Mila Rosenthal

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Mila Rosenthal is an agitator and campaigner for rights, justice, and a healthy planet. Mila helped to daydream Planet Reimagined into existence and nurture it into substance. 

Mila played a central role in designing the global campaign for the Sustainable Development Goals in her previous iteration as the head of communications and advocacy for the United Nations Development Programme. Most recently, at the New York Academy of Sciences, Mila established the International Science Reserve to build open networks of researchers and scientific institutions to respond to global climate and health disasters. She also teaches human rights and climate policy advocacy at Columbia University and nourishes literacy and arts education in New York City’s poorest communities as a Board member of the Shakespeare Forum.

On her long and winding road, Mila led people and programs at other righteous institutions including Amnesty International, HealthRight International, and Concern Worldwide. She had the privilege to work in several countries in Africa, and before that lived for a decade in Asia, including as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia. In Vietnam, the women factory workers who generously shared their lives and work with Mila for two years gave her the research basis for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics; and cemented her commitment to working with and on behalf of people and communities to claim their human rights.