Our Staff and Board

Kelle Louaillier has been with Corporate Accountability International for nearly two decades, serving as director of international outreach, campaign director, development director, and associate director before becoming the organization’s executive director in 2007. Under her leadership, Corporate Accountability International (formerly Infact) helped move General Electric out of the nuclear weapons business, spearheaded grassroots efforts behind the passage of the global tobacco treaty, and launched the nationwide Think Outside the Bottle and Value [the] Meal campaigns. Louaillier has been the driving force behind the campaign’s rapid expansion with corporate shareholders, city officials, campuses and faith communities across the country. Prior to joining Corporate Accountability International, Louaillier taught math in the Central African Republic and worked to empower homeless youth in Seattle. She holds degrees in French, philosophy and mathematics from Seattle University.

Folsom has been instrumental in shaping the Think Outside the Bottle and Value [the] Meal campaigns. As a national and international organizer, she played a key role in the creation and implementation of the global tobacco treaty. She continues to serve as a Corporate Accountability International spokesperson and lead numerous organizing and fundraising trainings in the U.S. and across the globe. Before joining the Corporate Accountability team in 2001, she played a lead role on several electoral campaigns, including for the re-election of U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman.

Lynn has guided the strategy behind the Think Outside the Bottle and Value [the] Meal campaigns, and was instrumental in mobilizing activists and allies around the world to push governments to ratify the global tobacco treaty. Before joining our staff over a decade ago, Lynn campaigned successfully to stop rollbacks on federal clean water laws, and advocated for consumer protections in a battle over deregulation of the electric utility industry in Massachusetts. She holds an M.A. in International Peace Studies and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.

Lapidus has led national organizing initiatives on Value [the] Meal and Think Outside the Bottle. She has worked closely with community leaders, elected officials, corporate shareholders and public health leaders for the pat 5 years. A graduate of Brown University, Lapidus has moved thousands to action through her public speaking and direct organizing.

Named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as "one of the environmental world's major new forces," Samuelrich oversees Corporate Accountability International's campaign, research, communications and administration and recruitment programs. Samuelrich is the former Executive Director of Green Corps, which has recruited and trained thousands of young people to become grassroots environmental organizers. She received a B.A. in economics from Boston College.

Kristin Urquiza oversees the day-to-day work and the national organizers of the Think Outside the Bottle campaign, acts as the principle liaison with our leading mayors and governors, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and National Governors Association, and Green Corps. She spent a number of years working with the Public Interest Network before she joined Corporate Accountability International staff.

A seasoned organizer, Kellett led outreach to mayors, faith groups, key allies and members for our Think Outside the Bottle campaign, sparking a national movement. She continues to be a powerful spokesperson for the campaign. Currently Kellett leads a team of talented and committed organizers to expand the reach of all our campaigns across the country. Before joining the Corporate Accountability team in 2004, she led the one of the first state-wide campaigns in the country to establish Maryland’s renewable energy programs and roll back climate change. As an advocate with the Maryland Public Interest Research Group she also worked on consumer protection initiatives.

Trained as a human rights lawyer, Mazorra worked with Consumers International to monitor and support the ratification and implementation processes of the global tobacco treaty in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica prior to joining staff in 2005. In his work in Latin America, he has participated in various international and regional gatherings including the World Social Forum, Intergovernmental Working Group, and People's Health Assembly. Mazorra is based in Bogota, Colombia, and is working with NGO's and governments in Latin America on our water and tobacco programs.

Historian, scholar and educator, T.J. Boisseau is a professor of women's and African American history at the University of Akron in Ohio. Boisseau has been active with Corporate Accountability International since 1990.