About
Isabel Mejía Fontanot leads the recruitment of mayors and cities for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s annual flagship program and the Program for New Mayors. As a recruitment and strategy analyst, she also supports the Initiative’s Strategy and Impact team through data management, systems development, impact measurement, and donor reporting to help ensure that programming for city leaders is evidence-based and aligned with strategic goals.
Before joining the Initiative, Isabel served as a Bloomberg Harvard Summer Fellow with the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, helping design a user-informed strategy to improve bulky waste collection. Earlier in her career, she spent five years at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), leading the design and scaling of evidence-based interventions and building partnerships with governments, researchers, and donors across Latin America.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
