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  • For over twenty-five years Shelly has been both a practitioner and advisor to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations nationally, as well as nongovernmental organizations globally. She has deep experience in strategy, business planning, organizational and leadership development and program planning and assessment, as well as being a trained facilitator.

    From 2000-2013, Shelly was a Partner with TCC Group, a national management consulting firm. She headed the nonprofit strategy practice, as well as being the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining TCC Group, Shelly spent six years as Deputy Executive Director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN). She came to INCLEN after eleven years with the international relief and development organization CARE. In the course of her work, Shelly has worked and lived in Africa and Asia for extended periods of time.

    Since 2013, as principal of SK Consultants, Shelly has offered strategic planning and organizational development services to a wide array of nonprofits. She has also helped get a variety of new nonprofits off the ground as Executive Director for Playful Learning Landscapes Action Network and currently for the Active Playful Learning multi-site research study.

    Board Affiliations:
    Ultimate Block Party

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in History, Brown University
    - Master’s in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University

Shelly Kessler

  • In a career spanning the business, government and nonprofit sectors, Penny Burtt has held leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific with global multinationals including Visa Inc and McKinsey&Company. Most recently, she was Group CEO of Australia’s leading center for Asia engagement, Asialink, at the University of Melbourne. A former senior diplomat, Penny represented Australia in Asia (including in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia), and the United Nations in Geneva and New York. She previously served as a senior Asia advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia.

    Penny has been an executive board member with key business associations and nonprofits in Singapore, Australia and the United States including the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Singapore, the U.S. National Centre for APEC, and the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. She is an Adjunct Fellow with Gateway House, India’s Council on Global Relations and a Fellow of the Australia-India Institute.

    Penny is a passionate advocate for women’s leadership. She was a leader of McKinsey’s women’s initiative in Asia, and co-authored the firm’s inaugural “Women Matter” Asia report. A frequent public speaker on women’s leadership, she has delivered leadership and diversity and inclusion training for a range of multinational and local companies in Asia. Penny was on the Executive Committee of Singapore’s women’s board advocacy group, BoardAgender, and an advisor and mentor with the Singapore Young Women Leaders Network. She supports Harpswell’s ASEAN Women’s Leadership Summit as a mentor and teacher.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Asian Business Trade Association - Columbia Journal of Transnational Law

    -U.S.-ASEAN Business Council

    -Melbourne School of Government

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in Economics, University of Sydney

    - Post Grad in Foreign Affairs and Trad, Australian National University

    - Executive Leadership Program, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Penny Burtt

Marie Eckstein 

  • After 35+ years of global business experience, Marie now leads the growth of a social enterprise business she co-founded in 2012 with Alan Lightman and Hab Saly called Red Dirt Road, Inc. Red Dirt Road benefits impoverished women in the remote village of Tramung Chrum through the design, manufacture and marketing of handmade silk fashion accessories.

    Previously, Marie was Chief Operating Officer at EJ (formerly East Jordan Iron Works) and held a variety of executive leadership roles during her 30-year career with the Dow Corning Corporation, retiring in 2009 as Corporate Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Irwin Seating Company
    - National Association of Corporate Directors

    Education:
    Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois

Chandy Eng ‘13

  • Chandy Eng is a feminist who has been working in the gender equality movement for more than 10 years. She is currently the Executive Director of Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), a non-governmental organization that advocates for gender-sensitive projects and programs and the reform of national laws and policies. Chandy holds a dual degree in law from the Royal University of Law & Economics and is a proud Harpswell alumna. After graduation, she completed a one-year fellowship in Gender and Sociology at Bowdoin College in Maine, USA as a Harpswell Scholar. Chandy also obtained an M.A. in International Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand.

    Chandy joined the Harpswell ASEAN Women’s Leadership Summit in 2018 and participated in the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program focused on women’s leadership in 2023. She has been on the committee for the ASEAN People’s Forum since 2018.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in Law, Royal University of Law & Economics
    - Master’s in International Human Rights, Mahidol University

  • Carolyn Florey is a Digital Development Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, focusing on Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Government. Previously, she was Senior Director, Technology for Development at Mercy Corps, leading organizational strategy on digital technology applications across programs. She has held positions at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) leading the Digital Tools and Big Data Research Unit, and at the Digital Impact Alliance as the Director for Collective Impact. Her experience spans the United Nations Foundation, World Bank, USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Breakthrough in Delhi.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Guttmacher Institute

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in International Relations and Spanish, Tufts University

    -Masters in International Development and International Economics, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Carolyn Florey

  • Ambassador (Ret.) William A. Heidt spent over three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service. During his career he served assignments in Cambodia, Indonesia, Poland, New York and Washington D.C. He is proficient in Khmer, Polish and German.


    From September 2015 to December 2018, Bill served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia. As ambassador he launched initiatives to expand trade and investment between the U.S. and Cambodia, strengthen respect for human rights and democracy, develop Cambodia’s technology sector, and empower Cambodia’s women entrepreneurs. In 2018, he was awarded the Royal Order of Sahametrei by the Royal Government of Cambodia for his contributions in humanitarian demining.

    Beyond the Foreign Service, he has taught at the National Defense University and is currently co-teaching an international economics course at Georgetown University. He works as the Senior Director at Vriens & Partners, Southeast Asia's leading government affairs consultancy, where he manages relationships with the U.S government and supports clients in Washington and Southeast Asia. 

    Education:
    - Bachelor's in International Politics, Pennsylvania State University
    - Masters in International Relations, George Washington University

William Heidt

  • Renée Lahti is a strategic advisor and systems thinker with over twenty-five years of experience in business transformation and data literacy.

    With a background in data science, and deep commitment to global citizenship and social impact, her career has taken her across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia, where she has coached and led cross-cultural teams. In 2020, she founded Linei Kōkua Advisory to support nonprofit, academic and private-sector organizations in navigating the ethical and strategic implications of data and artificial intelligence.

    She is a co-author of The AI-Human Edge (2025), which explores how responsible AI can strengthen ethical leadership and human potential.

    Her leadership experiences include the Reykjavík Global Forum-Women Leaders and WAKE’s Tech2Empower International Advisor Cohort. She serves as an Advisory Committee Member for ChangeMakers Hawai‘i, a Five & Rising pilot community advancing innovative social-sector funding and governance.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Advisory Board Centre (Brisbane, Australia)

    Education:
    - Bachelor's in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles

    -Master of Information Systems (MIS), University of Texas

Renée Lahti

  • Harpswell Leadership Resident (BT & TT Dorm, 2016)

    Jojo Lam is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For Cambodia. She has spent the past decade building an entrepreneurial organization committed to unlocking the potential of young people to transform education and drive systemic change in Cambodia.

    Under her leadership, Teach For Cambodia has developed 160 local leaders who have reached over 70,000 students in high-need public schools, working in partnership with the government, higher education institutions, and the private sector. These leaders are now advancing national education reform, serving marginalized communities, and expanding opportunity across multiple sectors.

    Jojo's transition to the region started with a volunteer role as a leadership resident at Harpswell. She has since served as board treasurer with NGO Education Partnership, one of Cambodia’s longest-standing education coalitions. She is also a member of the Acumen Foundry through the inaugural Inclusive Economy Leadership Program in SEA.

    Born to refugee parents who believed in education as a pathway to freedom, Jojo was raised in California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. She began her career as a sorority leadership consultant, followed by years of public service at her alma mater, before dedicating herself to systems change in Southeast Asia.

    Board Affiliations:
    - NGO Education Partnership

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Jojo Lam

  • Tean Ly is a global development and finance leader with over twenty years experience building platforms and partnerships. She began her career financing affordable housing in community development investment banking at Citigroup, then expanded across private equity, corporate banking in Cambodia, and strategic advisory before designing and launching the Asian Development Bank's Frontier facility, an investment platform supporting high growth companies advancing climate resilience and women's economic empowerment across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

    She serves as an Independent Director and Investment Committee Chair for FWD Insurance Cambodia, Credit Committee Member for the Rating Agency of Cambodia, and was Board Chairwoman for Population Services International. 

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in International Business and Management Information Systems, University of Colorado

Tean Ly

  • Tamara (Tammi) Morytko is a senior executive with an established reputation in the industry as a profit and loss leader in both regional and overall global business operations as well as a supply chain subject matter expert. She currently serves as Senior Vice President and President of Molding Technology Solutions at Hillenbrand.

    Throughout her career, Tammi has held leadership positions at Flowserve Corporation, Norsk Titanium and Baker Hughes Incorporated among others. Her work brought her to Southeast Asia when she served as President of Asia Pacific for Baker Hughes Incorporated.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in Accounting, Purdue University

    - MBA, Purdue University

Tamara Morytko

  • Navin has extensive experience in the fields of philanthropy, immigration, human and civil rights. Prior to joining ZFF, Navin led the immigration grantmaking strategy at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. She also worked as a program officer at American Jewish World Service, managing grant-making portfolios in Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

    Navin is Cambodian-American and helped found the Devata Giving Circle, the first and only Cambodian-American women giving circle in the country to support services and activities such as a wellness retreat for traumatized women, cultural preservation through Khmer classical dance, organizing and political education trainings for teens and promoting safe and healthy sexual behaviors with at risk youth.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in American Cultural Studies, Western Washington University
    - Master’s in Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California Berkeley

Navin Moul

  • Alison served as Harpswell Executive Director from 2015-2022 and came to Harpswell with more than 20 years of experience working in the non-profit, corporate and legal sectors.

    She was Executive Director of the Peter C. Alderman Foundation, a non-profit working in global mental health which trains indigenous health workers and establishes trauma treatment systems in post-conflict settings. Prior to joining PCAF in 2009, Ms. Pavia was the founding Executive Director of ReServe, and has worked as a consultant with Living Cities, the National Community Development Initiative.

    She began her career as an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and at Pavia & Harcourt, specializing in international corporate and banking law.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity of Hunter College

    -Columbia Journal of Transnational Law

    -ReServe

    -Riverdale Neighborhood House

    -S’Cool Sounds

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in History and Chinese Language, Brown University

    - JD, Columbia Law School

Alison Pavia

  • Clara Péron’s 20 year career spans the public, private and social sectors. She began her career working in the Canadian foreign service as an immigration and refugee officer based in India, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti.

    It was then, in 2007, that she spent a summer as one of Harpswell’s first leadership residents in Cambodia and gained a deep appreciation of the program’s potential for impact on women. After graduating, Clara moved to Berlin to pursue a management consulting career with the Boston Consulting Group – advising the C Suites of Fortune 500 companies for four years.

    In 2014 she founded Value for Good, a specialized social impact consultancy focused on helping clients across the public, private and non-profit sectors address the world’s most pressing challenges. During her career, Clara has also been a Fulbright Scholar and BMW Foundation Responsible Leader.

    Board Affiliations:
    - Vice-President, Harvard Alumni Club of Berlin
    - Board Member, Value for Good Foundation

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in International Relations and Affairs, McGill University
    - Master’s of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Clara Péron

  • David Roe’s long public interest career includes 25 years as a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, where he pioneered the first use of economics in support of environmental protection and wrote the country’s most successful law in reducing unnecessary exposures to toxic chemicals, among other strategy innovations.

    He has also worked in human rights, civil rights, medical reform and federal mediation. David taught at Harvard Law and wrote Dynamos and Virgins (Random House 1984) about some of his environmental work. More can be found at his website.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in English Literature, Yale University
    - Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University
    - JD, Yale Law School

David Roe

  • Jonathan is a founding partner and Senior Analyst at Crawford Fund Management (CFM), a Long/Short Hedge Fund Manager in Boston, MA. Before co-founding CFM, he was a Senior Analyst at Stark Investments, a $12 Billion multi-strategy Hedge Fund, where he was responsible for equity coverage in the Specialty Finance and REIT sectors. Prior to Stark Investments, he was the President and co-founder of Blue Wave Holdings Corp., a Private Equity firm focused on the Automotive and Retail Service sectors.

    Jonathan has invested in Harpswell’s outstanding students for over a decade and is a firm believer in their potential to change the world. He is also a long-time supporter of Respond, Inc., one of the first domestic violence shelters in Massachusetts and one of the few that accepts both female and male survivors. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Boston University.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in History, University of Pennsylvania
    - MBA, Boston University

Jonathan Saunders

  • Anastasia Vrachnos draws on a wide range of professional experience in the fields of education, nonprofit administration, finance, and journalism. She currently serves as the Vice Provost of Global Education, Immersions, and Strategic Initiatives at the University of San Francisco (USF), advancing the scope of USF’s international partnerships and global learning opportunities. She also coordinates strategic planning implementation and communications, and leads cross-divisional strategic initiatives that advance the academic enterprise.

    Before joining USF in 2019, Anastasia was the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University, and prior to that, served as dean of international and professional experience for Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where she oversaw students' global education, leadership skills, and career development.

    She previously served as the executive director of Princeton in Asia (PiA), a 125-year-old not-for-profit that promotes international understanding, overseeing its dynamic expansion and doubling its endowment during her tenure. She was also an investment banker for Morgan Stanley and an award-winning photojournalist in Southeast Asia, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Time and the Barbican Gallery in London.

    She reads Ancient Greek and Latin and is fluent in modern Greek and Bahasa Indonesia. She enjoys street food, wide-angle lenses, telling stories and climbing volcanoes.

    Board Affiliations:
    - The Lincoln School (Providence, RI)

    - API (Global Experiential Learning), Strategic Advisory Board member (Austin, TX)

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in English, Princeton University

    -Masters in Secondary School Education, Mercy College

Anastasia Vrachnos

  • Alan Lightman is an American writer, scientist and social entrepreneur.

    Dr. Lightman has made fundamental contributions to astrophysics and served as the chair of the high-energy division of the American Astronomical Society. Lightman has been a professor at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

    He was the first person at MIT to receive a faculty appointment in both science and the humanities. He has lectured at nearly a hundred universities in the US on the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.

    Dr. Lightman’s essays, stories and articles have appeared in Harper’s, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Times and many other publications. He is the author of more than 15 books. His book Einstein’s Dreams is known worldwide and has been translated into more than 30 languages. More can be found at his website.

    Education:
    - Bachelor’s in Physics, Princeton University

    - PhD in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Alan Lightman