Selected Awards, Fellowships, Distinctions

2021 Awarded, Oxford Saïd Business School Executive MBA Director’s Scholarship, Oxford, UK

2021 Speaker, The Nature of Cities (TNOC) Festival on Igniting Open Innovation, GLOBAL

2020 Writer, G20 Dossier, Italian Institute for International Political Science; Milan, ITALY

2020 Speaker, Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) Symposium; Ahmedabad, INDIA

2019 Speaker, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Disruptive Ideas Festival; Cowes, UNITED KINGDOM

2019 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA); London, UNITED KINGDOM

2017 Fellow, Vital Voices Women’s Leadership Program; Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA

2017 Fellow, The Coaching Fellowship Leadership Program; San Francisco, California, USA

2017 Speaker, US State Department YSEALI Design and Innovation Trainings; Jakarta, INDONESIA

2017 Presenter, MIT Local Innovation Ecosystems Awards Fellowship Program; Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

2016 Innovation Consultant, the DO School Daimler Mercedes-Benz Challenge; Berlin, GERMANY

2016 Curriculum Lead, Ashoka U ‘Redesigning Japanese Higher Education’; Hiroshima, JAPAN

2016 Selected, International Development and Design Summit (IDDS); Bogotá, COLOMBIA

2016 Moderator, Women In Design Speaker Series; AKIN Asia; Bangkok, THAILAND

2015 Social Entrepreneur Fellow, THNK School for Creative Leadership; Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

2014 Writer, Designing for Scale and Adoption Conference, Grameen Foundation; Mumbai, INDIA

2014 Researcher, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, d.school; Palo Alto, California, USA

2014 Speaker, Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference; Chiang Mai, THAILAND

2013 Presenter, World Alliance of YMCAs Executive Committee Meeting; Jericho, PALESTINE

2011 Awarded, Top 50 Green Heroes of Middle Tennessee; Business Chamber; Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2010 Reelected, YMCA World Alliance Executive Committee; Geneva, SWITZERLAND

2009 Awarded, Nashville Business Leader Under 40; Business Journal; Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2008 Awarded, Rotary Foundation Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship; San Jose, COSTA RICA

2007 Speaker, YMCA International Conference; Mexico City, MEXICO

2007 Selected, International Youth Forum: The Power of Youth for Peace; Sharm El Sheikh, EGYPT

2006 Fellow, Social Impact,ACJ Programs across Uruguay; Montevideo, URUGUAY