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Manuela Nivia is a Senior Manager for Hemispheric Migration at Emerson Collective, where she works to advance the socioeconomic integration and economic mobility of migrants across Latin America. Prior to joining EC, she worked in geopolitical consulting at Albright Stonebridge Group and managed a multimillion-dollar portfolio of development grants across Latin America focused on food security and conflict mitigation at the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. She also served as an international development fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she designed and launched an ongoing initiative supporting young migrant and refugee women. Manuela holds a Master in Public Policy in Global Affairs from Yale University, where she was a Kerry Fellow, and a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies with a concentration in Latin America from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
