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Celina de Sola

Co-Founder and PresidentGlasswing International

Skoll Awardee

Biography

Celina de Sola is the Co-founder and President of Glasswing International. She has over 25 years of experience in international development and social change. Prior to Glasswing, Celina worked as a consultant for the Population Council, was 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 Indonesia. She is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation, Ashoka, and LEGO ReImagine Learning; an awardee of the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Prize, and the Audacious Project; a Tällberg Global Leader; and the 2023–24 Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators. She serves on several nonprofit boards and is a member of the InterAmerican Foundation’s Advisory Council. Celina was a speaker at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver and has been featured on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Uncharted Ground podcast.

Regional Focus

Caribbean, Central America, North America, South America