Hanae Baruchel
After working on development for Global Fellowship and Ashoka Canada, Hanae joined the Knowledge Team as the Americas representative. In her high school years, she became increasingly interested in issues of conflict resolution and reconciliation and organized events to create awareness around genocide and youth poverty. Before joining Ashoka, Hanae completed a Specialist degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto where she was involved with facilitating and organizing inter-religious dialogues and doing academic research on civil society movements relating to the Group of Eight. Hanae speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She studies Afro-Brazilian and Indian classical percussion.

Chris Heald, Canada
After more than fifteen years of providing technical advice and support to a wide range of citizen sector organizations, I find myself continually impressed by the people I meet and by how open they are to change, and how willing they are to adopt (and adapt!) new technologies to advance their goals. Having made a lifelong occupation of being the person who helps develop and deploy new technology in organizations, that's what I have come to do at Ashoka. And as a trend-setting organization with globe-spanning and wide-ranging impact, I look forward to the unique opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Stephanie Schmidt, Mexico
After working on the launch of the Full Economic Citizenship initiative from Arlington, Stephanie is now leading FEC in Mexico engaging social and business entrepreneurs to innovate to address needs from marginalized populations. Mexico focus so far is on small farmers through access to technology, input and financial services. Prior to Ashoka, Stephanie worked in Rwanda where she launched a program to produce essential oils with rural communities and oversaw HIV/ AIDS and Child Survival programs. Stephanie started her career as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting in Paris, and in Boston. She holds a MBA from ESSEC in France.

Charles Tsai
Charles Tsai is Director of Global Media Strategy and Virtual Program for Youth Venture.  He comes to Ashoka after working as a journalist and documentary producer for CNN and PBS.  As producer and on-air reporter for CNN, Charles specialized in educational news programming targeted at CNN's youth audience.  He also produced PBS GlobalTribe, a travel show that took viewers on a rare journey to meet changemakers (including Ashoka fellows) around the world. Inspired by the social entrepreneurs he profiled, Charles founded Global Youth Fund, a Vancouver-based charity that supports young people in creating change through a bottom-up democratic process.