Our Team

Cristy St. John is an experienced development professional. With more than 12 years nonprofit experience and 7 years fundraising experience. A mission-driven professional, Cristy is passionate about supporting under-served communities around the globe and seeks out organizations that provide services and programs to end institutional inequities and social injustices. Cristy believes that relationship-building is the key to success.

Cristy is the Director of Individual Giving at Do Something Org. Cristy joined Ensaaf’s Board in 2017. Cristy is a trained Social Worker, Public Health researcher and Photographer. Cristy holds an MSSW with a concentration in International Social Welfare and Social Enterprise Administration from Columbia University and an MPH from New York University’s Global Public Health School with a concentration in International Community Health and HIV Prevention. Cristy has worked on clinical trial transparency, health education, HIV/AIDS prevention, public school counseling, water and sanitation, constitutional rights for women, gender and racial equity activism and qualitative public health and medical social work research. Cristy has provided freelance photography and marketing consulting services to nonprofits, journalists, authors, medical professionals, small business, activists, TV talk shows, podcasts and performance artists. Cristy has lived and worked internationally in places such as India, Ghana, Spain, Zambia, and the UK. Cristy is a first generation American born in NYC.

Alex Beck is the Head of Operations at Lattice Investments, where he oversees core business development and designs quantitative asset and risk management strategies. Alex has been involved in algorithmic portfolio management for seven years and specializes in developing strategies in Python and R. Alex is experienced in applied and theoretical mathematics, macroeconomics, emerging market modeling, and geopolitical analysis. Additionally, Alex has lived in China for more than two years, is proficient in Mandarin Chinese (HSK 5), holds a FINRA Series 3 Futures Trading License, and is an avid tennis player having previously participated in numerous professional ITF tournaments.

Elvis Fraser is the Founder and Managing Director of Sankofa Consulting, LLC, a Seattle-based international development consulting firm focused on outcomes and impact metrics and measurement. Previously, Dr. Fraser was a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has 25 years of experience in international and domestic development research and program evaluation. His primary expertise is in social science research and evaluation; policy analysis; economic analysis; ethnographic studies; process and impact evaluation; performance monitoring; operations research; and translational research. Dr. Fraser has published research papers on democracy and international human rights, political instability, and the interrelationships among social, political, and economic development. Dr. Fraser has a doctorate in socio-economics, with a concentration on international development. He has conducted research and has published on the interrelationships among social, political, and economic development. Dr. Fraser also has extensive experience working on the in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. He has working proficiency in Spanish.

Jaskaran Kaur is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Ensaaf, a nonprofit organization working to end impunity and achieve justice for crimes against humanity in Punjab. Ensaaf conducted the largest-ever human rights documentation project in India, covering over 12,000 villages in Punjab. The Crimes Against Humanity Data Project houses over 5300 profiles and provides data visualizations of widespread and systematic enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions. Ensaaf is currently building a companion video site. Jaskaran has also authored several seminal reports on human rights abuses in India, including Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India, Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India, and, as a contributing author, Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab. Jaskaran is a 2006 Echoing Green fellow. She graduated with distinction from Yale College and Harvard Law School. In her free time, Jaskaran enjoys spending time with her family and puppies, practicing Krav Maga, and making crafts. She is a blue belt in Krav Maga.

Navtej Purewal is a Professor of Political Sociology and Development Studies at SOAS University of London with a specialism in South Asia and Punjab. She was previously Deputy Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on issues of social inequality such as caste and gender, state and structural violence, and bordering processes in Punjab and the diaspora.

Sukhman Dhami is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Ensaaf (2004), a human rights organization that works to end impunity and achieve justice for crimes against humanity in India, with a special focus on Punjab. Sukhman was the recipient of the 2004 Unity Award from the San Francisco Coalition of Minority Bars and South Asian Bar Association for his outstanding service to the legal community. He is a 2006 Echoing Green fellow, and also received a two-year fellowship through the Ford Foundation to work with the Center for Justice & Accountability. Sukhman has published several articles and reports on human rights in India with The Hill, Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Watch, and The Public International Law & Policy Group, where he also serves on the Advisory Board. He earned his J.D. and M.A. from the American University.