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A Hazen Trustee since 2016, Cristina Jiménez is co-founder and Director of United We Dream (UWD), the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the country. Originally from Ecuador, Cristina came to the U.S. with her family at the age of 13, attending high school and college as an undocumented student. She was part of UWD’s campaign team that led to the… Read More

As President of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, Lori Bezahler leads a national grant making program supporting organizing and leadership by young people and communities of color to dismantle structural inequity based on race and class. During 2013, Ms. Bezahler was also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion and she currently chairs the board of Race Forward… Read More

Heather Larson is the founder of LiveGive, a philanthropy advising firm that helps guide families and foundations on strategic giving. As a philanthropy advisor and a leadership consultant, she serves her clients based on wisdom gained through 22 years of non-profit leadership experience, including the American Red Cross, Willow Creek Community Church, and partnerships with more than 150 nonprofits around… Read More

Aaron Dorfman is president of the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. Aaron  is a lifelong educator, problem-solver, and social justice activist. Prior to his work with the Foundation he spent 10 years as part of the leadership team at American Jewish World Service (AJWS), organizing and mobilizing American Jews to channel their philanthropy, volunteer time, and political power to… Read More

Nadia is a co-creator, social entrepreneur, educator, coach and consultant. She is passionate about developing a more equitable, creative, strategic, collaborative, and impactful social sector. She is the Senior Designer with Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design’s (the d.school) Designing for Social Systems Program. At Stanford, Nadia focuses on helping philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, and public servants become more strategic, creative… Read More

Mohit Mookim is a JD candidate at Stanford Law School and former researcher at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). In his research at PACS and in his previous role at the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, he has explored frameworks and practices that would make the philanthropic sector more democratic. Mohit is committed to a vision for the… Read More

Rob Reich is professor of political science and, by courtesy, professor of philosophy and at the Graduate School of Education, at Stanford University. He is the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review), and associate director of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial… Read More

Ayushi Vig is a philanthropy educator and organizer with the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project. Formerly, she was a Senior Fellow at Stanford PACS, where she designed resources for wealth advisors to explore philanthropy with their clients. She has also worked with Thousand Currents, Filantropi Indonesia, and Collective Capital Philanthropy Advisors, and currently helps to lead Resource Generation’s Bay Area chapter. Ayushi… Read More

Ann Maddox Utterback is a former litigation attorney who has worked with non-profits in New Mexico in a variety of roles on both the grantee and grantor sides of funding for the last 20 years. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the JF Maddox Foundation, a geographically-focused family foundation located in southeastern New Mexico, where she has served… Read More