Lara works with BSR members on their sustainability management, human rights, and equity, inclusion, and justice initiatives. Lara supports members improving their social and environmental performance through sustainability strategies, materiality assessments, and sustainable reporting, among other projects. 

Lara comes to BSR from the international development space, with five years of experience in partnership development, stakeholder engagement, communications, and project management. Most recently, she supported gender and development research and policy advocacy at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. Furthermore, Lara has an extensive background in business, development, and mission-driven partnerships in Africa, creating and leading the Partnerships team at Baobab Consulting, an Africa-focused social impact consulting firm, and founding her own digital communications consulting company for Africa-focused businesses and organizations. Lara is a Spring 2022 Sustainable Investing Fellow at 17 Asset Management, an impact asset management and advisory firm focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Lara holds a MSc Development Studies (Specialism in Applied Development Economics) from the London School of Economics and a BA in Sociology and International Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.  

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Dunstan leads BSR’s work at the intersection of technology and human rights.

Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology, heavy manufacturing, and human rights teams.

He brings significant experience working on a diverse range of engagements and issues, including human rights due diligence, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting and strategy, and stakeholder engagement.

Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and he is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book Big Business, Big Responsibilities.

Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team.

Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.

Jessica brings expertise in ethical supply chains and community-driven development to BSR’s inclusive economy practice. She manages the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition, promoting inclusive employment practices in global supply chains.

Previously, Jessica worked at Fair Trade USA, where she designed, implemented, and managed certification programs in agricultural supply chains and also helped consumer packaged goods companies execute their responsible sourcing strategies. She has also researched and advised on social enterprise development, first as a Fulbright Scholar exploring improved access to sanitation in Peru and subsequently as an MBA Without Borders Advisor to social entrepreneurs working towards sustainable livelihoods for hand weavers in South India. She is fluent in Spanish.

Jessica holds a Certificate in Social Enterprise and Poverty from HEC Paris. She holds a B.B.A. in International Business, a B.S. in Accounting, and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Akron.

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Eva supports companies in equity, inclusion, and justice. Through consulting and research, she works with BSR members seeking to create fair and equitable workplaces.

Eva has specific expertise on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Her experience includes designing, implementing and reviewing companies' gender equality strategies throughout the whole value chain.

Prior to joining BSR, she was a project manager at Jeune Afrique Media Group, a media, communication, and events company headquartered in Paris. There, she contributed to the inception and growth of high-impact initiatives dedicated to women in the African business sector. Eva also worked in Kenya with the Energy Desk of the German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) as well as with the German Development Bank (DEG). 

Eva holds a MA in International Development, with a regional concentration in Africa and a thematic concentration in Project Management, and a BA in Political Science, both from Sciences Po Paris. She speaks French and English.

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Sara applies her management consulting and international development experience to BSR’s collaboration and inclusive economy work. She also directs the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition.

Previously, Sara worked at Business Call to Action—a multistakeholder platform of the United Nations Development Programme focused on inclusive business innovations in support of the Millennium Development Goals—recruiting and advising companies and social enterprises developing products and services to address the needs of low-income populations. She also worked at McKinsey and Company, consulting global companies and development organizations on projects related to strategy, corporate social responsibility, economic development, and philanthropy. Sara has also contributed to social and environmental justice programs in Latin America through the Inter-American Dialogue, the Sierra Club, and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. She speaks English and Spanish.

Sara has an M.B.A. from IE Business School in Spain, and a B.A. in Plan II and Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin.

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With a focus on climate change and women’s empowerment, Kelly helps information and communications technology companies achieve their sustainability goals, working to address their growing energy demands while also fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Kelly supported programming and encouraged business climate commitments for the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit and is closely involved in renewable energy initiatives, such as the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. She also helped launch and manage Business Action for Women, a working group that supports women’s empowerment efforts in the workplace and supply chain.

Prior to BSR, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients. She is also a member of the U.S. National Committee for UN Women, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.

Kelly holds an M.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  

Rachel supports multiple teams at BSR with their regular administrative duties and identifying cross-functional team collaboration opportunities. She focuses on supporting business transformation;  financial services; human rights; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and technology.

Prior to joining BSR, Rachel worked for International Justice Mission as an Office Coordinator, filtering external stakeholder inquiries and facilitating internal team collaboration for maximum impact. Rachel spent time in India implementing ethical storytelling and marketing practices for small anti-trafficking organizations.

Rachel has a BBA in Marketing Management with a minor in Political Science from Texas Christian University.

T works with BSR members interested in social justice advocacy and the implementation of justice frameworks across industries. In particular, T works on projects that integrate equity, inclusion, and justice into member education, dynamics, and outputs. 

Prior to joining BSR, T served as the Director of the LGBTQ+ Center and was part of the affiliate faculty of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Washington, where reproductive justice provided the foundation for the work. They also served as an equity specialist, implementing state legislative grants for the Black Student Success Plan.

T also worked as a Racial Justice Program Manager at Western States Center, where they developed and implemented political education training for community organizers. T also worked on a research project exploring the socio-economic implications of health, housing, and transportation for the Multnomah County Environmental Health Department.

T holds a BS in Interpersonal and Public Communication with a minor in Political Science from Mississippi College, a MA in Urban Affairs with a focus on career entry and sustainability for marginalized communities from Norfolk State University, and an EdD with a focus on educational activism from the University of Portland.

Jillian supports companies in equity, inclusion, and justice. Through consulting and research, she works with BSR members seeking to create equitable workplaces with policies rooted in inclusion and justice.

Jillian is an award-winning public servant with ten years of expertise in intersectional diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and community education initiatives. She has specific expertise in global and domestic immigration, human diversity and cultural identity, DEI curriculum development, global and domestic trust-based grantmaking, and non-profit operations.

Prior to joining BSR, she was the Manager of Family and Community Inclusion within the Diversity & Inclusion-Global team at YMCA of the USA. In this role, she developed and expanded equity initiatives for underserved populations across 10,000 communities, specializing in operationalizing domestic and global equity policies and strengthening cross-sector partnership development. Additionally, she provided oversight and operations support to the YMCA’s national AmeriCorps VISTA Immigrant & Opportunity Youth Initiative and served on the national LGBTQ+ Steering Committee.

Jillian studied Leadership and Psychology at Grace Christian University.  

As a Manager of Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, J. Anthony supports companies in creating fair and equitable access to opportunity for all stakeholders in their value chains.

J. Anthony began his career working in public education in New York City before moving into public policy around education reform. He then earned a MSEd in Education Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining BSR, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Forward Justice, a nonpartisan law, policy, and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social, and economic justice. In this role, he led projects, campaigns, and coalitions in the areas of voting rights and reform of the criminal legal system.

He also has experience in building and launching nonprofit ventures and social movement accelerators as well as embedding social enterprises within existing nonprofit organizations. 

Cecilie supports companies in equity, inclusion, and justice. Through consulting, research, and collaboration, she works with BSR members seeking to create fair and equitable workplaces in their offices and throughout their value chains. Her areas of expertise include social impact-related work, strategy and program design, multistakeholder collaboration, and the advancement of women’s empowerment and gender equality across value chains.

Prior to joining BSR as a full-time staff member, Cecilie interned at BSR and supported the work of the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition, among other collaborative initiatives, as well as BSR’s general consulting services with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She was also chair of CBS Sport, a large Copenhagen sports organizations with the mission of promoting healthy living and creating better sporting alternatives for students and youth all over the city.

Cecilie holds a MSc in Business, Language, and Culture (BLC) Diversity and Change Management and a BSc in BLC, both from Copenhagen Business School. She speaks Danish, English, and Spanish.

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Laura advises companies across the globe in Equity, Inclusion, and Justice strategies, with a focus on supply chains and technology sectors. She leads HERrespect, HERproject’s pillar dedicated to promoting gender equality and tackling violence against women.

She also manages HERproject in Bangladesh, India, and Latin America. Laura also works on the Keeping Workers in the Loop project, a collaboration of industry leaders exploring the just transition to a circular fashion model.

Prior to joining BSR, Laura was part of the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, researching the relationship between innovation, artificial intelligence, and diversity. She also worked at UNICEF in corporate partnerships and fundraising.

Laura is also a columnist on topics related to equity and speaks Spanish, English, and French. She has a Master’s degree from Science Po and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Universidad Javeriana, and she completed a fellowship in public leadership at the Universidad de los Andes.

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Victoria works to advance women's empowerment through consulting, collaboration, research and resource development. Victoria contributes to BSR’s work by supporting companies in designing and implementing strategies to promote more respectful societies and by helping to facilitate BSR’s Business Action for Women.

Prior to BSR, Victoria worked in an inclusive business consulting firm and developed business models for social impact. Before that, she worked for Natura Cosmetics, where she implemented the company’s sustainability and social investment strategy in its Argentina operations. She has also supported and developed strategies for social entrepreneurs and NGOs across a wide range of sectors in India to accelerate and scale their impact, and she has mentored women in microcredit programs in Buenos Aires.

Victoria holds an M.Sc. in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris Business School and a B.A. in Business Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and French.

Kelly applies her international business and human rights experience to BSR’s consulting work across a number of industries.

Prior to joining BSR, Kelly focused on driving business respect and support for children’s rights across a number of sectors, including apparel and footwear and extractives, at UNICEF UK. She also spent six years at the Institute for Human Rights and Business, where she led the establishment of the Nairobi Process: A Pact for Responsible Business, a multistakeholder forum for governments, business, and civil society to embed human rights due diligence in the extractives sector in East Africa. Kelly has also contributed to research on rights-based approaches to business use and acquisition of land and water management.  

Kelly holds an M.A. in International Studies and Diplomacy and an LLM in International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London and a B.Sc. in International Relations with a minor in Political Science from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Jen is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice. The Center will advance health and economic justice at the intersection of movements working toward greater societal equity and fairness. Among other activities, the Center will sustainably and intentionally connect leaders in movements with private sector allies, identify effective business practices, and provide cross-learning opportunities that inform private sector behavior change as well as systems change through improved public policy outcomes.

Jen is a strategy development and implementation expert at complex health and humanitarian organizations with 20+ years of experience. Prior to joining BSR, she directed investments at the Tara Health Foundation to advance meaningful change among private sector employers on gender and racial equity, including historic progress on paid family and medical leave, reproductive health, and other workplace protections. Prior to working in philanthropy, she led the disaster fundraising unit at American Red Cross, which included managing campaigns in response to earthquakes in Haiti and Japan as well as Hurricane Katrina. She also held leadership roles at several national advocacy organizations, where she led private sector and workplace engagement initiatives.

Jen holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Washington, DC.