Celina de Sola

Celina de Sola is Co-founder and President of Glasswing International, which operates in 11 countries, focusing on education, positive youth development, violence prevention, and mental health.

Celina has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. Prior to Glasswing, she worked as a consultant for the Population Council, as a crisis interventionist for Latino immigrants in the United States, and spent over five years with AmeriCares leading responses to complex humanitarian crises in regions including Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the tsunami in Indonesia.

Celina is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation, Ashoka, and LEGO ReImagine Learning; an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Social Innovator at the 2023 World Economic Forum, and the Audacious Project; Tällberg Global Leader; as well as a Beck Visiting Social Innovators at Harvard University. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a member of the InterAmerican Foundation’s Advisory Council.

Celina was a TED speaker at the 2022 conference in Vancouver, and has been featured on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Uncharted Ground podcast, Forbes Centroamérica, HuffPost Live, Yes!, among others.

She holds master’s degrees in public health from Harvard University and social work from the University of Pennsylvania.