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Nan Aron is a public interest lawyer and civil rights advocate based in Washington, D.C. Aron is the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a national association of public interest and consumer rights organizations… Read More

Nancy Burd is the president of the Burd Group, a national consulting firm dedicated to building a high performing nonprofit sector through effective and strategic philanthropy practices and strong nonprofit management… Read More

Nancy Chan is a director at Arabella Advisors, where she advises clients on strategy development, project evaluation, and implementation. Nancy serves as the program officer for the hope & grace fund, a project of the New Venture Fund in partnership with the global women’s skincare brand philosophy, Inc. Through her work with hope & grace, she developed a set of recommendations… Read More

Mirellise Vazquez serves as the Tauck Family Foundation’s Interim Executive Director, spearheading the foundation’s due diligence process and managing the portfolio of non-profit investees. Prior to joining the foundation in 2010, she held several posts in the public and non-profit sectors, focusing on children’s rights and education, including grant-making, research, and advocacy. Mirellise has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy… Read More

Michael Rion, Ph.D is a Founder and recently retired as Principal of Resources for Ethics and Management. Prior to founding Resources for Ethics and Management, for four years Dr. Rion served as the Director of Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Engine Company where he served on issues of responsible management. He also served as President of Hartford Seminary, an innovative interdenominational center, for… Read More

Michael Sherraden, PhD, is the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor and founding director of the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University. CSD creates and tests innovations to improve social and economic well-being and uses research results to inform public policy… Read More

Michèle Desjardins has extensive international consulting and management experience, particularly in organizational development, governance structures and manager evaluation and coaching. She trained as a forest engineer and pursued a career in the pulp and paper industry until the early 1990s, first at Abitibi-Price and later at Inter City Papers. After holding various positions with Price Waterhouse and the Commission des… Read More