Dr. Kohl S. Gill is the President and founder of LaborVoices, Inc. Dr. Gill served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow for the U.S. Departments of Energy and State, most recently as the South Asia and Middle East Labor Affairs Officer for the Office of International Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Prior to federal service, Dr. Gill was an Indicorps Fellow in the slum areas of Delhi, India, serving as a volunteer paralegal with local residents, using transparency legislation to fight both petty and grand corruption at the local level. Dr. Gill is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his work in quantum computing and semiconductor physics.

Mark Womer — CFO

Mark T. Womer is the Chief Financial Officer of LaborVoices, Inc. Prior to his work at Labor Voices, Mark worked at Yale University where he oversaw the financial research operations of the second largest department in the School of Medicine. He has also previously worked in the public sector for several years, on Capitol Hill and across the country in Mississippi, Iowa, Missouri, and Virginia. Mark has a strong sense of altruism in addition to his entrepreneurial interests, and he seeks innovative approaches for implementing positive social and economic changes.

Chirag Amin — Product Development Lead

Chirag joins the LaborVoices team as our Product Development Manager, where she will be focusing on developing product offerings for brands, rapid prototyping and pilot trials. Chirag has worked at Cisco Systems and Teleos Communications in the areas of network design, project management and technical services. Chirag holds an engineering degree from the University of Florida and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. Chirag lives in San José, CA.

Nishant Shah – Business Development Lead  

Nishant’s work with business development and strategy at LaborVoices leverages a background in policy, social enterprise, and international development. Previously, he’s worked with the Acumen Fund in Pakistan, as an Indicorps fellow serving migrant diamond workers in India, and with the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria as a Corporate Strategy Officer in New York. Nishant holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and received his BA from Boston University.

Vimala Balan – Accounts Associate

Vimala supports LaborVoices with her background in accounting and finance. After working 18 years as a banker, she currently manages the Cupertino Satellite Branch of the India Community Center in Milpitas, California. She also volunteers as an accounts administrator for the India Literacy Project. Vimala holds a degree in International Banking and a B.A. in Business.

Alumni and Advisors

Jake Astin Smith — Global Communications Lead and Industrial Design & Marketing Associate

Jake joins the LaborVoices team as a Communications Lead. His main duties include facilitating partnerships in New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco, CA and providing support with internal and external communications to social and financial partners of LaborVoices. Jake looks forward to applying LaborVoices-like innovations to the health care sector to develop a transparent and open information sharing platform for every hospital world-wide, providing optimal and efficient care. Jake graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a B.S. in Molecular Biology and B.A. in Integrative Biology.

Priya Jindal — Donor and Investor Relations Lead  

Priya brings her experience from the contracting world—working for both non-profit and private companies—to the LaborVoices team, where she works primarily on contract and grant proposals for initial funding of the social enterprise. She also currently works for a consulting agency in the Washington, D.C. area. Priya’s Indicorps fellowship has served as inspiration that transparency can lead to greater accountability and more effective and efficient service delivery.  Priya graduated from the Ohio State University in 2006, with B.A. degrees in Political Science and International Studies.

Christina Mathews – Communications Strategist  

Christina has a background in public health, communications and grassroots experience amongst migrant workers and their families. Christina has seen firsthand the risks involved with migrant labor in India and Southern Africa. Her initial grassroots experience as an Indicorps fellow has compelled her to continue working on issues of global health and human rights. Christina holds a M.P.H. degree in International Health from Boston University and B.A. in Business from Austin College.

Aazamina Rangwala – Partnership Development Lead

Aazamina joins the LaborVoices team with a background in international health andprogram management. She currently works at the American International Health Alliance, a non-profit corporation based in Washington DC. There, Aazamina manages special programs, as well as the planning and implementation of partnerships between institutions working to improve HIV/AIDS services in Africa. As an Indicorps Fellow, Aazamina worked at the grassroots level in India on HIV/AIDS prevention among migrant daily wage laborers.  The culmination of these experiences has lead Aazamina to LaborVoices, where she is establishing strategic partnerships to help the company implement its core concept. Aazamina holds a BS in Public & Community Health from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mitchell Alva – Research Assistant  

Mitchell  joins the LaborVoices team with a background devoted to international labor rights. He twice interned for the State Department’s Office of International Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility. While at the State Department, he worked closely on a training program for Foreign Service Officers responsible for the labor portfolio at Post. In 2009, he spent a semester at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, studying the effectiveness of government-led programs during the financial crisis. Mitchell received his BS from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations .

Emily Beam – Research & Assessment Lead

Emily is a Ph.D. candidate in economics and public policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include labor markets and migration decisions in developing countries. She currently is involved with several field experiments, including a study in the Philippines to understand and reduce barriers to overseas migration. She holds a B.S. in economics, mathematics, and Spanish and an M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan.

Shailendra Jain – Business Planning Associate, India  

Shailendra is currently pursuing the Executive Post Graduate Program in Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. He is leveraging his ongoing MBA education and 13+ years experience in Industrial Automation, IT Products and Services to help LaborVoices set up operations in India.

Nithya Krishnan – Research Intern  

Nithya joins the LaborVoices Team with a keen interest in learning more about migrant labor. As an Indicorps Fellow, she worked on a grassroots community health project in India, and now serves as a case manager at the AIDS Service Center based in New York City. She connects people living with HIV/AIDS to medical and legal resources around the city. Nithya has a Bachelors degree from Northwestern University in Anthropology and Public Health.

Devshree Angrish — Research and Impact Assessment Associate

Devshree brings her experience in fundraising, researching, negotiating, and building partnerships with potential donors to LaborVoices. She currently also works as a United Nations Online Volunteer for Colorss Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on the education and rehabilitation of disabled and disadvantaged children. Devshree holds a B.A. in Economics from Miranda House, University of Delhi and an M.A. in Economics from the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia.

Frida Johnsson — Research Intern