Team & Board

Anika knows that individuals and organizations can inspire movements that benefit both people and the planet by advancing human rights for all, promoting a just society, and prompting climate action. She has dedicated her life to championing reproductive rights, gender justice, sustainable global development, and fighting racism in all its forms.

Throughout her career, with leadership positions at the Center for Reproductive Rights, USA for UNFPA, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Rainforest Alliance, and NRDC, Anika has been a voice—and a catalyst—for change. Her commitment to advancing equality is also reflected in her management consulting practice for progressive nonprofits.

MADRE and Anna were born in the same place, Nicaragua, during the US-sponsored Contra War. The hospital she was born in received its first ambulance because of MADRE, the same year she was born. Orphaned, Anna was adopted and moved to New York, where my parents were friends of MADRE. She grew up in NYC and then went to George Washington University, where Anna studied International Affairs.

After college, she worked for four years at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as a criminal justice officer, focusing on human trafficking. While there, Anna co-organized a UN mission to Gulu, Uganda, where they conducted art therapy with former child soldiers and then held a successful UN benefit featuring that art. Her work was instrumental in establishing a UN trust fund for victims of human trafficking. Since leaving the UN, Anna’s focus has been on her art and, most importantly, raising her daughter.

Anne is proud to be a founding board member of MADRE. Over the past 40 years, she has worked together with incredible staff and board members to make sure that the organization is on solid footing and expanding the work of amazing partners in strategic places. MADRE’s vision for a world that honors and respects women and girls’ rights is as vibrant as ever.

Blaine is a human rights advocate. As Legal Director at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, she advances protections for asylum seekers. She has served as counsel in cutting-edge litigation expanding protections for women fleeing gender-based violence and challenging draconian policies that restrict access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition, she teaches courses in human rights as an adjunct professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. Blaine proudly hails from Iowa, the Midwest, which welcomed her grandparents fleeing religious persecution.

Carla is a partner in the Trial and Global Disputes practice in the Los Angeles Office of King & Spalding. Her practice focuses on high-stakes litigation and trials. Carla is also active in the Los Angeles community serving on both for profit and nonprofit boards. She was previously the co-owner of the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks.

Charlotte Bunch, Distinguished Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, was the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. She has been an organizer and activist in feminist, LGBTQ, and other human rights movements for over 50 years. She was a leader of the Global Campaign for recognition of women’s rights as human rights as well as other international feminist initiatives, including the GEAR campaign for the creation of UN Women.

Bunch has served on the Boards of a variety of national and global organizations over the past few decades including the National Council for Research on Women, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, MS Foundation for Women, Global Fund for Women, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and the Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism.

Charlotte is currently a non-resident Senior International Fellow with the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut. She has written numerous influential essays and edited eight anthologies as well as authored Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women’s Human Rights.

Christopher Price is a seasoned nonprofit leader with extensive experience working with social justice and participatory community development programs across the globe. He has significant skills in the areas of organizational development, program management, budgeting, and fundraising. Chris has worked in partnership with community activists, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, as well as public sector agencies. He has a MA in International Affairs, a BA in Political Science, and is fluent in Spanish.

Chris and his husband Renato Bustinza moved from Lima, Peru in 2014 to Denver, Colorado where they currently reside.

Nadia Allaudin is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Century City. She earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation. As of January 2019, The Allaudin/Brahos Group is entrusted with over $450 million in assets and liabilities. In November 2018, InvestmentNews recognized Nadia as a 2018 Women to Watch Honoree. As one of the 20 prestigious winners, Nadia was chosen from more than several hundred nominations for her leadership, contributions and impact in the financial advice industry.

With more than 20 years of in-depth experience in the financial services industry, Nadia and her partner, Bill focus on empowering women and the LBGTQI community to better understand their wealth management needs. They enjoy exploring their clients relationship to money and assisting them with their financial concerns.

Having founded the annual Women, Wealth & Wisdom Conference in Los Angeles that brings together hundreds of professional women, Nadia works to foster deeper relationships and participate in discussions with renowned speakers on health/wellness, leadership and spiritual best practices. In appreciation of her efforts, she was awarded the prestigious Bank of America Diversity & Inclusion Recognition award.

Nadia plays an active role in the community through her involvement as a Board Member of Marymount High School and MADRE. She completed her yoga teacher training program at Yogaworks and is a certified yoga instructor.

Nadia earned her Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Business Administration with a dual emphasis in Finance and Business Communication from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Rhonda Diaz Caldewey is an Executive Vice President at JLL’s Food and Beverage and Hospitality Retail practice. She has lead teams contributing to the retail vibrancy of high-profile mixed use, retail and entertainment projects. She has been recognized as one of San Francisco’s Most Influential Women three years in a row and was inducted into the Forever Influential Women Hall in 2017. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Cal State East Bay, and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. A native San Franciscan, her parents migrated to California from the farmlands of Wyoming and the sugar cane fields of Puerto Rico.