Meet the team
Founder
Rachel Abbott
Rachel has worked with global development organizations, nonprofits, and for-profit social enterprises around the world. She has led program design and implementation, fundraising, partnership development, impact measurement and analysis, and communications. She helped design and grow a youth intervention in Kenya. Rachel's independent consulting helped leaders increase their funding and public recognition. She has worked, lived, and traveled in low and middle-income countries in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Passionate about language learning, she speaks Spanish, French, Swahili, and Vietnamese.
Research and Operations Consultant
Erik Hausen
Erik is a development economics researcher and monitoring and evaluation specialist. Most recently, he was a research manager for top professors at the University of Chicago, where he identified research questions and pilot interventions and managed research teams to conduct RCTs. He was formerly a research lead for J-PAL in India. As a consultant, he has consulted for a range of social impact-focused organizations. He is an entrepreneur who co-led Charity Science Health, a charity focused on delivering vaccination reminders at scale in India.
Program Intern
Shruti Chavan
Shruti is a psychology student at Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College of Science and Arts in Mumbai. Shruti is passionate about mental health as a cause and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology.
Our advisors
Peter Brietbart
CEO, MindEase
Peter is the CEO of an evidence-based mental health app that reduces anxiety.
Ann Don Bosco
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Canopie
Ann is the designer and co-CEO of an RCT-tested mental health app that treats postpartum depression.
Kanishk Kabiraj
Founder, Chart Paper Consulting and Ex India Country Director, Girl Effect
Kanishk designed and deployed Girl Effect's brand in India. He has 15 years of experience with product conceptualization and iteration, brand, and culture and consumer insights.
Akhil Bansal
Medical Research Analyst
Akhil is a licensed physician and a clinical board member of the youth mental health nonprofit ReachOut Australia.
Joey Savoie
Co-Founder of Charity Entrepreneurship
Joey co-founded the India-based vaccination nonprofit Charity Science Health. He is the co-founder and Director of Strategy of an organization that designs and launches high-impact nonprofits.
Our founder is a graduate of Leadership in Mental Health, a course that trains participants to develop and scale up mental health interventions in low-and-middle-income countries. The course is run by Sangath, a nonprofit organization working to make mental healthcare accessible and affordable in India for the last 25 years.
Our values
Participants first.
Our goal is to help as many as possible, as deeply as possible. When in doubt, we consider the perspectives and well being of the people we want to help and seek to act in the way that will benefit them the most.
Good vibes.
We strive to create a kind and fun team environment filled with positive energy and strong connection. With us, expect good spirit, laughter and warmth, within our team and toward others. We support each other, and seek to understand each other’s perspectives.
Seek the truth, speak the truth.
We seek to see our work and ourselves honestly. We believe in the scout mindset- to see reality as accurately as possible and to be honest about what we find, whether that is related to our work, each other, or ourselves. When in doubt, we turn to evidence to guide us. We believe that progress doesn’t happen in the dark. We share that truth transparently with others.
Restless excellence.
We are dedicated to being in a state of continuous improvement. We strive to be better, to do better, and to do more, every day. We are eager to grow, change and evolve, to gain new information and use it to be better versions of ourselves.
Move fast, stretch things.
We are quick and ambitious. We aim to move quickly and efficiently and remain ambitious, toeing the line of what is possible while remaining realistic.