Vicki-Ann Assevero is a senior legal counsel, consultant on transactional mediation and social entrepreneur with a longstanding interest in sustainable development. In 2012 she founded The Green Market Santa Cruz, which the UNEP recognized in 2016 as an example of integrated sustainable development in practice. A graduate of Yale College, Harvard Law School, in 2010 she received an LLM in Sustainable Development Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.