Monica Sanders - Founder + Advocate in Chief
Monica Sanders is the founder of “The Undivide Project”, an organization dedicated to addressing the legal and policy changes needed to address the intersections between digital and climate equity. She also teaches Law, Policy and Practice in Disasters and Complex Emergencies at the Georgetown Law Center. Professor Sanders is a Senior Fellow at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy where she designed first in the nation programs on disaster equity and the “Climate X JEDI” Spring Institute. Previously, she held an Associate Professor appointment at the University of Delaware and was faculty at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Read More
Casey Mims - Board Liaison
Casey Mims came to the Undivide Project through a 3rd party nonprofit volunteering platform called Catchafire, to specifically partner with the team on building out their founding board team. Casey has had several years being part of Non Profits (Junior League), and started doing Pro Bono work for various non profits through Catchafire in early 2022. After working extensively on the Board Building project, Casey decided to come on to The Undivide Project in an official capacity to continue helping the board stay mission focused as the first “Board Liaison”. Casey has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Psychology, and an MBA from UVA Darden (what brought her to Virginia), specializing in Business Analytics. She hopes to continue partnership with the Board as well as work on select data assignments for The Undivide Project. She is very excited to be part of the team!
Dustin Loup – Advisor, Community Access
Under Dustin Loup’s guidance, the National Broadband Mapping Coalition brings together technology and policy experts to shape network analytics and advocate for best practices. Read More
Anthony Duan – GIS, Storytelling
Fellows and Interns
Nouran Alim – Environmental Justice Research Fellow
Maya Walker – 2022 Intern
The Advisory Board
Tamir Harosh
Tamir Harosh is a Professional adviser, experienced consultant, skilled negotiator, and Innovative thinker with almost two decades of experience in every field in the business world. Harosh leads the Business Development, negotiations, and Consulting Teams for individuals, Executive Officers, high-level officials, investors, international and national companies, and organizations. Harosh also serves as a mentor for the well-known Innovation organization newchip.com, which helps entrepreneurs across the USA and worldwide to achieve their goals as startup founders. Ventureforamerica.org is another national nonprofit Fellowship program, where Harosh acts as a mentor. This organization gives recent college graduates firsthand startup experiences that help them become leaders who make meaningful impacts on their careers.
Harosh holds an LLB degree and MSc degree in negotiating and conflict resolution from Columbia University.
Shari C. Suero, MBA
Shari has over 15 years of experience in end-to-end Technology, Data, and Operations, with a high specialty in platform transformation, data democratization, and insights. She has a proven track record of turning around underperforming technology ecosystems at companies such as Wells Fargo, MetLife, and MassMutual, to name a few. Shari enjoys giving back to her community serving as an HOA Board Member for over 10 years as well as volunteering with the YMCA, YWCA, and Habitat for Humanity.
Venkat Mahalingam
Venkat holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, a Masters in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from India.
Venkat is married with two kids and a 20-month old Labrador puppy. In his free time, Venkat enjoys cooking with his wife, playing tennis with his daughter, airplane modeling with his son and playing fetch with his puppy. He is based in the greater Seattle area.
Patrick Pannett