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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 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

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 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

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 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

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 (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

Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, he is a leading thinker of education and human development. He has received honorary degrees from twenty-nine colleges and… Read More

Joel Fleishman is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He served as Legal Assistant to Governor Terry Sanford, the School’s namesake, in 1961-65.  He joined the Duke faculty in 1971, was founding director of what is now the Sanford School of Public Policy, and has served Duke as vice president,… Read More