Claudia Saavedra

Consultant, Crowe LLP

New York City

Claudia is currently a consultant at Crowe LLP. She graduated with her Masters (2020) and bachelors (2018) in Public Administration top of her class as an Honors Living-Learning Community Scholar at Rutgers University-Newark. Her personal experience coming from poverty, first-generation American and a first-generation college student inspires her to provide economic opportunities to communities worldwide.

Claudia first got into policy development when she was 15 years old where she wrote a policy for her high school that helped international students with the transition into high school and was implemented when she was 16 years old. At the age of 20, Saavedra was elected as the first Latina woman on the Board of Trustees of County College of Morris as the Alumni Trustee, representing 8,000+ students. In this position, she proposed an artificial intelligence degree program that was enacted the following year. Her passion for breaking down barriers led her to found a college and career access online mentoring platform that reached over 400+ students nationally and internationally. Currently, she is launching a common application for scholarships and professional development opportunities.

She was selected to represent the U.S as a Dalai Lama Fellow, an organization authorized by the 14th Dalai Lama investing in young leaders. In 2018, Claudia’s work has been featured by Project Weave, a social impact project founded by NY Times best-selling author and political commentator, David Brooks, Google for Hispanic Heritage Month, and she was selected as Forbes 30 under 30 scholar.

She is an Aspen Institute Fellow, Braven Fellow, Resolution Project Fellow, Management Leadership for Tomorrow Fellow, and 4.0 Schools Essentials Fellow.

In her free time, she can be found kayaking, hiking, or petting the nearest dog.