Our Team

We’ve taken many different paths to Changemakers, but we share a common purpose: to make social change happen and have fun while we’re doing it.

The Ashoka Changemakers^® team works from locations around the world including the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, England, the Netherlands, Senegal, South Africa, India, and Indonesia.

If you are interested in joining the Changemakers team, please see our

Careers at Changemakers

Advisory Group

Anousheh Ansari

CEO

Prodea

Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX, USA

Peter Goldmark

Global Council Chairman

Ashoka Changemakers

New York, NY, USA

Dr. Tara Thiagarajan

Chairman and Managing Director

Madura Microfinance

Washington, DC, USA

Learn more about us and see what we're up to – or see us on video:

Dennis Whittle Leadership Group Member Washington, DC, USA Sushmita Ghosh Founder Calcutta, India Aditi Shekar Executive Partner Washington, DC, USA Darlene Damm Director of Integration Mountain View, CA, USA Community Kris Herbst Director of Community Washington, DC, USA Leandro Asensos Market Manager - Spanish Buenos Aires, Argentina Tsega Belachew Digital Media Strategy Washington, DC, USA Sonia Bianchi Media Manager* Vancouver, BC, Canada Luana Botelho Community Mobilizer* Johannesburg, South Africa Isabela Carvalho Community Mobilizer* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Consultant to Ashoka

Carolyn Concepcion Community Mobilizer* New York City, USA Whitney Conti Graphic Designer* Washington, DC, USA Eveline Community Mobilizer* Bandung, Indonesia Diana Iovescu Creative Manager* London, England Nanzia Mbaga Community Mobilizer* New York City, USA Supriya Mukherjee Community Mobilizer* Delhi, India Sobel Ngom Community Mobilizer* Dakar, Senegal Thienvinh Nguyen Community Mobilizer* London, England Juan Carlos Ospino Senior Creative Strategist* Vancouver, BC, Canada Lauren Parnell Marino Mobilization Manager Washington, DC, USA Indrani Sharma Community Manager* Delhi, India

John Townsend Writer and Media Mobilizer* Washington, DC, USA Marzena Zukowska Media Manager* Washington, D.C., USA Operations Stephane de Messieres Director of Operations Washington, DC, USA Alex Beyard Project Manager* New York, NY, USA Emily Bosland Senior Project Manager Washington, DC, USA Alison Grubbs Operations Associate Washington, DC, USA Olivia Khalili Senior Project Manager San Francisco, CA, USA Cynthia McKinney Drayton Senior Project Manager Valley Forge, PA, USA Sudeep Poudel Finance Manager Washington, DC, USA Smita Satiani Project Manager* Washington, DC, USA

Tim Scheu Senior Project Manager Tampa, FL, USA Partnerships Jessica Feingold Senior Partnerships Manager Washington, DC, USA Adam Pumm Partnerships Associate Washington, DC, USA Product Sachin Malhan Director of Product Washington, DC, USA Christopher Heald Director of Technology Vancouver, BC, Canada Dani Matielo Technology and Community Manager São Paulo, SP, Brazil Rareș Pamfil Research Analyst Washington, DC, USA Reem Rahman Design and Knowledge Manager Washington, DC, USA Leland Smith Technology Analyst* Ft. Collins, CO, USA

What kind of people are we? Our Changemakers team culture is:

Passionate
Committed:

• to social change / the world’s changemakers
• to open sourcing / an open platform

Inquisitive
Sharp intellect
We apply a unique lens to social innovation trends. Inquisitive: we dig deep into engagement with our partners and the other members of our community.

Optimistic
Innovative, creative, visionary
We envision new ways to build and serve markets. We look to the future and try to get there ASAP. We believe there is a solution, even if we don’t know the answer just yet.

Collaborative
We work together as a versatile team of teams to create something bigger and better than we could alone. We bring partners and innovators together to open source and crowd source a world of innovative ideas.

Restless
Ambitious, disruptive, skeptical, self-aware
We challenge the status quo through constant iteration—defining and redefining. We run a skunkworks, constantly prototyping and accepting occasional failure as the price of creative success. We give ourselves permission to take on the impossible.

Unflappable
Fearless, resilient, confident
We’re still here, taking chances and risks on big new things. Doesn’t phase us!

Empathetic
Authentic, trusting, loyal, compassionate
We give each other the benefit of the doubt and suspend disbelief to build team cohesion and paddle in the same direction.

Spicy
Quirky, playful
Our potted ball colleagues, coffee club, daily meme, love/hate relationship with jargon, social-happy hour, twitter game.

Global
We work together from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, building grassroots strategies that fit our diverse cultures, mobilizing, and connecting ideas and resources from all over the world.