Aleithia Low

Aleithia is a Program Associate at Waverley Street Foundation, where she supports the foundation’s global grantmaking. She previously established and managed Magnuson Trust’s philanthropic work in climate resilience, anti-trafficking, and sustainable livelihoods across Southeast Asia. She worked closely with the family office to determine their strategic priorities, and supported initiatives to address vulnerability to migration, exploitation, climate impacts, and other structural inequities. She has also held research and communications roles at Yara International’s Digital Agricultural Solutions unit, Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), Asia Philanthropy Circle, Leap Philanthropy, and an urban farm in Singapore. Her work in social and environmental impact began with a formative experience in Hanoi, Vietnam where she ran an arts education program with veterans and children that still suffer the impacts of Agent Orange and the American War in Vietnam. Most recently, she conducted research at the intersections of conflict, peacebuilding, and the environment, and spent six months in Colombia, learning from trauma healing and grassroots peacebuilding organizations in Bogotá and Sincelejo. Her experiences in conflict-affected regions, where violence has broken the relationships between human and more-than-human beings, drive her deep commitment to justice, accountability, reparations, and healing for communities that are most-affected by the impacts of climate change, development, and conflict. She holds a Master of Global Affairs in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Bachelor’s of Arts from Yale-NUS College in Singapore.