Mila Rosenthal

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Mila Rosenthal is an agitator and educator in the global fight for rights, justice, and a healthy planet. Mila helped to daydream Planet Reimagined into existence and nurture it into substance. With Planet Reimagined, she co-created the Eyes on the Goals and iHeart Radio PSA series in her previous iteration as the head of communications and advocacy for the United Nations Development Programme. Currently, at the New York Academy of Sciences, Mila runs the International Science Reserve, connecting open communities of scientists and scientific resources to respond to global climate and health disasters. Mila also teaches human rights at Columbia University and nourishes literacy and arts education in New York City’s poorest communities as a Board member of the Shakespeare Forum.

On her long and winding road, Mila led people and programs at other righteous institutions including Amnesty International, HealthRight International, and Concern Worldwide. Without labelling herself an expert, Mila had the privilege to work in several countries in Africa, and before that in Southeast Asia, including as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia. In Vietnam, the women factory workers who generously shared their lives and work with Mila for two years gave her the research basis for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics; and cemented her commitment to working with and on behalf of people and communities to claim their human rights.