A leading social entrepreneur, philanthropic executive and international lawyer, Elisabeth’s career choices have been purposefully unconventional, but all share a commitment to transformative impact and the successful resolution of unique and complex issues.

A native of East Harlem, Elisabeth co-founded and ran Single Stop, a national anti-poverty initiative which served close to 2 million families, drawing down nearly $4 billion in impact under her leadership.  There she won two White House Social Innovation Awards and was named “New Yorker of the Year” in 2015 for her groundbreaking work fighting poverty.  Single Stop was also recognized as one of the Top Ten entities worldwide for Social Good by Fast Company.

Prior to founding Single Stop, Elisabeth helped develop a $1 billion, 10-year spend-down plan at Atlantic Philanthropies, served as a Managing Director for six years at the Robin Hood Foundation, and has practiced law on Wall Street and abroad.

She helped establish Shakira’s international foundation, worked with Mother Teresa’s sisters in a leper colony in India, and crafted children’s rights reform with the leaders of a dozen Latin American nations before the age of 25, where she founded and ran Fundación Kukula, an agency serving street youth and a winner of the UNICEF prize for Latin America.

Elisabeth is also the Founding Director of the Stanford Poverty & Technology Lab, the first lab dedicated to leveraging the data and technology revolution to create new, lasting, and low-cost solutions to poverty and inequality in the United States.

As a lawyer, Elisabeth has also had a history-making career. She co-led the recent international arbitration Fornan v. Malaysia, which resulted in a $15 billion judgment, the second largest in global history.  It is the only known private contractual dispute based on a colonial contract that has survived survived, uninterrupted, since 1878, enabling her clients to right a historic wrong.

Elisabeth holds a BA