Our Team


Board:

Ellen Sprenger (Chair)
Founder of Spring Strategies

Carina Hamaker (Treasurer)
Investor Relations and Communications Advisor

Mandy Ayers
Director of Sustainable Business and Innovation at Nike

Ziba Cranmer
Director Social Innovation at Nike

Marian Kennedy
Founder of Dutch Law Firm Kennedy Van der Laan
(Secretary)

Auma Obama
Technical Advisor, Care International, Kenya

Vera Pauw
Former Coach of the Dutch Women's Soccer Team

Adriana Pereira
Global Marketing Director Hunkemuller

Tuti Scott
Executive Director at Imagine Philanthropy

Advisory council:

Dr. Annelies Knoppers
Professor of Sports and Physical Education, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Dr. Heather Cameron
Professor at the Centre for Technology and Society, Technical University of Berlin and founder of Boxgirls International in Berlin

Lydia la Rivera-Zijdel
Consultant

Sarah Forde
Founder and Director of Moving the Goalpost, Kenya

Claudia Makumbe
Coordinator International Affairs at the Amsterdam School of Sports, Management and Business, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Marianne Meier
Sport for Development, Swiss Academy for Development, Switzerland

Martha Brady
Senior Associate, Poverty, Gender, and Youth (PFY) Program, Population Council, United States

Staff:

Astrid Aafjes
Founder and Executive Director

Cindy Coltman
Program Director

Maria Bobenrieth
Advocacy Director

Sarah Murray
Communications Director

Sarah van der Heyden
Development Manager

Sarvenaz Fassihi
Learn Coordinator

Lotte Snoek
Financial Administrator