Osler's Razor

I have devoted Wednesdays (mostly) to profiling my classmates in the Yale Law class of 1990. It's been a great adventure, and we continue that today!

In law school, Lovely Dhillon seemed like she had her act together-- and she did. Like me, she was one of the relatively few people who came to Yale Law from a state school (in her case, Florida State).  She was smart and poised and had a certain elan that most of us 20-somethings lacked. 

After law school, she headed for San Francisco, where she worked for Amnesty International, the California Minority Counsel Program (which she grew to a significant size as Executive Director), as an Assistant District Attorney, and as CEO of the Law School Consortium Project.

All of that prepared her for a role as Deputy Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which... well, you probably know what they do, and it's a lot.

Currently, she is the CEO of Jodevi Consulting, which works with businesses and non-profits to create data-informed social impact projects. It is important work: I am often amazed at how many people give away money without a systemic vision of what they want to change (or preserve, as the case may be).

Philanthropy makes a lot of the mechanisms I care about work. I'm glad that Lovely has devoted her career to a sector that needs talent like hers.