Kristy Teskey

May 14, 2014
Kristy Teskey is Executive Director of the John M. Belk Endowment and a strong education champion. Over the past 22 years she has worked on vital issues across the education and workforce development continuum, ranging from early childhood development to postsecondary access and completion, with a concentration on community colleges and first- generation students. Kristy joined the Endowment in August Read More

Bradford K. Smith

May 14, 2014
Bradford K. Smith is president of the Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers—a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector, together with research, education and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy. Before joining the Foundation Center in 2008, Mr. Smith was Read More

Amy Segal Shorey

May 14, 2014
Amy Segal Shorey is a senior grantmaker and philanthropic advisor at GMA Foundations. As an advisor, she supports boards of trustees in strategic development and governance. Her experience as a member of Yale’s first coed freshman class, and being the mother of two daughters inspires her continuing interest in girls’ empowerment. Read More

Greg Segal

May 14, 2014
Greg Segal is the Co-Founder of ORGANIZE, a start-up dedicated to increasing the amount of registered organ donors, which he launched after his father received a heart transplant. Previously, Greg worked at Rethink Education, a venture capital fund focused on education technology. Greg serves on the Board of Directors for A.L. Mailman Foundation and on the Board of Advocates for Human Read More

Justin A. Rockefeller

May 14, 2014
Since February 2012, Justin Rockefeller has run Special Relations at Addepar, a Silicon Valley-based technology  company reinventing the tools to aggregate and analyze financial data. Addepar is a wealth management platform that provides investment professionals with the tools required to manage complex global portfolios. In March 2013, Justin cofounded The ImPact, whose mission is to increase the probability and pace Read More

Noreen McMahon

May 14, 2014
Noreen McMahon is the Senior Director of Programs at The Highland Street Foundation (HSF), a private family foundation formed in 1989 committed to addressing the needs and concerns of children and families. Since its establishment, HSF has contributed more than $148 million to nonprofit organizations focused primarily on education, housing, mentorship, healthcare, environment and the arts. Since joining HSF, McMahon Read More

Melinda Marble

May 14, 2014
In May 2014, Melinda Marble was appointed Director of Family Philanthropy at Pilot House Associates, the family office in which the Barr Foundation is located. She previously served as Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director of the Barr Foundation. Prior to joining Barr, Melinda served as the Executive Director of The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts. At Read More

Ambassador Swanee Hunt

May 14, 2014
Ambassador Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, founder of the Women and Public Policy Program, senior fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and senior advisor at the Carr Center for Human Rights, all at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is President of Hunt Alternatives Fund, which for more than three decades has advanced innovative Read More

Ira S. Hirschfield

May 14, 2014
Since 1992, Ira Hirschfield has worked to create a more just and compassionate society as President and a Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco, California. Ira leads the Fund’s work in four key program areas: supporting equal opportunities for immigrants to become active citizens; advancing full equality for gay and Read More

Lisa Graustein

May 14, 2014
Lisa Graustein (she/her) is the Board Chair of the W.C. Graustein Memorial Fund, whose mission is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty. As such, Lisa is working to dismantle the systems of oppression that have traditionally existed within grant-making to create new forms of wealth redistribution and social justice. Lisa Read More