Working together as a global “family” from Latin America; West, East and North Africa; Central, West, South and Southeast Asia; Europe, and the USA, The Raffaella Foundation Teams harness over three decades of on the ground experience working with local communities, governments, and private sector institutions, in multiple languages, to foster diversity for equity, solidarity and wellbeing.
Our global members span the disciplines of sociology, ecology, anthropology, linguistics, agronomy, health, medicine, geography, education, gender, arts, sports, economics, policy and law, and business planning.
OUR DIRECTORS
Devra I. Jarvis, President and Founding Director
Raffaella K. Jarvis, Vice President and Founding Director
Laurajean Lewis, Treasurer and Director
Elisabetta Rossetti, Secretary and Director
Lindsey Hook, Director, Communication and Marketing
Agrobiodiversity, Climate Change and Social Equity
Devra I Jarvis, Coordinator, Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research, USA/Italy
Toby Hodgkin, Advisor, Agrobiodiversity and Social Equity, UK
Laurajean Lewis, Advisor, Geography, Agrobiodiversity and Equity, USA
Muhabbat Turdieva, Advisor, Horticultural Ecosystems, Central Asia, Uzbekistan
John Wasswa Mulumba, Advisor, Agrobiodiversity, East Africa, Uganda
Fabio Attorre, Advisor, Biodiversity and Equity, Italy
Keyu Bai, Advisor, Pastoral Ecosystems, China
Min Tu, Advisor, Tropical Agroecosystems, China
Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Social Equity
Diana Lope Alzina, Advisor, Latin America, Gender, Youth and Ethnicity, Mexico
Paola De Santis, Advisor, Social Equity, Italy
Devendra Gauchan, Advisor, Economics, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Nepal
Education and Equity
Elisabetta Rossetti, Coordinator, Training and Equity, Italy
Rami Khalil, Advisor, Education, Business Planning and Diversity, Middle East, Syria
Abdel Kader Naino Jika, Advisor, Education and Diversity, West Africa, Niger
Health, Medicine and Equity
Krista M Muirhead, Advisor, Medicine and Equity, USA
Anna Ruggieri, Advisor, Sex and Gender Specific Medicine, Italy
Sports, Music, The Arts and Equity
Raffaella Jarvis, Advisor, The Arts and Equity, USA/Italy
Diversity Assessment Tools Development
Agnes Fonteneau, Coordinator, Diversity Assessment Tools and Training, France
Sajal Sthapit, Advisor, Diversity Assessment Tools Development, Nepal
Information Technology
Marco Frangella, Coordinator, Information Technology, Italy
Simone Mori, Advisor, WEB Development, Italy
Valentina Barbiero, Advisor, WEB Development and Design, Italy
Global Engagement and Communication
Lindsey Hook, Coordinator, Global Engagement and Communication, USA and Italy
Malu Muia Ndavi, Advisor, Private Sector Engagement, Kenya
Patrizia Tazza, Advisor, Graphic Design, Italy
Mohammed Sadiki, Advisor, North Africa, Morocco