Leadership

RACHEL LEVITT

Program Lead
​Hunt Institute Social Enterprise​

Rachel is an MBA Candidate at SMU's Cox School of Business, concentrating in management and marketing, with a specialization in customer engagement. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 with a B.S. in Public Relations and concentrations in Business, Spanish, and Social Entrepreneurship. After college, Rachel worked as an elementary school teacher for 7 years, where she honed her communication, leadership, and data analysis skills. 
 
As the program lead for the Hunt Institute’s Social Enterprise Program, Rachel is thrilled to have the opportunity to combine her background, current education, and passion for social impact work. At SMU, she leads the Cox chapter of Net Impact, an organization that brings together professionals who seek to give back to the community through their careers. 
 
For more information about Rachel Levitt, see her full bio here. 

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DR. EVA CSAKY

Executive Director
​Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

​Dr. Csaky has been working with social entrepreneurs from around the world for 25 years.  She also has significant global experience with the agrifood sector, having served as Lead for Sustainable Agrifood Value Chain Finance at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, working in over two dozen countries around the world.

​She focused her doctoral work on sustainable food systems, global value chains (GVCs) and smallholder farmer aggregation and inclusion in GVCs.  Locally, Dr. Csaky has been involved with the Dallas food desert problem and equitable and sustainable solutions since she arrived in Dallas 6 years ago.  She serves as an advisor to the United Nations.

For more information about Dr. Csaky, see her full bio here.

Advisory Council

DR. CANDICE BLEDSOE

Hunt Institute Fellow
​​Faculty, Simmons School of Education

DR. DUNCAN MCFARLANE

Hunt Institute Senior Fellow
​Lyle Chair in Engineering 
​Entrepreneurship

DEBRA PERRY 
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Hunt Institute Senior Fellow
Former Principal Investment Officer,  IFC

TAYLOR READY
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Associate,
​Mark Cuban Companies

YASMIN SAADAT

Senior Fellow
Agricultural Sector Expert
Former Global Trade-Commodity Head, IFC

PAUL SALVODELLI

CEO, Americas Management Group

SUZANNE SMITH

Founder, Social Impact Architects

BENJAMIN VANN

Founder and CEO, Impact Ventures

Hunt Institute Social Entrepreneurs also have access to our expert Fellows.

Team

STEWART NIXON

Hunt Institute MBA Consultant​​
Professional MBA Cohort 86
Concentration: Energy Finance

EMILY BROWN

Member, MBA Business Plan Committee
MA/MBA Class of 2021
Forté Fellow

HANNAH DOUGLAS

Member, MBA Business Plan Committee
MBA Class of 2020
Concentration:
​Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Forté Fellow