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Elisa Pinto de Magalhães

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Elisa works with consumer-facing companies on sustainability management, human rights, and developing sustainable supply chains, among other topics. She also supports the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality.

Prior to joining BSR, Elisa worked in international sexual and reproductive health and rights. She has worked extensively in the Latin America and Caribbean region on improving policy and supporting social movements to advance gender equality at national and regional levels. She frequently collaborated with grassroots organizations on the development of advocacy strategies to strengthen gender equality across the region. Elisa has also managed projects, focused on East Africa, on improving the supply chain for contraceptives. She also worked on advancing gender equality in intergovernmental spaces, including at the United Nations.

Elisa holds a first-class honors MA in Gender, Society, and Representation from the University College of London and a BA in Economics and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Tufts University. Elisa is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Laura Macias

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Laura leads RISE's Women’s Advancement and Leadership Program. She also leads the Data, Evidence, and Learning strategy globally and the implementation of RISE in India and Latin America.

At BSR, she worked on Keeping Workers in the Loop, where industry leaders collaborated on exploring the just transition to a circular fashion model, and she advised companies across the globe on equity, inclusion, and justice strategies, with a focus on supply chains. 

Prior to joining BSR, Laura researched the relationship between innovation, artificial intelligence, and diversity as part of the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation. She also worked at UNICEF in corporate partnerships and fundraising. 

Laura writes about equity-related topics as a columnist, and she speaks Spanish, English, and French. She has an MPA degree from Sciences Po, and she completed a fellowship in public leadership at the Universidad de Los Andes.

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Jessica Witten

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Jessica leads BSR’s work on financial resilience for women in the shea supply chain, as well as managing BSR’s training toward decreasing gender-based violence (GBV) in the palm sector. In addition, Jessica manages Building Responsibly, which focuses on increasing worker well-being in the engineering and construction industries.

Before joining BSR’s Human Rights team, Jessica was the country manager for all HERproject programs in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Pakistan as well as managing HERessentials globally. Prior to joining BSR, Jessica worked at The Walt Disney Company, where she focused on human rights and supply chain. Jessica’s background also includes previous roles at the US House of Representatives, the International Monetary Fund, and the US Department of State, along with long-term field work in Myanmar and India.

Jessica holds a MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She also has a BA in International Relations with a minor in French and in International Development from Wheaton College. Jessica is fluent in English and French.

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Amanda Tran

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As part of BSR’s Finance Team, Amanda is responsible for accounts payable and expense analysis. She focuses on continuous system implementations and process improvements.

Prior to joining BSR, Amanda had project accounting experiences in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

Amanda holds a BS degree in Accounting from San Francisco State University.

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Lindsey Andersen

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Lindsey works at the intersection of technology and human rights, helping both tech and non-tech companies identify and address human rights impacts associated with the development and use of technology and effectively incorporate business and human rights practices. Her focus areas include content governance, end-use risks of tech products and services, and the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies.

Prior to joining BSR, Lindsey worked with digital rights organization Access Now to drive the conversation on the human rights implications of AI. As part of this, she wrote the foundational report Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Lindsey previously worked at Internews, implementing a large portfolio of internet freedom projects across Latin America, which focused on equipping journalists and human rights defenders with digital security skills and defending the free and open internet. Lindsey has worked and lived across Latin America and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Lindsey holds a Master’s in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Simon Ma

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As part of the Finance team, Simon focuses on project accounting, financial planning and analysis functions and administration, and system implementation.

Simon last worked for the California Department of Transportation, where he supported the office by creating financial and budgeting reports. 

Simon holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems from the California State University, Sacramento. He speaks English, Taishanese, and Cantonese.

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Susan Morgan

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Susan has over 20 years of experience working in the public and private sectors and philanthropy. Her focus is the societal impact of technology.

Now a freelance consultant, she was the first Executive Director of the Global Network Initiative, a D.C.-based multi-stakeholder initiative focused on the responsibilities of technology companies to protect the free expression and privacy rights of their users when receiving government requests from around the world. She was employed by British Telecom (BT) for 10 years until 2010, which included six years focused on corporate responsibility, leading BT’s strategy, policy, and public reporting across the company on those issues. In the last three years, she worked at the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations, developing international grant-making strategies on disinformation, the online public sphere, algorithmic discrimination, and big data.

She has a B.A. and a M.A. in Politics from Durham University in the U.K.

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Margo Weiss

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Margo leads on BSR’s contract negotiations and compliance monitoring. She applies diligence and pragmatism to ensure BSR’s project teams are well positioned to succeed.

Prior to joining BSR, Margo worked as the Director of Operations for the Columbia Water Center at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where she was responsible for day-to-day oversight and administration of the Center. She managed the Center’s communication channels, budgeting, pre- and post-award grant administration and compliance, contract review, and business development.

Margo holds a MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BA in Psychology from Boston University.

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Miwa Naito

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Miwa supports BSR’s advisory services in sustainability management and human rights across industries in Japan and overseas. She also supports the Human Rights Working Group in Tokyo.

Prior to joining BSR, Miwa worked as a field coordinator on agriculture projects in conflict-affected areas in Sri Lanka, where she supervised overall project progress. Miwa also interned at the Asia Foundation, where she conducted a research on women’s empowerment in the Philippines and developed monitoring and evaluation tools for peace and stability programs. Before working at international development space, Miwa worked as a product planner at Panasonic for more than 3 years.

Miwa holds a MA in International Affairs from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego and a BA in Politics from Rikkyo University.

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Margot Brent

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Margot supports companies in sustainability management and the use of strategic foresight as part of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with BSR members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot also advises companies on climate change and women’s empowerment. Her experience spans sustainability management, climate risk and resilience, gender equality, communications, employee engagement, innovation management, and learning and development.  

Prior to joining BSR, she was an innovation manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry, enabling supply chain innovation and sustainability through design thinking and rapid prototyping approaches. Margot previously worked on climate change adaptation projects using nature-based solutions to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities. She has worked on women’s empowerment programs both professionally and as a volunteer strategic advisor for The Women’s Foundation. 

She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch.