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Sonya Campion brings a 30+ year career in professional fundraising to her leadership roles as President of the Campion Advocacy Fund. Her responsibilities include helping to set strategic direction, and incorporating building capacity in the sector and in our grantees into everything the Foundation and Advocacy Fund does. Sonya’s work to leverage change is not confined to her office in… Read More

Stacey Faella is dedicated to working toward a more just and sustainable world through philanthropy and impact investing. She has 15+ years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors working on a variety of causes including gender and racial equity, food systems transformation, inclusive economic development, biodiversity and climate change, and democracy. Stacey has significant experience working on foundation… Read More

Shelley Whelpton is a managing director in Arabella’s Washington, DC office. Shelley partners with foundations, social entrepreneurs, corporations, families, and high-net-worth individuals to catalyze change on a range of social and environmental issues. She has helped philanthropists develop advocacy and impact investing strategies, launch and incubate new social change initiatives, convene marginalized and influential voices, and collaborate with partners across sectors… Read More

Sheryl Seller Sillerman’s Assistant Director, with responsibilities including directing Sillerman’s youth philanthropy project, management of Sillerman Center Fellowships, and coordination of Sillerman events and communications. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the Social Justice Funders Network, where she collaborates with other social justice funders to execute informative events and learnings particularly around racial justice funding. She has a strong… Read More

Shirish I. Dayal is the Executive Vice President of Tarsadia Foundation, a multi-generational family foundation which works to improve lives in the areas of health, education, and economic empowerment. Prior to joining Tarsadia Foundation as its first Executive Director in 2009, Shirish led sales and marketing for a wholesale tour operator, Distinguished Resorts. Shirish has had a diverse career including… Read More

Shirley Fredricks is a trustee and former executive director of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation in Los Angeles. Over the past 25 years, Shirley has been deeply engaged in virtually every important movement in the country to educate and inspire family foundation trustees and next generation family members. Among many other honors, Shirley was a founding board member of the… Read More

Signe-Mary McKernan is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. She is a national asset-building and poverty expert with over 17 years of experience researching access to assets and credit for the poor, and the impact of welfare programs on the poor. She recently published the book Asset Building and Low-Income Families with Michael Sherraden, and is leading the Urban… Read More

Simon Greer has been involved in social change work for the past 25 years. Considered to be a serial entrepreneur in the non-profit world, he has three times served in a CEO role in “turnaround” undertakings where the organizations’ missions were as noble as ever but their impact and approach needed an overhaul. Today, as the founder of Cambridge Heath… Read More