Folks powering Leherum
Teresa is a systems-minded innovator working across impact investing, social entrepreneurship, and ecosystem development. She blends granular insight with broad-scale thinking to unlock new pathways for positive social change. Her perspective is shaped by experience in venture capital, her own entrepreneurial projects, and collaborations with nonprofits and universities, as well as academic training in innovation at Arizona State University and Stanford University.
Teresa believes deeply in the value of interconnection and altruism - principles that for her translate into social innovation. She is dedicated to building environments - digital, physical, and systemic - that help individuals and communities thrive and move toward more harmonious, equitable futures.
Teresa Baldini
Jigyasa Sidana
Jigyasa Sidana is a development economics professional and brings eight years of experience leading program design, monitoring and evaluation, and cross-sector partnerships across education, livelihoods, agriculture, and climate. Her work spans both grassroots implementation and systems-level strategy, with experience including developing the performance monitoring framework for the World Bank’s Global Agriculture & Food Security Program, conducting meta-evaluations for USAID’s climate portfolio, designing micro-entrepreneurship curricula for SEWA Bharat, and supporting policy evaluation of India’s Right to Education Act with local governments and Teach For India.
She is skilled in data storytelling and visualisation, synthesising complex datasets, stakeholder insights, and systems-level metrics into actionable learning products and dashboards for executive decision-makers.
Jigyasa is driven by a commitment to applying behavioral economics principles and evidence-based decision-making to advance innovative finance and private capital mobilization aimed at improving social service delivery and expanding economic opportunity.
