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  • Elena Pons Conforto
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    Social Activist. Associate, Opportunity Collaboration. 

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    Social Activist San Francisco, California
  • Ona Porter
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    Executive Director, Community Action New Mexico. Author, Kids In Crisis: New Mexico's Other Bomb, The Effects of Power and Powerlessness on Our Lives, First Things First: Caring for Preschool New Mexico, Discovering What Families Need, and From Here To There: The WorkBook For Families On The Move.

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    Executive Director Community Action New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Andrew Posner
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    Co-Founder and Executive Director, Capital Good Fund. Member, Board of Directors, Association for Enterprise Opportunity.

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    "...to create a poverty-free, inclusive green economy through innovative microfinance. We provide loans and technical assistance to individuals unable to access capital through traditional sources."

    Executive Director Capital Good Fund Providence, Rhode Island
  • Cynthia Powell
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    Principal, CP Knowhow LLC. Former Public Relations Director, U.S. News & World Report. Former Peace Corps volunteer, Niger.

    Mission

    "...assists clients in building a public relations presence."

    Principal CP Knowhow LLC Washington, DC
  • Timothy Prestero
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    Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Design that Matters. Board Member, Dimensional Photonics, Inc.

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    "...create new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly."

    Chief Executive Officer Design that Matters Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Gerhard Pries
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    Founding President, Sarona Asset Management. Chief Financial Officer, Mennonite Economic Development Associates. Founding Director and Vice Chair, MicroVest Capital Management Group.

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     "...faith-oriented business owners, executives and leaders are able to integrate their life values with business in practical ways to help the poor. They are committed to using their faith and abilities in their businesses, communities, and around the world."

    President Sarona Asset Management, Inc Waterloo, Ontario Canada
  • Terry Provance
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    Executive Director, Oikocredit USA.

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    "...one of the world’s largest sources of private funding to the microfinance sector. We also provide credit to trade cooperatives, fair trade organizations and small-to-medium enterprises in the developing world."

    Executive Director Oikocredit USA Washington, DC
  • Sasha Rabsey
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    President, The How Fund.

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    President The How Fund Orinda, California
  • Erik Ramirez-Ruiz
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    Chief of Global Strategy, NCCEP-Mexico. Founder, IDE Group. Advisor, Causa.org. Former Director, International Operations, The Washington Center.

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    Chief, Global Strategy NCCEP-Mexico Monterrey, Mexico
  • Lucy Reckseit
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    General Counsel, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (company nominee, BIO Humanitarian Award 2009; and featured company, Clinton Global Initiative 2008); Director, Outreach and Alliance Development, MicroCredit Enterprises; Member, Microfinance Council of Counsels; Member, Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM).

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    General Counsel Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. San Mateo, California
  • Florence Reed
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    Founder & President, Sustainable Harvest International. Peace Corps Volunteer, Panama. Recipient: Yves Rocher Women of the Earth Award; Etown E-chievement Award.


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    "....to provide farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring our planet's tropical forests."

    President Sustainable Harvest International Surry, Maine
  • Mohammed Rezwan
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    Founder and Executive Director, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha. Founder and Chairman, Rez_Arc. Founding Editor, Shidhulai-Newsletter. Recipient: U.N. SEED Award; Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy; U.N. Equator Prize; Access to Learning Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Global Junior Challenge Award of the Municipality of Rome.

    Mission

     "...to improve quality of life in northern Bangladesh watersheds by taking services to the people by boats. These services include children’s education, libraries, training on sustainable agriculture, healthcare, adaptation strategies for climate change, waste management, computer education and Internet access."

    Executive Director Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • James Richardson
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    Founder & Executive Director, National Rural Funders Collaborative. Former Senior Vice Presidejnt, Community Development Banking, Bank of America.

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    “…a collaborative philanthropic initiative organized to expand resources for families and communities in regions of persistent poverty, especially areas where concentrations of poverty and communities of color overlap….poverty is often a factor of race, class, culture, and power dynamics that are linked and concentrated and that the reinvention of rural economies is fundamental to eliminating rural poverty and effecting long-term transformative change in rural America.”

    Executive Director National Rural Funders Collaborative Dallas, Texas
  • Regina Starr Ridley
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    Publishing Director, Stanford Social Innovation Review. Former Group President, CMP Media. Chair, Board of Directors, Friends of Timboni Feeder School, Kenya.

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    Publishing Director Stanford Social Innovation Review Stanford, California
  • Jose "Oying" Rimon
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    Senior Program Officer, Global Health Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Former Senior Deputy Director and Former Director, Health Communication Partnership, Center for Communication Programs, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Recipient: Parvin Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

    Mission

     "...to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, we focus on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, we seek to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life."

    Senior Program Officer, Global Health Policy & Advocacy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, Washington
  • Jane Roberts
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    Co-Founder, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA. Author, 34 Million Friends of the Women of the World. 34 Million Friends. Recipient: Purpose Prize Fellow; Woman of the Year, MS Magazine; Special Recognition Award, Population, Reproductive Health and Family Planning Division, American Public Health Association.

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    Co-Founder 34 Million Friends of UNFPA Redlands, California
  • Christine Robinson
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    President, Stillwaters Consulting. Former Chair, Board of Directors, Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families. Former Director, Division of School Age and Adolescent Health, Massachusetts. Co-Founder, Early Childhood Funders Group. Co-Founder, Capital Area Assets Building Corporation (Washington, DC).

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    President Stillwaters Consulting Natick, Massachusetts
  • Harold Rosen
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    Executive Director, Grassroots Business Fund.

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    "...to build and support high-impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to thousands of people at the base of the economic pyramid. GBF provides these organizations with appropriate financing and targeted technical assistance to enable them to become catalysts for economic growth and social enhancement among the poor in the developing world."

    Executive Director Grassroots Business Fund Washington, DC
  • Bess Rothenberg
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    Director of Grants, American Jewish World Service.

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    Director of Grants American Jewish World Service New York, New York
  • Ananya Roy
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    Education Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley. Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, U.C. Berkeley. Co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center. Author, City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty and Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Frontiers of Millennial Development. Author, Poverty Capital.

    Mission

    "...links world-class faculty, inspiring new curriculum, and innovative technologies, services and business models to create real-world solutions for developing economies. We educate students, build partnerships, and rigorously evaluate our innovations in order to create scalable and sustainable contributions toward the alleviation of poverty."

    Education Director Blum Center for Developing Economies Berkeley, California
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