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Sono Aibe has spent half of her career in reproductive health philanthropy and grantmaking, and the other half directing and implementing programs in the US, Asia and Africa at various non-profit organizations. She specializes in promoting interdisciplinary policies and programs that link women’s reproductive health and justice to environmental issues, including the climate crisis. She has spent the last few years at 128 Collective, a family philanthropy in San Francisco, looking at how best to support partners to ensure that women’s rights and health do not fall off the climate agenda. Before that, she worked for the UN Foundation/FP2030, Pathfinder International and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in a variety of roles. Sono has a Master’s in Health Science from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in International Health, and a History of Science degree from Harvard University. She was born in Japan and grew up in Hong Kong, but the San Francisco Bay Area has been her home for the last 29 years.