackling social inequalities by integrating multidimensional perspectives into social policies; co-founder of Entramada, a cooperative that strengthens local communities via the good living concept.

Researching the everyday reproduction of poverty, inequality and exclusion, with a focus on the political economies of Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

DANILO CURCIC

MAURO FERNANDEZ Consultant, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation & FARN (Argentina); columnist, elDiarioAR and Revista Anfibia

ANDREA ENCALADA GARCÍA

CLAIRE GODFREY

Program coordinator, A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights

Economist and higher education policy specialist

Oxford, United Kingdom

Head of programs and campaigns at Oxfam in Ghana; programs coordinator, Institute for Policy Alternatives, Ghana

CHRISTOPHER CHOONG WENG WAI Deputy director of research, Khazanah Research Institute

Accra, Ghana

Belgrade, Serbia

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

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Building and communicating ecological and social transitions toward fairer, inclusive and sustainable livelihoods for all.

Consultant

Santiago, Chile

Working toward a nonelitist and non-segregated higher education access and countering the effects of neo-liberal policies on higher education.

Working for policy change in economic inequality and development finance, and strengthening civil society influence.

MÁXIMO ERNESTO JARAMILLO-MOLINA

GEORGIA HADDAD NICOLAU

VIVIANA OSORIO PÉREZ

Founder, INDESIG (Institute of Studies on Inequality); associate professor, University of Guadalajara

Director and co-founder, Instituto Procomum; strategic dialogue facilitator working for civil society organizations

Medellín, Colombia

Guadalajara, Mexico

São Paulo, Brazil

Working on a deconstruction of myths of meritocracy and other narratives that justify inequality, with academic research, activism and dissemination though social networks.

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.

Advancing women’s economic, social and cultural rights via litigation, evidencebased advocacy, crossmovement solidarity and campaigning.

Working on socioeconomic rights in the United Kingdom with a particular focus on how better legal protection of these rights would reduce inequalities, especially for marginalized groups.

OABONA SEPORA

TYEHIMBA SALANDY

MIRIAM TAY

BARBARA VAN PAASSEN

Lecturer, Institute of Development Management (IDM); executive director, Friends of Diversity

Sociologist, Institute of Indigenous Knowledge, Empowerment and Research

Consultant and advocate for social and environmental justice; founder, For the Love of Changemaking

Gaborone, Botswana

Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

Finance and administration officer/ gender focal person, German Development Cooperation (GIZ, Ghana); management consultant; co-founder, WODIF Ghana

Lawyer, activist and scholar

IMOGEN RICHMONDBISHOP Right to Food program coordinator, Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food and Farming London, United Kingdom

Milan, Italy

Accra, Ghana

Advancing the rights of key populations in Botswana within the areas of legal and policy reform, mental health and civic action.

Working on decolonizing global and local spaces and self through dialogue, alternative media and Indigenous knowledge.

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.

Supporting changemakers in social and environmental justice and women’s rights by strengthening analysis, strategy and outreach; and developing initiatives to change the world of changemaking itself.

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2021 FELLOWS

IRENE WAKARINDI

AISHA ABDULAZIZ

Activist and Black feminist and policy analyst, Food for Education

Energy access specialist Nairobi, Kenya

London, United Kingdom

KRUSKAYA HIDALGO CORDERO

RUBY HEMBROM

Founder, Observatorio de Plataformas (Platform Observatory)

Kolkata, India

Founder and director, Adivaani

Quito, Ecuador

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.

Providing expertise in projects that aim to increase access to sustainable energy services for households, public facilities and enterprises in eastern and southern Africa.

Researching care work, decolonial feminism, gender, platform economies, migration and labor rights, and challenging the poor working conditions of workers in platform economies through the Observatorio de Plataformas.

Amplifying the voices of the Adivasi (the Indigenous people of India) and sharing their experiences through her nonprofit organization, Adivaani.

MYRIAM HERNANDEZ

SERGIO CHAPARRO HERNANDEZ

ISHRAT JAHAN

Independent campaign producer San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Producing storytelling campaigns to address educational inequalities for Indigenous youth in Mexico.

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Program officer, Center for Economic and Social Rights

State Head, Foundational Literacy & Numeracy, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, India

Bogota, Colombia

Mumbai, India

Working in international human rights organizations and forging alliances across movements and geographies to advance economic justice at a global level.

Working as development professional, with 11 years of experience in public administration, social policy formulation and analysis in different geographies and sectors such as government, NGOs, academic Institutions and activist organizations.

MAKMID KAMARA

CAROLINE KIOKO

MADHURESH KUMAR

KEVIN LIVERPOOL

Director, Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund

Program coordinator, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, East Africa Office

Project director, Global Gas Hub

Administrator, Caribbean Male Action Network

Accra, Ghana

Nairobi, Kenya

Working with national and international development and human rights organizations in Africa and the United Kingdom to advance human rights and transitional justice.

Providing expertise in human rights law and public international law for gender democracy, human rights, policy and social change advocacy organizations.

Advocating for climate justice and particularly for an urgent and rapid delivery of a global phaseout of fossil fuel.

Working on advocacy campaigns and community education initiatives to champion gender equality in the Caribbean and end violence against women and girls.

JENNY MCENEANEY

CLARE MACGILLIVRAY Director, Making Rights Real

RAFAEL BARRIO DE MENDOZA

JITE PHIDO

Governance specialist, United Nations Development Program

Tranent, Scotland

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Paris, France

San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago

Project coordinator and researcher, Propuesta Ciudadana

Program director, ARDA Development Communication Inc. Lagos, Nigeria

Lima, Peru

Providing expertise for policy and project development on participatory and inclusive governance and gender equality in the private, civil society, public and global sectors in the U.K., U.S. and South Africa.

Working alongside marginalized groups to use the power of human rights for economic, social and cultural change.

Studying the connections between infrastructure, information and inequality, and seeking to enable processes of critical activism, citizen research and democratic engagement.

Harnessing the power of storytelling and participatory narrative building for social change through media and voice projects in health, gender, livelihoods and peace building.

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2021 Fellows

ZEPHANIE REPOLLO

DANIEL SALAZAR MURILLO

AMANDA SEGNINI

Southeast Asia co-director, Just Associates

Researcher, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Climate justice activist and co-founder, Engajamundo

Siaton, Philippines

Guadalupe, Costa Rica

São Paolo, Brazil

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.

Using his investigative journalism background to develop outlets and communication projects related to tax accountability, climate change and media literacy.

Building movements and facilitating community engagement to promote systemic change and climate justice.

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Anjali Sarker, in Oxford, England, focuses on systems change and responsible leadership, with Jack Nissan, who has built a collective of young musicians, artists and youth workers in Scotland.

Credit: Catarina Heeckt.

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Harnessing Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity for social impact.

BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

2018 Fellows

MARCUS AKUHATA-BROWN

DURKHANAI AYUBI

ROXANNE BAINBRIDGE

JODY BARNEY

Pou Whakatere, Deputy Secretary Māori, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Government

Writer and restaurateur

Director, Center for Indigenous Health Equity Research

Leading consultant, Deaf Indigenous Community Consultancy

Adelaide, Australia

Cairns, Australia

Wellington, New Zealand

Shepparton, Australia

Leading a multidisciplinary business group called 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.

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.

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.

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

SEAN GORDON

ARIADNE GORRING

NICOLE JENKINS

General manager Campaign Sustainability, From the Heart

Managing director, Gidgee Group Consulting and Partnerships Pty. Ltd.

Chief executive officer, Pollination Foundation

Center manager, The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre

Melbourne, Australia

Lismore, 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.

Helping establish a skillset that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to the workforce that has not been acquired through formal education/training.

Central Coast, Australia

Hamilton, Australia

Developing a neuroscienceanchored multidisciplinary measurement and evaluation framework of human flourishing to inform self-determined social equity from personal, organizational and policy objectives.

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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.

MAGGIE KAVANAGH

FAYE MCMILLAN

DAMIEN MILLER

LEANNE MILLER

Independent consultant

Associate professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, University of New South Wales; deputy national rural health commissioner

Minister counsellor for strategic communications, Australian Embassy

Executive director, Koorie Women Mean Business

Alice Springs, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Washington, United States

Coolamon, Australia

Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge center in Alice Springs.

A proud Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) working on the health and mental health of her mob.

Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the IndoPacific.

EVIE O’BRIEN

DEAN PARKIN

MICHELLE STEELE

Executive director, Atlantic Institute

Director, From the Heart

Assistant secretary, Australian Department of Health

Melbourne, Australia

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.

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.

Canberra, Australia

Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.

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.

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2019 Fellows

PETER ANDERSON

ALISON BENTICK

PENELOPE JONES

JONATHAN KNEEBONE

Executive director and professor of education, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology

Senior adviser, National Indigenous Australians Agency

Assistant secretary, Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment

Head of Advocacy and Growth, Phantm

Dubbo, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Canberra, Australia

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.

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.

Providing strategic advice on education, skills and employment policy and programs across Australia through a senior executive role in government.

Establishing and enabling collaborations, disrupting entrenched and extractive systems, and advocating for an inclusive and regenerative economy.

JANINE MOHAMED

HEATH NELSON

KARRINA NOLAN

CHARLES O’LEARY

Chief executive officer, The Lowitja Institute

General manager, Community and Partnerships, Fortescue Metals Group

Director, Original Power

Director, Aboriginal Culture and Healing, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Fremantle, 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.

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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.

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.

RAYMOND ORR

TANIA POUWHARE

DARYLE RIGNEY

PEKERI RUSKA

Associate professor and department chair, University of Oklahoma

General manager, Community and Social Innovation, Auckland Council

Professor and director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney

Ph.D. candidate, RMIT University; Co-founder and director, Goompi Projects & Goompi Give and Grow

Norman, United States

Auckland, New Zealand

North Stradbroke Island, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Engaging in treatymaking debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and self-determination from Indigenous and nonIndigenous peoples in the United States 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.

Focusing on developments in Indigenous nation-building and governance following colonization.

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.

ALEX SPLITT

JUDITH (HUTI) WATSON

SHANE WEBSTER

JUANITA WHEELER

Managing director, Bundyi Girri Consulting

Executive director, Jureda

Chief executive officer, Jawun

Tairawhiti, New Zealand

Adelaide, Australia

Founder and chief executive officer, Full & Frank; executive director, TEDxBrisbane

Melbourne, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

A Kabi Kabi man advancing social and economic outcomes of First Peoples, specializing in the codesign, 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.

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 their ideas justice.

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2021 Fellows

INDU BALACHANDRAN

MARC BENNIE

BOYD BROUGHTON

RAYMOND BRUNKER

Director, Strategic Support, Aboriginal Housing Office

General manager, Indigenous Programs and Community Investment & Chair Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Council, Accor Pacific

General manager, Te Hā Oranga Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua (Te Hā)

Director of Human Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Brisbane

Sydney, Australia

Auckland, New Zealand

Brisbane, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Reimagining lawful relationality with First Australians through cultural and economic collaboration with migrant communities.

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.

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.

Exploring how to redesign family services to work alongside families in building their restoration.

TEGAN BURNS

KAYE-MAREE DUNN

ADAM FLETCHER

RACHAEL GALWAY

Co-founder and director, Goompi Give and Grow & Goompi Projects

Director, Making Everything Achievable, Ahau NZ Limited, Indigital Blockchain Limited

Associate director, NSW/ ACT Indigenous Business and Community, National Australia Bank

Manager Housing and Wellbeing Support, Kāinga Ora – Lower South Region

North Stradbroke Island, Australia

Wainuiomata, New Zealand

Dunsandel, New Zealand

East Maitland, 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.

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Working to lift the transformative capability of whānau, hapū and iwi to grow collective prosperity through Indigenous-centered design and emergent technologies.

Exploring alternatives to Western debt/equity markets as the basis for an international Indigenous financial capital market.

Exploring the experience of whānau involved in statutory child protection processes to develop resources and supports to improve their participation and equity.

ELLA HAVELKA

DEAN HETA

SAMUEL HUGHES

HAROLD LUDWICK

Creative director, The ELLA Foundation & Eco Dancers

Principal adviser, Aboriginal Engagement, Melbourne Water

Cultural awareness and cultural heritage protection facilitator

Sydney, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Chief adviser, Curriculum Futures, Ministry of Education & Chair, Nōna Te Ao Charitable Trust

Hope Vale, Australia

Gisbourne, New Zealand

Elevating the importance of dance for First Nations communities and exploring how to make Australia’s dance industry more inclusive, diverse and accessible.

Strengthening youth cultural and spiritual connections to Wiradjuri country while promoting their positive selfidentity.

Empowering future Māori leaders by motivating rangatahi Māori into vocational training and educational pathways.

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.

LISA MCMURRAY

TE TAIAWATEA MOKO-MEAD

MERIKI ONUS

ANGELA RUTTER

Tai Moana, Te Ohu Kaimoana

Director of First Nations, Foundation of Young Australians

Wellington, New Zealand

Melbourne, Australia

Strategic projects manager, Leadership Victoria; cofounder and director, Common Cause Australia

Learning and program development manager, Aboriginal Carbon Foundation Sydney, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Building an assetsbased, community-driven development (ABCD) planning process for remote Indigenous communities to dismantle the “problem narrative” perpetuated by non-Indigenous decisionmakers.

Empowering whānau-led environmental policy and research, centering our whakapapa relationship with the environment while remedying the violent impacts of settler colonialism.

Using experience in media and storytelling to share her matriarchal story and the lesson within.

Building collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Victoria.

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2022 FELLOWS

KATRINA SMIT

JAKI ADAMS

CAROLYN BARKER

DAMEIN BELL

Senior adviser in service design, Ministry of Social Development NZ

Director, social justice and regional engagement, The Fred Hollows Foundation (Australia and Asia-Pacific)

Project manager, First Languages Australia

Gunditjmara Nation

Maungaraki, New Zealand

Heywood, Australia

Battery Hill, Australia

Alawa (Darwin/ Garramilla), Australia

Investigating how whanaungatanga, being relationally connected, could improve social outcomes for Māori by focusing on what is inherent in our culture.

Working with a commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s right to sight and health equity, which extends to improving eye care for Indigenous and tribal peoples globally.

Facilitating national community research and media projects, led by her Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander colleagues; developing and publishing tools for innovative language-project design, development and implementation.

Working on native title, cultural strengthening and heritage, and community development; as a Gunditjmara community member, focusing on recognition and respect for cultural landscapes following World Heritage listing of Budj Bim in 2019.

TRACY WILLIAMS

DAMEYON BONSON

KARLA BRADY

Journalist and consultant

Independent consultant and suicidology practitioner

Chief executive officer, Inala Wangarra

JONATHON CAPTAIN-WEBB

Darwin, Australia

Springfield Lakes, Australia

Australia

Director, Aboriginal cultural heritage, Aboriginal Affairs, New South Wales Mangrove Mountain, Australia

Working in philanthropy, social investment and Indigenous affairs to develop approaches for improving collaboration, engagement and knowledge in the sector.

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Peace building, with a keen interest in tangibles through constructing, finding and creating meaning, and drawing, as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descendant of the the Jawoyn people and Bari clan.

Championing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and advocacy of community-led, peoplecentered social services; starting from a point of strengths, instead of deficits, to sustain social change.

Championing Indigenous affairs, justice reinvestment and the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby team as a proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

MICHAEL COLEMAN

TUI CRUMPEN

MICHELLE JOHANSSON

CHRISTIAN LUGNAN

General manager partnerships, Greenfleet

Director, Kaiela Institute, and Honorary Fellow, Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne

Kaitiaki (CEO), Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ

Chief financial officer, Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation

Black Rock, Australia

Clover Park, New Zealand

Coffs Harbour, Australia

Shepparton, Australia

Working to provide better environments that provide better lives, based on over 30 years’ experience in natural resource management in Australia and overseas.

Building systems to navigate and bridge the cultural interface in First Nation and Australian institutional and organizational contexts, so that Indigenous people can thrive.

Working in education and theater with particular focus on young Brown scholars in South Auckland; serving as kaitiaki (i.e., guardian) of Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ, Māia Centre for Social Justice, and Black Friars theater company.

Focusing on financial management and, as a Gumbaynggirr man, an ethos of economic selfsustainability for community; participating in the Wajaar Ngaarlu dance group and hosting a radio show with interviews of First Nations men from his community.

SIMBA MAREKERA

TARA MOALA

SARAH MORRIS

PANIA NEWTON

Head of investment management, Brightlight Group

Founder, Rākau Tautoko, and service and system designer, Tāmaki Regeneration Company

Independent consultant

Community researcher and spokesperson, #ProtectIhumatāo campaign

Marsden Park, Australia

Hutt Central, New Zealand

Point England, New Zealand

Managing an impact investing fund that is dedicated to transforming lives; specializing in innovative financing and blended finance within infrastructure, real estate and credit/private debt.

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.

Mangere, New Zealand

Exploring the role of non-Indigenous people in fulfilling the vision of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the 1840 treaty) and dismantling neoliberal systems rooted in white supremacy in Aotearoa.

Campaigning as an activist for Māori rights, environmental protection and constitutional transformation; recently co-led the #ProtectIhumātao campaign to protect ancestral land in Auckland from corporate desecration.

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RAYLENE NIXON

JEWELZ PETLEY

STACIE PIPER

TE AWA PUKETAPU

Lecturer in rural Aboriginal health, University of Melbourne

Specialist adviser, youth economy, Auckland Council

Chief Māori adviser, Office of the Children’s Commissioner

Shepparton, Australia

Hobsonville, New Zealand

First Nations art curator, cultural dancer and educator, and a consultant

Wainuiomata, New Zealand

Kallista, Australia

Working to address the lack of inclusion and afforded value of Indigenous peoples in their own country; drawing on interest, as a Gunggari woman, in strength-based research and leadership in Aboriginal communities.

Building Māori and Pacific young people’s well-being and strength through power sharing and sovereignty; working at grassroots and system levels to bring communities together to design their own solutions to socioeconomic challenges.

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.

STEPHINA SALEE

SHONELLA TATIPATA

HOLLY WEIR-TIKAO

Aboriginal cultural coordinator, Bush Heritage Australia

Independent consultant

Project manager, Te Waipounamu Improvement Programme for Uplifting Māori Aspirations in the Hauora Māori Workforce Industry, South Island project

Watson, Australia

Nhulunbuy, Australia

Nelson, New Zealand

Revisiting the past and 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.

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Pursuing collaborative pathways that value the narratives and healing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in solution designs, as a Panai, Wuthathi and Kulkalgal descendant.

Working to achieve intergenerational transformation (“flipping the deficit”) by tackling systemic racism and discrimination in the health system, and returning Indigenous knowledge systems to Māori communities both for them and for generations to come.

Working to get the government to address inequities for tamariki and whа̄ nau Māori (Māori children and families) by genuinely meeting their responsibilities in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, addressing racism and enabling by Māori for Māori solutions.

Atlantic Fellow and Gumbaynggirr man, Christian Lugnan, on Country. He is working on economic self-sustainability for his community.

Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity.

Cohorts from 2018, 2019 and 2021 at a Lifelong Fellows gathering on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne. Credit: James Henry.

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DIRECTORY OF GLOBAL ATLANTIC FELLOWS PROGRAM STAFF

DIRECTORY OF GLOBAL ATLANTIC FELLOWS PROGRAM STAFF

GLORIA AGUIRRE

RONAN BREATHNACH

CIARAN CONNEELY

EOIN COTTER

Community Outreach

Fellow Support, Trinity

Administration & Operations

Learning Experience

gloria.aguirre@gbhi.org

ronan.breathnach@gbhi.org

ciaran.conneely@gbhi.org

eoin.cotter@gbhi.org

Gloria works with underserved and underrepresented populations, supporting brain health through creativity while coordinating the community outreach program at the Memory and Aging Center of the University of California, San Francisco.

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 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 during the start-up 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

AURA DEMARE

ROSALIE GEARHEART

ANNE-MARIE GLYNN

Administration & Operations

Administration & Operations

Administration & Operations

Administration & Operations

amanda.delaney@gbhi.org

aura.demare@gbhi.org

rosalie.gearheart@gbhi.org

anne-marie.glynn@gbhi.org

Amanda supports the deputy executive director and deputy chief operations officer at Trinity College; coordinates local meetings and events, liaises with finance teams and supports program operations.

Aura oversees the pilot award program and supports regional impact efforts, with a particular focus on subawards, contracts, and preparing funding proposals.

Rosalie serves as a senior adviser for the Global Brain Health Institute’s executive committee and senior management team.

Anne-Marie leads on the implementation of the Global Brain Health Institute’s strategy, working in collaboration with the chief operating officer.

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CARMEN HART

BARBARA HEWITT

SHIREEN JAVANDEL

NIALL KAVANAGH

Administration & Operations

Administration & Operations

Regional Impact

Communications

carmen.hart@gbhi.org

barbara.hewitt@gbhi.org

shireen.javandel@gbhi.org

niall.kavanagh@gbhi.org

Carmen works closely with the executive director 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 the financial planning at the Global Brain Health Institute.

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

BRIAN LAWLOR

KAILEY MATEO

MELINDA MATICE

Alumni Relations

Deputy executive director

Monitoring & Evaluation

Learning Experience

camellia.latta@gbhi.org

brian.lawlor@gbhi.org

kailey.mateo@gbhi.org

mindy.matice@gbhi.org

Camellia is responsible for building connections and opportunities to support Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health and strengthen collaboration across the Atlantic Fellows community.

She also leads work on partnerships and arts strategies at Global Brain Health Institute.

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.

Bringing her expertise in education and training, Mindy works with the faculty to design a better classroom and online learning experience for Fellows.

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DIRECTORY OF GLOBAL ATLANTIC FELLOWS PROGRAM STAFF

HELEN MURRAY

ELAINE OLIVEIRA

ANDREW PHILIPOFF

CIARA POWER

Communications

Administration & Operations

Technology

Alumni Relations

helen.murray@gbhi.org

elaine.oliveira@gbhi.org

andrew.philipoff@gbhi.org

ciara.power@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.

Elaine supports administration and operations.

Andrew is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and operation of the program’s systems.

Ciara is responsible for leading relationship and community building to develop a community both across the Global Brain Health Institute and with the wider Atlantic Fellow programs.

CAROLINE PRIOLEAU

KYLE PUSATERI

WINNIE TSOU

VICTOR VALCOUR

Communications

Administration & Operations

Technology

Executive director

caroline.prioleau@gbhi.org

kyle.pustateri@gbhi.org

winnie.tsou@gbhi.org

victor.valcour@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.

Kyle oversees all aspects of operations of the Global Brain Health Institute, working closely with colleagues at Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco.

Winnie brings extensive experience in project management, software development, and web technologies to the program.

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 leverage GBHI and the Atlantic Fellows programs for collective success.

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EVELYN WONG

STACEY YAMAMOTO

Administration & Operations

Monitoring and evaluation

evelyn.wong@gbhi.org

stacey.yamamoto@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.

Stacey is responsible for collecting and analyzing program data to inform continuous improvement efforts while also tracking progress toward organizational impact goals.

Atlantic Fellow Alex Kornhuber documented the impact of COVID-19 on the most marginalized communities in Peru, focusing on the theme of inequity, in a joint project with Atlantic Fellow Maritza Pintado Caipa. Credit: Global Brain Health Institute.

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SELAM BEDADA

JANICE BLANCHARD

GUENEVERE BURKE

LEIGH ANNE BUTLER

Associate program director

Senior Fellows Program Faculty

Program director

Managing director

selam@gwu.edu

jcblancha@gmail.com

guenevere.burke@gmail.com

lbutler@gwu.edu

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 Senior 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.

Leigh Anne is responsible for the management of administration, finance and reporting functions for the Atlantic Fellows for fellowship.

RANDL DENT

SEBLE FREHYWOT

SHADELLE GREGORY

KATE HILTON

Equity Scholar

Online learning director

Logistics coordinator

Online learning director

rbdent@gwu.edu

s.frehywot@atlanticfellows.org

shadelle.gregory@ atlanticfellows.org

k.hilton@atlanticfellows.org

Randl leads the program’s monitoring and evaluation team. As a scholar, she is dedicated to improving access to equitable behavioral health services for Black Americans as well as promoting wellness among undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

Seble is a professor of global health and health policy in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management at The George Washington University. She is director of Health Equity Online Learning for the fellowship.

Shadelle is responsible for handling the operations and logistics for the fellowship program. She manages the event planning for convenings and other team events; and serves the secretary on the Beyond Flexner Alliance Board.

As director of Leadership Online Learning, Kate coaches Fellows in the use of leadership, organizing and change-management methods to advance and sustain health equity.

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OLIVIA JEFFERSON

BETH MECHUM

MOIRA SECREST

JAMAR SLOCUM

Program coordinator

Communications lead

Manager, Sponsored Projects

Program faculty

olijeffer@gwu.edu

bmechum@gwu.edu

Olivia serves as a program coordinator for the fellowship. 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.

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 TUR

SURJIT UPPAL

SHARON WHITE

Research associate

Digital strategist

Research program manager

ttur@gwu.edu

surjituppal@gmail.com

sgwhite@gwu.edu

Tamara is working to develop a strongly connected lifelong community of Senior Fellows. She is the Fellows’ primary point of contact and coordinates their activities.

Surjit is supporting the fellowship to design and develop technology platforms, for improved performance and accessibility for Fellows and staff in operational, pedagogical and business functionality.

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.

jslocum@gwu.edu

Jamar is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at The George Washington University, who practices hospital medicine and serves as faculty for the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity and Beyond Flexner Alliance.

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KIM CRUZ

PIYA HANVORAVONGCHAI

SIRAPRAPA MORRODKUTE

LE NHAN PHUONG

Communications manager

Program director

Program assistant

Executive director

kcruz@cmbfound.org

phanvoravongchai@cmbfound.org

siraprapa.morrodkute@ atlanticfellows.org

ple@cmbfound.org

Kim is responsible for implementing the communications strategy to promote the work of the program and its Fellows for its internal and external audiences.

Piya directs program operations with a specific focus on curriculum development, monitoring and evaluation, communications and partnering.

Siraprapa supports Fellows with online learning and the program’s overall operations.

Phuong leads on the strategic direction of the program and provides executive oversight for operations.

DUONG HOANG QUYEN

MAYTIWA THAVORNPINITTHAM

KANOKRAT THOMTHONG

Program executive qduong@cmbfound.org

Fellows relations manager

k.thomthong@atlanticfellows.org

Office manager

mthavornpinittham@ cmbfound.org

Quyen coordinates the fellowship learning events and the fellowship recruitment and selection process.

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May is in charge of the Fellows community, equity communities beyond the Fellows, and public communications and networking.

Kanokrat (Nok) oversees daily operations and logistics for the program.

Atlantic Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom designs resilient, healthier buildings to tackle pandemics and climate change. Credit: Luke Duggleby.

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NAA ADJORKOR-ADJEI

BABALWA BEJA

LAUREEN BERTIN

CRYSTAL DICKS

Finance director (acting)

Human resources assistant

Executive personal assistant

Programmes director

naa@tekano.org.za

babalwa@tekano.org.za

execpa@tekano.org.za

crystal@tekano.org.za

Naa-Adjorkor oversees the finances of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa program.

Babalwa provides assistance to the human resources manager of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa program.

Laureen hopes to contribute to good governance, accountability, and effectiveness. “The world can be a better place for every being that shares the planet if we collaborate across borders and peoples,” she says.

Crystal Dicks has overall responsibility for the yearlong and lifelong fellowship programs.

PHINDIWE DLULANA

NOMNOTHO GUMEDE

SAVERA KALIDEEN

SIPHOKAZI KONDILE

Programmes administrator

Monitoring, evaluation and learning officer

Lifelong fellowship manager

Finance/Operations administrator

savera@tekano.org.za

siphokazi@tekano.org.za

Savera is responsible for the management of the Senior Fellows program.

Siphokazi is the finance and operations administrator, who is responsible for the procument of goods and services for the program.

phindiwe@tekano.org.za

nomnotho@tekano.org.za

Phindiwe focuses on program administration.

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A problem identifier invested in using meaningful conversations across all social classes to find solutions that will bring equity and social justice to the less privileged in communities.

THEMBISA LUGAGO

BONGANI MASEKO

SIPHOKAZI MTHATHI

THANDOKAZI TABATA

Office assistant

Communications specialist

Interim executive director

thembisa@tekano.org.za

bongani@tekano.org.za

s.mthathi@atlanticfellows.org

Yearlong fellowship manager (acting) thandokazi@tekano.org.za

Thembisa assists with housekeeping duties at the program’s offices.

Bongani is a storyteller committed to using communications and media to tell authentic South African stories that celebrate the beauty of Mzansi and her people.

Siphokazi provides institutional and strategic oversight and leadership of the fellowship to achieve its vision, mission and goals.

Thandokazi is the mainn contact for Fellows and coordinates the Fellows’ activities.

GUGU ZONDI Human resources manager gugu@tekano.org.za

Gugu manages human resources and came to the program with over 20 years of experience.

An Atlantic Meals gathering in Johannesburg, in November 2021, attended by Atlantic Fellows and program staff. Credit: Jodi Windvogel.

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TERRY-ANN GRAY

DARYL HANNAH

SEBABATSO MANOELI

NTOMBIFUTHI MBONGO

Associate director, Finance & Operations

Senior director of narrative strategy

Executive director

Financial assistant

d.hannah@atlanticfellows.org

s.manoeli@atlanticfellows.org

ntombifuthim@nelsonmandela.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.

Daryl oversees strategic communications for narrative change, including media training and media relations support to amplify Fellows’ voices and bring greater attention to their work.

Sebabatso oversees the design, development and implementation of the fellowship experience, the program’s IDEA Labs and scholarship to further support new thinking and collective action.

Ntombi supports financial operations in South Africa, including financial reconciliation and tracking of payments and provides financial reports to inform programs, operations, activities, initiatives, special projects and events.

LAETITIA MBULI

DUPE OYEBOLU

NIGEL RICHARD

NICOLE ROYER

IDEA manager

Communications manager

Fellowship director and facilitator

Program manager

l.mbuli@atlanticfellows.org

m.oyebolu@atlanticfellows.org

n.richard@atlanticfellows.org

n.royer@atlanticfellows.org

Laetitia coordinates all aspects of the fellowship to support a successful experience for Fellows, including implementation of the virtual and immersive retreats and the administration of scholarship payments. She also supports the development of the IDEA Labs, such as the Senior Fellows Institute.

Modupeola (Dupe) manages external communications, including content creation, social media and newsletters.

She also supports narrative change projects across the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, including looking after the literary journal “Moya”.

Nigel leads on leadership development supports for Fellows, including coaching and project development, and he co-facilitates fellowship sessions including both the virtual and immersive retreats.

Nicole is responsible for managing the development and administration of the learning programs and selection processes.

t.gray@atlanticfellows.org

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YASMEEN RUBIDGE

MEREDITH SHIN

AMANDA WEBB

Facilitator

Financial coordinator

Network program coordinator

yasmeen@leadershippathways.co.za

m.shin@atlanticfellows.org

a.webb@atlanticfellows.org

Yasmeen co-facilitates fellowship sessions including both 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.

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 Senior Fellow community-building and funding opportunities.

Atlantic Fellows Regina Holloway, who advances the community’s voice on policing, with film-maker Dylan Valley. Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity.

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ASMAA AKHTAR

EMMA CECCATO

SARA CAMACHO FELIX

FABRICIO MENDES FIALHO

Program manager (global engagement and impact)

Communications manager

Program lead and assistant professorial lecturer

Research officer

e.ceccato@lse.ac.uk

A.Akhtar2@lse.ac.uk

f.mendes-fialho@lse.ac.uk

S.M.Camacho-Felix@lse.ac.uk

Asmaa oversees the lifelong fellowship strategy and programming. Her overarching aim is to ensure that the program’s Senior Fellows are strongly connected to each other, the program and the wider Atlantic community and have access to continuous learning.

Emma is the communications manager for the International Inequalities Institute, which encompasses the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program. She oversees the program’s marketing and communications planning, strategy and activities.

Sara is a practitionerresearcher whose praxis focuses on equitable and reflexive pedagogies in higher education. She is responsible for delivering the academic programming and pedagogy of the active fellowship program.

Fabricio is a research officer and contributes to fellowship curriculum development, teaching and mentoring.

ARMINE ISHKANIAN

GEORGE KUNNATH

AYGEN KURT-DICKSON

SAAGA LEPPÄNEN

Executive director

Research fellow

A.Ishkanian@lse.ac.uk

g.kunnath@lse.ac.uk

Policy fellow (funding and knowledge exchange strategy)

Communications and marketing officer

A.S.Kurt-Dickson@lse.ac.uk

s.leppanen1@lse.ac.uk

Aygen works toward developing and implementing the funding and knowledge exchange strategy for the International Inequalities Institute where the fellowship program is based.

Saaga’s responsibilities include leading on internal and external communications around the program; managing the website, blog, and social media; leading on outreach and marketing; and supporting events.

Armine provides institutional and strategic oversight of the fellowship to achieve its vision, mission and goals, and supports the team to build a powerful and effective program at the heart of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.

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George is a research fellow and contributes to fellowship curriculum development, teaching and mentoring.

SARAH WOOLEY Program and project manager (fellowship experience) s.wooley@lse.ac.uk

Sarah oversees the recruitment and delivery of the fellowship experience, including the application and selection process, onboarding and program delivery and administration, up to the point of completion.

Atlantic Fellows Milanoi Koiyiet and Alon-Lee Green. Credit: Caterina Heeckt.

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AVANAH BRETTSCHNEIDER

NATHAN FIORITTI

SARAH FORTUNA

ELIZABETH MCKINLEY

Administration officer

Communications officer

Operations manager

Executive director

avanah.brettschneider@ unimelb.edu.au

nfioritti@unimelb.edu.au

sarah.fortuna@unimelb.edu.au

elizabeth.mckinley@ unimelb.edu.au

Avanah supports the smooth delivery of the program.

Nathan is responsible for internal and external communications, publicity, social media and the website.

Sarah manages the team’s operations, including strategy, governance, work planning and work flow, resource management, and legal risk.

Elizabeth provides strategic direction, leadership and management of the program, and leads on stakeholder relations.

NIKKI MOODIE

DAVID POLLOCK

SANGITA IYER

AMANDA YOUNG

Program director and deputy director

Program course coordinator

Program support officer

david.pollock@unimelb.edu.au

sangita.iyer@unimelb.edu.au

Partnerships, engagement and communications manager

nikki.moodie@unimelb.edu.au

Nikki is responsible for program team leadership and research translation.

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sangita.iyer@unimelb.edu.au

Dave coordinates academic programming, curriculum design and delivery, and scholarly support for Fellows.

Sangita supports a range of strategic projects for the team, including Fellow selection and Lifelong Fellow engagement. She also provides logistical support for program delivery.

Amanda is building an ecosystem of support to build the impact of Fellows.

SALLY ZANIC Executive coordinator sally.zanic@unimelb.edu.au

Sally provides secretariat support and engagement with the Advisory Board, Pou and Selection Committee, and executive support for the executive and deputy directors.

Atlantic Fellow Jewelz Petley is building Maori and Pacific young people’s well-being. Credit: Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity GLOBAL COMMU N IT Y 2 0 1 6 –2022

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KATHERINE BOND

TANYA CHARLES

ABI DIAMOND

KHALIL GOGA

Partnerships lead

Program and impact lead (Senior Fellow engagement)

Learning and evaluation lead

Associate executive director (Community Engagement, Program and Impact)

katherine.bond@ atlanticfellows.org

abi.diamond@atlanticfellows.org

t.charles@atlanticfellows.org

k.goga@atlanticfellows.org

Katherine is responsible for building effective strategic relationships with valuesaligned organizations to mutually enhance knowledge, capability and impact.

Tanya is responsible for the development and design of programming for both Atlantic program staff and Senior Fellows who are working to challenge various inequities.

Abi leads the design, development and implementation of our strategy and approaches for assessing and amplifying the impact of the global Atlantic community and facilitating knowledge exchange. Her background is in equity of access to education.

Khalil is responsible for the design and implementation of programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff, and the development of a strongly connected lifelong community of action.

MARIA JEFFERY

DAVID MALLINSON

PATRONELLA NQABA

EVIE O’BRIEN

Communications lead

Events and team administrator

Program and impact lead

Executive director

m.jeffery@atlanticfellows.org

d.mallinson@atlanticfellows.org

p.nqaba@atlanticfellows.org

e.obrien@atlanticfellows.org

Maria’s main responsibilities are to create and distribute publications, newsletters, events promotions, Hub content and social media.

Her particular interests lie in how we combat climate change; and ensuring decent living conditions for refugees.

David provides high quality operational support to the Atlantic Institute team to ensure the smooth running of the Institute’s activities.

Patronella has a focus on supporting regional and continental efforts in Africa but is also working to build a strongly connected lifelong global community of Senior Fellows and program staff.

Evie provides overarching strategic and operational leadership to the Institute and promote’s the Institute’s values, vision and mission.

Her background in equtity is in highter education leadership and she is passionate about finding alternative (k)new solutions and making the impossible possible.

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AMANDA ODUKA

KIM OOI

DESIREE PEARCE

SHANJITHA RAJASINGAM

Impact Fund lead

Team coordinator (grants and funding)

Executive assistant

Team coordinator (convenings)

desiree.pearce@atlanticfellows.org

shanjitha.rajasingam@ atlanticfellows.org

amanda.oduka@ atlanticfellows.org

kim.ooi@atlanticfellows.org

Amanda’s role is to design and deliver an exceptional, non-precedent-setting fund for Atlantic Fellows’ collaborative projects, with responsibilities including the design of the fund’s objectives, and application and review processes.

Kim provides high-quality support as coordinator for grants and funding in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff. She has many years of experience in higher education and previously helped promote and manage University of Oxford scholarships.

Desiree coordinates the executive director’s diary, and manages communications on her behalf. She is also secretary to the Atlantic Institute Governing Board.

Shanjitha provides support for convenings and programs in support of the work of Senior Fellows and program staff.

SUKH SANGHERA

JEMMA STRINGER

FIONNUALA SWEENEY

ALICE WROE

Techology platforms lead

Program and impact lead (Innovation and Special Projects)

Multimedia editor

Augmented and virtual realities lead

s.sanghera@atlanticfellows.org

f.sweeney@atlanticfellows.org

jemma.stringer@ atlanticfellows.org

Sukh is responsible for maintaining and developing the Institute’s IT systems, as well as providing technical support and training to fellows and program staff.

Jemma designs and facilitates programs in support of the work of Senior Fellow and program staff, underpinned by critical and inclusive pedagogy.

alice.wroe@atlanticfellows.org

Fionnuala provides editorial guidance to the Institute team and produces multimedia presentations and tools amplifying their work with Senior Fellows.

An Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, she is interested in dementia care.

Alice researches, evaluates, implements and tests new, innovative ways of using emerging technologies for building the Atlantic global community.

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