Ivelyse Andino dares to imagine and create the future of health for the people. Ivelyse Andino is a visionary healthcare abolitionist and health equity strategist building community at the intersection of health, equity, and tech. Ivelyse is using her platform to advocate for comprehensive healthcare fluency: an original concept created to bridge the gap between systemically marginalized communities and the medical system as we know it today. Ivelyse’s mission is to engage, equip, and empower all people to understand and advocate for their health.

She plays an imperative role as the founder and CEO of Radical Health, the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in NYC, that is building community at the intersection of health, equity, and tech. Since 2012, Radical Health has worked to activate healthcare’s most historically silenced, ignored, and underserved communities by pairing indigenous restorative circle practices with cutting-edge, person-centered innovation and technology.

Ivelyse is a former commissioner at the NYC Commission on Gender Equity and serves on the board of BX (Re)Birth Collective, an advocacy organization that builds alternate solutions to protect birthing people in the Bronx. Ivelyse is also an external advisor for the American Medical Association’s Equity and Innovation Board.

Sara Horowitz is the founder and a former Executive Director of Freelancers Union. She has been an innovative leading voice of the growing freelance economy, creating solutions for the new workforce for over two decades. Sara founded Freelancers Union in 1995 and is now the CEO of Trupo. Trupo is building a new way to protect the freelance workforce by creating curated benefits packages just as an HR department does for full-timers. Freelancers Union is a partner and part-owner of Trupo, so Trupo’s growth will help fund freelancer advocacy initiatives for years to come.

Sara recognized early on the vital role independent workers would play in our networked, interconnected world. In 1995, she used her experience as a union organizer to found Freelancers Union, which promotes the needs of the independent workforce through advocacy, education, and community.  Today, 56.7 million Americans freelance (about one-third of the entire workforce).  

In 2008, Sara launched Freelancers Insurance Company, the first portable benefits model for freelancers, providing independent workers with high-quality, affordable, and portable health insurance. The union’s National Benefits Platform, launched in 2014, helps freelancers across America access benefits, including retirement, life, liability, dental and disability insurance.

Sara was the Chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, was recognized as one of the World Economic Forum’s 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow, and was selected as one of the 2015 “POLITICO 50” — the magazine’s marquee annual list of thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics.

Sara is also a highly regarded writer who maintains a rigorous speaking schedule all over the world.  She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, The Atlantic and Fast Company; PBS’ NOW and NewsHour programs, and National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” and “All Things Considered.” Her book, The Freelancer’s Bible (Workman Publishing Company) was named one of Forbes’ “Best Books to Boost Your Career.”

The daughter of a labor lawyer and granddaughter of a former vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, she is also the recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Award for her contribution in building the labor movement for gig workers.

Sara is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, NY.

Ram Mahalingam is a cultural psychologist, award-winning researcher, teacher, mentor, artist, and filmmaker. Ram developed a social justice-focused mindfulness
framework, Mindful Mindset, foregrounding Dignity. His current research concerns nurturing a caring and compassionate workplace that treats its workers with Dignity. Ram is committed to developing passionate leaders with a mindful commitment to promoting workplace dignity and well-being. His research examines Dignity in three organizational contexts: (a) Janitors and cleaning; (b) Dignity in Healthcare settings; and (c) Dignity, Gender, and Technology. In addition to several journal articles, he co-edited/edited two books – Multicultural Curriculum: New Directions for Social Theory, Practice, and Policy (Routledge) and Cultural Psychology of Immigrants (Psychology Press). He has won several awards for his research, teaching, and mentoring. Recently, he received the Harold R. Johnson award from the University of Michigan for his leadership and outstanding contribution to the DEI mission of the University. He also received an American Psychological Association (Division 5, Methods) award for his Distinguished Contribution to Qualitative Inquiry in Teaching and Mentoring. He is the Director of the Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) and the Barger Leadership Institute Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At BLI, Ram developed a Mindful Leadership program for undergraduates. Ram also developed a Global Mindful Peace Leadership program for BLI students to create a personal vision and commitment to personal and global peace by listening to the personal narratives of Hibakushas and Peace activists from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ram is also an award-winning filmmaker. He practices Sumie-a and was a major collaborator on a multimedia art installation — Being Brown in Michigan: Narratives of South Asians - at the University of Michigan.

Yvonne L. Moore is the Founder and Managing Director at Moore Philanthropy, and President of partner organization, Moore Impact. She brings over 25 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors to her work in providing strategic and tailored philanthropic advisement and solutions to families, individuals, and institutions. 

A PhD from Case Western Reserve University, USA, and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK, Dr Simy Joy’s research focuses on social innovations and entrepreneurship at the margins. She is a co-editor of the book ‘Socio-tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good’ and co-author of the book ‘Being an Impact Champion: Enacting corporate social consciousness’. Her latest co-edited volume ‘Managing for social justice: Harnessing management theory & practice for collective good’ is due to be released by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2023. Previously she worked in the Indian finance sector and served as a faculty member at University of East Anglia, UK and as a Faculty Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India. She is a founding member of the Center of Excellence for Social Innovation (CESI) at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India.

Dr. Poonamallee is a tenured Associate Professor of Management & Social Innovation and Chair of the Faculty of Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment & School of Undergraduate Studies, and a University Fellow at The New School. Her areas of research, Socio-Tech Innovation and Mindfulness and Contemplative Engagement, focus on how management, organizations, and leadership can be vehicles to create a more sustainable, prosperous, just, and equitable world. She is the founder of the Management and Social Justice Conversation Series, the Editor in Chief of the Society of Advancement of Management Journal, and the co-founder and Chairperson of In-Med Prognostics, a neuroscience firm that uses AI and Deep Tech to develop brain health predictive analytics.

As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact measurement activities in her roles as Senior Vice President of Programs and Chief Impact Officer.

Prior to joining GHC, Heather was Vice President at Global Health Strategies, an international advocacy and communications consulting firm. She managed a portfolio of public and private sector clients, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Women Deliver and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Heather previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Planned Parenthood Global in Washington D.C. Additionally, she spent time in Ethiopia establishing a youth program for EngenderHealth. Before joining the global health community, Heather spent six years at Accenture, a management consulting firm. She holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. Heather lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Sujatha Jesudason, Ph.D., has worked as an activist, organizer, and scholar for over 25 years in a range of social justice movements. She is a leading voice on new practices in movement building, social design and equity, the ethics of reproductive genetics, and gender and racial inclusion. As Professor of Professional Practice in Management at the Milano School, Sujatha focuses on innovative approaches to social justice and start-up nonprofit leadership and management. While always appreciative of and learning from the past, she is on a mission to understand and replicate the enabling conditions for leaders to experiment with new approaches to social justice. Working at the intersection of design, innovation, and social justice, Sujatha is building curriculum and programs to support leaders to reimagine social movement tactics and strategies. 

Sujatha has worked skillfully with a wide and diverse range of leaders, community members, activists, scholars, researchers, and academics, listening for patterns and trends in order to challenge their habitual ways of approaching large-scale social change and creatively innovate in order to do things differently. She holds a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.