Grillon

Natalie Grillon, a 2012 MBA graduate of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, was named an Acumen Fund Class of 2013 Global fellow. The Acumen Fund Global Fellows Program is a one-year fellowship that combines two months of leadership training in New York City with a 10-month field placement in India, Pakistan, East Africa or West Africa. Fellows provide management support to an Acumen company tackling global poverty.

The prestigious fellowship selected fewer than 1 percent of more than 1,000 applicants from more than 100 countries. Grillon joins nine other fellows who represent eight countries, speak 11 languages and bring a depth of global experience ranging from software engineering at Google to directing operations at a fashion house in Saudi Arabia.

"The Acumen Fund's Fellows Program is highly regarded for preparing its participants for careers in social enterprise and impact investing," said Mark Milstein, director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.

Grillon is the first Johnson student to be selected for the program since its inception in 2007. She holds a B.S. in international politics from Georgetown University and came to Johnson after working as a natural resource management specialist with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali. She also worked in environmental and sustainability planning for a Massachusetts municipality and was a sustainability strategy and marketing intern at S.C. Johnson in 2011.

At Johnson at Cornell, Grillon was a member of the Sustainable Global Enterprise immersion, a semester-long class coupled with an external consulting project. Her Johnson consulting experience ranged from advising a multinational chemical company to devising a marketing plan for a local land trust.