Based in San Francisco, Samali is passionate about investing in people and ideas that can change the world. As COO of New Ventures for High Resolves, Samali is leading a new initiative to build a technology platform and ecosystem for citizenship education across the US. She has a decade of experience advising technology startups and nonprofits across the US and Australia, and she’s currently a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, a network-driven venture capital firm. Previously, Samali was an investor at the Urban Innovation Fund, a director at Tumml, and a corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney. Samali, who has a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, is a John Monash Scholar and an Australian American Young Leadership Dialogue Fellow.