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Our team has:
- Proven ability to identify patterns and extract valuable insights across social change initiatives nationally and internationally;
- Deep knowledge of the motivations, opportunities, and challenges facing social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs within large social change organizations;
- Experience assessing and supporting organizations working to change systems, both technically and financially;
- Professional experience working with and managing top social entrepreneurial and multinational organizations;
- Extensive practical engagement with a wide range of social change issues, including Democracy, Anti-corruption, Rule of Law, Social Justice, Humanitarian Assistance, Environment, Sustainability, Economic and Rural Development, Health and Nutrition, Youth Empowerment, Gender, and more; and
- Direct personal and professional access to social entrepreneurs globally who can provide valuable advice to design effective social change processes.
Valeria Merino
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Valeria has over 20 years of experience in the social sector, working on democracy, anti-corruption, environment, sustainable development, and social entrepreneurship. Since the age of 17, she has been actively engaged in solving complex social issues associated with the functioning of a healthy democracy, grounded in the rule of law and respect for human rights, and committed to social justice and sustainable development. Her desire for a better democracy led her to study law in Ecuador and pursue an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania. For the last decade, Valeria has engaged hundreds of organizations and social entrepreneurs in four continents, as well as social enterprises advising them and looking for patterns and surfacing insights that could be useful to others in the social change field.
Lucy Perkins
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Lucy’s engagement with systems-change began at a young age, growing up in and then studying the rapid economic development in East and Southeast Asia. At age 19, while at Stanford, Lucy co-founded and then led the Overseas Development Network, a new kind of international, student-based organization that linked US universities with grassroots development entrepreneurs around the world. After receiving her MBA from Wharton, Lucy built bridges across different worlds by guiding investments from the IFC/World Bank and a US$4 billion private equity fund into entrepreneur-led, Asian businesses. Over the last two decades as a VP at Ashoka, Lucy designed and rolled out strategies that enabled Ashoka to double its global presence. She continues to play a role in evaluating top social innovators for membership in the prestigious Ashoka fellowship.