2025 Ayiti Visionaries

I'm honored to share that I've been selected as one of this year's Ayiti Visionaries by Ayiti Community Trust.

While I usually prefer to stay behind the scenes, I'm deeply grateful for this recognition, not for me alone, but for the incredible organizations I have the privilege to support and work with:

• SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods in Haiti), which brings dignity to basic human needs through sustainable sanitation, turning human waste into compost while addressing public health, poverty, and environmental degradation. Today, more than 20,000 Haitians use SOIL's ecological toilets.

• CLE (Haitian Center for Leadership & Excellence), which is cultivating a new model of leadership rooted in Haitian innovation and success. CLE's mission is to identify, train, and connect Haitian leaders to collectively build a prosperous, self-reliant, equitable, and well-governed Haiti—and to promote a national and international shift in how Haiti is perceived.

• Haiti Policy House, where we are reimagining the role of the diaspora in public policy and working to deepen our collective understanding of governance and politics.

• International Black Economic Forum, an innovative collaborative platform designed to empower Black communities to reclaim and grow their economic power.

And of course, Ayiti Community Trust (ACT), which invests in Haitian-led community organizations and programs that foster self-sufficiency and support Haitian creativity. ACT makes the barrier to sponsoring this event affordable. You can find more in their Sponsorship Deck.

This honor is truly a stand-in for their tireless, often quiet, but transformative work. I share this moment with all of them, and with everyone committed to building a better future for Ayiti.

I look forward to seeing you there as we celebrate Haitian-led change and the organizations building a stronger, more self-reliant Ayiti.