The Stanford Alumni Women's Impact Network is run by a volunteer leadership board of alumni across the globe. We meet monthly to plan events and develop strategies for outreach and engagement, and we are always looking for more people to be involved! Interested in joining the board or serving as a regional ambassador in your region? Check out our GET INVOLVED page - we'd love to hear from you!

2022-23 Leadership Board Members

April Bell, Co-Chair/Treasurer
Lisa Calfas, BA 2009
April Day, BA 2002, Co-Chair
Barb Prescott, MA 1987
Prathima Setty, BA/BS 1995, Co-Chair Emeritus
Lindsey Mignano, BA, 2007
Antonia Fore, PhD (ABD) 1991
Elizabeth Jenkins, BS 2010
Hialy Gutierrez, BS 2007
Anna von Wendorff, BS 2019
Luciana Doria Wilson, Certificate 2018

2022-23 Leadership Board Member Bios

Anna von Wendorff is a Mechanical Engineer (M.S. Stanford) and Economist (B.A. Stanford). She is passionate about medical devices and designing affordable high-quality healthcare around the world. Before Stanford, Anna was a part of a disability awareness non-profit in Sacramento (A Touch of Understanding) which ignited her passion for non-profit work and building community. She is excited to learn from and with the WIN community over the coming year as we grow!





Antonia Fore works as the Graduate Research and Internship Program (GRIP) Coordinator for the Stanford Club of Germany (SCoG – Board) and in collaboration with FSI/TEC at Stanford, - placing students in research & internship positions in Germany. Originally from Germany she received her M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis (German Literature, 1980) and her Staatsexamen from the FU Berlin (German & North-American Literature, 1985). From 1980 to 1985 she taught at BOSP – Berlin and the Department of German Studies, Stanford. While pursuing her PhD at Stanford she was the Resident Fellow at Haus Mitt (1985-89) and founded the Graduate Student Mother Support Group at Cowell Student Health Center. While raising four kids she taught middle and high school, held various volunteer positions in the local school district (PTO-President, Site Council, Special Ed., Mental Health etc.) as well as at Stanford (Hospitality Chair SB-Gymnastics, Co-Chair SUWC's GDs). In her free time she enjoys travel (7-Continents-Marathon-Club), bicycling, hiking, diving, and reading.



Dr, April J. Bell has a passion for positive reproductive health and a commitment to work that prioritizes women, girls, and youth.  A veteran global health professional and epidemiologist, she spent 10 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working in a variety of capacities, including bioterrorism, HIV, foodborne diseases, and reproductive health and in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Malawi.  A Hoosier by birth, she received her BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and her MPH with a dual concentration in Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine. She defended her doctoral thesis in December 2019 and received her PhD in Epidemiology from the IU School of Public Health. She will begin her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF in 2020. Prior to joining her doctoral program, she served as the Research Program Manager at the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), an HIV treatment and care program, in Eldoret, Kenya.  When she isn’t working on her dissertation, hanging with her Girl Scout troop, or leading her recently launched global public health consulting firm, Bell Consulting Group, LLC, April can be found in the East Bay, enjoying the wonderful weather and spending time with friends.

April Day completed two undergraduate majors, Japanese Studies and Native American Studies, at Stanford. She participated in the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies consortium program, studying in Kyoto, Japan. While at Stanford, she also volunteered in different projects and an ongoing program coordinated by the Haas Center for Public Service. After Stanford, she attended law school at Columbia, where she volunteered to assist survivors of domestic violence. After law school, she helped launch a regional chapter of a progressive lawyers' organization. As an alumni, she has participated in the Stanford Alumni Mentoring (SAM) program. Her interests include reading and traveling. 




Barbara Mary Prescott, PhD (ABD), 1987, is an independent scholar, literary anthropologist, educational researcher, and sometime poet. She is currently studying the poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers written while Sayers was an Oxford University student, 1912-1915. Barb Prescott has published three books of poetry and various articles in academic journals, among those: Child Language, The Stanford Forum for Research on Language Issues, Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists, Inklings Forever: Proceedings of the Colloquium on C.S. Lewis and Friends, and she has contributed numerous sonnets to published collections of poetry. Barb is active in social media and manages several Facebook pages, including SONNET, a journal of poetry, Dorothy L. Sayers in Oxford, and Anglo-Saxon Language. A native of Chicago, Barbara has graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois, and is an alumna of Stanford University, 1987. She is married, with two children, and currently resides in Wheaton, Illinois with occasional jaunts back to Stanford and San Francisco simply for the pleasure of returning home every so often.

Hialy Gutierrez Hialy Gutierrez is passionate about cultivating critical relationships and critical consciousness - both of which she believes are foundational to a cohesive, compassionate, and just society. She has almost two decades of experience as a community organizer across various justice movements, including immigrant, reproductive, gender, racial, and economic justice. The relationships built and lessons learned through these movements formed the foundation of Justice Cream, a women-of-color-led abolitionist solidarity economy project which she founded in 2017 and launched as her capstone with the New Leaders Council as a 2020 fellow. Additionally, she is an abolitionist scholar who works with/in community to uproot harmful narratives and seed new narratives rooted in collectivism and care. Hialy harnesses the power of community, ancestral love, and critical analysis in developing new social and material relations based on these new narratives. In addition to her work with Justice Cream, and her solidarity economy academic scholarship, Hialy serves as the Deputy Director of Research at Political Research Associates, where she nurtures radical researchers and guides a knowledge-generation agenda that serves to dismantle supremacist ideologies. Hialy holds a BS in Engineering from Stanford University, and Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, and is a PhD fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hialy is continuously inspired by people power and counts the political and popular education of Chicago's grassroots organizations as her most transformative learning experiences.


Lindsey S. Mignano, originally from Hawaii, graduated from Iolani School (H.S.D., 2003) before heading to California to attend Stanford University (B.A., Feminist Studies, 2007) and University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 2010).  Professionally, Lindsey counsels national and international startups regarding business formation and expansion into US markets, financing, and contractual matters at her women- and minority-owned law firm, Smith Shapourian Mignano PC, in San Francisco, California.  In addition to her work on Board of Directors for the Stanford Alumni Association's Women's Impact Network, she currently sits on the Barristers Board of Directors for the Bar Association of San Francisco, on the Board of Directors for Mini Cat Town, Inc., a neonatal kitten rescue, and serves as a Sustainer in the Junior League of San Francisco, Inc. 

Lisa Calfas completed her undergraduate in Psychology at Stanford. After graduation she joined Google as a People Analyst in HR where she studied how to make employees happier, healthier, and more productive. She moved to NYC to transition into Sales where she helped Google's brand clients effectively connect with consumers through digital marketing. Now as a career coach, Lisa works with clients to find and create meaning and joy at work.

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Liz Jenkins has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford and a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Her background includes both working for a Bay Area health tech start-up and working with college students in the realm of religious and spiritual life. She is currently a writer, preacher, and chaplain who is passionate about women's rights and social justice in faith communities. She blogs regularly at lizcooledgejenkins.com. 

Luciana Doria Wilson, FRSA (Lucy) - Social’18 GSB LEAD (Lucy) is a Brazilian-born business woman. Lucy also holds Portuguese nationality. Fellow at The Royal Society, Lucy has been a human rights activist for 27 years, and a women’s rights activist for the last 7. Lucy has worked as a facilitator, researcher and strategist on diverse women’s rights and justice issues. Lucy joined Stanford WIN in 2018. Prior to joining WIN, Lucy was one of the first members of DWEN (Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network), WCD (Women Corporate Directors) Brazil Chapter and founder of WWC (Workplace Wellness Conference), where she worked on a range of advocacy capacity and movement-building initiatives, as the starting point for change strategies.  Lucy is an undergraduate double-majoring in Economics at FEA-PUC and Accounting at FIPECAFI-USP, a Master's from São Paulo Business School (BSP). Lucy holds an Executive Certificate in Corporate Innovation and Leadership from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). Currently serves on public company boards: Eztec SA, Fleury SA and Anima Educação SA. Doria is member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors in the Netherlands and Audit Committee Chair at Priner Serviços Industriais SA. Former Board member at Camil Alimentos SA, Enel SA and Smartcoat SA.

Dr. Prathima Setty is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist practicing in the Northern Virginia area. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and her special interests include reproductive endocrinology, contraception, preventive health, and minimally invasive surgical procedures. While in medical school, she was involved with the Women In Medicine group, served as treasurer for her class, and took part in a program in which she served as a medical advocate for a local pregnant adolescent. She is a part-owner of a full service salon and medical spa and serves as a physician advisor for a medical compliance company. She stays involved in the international women's health community as the President of the D.C. Chapter of Save a Mother, a grassroots organization striving to decrease maternal and child mortality in India. While at Stanford, she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree in Biological Sciences and Art History. She also was treasurer for Sanskriti, worked as a biology lab teaching assistant, and served as an academic advisor. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two active children, as well as traveling, learning different languages, and experimenting with healthy recipes in the kitchen.

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