Pilar Harris

Pilar Harris has diverse work experience in various organizations and roles. From 2015 to 2016, they worked as a Project Lead for NYU Steinhardt Summer in South Africa and as a Digital Marketing Assistant for The Urbanization Project at NYU Stern School of Business. In 2016, they joined Tata Communications as a Project Coordinator, where they coordinated a CGI pilot project focused on empowering women through improved access to ICT/telecomms tools. From 2017 to 2018, Pilar worked as a Project Coordinator for the Global Sales Organization at LinkedIn, supporting leaders in the Marketing Solutions line of business and driving diversity and inclusion initiatives. Pilar then transitioned to a role as a Strategic Partnerships Lead at The Female Quotient in 2018, managing relationships with Fortune 100 brands to fuel a global thought leadership program focused on gender equality. Pilar joined Global Citizen in 2020, first as a Director of Global Partnerships and then as a Senior Director of Global Corporate Partnerships. In these roles, they led partnerships with major brands, overseeing the development of impactful corporate sponsorship programs to end extreme poverty. In 2022, Pilar became Head of Partnerships at Lean In, a position they held before joining Las Vegas Grand Prix, Inc. as the Sr Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Partnerships for Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Inc.

Pilar Harris pursued their education by completing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Sociology from the University of California, Riverside, between the years 2006 and 2010. Later, from 2014 to 2016, they obtained a Master's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a focus on Liberal Studies from New York University.