Who We Are
Sita Schutt
Founding Director of Prospero
After 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 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 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'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.