NCG’s 2019 Annual Conference | Values. Vision. Voice.

maytha alhassen, Ph.D. is a historian, journalist, social justice artist, and mending practitioner. Her work bridges the worlds of organizing, academic research, media engagement, artistic expression + spiritually-guided healing practices.

As both artist and organizer, alhassen performed + worked with arts-based social justice organization Blackout Arts Collective. As a member of the collective, she facilitated creative literacy workshops with incarcerated youth at Rikers Island, assisted in organizing a Hip Hop Film Festival in the prison's high school. As a poet, actress, and speaker alhassen has performed at the Kennedy Center, Shrine Auditorium, in a Sundance film, on the TED stage, + at South by Southwest. In a departure from standard TED talk structure, “A Poem for Syria: Beyond on a Geography of Violence,” was born out of a desire to deracinate popular narrative scripts that imagine Syria as a "geography of violence."

In 2015, alhassen established + designed the Social Justice Institute at Occidental College to train fellows in social justice praxis. Previously, maytha served as a 2014 core steering committee member of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, involved in MuslimARC's early digital organizing campaigns addressing racism in the Muslim American community. Alhassen returned to the Muslim American social justice space and prison abolition organizing work in 2018, leading a campaign with three other Muslim women scholars to activate the Muslim community around ending mass incarceration and money bail called Believers Bail Out.

As part of her Pop Culture Collaborative Senior Fellowship, Alhassen released the report Haqq and Hollywood: Illuminating 100 Years of Muslim Tropes and How to Transform Them. She currently guest co-hosts The Young Turks, writes for CNN, Boston Review, Huffington Post, Mic + teaches grad students at Chapman + Prescott colleges.

alhassen received her Ph.D. in American Studies + Ethnicity from USC in 2017.

Krista Almanzan knows local news: how to find it, report it and filter what matters. She is the News Director and a reporter at KAZU, the NPR station for California’s Monterey Bay Area.

As a reporter, she has covered the fight to close one of the last coastal sand mines in the U.S.; the children of Salinas Valley farm workers navigating their way to careers in Silicon Valley; and monks who train as firefighters to protect their remote monastery. Her stories show how you can have impact even when the only power you have is the power of asking questions.

Krista is the primary editor for KAZU’s tiny but widely respected news team. Before Krista arrived at KAZU, the station had won one regional Edward R. Murrow Award. In her time leading the station’s coverage, reporters earned 22 more, plus one National Murrow, as well as numerous national honors from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated.

Krista is part of a NPR reporting collaboration called Back at Base, a project that covers military issues close to home. She is also a mentor for NPR’s Next Generation Radio Project.

She started her journalism career in Iowa covering presidential elections, tornadoes and holiday parades for local television stations.

 

Fatima Angeles is Vice President of Programs at The California Wellness Foundation. She is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Grants Program Department, which includes oversight of Cal Wellness’ grantmaking. She was appointed to her current position in July 2014, after serving as interim vice president. Angeles joined Cal Wellness as a program director in February 1998 and became the director of evaluation and organizational learning in 2006. Before joining Cal Wellness, she was a program associate at the Hasbro Children’s Foundation. Angeles’ other philanthropic experience includes work with The Commonwealth Fund and the corporate philanthropy program of Pfizer Inc. She currently serves as a board member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation. Angeles has served as vice chair of the board of Grantmakers In Health and as secretary of the board of Northern California Grantmakers. Other leadership roles have included chair of the board of the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum, and board member of the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center and of Funders Concerned About AIDS. She earned her master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and her bachelor’s from UC, Berkeley.

Steve has a long history with NCG including stints on various committees as well as the NCG and Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers boards. Over the last several years he’s been a consultant on special projects, corporate philanthropy and social responsibility and briefings. As Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, he’s focused on programs, initiatives and projects that address the issues affecting our region from displacement and gentrification to income inequality to the arts, climate change and disaster resiliency. 

In addition to his consulting practice, Steve has been the Director for Foundation and Corporate Giving at Gap Inc., a program officer at the Marin Community Foundation, and served in Mayoral administrations in both San Francisco and Oakland. When he’s not working you can often find him at Amoeba Music, traveling abroad, binge watching an amazing series, exploring the Bay Area or at some wine bar.

Lindsie Bear is the Program Director for the Native Cultures Fund, a statewide philanthropic venture founded by Native cultural leaders of the north coast of California and housed at the Humboldt Area Foundation. Ms. Bear is former Executive Director of Heyday, and Editor of News from Native California magazine. She has served on the boards of the California Historical Society and Open Roads Media International. 

Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder in Residence, started PolicyLink in 1999. Under Angela’s leadership, PolicyLink gained national prominence in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, and infrastructure.

Prior to founding PolicyLink, Angela served as Senior VP at the Rockefeller Foundation. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Urban Strategies Council. From 1977 to 1987, Angela was a partner at Public Advocates. Angela is the co-author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, and she authored The Curb Cut Effect, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2017.

As a leading voice in the movement for equity in America, Angela serves on numerous boards, and she advised the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve as one of 15 members of its inaugural Community Advisory Council. She is the 2018 recipient of the John W. Gardner Leadership Award, presented by the Independent Sector, and in 2017, she received the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Fred Blackwell is the CEO of The San Francisco Foundation, one of the largest community foundations in the country. The San Francisco Foundation works hand-in-hand with donors, community leaders, and both public and private partners to create thriving communities throughout the Bay Area. Since joining the foundation in 2014, Mr. Blackwell has led the Foundation in a renewed commitment to social justice through an equity agenda focused on racial and economic inclusion.

Mr. Blackwell, an Oakland native, is a nationally recognized community leader with a longstanding career in the Bay Area. Prior to joining the foundation, he served as Interim City Administrator for the City of Oakland where he previously served as the Assistant City Administrator. He was the Executive Director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development in San Francisco; he served as the Director of the Making Connections Initiative for the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the Lower San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland; he was a Multicultural Fellow in Neighborhood and Community Development at The San Francisco Foundation; and he subsequently managed a multi-year comprehensive community initiative for The San Francisco Foundation in West Oakland.

Mr. Blackwell currently serves on the board of the Independent Sector, Northern California Grantmakers, SPUR, the Bridgespan Group, the dean’s advisory council for Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, and the community advisory council of the San Francisco Federal Reserve. He previously served on the boards of the California Redevelopment Association, Urban Habitat Program, LeaderSpring, and Leadership Excellence. He is a visiting professor in the department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and the Co-Chair of CASA. He holds a master’s degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Morehouse College.

Nicole is the Co- Executive Director of the California Donor Table, a network supporting a diverse and powerful progressive movement to ensure California has a democracy that works for all its people. In her role at CDT, Nicole partners with a broad base of funders, political donors, labor leaders, practitioners and state and local community leaders to invest in and support the civic engagement and electoral priorities of California’s new majority communities. As a native Californian, multiracial Pacific Islander and first generation high school and college graduate, she has a deep commitment to equity, and brings over fifteen years’ experience advancing racial, economic and climate justice with organizations including Vote Solar, Rockwood Leadership Institute, Urban Habitat and PolicyLink.

Nicole serves on the boards of Groundswell Action Fund, Outdoor Afro, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), and is an advisor to Threshold Foundation’s Climate Strategies Funding Circle.

Cedric Brown is the Chief Foundation Officer Kapor Center. He has over 20 years of experience as a funder, convener, and advisor, steering over $60 million in grants to community efforts through working with the Kapor Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, and SF Cultural Equity Grants among others. He has worked steadily to ensure access, inclusion, and greater empowerment for people of color, including collaborations with the Obama White House Office of Science and Tech Policy, the UNCF HBCU Innovation Summit, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and an appearance in the CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap documentary. Cedric co-founded Brothers Code, the Oakland Summit on Blacks in Tech, the College Bound Brotherhood, and the Oakland Startup Network. Cedric has received leadership awards and recognitions from The San Francisco Chronicle, TheRoot, ABFE, East Oakland Youth Development Center, Startup Weekend Oakland, and the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club. Cedric is a proud member of the Association of Blacks Foundation Executives (ABFE) and the Oakland Museum of CA; he is also a published author and creative artist. Cedric holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University.

LaTosha Brown is an award-winning organizer, philanthropic consultant, political strategist and jazz singer with over twenty years of experience working in the non-profit and philanthropy sectors on a wide variety of issues related to political empowerment, social justice, economic development, leadership development, wealth creation, and civil rights.

She is the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, a power building civic engagement 501©4 organization that played an instrumental role in the highly publicized 2017 Alabama U.S. Senate race. Ms. Brown is the principal owner of TruthSpeaks Consulting, Inc., a professional facilitation and philanthropy advisory consulting business based in Atlanta, GA.

For more than 25 years, she has served as a consultant and advisor for individual donors, government, various public foundations, and private donors. Throughout her career, Ms. Brown has distinguished herself as a trusted expert and resource in political strategy, rural development and special programming for a number of national and regional philanthropies. She has consulted and advised foundations such as the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, the Black Belt Community Foundation, Friends of New Orleans, New World Foundation, Open Society Institute, Surdna Foundation, Community Foundation of South Alabama, Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, Ibis Partners Investment Group and the Tides Foundation to name a few.

As a native of Alabama, Ms. Brown has dedicated her life’s work towards building power, organizing resources and supporting the development of community-based institutions in the South, particularly in the Black Belt and Gulf Coast regions. She has also worked as a trainer, speaker and facilitator in the international arena. 

Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo is a program officer at Akonadi Foundation. She brings over 20 years of experience promoting social equity in communities of color through her work in philanthropy, the arts and cultural sector, community health, and as a leadership development coach.

Vanessa has worked with individual artists, social justice leaders, and with cultural and social service organizations as a coach. Prior to joining the Akonadi Foundation, Vanessa directed Studio Grand, an art space in Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood.

Jeff Chang is the Vice President for Narrative, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. His books include Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America).

His latest, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation, was published in September 2016. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” A web series of the book directed by Bao Nguyen will debut on PBS.com this spring.

A nationally recognized leader in narrative and cultural strategy, Jeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200.

In her role as special advisor to the CEO and vice president of government relations, Gina D. Dalma is responsible for leading SVCF’s ongoing lobbying efforts in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. SVCF’s California lobbying work is centered around education, affordable housing, immigration, equity and justice and economic security; in Washington, D.C., SVCF is a leading voice on topics that advance the philanthropic sector.

Gina was pivotal in the passage of the California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015, signed into law by Gov. Brown on Oct. 5, 2015, and sponsored by Silicon Valley Community Foundation. She serves as a member of the Council on Foundations’ Policy Committee, the League of California Community Foundations’ Policy Committee and Chair of its Housing Committee. She is a national expert on how philanthropy engages in public policy to drive impact.
Prior to her promotion to special advisor in 2015, Gina was SVCF’s director of grantmaking. In that role, she led the grantmaking team in using a diverse set of tools, including strategic investments, to solve our region’s most challenging problems. She also led SVCF’s education grantmaking strategy, as well as the Silicon Valley Common Core Initiative.

Prior to joining SVCF, Gina was director of innovation at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation. Before moving to the United States, Gina held several positions related to urban economic development and regulatory economics in the federal and state public sector in Mexico.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from ITAM in Mexico City, a Master of Science in economics from the University of London and a Master of Arts in international policy studies from Stanford University. She is an American Leadership Forum Fellow and resides in Palo Alto with her husband and children. Gina's personal interests include art, yoga and traveling. Follow her on Twitter at @ginadalma.

Ryan Easterly is an experienced philanthropist, strategist, and advocate who has worked in philanthropy for more than 10 years. He has experience with private, public charity, and corporate foundations, and currently serves as executive director of the WITH Foundation. WITH Foundation is a private foundation that promotes comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities. WITH provides in the range of 750K - $1.5 million each year to nonprofit organizations based within the United States.

Outside of philanthropy, Ryan has previously worked for an internet startup company as well as in federal program and policy development. He currently serves on the board of Community Resources for Independent Living. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Ryan to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Ryan is a nationally recognized expert on a variety of issues including education, leadership development, employment, and healthcare impacting communities of color, the foster care system, and the LGBT+ community. His perspective and experience have made him sought after as a facilitator of discussions that take place at the intersections of race, class, and disability.
 

Harvey V. Fineberg is President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He previously served as president of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), as provost of Harvard University, and as dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining a philanthropic foundation, he devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His past research has focused on global health, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations.

Dr. Fineberg is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the China Medical Board. He previously served on the boards of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, and the Association FXB (USA). He is past chair of the boards of the Carnegie Endowment and the Hewlett Foundation. He helped found and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Dr. Fineberg serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and in a number of advisory capacities, including the foresight committee of the Veolia Environment Institute and the advisory board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare. 

Dr. Fineberg is co-author of the books Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic That Never Was, an analysis of the controversial U.S. immunization program against swine flu in 1976. He has co-edited books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, understanding risk in society, and global health and has authored numerous articles published in professional journals. Dr. Fineberg is the recipient of several honorary degrees, the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research, and the Harvard Medal, awarded by the alumni association of the university from which he earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees.

Amy Fitzgerald recently joined the East Bay (EBCF) as a Senior Program Officer.  In this position, she supports organizations that amplify community voice and exercise grassroots power to build a Just East Bay.  A Bay Area native, Amy worked for 12 years as a community organizer and Executive Director of Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), the largest grassroots organizing network in Oakland. Through her work, Amy manifests her passion for community-led, equitable systems change, faith active in the public sphere, and powerful multicultural coalitions.

Amy received her Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science from Santa Clara University.  Amy is bi-lingual and served with Jesuit Volunteers International in Managua, Nicaragua.  She lives in Oakland with her wife, and can often be found cheering for the Golden State Warriors.

Catherine brings a broad and deep range of social sector expertise and leadership spanning three decades. Before leading Magnify Community, she served most recently as Executive Director of the Westly Foundation, growing and refining the foundation's grantmaking, and amplifying its social innovation prize program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as Executive Director of the Peninsula College Fund, advancing college and career success for low-income, first-generation college students. Previously, as founder of Policy & Advocacy Consulting, she provided strategic guidance, evaluation services, and policy expertise to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The California Endowment, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Children’s Defense Fund, and many more. She has spoken and published widely on the evaluation of policy, advocacy, and community organizing. Catherine also authored the District of Columbia’s local comprehensive welfare reform legislation, and worked as a public interest lawyer and director of a national children’s policy advocacy program.

She is a long-time board and advisory board member of the Palo Alto Community Fund, advisor to a variety of social sector organizations, and an active community volunteer. Catherine earned a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School. 

Natalie is the co-chair of the Economic Security Project, a network of policymakers, academics, advocates and communicators working to end poverty and rebuild a strong middle class through cash policies, and an advisor to the The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative.

In 2013, Natalie co-founded and launched Peers.org to support people who work in the sharing economy. Prior to that, she was the CEO and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for people–driven economic change, with Van Jones.

Previously, Natalie served as digital director for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) and the Democratic National Committee. Natalie built the first digital department at the Sierra Club and served as the deputy organizing director for MoveOn.org.

She’s been awarded fellowships at Institute for the Future, Rockwood Leadership Institute and New America California and is a regular commentator on “The Bottom Line” podcast with journalist Rick Wartzman.

Gail Fuller is Vice President of Marketing and Communications. She leads The San Francisco Foundation’s marketing and communications strategy. The foundation is committed to advancing racial equity and economic inclusion in the Bay Area.

With 30 years of experience, Fuller’s career has spanned several industries, including corporate, sports, publishing, and nonprofit. Previously, Fuller was Vice President of Communications and Marketing at the national office of Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit that focuses on transforming the lives of low-income homeowners throughout the country by improving the safety and health of their homes and revitalizing the communities they serve. Prior to that, she led the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s first strategic communications program as Director of Communications.

As a recipient of the Central Florida YMCA Black Achiever Award and the YMCA Greater New York-Harlem Branch Black Achievers in Industry Award, she is a two-time YMCA Black Achiever honoree recognized for her accomplishments in her field and community. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Right Question Institute.

Fuller holds a Master of Business Administration from Nova University and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications from Wake Forest University.

Lisa Galloway (she/her) identifies as a queer white woman with a disability. She is an author, educator, and organizer with over 12 years of non-profit experience. Lisa serves as the Grants Program Associate for Ability Central, formerly known as the Disability Communications Fund, an Oakland-based convener, educator and grant maker working to ensure communications access for people with disabilities in California. Lisa currently serves as Board President and Development Director for the literary journal Foglifter Press, a home for powerful and intersectional LGBTQ+ voices.  

Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras guides Google’s strategy in how it surfaces news on Google search, Google News, and its smart devices. He oversees Google’s efforts to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism, which include Accelerated Mobile Pages, Subscribe with Google, the Trust Project and other efforts to provide tools for journalists. In March 2018, Gingras announced the Google News Initiative, a global effort including $300 million dollars to elevate quality journalism, explore new models for sustainability, and provide technology to stimulate cost-efficiency in newsrooms. Gingras is a member of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy.

Richard has been involved in digital media since 1980 or as he once put it “since the days of steam powered modems”. He helped found Salon.com where he once worked with Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald and has worked at Apple, the @Home Network, the Excite portal among other digital ventures. He also serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists, and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard.

Carly Hare (Pawnee/Yankton) strives to live a commitment to advancing equity and community engagement through her professional and personal life. Carly is a proud partner, daughter, sister, auntie, ally, friend, and equity advocate. Carly’s Pawnee name is <i kita u hoo <i ]a hiks which translates into ‘kind leader of men’.

Carly has spent her professional career navigating the intersections of philanthropy, identity and equity. Carly has served as the Coalition Catalyst/National Director of CHANGE Philanthropy since 2015. Carly lead Native Americans in Philanthropy as its Executive Director from 2010-2015. Carly held the position of the Director of Development for the Native American Rights Fund, 2009-2010 and Director of Programs for The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County 2009-2004.

Carly serves as a trustee for the Common Counsel Foundation and on Highlander Research and Education Center Board of Directors. She also co-chairs Equity in the Center’s Resource Mapping Working Group, sits on the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers’ DEI Task Force, and has been a partner on the Council on Foundation’s HR Summit Planning Committee for three years. Striving to evolve her leadership skills, Carly was named a 2018 Native American 40 Under 40 National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development awardee, 2010 Boulder County Business Report’s 40 under 40 Award, 2008 Boulder County Community Action Programs Community Service Multicultural Award and 2006 City University of New York’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society Emerging Leaders International Fellowship. Carly has served on planning committees and presented at over 50 conferences and convenings advocating for philanthropic equity.

As Senior Program Director, Rachel leads Justice Funders’ leadership development and consulting services, guiding and supporting philanthropic institutions in re-imagining how their organizations can operate as a justice funders. Prior to joining Justice Funders in 2015, Rachel was an independent coach and consultant supporting social justice and human rights nonprofits and foundations in change management, strategy development, and capacity building. She previously served as a Senior Consultant for TCC Group and Director of Philanthropic Partnerships at the Global Fund for Women. Rachel is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and has trained extensively in participatory facilitation methods with Institute of Cultural Affairs, Social Transformation Project and the Center for Right Relationships. She holds a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco and an A.B. in Anthropology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College. Before her decade in coaching and consulting, Rachel spent a decade mobilizing resources for immigrant families in San Francisco; grassroots organizations in India, Nepal and Tibet; and for youth to connect to nature through experiential environmental education.

Since 2015, Rachel has served as Chair of the Board of International Accountability Project, a global human rights advocacy organization that seeks to create development policies and practices that respects people’s homes, environment and human rights. She also serves on the Steering Committee of Indie Philanthropy Initiative, a creative disruption to the status quo of funding, lifting up decentralized, daring funding alternatives. Rachel is a founding board member of Sacred Mountain Sangha, a Buddhist organization with the guiding ethos of the bodhisattva ideal and an integrated spiritual life in service of the welfare of all. In her spare time she can be found at yet another yoga training or on a mountain trail.

Lily Jamali is the co-host of KQED's The California Report, a daily newscast airing on National Public Radio affiliates throughout the state. Based in San Francisco, she has traveled the state covering the humanitarian crisis along the Mexican border, the 2018 Camp Fire, and PG&E's entry into bankruptcy protection. Since arriving at KQED in 2018, she has interviewed newsmakers including Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly.

Prior to joining KQED, Lily was an anchor and executive producer at Bloomberg TV Canada. At Bloomberg, she steered markets and economics coverage for her broadcast "Bloomberg Markets: Canada". She was part of the team that helped execute Bloomberg TV's partnership with Canada's Business News Network (BNN). From 2014 to 2016, Lily reported on tech and finance for Reuters TV, where she provided coverage from the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Lily has traveled the world as a freelance correspondent. In 2012, PRI/BBC's "The World" sent her to Brazil to report on public safety in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the impact of the Eurozone crisis on immigration. She's also covered ethnic conflict and reconciliation in Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka. Her awards and grants include a South Asian Journalists Association Reporting Fellowship to cover the impact of climate change on the Maldives, the National Press Photographers Association's Paul Threlfall Award, and a Mid-Career Grant from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Sarah Jones (Actress/Writer/Producer): Called "a master of the genre" by The New York Times, Sarah Jones is a Tony® and Obie Award-winning performer and writer known for the multi-character, one-person Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, originally produced by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, and her current, critically-acclaimed show Sell/Buy/Date.

Renowned as “a one-woman global village”, she has also given multiple main-stage TED Talks garnering nearly six million views, and performed at The White House and United State of Women Summit for President and First Lady Obama.

Most recently, Jones launched Foment Productions, a social justice-focused entertainment company. Sell/Buy/Date, which has been commissioned by the NoVo Foundation, was its first production. Foment Productions is also developing a docuseries with Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.

Learn more about Sarah’s ongoing projects at www.sarahjonesonline.com and follow her @yesimsarahjones.

Noorain Khan is director in the foundation’s Office of the President where she oversees grant making from the foundation’s Reserves Fund and leads cross-foundation strategic projects and initiatives that emerge from the president’s priorities. Previously, she served as program officer in the Office of the President. 

Before joining Ford in 2015, Noorain was chief of staff to Wendy Kopp, CEO and co-founder of Teach for All and founder of Teach for America. Earlier, she was an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she advised clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and governance. In addition, she represented clients pro bono in family law and Supplemental Social Security Income proceedings. 

Noorain serves on the board of Girl Scouts of the USA, where she is national secretary and a member of the executive committee. She has also served on the boards of Libraries Without Borders and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. 

Noorain has received the George Parkin Service Award for outstanding contributions to the Rhodes Trust and was honored by Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with its Distinguished Alumna Award. She appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Law and Policy in 2014 and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Noorain earned a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she was a PD Soros Fellow; an MPhil in migration studies from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar; and her bachelor’s degree from Rice University.

Surina Khan is CEO of the Women’s Foundation of California where she leads the Foundation’s work to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. The Foundation’s program strategy is focused on building community-based power through investing in nonprofit organizations, training community leaders in policy advocacy, connecting key partners, and mobilizing significant financial resources. For more than two decades, Surina has been a leader in the philanthropic and nonprofit social justice sector starting with local community-based publishing in New England and then shifting to national and global work on an array of social justice issues including gender justice, LGBT rights, human rights, and democratic and civic participation. She served the social justice and philanthropic sector in a variety of ways including previous positions at the Ford Foundation, OutRight Action International, and Political Research Associates. She is Co-Chair of the Board of Funders for Reproductive Equity and serves on several other Boards including Alliance for Justice, La Cocina, and the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap Initiative. Her previous Board service has included Funders for LGBTQ Issues and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. She is a recognized expert on gender, racial, and economic justice issues and is a frequent commentator on the power of women’s philanthropy.

Ellen LaPointe is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northern California Grantmakers, a nonprofit organization that leverages the power of association and community to advance the collective interests of its members and catalyze the impact of philanthropy in Northern California. 

Ellen has held executive and senior management positions in the nonprofit sector for over twenty years.  She has also provided strategic guidance and executive management consultation to philanthropic, nonprofit, and social enterprise clients seeking to develop impact strategies, establish strategic partnerships, elevate their visibility, and secure resources. Ellen has expertise in organizational leadership, strategy development and implementation, partnership cultivation, fund development, communications, financial management, and program oversight.

Prior to joining NCG Ellen was Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at HopeLab, a Redwood City-based private operating foundation founded by Board chair Pam Omidyar that utilizes technology-based approaches to improve health and well-being.  In that role, Ellen cultivated strategic private and public sector engagements to increase HopeLab’s institutional resources, amplify the impact of HopeLab’s innovative solutions, and raise awareness of HopeLab’s work among thought leaders, policymakers, and other key stakeholders.  Ellen assumed the role of Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in May 2007, following a two-year tenure as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, also at HopeLab.

Before joining HopeLab, Ellen served as Executive Director of Project Inform, a national non-profit AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization. Prior to that, she was an attorney at a large law firm in San Francisco and Director of Clinical Research at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, also in San Francisco. 

Alexander Lee is the Project Director for the Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) initiative at Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Prior to joining Funders, Alex was a public interest career counselor at UC Berkeley School of Law, providing coaching and ongoing professional development for the next generation of social justice attorneys. Before that, Alex served as the founding Executive Director of the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a community-based legal services and policy organization based in San Francisco that works to end the abuse of transgender people in prison. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Astraea Foundation and as a grantmaking panel member for the Saguaro Fund of the Funding Exchange. He is currently a board member for Borealis Philanthropy.

As a filmmaker, Alex co-founded the all-queer and trans filmmakers of color production collective Light Show Pictures in 2014. Alex seeks to use mass media to further his activism by sparking conversations with the larger public on complex issues such as alternatives to the prison industrial complex and a world without borders. Alex is a former Soros Justice Fellow and received his JD from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Peter Long, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Health Care and Community Transformation at Blue Shield of California. Formerly the President and CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation, leading the Foundation in its mission to build lasting and equitable solutions to make California the healthiest state and end domestic violence. In addition to his philanthropic background, Dr. Long has extensive experience working on health policy issues at the state and national levels. Prior to serving in leadership roles at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and The California Endowment, Dr. Long was executive director of the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley, and earlier, a legislative analyst for the Progressive Primary Health Care Network in Cape Town, South Africa during the country's transition to democracy.

Outside of his role as CEO, Peter is actively involved in multiple healthcare and professional organizations, serving on the Board of Directors for Grantmakers in Health, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and Southern California Grantmakers. He also serves as cochair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Workshop on High-need Patients and is co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Health Data as a Core Utility working group. In addition, Peter practices as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health.

Jackie is a Senior Advisor at Luminate. Based in San Francisco, she leads civic empowerment investments in the US.

Prior to joining Luminate, Jackie was a senior fellow at MoveOn.org, focusing on immigrant and refugee rights and protection. She was previously Executive Director at Citizen Engagement Lab, a non-profit social change incubator, and Director of Storytelling at Change.org, the world’s largest campaign platform. 

Jackie serves as an advisory board member of several Bay Area social good startups, including as a co-chair of the Full Circle Fund’s Civic Tech Accelerator.

Alexandria McBride is the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Oakland. As CRO, Alexandria leads cross-departmental initiatives to create a more equitable, trustworthy and responsive government, and works closely with community leaders and other stakeholders to build a more vibrant and connected Oakland for all. Prior to this role, Alexandria was the Director of Environment & Sustainability at ITI, a Washington, DC-based trade association where she led energy policy advocacy for top tier tech companies like Google, Apple and Amazon. Alexandria has also held leadership roles at the Tishman Environment and Design Center, an academic hub that solves environmental issues through design, policy, and social justice, and Groundswell, a clean energy nonprofit promoting equitable economic empowerment. Alexandria has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Howard University and an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy.

Ben is a native of San Francisco and a longtime activist for peace and justice in the Bay Area. In 2008, he relocated his family to a difficult neighborhood in Oakland called the “Kill Zone” to understand and respond to the epidemic of gun violence, firsthand. During this tenure, he served as Executive Director of a large non-profit providing rescue, recovery, medical, financial and educational opportunities to hurting and homeless people in Oakland for 7 years. In 2012, Ben was an instrumental component of relaunching Oakland’s first successful iteration of Operation Ceasefire. This strategy has contributed heavily to a near 40% reduction in homicides over the last five years.

Ben founded Empower Initiative in 2014 to provide technical assistance around transforming public safety through bridge-building. Over the last 3 years, he trained over 100 departments and law enforcement executives, while in partnership with California’s Department of Justice.

Ben joined PICO California in 2015, the state’s largest community organizing network, and currently serves as the Co-Director. He founded the Trust through Reform Project, a statewide initiative in 14 cities, to address the community-police relationship while serving as the Co-Chair for the Department of Justice’s Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board.

Ben is deeply committed to widening the circle of human concern leading to a more vibrant, inclusive society. He and his wife Gynelle have been married for 19 years and have 3 daughters. They reside in Oakland, CA.

Shana has been a social and racial justice activist for 20+ years, working with organizations in California, D.C, and Connecticut. She was a founding member of CSS's Strategy Training and Organizing Resources for Youth (STORY) program and is a trainer on using the power of narrative. Shana was previously the Co-Director of the Emerson National Fellows Program at the Congressional Hunger Center - a leadership development fellowship for people interested in ending hunger, poverty and racism. She was most recently the Program Manager for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program at UC Davis. Shana holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Women Studies from the University of Delaware and currently chairs the Board of NOLOSE. She loves media analysis, genre fiction, and baking metaphors.

Sheraden Nicholau is the Regional Manager for the CA State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD), covering the Bay Area region. SCDD uses advocacy, capacity-building and systemic change to ensure that Californians with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, reflecting the diversity of the state, have increased information, supports and resources to:

• Advocate for civil and service rights to achieve self-determination, integration and inclusion in all areas of community life
• Obtain competitive, integrated employment
• Access affordable, accessible, safe, and fully-integrated housing that provides choice and flexibility regarding where and with whom they live
• Access health, public safety, and related services that meet their needs and health care choices
• Obtain inclusive education services throughout the lifespan
• Access community-based services available to the general public and population

This Bay Area team oversees the data collection and interviews for the National Core Indicators project, and the Movers Longitudinal Study in CA, for nine counties.

Sheraden Nicholau has held both lead and individual contributor roles in cross-sector and intra-industry advisory committees, task forces, and collaboratives, effecting change in inclusionary practices, policy and legislation. Previously in her career, Sheraden has served as an associate executive director for a nonprofit service and advocacy organization. She has received her MA and BA in Sociology, focused on social justice, social capital, and human services. Additionally, Sheraden has completed two levels of California’s POST Law Enforcement Instructor certification.

Padmini Parthasarathy has been working for decades to achieve equity in the Bay Area. She takes a social justice approach to grantmaking, considering racial, economic, and gender equity in both strategy development and funding decisions. Prior to joining the Fund, Padmini served as a program director at The California Wellness Foundation, where she oversaw statewide grantmaking to advance health care reform and promote employment and asset-building opportunities for formerly incarcerated adults, women struggling to make ends meet, and other communities. Before that, Padmini worked for Kaiser Permanente and for Contra Costa Health Services. She serves on the national board of the Asset Funders Network as well as on its Bay Area chapter steering committee.

Padmini earned her master’s degree in public health from University of California, Berkeley and her bachelor’s degree in psychology and social behavior from University of California, Irvine. She is a fellow in Grantmakers in Health’s Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy and was an inaugural member of the Justice Funders’ Harmony Initiative leadership program. Outside of work, she volunteers for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and loves spending time with her nephew and two nieces. She’s passionate about TV and movies, reading, music, and baseball — particularly the Oakland A’s.

Lucia Corral Peña is a senior program officer for Blue Shield of California Foundation managing the Breaking the Cycle of Multigenerational Violence Initiative in California. She leads the Foundation’s portfolio of grants to prevent domestic and family violence.
 
Prior to her role at the Foundation, Ms. Corral Peña was principal of Corral Peña Consulting where her practice focused on creating opportunities for diverse and low-income communities, addressing the unmet needs of immigrants, agricultural workers, and women in California. With almost 25 years of programmatic and grantmaking experience, Ms. Corral Peña has contributed to national- and regional-level collaboratives on Latino leadership, reproductive justice, and civic engagement projects. She previously served as director of the Western Region for Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), where she managed the organization's award-winning Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities in five states. She has also served as program director at The California Wellness Foundation where she focused on state and local projects promoting the health of California's low-wage workforce.
 
Ms. Corral Peña received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She is a member of the California State Bar, and an alumnus of The San Francisco Foundation's Multicultural Fellowship. She has served as pro bono counsel, and on a variety of nonprofit boards, including Equal Rights Advocates and Centro Legal de La Raza. 

Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and activist based in Oakland, California. Her work and collaborative initiatives address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna leads art interventions around the United States at the intersection of art, social justice and cultural equity. Her artistic practices include social practice, visual art, arts advocacy and institution building . Rodriguez collaborates deeply with social movements to co-create cultural strategies that are resilient and transformative. She is the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that empowers artists to dream big, disrupt the status quo, and envision a truly just world rooted in shared humanity. In 2012, she was featured in a documentary series by Pharrell Williams titled “Migration is Beautiful” which addressed how artists responded to failed immigrant policy in the United States. In 2016, she received the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship for her work around mass incarceration. In 2017, she was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity for her work around racial justice and climate change. Recently she has been organizing with artists in the entertainment industry through 5050by2020.com to build an intersectional artist power movement. 

Bernice was born and raised in Los Angeles and transitioned to working for the Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) following on her prior work building & scaling small businesses. She brings over 6 years of organizational management experience to CSS, and is deeply dedicated to the importance of culture-shift in creating social change. Bernice holds a political commitment to anti-oppression and liberation via the arts. In her free time, she enjoys playing the jazz flute and eating Chinese food. Bernice is based in Oakland, CA.

Lateefah Simon is the President of Akonadi Foundation, which nurtures movement building to advance racial justice in Oakland. A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. Before joining Akonadi, she was Program Director for the San Francisco-based Rosenberg Foundation.


Lateefah has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the Jefferson Award for extraordinary public service, and in 2017 ‘Most Promising New Foundation President’ by Inside Philanthropy. Lateefah was elected to the Bart Board of Directors and Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to the California State University’s Board of Trustees in 2016. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Tipping Point.

Dena Takruri is an award winning correspondent and producer at AJ+, Al Jazeera's all digital videos news network. She hosts the documentary series, 'Direct From with Dena Takruri,' where she's recognized for her bold and immersive reporting around the world, characterized by speaking truth to power and giving voice to those unheard. Her show has been honored with several industry awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.

Dena has reported internationally from the occupied West Bank, the North Korean border, South Africa, and across Europe covering the refugee crisis. Domestically, she covered the 2016 presidential election, the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, and a wide array of issues related to social justice and civil liberties.

Previously, Dena worked at HuffPost Live and Al Jazeera Arabic. She holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.A. from Georgetown University. You can follow her on Twitter @Dena.  

Richard Tate is vice president of public affairs at The California Wellness Foundation, where he leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for the Foundation’s communications, community relations and public policy activities. In his role, Tate develops and implements strategies to further the reach and impact of Cal Wellness and its grantmaking by engaging audiences in addressing the issues central to the Foundation’s mission. Tate joined Cal Wellness in 2016 after ten years with HopeLab, the health-focused nonprofit organization of the Omidyar Group. He is a board member of the Bay Area Surgical Mission and participates in the organization’s work providing free medical care in remote communities in the Philippines. He is also a board member of Northern California Grantmakers and board chair of OUTWORDS, the national archive of the LGBTQ experience. Tate earned his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Southern California. He has lived and worked in California since 1991 and is based in the Foundation’s Oakland office.

Nicole Taylor is president and CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. She brings together a rich background in Bay Area philanthropy, nonprofit administration and fundraising with extensive experience in both the private and public sectors.

In joining SVCF in December 2018, Nicole returns to the Bay Area from Arizona, where she served as vice president of the ASU Foundation. She also previously served as deputy vice president and dean of students at Arizona State University. Prior to her time at ASU, Nicole was the associate vice provost of student affairs and dean of community engagement and diversity at Stanford University, after serving as president and CEO of Thrive Foundation for Youth in Silicon Valley.

Nicole also spent more than 15 years with the East Bay Community Foundation, eventually serving as its president and CEO for six years. Nicole received both her M.A. in Education and A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University, and she began her career as an educator in Oakland public schools. She served on the board of the Federal Reserve of San Francisco for six years and is currently a board member for Common Sense Media.

Matt Thompson is the editor in chief of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. Prior to his arrival at Reveal, he served as the executive editor of The Atlantic, overseeing new editorial initiatives and planning, developing the magazine's recruitment and talent development operations, and guiding strategy for podcasting and digital membership. He's also one of the founding hosts of “Radio Atlantic,” the organization's pioneer podcast. Previously, as the deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, Thompson oversaw digital coverage teams and developed editorial projects in conjunction with site editors.

Before joining The Atlantic in January 2015, Thompson was director of vertical initiatives (and mischief) for NPR, where he led the creation of several teams of broadcast and digital journalists, including Code Switch, which covers race, ethnicity and culture; and NPR Ed, which covers education. During his time with NPR, he worked with public radio stations across the country on editorial strategy and co-wrote the organization’s ethics handbook. Prior to NPR, Thompson worked as an editor and reporter for news organizations around the U.S., including the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, The Fresno Bee and the Poynter Institute. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for The Center for Public Integrity and is a co-founder of Spark Camp. Thompson is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.

Maya has over fifteen years of experience in social justice philanthropy. She recently was the Director of Learning Strategy at Philanthropy Northwest in Seattle, designing and implementing program services for grantmakers in a six-state region of the Pacific Northwest. The last few years, Maya has been intentionally focused on helping foundation staff and trustees strengthen their capacity to apply a racial equity lens in grantmaking and program initiatives. Working with the team at Philanthropy Northwest, she launched a racial equity speaker series, a grantmaking with an equity lens training, facilitated a racial equity funders group, and led the Momentum Fellowship to bring diverse untapped talent into the philanthropic sector. This last year, Maya worked with community leaders and funders to design the Creative Equity Fund, a pooled fund to invest in arts and culture strategies to move racial justice in King County, Washington.

Prior to her role at Philanthropy Northwest, Maya consulted with nonprofits and funders on program design, managing organizational change and creating effective cultures. As a senior Associate for Social Policy Research Associates, she worked for national and federal funders to design learning processes and support grantees in evaluating their own impact.

As a funder, Maya spent nine years at the Women’s Foundation of California as the Senior Program Officer, investing in organizations working to address systems change for economic, reproductive, and environmental justice to benefit women and girls of color throughout the state. She believes in a strengths-based leadership, peer to peer learning and utilizing a coaching stance in her facilitation practice. Maya is a certified diversity professional and has a Masters in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.

John Thornton has two abiding passions: Venture capital investing and nonprofit journalism.

In 1991, John joined Austin Ventures, which became the largest regional capital firm in the US. He served for four years as the firm’s managing partner and led nearly 50 investments in young software companies that created more than $1 billion in value for AV investors. In 2017 he co-founded Elsewhere Partners, a boutique software investment firm focused on bootstrapped companies in non-coastal markets.

In 2008, John founded the Texas Tribune, one of the largest local news organizations established anywhere in the world during the 21st century. In 2018, John co-founded the American Journalism Project, a first-of-its-kind venture philanthropy firm dedicated to starting and growing local news organizations. AJP has received over $42 million in commitments from the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Emerson Collective, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Christopher Buck, Facebook, and the Democracy Fund.

John serves on the boards of several private software companies as well as The Texas Tribune and The City, a nonprofit news startup in New York. He also serves as a senior advisor to CAVU Venture Partners, an investment firm focused on consumer-packaged goods. He is a graduate of both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Trinity University, where he graduated first in his class, was named Distinguished Alumnus of 2015, and is a former trustee. He lives in Austin with his wife Erin and their boys Wade and Wyatt.

Vinnee Tong is the managing editor of KQED News, where she directs the newsroom’s coverage. In this role, she helps KQED’s broadcast and digital journalists find and report stories, many of which highlight inequities and illuminate the structures that produce them. 

Tong has worked at KQED since 2011 in editor and producer roles. She’s the founding editor of The Bay, KQED’s storytelling news podcast, and was the lead producer of Truth Be Told, an award-winning KQED series on race and identity that was distributed nationally by Public Radio International in 2016. Before working in public radio, Vinnee was a print reporter at the Associated Press and daily newspapers. She covered local news from city hall and planning commission hearings as well as business news from New York, like the financial meltdown of 2008. She has won awards for her reporting, including a regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as awards from the New York Press Club and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of California at Berkeley, where she was editor in chief of The Daily Californian. 

On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Michael Tubbs became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the City’s first African-American mayor. Michael Tubbs is also the youngest mayor in the history of the country representing a city with a population of over 100,000 residents. Recognized as one of Politico’s Top 50, Fortune’s 2018, Top "40 under 40," Forbes' 2018 list of the “30 Under 30”, Tubbs’ leadership paired with an ambitious progressive agenda has received national recognition. In his first year, Mayor Michael Tubbs secured $20,000,000 to launch the Stockton Scholars, a place-based scholarship that aims to triple the number of Stockton students entering and graduating from college. Tubbs also brought Advance Peace to Stockton, a data driven program that works to reduce gun violence in communities. With an innovative public-private partnership supported by a $1,000,000 grant, Tubbs launched the nation’s first ever municipal level basic income pilot.

Before becoming mayor, Michael Tubbs served as Stockton's District 6 City Councilmember. Elected at age 22 in 2013, he became one of the youngest City Councilmembers in the country. As a councilmember, Tubbs created the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition, championed the creation of the City’s Office of Violence Prevention and was part of the council that led the city out of bankruptcy as Chair of the Audit and Legislative Committee. Mayor Tubbs graduated in 2012 from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree with honors. Mayor Tubbs is focused on poverty reduction, public safety, workforce development, community engagement and organizing, and collective impact strategies. Tubbs has been a college course instructor for Aspire Public Schools and a Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Design and the Emerson Collective.