Jessie Schutt-Aine

Jessie Schutt-Aine is a global health leader with over 25 years of experience in non-profit organizations and the United Nations system. Prior to her current position as Executive Director of the Clara Lionel Foundation, Jessie served five years as a board member, chairing the Board’s Programs and Impact Committee and as Board Vice President. 

Jessie has held numerous impactful roles throughout her career, including Chief, Equity, Gender, and Cultural Diversity at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, and headed the World Health Organization’s Caribbean program and acted as liaison to CARICOM and Caribbean regional institutions. Her experience also spans positions at UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  

As a Senior Advisor, Jessie advises Girls With Impact, an online entrepreneurship program for girls, she started the 100K Black girls initiative to train and mentor underserved black girls. Additionally, she serves as a Group Lead for Fund II Foundation’s Task Group for Black Maternal Health. 

Jessie holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health focused on population and family health, in addition to a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Economics and French from the University of Virginia, and studied abroad at the University of Valencia and the University of Paris, Sorbonne. 

Jessie has lived and worked in various countries, including Barbados, Switzerland, Martinique, Haiti, Senegal, the UK, France and Spain, enriching her global perspective and approach to social justice and health equity.