Patricia Jurewicz
Founder and ceo
Patricia is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Responsible Sourcing Network, which she started in 2009. Currently she sits on advisory committees for the Cotton Campaign, ICCR’s Human Rights/Worker Rights Leadership Group, KnowTheChain, and the Responsible Minerals Initiative. Patricia started managing the Human Rights department inside As You Sow’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program in 2006. In that role she led the Human Rights Program to tackle labor abuses at the factory level, and she began ground-breaking work addressing forced labor and extortion at the commodity level of supply chains.
Preceding As You Sow, Patricia was at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) directing the Global Cooperation Project, and at Gap, Inc., where she spearheaded a rewrite of the company’s Vendor Handbook. She has past work experience with natural dyes, Latino political outreach, and women’s craft cooperatives in Latin America. Patricia has an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and undergraduate degrees from Cornell University and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Raphaël Deberdt
Minerals Program Researcher
Raphael is a recognized consultant on mineral supply chains sustainability, having worked with UNDP, the European Commission as well as private companies including RCS Global Group, SCS Global Services, and the Responsible Minerals Initiative. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Colorado School of Mines. Prior to joining Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) as the lead author of Mining the Disclosures 2017 and 2018, Raphael worked for Global Witness in Washington D.C. focusing on Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act. He completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2023, focusing on the integration of artisanal cobalt miners in global supply chains. He is now exploring broader issues of injustice and inequalities within the energy transition as well as the development of new mining frontiers, including deep sea mining.
Raphael holds an MA in International Relations from Sciences Po Lyon, an MA in African Studies from Stanford University, and LLM in African Legal Studies from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an MA in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia.
Michael Baldino-Kelly
Director of Program Development
Michael Baldino-Kelly has a diverse background in international development, global public health, and the humanitarian sector. His primary focus areas include monitoring and evaluation, program development, and program performance with a focus on quality improvement. Michael’s career has seen him support civil society development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and emergency response work around the globe.
At RSN, Michael is leading efforts to scale initiatives and enhance capacity building with partners, focusing on ethical and sustainable sourcing practices globally.
Originally from Philadelphia, Michael divides his time between the US and Italy.
Emilie Switzer Jakobsen
stakeholder engagement Coordinator
Emilie is the Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator for RSN and the YESS initiative, where her focus is on sponsor relationships, marketing, and communications for the YESS initiative.
Emilie is from Denmark, which is also where she got her degree in design and business. Shortly after, she moved to LA to obtain a certificate in Sustainability at UCLA. For several years, she has been working to implement sustainable practices in the fashion industry.