One Drop at World Water Week 2024

Ernenek is a purpose-driven leader who seeks to make the greatest social and environmental impact on this planet and its people. Recognized for his adaptive leadership style and extensive experience in international development, Ernenek serves as Co-CEO of the One Drop Foundation where he has co-led the strategic direction of the Foundation since 2023. In this role, he excels at coaching his team to co-design and deliver high-impact systemic change projects, foster complex multi-stakeholder alliances, and drive sustainable change.

Ernenek's expertise in strategy development, execution, and complex partnership building is critical to the success and impact of One Drop's diverse portfolio of projects around the world, as well as to mobilizing the necessary financial resources. Prior to his current role, Ernenek held several positions within One Drop, including Senior Director of Programs and Director of the Lazos de Agua Program, Project Development Manager, and Project Manager, India.

Prior to joining One Drop, Ernenek’s field experience with Oxfam-Québec, where he advised on water, sanitation, hygiene, and food security projects in Honduras and Haiti, consolidated his commitment to social impact. His tenure as Program Director at Mexico’s EDUCA Foundation further solidified his dedication to supporting disadvantaged communities.

Ernenek's academic credentials include an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Université Laval, a Master's in Management and Information Technology from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and a Bachelor's in Computer Systems Engineering. As a Global Visiting Professor at Tec de Monterrey, he shares his expertise in corporate social responsibility and shared value creation, reflecting his commitment to developing the next generation of socially responsible leaders.

Fanny joined the One Drop Foundation in August 2021 as Social Art for Behaviour Change (SABC) Expert.  She brings to the team’s collaborative art projects her practical expertise and creative touch. Fanny is fascinated by collective intelligence, human behaviours, and knowledge-sharing; she wishes to take an active role in amplifying concrete and smart solutions that bring to life our healthy behaviours, cultural relations and identity towards water, while finding new pathways for climate innovation.

Fanny joins the Foundation after 15 years of work in the arts, learning and community development fields. She has collaborated with many natural conservation organizations, national parks, as well as a wide array of cultural institutions and organizations. As a visual artist and an entrepreneur, she has facilitated a variety of collaborative art projects while working with communities across the world. She started her artistic career as a muralist, exploring how Brazilian street art has been weaponized as a tool for fighting against systemic violence. With a keen interest in leadership and youth mentoring, she has focused on bringing art and community engagement residencies to Indigenous schools and coastal, rural and urban communities for more than ten years. Her personal and community practices have been centered around the protection of the living heritage and water conservation. She deeply believes that public and collaborative art can work as a vector in intergenerational knowledge circulation around water and ecosystems. Her passion has led her to myriad cultural universes throughout Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Senegal and in knowledge-rich and creative Nordic and Indigenous territories.

Fanny holds a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Latin American Studies from the Université de Montréal. She has a completed a one-year exchange at the Social Communications department of the Ponctifia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She has also attended many professional trainings in entrepreneurship and business development. She has also audited many classes in film animation and digital design at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi/Centre Nad, as well as intensive trainings in community website production and international relations.  

Lauren Alcorn is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at One Drop. With over 15 years of experience working in the WASH sector, she is responsible for fostering partnerships with sector and business/industry actors working to accelerate the progress of SDG6. Lauren is spokesperson for the organization’s WASH in Health Care Facility initiatives, and she is a proponent of indigenous rights, gender equality and inclusion. Lauren has an MSSc in Development and International Relations from Aalborg University, Denmark and a BA from Dalhousie University.

Marie-Claude heads the One Drop Foundation’s Marketing Communications Unit and is responsible for developing the marketing/comms strategies and tactics that promote the organization’s many endeavours. Working synergistically across teams and alongside a variety of partners, she’s behind the communications plan, creative content, and content calendar here at One Drop, making sure that all projects, programs, fundraising activities, and partnerships realize their full potential.

Before teaming up with the One Drop Foundation, Marie-Claude led communications and marketing initiatives at Sphere Media, a Canadian leader in film and television production. Her main missions there were to revise the brand architecture, build the brand and Sphere’s branding, as well as position the company in its industry. Prior to that, she worked at Transat for several years, managing many large-scale projects and serving as the communications maven for multidimensional projects involving a diversity of in-house teams. In the final years of her journey there, she led the in-house communications team in fostering and maintaining employee engagement amidst Air Canada’s purchase of Transat. Marie-Claude has also worked in several other fields, including AI, health technologies, and entrepreneurship.

Marie-Claude is famous for her versatility, fine-tuned analytical skills, thoroughness, creativity, and natural ability to mobilize teams. Her expertise runs long and deep, extending to project management, strategic planning, event planning, branding, crisis communications, and copywriting. She holds a bachelors degree in Communications from Université de Montréal and earned a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications from HEC Montréal.

Tania leads a team of Social Art for Behaviour Change experts at One Drop. She and the SABC team members are passionate social arts experts who co-design behaviour change interventions with local partners and artists. They accompany local change by ensuring that creativity and emotion are at the heart of individual and collective transformation. In addition to her contributions to the development of the SABC approach, she also organized 5 international events that brought together hundreds of people from around the world in a community of practice where peers exchange and share experiences. She has delivered workshops and presentations at various international events and most recently created an online course on the SABC approach that is accessible to anyone who wants to understand better the links between systemic change, water, hygiene and sanitation, and behaviour. She brings 25 years of international development experience to the team, having worked in many different contexts. She speaks three languages.

A strong team player, Tania has a particular talent for bringing people together to achieve a common goal. Whether it's breaking down barriers in the office or in the communities in which she works, her ability to connect people is put into practice every day in her role as Director of Social Art for Behaviour Change.

Tania holds a master's degree in Sociology with a specialization in International Development from the University of Ottawa, as well as a bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Laval University.