Deena Burjorjee is a financial inclusion specialist and Lead Facilitator of FinEquity. She has authored numerous papers on access to finance topics related to gender, refugees, and market systems development, and she has produced technical guides to support the capacity development of member-based associations. She has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. She has taught courses and workshops on microfinance at the university’s Graduate School for International and Public Affairs. She was a technical adviser and program manager at the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Capital Development Fund in 1997–2006. 

Yasmin Bin-Humam works on analyzing excluded segments to more closely examine who remains financially excluded and how financial services might impact their lives. She also serves as a focal point for CGAP’s gender mainstreaming and is the program manager for FinEquity. Yasmin has Juris Doctorate and master’s degrees from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard.  

Diana Dezso leads the Data and Measurement Working Group of FinEquity. Diana has 20 years of experience in the financial inclusion sector. She specializes in knowledge management, organizational development and learning, capacity assessments, program implementation and evaluation, and new business development. She has worked in senior leadership positions of international organizations in both Washington DC and the field, including the SEEP Network and ACCION USA. Diana has an MPA from New York University. She is fluent in Romanian, proficient in Spanish, and speaks basic French. 

Catherine Highet leads the Technology working group at FinEquity. Prior to this role, she worked with the GSMA Connected Women program and FHI 360, focusing on digital inclusion activities, including DFS, digital identity and gender equality. Catherine has also consulted for several digital development partners in the public and private sector including IREX, Mozilla and Souktel. 

Nisha Singh leads the Social Norms Working Group FinEquity. Prior to that she worked at The SEEP Network, for almost nine years and focused on industry learning, collaboration and standard setting for inclusive financial and market systems. She started her journey in international development in India where she worked for several years on livelihood financing, gender issues and capacity building for microfinance institutions. 

Dietlind Lerner is the communications lead for FinEquity. In this position, she is responsible for spurring greater exchange between our community members and promoting our work with key decision-makers and implementers around the world. Dietlind's past work experience includes communications leadership roles at Greenpeace International, the Open Government Partnership, the Financial Transparency Coalition and the Center for Justice and Accountability. She also spent a decade as a foreign correspondent based in Berlin and Paris covering politics and social justice issues across Europe and Africa.