KELLY RAPPUCHI, Editor-in-Chief and Founder
Kelly Rappuchi is a global leadership development specialist and management consultant. She specializes in designing innovative learning experiences to expand the human, team, and organizational skills required for growth. Kelly has implemented programs in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.
Her career began in human rights where she helped distribute the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to 15 countries in their native languages. In 2014, she co-founded CIRCLE, a women’s leadership initiative focused on empowering women in Pakistan. She researches and facilitates sessions on the DNA of women’s leadership.
ZAINA ADAMU, Editor-in-Chief and Founder
Zaina Adamu is an award-winning global communications expert with over 10 years of experience working in media, international affairs and human rights. In 2018, she founded Ghana Girl Rising, a social enterprise aimed at improving education access for Ghana’s marginalized young women. Before then, she was a journalist at CNN, covering both the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
During her six-year tenure at CNN, she won a Peabody Award for her contribution to the network’s reporting of the Arab Spring and was selected as a Power 30 Under 30 honoree. As news editor for The Spokesman, she won an Excellence Award for her breaking news coverage of President Barack Obama’s historic 2008 win. In 2022, she was appointed by the European Council on Foreign Relations to the Panel of Experts for Africa where she serves as a policy consultant on foreign affairs in Ghana.
Zaina is the author of 20,000 Words: A Guide to Finding Calm in a Cluttered World. She currently serves as president of Harvard Alumni for Global Development and sits on the boards of Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy & Development, and G-100, an influential group of 100 women leaders from across the world.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and Journalism from Morgan State University and a Master’s degree in International Education Policy from Harvard.
LITCY LUDVIC KURISINKAL, Founder
Litcy Kurisinkal is a political activist and a Human Rights Professional. She served as the Regional Organizing Director of Democratic Party of Illinois in the Nov 2022 midterm elections. She has been the Illinois State Co-lead for Women for Biden-Harris since the 2020 US Presidential Election campaign. She is the Policy Chair of Women for Color Coalition (WOCC). She served as the elected Chair of the Local School Council (LSC) in the Chicago Public School system.
Ms. Kurisinkal has worked with the OHCHR, UN Special Rapporteur on sale & sexual exploitation of children, ILO, UNDP, UNI Global-SEIU, CARAM Asia, Clean Clothes Campaign, CRS Benin (Africa) and Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s Global March against Child Labor in India. She has led diverse campaigns to defend civil and political rights internationally.
Litcy holds a Master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Masters degree in Mathematics from University of Delhi, India. She was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar (1999-2000) in Cambridge University, UK. She was awarded with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Paper Prize in 2013 from Harvard Kennedy School. She currently serves as the Board Member of Harvard Women for Defense, Diplomacy and Development (W3D) and Alumnae-i Network for Harvard Women (ANHW).
Editorial Staff
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Foreign Policy:
Nicolette Carpenter
Alice Liang
SoEun Park