Leslie Flinn is a seasoned international development and social justice professional. She has more than thirty years of professional experience, more recently in nonprofit executive leadership and consultative advisory roles with Partners In Health, Save the Children, Right To Play, and Social Sector Development Strategies. She has also worked in business strategy with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cardno Emerging Markets. Leslie began her career in development banking in the US and Eastern Europe.

Leslie holds an MBA in International Management from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a BA in Fine Arts from Colgate University.

Having spent most of her career working to empower young people by building, funding and implementing programs in youth advocacy, workforce development and One Health, Leslie is thrilled to have landed in Concord, Massachusetts, the site of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, a primer designed to spur environmentalism, youth activism, and citizen science.