Our team is comprised of passionate, committed professionals with a wide range of experience and expertise.
Claire Topal
Founder & Managing Director
Claire leads Red Tomato partnerships and programs. She has been VP of Health & Aging at The National Bureau of Asian Research, Managing Director of the Pacific Health Summit, Senior Research Consultant at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, and World Affairs Council Fellow. She also worked for a social science journal in Taipei, a nonprofit strategy firm in New York City, the International Desk of the Associated Press and the Louvre Museum in Paris, and as a teacher in Shanghai. She holds a MA from Tufts's Fletcher School and an AB in Modernism from Cornell.
Dawn Bass
Director of Devil’s Advocacy
Dawn is Chief Strategist & Analyst at radio quiet and Founder of Mightier. She was Associate Editor at the Seattle Review of Books and spent over a decade at PATH in senior strategic communications. Dawn has also been Senior Editor at University of Chicago Press and Content Specialist at Vegas.com. She holds an MA and BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota.
Nualchan Sakchalathorn
Finance & Grants Management Lead
Nualchan holds 20 years of experience in government relations, grants management, financial strategy, and event planning. She has been Investment Manager at the GHIT Fund, Program Officer for Asia-Pacific Government Donor Relations at the Gates Foundation, Senior Project Director for the National Bureau of Asian Research, and Senior Project Director for the Pacific Health Summit. She is fluent in Thai and holds a BA in Economics from the University of Washington.
Claire Wingfield
Advocacy Strategist & Team Catalyst
Claire develops strategies that advance policy advocacy, foster stakeholder engagement, and strengthen team dynamics. She has over 20 years of experience shaping global health policy and leading geographically distributed, cross-functional teams, and has led global partnership and advocacy strategies at FIND and PATH and directed the Food Policy Program at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, supporting locally led campaigns across the globe. Claire earned an MPH from the University of Maryland and a BA in Anthropology and African American Studies from Wesleyan University.
Kristin Harper
Consultant
Kristin leads Harper Health & Science Communications LLC, which delivers CME monographs, slide decks, winning grant proposals, journal articles and more. She has an MPH in Global Epidemiology and a PhD in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution from Emory University. As a postdoc at Columbia University, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, then Cancer Epidemiology training fellow. She is certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences and holds certificates from the American Medical Writers Association.
Kendra Chappell
Facilitation & Strategy Ace
Kendra develops measurable, adaptable strategies to help strengthen teams and governance. The founder of HiveMinded Consulting, she has facilitated strategy sessions of up to 150 senior participants, guided studies, and managed projects for multiple federal agencies, Nexight Group, PATH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many others. She is a certified Project Management Professional and holds an MS in Psychology from Kansas State University and a BS in English from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Hannah Kettler
Senior Advisor
Hannah is a global expert in corporate social innovation and global health. Currently A Director at Covax, she has also been Director for Vaccine Financing & Partnerships at PATH and spent 16 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Program, most recently as Head of Industry and Leadership Engagement on the Life Sciences Partnerships team. She serves on the Gilead Health Policy Advisory Board and is a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.
Robert Lin
Senior Advisor
Rob connects corporate, non-profit, and foundation R&D and program strategies to financial reality. He is CEO of Avista Therapeutics. he has also been Vice President of Translational Science at UPMC Enterprise, CFO of Phebotics, Inc., VP of Finance at IDRI, and Deputy Director for Global Health Finance at the Gates Foundation. He also worked at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda) and Dean & Company. A CFA charter holder and Council on Foreign Relations term member, he holds a PhD in Human Genetics from Harvard University and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
Mia Lipman Irwin
Senior Editorial & Marketing Consultant
Mia is an empathetic and strategic leader of content teams and serves as Editor in Chief at therapist.com. She has also been Associate Director of Editorial at Kaiser Permanente Washington, Director of Content at the University of Washington, Executive Editor at Canteen Arts, and held a range of editorial roles at Amazon, University of California Press, San Francisco magazine, and Yesler B2B agency. Mia is Principal Editor at Dots & Dashes and an Orcas Island Lit Fest Board member. She is fluent in French and holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University.
Abby Klingbeil
Higher Ed’s Secret Weapon
Abby helped lead advancement communications for Brandeis University and was Assistant Director of Editorial for the University of Washington’s MarCom department. She has been Development and Communications Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Business Reporter at The Journal News and other newspapers, and consulted for Tufts University and MIT. Abby holds an MPA from the University of Washington, a BA in History from Dartmouth College, and is an MPH candidate at UMASS Amherst.
Iva Naffziger
Consultant
Iva holds 20+ years of experience in international affairs, global development, and market research. She is Director of Marketing Research and Strategic Insights at The Hartman Group and an alumna of Penn Schoen Berland, Microsoft, and Ipsos Public Affairs, where she helped clients with company imaging, product brand management, and public and global issues messaging. She excels at translating quantitative and qualitative feedback and data. Iva speaks Czech, French, and Spanish. She holds an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA in International Affairs from Amherst College.
Patrin Watanatada
Cross-Sector Strategist & Communicator
Patrin is Founder of thinkfeelchange and has worked across a range of social and environmental issues with philanthropies, think tanks, consultancies, and start-ups using the power of ideas to change the world, including the Clean Air Fund, Bernard van Leer Foundation, SustainAbility, Fenton, Oliver Wyman, and a renewable energy developer in Bangkok. An English, French, and Thai speaker, she holds an MA in international business relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts and a BA in philosophy and linguistics from University College London.
Raelyn Campbell
External Relations Strategist
Raelyn designs external relations, partnership, and policy advocacy strategies to increase impact. She has collaborated with AFRO/WHO, the Gates Foundation, CEPI, Galien Foundation, GHIT Fund, Panorama, UN Foundation, Wellcome, and World Bank. She holds a certificate in international politics from the University of Tokyo and an AB in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.