Meet the Devex Authors

Bunita Sawhney

Bunita Sawhney

Bunita Sawhney is the executive vice president of consumer products and processing at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. She oversees all consumer and issuer product offerings, including the company’s credit, debit, and prepaid products as well as environmental, social, and governance product innovations. In this key leadership role, she is responsible for enabling more secure and innovative ways for consumers to make everyday purchases.
Bunker Roy

Bunker Roy

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy is the founder and director of Barefoot College — the only college in India built and managed by the rural poor who earn less than $1 a day. In the 20 years that the demystified and decentralized community-based Barefoot approach has been implemented in more than 30 of the least developed countries, a total of 36,000 houses in 1,024 villages have been given access to solar energy by nearly 300 illiterate rural grandmother
Burton Bollag

Burton Bollag

Burton Bollag is a freelance journalist living in Washington, D.C. He was based for a number of years in Europe (Geneva, Prague and Bratislava) and as chief international reporter for Chronicle of Higher Education reported widely from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has also done radio reporting (for NPR from Geneva) and TV reporting from various locations.
Bushra Zulfiqar

Bushra Zulfiqar

Bushra Zulfiqar is the regional director Asia at Terre des Hommes Netherlands. She has over two decades-long work experience in international development and human rights, both at the policymaking and implementation levels in Asia and around the world.
Caitlin Baron

Caitlin Baron

Caitlin Baron is the founder and CEO at the Luminos Fund, an education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos has set 152,051 children across Ethiopia, Liberia, and Lebanon on a path to lifelong learning.
Caitlin Bryan

Caitlin Bryan

Caitlin Bryan is currently pursuing her master of public health at Boston University School of Public Health where she is concentrating in monitoring and evaluation. She is completing her practicum at the International Center for Research on Women where she analyzes qualitative data and prepares dissemination materials on stigma and discrimination in the Global Health, Youth, and Development portfolio.
Caitlin Gruer

Caitlin Gruer

Caitlin Gruer is a senior program associate at Plan International USA, where she works as part of the water, sanitation and health practice. Her work focuses on menstrual hygiene management, sustainable WASH programming, and the intersection between WASH and nutrition. She has a master's in global health and sociomedical sciences from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Caitlin Horrigan

Caitlin Horrigan

Caitlin Horrigan is the director of global advocacy at Planned Parenthood Action Fund. With over a decade of foreign policy experience, Caitlin helps drive global advocacy agenda with the U.S. Congress and administration to protect and expand funding and policies that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
Caitlin Jolly

Caitlin Jolly

Caitlin Holliday is a former senior associate for programs and events at Devex. From organizing large happy-hour events to intimate round-table discussions, she enjoys bringing professionals together to exchange ideas, share resources, and make the right connections to help the development community do good and do it well. Caitlin previously worked for the Global Health Council where she coordinated policy events and developed a heart for maternal and child health.
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman is the CEO and founder of Women at the Table and co-founder of the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms.