Amira Valliani is Head of Payments Growth at the Solana Foundation, where she works with institutions, fintechs, and merchants bringing payments and stablecoins onto Solana. She previously founded and led Glow, a creator economy company acquired by Libsyn in 2021. Earlier, Amira served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama White House and as an advisor in the State Department's Office of Policy Planning. She holds an MBA/MPA from the Wharton School and the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Yale University. She lives in Cambridge, MA.