United Nations Foundation Ambassador John E. Lange (Ret.) had a distinguished 28-year career in the Foreign Service, where he received awards for his leadership in a crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, served as Ambassador to Botswana, and was a pioneer in global health diplomacy and pandemic preparedness and response. At the …
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Elisabeth Patton received her DVM degree from Colorado State University in 1991. She then completed a large animal internship at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville School of Veterinary Medicine. In 1996, she completed a combined Master’s and large animal medicine residency from the University of Wisconsin-School of Veterinary …
City of Madison, WI Dr. Linda Vakunta joined the Mayor’s Office in 2019 to assist with economic development, housing and human services with more than a decade of experience in grassroots community engagement and program development, monitoring and evaluation work. She served as Program Director at the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance International (HAI), where she led, …
Mundo Esperanza Vic has an entrepreneurial background, spending 12 years with Hovde Properties and serving on several boards including the Madison Central Business Improvement District (BID), Centro Hispano of Dane County, Inc., Downtown Madison, Inc., and the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce, among many others. A descendant of the Anden people, Vic has over 25 years of leading …
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Mary E. Wilson, M.D., is adjunct professor of global health and population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and clinical professor of epidemiology and biostatistics in the School of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. Her …
Foresite Labs Caroline Zellmer, PhD, is a Senior Program Manager and works on early therapeutic development across companies at Foresite Labs. Most recently, Caroline led 3 large industrial-academic therapeutic development collaborations (large and small molecule) at the University of Cambridge, including one with GSK where she also was a Visiting Scientist. Prior to Cambridge, Caroline …