DEAN PEACOCK (Co-Chair)

Over the last three decades, Dean Peacock has worked in South Africa, across Africa, the Americas, and globally, to prevent violence, promote peace, and advance gender equality and human rights. 

Dean has founded and directed many ground-breaking local, national, and global initiatives, and has built strong civil society organisations and alliances. These have used a combination of research, academic partnerships, strategic litigation, policy advocacy, and community mobilization to win changes in national laws in South Africa, and contribute to important paradigmatic and programmatic changes within civil society, governments, the United Nations, and amongst bilateral donors.

He is currently the director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s multi-country initiative to mobilise men for feminist peace. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer and BRIDGES PhD Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health, a Visiting Scholar at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, a Senior Fellow at Promundo, and an Ashoka Changemaker Fellow. He was short-listed for the 2019 Skoll award for entrepreneurship. He is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Sonke Gender Justice, a multi-award winning South African NGO working in twenty-five countries across Africa, and the Co-Founder and former Co-Chair of the MenEngage Alliance, now active in over seventy countries around the world. 

Dean has an Honors Degree in Development Studies from UC Berkeley, a Masters in Social Welfare from San Francisco State University, and is a candidate for a PhD in Public Health at the University of Cape Town. 

MOITREYEE SINHA (CO-CHAIR)

Moitreyee Sinha is the CEO and Founder of citiesRISE, a global multi-stakeholder initiative on mental health. Before citiesRise, Moitreyee built the Beyond Health portfolio at the Global Development Incubator (GDI) to bring together social entrepreneurs and large institutions to address the root causes and complex interdependencies that stand in the way of healthy communities. 

Moitreyee brings extensive experience in shaping multi-stakeholder initiatives on development issues at the crossroads of public, private and philanthropic sectors. She also led GE Foundation’s global health portfolio in 22 countries and shaped national programs for critical care for children, maternal child health, clean water, ICT, humanitarian relief and education. 

She has extensive experience working across platforms related to children and young people globally. She has served as advisor to UNICEF’s Children’s Rights to Business, and helped shape UNICEF Innovation’s partnership development with the private sector.

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Laura chyu

Laura Chyu, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of San Francisco. As a health demographer, she studies how social contexts and chronic stressors are embodied physiologically and shape women’s health over the life course. She is also interested in the effects of positive and adverse childhood experiences on physical and mental health later in life. Dr. Chyu has taught extensively at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has developed and evaluated community-based initiatives for health equity and social impact. Her work has been featured in several leading academic journals, including Social Science & Medicine, Women’s Health Issues, Biodemography and Social Biology, and Psychosomatic Medicine. She completed her Ph.D. in Public Health at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and also holds degrees in Anthropological Sciences (M.A.) and Human Biology (B.A.) from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cells to Society Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.

AMAKA DIKE, CPA (Treasurer)

Amaka Dike is a Principal at The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm that engages in multi-product global alternative asset management, investing across segments including private equity, real assets, global credit, and investment solutions. Prior to joining Carlyle, she held the position of Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, a “Big 4” accounting firm, overseeing audits of various public and private financial service companies. With over 14 years of experience, she is well versed in financial management and oversight.

Amaka has served in various capacities in non-profit organizations including roles as Treasurer and Financial Secretary. Her charitable interests include improving educational opportunities in the lives of impoverished children around the world, particularly in Africa.

Amaka holds a master’s degree in financial economics from Kent State University and a B.Sc. in Business Administration (Accounting) from West Virginia University. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the States of West Virginia and Texas.

ANUOLUWA ISHOLA

Anuoluwa Ishola is the Director of Operations at Women’s Impact Alliance, a place for women in social and environmental change to advance their leadership and impact in the world. Previously she served as Sierra Leone Program Director for Last Mile Health, overseeing Last Mile Health’s work with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health to support the country's community health workforce. Before joining Last Mile Health, she was the Executive Director at Youth Empowerment and Development Initiative (YEDI), a non-profit organization committed to introducing effective and innovative approaches to educating, empowering, and inspiring people and communities in Nigeria. She served as Chief Operating Officer at Unveiling Africa Foundation and a Global Health Fellow in Uganda at The AIDS Support Organization (TASO).

Anu is currently a doctoral student at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. She holds a Master's in Public Health from George Washington University and a B.Sc in Biological Sciences from Bowie State University.

CAROL LLOYD

Carol Lloyd is Vice President, Editorial Director for GreatSchools, and an award-winning journalist and author. Carol was an award-winning weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for ten years and headed the education section as an editor at Salon.com. In 2009, she received a mini-fellowship on Global Health Reporting from the Kaiser Foundation for her coverage of neglected diseases published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Seed Magazine. Her journalism on culture, education and family life has been widely published and anthologized for the past 15 years, appearing in The New York Times Magazine, This American Life radio show, Salon.com, The Los Angeles Times, and the SF Weekly as well as being featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, PRI’s The World and KQED’s Forum and To the Best of Our Knowledge. Her bestselling book “Creating a Life Worth Living” was published in 1997 by HarperCollins.