Nandini Oomman is CEO of Sāmya Ventures and Founding Curator of The Women’s Storytelling Salon™. She is an experienced Global Health, Gender & Development professional with more than 20 years of research, program, and policy experience in Global Development. Nandini previously led the HIV/AIDS Monitor Initiative at The Center for Global Development (CGD), worked at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. and Hanoi, Vietnam and was a Warren Weaver Fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation. Nandini’s global work is informed by her experience with community-based organizations through her work at The Rockefeller Foundation, The Indian Health Organization, (an HIV/AIDS prevention organization in Mumbai, India), and with URMUL, in rural Rajasthan, India. Nandini has a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from McGill University, and a PhD (Fogarty Fellow) from the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is lucky to be a 2020 WomenLift Health NA Fellow!