DIRECTORS

​Mahrinah von Schlegel is an Anthropologist and Sustainable Real Estate Developer with a diverse background in green development and policy, bio-fuels, alternative energies, business development and strategy, music journalism, fine arts dance, and non-profit direction. Born and raised in the South Pacific and Southern California, Mahrinah received her education at the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School of Business. A Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholar who was named “America’s Promising Youth Leader” by Secretary of State Colin Powell, Mahrinah has had a longstanding commitment toward works with a humanist basis and extensive involvement serving on boards and committees for organizations such as the United States Greenbuild Council, Urban Land Institute, and American Planning Association - Latino. She is Associate Festival Director for the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival which has it's first run on October 5th-7th, 2012. Mahrinah is also Founder and Executive Director of Crime Alert, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open data and the evolution of public safety, Founder of Fundadora.com (a digital Spanish-language entrepreneurship community and virtual accelerator), Board of Farmist.com (social CRM for Sustainable Agribusiness), and several other projects currently.