People

Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship

Teresa Chahine teaches social entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management and the Yale Jackson School, and serves as faculty lead for the Social Innovation Initiative. She is the author of Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Step by Step and her research focuses on developing tools to characterize and advance social and environmental determinants of health. 

Social Innovation Fellow, 2026-2027

Vaibhav Dutt is a Master in Public Policy (MPP) candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. With eight years of experience at the intersection of law, public policy, and technology, he has collaborated with non-profits, international consultancies, and start-ups across India, Africa, and the UK.

Social Innovation Fellow, 2026-2027

Arunima Gupta is a policy practitioner and development enthusiast from India with a deep interest in inclusive growth, sustainability, and systems thinking. She recently worked at Bain & Company’s Capability Network, where she led sustainability and ESG projects —developing decarbonization strategies, conducting materiality assessments, and shaping Bain’s intellectual property in this space.

Visiting Faculty

Davis Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Jackson School and the founder and CEO of Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear and active lifestyle brand with a social mission at its core. The brand creates products and experiences that fund sustainable poverty alleviation — the first company to incorporate from inception as a Benefit Corporation and raise venture capital.

Resident Entrepreneur

Ivelyse Andino is the founder and CEO of Radical Health, the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in NYC, building community infrastructure at the intersection of health, equity, and technology. Since 2016, Radical Health has worked to activate healthcare's most historically silenced and underserved communities by pairing indigenous restorative circle practices with person-centered innovation.

Resident Entrepreneur

Belabbes Benkredda is an award-winning social innovator and the founder of the Munathara Initiative, the Arab world’s largest online and television debate forum highlighting voices of youth, women, and marginalized communities. Today, Munathara operates in 11 Arab countries and counts a community of some 170,000 members on its online debate platform.

Resident Entrepreneur

Sonali Mehta-Rao, founder of Ahaana Ventures, is an early-stage impact investor, startup advisor, and ICF-trained leadership coach with over a decade of global entrepreneurial experience in social business innovation. Ahaana Ventures provides catalytic social and financial capital to historically underrepresented entrepreneurs in South Asia, including women, minorities, and people of indigenous descent or from other marginalized communities.