Elizabeth Jones is a 2025 Millennium Leadership Intensive participant and the head of Voluntās in Ukraine. She leads research and strategy initiatives that advance the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, promote localization, and foster systems change to build more empowered and resilient societies. A core member of Voluntās’ global leadership team, she has helped to expand the organization’s presence in Sudan, Lebanon, and Ukraine, working to redefine progress through meaningfulness: a human-centered alternative to traditional measures of societal well-being. As engagement leader and head of Voluntās Ukraine, she manages large-scale monitoring, evaluation, research, and strategy projects in partnership with United Nations agencies, the European Union, and international nongovernmental organizations, supporting these organizations in designing, measuring, and maximizing their impact. A strong advocate for youth participation and community-driven change, she leverages advanced analytics to enhance decision making through innovative methodologies. Recently, she has trained youth researchers in wartime Ukraine and evaluated programs and initiatives focused on social cohesion, peace, and resilience across Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Yemen. Across all these efforts, she emphasizes purpose, dignity, and local ownership as the foundation for more inclusive recovery and development systems. Before joining Voluntās, Jones worked with Generation Citizen to engage marginalized youth in civic action. She also served at the US Mission to the United Nations, where she led United Nations Security Council negotiations on children and armed conflict and women, peace, and security. She holds a double master’s degree with distinction from Sciences Po and the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from New York University, and she is passionate about reshaping global systems to better serve the people within them.