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Sandra Costas

Senior Accountant
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    Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Sandra has been in the non-profit sector for over a decade. Most recently, she was the CFO at UnitedWay of Hudson County in Jersey City, NJ. Prior to that, she worked for Leon Lowenstein Foundation, a private foundation in New York City. She has a B.S.in Accounting for Mercy College and received her M.B.A. in Accounting from Keller Graduate School of Management.

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Cynthia Steele

President and CEO

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Shaala Bawa

Development and Operations Assistant, UK

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Deeksha Bhatia

Senior Programme Officer, India

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Francine de Boer

Development and Engagement Manager, UK

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Kundhavi Balachandran

Programme Officer, East and Southeast Asia

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Larry Bloom

Chief Financial Officer

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Sandra Costas

Senior Accountant

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Deborah Diedericks

Senior Programme Officer, South Africa

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Nisha Dhawan

Vice President, Impact and Influence

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Estefanía Cote Hernández

Planning and Governance Officer

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Lauren Glenmere Furmanek

Global Grants and Operations Officer

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Diana Guerrero

Associate Director, Programmes Planning and Operations

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Henna Hemnani

Senior Development Manager, PAN Asia

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Heera

Director Programme, India

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Adam Heuman

Vice President, Global Development

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Suvidha Hughes

Global People and Culture Lead

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Ricky Hui

Development and Operations Associate, South East Asia

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Kayla Kohlenberg

Development Manager, Initiatives and Events

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Zaryna Lee

Corporate Partnerships Development Manager, UK

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Swarnlata Mahilkar

Program Officer, Adolescent Girls & Gender Initiatives, India

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Tanvi Mishra

Senior Specialist, Global Communications

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Caitlin Mitchell

Senior Manager, Programmes and Partnerships

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Juliana Nicoletti

US Development Manager, Corporate Partnerships

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Daniel Parnetti

Regional Programme Director, Latin America

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Mireille Posse

Programme Officer, Latin America

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Mallika Prasad

Programmes & Operations Associate, India

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Lindsay Prybylski

Global People & Culture Associate

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Jayanthi Pushkaran

Senior Programme Officer, Adolescent Girls

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Soraya Raccah

Development Manager, East and Southeast Asia

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Nicole Rajani

Head of Global Communications

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Gritt Richter

Senior Programme Officer, East and Southeast Asia

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Sara Saad

Global Communications Associate

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Divya Shikha

Senior Accountant, India and ESE Asia

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Deanna Tuttle

Development and Operations Assistant

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Wilson Ventura

Director, Global Finance and Technology

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Kristen Woolf

Vice President, Programmes

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April Yip

Assistant Programme Officer, East and Southeast Asia

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Odi Agev

Programme Consultant, Ghana and Nigeria

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