About Vital Impacts

Ami Vitale is a National Geographic Explorer at Large, award-winning photographer, writer, documentary filmmaker, and the founder of Vital Impacts. Her work explores the vital connections between people, wildlife, and the planet. With nearly three decades of experience working in over 100 countries, Ami uses storytelling as a tool for conservation, empathy, and action.

Her career began in conflict zones, where she witnessed firsthand how environmental degradation—including resource scarcity, displacement, and climate instability—profoundly affects human lives. These early experiences shaped her conviction that environmental and social issues are inseparable, guiding her toward long-term, solutions-focused work that highlights resilience, collaboration, and possibility.

Her work has been recognized with numerous honors, including Conservation International’s Lui-Walton Innovators Fellowship, the Lucie Humanitarian Award, the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and six World Press Photo awards. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and an inductee into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame.

Through both her nonprofit leadership and her own creative work, she remains deeply committed to empowering emerging voices and advancing a more hopeful, solutions-driven future for our planet.

Nadia Allaudin is a Managing Director and Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Century City with more than 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. She earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation and is entrusted with over $1 billion in assets and liabilities.

Nadia founded the annual Women, Wealth & Wisdom Conference in Los Angeles. She brings together professional women to foster deeper relationships and participate in discussions with renowned speakers on health/wellness, leadership and spiritual best practices. She is the Board Chair for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and is also a Board Member of the non-profit MADRE.

Anastasia Khoo is the President of American Promise. In this role, she oversees the day-to-day execution of the organization's mission and rapid nationwide expansion. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff, Senior Advisor and Chief Marketing Officer for Conservation International. During her tenure, the organization doubled in size and scale as well as grew in terms of brand positioning, media placements and exposure.

Prior to joining Conservation International, Khoo was the CMO for the Human Rights Campaign. She led historic marketing efforts during the marriage equality campaign associated with the record-breaking “red equal sign” campaign as well as three U.S. Supreme Court cases, five election cycles, and worked to advance federal legislation across the aisle. Additionally, she led conversations across the country through state-based campaigns such as “All God’s Children” in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas as well as other targeted state outreach in election cycles as well as beyond.

Anne Kronschnabl is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she advises corporate, public-sector, and nonprofit organizations on strategy, growth, and transformation. Her work sits at the intersection of business and the natural world, with a focus on the consumer sector and the growing role of nature and biodiversity in corporate strategy. Anne co-leads McKinsey’s Nature service line in North America, helping organizations understand their dependencies and impacts on nature and develop strategies to reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and contribute to a more nature-positive future. She has co-authored leading research on corporate commitments to nature and advised organizations seeking to integrate biodiversity and nature considerations into decision-making and investment strategies.

David Stein is a Senior Partner in the global law firm Withers, where his practice focuses on tax, trust, estate, and charitable planning for wealthy US and international families. David advises clients on a wide range of legal and strategic matters, often serving as outside general counsel to families and family offices. He has also served families in fiduciary roles, including in complex matters involving investments and trust distributions.

David advises families on their philanthropic endeavors and counsels public charities and private foundations on matters including tax exemption, the tax aspects of operations and investments, and the structuring of charitable gifts.

He has been recognized by Business Insider as one of the “21 People to Know When Starting a Family Office” and is a frequent speaker at professional and private family organization events on income tax, estate planning, and charitable giving. He has also written on tax matters for various publications and has been recognized as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 US Guide for International Tax in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Wanjiku Kinuthia has close to a decade’s experience in high-level conservation communications with a skill set that includes conservation storytelling, donor communications, digital strategy, organizational branding, and press engagement. She currently works for Maliasili, an organisation that enables local, community-centric conservation organisations to become even more effective. Before joining Maliasili, she worked with the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and Space for Giants. She is a strong believer that effective communications is critical to helping conservation organizations achieve their goals, amplify their voices, and shape global conversations. 

Amy Scarfone has held design leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon. Her digital design experience spans over two decades of shipping software for virtual reality, gaming, mobile platforms, and websites. Dr. Scarfone has garnered ten patents for software innovation design and her work has been featured and honored in a wide range of books, articles, interviews, conferences, and galleries such as The Apple Keynote, The Boston Cyberarts Festival, Time, Mashable, Engadget, and many others.