Who We Are

Sita Schutt

Founding Director of Prospero

Sita SchuttAfter working for 5 years as a lecturer in English in the UK and Turkey, Sita volunteered for a creative literacy programme working with adolescent girls in Rajasthan, India. Since then she has researched and visited a range of development projects in Thailand, Africa and India and worked in an advisory capacity helping donors to make choices about international grassroots organisations. She founded Prospero in 2007 following a growing interest in a donor recommendation service.

Sita read English at Oxford and then obtained her PhD from King's College, London.

Anna-Louisa Psarras

Consultant

Anna-Louisa PsarrasAnna-Louisa has 8 years experience in the third sector. She has worked on issues including the environment, human rights, election monitoring and the rule of law, community development and crisis response. Her work has taken her to Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Before joining Prospero, Anna-Louisa was the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Benefit Foundation. Anna-Louisa graduated from Edinburgh University in 2001 with an MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Religious Studies.

Bridget Franklin

Consultant

Bridget FranklinBridget Franklin is a consultant with 15 years of experience in the UK charity sector. She has been a fundraiser specialising in Trusts and Major Gifts and most recently was Charity Director of ShareGift, a grant-making charity specialising in share donations, where she ran the charity's grants programme of approximately £2 million.

Bridget has an MA in Classics from Cambridge University.

Sandra Lauckner-Rothschild

Researcher and event organiser

Sandra Lauckner-RothschildSandra's area of specialisation is in international development and her experience ranges from the academic to hands-on field work, including children's charities in Guatemala and South Africa. She was also assistant to the Counselor of Development Co-operation at the German Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.

She holds a Masters in Social Anthropology and Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA and Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany.