We are excited to share that speakers from the following organizations will be joining us in February!
Alexia Hochschild
Co Founder
Amanatari’s co-founder with experience in the journalistic and editorial sectors, and specialization in international politics. She has years of experience in the audiovisual production sector. Also passionate about conservation, she leads Amanatari in the areas of International Relations, Communication and Sustainability.
Bernardo Sambra
Co Founder and CEO
Bernardo Sambra is a Peruvian expert in human resources and cultural transformation with over 30 years of leadership experience. He held senior roles at organizations like Royal Dutch Shell and served as Corporate Human Resources Director at Credicorp, Peru’s leading financial holding. Bernardo has also been a board member for various institutions. In 2021 he has been recognized as one of Peru’s top 40 business leaders.
In 2022, Bernardo transitioned fully to conservation as CEO and co-founder of Amanatari, a nonprofit empowering Amazonian communities to protect ecosystems. By combining his expertise in organizational leadership with his commitment to nature, he champions innovative, community-driven solutions to environmental challenges. Bernardo is also a conservation photographer and founder of The Living Oceans, with his work showcased at global events like the UN Climate Summit and TEDx.
Reba Dominski
SEVP, Chief Social Responsibility Officer and President, U.S. Bank Foundation
Reba Dominski is senior executive vice president, chief social responsibility officer of U.S. Bancorp and president of the U.S. Bank Foundation. She leads the company’s efforts to maximize social and environmental impact, including ESG, community affairs and engagement, financial education and the Community Reinvestment Act. Dominski joined U.S. Bancorp in June 2015 as president of the U.S. Bank Foundation and senior vice president of corporate social responsibility. She previously spent 21 years with Target Corporation in leadership positions in sourcing, merchandising, merchandise planning and operations before moving to Target’s CSR team, where she served as senior director of education and community relations and led Target’s $1 billion commitment to education.
Dominski serves as the chair of the board of directors for Make-A-Wish America and is a member of the advisory committee of the Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial Equity. She also serves on the board of governors of First Tee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and graduated with honors from the University of Michigan.
Lisa Gutierrez
Director of Business Development, Affordable Housing
Lisa Gutierrez is a Senior Vice President at U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance where she serves as the Director of Business Development for Affordable Housing. In this role, Lisa leads the affordable housing equity, debt, and multi-investor funds originations teams, nationally. Her expertise includes managing low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) and tax-exempt bond business development efforts. Lisa specializes in all types of multifamily housing finance including: LIHTC, tax-exempt bonds, mixed income, market rate and various state and local programs.
Lisa has been with U.S. Bank since 2006, all of which has been in the Affordable Multifamily Housing finance space. As a graduate of California State University Sacramento, B.A. in Public Relations, Lisa is active in the LIHTC industry and currently serves as the board chair for the California Community Reinvestment Corporation (CCRC), board member of the California Housing Consortium, Housing Trust of Silicon Valley, and National Association of Affordable Housing (NAAHL). Lisa was also recently inducted in California Housing Consortium’s, Housing Hall of Fame.
Maggie Monast
Senior Director, Climate-Smart Agriculture
Maggie works with agriculture financial institutions, food and agriculture companies, land grant universities, farmers and more to create an agricultural system that generates climate stability and secure farmer livelihoods. Monast works to quantify the farm financial impacts of climate-smart practice adoption, collaborates with major financial institutions and food companies to develop financial products and other solutions, and identifies policy solutions to facilitate investment and risk management that supports climate-smart agriculture. Maggie has testified to Congress on the agriculture finance sector’s role in reducing climate-related financial risk and serves as co-chair of Field to Market’s Innovative Finance Committee. Read EDF’s reports and blogs on agriculture finance here: https://business.edf.org/farm-finance/.
Maggie began working with EDF in 2011. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Management with a focus on economics from Duke University and a Bachelors in Economics and Political Science from Tufts University.
Christopher Gergen
Chief Growth Officer
Christopher Gergen has over 25 years experience building, scaling, and supporting systems-based solutions in communities globally. With a growing passion for the positive impact that food can have on our local economies, the health of families, and our warming climate, Christopher has been a senior advisor and Chief Growth Officer at 4P Foods to help build out a scalable, sustainable regional food system in the mid-Atlantic. He is the founder of Forward Impact that works with policy makers, philanthropists, investors, and innovators seeking to deploy capital into high-impact scalable systems-based solutions. To date, Forward Impact has helped direct over $30M in public/private capital to place-based systems change efforts.
Christopher graduated with honors from Duke University and has an MPP from George Washington University and an MBA from Georgetown. He currently serves on the Governor’s NC Works Commission in North Carolina and lives with his wife and two children in Durham, NC.
Alison Taylor
Climate Leader in Residence
Alison Taylor is Duke’s newest Climate Leader in Residence, bringing extensive public and private sector experience to the university. Taylor, a Duke alumna, most recently oversaw global sustainability strategy for ADM as one of the longest-tenured chief sustainability officers in the country. Her time at ADM followed more than a decade at the global technology company Siemens, where she occupied a similar role as vice president and chief sustainability officer of the Americas. Prior to joining the corporate world, she served on Capitol Hill for nearly a dozen years as counsel to House and Senate committees.
Tiana Epps-Johnson
Founder and Executive Director
Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute’s Election Administration Director from 2012 to 2015. She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
Tiana is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015). Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
Panelists
Sarah Adair
Managing Director of Public Policy
Sarah Adair is Managing Director of Public Policy at Duke Energy, where she leads the company’s policy strategy and engagement to support the one of the nation’s largest energy transitions while balancing reliability and affordability for customers. She previously held roles leading federal policy related to clean energy technology and electrification as well as environmental affairs and stakeholder engagement in North Carolina. Sarah joined Duke Energy in 2017 from Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (now the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability), where she led research and engagement on climate and energy policy.
Sarah serves of the board of advisors of the Zero Emission Transportation Association and Southeast Hydrogen Energy Alliance. She has also served as a member of the Keystone Energy Board and a 2022 Marshall Memorial Fellow. She holds a master’s degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, “home” is up and down the east coast, including stops in Florida and North Carolina. She and her husband, Charles, now live in Alexandria, Virginia.
David Brown
Faculty Director for EDGE, Fuqua School of Business
David B. Brown is the Snow Family Business Professor in Decision Sciences and the Faculty Director for the Center for Energy, Development and Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Professor Brown’s research focuses on designing and analyzing algorithms for decision problems involving uncertainty and complex tradeoffs. This work is methodological in nature and cuts across various application areas. Professor Brown is actively working with researchers at Duke and several other institutions to improve the efficiency and reliability of electricity grid operations in the face of uncertainty in renewable energy sources. His recent research also includes developing and analyzing solution techniques for problems such as network revenue management, dynamic pricing in shared vehicle systems, stochastic scheduling problems, and sequential search problems. Professor Brown received a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has been on the faculty at Fuqua since receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Dr. Alexis Carpenter
Chief Innovation Officer
Pilar Carvajo Lucena
Chief Innovation Officer
Rony Cepeda Mekosh
Senior Manager
Rony Cepeda Mekosh is a Senior Manager at REDF, a venture philanthropy and impact investing organization that invests in employment social enterprises (ESEs) to create jobs and opportunities for people overcoming barriers to work. Rony helps lead tailored capacity-building services, including due diligence of grantees, to help ESEs become more resilient and strengthen their impact.
Driven by his firsthand experiences with economic inequality while growing up, Rony is passionate about fostering strong communities through innovation and opportunity. He previously worked as a consultant promoting equitable investments in urban education and holds an MBA from Duke University and a B.A. in economics from Harvard. He is a proud previous CASE Fellow and Scholar (class of ’22), as well as having served as a CASE i3 Associate at Fuqua.
Malik Epps
Founder & CEO
Malik Epps is the Founder & CEO of Collective, a subscription network for mission-driven organizations. Prior to founding Collective in 2024, Malik spent 4 years as a growth stage investor at TrueBridge Capital Partners in Chapel Hill, NC. Before TrueBridge, Malik was a researcher at J.P. Morgan in New York City. Malik is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Economics and African American Studies, where he was a member of the Track & Field team.
Carole Hee
Principal Consultant
Carol Hee, PhD is a Principal Consultant and the lead trainer on Anthesis’ North American LCA team. Carol has worked in corporate sustainability for over 15 years as a strategy consultant and expert in life cycle assessment, corporate sustainability strategy, and eco-innovation with experience working for clients in diverse industries and sectors.
Prior to joining Anthesis, Carol served as a professor of environmental strategy and sustainability at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she taught undergraduates, MBA students, and in non degree executive education programs. While at UNC, Carol won two of the university’s most prestigious teaching awards (the Weatherspoon Award and the Johnson Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching), an MBA Teaching All Star Award, and the Page Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Business Education, Carol continues to teach LCA at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Carol earned a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Debbie Kobak
Managing Director
Debbie Kobak is a managing director at Arabella. She works to develop a network of corporate, individual, and institutional philanthropy clients who drive impact on the issues important to them by using the firm’s full platform of consulting and fiscal sponsorship services.
Debbie has subject matter expertise in community and economic development, education, and impact investing. While at Arabella Debbie has worked on multiple engagements with corporations looking to refresh their strategic giving initiatives to create differentiated value, and family and institutional foundations developing new pillars of work across a range of issues including innovative strategies for community reinvestment, climate finance, healthy food production, mental health for teens, outdoor recreation, and faith-aligned impact investing and charitable giving.
Debbie has a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in political science (with honors) and French, and an MA in international development from the American University in Washington, DC.
Jessica Lam
Senior Market Specialist
Jess Lam is the Senior Market Specialist on Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund and brings nearly 15 years of experience in climate change and sustainability. In her role, Jess evaluates, invests, and helps implement scalable climate solutions that both innovate and accelerate decarbonization pathways across energy, industry and natural systems. In addition to her role in venture capital, Jess also supports Microsoft’s technology adoption of low-carbon solutions such as sustainable fuels and low-carbon building materials.
Prior to her role at Microsoft, Jess worked in climate philanthropy, sustainability consulting and non-profit sectors. She earned a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from University of California, Davis.
Brewer Logan
Founder
Brewer Logan is a molecular biologist with extensive research experience in both academic and clinical settings. His career began with novel work on protein characterization related to cancer metastasis. He later consulted on innovations in scalable clinical diagnostic platforms. This work integrated scientific rigor with economic and practical considerations, setting the stage for his transition into sustainability. As the founder of Verenovo Energy, Brewer applies his deep understanding of science and the technology of the biochar sector to the development of patented pyrolysis equipment. His academic and healthcare background equip him to adeptly navigate regulatory landscapes with intellectual honesty.
Beyond his professional endeavors, Brewer is committed to community service, currently serving as the CFO of a non-profit engaged in building a $4.5M campus. Brewer holds a Master of Science degree in molecular biology and is the CEO of Verenovo Energy.
Taylor O'Hara
Senior Consultant
Taylor is a Senior Consultant in Deloitte Consulting’s Sustainability Strategy Offering, where she works with large consumer companies to enhance transparency and accelerate decarbonization efforts throughout the food and agriculture value chain. Taylor helps lead the development of technologies and strategies aimed at commercializing sustainability attributes, which ultimately drive value for both organizational shareholders and stakeholders.
Taylor holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Duke Fuqua. While at Duke, she was the co-president of Fuqua Special Olympics and was heavily was involved with (Energy, Development, and the Global Environment) EDGE center as a teaching assistant and case writer.
Jason Peace
Executive Director
Jason Peace is the Executive Director for Meals on Wheels of Durham, Inc. (MOWD) where he is challenged to develop and lead organizational initiatives involving all constituents and the broader community. Since assuming his position with MOWD, the
organization has successfully navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, increased organizational infrastructure, and enhanced program offerings to serve an increased number of Durham residents. Currently, MOWD provides meals and auxiliary services to more than 550 clients monthly.
Peace received his master’s degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011, along with a certificate in nonprofit leadership. He is also a Clinical Social Worker licensed in North Carolina. He grew up in Durham and attended Northern Durham High School.
Dr. Lee Pearson
CEO & Founder
Dr. Lee Pearson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wovoka, a climate-tech company focused on restoring forests and empowering local communities through nature-based solutions. Before founding Wovoka, Lee led sustainability investments as Head of Market Research at Schneider Electric Ventures, serving on the €500M investment committee, and worked on energy transition strategies at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Lee holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy from Imperial College London, Master’s in Ecological Economics from University of Edinburgh, Master’s in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University.
Azanique Rawl
Global Community & Crew Experience Lead
Azanique leads Vanguard’s embedded community and crew experience with a focus on creating new employee engagement strategies across the business for Vanguard’s 20,000 crew members. Over the past two years, her responsibilities have included cultivating new partnerships to build employee experience journeys, deepening non-profit trust and strengthening Vanguard’s culture of caring through crew powered volunteering programs. Prior to Vanguard, Azanique was based in Austin leading culture and events at a start-up for the business’s US, Japan and Australia markets.
Ryan Sarsfield
Senior Advisor for Biodiversity Markets
Ryan Sarsfield is the Senior Advisor for Biodiversity Markets at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), where he is building a market for biodiversity credits in the U.S. and abroad. This follows many years of work focused on balancing habitat conservation and resource extraction in international land use. Leveraging EPIC’s expertise in wetlands, habitat, and species markets, Ryan collaborates with biodiversity credit developers, investors, and landowners to make investing in nature a reality.
Prior to joining EPIC, Ryan worked at the World Resources Institute, where he led private sector engagement in Latin America for Global Forest Watch (GFW). There, he helped develop GFW Pro, a tool designed for corporate and financial sector users to reduce tropical deforestation, with a focus on soybean and cattle supply chains. His previous experience also includes roles at the Inter-American Development Bank (MIF), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the National Wildlife Federation, and the forest carbon industry.
Ryan holds a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and a Master’s in Environmental Science from the Yale School of the Environment.
Tucker Van Aken
Senior Advisor
Tucker Van Aken is the Senior Advisor at Systemiq, where he helps drive the company’s North America strategy and works with clients across its platforms. Prior to joining Systemiq, Tucker spent four years at McKinsey, where he led climate and natural capital projects across five continents. He advised investors, foundations, national governments, DFIs, NGOs, and developers on growth strategy, financing and investment, operations, and stakeholder engagement. He also led McKinsey’s seminal Nature in the Balance report, which identified actions corporates could take to reduce their impact on nature.
Before McKinsey, Tucker spent four years at Albright Stonebridge Group (now DGA Group), a premier government relations and commercial diplomacy firm founded and led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse and as a Fulbright Scholar researching industrial energy policy in China.
Tucker holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Middlebury College, where he majored in International Politics and Economics and Chinese, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Kelsey Worsham
Co-Founder
Kelsey Worsham is a second-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Co-Founder of Intuition, a mobile app that empowers college students to navigate relationships with self-awareness and intention. Intuition features a journaling tool that uses AI-driven feedback to help users identify healthy patterns and flag potential concerns, fostering healthier relationships.
Before pursuing her MBA, Kelsey built a strong foundation in marketing and operations at early-stage startups, where she developed expertise in scaling businesses and driving growth. At Fuqua, she serves as the co-president of the Association of Women in Business and is actively involved in initiatives promoting gender equity. Kelsey is deeply passionate about advocating for mental health and relationship wellness, both within and beyond the business school community.
Moderators
Mana Caballero
First-Year MBA Candidate
Mariana “Mana” Caballero is a first-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she is an EDGE Impact Scholar. She serves on the Food & Agriculture Club cabinet and the ALMA External Relations committee. Passionate about transforming the food system, Mana is focused on driving innovative solutions that promote a more equitable and sustainable agricultural future.
Before Fuqua, Mana was a Senior Account Manager at Wunderman Thompson, where she worked across industries including Pharma, Tech, and CPG. Her projects ranged from sustainability initiatives and ESG reporting to new product development aimed at reducing packaging waste.
Mana holds a BA in Strategic Communications and Public Relations with a minor in Marketing from American University.
Cathy Clark
Faculty Director of CASE
Ranked #4 most influential academic in business and society, as well as one of the top 20 women in the USA working in philanthropy, social innovation and civic engagement, Cathy Clark has helped define and build the fields of impact investing and social entrepreneurship for over 30 years. She has had significant influence on leadership and market formation around how to use business as a force for good. She is also an award-winning professor who has taught at Duke University, UNC, and Columbia Business Schools, who has brought her experiences as a professional investor, philanthropist, and consultant to her academic work. Her focus: developing the mindsets, tools, markets, policies, and practices to drive social and environmental impact at scale.
Prior to her academic career, Cathy was an impact investor at Flatiron Partners, a grantmaker and PRI investor at the Markle Foundation, and a policy convener at the Aspen Institute. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the University of Virginia, and tweets at @cathyhc.
Maggie Dunn
SBSI Director
Maggie Dunn is a sustainability-focused MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, set to graduate in 2026, with a concentration in water and biodiversity. As the Director of the Sustainable Business and Social Impact (SBSI) event at Duke, Maggie oversees all aspects of this annual conference, from keynote programming to sponsorships. Her work with SBSI reflects her deep commitment to driving sustainable business practices and bringing together diverse stakeholders in the sustainability space.
With a background in Environmental Geography from Colgate University, Maggie has held key roles at Trellis Media (formerly GreenBiz) and Carbon Lighthouse, where she consistently exceeded performance targets. Her expertise includes conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and implementing corporate sustainability strategies. As a LEED Green Associate with proficiency in various sustainability tools, Maggie combines academic knowledge with practical skills, positioning her at the forefront of environmental stewardship and business innovation.
Katie Kross
Managing Director, Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE)
Katie Kross is a sustainability educator, thought leader, and speaker. For 15 years, she has developed and directed educational and extracurricular programs for MBA and MEM/MBA students as the managing director of the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is also the senior editor for the MBA EDGE knowledge platform, co-founder of ClimateCAP, an Advisory Council member for Diversity in Sustainability, and author of Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability
Hannah Hopkins
SBSI Content Co-Lead
Hannah is a first-year MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with over six years of experience in the sustainability strategy space. Before Fuqua, Hannah worked as a Manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Sustainability Strategy & Transformations practice, bringing expertise in carbon commercialization, sustainable food and agriculture, and greenhouse gas quantification methodologies to deliver impactful solutions for large consumer clients.
While at Deloitte, Hannah also served as Product Manager for ClearCarbon™, Deloitte’s SaaS solution designed to help organizations credibly quantify the impact of sustainable interventions at scale while also meeting their climate commitments and revenue goals.
Hannah holds dual degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst: a Bachelor of Business Administration in Operations and Information Management and a Bachelor of Natural Sciences in Environmental Conservation.
Olaitan Jimoh
SBSI Content Co-Lead
Olaitan (Ola) Jimoh is a first-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Throughout her career, Ola has been motivated by a passion for creating equitable solutions that fund and drive meaningful social change. Prior to business school, she served as a Social Impact Senior Specialist at Blue Shield of California, where she managed corporate giving efforts and led nonprofit partnerships and community investments for BlueSky, a signature initiative dedicated to enhancing mental health for California youth. Previously, at the San Francisco Foundation, she contributed to initiatives focused on affordable housing and equitable transportation solutions for diverse communities across the Bay Area. Ola also honed her data analysis and research expertise at a global firm, Guidepoint Global, where she played a role in conducting market research to shape strategic business decisions for various clients.
At Fuqua, Ola continues to hone her passions by, serving as a CASE i3 Impact Investing Associate, a Fuqua on Board member partnering with the Greater Durham Black Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Admissions Cabinet for the Black Business Student Association, and a member of the Net Impact Conference committee. In her free time, Ola enjoys hiking, spending time at the beach, exploring new cuisines as a huge foodie, and attending concerts and live music events.
Lilah Kalfus
Net Impact Club Co-President
Lilah has spent her career to date primarily working in the nonprofit sector and is passionate about finding innovative ways to use business as a force for good. Noticing the disparity in startup funding for minority founders, she joined the founding team of Righteous Causes, a Benefit Corporation that provides human and capital resources to underserved social entrepreneurs. Before business school, Lilah worked at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles where she ran a program that trains young business leaders to expand their capacity for social impact by stewarding them onto nonprofit boards.
A native Midwesterner, she received her B.A. with High Honors in Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan with a concentration in Corporate Social Responsibility. Lilah is pursuing her MBA at Fuqua to strengthen her business toolkit and continue laying the groundwork for her long-term career in social impact.
Tobi Lapite
Second-Year MBA Candidate
Tobi Lapite is a second-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he focuses on the intersection of business, energy, and technology. As an EDGE Impact Scholar, he has deepened his expertise in energy markets and strategy, preparing for a career driving sustainable energy solutions. Before Fuqua, Tobi worked as a project manager at AWS, overseeing substation and data center energy infrastructure. Prior to that, he spent seven years in engineering consulting, designing substations for utilities across the U.S.
Tobi earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Outside of his professional pursuits, he enjoys working out, traveling, and passionately following European soccer.
Lige Nie
SBSI Content Co-Chair
Lige Nie is a first-year MBA student at Duke University, passionate about building a career at the intersection of nature restoration, innovative solutions, and finance. At Fuqua, she serves as an EDGE Impact Scholar, a cabinet member of the MBA Association’s Service & Sustainability committee and the Net Impact Club, and a co-project manager for an FCCP project focused on the biodiversity credit market.
Prior to Fuqua, Lige spent over three years at McKinsey, where she advised leading corporations and investors across Europe, Canada, and the U.S. on sustainability-related topics. Her work spanned diverse areas, including energy transition, sustainable foods, biofuels, zero- and low-carbon materials, climate insurance, electrification, and carbon capture and utilization. Lige earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), majoring in Finance with a focus on equity research and investment banking.
Gerard Pozzi
Net Impact Club Co-President
Gerard Pozzi is a second-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he is deeply focused on the intersection of business and sustainability. At Fuqua, Gerard serves as an EDGE Impact Scholar, COLE Fellow, and CASE i3 MBA Associate, while also co-leading the Net Impact Club as its Co-President.
Before joining Fuqua, Gerard worked at the World Resources Institute, collaborating with companies, universities, hospitals, and cities to reduce the climate impact of their food services. During the summer between his first and second year, he gained hands-on experience as a Sustainable Operations Graduate Intern at Nike, where he focused on innovative solutions for tackling post-consumer textile waste.
Gerard earned his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Biology. Outside of his professional pursuits, he enjoys long-distance bicycle touring and crafting wood-fired pizza.
Kaylin Raby
SBSI Content Co-Chair
Kaylin Raby is a first-year MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she is an EDGE Impact Scholar, Duke Capital Partners Associate, Program Development Lead for Oceans@Duke, and SBSI Content Co-Chair for the NetImpact Club.
Before Fuqua, Kaylin was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, developing the newly established Sustainability, Climate, and Equity practice. Prior to that role, she designed and implemented public-assistance tech systems, and advised social impact startups and nonprofits on expansion and other strategic goals. During her undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, Kaylin received a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering with minors in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Mathematics, and founded a nonprofit dedicated to advancing underserved students’ access to higher education.
Matias Voto-Bernales
Latin American Student Association Co-President
Matias Voto-Bernales is a fintech innovator and product leader with a track record of driving impactful digital solutions. At Credicorp, he spearheaded the launch of iO, a digital bank, leading two technical squads to develop cutting-edge digital credit products. Previously, he founded a B2B SaaS startup backed by Peru’s Ministry of Production, serving industry leaders across the region. Currently pursuing his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Impact Scholar, Matias recently interned at BCG’s Technology & Digital Advantage practice in San Francisco, focusing on AI and GenAI applications in financial services.
Erin Worsham
Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
Erin is the Executive Director of the award-winning CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. In her role at CASE, Erin leads the development and execution of center strategy, establishes relationships with key constituents, oversees operations and programs and contributes to thought leadership on social entrepreneurship.
Prior to Fuqua, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including consulting with government and nonprofit clients at Booz Allen Hamilton, helping to develop public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank, and working for a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Erin was recognized as a “40 under 40” awardee by the Triangle Business Journal in 2014. You can follow Erin on Twitter @ErinWorsham.
