Philanthropy Summit Speakers List 2023

José Andrés

José Andrés is Chairman & CEO of the José Andrés Group, a diverse array of restaurant concepts across the US, and Founder of World Central Kitchen. 

José launched World Central Kitchen following the 2020 Haiti earthquake to provide food to those affected by natural and manmade disasters. To date, it has raised over $420 million and served more than 170 million meals disaster survivors around the globe. The organization’s team in Ukraine now includes more than 4,500 people—chefs, drivers, warehouse managers, logistics experts—who are serving over 1 million meals each day.  

José was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal and has received honorary doctorates from Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, and Tufts universities. In 2021, he received one of the two inaugural $100 million Courage and Civility awards from Jeff Bezos, a portion of which has been donated to support food assistance in Ukraine. Last May, President Biden appointed him Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition 

Laura Arnold

Laura E. Arnold is Co-Chair of Arnold Ventures. The philanthropy’s core mission is to invest in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice.

Until late 2006, Ms. Arnold was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Cobalt International Energy, L.P. in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, she was a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in New York, New York. 

Ms. Arnold has a J.D. from the Yale Law School, an M.Phil in European Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from Harvard College. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Judith W. Rogers in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Laura currently serves on the Stanford PACS Advisory Board and is a founding partner of the REFORM Alliance.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is a founder, educator and best-selling author who has dedicated her life to empowering and educating people to create social impact – in their communities, workplaces and society – by sharing their time, expertise, networks, money and resources. Laura is the founder and chairman of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS), the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF.org) and founder and chairman emeritus of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2). She is president of Andreessen Philanthropies and co-president of the Arrillaga Foundation as well as a trustee of the National Gallery of Art.

For over 20 years, Laura has developed and taught original courses on strategic philanthropy, women in leadership and inclusive leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Laura’s New York Times Best Seller, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World, encourages people of all backgrounds to give with greater intent and impact. Through LAAF.org, she  provides free educational resources and a framework that helps anyone who wants to make a difference in the world use their voice, lead and give to positively touch and transform lives, communities and society.

Laura holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as an MA in Education, BA and MA in Art History, all from Stanford University.

Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison is CEO and co-founder of Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Patrick and his brother John started Stripe in 2010 to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive, after experiencing firsthand how difficult it was to set up an online business. Today, Stripe powers millions of online businesses around the world.  He is also the co-founder of the Arc Institute, a biomedical research institute that is dedicated to pioneering a new model for research. By providing no strings attached long-term funding, and in partnership with Stanford, UCSF and UC Berkeley, Arc will bring together and enable ambitious and passionate biomedical investigators to study and address human complex diseases. In 2016, Patrick was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship by President Obama. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick now lives in San Francisco.

Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning. 

Andrew is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award in 2017, given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage. He also works on neural regeneration and directs a clinical trial to promote visual restoration in diseases that cause blindness. Andrew is also actively involved in developing tools now in use by the elite military in the U.S. and Canada, athletes, and technology industries to optimize performance in high stress environments, enhance neural plasticity, mitigate stress, and optimize sleep. 

Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford School of Medicine has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets.

In 2021, Andrew launched the Huberman Lab podcast. The podcast is frequently ranked in the Top 15 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of science, education, and health & fitness.

Kathleen Janus

Kathleen Kelly Janus is a lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. From 2019 to 2022 she served as the Senior Advisor on Social Innovation for Governor Gavin Newsom where she has helped lead over 50 public-private partnerships totaling $4.2 Billion to address homelessness, secure jobs, support California’s pandemic response and more. Kathleen’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book – Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference – is a playbook for nonprofit organizations based on a five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top-performing social innovators. A native of Napa, California, Kathleen earned a J.D. and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and lives in San Francisco with her husband Ted and their three children.

Ted Janus

Ted Janus, principal of J Capital, invests in private and public equities in both the financial services and consumer sectors. He also invests in private equity funds and hedge funds. 

From 1997 to 2009 he was at Palo Alto Investors, a hedge fund, where he was a partner and director of research. He was also the portfolio manager of the small cap and micro cap funds. As an analyst at the firm he covered financial services and consumer companies. Prior to joining Palo Alto Investors, Mr. Janus worked in finance and product management at Bank of America Investment Services.

Mr. Janus is a former member of the board of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley where he is a frequent lecturer on investing. Previously, Mr. Janus was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Circle at the Haas School.

Mr. Janus has a BA in Political Science and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a CFA charter-holder.

Van Jones

Van Jones is widely known as a U.S. media personality, an entrepreneur and a world-class change maker. Outside of his roles as a CNN contributor and host of Amazon Music Podcast, Uncommon Ground, Jones has a rare track record in the modern era of bringing people together to do hard things — in areas as diverse as clean energy solutions, criminal justice reform and racial inclusion in the tech sector. In 2007, Van was the primary champion of the Green Jobs Act, signed into law by George W. Bush. In 2009, he worked in the Obama White House as the Special Advisor for Green Jobs. In 2018, he helped pass the FIRST STEP Act – which the New York Times calls the most substantial breakthrough in criminal justice in a generation. In 2021, Jones was one of the first two recipients of Jeff Bezos’ Courage & Civility Award. Over the past 25 years, Van has founded and led many successful social enterprises, including REFORM Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, Green For All and the Dream.Org. He worked with Prince to launch #YesWeCode (now called Dream.TECH) to get jobs in the tech sector for scores of low-opportunity young people. A world-class communicator of world-class ideas, Van is also a CNN host, an Emmy Award-winning producer and a 3X New York Times best-selling author.

Carter McClelland

Carter McClelland is the chairman and founder of Union Square Advisors, a San Francisco and New York-based investment bank focused on the technology sector. Prior to founding Union Square in 2007, he was chairman of Bank of America Securities, where he oversaw the bank’s global corporate and investment banking relationships. Prior to that, Carter oversaw Deutsche Bank’s businesses in the Americas. He began his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley, where he held numerous positions in investment banking and ultimately served as the firm’s chief administrative officer. Carter is a co-chair of Echoing Green, a New York-based not-for-profit that provides seed capital to social entrepreneurs. He has B.S. in engineering and an MBA from Stanford University. 

Kim Meredith

Kim Meredith is the CEO of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation and is chief strategist, fundraiser, grantmaker and advocate for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. 

Kim was previously Executive Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Prior she was Chief Development Officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York and Chief Operating Officer at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in San Francisco. Early in her career, Kim worked for AT&T. 

Kim serves on the board of directors for the George Lucas Educational Foundation and Trust for the Americas, and advisory boards of Natureza, Steel Sky Ventures, Stanford PACS, UCSF Rosenman Institute and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation. Past boards include Essential Access Health, YPO Pacific U.S. Gold Regional Board and Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund. 

Kim earned a BA in Economics from Stanford. She was a fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders and was sponsored at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Corporate Board Workshop.

Edward Norton

Edward Norton is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation. He has starred in over 50 films, produced 13, written 5 and directed 2. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2 BAFTAs, 2 Golden Globes and has won the Golden Globe, an Emmy and an Obie. His most recent film as a writer and director, “Motherless Brooklyn”, a meditation on hidden power and the threat of autocracy in America, filmmaker / historian Ken Burns called ‘nothing less than a modern masterpiece.’ 

Norton has a substantial parallel career as a serial entrepreneur, investor and activist in both environmental sustainability and technology ventures. He founded or co-founded: Baswood Technologies, a water treatment technology company; CrowdRise, which merged with GoFundMe to create the largest online charity platform in the world; EDO, a media measurement firm which applies advanced data science and machine learning to analyze the effectiveness of television ads for the media and advertising industries; Zeck, a business software company offering a subscription cloud-based board governance and presentation platform; and Stax Engineering which provides emission capture as a service to shipping companies in California ports. 

Norton currently serves as the United Nations Ambassador for Biodiversity and for nearly 20 years has served as the Board chair of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. MWCT’s innovative portfolio of sustainable, natural capital-based revenue streams for Maasai communities has been awarded the UNDP Equator Prize and the UNEP Champions of the Earth Prize. Norton seeded the Chyulu Hills Carbon project which has generated over $12 million in sales of offset.  Norton recently co-founded Conservation Equity, which seeks to recycle foundation grant capital while creating a long-term private equity grade revenue stream purposed 100% to conservation finance.

Michael Pollan

For more than thirty years, Michael has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. He is the author of eight books; three of them (including his latest, How To Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. He is currently working on a four-part Netflix series based on his most recent book.

A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, Michael’s writing has received numerous awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series, the Washburn Award for “outstanding contribution to public understanding of science” from the Boston Museum of Science, and the and the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace. In 2010, he was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

In 2020, along with Dacher Keltner and others, Michael co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. The center conducts research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain. In addition to teaching, he lectures widely on food, agriculture, health, and psychedelic science.

Michael was educated at Bennington College, Oxford University, and Columbia University, from which he received a Master’s in English.

Jeff Raikes

Jeff Raikes is the co-founder of the Raikes Foundation with his wife, Tricia. The foundation works toward a just and inclusive society where all young people have the support they need to reach their full potential. Key areas of focus include creating a more equitable education system so all students can thrive, preventing and ending youth homelessness nationwide, and helping individual donors and philanthropic organizations increase the impact of their giving. 

Jeff is the former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led the foundation’s efforts to promote equity for people around the world. Before joining the foundation, Jeff was president of Microsoft’s Business Division and served as a member of the company’s senior leadership team that set the overall strategy and direction for the firm. He began his career with Microsoft in 1981 and was instrumental in creating the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications.  

Currently, he is part of the ownership group of the Seattle Mariners and serves on its board. He also serves on the board of Costco Wholesale Corporation, the Raikes School at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Green Diamond Resource Company, and Hudl. After ten years of board service, Jeff is a Chair Emeritus of Stanford University. 

Lauren Sánchez

Lauren Sánchez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and former news anchor. Following a successful news career, Sánchez, a licensed pilot, founded Black Ops Aviation in 2016. The company is the first female-owned and operated aerial film and production company with a focus across television and film. Sánchez serves as the Vice Chair of the Bezos Earth Fund and is dedicated to fighting climate change and the protection of nature, as well as early childhood education, programming, and housing support. She also works with organizations including This is About Humanity, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and providing support for separated and reunified families at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Bezos Day One Fund, which encompasses shelter, hunger, and tuition-free preschool education support for underserved communities via the Day 1 Families Fund and Day 1 Academies Fund, among others. 

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is the founder and chair of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through three key initiatives: Lean In, Option B, and the Dave Goldberg Scholarship Program. Launched in 2013, Lean In supports a global community of peer groups called Lean In Circles. Over 75,000 women have started Circles in 190 countries—and 85 percent of members credit their Circle with bringing positive change to their life within the first six months of joining.

Sheryl previously served as chief operating officer at Meta for fourteen years, during which the company grew from $150 million to over $110 billion in annual revenue and implemented industry-defining benefits and programs to make the workplace more inclusive.

Before joining the company then called Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury Department under President Clinton, a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank. She continues to serve on Meta’s board of directors and also serves on the boards of Momentive, ONE Campaign, and Women for Women International.

Sheryl is the best-selling author of three books: Lean In, Lean In for Graduates, and Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.

She received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.

Sheryl lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their five children.

Mike Schroepfer

Mike Schroepfer is a climate tech investor and philanthropist. He’s the founder of Additional Ventures, a purpose-driven organization focused on climate action and biomedical research.

In addition to his work at Additional Ventures, Mike is Meta’s first Senior Fellow, where he focuses on supporting the company’s strategic technology priorities, including its investments in artificial intelligence and development of technical talent. He joined the company in 2008 and from 2013 to 2022 served as Meta’s Chief Technology Officer.  He led the development of the technology and teams that enabled the company to scale to billions of people around the world and make breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

 Mike holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Priya Shanker

Priya Shanker is the Executive Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. In this role, she leads the center’s day to day operations, and is responsible for its overall growth and fiscal performance. Priya works closely with the center’s faculty directors, board and staff team to implement its strategy and vision to create a shared intellectual space where scholars and practitioners develop inter-disciplinary and cross sector research and ideas to advance social change. 

Prior to joining Stanford PACS, Priya spent over a decade working with a diverse array of for-profit and social impact organizations in the US, India, Ghana and China. Much of her career has been dedicated to strengthening the policy and operational infrastructure for philanthropy and social innovation around the world through programs and partnerships that leverage diverse resources to enable long-term impact.

Darren Walker

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $13 billion international social justice philanthropy. He is a member of the Reimagining New York Commission and co-chair of NYC Census 2020. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation became the first non-profit in US history to issue a $1 billion designated social bond in US capital markets for proceeds to strengthen and stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19.

Before joining Ford, Darren was vice president at Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global and domestic programs. In the 1990s, he was COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, Harlem’s largest community development organization.

Darren co-chairs New York City’s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, and has served on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the UN International Labour Organization Global Commission on the Future of Work. He co-founded the US Impact Investing Alliance and the Presidents’ Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy. He serves on many boards and is the recipient of 16 honorary degrees and university awards.

Educated exclusively in public schools, Darren was a member of the first Head Start class in 1965 and received degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

Robb Willer

Robb’s research has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences. His research has also received widespread media coverage including from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Science, Nature, Time, U.S. News and World Report, Scientific American, Harper’s, Slate, CNN, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and National Public Radio. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Iowa. Robb was the 2009 recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching award, the only teaching award given by UC-Berkeley’s student body.

Steve Adami

After spending more than 20 years in and out of jails and prison, Steve received an incredible gift – he got clean and sober.  His recovery and transformation started in a pair of handcuffs.  After being released from prison in 2010, he earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (Public Policy/Criminal Justice); was inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, a National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration; and received the Barbra Jordan Award for Academic Excellence from San Francisco State University. In 2014 he was hired by the San Francisco Adult Probation Department as a Reentry Services Coordinator, promoted to a managerial position in 2017,  and was appointed the Director of the Reentry Division in 2021.  Over the past 8 years he has implemented over 40 reentry programs in San Francisco including a behavioral health focused multi-services reentry center, the Positive Directions TRP Academy, the Minna Project, the Billie Holiday Center and a Pretrial Pilot Project.  In his current role, he manages a portfolio of $18m in reentry and rehabilitative programs, San Francisco’s Reentry Council and Community Corrections Partnership.

Nicole Ardoin

Nicole Ardoin, Emmett Faculty Scholar, is the Sykes Family Director of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) and an Associate Professor in the Division of Social Sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS). She is also a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. Nicole and her Social Ecology Lab group research motivations for and barriers to environmental behavior at the individual and collective scales. They use mixed-methods approaches–including participant observation, a variety of interview types, surveys, mapping, network analysis, and ethnography, among others–to consider the influence of place-based connections, environmental learning, and social-ecological interactions on participation in a range of environmental and sustainability-related decisionmaking processes. Nicole and her interdisciplinary group pursue their scholarship with a theoretical grounding and orientation focused on applications for practice; much of her lab’s work is co-designed and implemented with community collaborators through a field-based, participatory frame.

Nicole is an associate editor of the journal Environmental Education Research, a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences and the George B. Storer Foundation, chair of NatureBridge’s Education Advisory Council, an advisor to the Student Conservation Association and Teton Science Schools, among other areas of service to the field.

Roy Bahat

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups making work better. It was the first venture fund to focus on investing in the future of work, and in artificial intelligence.

Bloomberg Beta connects the technology community to other walks of American life: Roy is a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission (following a collaboration between Bloomberg and New America to understand the 10-20 year future of technology’s effect on work in America). Roy organizes the “Comeback Cities” tours, where he leads groups of venture capitalists and members of Congress to cities around America to learn about startups outside the coasts. With Stanford PACS and Schmidt Futures, Roy organized First Principles, a community for people in technology to learn how to give, philanthropically and politically.

Before starting Bloomberg Beta, Roy co-founded a venture-backed company and worked at News Corporation. In addition to founding startups and working as a corporate executive in media, he has served in government (in the office of the New York City Mayor), academia (as a lecturer for a decade at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business), professional services (early in his career at McKinsey & Co.), and nonprofit (leading a student volunteer nonprofit, Phillips Brooks House Association, and advising the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Economic Security Project).

Roy was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. He graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University studying economics.

Roy lives in San Francisco with his wife Sara, who runs the MBA program at California College of the Arts and is active at the intersection of political activism and culture, their two kids, and a cliché Golden Retriever.

Sara Fenske Bahat

Sara is a connector, most at-home when bridging the creative arts, economics, and equitable design to shape our social and political landscape. As Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) CEO, Sara works collaboratively with the YBCA team to advance the organization as a dynamic home for artists, arts and culture, and social justice movement building. Under her prior leadership as YBCA Board Chair, YBCA navigated COVID-19 pandemic challenges (which resulted in the longest mass closure of cultural venues since World War II), received support from leading innovators for groundbreaking work at the intersection of arts and movement building, and launched the nation’s first dedicated guaranteed income program for artists.

Most recently, Sara served as chair of the California College of the Arts (CCA) MBA in Design Strategy, a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary degree rooted in systems theory, foresight, and innovation. S ara has a community finance and economic development background. Before becoming an educator, she worked for New York City’s economic development agency and in banking, where she championed local government support for community banks, improved banking and savings products for immigrant households, and multi-state consumer protection settlements.

Sara is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the London School of Economics. She is a 2022 Presidential Leadership Scholar, exploring the meaning of culture and cohesion in a country increasingly divided across wealth, ideology, and acknowledgment of historic and present inequity.

Naina Subberwal Batra

Naina Subberwal Batra is the CEO of AVPN, a network catalyzed by the International Venture Philanthropy Center collectively representing 1100 Social Investors in 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. She also serves as the Chair of IVPC. Under Naina’s leadership since 2013, AVPN’s membership base has quadrupled and it has grown from focusing only on venture philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of social investors, from catalytic philanthropists to impact investors and corporate CSR professionals.  She has also been instrumental in developing AVPN’s innovative services, including collaborative pooled funds that connect, empower, and educate 600+ members of AVPN.

Prior to joining AVPN, Naina was a member of the senior leadership team of a purpose driven unit at The Monitor Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm and a partner and Co-Founder of Group Fifty Private Ltd, curating contemporary Indian art to provide a medium for upcoming and established Indian artists.

She is also serving as Board Member of the Global Resilient Cities Network, Chair at the International Venture Philanthropy Center, and a Trustee at Bridge Institute. Naina has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a bachelor’s in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.

Jim Bildner

Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK), one of the largest venture philanthropy firms in the world.  DRK has made more than 175 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including systemic poverty, food and water insecurity, access to healthcare and economic opportunities, sanitation, homelessness, criminal justice, social justice and climate change and adaptation strategies.

Jim is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. At the Kennedy School, his research interests include understanding the role of private capital in solving public problems, extending the capacity of foundations to solve complex societal issues and the sustainability of public and private systems when governments disinvest in these systems.

He is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation and serves on the boards of UpTrust, Public Citizen Foundation, Education SuperHighway, Open Biome, The GroundTruth Project, Education Pioneers, the Healthy Americas Foundation (National Alliance for Hispanic Health Foundation), the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Dallas Symphony Association.

Jim earned his AB from Dartmouth College, his MPA from Harvard, his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and an MFA from Lesley University.  In 2008, he was awarded the Dartmouth Alumni Award for service to the College and to his community.

Paul Brest

Paul Brest is Former Dean and Professor Emeritus (active), at Stanford Law School, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Faculty Director at Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and co-director of the Stanford Law and Policy Lab. He was president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2000-2012.

He is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (2nd ed. 2018), Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (2010), and articles on constitutional law, philanthropy, and impact investing. His current courses include Problem Solving for Public Policy and Social Change and Advanced Topics in Philanthropy and Impact Investing. He also is the instructor in an online course, Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy, offered by Philanthropy University.

Professor Brest is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from Northwestern University School of Law and Swarthmore College. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, he clerked for Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice John M. Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court, and did civil rights litigation with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Mississippi.

Marc Glimcher

Marc Glimcher has served as CEO of Pace Gallery since 2011. Under his leadership, Pace has established a leading position at the intersection of art and technology, opened seven new outposts across Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Geneva. He has also introduced major international contemporary artists—including Matthew Day Jackson, Virginia Jaramillo, Jeff Koons, Marina Perez Simão, Latifa Echakhch, Sonia Gomes, Tara Donovan, Adrian Ghenie, Robert Longo, Robert Nava, and Trevor Paglen—into the gallery’s program.

In 2019, Marc launched Pace Live, a platform for multidisciplinary in-person and virtual events. Over the past two years, Pace Live has expanded and adapted a new hybrid model designed to serve a post-COVID world by bringing live conversations, musical and choreographed performances, screenings, and other offerings to the gallery’s global audience through its digital channels, highly produced films, and homegrown editorial content.

Throughout his tenure, Marc has sought to upend traditional systems within the industry, in turn creating a visionary model for collaboration. In February 2020, for example, he spearheaded a collaboration between Pace, Gagosian, and Acquavella Galleries to sell the distinguished collection of Donald Marron in a deal that disrupted the precedent of auction house collection sales. Continuing to break conventions with an eye towards innovation, in 2021 Pace launched Pace Verso, the gallery’s hub for Web3 projects, and became the first major international art gallery to accept cryptocurrency.

Karlie Kloss

Karlie Kloss is a supermodel, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Throughout her career, she has walked and shot campaigns for top designers including Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Brandon Maxwell, and Versace, and is the face of numerous international campaigns, including Estée Lauder, adidas and Carolina Herrera. In 2020, Kloss led a group of prestigious investors assembled by W Magazine Editor-in-Chief Sara Moonves to acquire the brand as part of a newly formed joint venture called W Media. Kloss is a passionate storyteller with a desire to drive conversations around incredible women and the causes close to her heart, and has amassed more than 20 million followers across her content platforms.

Kloss is also the founder of Kode With Klossy, a nonprofit focused on creating learning experiences and opportunities for young women that increase their confidence and inspire them to pursue their passions in a technology driven world. The organization hosts free two-week summer coding camps where girls aged 13 to 18 learn the fundamentals of programming in a fun, collaborative and hands-on learning environment. By the end of camp, scholars build their own app or website using programming languages including HTML, Javascript and Swift. Since launching in 2015, Kode With Klossy has reached over twelve thousand scholars through its flagship summer camps. Karlie was recognized on the TIME 100 list for her philanthropic work as the founder of Kode With Klossy, and was featured on the covers of Fast Company, Forbes and Entrepreneur for her work to scale the organization.

Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer has been President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation since 2012. Under his leadership, the foundation has maintained its commitment to areas of enduring concern, while adapting its strategies to meet changing circumstances. He has written and spoken about effective philanthropy, including the importance of collaboration among funders and the need to provide grantees with long-term support. He frequently lectures and writes about issues from global climate change to the challenge of maintaining democratic government in the 21^st century.

Before joining the foundation, Larry served as Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School. During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies while enlarging the clinical education program and incorporating a public service ethos. At the start of his career, Larry served as law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Henry J. Friendly and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. 

Larry is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He serves as board chair of iCivics and as a board director of a number of nonprofits, including the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the ClimateWorks Foundation.

Larry received an A.B. in Psychology and Religious Studies from Brown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including “The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review.”

Mike Kubzansky

Mike Kubzansky was appointed CEO of Omidyar Network in March 2018 after successfully leading the firm’s Intellectual Capital practice, a function he established when he joined the firm in 2013. Under Mike’s leadership, he has transformed the social change venture to focus “upstream” on three of the critical 21st century disruptions that have the greatest impact on people’s lives: the economy, digital technology, and demographic change, with the goal of channeling these disruptions into well-being for the many, not just the few.

Mike’s prior work on digital technology spans a range of settings from telecom start-up to a partner at Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte) to Omidyar Network’s investment committee.  Across them all, Mike’s goal has been to harness, explore, and understand the continuum of technology’s impact, from the promise of increased access to services via mobile phones, digital identity, and other innovations to the threats that trample on privacy, competition, and democracy.

His writing on a range of topics has been featured in more than a dozen publications, including Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Barron’s, and has been quoted extensively in philanthropic, business, and general news outlets. Mike is on the board of Norrsken Foundation, a Swedish organization that helps entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.

Kathy Kwan

Kathy Kwan is a local philanthropist who directs the charitable giving for the Eustace-Kwan Family Foundation. Since the foundation’s establishment in 2005, Kathy has funded a broad range of organizations and programs in the SF Bay Area’s education, job training, and safety net sectors.  Local non-profit partners include St. Francis Center, JobTrain and Center for Excellence in Non-Profits. Kathy also partners with three local school districts and supports leadership and career development programs at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and SF State. More recently, Kathy has become interested in building capacity in both the non-profit and philanthropic sectors.

She retired from Kaiser Permanente in 2004, where she held a variety of project management, consulting and finance roles.

Seth London

Seth has spent the past sixteen years working at the nexus of politics, venture capital and philanthropy. In 2017, he started Ground Control with a primary focus on advancing structural democracy reform and running multi-jurisdictional advocacy campaigns. Prior to that, Seth worked on three presidential campaigns (2008, 2012, 2016), the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, and two venture capital firms where he focused on startups operating in heavily regulated sectors.

Jennifer Loving

With more than 25 years working in a variety of shelter, street and housing programs, Jennifer Loving has spent her career working to solve homelessness in Silicon Valley.

Since being tapped to lead Destination: Home in 2010, Jennifer has brought together public officials, government agencies, private sector leaders, nonprofit executives and leaders with lived experience to implement a collective impact model in Santa Clara County, resulting in well over $2 billion in new public in new public, private and philanthropic funding and over 20,000 people permanently off our streets. She has developed and collaborated on numerous innovative models for addressing chronic homelessness, homelessness prevention, Covid relief and Guaranteed Income.Jennifer holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program. In addition to her role with Destination: Home, she currently serves on the Santa Clara County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, and is a board member for Somos Mayfair, Silicon Valley at Home, All Home and SJ Spotlight.

Daniel Lurie

Daniel Lurie is Board Chair and founder of Tipping Point Community, a nonprofit that finds, funds, and strengthens the most promising poverty-fighting solutions in the Bay Area. He served as CEO of the organization from 2005-2020, and has helped to raise more than $350 million for housing, early childhood, education, and employment solutions in the region. Tipping Point’s Board covers all of its operating costs, so 100% of every dollar donated goes where it’s needed most. Lurie also served as Chair of the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, helping to raise more than $13 million for community efforts, the largest philanthropic contribution in Super Bowl history.

Prior to founding Tipping Point, Lurie worked for the Bill Bradley Presidential Campaign and the Robin Hood Foundation in New York City. Lurie serves on the Board of Directors for the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund and the Levi Strauss Foundation.

Johanna Mair

Johanna Mair is Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance, the Codirector of the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and the Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. From 2016 to 2018 she helped building and served as the Academic Codirector for the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 2001 to 2011 she served on the Strategic Management faculty at IESE Business School. She has held a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and teaches regularly at the Harvard Kennedy School and INSEAD. Before earning her PhD in Management from INSEAD (France), she was directly involved in executive decision-making in international banking. In 2008 she was recognized as a “Faculty Pioneer” for Social Entrepreneurship Education by the Aspen Institute. Her research focuses on how novel organizational and institutional arrangements generate economic and social development and the role of innovation in this process. She has the co-editor of three books and has published in leading academic journal. Alongside her academic responsibilities, she carries out advisory work for or serves on board of multinational companies, the United Nations, governments, foundations and social enterprises.

Felipe Medina

Felipe Medina leads the Transforming Philanthropy Initiative. This initiative creates a community of strategic philanthropists to facilitate collaboration and exchanges of best practices and lessons learned with the objective of increasing volume of effective social investments in Latin America. Felipe has been studying best practices and mistakes of philanthropy in the United States and Europe to help jump-start philanthropy in the region.  He also has been researching how to create a culture of strategic philanthropy in Latin America.

Felipe is a member of the Steering Group of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the Aspen Institute Colombia Initiative. He serves in the Advisory Board of StanfordCenter on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Felipe is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Enseña por Colombia and a member of the Global Advisory Council of Acumen and Teach for All. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of L’Atelier, a Reggio Emilia inspired pre-school that he founded with his wife Simonetta. L’Atelier is working with several organizations to establish Reggio Emilia inspired early education centers.

Felipe began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1990, managing assets for Latin American clients. Between 2000 and 2003, he was the regional director for Latin America’s private wealth management. Currently, Felipe manages relationships with some of the most influential families and individuals in the region. He is a member of the Private Wealth Philanthropy Advisory Committee and the Top Advisors Council of Goldman Sachs. Medina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vera Michalchik

Vera Michalchik leads PACS’s research on effective philanthropy and the design of materials, institutes, and consultations for donors, advisors, and others wanting to put into practice principles that can advance impact in the sector. She brings to her role extensive experience in social science research, the learning sciences, and strategic philanthropy, having worked in research-plus-practice positions at SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, UC Irvine’s Department of Informatics, and Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning. She also built a library system on a small island in Micronesia while collecting data there for her dissertation on how knowledge gets managed for social good. She holds a PhD from Stanford, EdM from Harvard, and BA from UC Berkeley—her studies all focused on learning, media, and shaping of cultural norms.

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is an expert on agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation, and youth development. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is the founder of LEAP Africa, Changing Narratives Africa and African Food Changemakers. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd.

Ndidi is TED speaker, was recognized as a Schwab Fellow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has received numerous awards and recognitions including a National Honor by the Nigerian Government and the 2021 Harvard Business School Distinguished Alumni Award. She is the author of “Social Innovation in Africa: A Practical Guide for Scaling Impact,” and “Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses,” both published by Routledge.

Ndidi serves on several boards, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Nigerian Breweries Plc. (Heineken), and the Bridgespan Group.

Ndidi holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow.

John Palfrey

John Palfrey is President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies with assets of approximately $7 billion, and offices in Chicago, New Delhi, and Abuja, Nigeria.

Palfrey is a well-respected educator, author, legal scholar, and innovator with expertise in how new media is changing learning, education, and other institutions. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a commitment to rigorous thinking, disruption, and creative solutions often made possible by technology, accessibility of information, and diversity and inclusion.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Palfrey served as Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, the only school of its kind to maintain need-blind admissions. During his tenure, the number of faculty members of color doubled, and the student body grew more diverse. Palfrey was the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. From 2002 to 2008, Palfrey served as Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, which seeks to explore and understand cyberspace. He is founding board chair of the Digital Public Library of America.

Palfrey serves on the board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Palfrey holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an AB from Harvard College.

Nathaniel Persily

Nathaniel Persily is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, with appointments in the departments of Political Science, Communication, and FSI.  Prior to joining Stanford, Nate taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as a visiting professor at Harvard, NYU, Princeton, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Melbourne. 

Nate’s scholarship and legal practice focus on American election law or what is sometimes called the “law of democracy,” which addresses issues such as voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. He has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to craft congressional or legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.  

Nate is codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet, and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, which supported local election officials in taking the necessary steps during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide safe voting options for the 2020 election. His current work, for which he has been honored as a Guggenheim Fellow and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration.  

Nate received a B.A. and M.A. in political science from Yale; a J.D. from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in political science from U.C. Berkeley in 2002.

Regan Pritzker

Regan is the co-founder of the Kataly Foundation and is currently serving as a board member and collaborator with the Restorative Economies Fund. She has a background in education and began working in philanthropy when she took a larger role at her family’s foundation, The Libra Foundation, in 2015, and where she is now board co-president and chair of the investment committee. She is active in the Just Transition movement, taking leadership in moving progressive wealth holders and philanthropists to rethink their ethical framework for private investment.

Regan works with her family and advisors to align the Libra Foundation’s and her personal assets with progressive and radical values through investment, philanthropy, and political giving. She is energized by the momentum that is building to shift private investment and philanthropy towards a frame of racial equity and economic justice, using an intentional reparations lens. The founding of the Kataly Foundation in 2018 was a manifestation of her effort to move along that continuum of alignment.

Regan serves on the board of Global Greengrants Fund, a global network of donors and activists supporting communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. She is also a member of the board of Way To Win, a progressive donor network committed to supporting reflective democracy through power building in communities.

Rob Reich

Rob Reich is professor of political science and, by courtesy, professor of philosophy and at the Graduate School of Education, at Stanford University. He is the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review), both at Stanford University. He is the author most recently of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values (edited with Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz, University of Chicago Press, 2016). Rob is also the author of several books on education: Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and Education, Justice, and Democracy (edited with Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Press, 2013). His current work focuses on ethics, public policy, and technology, and he serves as associate director of the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence initiative at Stanford. Rob is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford’s highest honor for teaching. Bob was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school. He is a board member of the magazine Boston Review, of Giving Tuesday, and at the Spencer Foundation.

Erika Reinhardt

Erika is a product and engineering leader, now solely focused on climate and democracy related efforts. Erika co-led U.S. Digital Response’s 2020 elections-related efforts to ensure local and state election offices, and NGOs that serve them, have the products and technical expertise they need to most effectively run smooth elections. Previously she led the Payments Experience engineering group at Stripe, served as the Director of Engineering at OpenAI, co-founded the voter registration non-profit Voteplz for the 2016 election, and was the Director of Product Engineering at Planet Labs. Erika studied computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering at MIT. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two young kids.

Christian Seelos

Christian Seelos is a Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS).

His research on innovative business models in the context of deep poverty was recognized by the Strategic Management Society (Best Paper Award for Practice Implications, 2007) and also won him the gold price, 2008 of the IFC-FT research competition on private sector development. Together with Johanna Mair, he published his research on the link between innovation and social impact in a recent book Innovation and Scaling for Impact, which won five prestigious awards.

Christian teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Strategic Management, Social Innovation, and Sustainability and Strategy.

Before joining PACS, he was the Director of Social Innovation Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School Social Innovation for Change Initiative, an Academic Visitor at the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, and served on the faculty and as Director of the IESE Platform for Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Navarro.

In the 1980s and early 90s, Christian was Associate Professor for Molecular Biology and Cancer Research at the University of Vienna. He also held several management positions in the private industry In the mid-1990s, Christian served as Senior Adviser to the Executive Chairman of UNSCOM and led several missions as part of the disarmament of Iraq’s biological weapons program.

David Siegel

David Siegel is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is co-founder and co-chair of Two Sigma Investments, LP.

Inspired by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, David was drawn to the nascent field of computer science at a young age, quickly developing a deep interest in programming. By the mid-1970s, at age 12, he was building memory and logic boards, and learning to program a supercomputer at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.  As a freshman in high school, he also taught a programming course to high school students at an NYU summer program. This early interest in computers sparked a life-long passion for building intelligent computational systems, reflecting a lasting belief in technology’s potential to improve virtually every human endeavor.

After graduating from Princeton, David received a PhD in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. David went on to co-found Two Sigma, an algorithmic investment manager that applies cutting-edge technology to the data-rich world of finance.

David sits on the board of several leading organizations at the intersection of technology and creativity, including the MIT Corporation, Cornell Tech, Carnegie Hall, the Scratch Foundation (which he co-founded), and Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Lateefah Simon

Lateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. She has served as President of Akonadi Foundation since 2016. That same year—driven by Oscar Grant’s death—she was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors as President. She was elected to a second term in November 2020. Since 2015, Lateefah also has served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the California State University, the nation’s largest public university system, and state officials often turn to her for strategic advice on policy matters related to racial justice. In 2022 Akonadi Foundation welcomed Lateefah Simon to the Board of Directors as she transitioned from President of Akonadi to lead Meadow Fund. Lateefah spearheaded San Francisco’s first reentry anti-recidivism youth services division under the then-District Attorney Kamala Harris leadership. Lateefah received the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award in 2003, making her the youngest woman to receive the award —in recognition of her work as Executive Director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center.

Liz Simons

Liz Simons is chair of the board of the Heising-Simons Foundation. A former teacher, Liz worked in Spanish-bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms, and subsequently founded Stretch to Kindergarten, a spring-summer early childhood education program. She currently serves as chair of the board of The Marshall Project, and on the boards of The Foundation for a Just Society, Math for America, Smart Justice California and the Learning Policy Institute. Additionally, she volunteers at The Beat Within (a magazine by and for incarcerated youth). Liz earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s in education from Stanford University.

Liz Simons and Mark Heising founded the Foundation in 2007 and joined the Giving Pledge in 2016, publicly committing the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Jonathan Soros

Jonathan Soros is Chief Executive Officer of JS Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm, and co-founder of Athletes Unlimited, a new model of pro sports where athletes are decision-makers and individuals are champions in team sports. Together with his wife Jennifer, he is also co-founder of Give Lively LLC, a social enterprise to facilitate philanthropic giving. Jonathan is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank based in New York City, and serves on the boards of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and GivingTuesday. 

Prior to founding JS Capital, Jonathan spent nine years with Soros Fund Management LLC, serving as its President and Deputy Chairman from 2005 to 2011. He is a co-founder of Friends of Democracy PAC, the Fair Trial Initiative, and Victory 2021. He has also previously served as co-chair of the board of New America and held several board positions affiliated with the Open Society Foundations. Jonathan clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and is a graduate magna cum laude of Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his BA from Wesleyan University.

Jehan Velji

Jehan Velji is Director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group, which seeks to strengthen the capacity of the foundation’s programs, initiatives, and grantees — and philanthropy, in general — to achieve their goals and benefit the common good. As director, Jehan leads a team that both makes grants to strengthen nonprofits and the philanthropic sector, and provides internal guidance across Hewlett’s programs on supporting grantee capacity and developing, implementing, and evaluating grant strategies.

Jehan is a philanthropy expert with three decades of experience in strategy consulting and organizational capacity-building. She joined Hewlett from Blue Meridian, where she oversaw a range of work in support of economic mobility as managing director of portfolio strategy & management. Before that, she served as the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s senior portfolio director, where she drove the planning and analysis of EMCF’s core grantmaking strategies and managed several long-term grantee relationships. She went to EMCF after almost a decade at The Bridgespan Group, where, as a partner, she worked on strategy with a range of nonprofit and foundation clients. Prior to Bridgespan, she engaged with both business and nonprofit clients as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. Earlier in her career, she worked at Catholic Relief Services, where she was responsible for leading teams evaluating the effectiveness of the group’s work in 15 nations.