Arturo Garcia

September 8, 2023
Arturo (Art) Garcia is a strategic learning and evaluation officer at The Kresge Foundation. Art supports the foundation’s program and practice teams by developing and refining strategies, fostering cross-team collaboration and drawing insights from data to advance equity. He joined the foundation in 2021. Previously, Art served as learning manager at First 5 Los Angeles, where he collaborated across the Read More

Sue Banerjee

September 8, 2023
Sue Banerjee is the Executive Director of PC Tots, a non-profit early education and childcare provider serving the residents and workforce of Summit County. She provides strategic and operational leadership for the execution and expansion of PC Tots’s mission of providing equitable access to high-quality care. She holds a juris doctorate from George Washington University and has worked for large Read More

Ana Akhtar

September 7, 2023
As vice president of donor services, Ana Akhtar leads a department of 20 professionals across various operations teams—including gifts, grants, scholarships and consulting – that facilitate the annual distribution of more than $2 billion in grants to over 5,000 nonprofit organizations. Ana is responsible for the strategic direction of SVCF’s donor services to ensure that SVCF delivers value to donor Read More

Catherine Maddox Walton

September 6, 2023
Catherine Maddox Walton is board chair of the J. F Maddox Foundation, based in Hobbs, New Mexico. The JFMF is a geographically concentrated foundation that innovates primarily in education, economic development, and social services. Catherine, her brothers and cousins represent the 3rd generation of this commitment to family philanthropy and to the county where they grew up. Outside of her philanthropic Read More

Moe Hickey

September 5, 2023
Prior to moving to Utah, Moe spent over 20 years in International Finance. He worked in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Hong Kong before completing his career as a Partner and the President of Emerging Markets at Cantor Fitzgerald. He has spent years passionately developing early education opportunities in Summit County and has a deep understanding of Utah’s education Read More

Atiba Mbiwan

August 31, 2023
In October 2006, Atiba Mbiwan joined the staff of The Zeist Foundation, a family foundation based in Atlanta, as the Associate Director to fortify their traditional grantmaking in the areas of Education, Arts & Culture and Health & Human Services, and to support the Foundation’s “place-based philanthropy” in the Edgewood neighborhood of Atlanta, which began in 1994 with a foundation Read More

Heather Koopman

August 31, 2023
Heather Koopman is the Director of the Byrne Family Foundation Trust, whose mission is to champion children’s educational growth in Dallas, Texas, and Park City, Utah. She is responsible for day-to-day strategy and operation, including managing grant application rounds, supporting nonprofit partners throughout their grant term, and ensuring responsible stewardship of charitable funds. She works closely with the trustees in Read More

Robynn Steffen

August 30, 2023
Robynn Steffen is executive vice president at the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), where she is focused on building an organization that connects philanthropists to the trusted resources they need to take action on climate change—an urgent challenge that touches us all. Robynn brings more than 15 years of experience in solving complex challenges through strategic philanthropy, policy, partnerships and impact Read More

Khalilah Burt Gaston

August 29, 2023
Khalilah Burt Gaston is the founding Executive Director of the Song Foundation, shepherding its efforts to invest in ideas, people, and organizations that amplify equity, power, prosperity, and joy in Southeast Michigan. A trained urban planner and passionate advocate for equitable communities, her work has been featured in Dwell Magazine, The New York Times, Chicago Public Radio, and the Harvard Read More

Kate Wilkinson

August 28, 2023
Kate Wilkinson is a Partner at Open Impact, leading a portfolio of family and individual donors seeking to envision ambitious ideas, design plans to achieve them, and ensure operational excellence. Her work encompasses governance and trustee engagement, strategic visioning and planning, facilitation, and organizational design and capacity building. The co-author of multiple industry reports, Kate is committed to learning about Read More