Team

Lola Adedokun | executive director, aspen global INNOVATORS GROUP; Director, artisan alliance

Lola Adedokun is the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute. She leads a portfolio of programs that seek to expand opportunities for and access to health and prosperity for people living at the world’s margins.

Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Lola worked at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as both Director of the Child Well-being Program and Director of the African Health Initiative. By building partnerships between implementers, policymakers and researchers, her work sought to further reduce inequality, strengthen communities, and promote evidence-based policy decision-making. In her dual roles, she focused her work on strengthening the systems and services that enable children and families to lead healthy, vibrant and self-determined lives.

Earlier in her career, Lola served as an analyst with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she was responsible for management and analysis of HIV/AIDS surveillance data. She was also an analyst at Abt Associates Inc., implementing several federally-funded impact evaluations related to domestic and international HIV/AIDS programming and research-capacity building.

Lola earned dual B.A. degrees with honors in Health Policy and Society and Sociology from Dartmouth College and an M.P.H. from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She currently serves on the boards of Foster America, the National Employment Law Project, and the Brooklyn-based Explore Schools network.

Sabira moradi | program associate, aspen global innovators group

Sabira Moradi is the Program Associate for the Aspen Global Innovators Group, where she supports business development, grants management, and budget processes of all the programs. Prior to that, Sabira interned at the UN Department of Public Information, organizing briefing events for visitors on the latest issues on the UN agenda, and supporting the Office of UN’s Special Envoy in organizing a major climate change event, the Ocean Conference, to emphasize the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 14). Sabira also interned at the Office of Financial Services Unit at the Aspen Institute supporting the Director of Finance in managing process of grants and the renewal of the state and federal tax-exemption registration. Sabira holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from Trinity College in Connecticut. Sabira is from Kabul, Afghanistan, and came to the U.S. in 2010 to attend high school in a boarding school in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Isabelle Schellenger | Consultant, aspen global innovators group

Isabelle Schellenger is a Consultant for the Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute. Prior to this role, Isabelle served as a Program Associate for the Aspen Global Innovators Group for two years, where she provided programmatic, logistical, and business development support for the team’s core programs, especially the Artisan Alliance, The Bridge podcast, and the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls. Previously, Isabelle interned at the KID Museum in Bethesda, MD, an organization dedicated to providing innovative and STEM-based educational opportunities to children. In addition, she served as the Development and Fundraising Intern at Attollo Prep, a program of the Children Deserve a Chance Foundation in Lancaster, PA, which provides low-income high school students with leadership and college prep training during their college application process. Isabelle graduated magna cum laude from Franklin and Marshall College in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Spanish.