Lina is Coordinator of the Latin America Hub at the Coalition for Good Schools. Lina is a Psychologist and has a Masters in Psychology from the Universidad de los Andes and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Concordia University (Canada). She has been a professor at the Department of Psychology at the Universidad de los Andes, a consultant and researcher at the Ministry of Education, the World Bank, the International Organization for Migration, ICFES, and director of Content and Research at Red PaPaz.

She has co-directed various research projects related to these issues in Canada, the United States and Brazil, of which a significant number of scientific publications have been produced.

Sohini is an intrepid intrapreneur with 30 years experience in the social sector, a large part of it working on programmes related to women. She is passionate about gender equity, culture change, institution building, and leadership. She is currently the CEO of Breakthrough India, building sustainable scale to prevent violence against women and girls. 

Prior to this, Sohini advised the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) on their India launch and worked in Ashoka Innovators for the Public for 10 years where she helped build the ecosystem for social entrepreneurship in South Asia. Sohini also co-founded a Gender Resource Centre and worked with indigenous artisans across India for a long time. She is a Ashoka University/CSIP/HBS Fellow, and has a Master’s in Literature from Jadavpur University.

John has more than 26 years of professional experience in senior strategic management roles in local and international NGOs having worked in Tanzania, Belgium, South Africa and Zambia. Working as Director of Programme Operations at Save the Children International for 6 years, 3 years as Country Director for Student Partnership Worldwide (SPW) in Zambia and South Africa and over ten years with World Vision International in different capacities, in Tanzania and Brussels.

John is a holder of the MSc Education for Sustainability from the London South Bank University (UK), B.A. Economics from the University of Dar es salaam, PhD. Business Administration (DBA).

Karen Devries, PhD, is a social epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK.  Her main research interests involve prevention of and responses to violence against children, violence against women, mental health and sexual health.  Her current work includes studies in Uganda and Tanzania, as well as global modelling work on the prevalence of different forms of violence against women and children.

Karen supervises MSc and PhD students, and teaches Social Epidemiology at the LSHTM, and co-organises a short course ‘Researching Gender Based Violence: Methods and Meaning’. She has served as Co-PI on several research initiatives on the Good School Toolkit with Raising Voices.