Krishna Patel
Krishna R. Patel currently serves as General Counsel and Director of Justice Initiatives at Grace Farms Foundation, a private operating foundation located in New Canaan, Connecticut. In her role as the Justice Initiative Director, Krishna is an active strategist combating human trafficking on the global, national, and state levels. Across a distinguished legal career spanning over fifteen […]
Anh Nguyen
With over 20 years of private and public sector experience, Anh is responsible for overseeing IOM’s global approach to the protection and assistance of migrants, including programing on IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) and Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants (AVM). AVM addresses the issue of human trafficking, children on the move, and marginalized and […]
Jenn Morris
Jenn is the Chief Executive Officer of Walk Free at the Minderoo Foundation. In this role, she is leading the Bali Process Government and Business Forum with Andrew Forrest, working with the Foreign Ministers across 45 countries in the Indo-Pacific region and the most senior and influential business leaders to eradicate modern slavery. Jenn is […]
Abby McGill
Abby McGill has been ILRF’s Campaigns Director since September 2013. She is responsible for coordinating campaigns around labor exploitation in globally-traded agricultural commodities. Her current campaigns include cotton from Uzbekistan, seafood from Thailand, tobacco from Malawi, palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia, and cocoa from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to ILRF, Abby worked for […]
Marika Sine
Marika is currently the Global Vice President of Sustainability at Mars. In her previous role as Vice President of Global Human Rights at Mars, Incorporated, Marika led global human rights strategy, policy, and governance. Marika is also currently leading the Thriving People pillar of the global Mars Sustainable in a Generation Plan, which is focused […]
Peter McAllister
Peter McAllister has spent more than 20 years engaged in international development and rights-based initiatives around the world. He is the Executive Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), a groundbreaking alliance of companies, trade unions, and voluntary organizations that works in partnership to improve the working lives of poor and vulnerable people across the […]
Shawn MacDonald
Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that works with businesses to promote workers’ rights and other sustainability goals in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy. Before his appointment as CEO in 2016, Shawn had led Verité’s research, program, and policy work since 2003. Shawn has broad […]
Kenneth Kennedy
Kenneth Kennedy started his federal career almost thirty years ago when he began working at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow processing refugee applicants from the Soviet Union under the Lautenberg Amendment. After that, he spent over twenty years as a Federal Agent working on national security investigations, and later as his agency’s representative to the […]
David Segall
David Segall is a Policy Associate with the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, where he focuses on the recruitment and migration of construction workers from South Asia to the Arabian Gulf, and on human rights in the fishing industry. From 2012 to 2015, David directed the Human Rights in Iran Unit at […]
Adva Saldinger
Adva Saldinger is an associate editor at Devex, where she covers the intersection of business and international development as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. From partnerships, to trade and social entrepreneurship, to impact investing, she enjoys exploring the role the private sector and private capital play in development. A journalist with more than 10 […]
Congressman Dwight Evans
One of five children, Congressman Dwight Evans grew up in North Philadelphia and today lives just blocks from his alma mater, Germantown High School. In 1980, at the age of 26, Congressman Evans was first elected State Representative from the 203rd Legislative District. In the State Legislature he earned a reputation as a pragmatic […]