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Pre-Conference Speakers

Stephanie Moline Benoit

Manager, Assessments & Advisory Services, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Elizabeth Brown

President & CEO, Community Foundation Sonoma County

Stephanie Cuskley

CEO, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Ethan Davidson

Director, William Davidson Foundation

Olivia Deich

Evaluation and Learning Officer, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Austin Long

Director, Assessment & Advisory Services, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Darin McKeever

President & CEO, William Davidson Foundation

David Panzirer

Trustee, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Lee Alexander Risby

Head of Effective Philanthropy, C&A Foundation

Rick Williams

CEO, Sobrato Family Foundation

Plenary Speakers

Amanda Andere

CEO, Funders Together to End Homelessness

Paul Beaudet

Executive Director, Wilburforce Foundation

Molly Bloom

Host and Co-Creator, Brains On!

Kevin Bolduc

Vice President, Assessments and Advisory Services, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Phil Buchanan

President, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Ellie Buteau

Vice President, Research, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Matthew Desmond

Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Jacqueline Martinez Garcel

CEO, Latino Community Foundation

Nancy Giles

CBS Sunday Morning Contributor, Comedian, and Actress

Anand Giridharadas

Author and Editor-at-large, TIME

John Inazu

Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, Washington University in St. Louis

Eric J. Jolly

President and CEO, The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations

Candice C. Jones

President and CEO, Public Welfare Foundation

Larry Kramer

President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Janine Lee

President and CEO, Southeastern Council of Foundations

Adam Meyerson

President, The Philanthropy Roundtable

Grace Nicolette

Vice President, Programming and External Relations, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Grant Oliphant

President, Heinz Endowments

Hilary Pennington

Executive Vice President, The Ford Foundation

Lynn Perry Wooten

Dean, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Jeff Raikes

Co-Founder, Raikes Foundation

Anthony Richardson

Executive Director, Nord Family Foundation

Carmen Rojas

Co-Founder and CEO, The Workers Lab and Board Member, Marguerite Casey Foundation

Michael Sandel

Political Philosopher, Professor, and Author

Lorie A. Slutsky

President, The New York Community Trust

Susan Thomas

Program Director, Melville Charitable Trust

Fay Twersky

Director of the Effective Philanthropy Group, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Kate Wolford

President, McKnight Foundation

Breakout Session Speakers

Diana Anderson

President & CEO, Southwest Initiative Foundation

Kathleen Annette

President & CEO, Blandin Foundation

Tecara Ayler

Board member, Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia

Teri Behrens

Executive Director, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University

Laila Bell

Associate Director of Learning and Evaluation, The Duke Endowment

Shamar A. Bibbins

Senior Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation

Jill Blair

Consultant, Jill Blair Consulting

Jen Bokoff

Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Candid

Amber Bradley

Director, Assessment & Advisory Services, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Susie Brown

President, Minnesota Council on Foundations

Dawn Burns

Minneapolis resident, Reading & Math, Inc./Serve to Grow

Antony Bugg-Levine

CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund

William Buster

Executive Vice President for Community Investments, St. David's Foundation

Luis Caguana

Luis Caguana, InquilinXs UnidXs Por Justicia

Kristen Cambell

Executive Director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

Don Chen

President, The Surdna Foundation

Yolanda Coentro

President and CEO, Institute for Nonprofit Practice

Cecilia A. Conrad

Managing Director, Awards and Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and CEO, Lever for Change

Betsy Constantine

Executive Vice-President, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Anna L. Cruz

Strategic Learning and Evaluation Office, The Kresge Foundation

Alexa Cortes Culwell

Co-Founder, Open Impact

Roberto de la Riva

Co-director, Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justica

Kriss Deiglmeier

CEO, Tides

William Doherty

Professor, Co-Founder of Better Angels, University of Minnesota and Better Angels

J. Michael Durnil

President and CEO, Simon Youth Foundation

Elizabeth Eagen

Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations

Julita Eleveld

Senior Program Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Deborah Ellwood

President and CEO, CFLeads

Shawn Escoffery

Executive Director, Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation

Pam Foster

Chief Operating Officer, Co-Impact

Samara Freemark

Co-Creator and Senior Producer, In the Dark

Ivan Frishberg

Vice President Sustainability Banking, Amalgamated Bank

Srik Gopal

Vice President of Strategy and Program, Democracy Fund

Chuck Harris

Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Blue Meridian Partners

Olivia Henry

Program Coordinator, Council of Michigan Foundations

Lisa Jackson

Managing Partner, Imago Dei Fund

Rodney W. Jordan

Chair Emeritus, Northwest Area Foundation

Dean Kephart

VP of Insight and Change, ServeMinnesota

Barbara Kibbe

Director, Organizational Effectiveness, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

Matan A. Koch

Senior Advisor, RespectAbility

Carol S. Larson

President and CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Kay Lee

Senior Manager, Strategy and Learning, Ford Foundation

Danielle Levoit

Program Officer for the Environment, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Lindsay Austin Louie

Program Officer, Effective Philanthropy

John MacIntosh

Partner and Board Member, SeaChange Capital Partners

Heather McLeod Grant

Co-Founder, Open Impact

Garrett Moeggenborg

Mawby Intern, Council of Michigan Foundations

Steve Nelson

Senior Director of Programming, NPR

Roger Nozaki

Vice President, Barr Foundation

Dick Ober

President and CEO, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Isaiah M. Oliver

President & CEO, Community Foundation of Greater Flint

Alison Powell

Senior Director, Philanthropy, The Bridgespan Group

John Scott-Railton

Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab

Chera D. Reid

Director of Strategic Learning, Research, and Evaluation, The Kresge Foundation

Kathy Reich

Director, BUILD, Ford Foundation

Scott Roller

Strategic Communications Officer, The Heinz Endowments

Bess Rothenberg

Senior Director of Strategy and Learning, Ford Foundation

Tym Rourke

Director of New Hampshire Tomorrow, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Norah Shapiro

Director and Producer, Time for Ilhan

Amelia Shindelar

Minneapolis resident, Reading & Math, Inc./Serve to Grow

Nadya K. Shmavonian

Director, Nonprofit Repositioning Fund and partner, SeaChange Capital Partners

Allen Smart

Partner, PhilanthropywoRx

LaTida Smith

President and CEO, Moses Taylor Foundation

Anne Snyder

Director, The Philanthropy Roundtable's Character Initiative

Brenda Solorzano

CEO, Headwaters Foundation

Nadege Souvenir

Vice President of Operations & Learning, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations

Vince Stehle

Executive Director, Media Impact Funders

Nageeb Sumar

Vice President, Philanthropic Strategies, Fidelity Charitable

Sachi Takahashi-Rial

Director, Partnerships, YouthTruth

Carol Thompson Cole

President and CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners

Melinda Tuan

Managing Director, Fund for Shared Insight

Marilyn Waite

Program Officer, Environment, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Kevin Walker

President and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation

Anne Wallestad

President and CEO, BoardSource

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