MEET OUR TEAM
HENRIETTE MUTEGWARABA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Born in Butare Province, Rwanda, Henriette Mutegwaraba is a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Rwandan nation’s Tutsi people. She serves as a board member for OneTribe, and she authored the memoir “By Any Means Necessary Healing and Forgiveness After Genocide.” As founder of The Million Lives Genocide relief fund, Henriette is an ardent advocate for truth-based justice, PTSD awareness, and community restoration.
Trey berthelot
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Trey is a financial analyst in the natural gas industry, who has a passion for philanthropy and justice.
IRENE CHARLES
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Irene is a seasoned professional in the event planning industry. Irene helps businesses and organizations plan events around the world, and leverages her experience in multiple aspects of event planning to provide informed strategies for executing events.
GEORGIA BERTHELOT
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Georgia is an attorney and writer. Before practicing law, Georgia was an event operations manager and proposal writer for a global nonprofit organization.
Dr. Céline A. Jacquemin, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Céline A. Jacquemin, (Ph.D.). Dr. Céline, as she is known by her students, is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at St Mary’s University in San Antonio TX. In September 2022, Rowman and Littlefield published in their series on Africa: Past, Presents, and Prospects, her coedited volume with Professor Toyin Falola, Identity Politicization and Transformation in Africa: Shifting Mobilization. Dr Céline devoted her entire chapter “How Rwanda Transformed Identity Post Genocide” to examine systematically the work done by Rwandans in coordination with their leaders and their government, with the entire population to transform their identity to fight genocide ideology. Her previous milestone research was published in 2015 in her work that explained trend of “Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Colonial and Post-Colonial Roots of the Rwandan Genocide” in The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: From Grievance to Violence edited by Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Palgrave Macmillan.