Natalie Vaughan-Wynn is the Small Planet Institute’s Manager. Working from the Cambridge office, she is responsible for the overall administration and management of the Institute, as well as coordinating outreach, marketing, and program development. Her diverse experiences, from working in an Alaskan cannery to piloting a food stamp acceptance program for the Spokane Farmers’ Market to consulting for Winrock International in Central Asia, shape her perspective around Small Planet’s sphere of work. She has worked in multiple countries, including Niger, where she served as a Hausa-speaking Peace Corps volunteer in the Tahoua region. She is also an Americorps alum and in 2008 received the President's Volunteer Service Award. Most recently, she earned a Master’s in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University while working in varying capacities with Oxfam America. A west coast transplant, she now lives in the Boston area with her husband and their toddler.

Richard Rowe is a Senior Fellow of the Small Planet Institute and the publisher of Small Planet Media. He is founder, chair and CEO of Open Learning Exchange (OLE) International. Dr. Rowe has focused his career on national and international policies and services that strengthen children, families and communities. A clinical psychologist by training, he was Director of the Test Development and Research Office of the West African Examinations Council, a former Associate Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and director of Harvard’s interfaculty doctoral program in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice; he has served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education, chairing the Board’s education reform task force, and on the MIT Press Board of Directors. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Technology and Education and of the Clinton Global Initiative.