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Armando Laborde
Armando has been the director of Ashoka Mexico and Central America since 2006. Before joining Ashoka, Armando Laborde was strongly linked to the microfinance movement in Mexico. He was the first Executive Director of ProMujer Mexico from 2002 to 2006 and part of the founding team of FinComun Community Financial Services, where he worked from 1994 to 1999. He was also involved in the fair trade movement by implementing a program for trading coffee in the Biosphere Reserve, El Triunfo, in Chiapas, Mexico. This program, having an environmental, social and economic impact, was developed with the organization Conservation International in alliance with strong trading partners such as Starbucks. Armando is a biochemical engineer and holds an MBA in Business Management from the Instituto Panamericano.
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Darlene Damm
Darlene joined Ashoka in 2007 and works with the Strategic Partnerships Team and Changemakers Team on several initiatives related to technology and social innovation. Prior to Ashoka, Darlene launched Asia Society Young Professionals for the Asia Society Washington Center, developed a service-learning program for an experimental high school in Burma, managed cross-cultural leadership programs for Volunteers in Asia/Stanford University, developed an overseas education program for American teenagers in Vietnam and served as a Fellow with Japan-US Community Education and Exchange in Tokyo. She is a co-founder of the Matternet and founder of DIYRockets.org. She received her bachelor's degree in History from Stanford University, her master's degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and attended the Singularity University in the Silicon Valley.
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Francois Bonnici
Francois is the founding Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. The Bertha Centre has rapidly become the leading academic centre in Africa dedicated to advancing social innovation in Africa. The core approach of the Bertha Centre has been to uncover pioneer connect social innovations and social entrepreneurs that work to generate inclusive opportunities and advance social justice in our country and continent contributing embedding social impact and innovation at the heart of a leading business school.
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Joy Anderson
She leads Criterion Institute which serves as a think tank around shaping markets to create social and environmental good. Criterion houses three field building initiatives, Structure Lab, Women Effect Investments and Church as an Economic Being. Her speaking and thought leadership is focused on the practices of shaping markets, whether that is focused on how the church is both an actor and implicated in the economy, on how legal structures shape the possibilities of enterprises, or a gender lens on investing.
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Laura Tomasko
As a network developer at the Council on Foundations, Laura tracks philanthropic trends and builds relationships with leaders advancing the common good across sectors. In her capacity as network developer, she leads an impact investing initiative and regularly interacts with those interested in the changing landscape of social good. Previously as manager of public-philanthropic partnerships, she built the capacities of federal agencies interested in partnering with foundations. Before joining the Council, her philanthropy experience included operations work at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and grantmaking at the Central New York Community Foundation. At the community foundation, she evaluated grant applications and coordinated a leadership development program for local residents. She gained programmatic development and evaluation experience when she helped launch and manage a youth development program at The Children’s Aid Society in New York City.
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