Avni leads efforts to use storytelling and strategic communications to mobilize stakeholders around the Center's mission. With a career spanning journalism and corporate social impact, she is dedicated to lifting up ideas, people and solutions to make a positive difference.

Prior to joining the Center in 2015, Avni served as a producer at ABC News and NBC News where she managed editorial teams to develop major investigative projects and wrote and reported in-depth business, consumer and political stories for their digital and broadcast platforms. Her reporting was honored with two national Emmy awards, a DuPont-Columbia award, a Peabody award and an Edward R. Murrow award.

She was also named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Avni graduated with a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons.

Avni Patel