Lisa Abbott
Executive Vice President and CHRO
Boston Children’s Hospital
United States
Meet the Fellows
IWF Leadership Fellows
2024-2025
The 31st Class of the Leadership Fellows Program consists of 46 diverse, highly accomplished women leaders from Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the first program participants from Armenia and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Their backgrounds include corporate, government, nonprofit, academic, and entrepreneurial sectors, and they have professional expertise in communications, educational services and policy, energy, finance, hospitals and healthcare systems, human resources, law, private equity and impact investing, technology, and more.
This group of accomplished women will convene for a leadership development experience that directly tackles the key barriers that restrict the potential of women leaders and accelerates the path to the C-suite and top levels of all sectors where women remain underrepresented.
Meet the 2024-2025 IWF Leadership Fellows
Alyce Abdalla
Director, Operations Center
U.S. Department of State
United States
Andrea Amorzurrutia
Finance and Sustainability Director
Grupo Herdez
Mexico
Erin Anderson
Executive Director
Idaho Botanical Garden
United States
Cristin Aragon
Vice President of Compensation, Benefits, & Shared Services
Weyerhaeuser Company
United States
Khosi Bambisa
Head, Management Information
Sanlam Investments
South Africa
Saloua Benkhouya
Vice President Private Equity and Impact Investing
Fonds de Solidarité FTQ
Canada
Dina Buchbinder Auron
Founder and President
Education for Sharing
United States
Carey Buxton
Head of Sustainable Investing Business & COO of Institutional Business
Brown Advisory
United States
Jacqueline Che
Federal Programs Officer
CNMI Public School System
Northern Mariana Islands
Brittany Collins
Executive Director
Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation
United States
Ashley Comstock
CFO
Zions Bancorporation, Vectra Bank Colorado
United States
Taneisha Dean-Hall
Associate Partner
EY Bahamas Ltd.
Bahamas
Erika Dupont
SVP Total Rewards
Lumen Technologies
United States
Tamara Fields
US Public Service Industry Lead | Austin Office Managing Director
Accenture
United States
Lucila Galan
Culture and Transformation Director
Grupo Salinas
Mexico
Julia Gonzalez Romero
Counsel
Pérez Llorca
Mexico
Abbie Griffith
Managing Director, Client Leader, US Head of Operations, Health
Edelman
United States
Karine Grigoryan
President
Agate Rights Defense Center for Women with Disabilities
Armenia
Yan Guo
Partner Director, Data and AI
Microsoft
United States
Lakiesha Hawkins
Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator, Moon to Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
United States
Kim Hyde
Senior Counsel
BAE Systems
United States
Qualenta Kivett
EVP, Chief People and Talent Officer
Tampa General Hospital
United States
Aditi Kulkarni
Senior Managing Director, Global Technology Delivery Lead
Accenture
India
Lo Li
Chief Technology Officer, Managing Vice President Bank Technology
Capital One
United States
Dyana Langley-Robinson
Vice President, Global Sales Operations Excellence
F5
United States
Michelle Maestas Simonsen
Chief Content Officer
Classical KING
United States
Ayanda Mafuleka
Chief Executive Officer
FASSET
South Africa
Alana Major
Director, Foundations, Corporate & Community Relations
Public Hospitals Authority
Bahamas
Karen Matsiko Taylor
Sub Saharan Africa Head, Trade Finance
DP World
South Africa
Louise May
Senior Managing Director
Accenture
Australia
Leslie Mba
Vice President, Assistant Secretary, Assistant General Counsel
Texas Instruments
United States
LaTrice McClendon
Director
Knight Foundation
United States
Marsha McDaniel
Director, International Engagement
Idaho National Laboratory
United States
Angela Tsang Myers
Senior Director, Value Chain, Integrated Operations & Supply Chain
MilliporeSigma
United States
Watchen Nyanue
Founder & CEO
I Choose the Ladder
United States
Ana Ramírez
Corporate Communications Director
Laureate Education
Mexico
Millicent Ronnlund
Vice President & General Counsel
Southern Nuclear Company
United States
Valeria Sanchez-Huerta
CEO
Asociación para evitar la ceguera en México
Mexico
Tammy Tibbetts
Co-Founder/CEO
She’s the First
United States
Jacqueline (Jackie) Van Pelt
Program Director
BAE Systems
United States
Marcela Vega
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
OXXO Mexico
Mexico
Vaida Vidugiris
Director of Regional Global and Functional Affairs, Bureau of Legislative Affairs
U.S. Department of State
United States
Leah Wade
Senior Director, Philanthropy
The Executive Leadership Council
United States
Tashaunda (Nicole) Washington
Principal and Founder
Washington Education Strategies, LLC
United States
Jimena Woodworth
President of Investment Committee
Laboratorio Silanes
Mexico