Climate Resilience Lab Network

Ned Breslin is the CEO of Water For People, a water and sanitation nonprofit that tests unique implementation models in 11 countries around the world and challenges sector norms.

Adam Day is a Senior Portfolio Manager at the Nike Foundation where he oversees investment strategy, research and performance measurement.

Peter Durand uses visual learning in collaborative strategy and design situations to accelerate change. Since 2004, he has served as the house artist and graphic recorder at the PopTech conference.

Heather Fleming is a designer, engineer, and entrepreneur motivated by social inequality. She is Co-founder and CEO of Catapult Design, a San Francisco firm that aims to make design and technical capacity accessible to entrepreneurs and organizations working within disadvantaged communities.

C.D. Glin joined the Rockefeller Foundation in July 2011, as associate director based in the Africa Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya, Glin, where he supports and leads the development and execution of several initiatives.

Rose Goslinga leads the Syngenta Foundation’s Kilimo Salama, the first micro-insurance product available to smallholder Kenyan farmers.

Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the new Masters Program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York and founder of Heller Communication. She is a pioneering communication designer, business strategist and mentor to some of the world’s most exciting social entrepreneurs. Cheryl serves as the Chair of the PopTech Board.

Erik Hersman is an innovator and technologist focused on advancing the use of technology as an empowerment tool in the developing world.

Kippy Joseph works on innovation at the Rockefeller Foundation, supporting an integrated approach of grant-making and internal capability-building.

Nancy Karanja is a professor in soil ecology at the University of Nairobi. She has led a number of studies on nutrient harvesting from urban organic waste, reuse of urban wastewater for vegetable production, and assessment of health risks associated with urban livestock systems.

Margaret Kroma is the fellowship manager and science coordinator of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) project managed by the Gender and Diversity Program of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Jonathan Ledgard is a leading contemporary thinker on political risk, security, technology, and conservation in emerging markets. He is East Africa correspondent for The Economist, as well as an international bestselling novelist.

Saquina Mucavele is the Executive Director of MuGeDe — Mulher, Genero e Desenvolvimento (Women, Gender and Development), a non-profit organization based in Mozambique, with a focus on sustainability, rural development and gender, especially as related to climate change.

Janot Mendler de Suarez is a founding member of the Games for a New Climate Task Force at Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, serves on the Council of Advisors for the Collaborative Institute on Oceans Climate and Security at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and co-chairs the Global Oceans Forum Working Group on Oceans and Climate.

Megan White Mukuria founded ZanaAfrica to address root causes of gender inequality throughout Africa. ZanaAfrica’s initiatives provide sustainable, scalable, and data-driven ways to improve the lives of girls.

Michelle Nambiro is a Nairobi-based journalist for Africa 24 Media and the Communication Coordinator for the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change-Kenya, an organization that brings youth together in the pursuit of a better green environment and sustainable development.

Teresiah Ng’ang’a's work focuses on human perceptions, participation and decision making processes centred on agricultural technology, policy innovations for sustainable development and climate change adaptation technologies.

Nancy Njeri is a Nairobi-based journalist and acting personal assistant to the co-coordinator of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change-Regional and a member of Africa Youth Initiative on Climate Change-Kenya.

Robert Neuwirth‘s eye-opening new book Stealth of Nations chronicles the global rise of the informal economy.

Bell Okello is rural development specialist with focus on Gender and Agriculture, whose work has covered Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.

Gustav Praekelt is a digital entrepreneur, an obsessive technologist and the CEO and founder of the Praekelt Foundation, which develops mobile products for emerging markets.

Joni Seager is a scholar and activist in feminist geography, global environmental policy including climate change, gender equity measurement and gender audits of institutions towards gender mainstreaming. She is the author of The State of Women in the World Atlas, as well as a professor of Global Studies at Bentley University in Boston, MA.

Kevin Starr directs the Mulago Foundation and is the founder and director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program. Mulago spends its money to drive forward the most promising ideas in health, development, and conservation in poor countries.

Pablo Suarez is associate director of programs for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, and a consultant for Oxfam America. He works with over twenty international humanitarian and development organizations, including the United Nations, to addresses institutional integration across disciplines and geographic scales, and the use of innovative tools for climate risk management.

Elena Villalobos is a technical officer at the World Health Organization, Climate Change and Health Unit. Her work focuses on capacity development, with gender as the focal point, and she is currently developing a training manual on gender mainstreaming in health adaptation to climate change programmes.

Eunice Stella Warue is a specialist in environmental health, working on the community level around issues surrounding gender mainstreaming, water hygiene and sanitation, community training and governance. Warue works to empower women to address the effects of, and adapt to the many impacts of climate change.