Manuela Cleves

Manuela Cleves is an interdisciplinary social innovator, educator, and data scientist focused on leveraging data-driven approaches to achieve better social and environmental outcomes. They served as a Research Fellow at The Good Food Institute, contributing to infrastructure investment research in the alternative protein industry, and as a Technical Expert at Instiglio, where they designed and advised on results-based financing models for social impact. They currently teach programmable robotics to elementary school children at Building Imagination while pursuing a Master's degree in Data Science & AI at the University of the Arts London. Manuela also held various roles in impact investing, including coordinating the first Social Impact Bond in Colombia.