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Irene Siragusa Phelps was elected President of the Siragusa Foundation in 2002, after serving as the first Executive Director since 1997. She graduated from Tulane University in 1975 with a B.A. in Philosophy and spent eighteen years in Los Angeles working in the entertainment and restaurant industries. For the past sixteen years, she has been a family representative of the… Read More

Iris Brilliant (she/her) is a money coach based in Minneapolis, MN. Her life mission is to support people with wealth to move money to social justice, and to transform how we relate to money, family and community along the way. Iris first became passionate about moving money to support social justice when she unexpectedly inherited wealth at age 22. Already… Read More

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Professor Ivan Lansberg is an organizational psychologist in New Haven, Connecticut. He is co-founder and a senior partner of Lansberg, Gersick & Associates LLC, a research and consulting firm specializing in family enterprise and family philanthropy. Ivan was a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management for seven years, and a Research Fellow at Yale’s Institute for… Read More

J Mullineaux is the Vice President for Philanthropic Planning at the Community Foundation Sonoma County and has been a philanthropic leader with over 30 years of fundraising, gift planning and charitable advising experience.  J has a deep knowledge of the local nonprofit community and helps donors find, evaluate and connect to the causes that matter to them. For clients interested… Read More

Dow Davis is Chair Emeritus of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF). He served over 30 years on the AVDF board with the last 22 as Chair.  The Foundations were founded over 65 years ago by Arthur Vining Davis, who was one of the early pioneers in the production of aluminum. He was appointed President of Alcoa in 1910 and… Read More

Jack Siragusa graduated from the University of Miami in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Communication. He has been a board member of the Siragusa Foundation since 2006. The mission of The Siragusa Foundation is to improve the quality of life for the underserved people of Chicago by funding organizations in five program areas including: Arts & Culture, Education,… Read More

Jackie Hendrickson is a third-generation board member of The Sewell Family Foundation based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Foundation, started by her grandparents Fred and Gloria Sewell in 1997, is mainly focused on supporting  arts organizations, but has also given significant support to organizations focusing on women’s and children’s issues and animal welfare. … Read More