2024 Giving List Women Program

Welcome to the inaugural Giving List Women Summit!

we are so glad you’ve chosen to join this convening of people who understand that moving our world toward gender equality is essential to making our world a better place for us all.

Our aim is to broaden the tent of donors, impact leaders, and everyone in between who view women* and girls as a lens, not just a lane, in philanthropy. Because women and girls are the most powerful tool we have for addressing our world’s most pressing problems – yet currently less than 2% of all philanthropic dollars go toward women’s and girls’ organizations.

If you are at this summit, you are stepping into the tent. It does not matter whether you call yourself a feminist, or what your political a liation is. We are not monolithic. But we are, when we come together, a powerful force for good. And when we work in solidarity not just with each other, but with the boys and men in our lives, that is true even more so.

e idea is no longer for us all to t into a world created by and for men. It’s about building a world that will be better for every human on our planet. A world in which we protect the Earth, where we rethink what good leadership looks like, where everyone is seen and protected and valued and included. And the only road to achieving this vision is that which leads to gender equality. And this is why we are here.

ank you for linking arms with e Giving List Women and joining the chorus of courageous voices in the powerful push for equity, equality, compassion, and justice for all.

So, buckle up, and get ready to learn, to boldly o er what you have to teach, to meet some incredible people, and to have a little fun along the way. All we ask of you is that you’ve come with an open mind and an open heart.

And lastly, a huge thank you to Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin for opening up to us, for this Summit, this incredible art installation which they also happen to call home.

Gwyn Lurie & e Giving List Women Team

* When we say women, this includes cisgender women, transgender women, femme/feminine-identifying, gender queer, and nonbinary individuals.

Summit Welcome Reception at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall

3:30 PM:

Registration, Mix & Mingle

Catering by duo

Drinks generously donated by:

5:00 PM:

Welcome by Janine Berridge

President, Giving List Women

Comments by Gwyn Lurie

OUR NORTH STAR:

Co-Founder and CEO, Giving List Women

Why do women and girls serve as the most important lever for change?

Moderated by: Gwyn Lurie

Speakers:

Fartuun Adan

Founder & Executive Director, Elman Peace Center

Zainab Salbi

Co-Founder, Daughters for Earth

Ilwad Elman

Chief Operating Officer, Elman Peace Centre

Closing: Guided Grounding by Deirdre Hade

Thursday, April 25

6:30 PM:

Doing It inners

Thank you to the following local philanthropists and leaders who have opened their homes to Summit participants for the inaugural Giving List Women Doing it Differently Dinners.

DINNER HOST SHUTTLE COLOR

Merryl Snow Zegar TURQUOISE

Stacy Pulice GREEN

Nancy Sheldon ORANGE

Teran Davis YELLOW

Gabriella Taylor BLUE

Jillian Muller PURPLE

Crystal Wyatt PINK

Cyndee Howard/ GREY

Lesley Cunningham GREY

Deirdre Hade BLACK

Dr. Nancy O’Reilly/ BROWN

Ragan Thomson O’Reilly BROWN

Jackie Carrera TAN

Leslie Zemeckis RED Differently Dinners

Doing it Di erently

Friday, April 26

DAY TWO

8:00 - 8:30 AM: Doing it Differently Breakfast Buffet

Location: Main Tent

8:30 AM: Welcome by Tiffany Shlain, Artist & Activist

8:45 AM: INTERSECTIONALITY: What it is & why it matters

Moderated by: Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Executive Producer, Ms. Studios, Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law

Speakers:

Mona Sinha Global Executive Director, Equality Now

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw Co-Founder & Executive Director, The African American Policy Forum

**(Dayna Bowers as visual notetaker)

9:15 AM: DRIVING UP THE 1.8%: The challenge & the opportunity

Moderated by: Stacey Keare Board Chair, Women Moving Millions

Speakers:

Alex Jakana

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

Dianne Chipps Bailey

Managing Director and National Philanthropic Strategy Executive for Philanthropic Solutions, Bank of America Private Bank

**(Dayna Bowers as visual notetaker)

Friday, April 26

Pillars for Progress

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM - Various Locations

BREAKOUT SESSION 1A:

WOMEN AND GIRLS & DEMOCRACY:

The role of policy & law

Location: HH Garage

Moderator: Hannah-Beth Jackson

Founder & CEO, Hannah-Beth Jackson & Associates

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Founder & CEO, The Panorama Group

Esta Soler

Founder & President, Futures Without Violence

Laura Speer

Director of Strategy, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Kathy Spillar

Executive Director & Co-Founder, Feminist Majority Foundation

Zakiya Thomas

President & CEO, ERA Coalition

BREAKOUT SESSION 1B:

PRIORITIZING INTERSECTIONALITY:

Who are we overlooking?

Location: Graholm Living Room

Moderator: Miguel A. Santana

President & Chief Executive Officer, California Community Foundation

Dr. Monique Couvson

President & CEO, Grantmakers for Girls of Color

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Co-Founder & Executive Director, The African American Policy Forum

Amy-Marie Merrell

Jen Rainin

Co-Executive Director, Programs + Development, The Cupcake Girls

Co-Founder, The Curve Foundation

BREAKOUT SESSION 1C:

LEADING DIFFERENTLY MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

Location: HH Game Room

Moderator: Kimberly Ellis

Founder, Unbought – Unbossed

Dr. Erika D. Beck

President, California State University, Northridge

Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning

Founder & Executive Director, Rise Up

Kavita N. Ramdas

Activist in Residence, Global Fund for Women

Hannah Riley Bowles

Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School

BREAKOUT SESSION 1D:

WHEN WOMEN THRIVE, OUR PLANET THRIVES

Location: HH Theater

Moderator: Sigrid Wright

CEO, Community Environmental Council

Kézha Hatier-Riess

Vice President of External Relations, Global Greengrants Fund

Rufaro Kangai

Director, Emerging Movements & Opportunities, Global Fund for Women

Pat Mitchell

Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Connected Women Leaders and Co-Founder & Editorial Director of TEDWomen

Zainab Salbi

Co-Founder, Daughters for Earth

BREAKOUT SESSION 1E:

THE IMPERATIVE FOR SOLIDARITY WITH MEN AND BOYS

Location: HH Avocado Patio

Moderator: Shawn Ray White

General Counsel & Strategist, Family Offices and Foundations

Jean “Berky” Berchmans Uwimana

Co-Founder, Medical Doctors for Choice

Ilwad Elman Chief Operating Officer, Elman Peace Center

Tony Porter CEO & Co-Founder, A Call To Men

Jake Stika Executive Director & Co-Founder, Next Gen Men

Friday, April 26

11:30 AM: REPRESENTATION MATTERS

Location: HH Living Room

Moderated by: Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

Author, Lawyer, Community Leader, California State University Trustee

Speaker:

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

First Partner of California, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Representation Project

12:00 PM: LEADING OUR PLANET AND THOSE ON IT TO A SAFER PLACE

Moderated by: Kavita N. Ramdas

Activist in Residence, Global Fund for Women

Speaker:

Pat Mitchell

Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Connected Women Leaders and Co-Founder & Editorial Director of TEDWomen

12:30 - 1:45 PM: Connection Lunch

An opportunity to connect with anyone with whom you would like to spend time –new friends, old friends, hope to be friends.

Location: Main Tent

Tools for Your Feminist Tool Box

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

2:00 - 3:15 PM - Various Locations

BREAKOUT SESSION 2A:

THE ELEPHANT IN THE LANE:

Overcoming roadblocks in philanthropy

Location: HH Game Room

Moderator: Jackie Carrera

President & CEO, Santa Barbara Foundation

Savannah Sly

Founder & Co-Director, New Moon Network

Maheen Kaleem

Vice President of Operations & Programs, Grantmakers for Girls of Color

Pat Chandler

CEO, Creative Visions

BREAKOUT SESSION 2B:

PARTNERSHIPS REIMAGINED:

Beyond philanthropy

Location: HH Theater

Moderator: Stacey Keare

Board Chair, Women Moving Millions

Nancy Swanson-Roberts

Executive Director, Linked Foundation

Tracie Cordeiro

President & CEO, Friendship Bridge

Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning

Founder & Executive Director, Rise Up

Jean “Berky” Berchmans Uwimana

Co-Founder, Medical Doctors for Choice

BREAKOUT SESSION 2C:

IMPACT & BUSINESS: Not such strange bedfellows

Location: HH Garage

Moderator: Brandi Howard

President & CEO, East Bay Community Foundation

Ian Bentley

Co-Founder & CEO, Parker Clay

Katie Marquart

Partner & Pro Bono Chair, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

Kelly Mooney Founder & CEO, Equipt Women

Jocelyn Mangan CEO & Founder, illumyn

BREAKOUT SESSION 2D:

WEALTH: Moving past the ick factor to impact

Location: Graholm Living Room

Moderator: Khara Jabola-Carolus

Director of Feminist Philanthropy, Global Center for Gender Equality

Tim Freundlich

Founder & Executive Director, Strategic Development, ImpactAssets

Alex Jakana

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

Shawn Ray White

General Counsel & Strategist, Family Offices and Foundations

Jennifer Risher

Co-Founder, #HalfMyDAF

BREAKOUT SESSION 2E:

IDENTIFYING AND INVESTING IN GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS

Location: HH Avocado Patio

Moderator: Kathy Spillar

Executive Director & Co-Founder, Feminist Majority Foundation

Rufaro Kangai

Director, Emerging Movements & Opportunities, Global Fund for Women

Kézha Hatier-Riess

Vice President of External Relations, Global Greengrants Fund

Ana L. Oliveira

President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation

Friday, April 26

3:15 - 5:30 PM: Please use this time however you wish.

You are welcome to return to your hotel/home to relax and change for dinner. If not, you may remain on the property. There will be refreshments available, as well as...

3:45 - 4:45 PM: ELEVATE AND INTEGRATE

A Closing Workshop for Women with Gabriella Taylor, MA

Location: Graholm Breakfast Nook

As the GLW Summit draws to a close, we invite you to join us for a final conversational workshop. Here, we’ll integrate the summit’s powerful ideas into your life and explore what redefining leadership from within means for you.

Led by Gabriella Taylor, MA, Professional Coach, drawing from the wisdom of neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to integrate your summit experience and explore what selfleadership means for you.

Whether you consider yourself a leader or not, if you care about making the world a better place for you and your loved ones—you are a leader.

When a woman finds her authentic voice, she finds her power—and everything changes.

3:45 - 4:45 PM: THIS IS NOT A HOUSE

Screening

Location: HH Theater

Architect Robin Donaldson and collaborator/artist/homeowner Bruce Heavin host a screening of the documentary about Hill House, This Is Not a House, directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. Watch the screening in the bespoke screening room at Hill House! How meta! Q&A follows with Donaldson and Heavin.

3:45 - 4:45

PM: A RADIANCE JOURNEY OF REJUVENATION

Meditation with Deirdre Hade

Location: Graholm Living Room

Welcome to an immersive experience in Radiance Healing. During these 60 minutes, you will receive a soothing guided meditation with crystal healing sound bowls and essential oils.

During your Radiance experience, you will feel the burdens and heaviness of life being lifted off of you. Answers to longing questions will emerge. You will feel surrender and a deep inner sense of peace. Anxiety will melt away. Joy returns.

You will be bathed in the subtle energies of a Golden Presence, this is the divine feminine in all Her Wisdom. She has been known throughout time as the Shekinah, Pistis Sophia, Isis, Mary, and the ancient Mother Creator Goddess, Inanna. Throughout time, this feminine presence has emerged or been submerged. Even in our technical secular world She is still here. Truthfully She has never left us. She is Wisdom. She is the deep knowing of our inner feminine power. She is the foundational principle of intuition, wisdom, intelligence, and healing (all attributes of love). She is relationship. And when we rediscover Her we enter into our infinite potential. She is the power to manifest, move mountains, and heal wounds.

So prepare to relax, set your intention, and rest in the healing energies of Radiance. I look forward to our time together.

Love, Deirdre

6:00 - 7:30 PM:

CELEBRATING CHANGE DINNER

Introduction by: Lynda Weinman, Co-Founder of lynda.com

Location: Main Tent

ACCELERATING THE 1.8%: Collaborative philanthropy

Moderated by: Hali Lee

Founding Partner, Radiant Strategies

Founder, Asian Women Giving Circle

Speakers:

Sarah Haacke Byrd

CEO, Women Moving Millions

Sara Lomelin

CEO, Philanthropy Together

Jennifer Risher

Co-Founder, #HalfMyDAF

:Who’s Who?

Alex Jakana

An Unwavering Believer in the Power of Partnership, Alex is a Senior Program O cer on the Philanthropic Partnerships Team at e Gates Foundation with eight years of experience in partnership development, advanced negotiation, networking, stakeholder management, and fundraising. Over this time, he has managed a portfolio of grants and contracts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the USA (including funding the rst-ever gender desk in an African newsroom). Before joining the foundation, Alex was an Executive Producer of editorial partnerships at the BBC in London.

Amy-Marie Merrell

Amy-Marie Merrell is the Co-Executive Director (Programs & Development) of e Cupcake Girls. Amy-Marie envisions a world where sex trafcking is eradicated and consensual sex workers are safe and empowered. Her team of leaders, mentors, advocates, volunteers, and resource partners provide diverse support with an emphasis on empowering their program participants in their pursuits in their timing.

Ana L. Oliveira

Ana L. Oliveira is a champion for change: during her 17-year tenure as President and CEO of e New York Women’s Foundation, Ana has increased annual grantmaking from $1.7M to more than $125M, reaching millions of women and girls. Under Ana’s leadership, e Foundation emerged as the preeminent patron for gender and racial justice in New York; funding over 500 organizations run by and for women of color, Ana pioneers the mission towards a gender-equitable future.

Brandi Howard

Brandi Howard is the president and CEO of East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF). Named the “boldest community foundation” in 2019 by Inside Philanthropy, EBCF is known for its work advancing inclusion, fairness, and racial justice in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Howard is a collaborative and compassionate leader who brings deep experience as an equity and justice strategist rooted in community to the Foundation’s vision and framework for A Just East Bay.

Bruce Heavin

Bruce Heavin is an artist, strategist, and entrepreneur. As the Chief Creative O cer & co-founder of lynda.com, his creative vision was integral to lynda.com’s success as a leader in online training. He created the company’s iconic logo of his wife Lynda Weinman, designed many of the distinctive illustrations on the website, and authored some of the site’s rst video tutorials in Photoshop, Illustrator, and After E ects.

An illustrator with experience in both traditional and electronic media, Bruce graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. With an extensive background in illustration, photography, and motion graphics, he has created illustrations for national publications as well as clients including Adobe, MSNBC, and E! Entertainment Television. Bruce is currently a member of the ArtCenter Board of Trustees.

Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair CBE KC is a leading King’s Counsel, committed campaigner for women’s rights and wife of the former British Prime Minister. Cherie set up the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2008 to support women in low- and middle-income countries to start, sustain, and grow successful businesses so that they can be nancially independent, have a stronger voice in their societies, and contribute to their communities and economies. She is also founder of Omnia Strategy, a pioneering international law rm that provides strategic counsel to governments, corporates, and private clients.

Dayna Bowers

Deirdre Hade

Dayna Bowers is a visual artist and improv coach based in Los Angeles, who prioritizes anti-racist, queer-a rming, feminist-led collaborations. In addition to designing infographics (like the one found in the centerfold of the rst Giving List Women publication), Dayna is a live scribe and visual note-taker, who listens deeply and illuminates the content of your meeting in real time. Dayna can also be found performing improvised musical comedy at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade eatre.

Deirdre Hade is a modern day mystic, poet, and visionary leader in the ancient arts of the wisdom traditions. Creator of “ e Radiance Journey,” a path to mystical knowledge – uniting the magical with the material- soul purpose and mystery with everyday life.

Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning

Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning is the founder and Executive Director of Rise Up, a global organization that partners with visionary local leaders to advance gender equity. Rise Up’s powerful network has successfully advocated for over 185 new and improved laws and policies, positively impacting more than 180 million people globally. Denise is a Fulbright scholar who received her PhD from UC Berkeley, MA from Princeton University, and BA from Duke University.

Dianne Chipps Bailey

Dianne Chipps Bailey is a trusted advisor to in uential, impactful philanthropists and a passionate advocate for the nonpro t organizations they support. Dianne’s current role is Managing Director and National Philanthropic Strategy Executive for Bank of America. Her team delivers customized consulting and advisory services on topics including strategic visioning, mission advancement, high-impact grantmaking, leadership development, governance, and board dynamics. Dianne is a frequent speaker and commentator on topics related to best practices and trends in philanthropy.

Dr. Erika D. Beck

Esta Soler

Fartuun Adan

Dr. Erika D. Beck is president of CSUN, a university of 40,000 students, faculty, and sta consistently top-ranked for academic and inclusive excellence and for accelerating the economic mobility of its students. Since arriving in 2021, Dr. Beck has realized historic levels of philanthropic investment; led the campus to record-breaking research funding growth; and advanced ve transformative capital infrastructure projects. With its international impact, CSUN and its alumni are enabling a brighter, more equitable future.

Under Soler’s direction, Futures Without Violence was a driving force behind passage of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 – the nation’s rst comprehensive federal response to the violence that plagues families and communities. Soler’s work to prevent violence against women has been featured on MAKERS, an innovative video and documentary project launched by AOL and PBS to showcase stories from trailblazing women. Soler also delivered a TED Talk charting 30 years of tactics and technologies that have shaped the movement to end domestic violence.

Fartuun Adan is a passionate humanitarian, educator, and leader. She ed Somalia in the early 1990s with her three young daughters in tow, leaving her husband and partner and her humanitarian endeavors behind, never to see him alive again. In 2006, Fartuun returned to Mogadishu to lead Elman Peace Centre, a nonpro t peace and development organization she founded in honor of her late husband, Elman Ali Ahmed, an ardent peace activist who spread the illustrious mantra “Drop the Gun and Pick up the Pen.”

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the Founder and CEO of e Panorama Group. She spent her career working in politics, policy, and philanthropy. Prior to founding Panorama, Gabrielle spent more than a decade working in philanthropy, as the Director of Global Program Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She holds an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a B.A. from American University. Gabrielle lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters.

Gabriella Taylor

Gwyn Lurie

Hali Lee

Gabriella Taylor, MA, is the founder of Extraordinary Woman©, a bespoke coaching boutique in Montecito, California. She coaches women who have a vision of making a positive di erence by bringing their important ideas to life, expanding their scope of in uence, or elevating their impact to the next level by integrating Neuroscience, Psychology, and Spirituality to facilitate deep and lasting transformation.

Gwyn Lurie is a lifelong writer who began her career as a journalist for ABC Network News in NYC. She has spent more than two decades as a screenwriter, having written for almost every major motion picture studio. Gwyn received her BA at UCLA where she served as Student Body President and was awarded a Truman Scholarship. She later attended graduate school at Oxford University where she studied international a airs as a Newton Tatum Scholar.

Hali Lee is delighted to have been co-builder of a few pieces of philanthropic infrastructure. She is founding partner of Radiant Strategies, co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle. Radiant is piloting Freedom School for Philanthropy, a curriculum for wealthy individuals who want to center equity in their practice. Hali is writing a book, THE BIG WE.

Hannah-Beth Jackson

Hannah-Beth Jackson is a retired California State Senator, having represented Santa Barbara and Ventura counties for 14 years. She authored the rst-in-the-nation legislation requiring that publicly-traded companies in California must include women on their corporate boards, wrote the strongest equal pay law in the country, and authored laws to transform the workplace to meet the challenges of today’s economy. For her work, she was named one of 11 women “blazing new trails in American politics” by the Hu ngton Post.

Hannah Riley Bowles

Ian Bentley

Ilwad Elman

Hannah Riley Bowles is the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Hannah chairs the HKS Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences (MLD) Area and co-directs the HKS Center for Public Leadership and HKS Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). She is a leading expert on gender in negotiation. Hannah’s research focuses on women’s leadership advancement and the role of negotiation in educational and career advancement, including the management of work-family con ict.

Ian Bentley is an experienced professional with a diverse work history. Ian is the Founder and CEO of Parker Clay, a company that produces premium leather goods in Ethiopia. Additionally, they are the President of e Zia Group, where they have demonstrated their expertise in sales, marketing, management, and business development. Prior to these roles, Ian founded Steadfast Love, a project they worked on from 2012 to 2017.

Ilwad Elman is a peace activist and social entrepreneur at the forefront of the Somali peace process. Her work at the Elman Peace Centre fuses social business with con ict resolution and is building a regenerative economy for sustainable peace in Somalia. She champions inclusive peacebuilding by giving all those impacted by con ict – particularly women and girls – a seat at the table. Ilwad also co-founded Somalia’s rst rape crisis center.

Jackie Carrera

Janine Berridge

Jackie Carrera serves as President & CEO of the Santa Barbara Foundation (SBF), the California Central Coast’s oldest and largest community foundation. e Foundation envisions a thriving community for all and works to mobilize philanthropic capital and collective wisdom to build empathetic, inclusive, and resilient communities. Jackie has led the Foundation’s e orts to re ne its business strategy, drive new revenue opportunities, develop nancial and human resources, and further develop the donor base and endowment.

Janine Berridge has over 15 years of experience as an impact leader in the non-pro t, academia, consulting, and philanthropic sectors. Janine currently serves as President of the Giving List Women. Previously, Janine co-founded the Global Lab for Research in Action at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Policy: a research and policy institute paving the way for bold new solutions like engaging boys alongside girls to advance gender justice. Janine holds an MPP from UCLA Luskin School of Public A airs and is a Paci c Council on International Policy AMPLIFY Fellow.

Jake Stika

As Next Gen Men’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Jake is passionate about changing the way we see, act, and think about masculinity towards a future where boys and men experience less pain, and cause less harm. Jake is most proud of speaking at the United Nations, co-authoring the forthcoming A Kids Book About Masculinity, and becoming the new publisher of Voice Male magazine continuing a 40-year legacy chronicling the pro-feminist movement.

Dr. Jean “Berky” Berchmans Uwimana

Jen Rainin

Berky is a Rwandan physician and co-founder of Rwanda Medical Doctors For Choice, a network comprising over 140 physicians in Rwanda. He advocates for gender equality, with a particular focus on male engagement. To further this cause, he developed a cooking show featuring young Rwandan physicians who, with a humorous approach, mimic chefs in the kitchen, using culinary products for hands-on simulations. Berky is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health (MPH) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Johns Hopkins University.

As a lmmaker and philanthropist, Jen builds community and hope, eliminates shame, and inspires others through storytelling. rough Frankly Speaking Films, Jen addresses the deep need for representation of queer women’s stories. With her wife, Jen co-founded e Curve Foundation, the only national nonpro t dedicated to championing lesbian, queer women, transgender, and nonbinary stories and culture. Curve supports journalism, produces Lesbian Visibility Week, and hosts intergenerational conversations on gender, queerness, race, ability, and activism.

Jennifer Risher

Jennifer Risher is an author, speaker, philanthropist, and investor focused on gender, racial, and economic equity. She’s on a mission to move money out of the taboo category. Her book, We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth, helps start much-needed conversations. In 2020, Jennifer launched #HalfMyDAF with her husband, David. Together, they have contributed millions in matching funds, rallied donors and nonpro ts, and created a community that has moved $50 million to nonpro ts.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Jennifer Siebel Newsom is the First Partner of California, founder of the Representation Project, co-founder of the California Partners Project, an award-winning documentary lmmaker, and mother of four. As First Partner of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an in uential advocate, as well as a voice and partner to working moms and families through her California for ALL Women and California for ALL Kids initiatives. Building on her work as First Partner, Jennifer co-founded the California Partners Project (CPP).

Jocelyn Mangan

Kathy Spillar

Jocelyn Mangan is a visionary leader with a mission to solve board diversity in the next 10 years. Her work is at the forefront of building better companies impacting the most in uential lever for change: the boardroom. Jocelyn is the CEO and Founder of two social impact ventures: Him For Her, which is accelerating diversity on corporate boards, and illumyn, which is bridging the gap between boardroom opportunities and historically underrepresented executive talent ready for board service.

Kathy Spillar is Executive Director of Feminist Majority Foundation, a national organization working for women’s equality, empowerment, and non-violence. As one of the founders, she has been a driving force in executing the organization’s diverse programs securing women’s rights both domestically and globally since its inception in 1987. She is also the Executive Editor of Ms. and the editor and contributor of 50 Years of Ms: e Best of the Path nding Magazine that Ignited a Revolution

Katie Marquart

Katherine Marquart is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles o ce and is the Firm’s Pro Bono Chair. In this role, Ms. Marquart manages and coordinates the Firm’s pro bono e orts globally. She also maintains a substantive practice in many areas of public interest law. Ms. Marquart previously spent seven years as a litigation associate at the Firm, where her practice focused on complex business litigation, transnational litigation, and internal investigations and regulatory inquiries.

Kavita N. Ramdas

Kelly Mooney

Kavita N. Ramdas is a globally recognized advocate for gender equity and justice. She currently serves as the Activist in Residence at the Global Fund for Women. She was recently selected to be a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin, Germany. In 2023, she served as a visiting professor at Princeton University’s School of Public and International A airs. Kavita is a distinguished speaker and thought commentator on the challenges facing philanthropy and civil society.

Founder and CEO of Equipt Women Co., Kelly Mooney empowers, instructs, and coaches aspiring professional women with early career and life momentum. She also founded a sister foundation that provides emergency funds to single parents at community colleges. She was the CEO and co-owner of the nation’s largest independent digital agency and sold that business to IBM where she was named IBM’s rst Chief Experience Ocer. Ms. Mooney authored two books: e Open Brand (2008) and e Ten Demandments (2002).

Kézha Hatier-Riess

Kézha is the Vice President of External Relations at Global Greengrants Fund and comes from a long line of family working for women’s, community, and Indigenous rights. Kézha carries her family’s dedication to movements seeking justice for all people, wildlife, and the Earth, and has worked to protect the health of ecosystems in the West, to support community rights, and to increase educational access and equity for young people in New Mexico, all with a lens of ensuring women and local people are at the heart of decision-making.

Khara Jabola-Carolus

Kimberly Ellis

Khara Jabola-Carolus is the Director of Feminist Philanthropy at the Global Center for Gender Equality (GCfGE), an academic center at Stanford University that has grown into an independent collective of gender experts. She recently led development of a rst-of-its-kind, explicitly feminist donor education program and interactive playbook called the Feminist by Design System. Previously, Khara served in state government as the Executive Director of the State of Hawai’i’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Kimberly Ellis is the Founder of Unbought – Unbossed, an incubator for the next generation of political disruptors. As the former Executive Director of Emerge California, the state’s most e ective training program for Democratic women who run for o ce, Kimberly is a nationally recognized Progressive leader who has been credited with revolutionizing Democratic politics in California. Kimberly has appeared on syndicated television and radio, and is frequently interviewed by leading political media outlets.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Kiran Deol

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is the Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor at Columbia Law School. She is popularly known for her development of “intersectionality,” “Critical Race eory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!

Kiran is a comedian, writer, and actor who starred on the NBC/Hulu comedy Sunnyside from Mike Schur and Kal Penn, in addition to other shows like How to Get Away with Murder and Modern Family. She stars opposite Alex Winter and Jonah Ray in Destroy All Neighbors. It was named one of Harper’s BAZAAR’s Top Ten Horror Films. She’s also the lead in Meera Menon’s (Westworld, Ms. Marvel) latest work in progress feature Didn’t Die, which is aiming for a fall premiere; and has sold television shows to places like Net ix and Hulu.

Laura Speer

Laura Speer is the Director of Strategy at the Annie E Casey Foundation where she works with the Senior Leadership Team to develop and implement the Foundation’s vision of a brighter future for all young people in the United States. Prior to her current position, Laura had primary responsibility for the National KIDS COUNT Project and managed a portfolio focused on national policy research and advocacy with a special emphasis on racial equity policy and policies impacting immigrant families.

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is a lawyer, author, philanthropist, community leader, and former television executive. Her Holocaust memoir, Bending Toward the Sun, documents her mother’s experience in the Holocaust and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Leslie was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to the California State University Board of Trustees. Gilbert-Lurie is a member of the International Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Board of Directors of the Paci c Council on International Policy.

Lynda Weinman

Lynda Weinman is a full-time artist, specializing in 3D printing and fabrication of mixed media including ceramics, resin, and plastic. She is the former co-founder of lynda.com, where she was responsible for the student-centered teaching philosophy, authored numerous books and tutorials, and served as the executive chair of the company until the purchase in 2015 by LinkedIn Corporation. Lynda is currently consumed with making ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and playing bridge.

Maheen Kaleem

Maheen Kaleem, Esq. is Vice President of Programs and Operations at G4GC, the nation’s primary philanthropic intermediary explicitly dedicated to resourcing girls and gender-expansive youth of Color. A human rights lawyer by trade, she has over 20 years of experience supporting survivors of gender-based violence and criminalization – particularly children – to lead e orts to advance racial and gender justice. Maheen has contributed to the successful passage of several laws and policies at the federal, state, and local levels.

Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a highly visible thought-leader, podcast host, professor, and frequent commentator on MSNBC, lending her expertise on matters of constitutional law, reproductive justice, and the state of American democracy. She is a distinguished professor at Georgetown University, holding the prestigious Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professorship of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy. Dr. Goodwin is one of the most cited health law scholars in the world and a highly regarded public intellectual.

Miguel A. Santana

Miguel A. Santana has more than three decades of expertise in government, nonpro t, private, philanthropy and the community sectors and is renowned as an advocate for systems change and making Southern California a more equitable place for all its residents, especially those who have been historically marginalized. Santana is President and CEO of the California Community Foundation (CCF), one of Southern California’s largest and most active philanthropic organizations, which has served Angelenos for more than a century.

S. Mona Sinha

Sharmila (Mona) Sinha is a globally recognized advocate for gender equality. She brings over 25 years of experience in strengthening mission-driven organizations to Equality Now. Aligning her passion for social justice and women’s empowerment with her early experience working in the corporate sector, she has enabled over 90 organizations that unlock the economic potential and protect the legal rights of women, girls, and gender non-conforming people. She is also the Board Chair of Women Moving Millions.

Dr. Monique Couvson

Dr. Couvson is an author and social justice scholar whose work has been pro led by Forbes, e Chronicle of Philanthropy, MSNBC, CSPAN2, e Washington Post, e New York Times, NPR, and PBS, among other national and local print, radio, and television media. Her research and practice intersects race, gender, education, and justice to explore the ways in which Black communities, and other communities of Color, are uniquely a ected by social policies.

Nancy Swanson-Roberts

Pat Chandler

Nancy Swanson-Roberts is the Executive Director of Linked Foundation, which is committed to improving the health and economic self-reliance of women in Latin America and the United States. Prior to her career in philanthropy and impact investing, she held senior roles in the technology sector. Nancy has served on several boards including Pro Mujer, and is currently on the board of MCE Social Capital.

Pat Chandler is the CEO of Creative Visions and brings more than 25 years of business, marketing, and media management experience and expertise to the organization. She comes to Creative Visions from Points of Light where she served on the executive team for eight years holding positions as SVP of Marketing and Corporate Partnerships, Chief External A airs O cer, and Senior Advisor to the CEO. Points of Light is the largest volunteer management organization in the world.

Pat Mitchell

roughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer, and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the rst woman president of PBS and of CNN Productions. Programs produced under her direction were awarded 34 Emmys, ve Peabodys, and two Academy Award nominations. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host, and editorial director for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of Connected Women Leaders, a cohort of global women leaders, and Project Dandelion, a women-led campaign for climate justice.

Robin Donaldson

With deep roots in Southern California, Robin Donaldson studied painting and printmaking at UCSB, earned his master’s degree in architecture from SCI-Arc, and spent his early career working closely with om Mayne of Morphosis. Since founding D+P, Donaldson has continued to explore the foundations and push the limitations of architectural practice, working with ambitious and innovative clients to realize extraordinary ground-up residential projects; create homes for quantum computers; and – on the home front – founded an R+D lab dedicated to formulating and articulating new materials, methods, design strategies, and architectural applications.

Rufaro Kangai

Sara Lomelin

Rufaro Kangai (she/her/hers) is the Director of Major Gifts at Global Fund for Women. Rufaro is a recognized leader in supporting movement building and grantmaking, with over 10 years of experience developing, managing, and implementing programs that promote women’s and girls’ rights globally. She is a seasoned cross-cultural communicator with extensive frontline experience implementing programs that advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls.

Sara Lomelin (she/her) is a connector of people and ideas, a relationship builder, and a rm believer that everyone can be a philanthropist. A self-proclaimed philanthropy disruptor, Sara has traveled the world speaking about the power of collective giving and the correlation between civic engagement and Latino philanthropy. As founding CEO of Philanthropy Together, Sara is growing a movement of people-powered philanthropy to resource grassroots nonpro ts, shift power dynamics, and promote widespread philanthropy.

Sarah Haacke Byrd

Sarah Haacke Byrd is a philanthropy and social impact leader, currently serving as CEO of Women Moving Millions, a global philanthropic community that has committed more than $1 billion for gender equality. With over two decades of experience building, guiding, and leading nonpro t organizations dedicated to strengthening democracy, expanding human rights, and advancing gender equality, Sarah has a deep understanding of the complex issues facing women globally.

Savannah Sly

Savannah Sly is the Founder and Co-Director of New Moon Network, an intermediary fund dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of people in the sex trade. Speaking from lived and studied experience, Sly articulates the impacts of criminalization, surveillance, discrimination and stigma on marginalized communities and uplifts holistic solutions to mitigate exploitation. Sly serves on the global steering committee of the Sex Work Donor Collaborative and on the board of Woodhull Freedom Foundation.

Shawn Ray White

Sigrid Wright

Stacey Keare

Shawn is a corporate and nonpro t executive who utilizes her business acumen to design and build family o ce and foundation infrastructure for families interested in improving lives and solving social issues. She began this work as General Counsel for Eli Broad’s family o ce, foundation, and museum; e Obama Foundation; and Will Smith. Shawn began her career in nance on Wall Street before attending Stanford Law School.

Tiffany Shlain

Sigrid Wright is the rst female CEO of the Community Environmental Council. She is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Central Coast Climate Justice Network, a co-founder of the Central Coast Climate Collaborative, and a co-founder of the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network. Under her leadership, CEC was recognized by the State as a 2020 California Nonpro t of the Year, and by the City of Santa Barbara with the Spirit of Service Climate Hero award.

Stacey Keare is the current Board Chair at Women Moving Millions. She is an attorney, philanthropist, and public policy analyst who, along with her husband, is the Founder of the Girls Rights Project, an organization dedicated to advancing the rights of girls throughout the world. Stacey has spent the last 20 years nding and supporting innovative grassroots organizations that help girls gain access to education and sport, develop leadership skills, and live lives of safety, hope, and economic opportunity.

Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping e 21st Century,” Ti any Shlain is an artist, activist, Emmy-nominated lmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and national bestselling author. Shlain’s work explores the intersection of feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, and nature and has premiered at Sundance and MoMA. In 2024, she has a new documentary  e Teen Brain, a solo exhibition at Nancy Ho man Gallery in New York and will be in the Getty Museum’s PST: Art & Science Collide at the Skirball in LA.

Tim Freundlich

Tony Porter

At ImpactAssets, Tim develops complex partnerships and new client relationships, as well as industry eld building and innovation. While previously at Calvert Impact Capital for 12 years, he conceived of and launched the ImpactAssets Donor Advised Fund. He was also instrumental in building the now $500M Community Investment Note with more than $2 billion raised, deployed over and over into community development loans globally. Tim is a sought-out industry speaker and is regularly featured and quoted in media outlets worldwide.

Tony Porter is an author, educator, and activist working to advance gender and racial justice and create a more equitable society. Porter is internationally recognized for his e orts to prevent violence against women while promoting a healthy, respectful manhood. He is a leading voice on issues of manhood, male socialization, and preventing violence against all women and girls. Porter’s 2010 TED Talk has been named by GQ Magazine as one of the “Top 10 TED Talks Every Man Should See.”

Tracie Cordeiro

Zainab Salbi

Tracie is the President & CEO of Friendship Bridge, a nonpro t that creates opportunities for impoverished women in Guatemala. A former CFO who is uent in Spanish, Tracie is passionate about breaking down gender stereotypes and empowering underserved women in business. Previously, she helped lead the nance and procurement area of Opera Australia, a 100-million-dollar nonpro t, and worked in nance and leadership positions for Honeywell and KPMG in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Paci c.

Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, a writer, and a social entrepreneur who has dedicated her life to women’s rights and freedom. She is the co-founder of Daughters for Earth, a fund and a movement of Daughters rising up worldwide with climate solutions to protect and restore Mother Earth. Oprah Winfrey identi ed her as one of the women changing the world to People Magazine and President Bill Clinton identi ed her as one of the 21st century heroes to Harper’s Bazaar.

Zakiya Thomas

Zakiya omas is President and CEO of the ERA Coalition, a diverse coalition of 300 partner organizations representing over 80 million people. An intersectional, intergenerational, and diverse movement for constitutional sex equality, the Coalition breaks down silos to build solidarity to ght back against the coordinated rollback of our rights. Zakiya also teaches a nonpartisan course on how to run for political o ce at Georgetown Law and is Board Chair for REPRO Rising Virginia.