Noah Shachtman
Noah Shachtman is the Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast. A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as Executive Editor for News at Foreign Policy and as a contributing editor at Wired, where he founded the Danger Room blog, which […]
Luis Arias
Things have turned out very different than I expected. I was kicked out of school for being a “misfit”. I finally graduated from high school and studied political science. I worked on various projects and unexpectedly ended being a teacher at a public school in a marginalized area of Bogota. I also ended up getting […]
Rosita Najmi
Rosita Najmi has been a global social and economic development specialist since 2001. At PayPal, Rosita serves as the Global Head of Social Innovation and leads a team that engages PayPal customers, employees, products, and business operations to advance social, economic, and environmental impact. Her portfolio seeks to democratize financial services, improve the financial […]
Joseph Sackor
Mr. Joseph Sackor is the Refugee Congress Honorary Delegate for Pennsylvania and a Senior Systems Analyst at Temple University Hospital. Only two months away from graduating college when war broke out in Liberia, Mr. Sackor and his family were forced to flee to Guinea, before resettling in the U.S. in 1999. During his time in […]
Dr. Raj Panjabi
Dr. Raj Panjabi was appointed by President Joe Biden to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in February 2021. Born in Liberia, Dr. Panjabi settled in the United States after fleeing civil war at age nine. Before joining PMI, Dr. Panjabi served as CEO of Last Mile Health, an award-winning nonprofit he founded in 2007. […]
Angel Ortiz Ricard
Angel Ortiz-Ricard, JD is currently deployed to work in the CDC National Response to Covid 19 as the Vaccine Equity Coordinator within the Vaccine Equity Team, Chief Health Equity Office. For the past 20 years, Mr. Ortiz-Ricard has worked for the Division of HIV Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, TB Prevention, Centers […]
Blake Hounshell
Edna Kane-Williams
As AARP’s Chief Diversity Officer, Edna Kane-Williams has the responsibility for driving AARP’s enterprise Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy encompassing our workforce, workplace and marketplace. She leads strategies for multicultural audiences and the age discrimination strategy work, and will also oversee the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Council and AARP’s Strategic Enterprise Employee Resource Groups […]
Emma Margarita Iriarte Carcamo
Emma Margarita Iriarte, M.D., M.P.H. Emma Iriarte is the Executive Secretary of the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative (SMI)sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Foundation, and the Government of Canada. She is also responsible for the Regional Malaria Elimination Initiative in Mesoamerica and the Dominican Republic (RMEI). She has managed, supervised, and […]
Uzra Zeya
Uzra Zeya, a diplomatic and non-profit leader with over 30 years of international affairs acumen, served as Deputy Lead for the State Department Agency Review Team for the Biden-Harris Transition. From 2019 to 2021, she served as President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a non-partisan global network of 130+ organizations working in 180+ […]
Dr. Mamadi Yilla
Dr. Mamadi Yilla, PhD., is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. government. She is currently the Deputy Coordinator for Multisector Relations in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, which provides oversight for the PEPFAR program. Prior to joining the Dept. of State, Dr. […]