Ms. Assevero was one the first trail-blazing women to enter Yale College when it became coeducational in 1969. Early in her career, she represented multinational energy companies and international organizations with Duncan, Allen & Talmage in Cote d’Ivoire after working with The Commerce Department and the OECD in Paris. Ms. Assevero shifted to representing developing countries in their negotiations with multilateral banks and investors as a partner at Holland & Knight, and she represented the Bar of the City of New York at Rio+20. She founded The Green Market in Santa Cruz, Trinidad, in 2012 as a practical experiment in community based sustainable development concentrating on changing patterns of food consumption and production. Ms. Assevero received her JD from Harvard Law School.