Karimah Hudda

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AFFILIATION: illumine.earth

TITLE: Founder and Chief Catalyst (CEO)

LOCATION: Oregon

LANGUAGE: English, French, German, Hindi

EXPERTISE AREA: Asian/Asian-American Communities, Climate Change, Conservation, DEIJ, Sustainability

ABOUT THE EXPERT:

Karimah Hudda is the Founder of illumine.earth, whose vision is: within our generation, see a world where all nature and people thrive. She works with leaders, businesses and solutionists to scale and accelerate regenerative models towards this vision. She has over 20 years of senior-level experience in building and executing pioneering environmental and social strategies, business transformation and systems change across multiple sectors such as Fairtrade, International NGOs, and corporations such as Mondelez and Nike. Originally from a small town in India, Karimah is a woman of color, an immigrant and a global citizen who has lived and worked in over 40 countries, often traveling off the beaten path and collaborating with people whose life journeys were as diverse as the coffee and oil palm farms of Sumatra, to the C-suites of the largest corporations in the world, the slums of Nairobi, to the global headquarters of international NGOs. In collaboration with the best, most diverse minds in business, nonprofits and independent expertise, she has catalyzed impact on speed and scale in environment, human rights and livelihoods. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from University of Washington, and a Master’s in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from Oxford University.

CONTACT:

Contact Karimah Hudda HERE.