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Preeta is an independent corporate director, investor, nonprofit leader, philanthropist, and lecturer at MIT. She is Global Managing Director and Senior Advisor at LightEn Education Network, a UK-based charitable foundation focused on supporting pathways to raising consciousness for humanity to more fully embody the highest levels of wisdom we hold at our core. A constitutional lawyer by background and an architect of social systems and governance frameworks, Preeta served for more than 25 years in some of the most senior posts in the governmental and corporate sectors. Among her prior roles, she was a general counsel in the Obama White House, Solicitor General of the State of New York, global general counsel of one of the world’s largest banks in London, partner at a leading New York City law firm (Skadden Arps), a US diplomat and Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She has advised on the drafting of the constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Sensing a broader civilizational and historical inflection point, she began exploring (as a lecturer at MIT) the power of ancient tools for harnessing inner transformation for more enduring systems change, as well as studying network science and the role of emerging technologies in amplifying small shifts in consciousness. She is a global anchor of ServiceSpace, a Gandhian ecosystem of 3 million+ volunteers around the world. She returned to her own roots of grass and soil in the American heartland, experimenting with new community-based approaches powered by inside-out transformation, and harnessing and amplifying the spirit of gift and intrinsic motivation. She recently served as Chair of Civic Nebraska, one of the largest democracy-building organizations in the heartland, as well as global chair of the United Religions Initiative, the largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding organization. She has served on numerous local and global nonprofit, foundation, and university boards, and also sits on the board of publicly traded corporations. She is an investor and philanthropist experimenting with new ways of using financial capital to seed transformation and greater connection of our species to soul, soil, and society. A Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School.
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