Melinda (Chow) Alankar possesses a robust legal and investment background, currently serving as the Director of Investment and Funding Opportunities at the Anthropocene Institute. Previously, Melinda held the position of General Counsel at DebiasVR and was a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, following an associate role at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Melinda earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School between 2003 and 2006 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2002.