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Debbie Weir and the Quiet Architecture of a Movement
Across three decades of nonprofit work, Debbie Weir has practiced a deceptively difficult craft: listening to individual voices, then building the machinery that lets them move institutions.
Kristina Lugo Is Making the Case for a More Human Kind of Scale
She doubled a program by listening closely, rose from the service floor to the CEO’s office, and now wants technology to return time to people. Kristina Lugo’s career is a study in scaling care without sanding away its humanity.
Binti
Binti is a San Francisco-based software company building modern workflow tools for the child welfare system. Its cloud platform helps social workers license foster and adoptive families, find kin, manage cases, coordinate service referrals, and meet federal reporting requirements. Used by more than 550 agencies across 36 states plus D.C. - covering roughly half of children in U.S. foster care - Binti aims to reduce paperwork so caseworkers can spend more time helping children find safe, stable, loving families.
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana to fight cholera and yellow fever. Now one of 71 members of the Association of American Universities, it enrolls roughly 14,000-15,000 students across schools spanning medicine, public health and tropical medicine, law, architecture, business, science and engineering, social work and liberal arts. Known for a deep service ethic - it became the first major U.S. research university to require public service for graduation after Hurricane Katrina - Tulane pairs high-level research with a distinctive New Orleans culture.
Alicia Hardy
Alicia Hardy (Alicia Ferguson Hardy) is the CEO of CommuniCare+OLE, a federally qualified health center serving 70,000+ patients across Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in California. A licensed clinical social worker turned executive, she rose through the ranks of OLE Health over more than a decade before becoming CEO in 2018, then engineered the landmark 2023 merger with CommuniCare Health Centers - a project she developed as her capstone during an Executive MBA at Yale School of Management. Named one of Yale SOM's 2023 Best & Brightest EMBA graduates, Hardy is a passionate advocate for health equity, multilingual care, and expanding access for underserved populations.