Patricia Jurewicz
Founder and ceo
Patricia is CEO of Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), a for-benefit CSO that champions human rights in the raw materials found in products we use every day.
Since 2004, Patricia has worked with civil society and shareholder communities to address labor and human rights abuses. She speaks extensively about modern slavery, due diligence, traceability, and value chains. Patricia has contributed to KnowTheChain’s benchmarking reports, OECD’s due diligence guidance, BCI’s forced labor task force, and ICCR’s Equitable Supply Chain Group. She launched RSN’s initiative, YESS: Yarn Ethically & Sustainably Sourced, which aims to mitigate forced labor in cotton production globally, and enable yarn and fabric mills to implement a risk-based due diligence approach for all of their sourcing.
Prior to RSN, Patricia managed production at Gap, Inc., encouraged equitable trade for IATP, and trained women's artisan cooperatives. She has degrees from Fashion Institute of Technology, Cornell, and Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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.
Mara Curtis
Operations coordinator
Mara Curtis is a recovering academic scientist who lends her science literacy and system development skills to forwarding sustainable practices, justice and environmental issues. She holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Granada, Spain and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Pomona College. Her recent work experience includes raising her two small children, and supporting non profit organizations in the fields of shareholder advocacy, mental health, and sexual assault.
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.