Vanessa Lopez Email Address

Senior Manager

Global Brigades, Inc (USA) was founded in 2007 as a California-based not-for-profit organization and achieved US 501c3 status in 2008. Prior to its creation, Global Brigades solely operated as a Honduran charitable organization as a division of Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos. Click on the annual report below to learn more about its history and social impact.

Vanessa Atamian is the President and Chief Operations Officer for Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Since 2008, she has led the organization's marketing, financial, and administrative operations. Over the years, she has focused on developing internal strategies to strengthen efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Vanessa has led implementation of creating complex organizational structures to allow Global Brigades to operate and manage 11 entities across different countries, while maintaining a shared mission and brand. Vanessa is also a co-founder of Global Brigades's for-profit B-Corp subsidiary, Global Brigades Ventures, Inc, where she provides marketing and accounting consulting services to start-up social enterprises. Vanessa is on the founding team of Global Brigades Venture's first start-up project, Empowered.org, a social movement platform that provides online fundraising and volunteer/donor management tools to organizations.Vanessa has been invited as a guest lecturer in local Seattle universities such as the University of Washington Bothell, Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine, and Seattle Pacific University, on topics ranging from non-profit finances to marketing.