Michelle Miller

Vice President of Program Operations, Center for Women & Enterprise

 Michelle oversees CWE's direct services to entrepreneurs: the six programmatic hubs (five Women's Business Centers and the Veterans Business Outreach Center of New England), and Supplier Engagement. With a background in entrepreneurship and economic development, Michelle previously ran a coffee shop for five years—a social enterprise dedicated to highlighting working conditions in South America and providing vocational training to people with disabilities. She has also managed economic development and rehabilitation programs in Massachusetts, Colombia, Peru, and Nicaragua. These programs supported conflict victims by offering services such as prosthetic donations and fittings, psychosocial rehabilitation, and microfinance.

Michelle’s guiding philosophy is ‘Everything is figureoutable,’ and she believes that when women mobilize, they can move mountains. Her work with CWE provides an incredible opportunity to help lift up the women who lift up the world.

Lucia Sanchez

Vice President of Impact & Learning, Center for Women & Enterprise 

Lucia Sanchez leads CWE’s efforts to become a dynamic learning hub that uses data and evidence to increase its impact. With nearly two decades of experience in economic development across public, nonprofit, and academic sectors, she provides strategic leadership in shaping and executing impactful strategies to support women entrepreneurs. Prior to joining CWE, Lucia spent 10 years at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), where she led the Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development Program, coordinating research networks and agendas to inform development policies and interventions. She holds a Master's in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University.

Diego Ubfal

Senior Economist in the Gender Department, World Bank

Diego Ubfal is a Senior Economist in the World Bank's Gender Department, where he leads a team on Strategic Country Engagement and coordinates the Federation of Gender Innovation Labs, while managing the knowledge agenda on entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and gender. His research spans business training, soft-skills development, access to markets, and financial inclusion, with publications in journals such as the American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Nature, Demography, and the Journal of Development Economics. Prior to joining the World Bank, Diego was an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University and a research affiliate at J-PAL. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD in Economics from UCLA, a Master's from the University of San Andrés, and a Bachelor's from the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught Impact Evaluation and Development Economics at Bocconi and Columbia University.