RSA US Regional Ambassadors

Tejeswara Reddy FRSA

Tej is a strategy and operations professional who helps public- and private-sector clients drive measurable results, improving performance, streamlining execution, and delivering initiatives on time and on budget. He partners with leaders to align stakeholders, translate strategy into action, and solve complex problems with clear metrics and accountability.

He holds degrees from Willamette University and Arizona State University and is pursuing a Master of Policy Management at Georgetown University.

Jason Sydoriak FRSA

Jason is an economist within the US Department of Transportation. He focuses on land use and economic development. Jason also served in the US Marine Corps infantry and continues his public service with his passion for volunteering in his community.

Rick Griffith FRSA

Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, letterpress printer, and optimist futurist, based in Denver, Colorado. He is a columnist for PRINTmagazine.com and a 2-time programming chair for the AIGA National Conference. He is currently the 2023 Acuff Chair at Austin Peay State University.

He is a co-founder of the graphic design consultancy MATTER, the designer behind the Black Astronaut Research Project, The Pledge for Spaces, and the Introductory Ethic for Designers and Other Thinking Persons. With his partner Debra Johnson, he runs MATTER and The Shop at MATTER– a revolutionary design and social justice bookstore in downtown Denver. He DJs a live internet radio show Design to Kill on Tuesdays at 4 pm Mountain Time where he plays non-confirming music.

Kat Calvin FRSA

Kat Calvin is the founder and executive director of Spread The Vote and the co-founder and CEO of the Project ID Action Fund. A lawyer, activist, and social entrepreneur, Kat has built a national organization that helps Americans obtain the IDs they need for jobs, housing, and life and that also allows them to go to the polls.

LA based Fellows can reach Kat via email.

Carrie Norton FRSA

Carrie Norton is the Founder & CEO of Green Business BASE CAMP, and a founding member of Finpublica’s Board of Directors. She is a systems entrepreneur, advisor, executive coach, and investor with a track record for helping entrepreneurs, organizations, and investors embed sustainability into their DNA and grow responsibly.

As a leader in the entrepreneurial field, Carrie is committed to reclaiming, redefining, and redesigning entrepreneurial success in service of well-being, equity, and inclusion for founders, investors, and organizations in the private and public sectors. She is especially committed to advancing women’s leadership and success at all levels, and to actively collaborating to manifest a regenerative future.

Nicola Brown FRSA

​Nicola Brown FRSA operates at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational vitality, and strategic resilience. For nearly 30 years, she has partnered with C-suite leaders and senior executives across multinational corporations to transform operational friction into sustained growth. Her particular gift is conversation​ as a disciplined architecture for alignment. She enables executives to surface unspoken dynamics, translate them into strategic clarity, and build leadership teams that operate with precision and momentum.

​Nicola designs and leads high-stakes leadership offsites, executive retreats, and board-level strategy sessions. She crafts keynote experiences that reframe how leaders manage capacity, decision quality, and long-term impact. Her work delivers practical frameworks for navigating transformational pressure, restoring focus, and sustaining peak performance at scale.

Ben Brierley FRSA

Ben Brierley is a public policy and strategic communications professional having worked in both the US and UK, including work at the British Consulate in New York. His career spans innovation policy, economic regeneration, criminal justice reform, and STEM education. Central to his work is the development of strategic partnerships – locally, statewide, and internationally – to drive meaningful impact.

Previously, Ben led the US Advanced Engineering & Manufacturing team for the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, supporting transatlantic investment across sectors like aerospace, agri-tech, and space. In London, he managed government relations at Natural England, focused on climate and environmental policy, advised on STEM and innovation at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and led public affairs and cybersecurity policy at Tech UK.

Melissa Wong FRSA

Melissa Wong is a spirited coach, community builder, experience designer, and facilitator who loves connecting people in thoughtful ways that grow our capacity for collective care. She is the founder of Coherence Studio, a work and life design coaching platform where she helps creatives build custom careers that center their unique gifts. She is the host of Coherence Podcast, a show for multi-passionate creative people who want inspiration and practical advice on how to sustain independent, values-driven work.

Prior to her work as a coach she founded New Women Space, a venue that housed over 700 gatherings by artists, healers, organizers, and small business owners; Hustle Fest, a summit for professionals looking to go freelance full time; helped creators at Kickstarter and Soundcloud launch; and has literally produced a circus. Melissa lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner, 2-year-old and 110 lb chocolate lab.

Michael O’Bryan FRSA

Michael O’Bryan is the founder of organizational design strategy firm Humanature, and a practitioner and researcher in the fields of community development, organizational culture, and human wellbeing. He is an advocate for human rights and social change with an approach that pulls from developmental-science research, including trauma theory, and his own hands-on, programmatic experience working in historically excluded communities. Michael is a distinguished resident Fellow at Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and a lecturer in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Most recently, Michael was awarded the 2022 Diversity in Business Award by The Philadelphia Business Journal.

Dr. Jessica Aviva, Ph.D. FRSA

Jessica Aviva, Ph.D. is a writer, researcher, educator, and social change practitioner who leads The Fruition Coalition – a social enterprise that creates flourishing organizations and communities through education, publications, and partnerships that: mobilize and connect people, ideas, and resources; integrate research, intuition, experience, and dreams; and result in meaningful, sustainable change. In that role, she convenes and facilitates The Garden Party for a Flourishing World and supports several nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley regions. Jessica’s dissertation focused on how women leaders in social movement organizations engage similarities and differences as they construct and experience solidarity. She is the author of 17 books including The Joy of Feminist Leadership! Connection and Creativity for Peacekeepers, Bridge Builders, Communal Weavers, and Cosmic Healers. Jessica’s work has encompassed more than 25 years in community-based organizations, 14 years in academia, and six years in local government. She has earned degrees in organizational leadership, nonprofit management, sociology, and marketing. 

Melissa Barker FRSA

Melissa Barker is the founder and CEO of The Phoenix Project, a social impact startup focused on healing and empowering survivors of gendered violence and assault.

As the San Francisco ambassador, she is eager to bridge tech and social good in the areas of trauma healing and transformative care.

Dr. Andrea Lynn FRSA

Dr. Andrea Lynn FRSA is an ecoacoustician studying how sound impacts every living organism. When she is not sailing in the Arctic Ocean, listening for narwhal vocalizations, she is at home in Seattle, investigating new approaches to sound/vibrational awareness and integration. Andrea is the founder and principal of the Cotton Wolf Company. Through this micro social enterprise, she creates acoustic restorative practices and ecoadventures as an educator and soundscape artist. These practices encourage feelings of connection and community, rejuvenating well-being. Andrea tends to disconnection and dissonance by emphasizing nature’s soundscapes, working to rebuild a spirit of oneness with our Earth home.

She listens for ways to open pathways through which to make these practices available to everyone.

Jacqueline M. Baker FRSA

Jacqueline M. Baker is a speaker, author, leadership consultant and advisor known for her unique approach to modern etiquette and leadership. As the author of The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You and Leader by Mistake: Becoming A Leader One Mistake At A Time, she frequently speaks and writes on the leadership-for-all concept. Her inspiration and expertise comes from more than a decade as the founder and principal consultant for Scarlet, a consultancy that provides leadership training to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, community organizations and individuals across the globe. She also leverages her experience serving in a number of corporate board and community service roles. An avid dinner-party hostess, Jacqueline creates space and opportunities to gather groups for compelling conversation, delicious cuisine and untraditional ways for continued leadership development. She is also the host of the podcast, Just Start™: From Ideas To Action.