2024 Corporate Philanthropy Institute

Kavell currently serves as a Senior Manager, Social Impact Strategic Partnerships on the LinkedIn Social Impact team, where he leads the social justice participatory grant-making portfolio known as the LinkedIn Social Impact Global Root Causes Fund. This initiative is focused on mitigating the impacts of racism, patriarchy, classism, and other societal ills. His role also entails overseeing LinkedIn's comprehensive strategy to support the justice-impacted population, both within and beyond correctional facilities, at scale. Furthermore, he is responsible for managing nonprofit and charitable partnerships spanning across North America while also supervising the global philanthropic processes of his team.

Born and raised in the projects of New York City and a graduate of Syracuse University, Kavell is a dedicated social impact practitioner. He has had the privilege of contributing his expertise to the Social Impact teams at HBO and Paramount, gaining valuable insight that underscores the importance of paying it forward. Kavell emphasizes that it's not about how much you can take, but rather how much you can give.
 

Julián Castro serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Latino Community Foundation, the nation’s largest Latino-serving foundation.

Julián’s deep commitment to the future of this nation is woven into his DNA. Raised by his mother Rosie Castro, a civil rights and Chicana activist, and his grandmother, Victoria Castro, on the westside of San Antonio, Texas, Julian grew up with a profound understanding of what it meant to love and serve community. Inspired by a legacy of leaders working to safeguard our democracy and strengthen community, Julian has dedicated his life to public service.

Julián was elected to the San Antonio City Council in 2001 at age 26, then was elected Mayor of San Antonio in 2009. The youngest mayor of a Top 50 American city at the time, Julian revitalized and transformed San Antonio into one of the country’s leading economies. In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Julián U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, where he served until the end of the Obama administration.

In 2020, Julián ran for the Democratic nomination for President.

Julián earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. His memoir, An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream, was published by Little Brown in 2018.

Julian is the proud father of a daughter, Carina, and a son, Cristián. Julián’s brother Joaquin currently represents Texas’ 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In his free time, Julian loves spending time and traveling with his family.

Janiece Evans-Page is a social scientist and social impact leader whose 20 years of experience in the tech sector and social impact ecosystem inform her innovative approach to driving social change. As chief executive officer of Tides, Janiece leads Tides’ work with doers and donors to center the leadership of changemakers from communities historically denied power, connecting them to operational and advisory services, capacity building, and resources to amplify their impact. Janiece serves on the boards of Tides, Tides Advocacy (a 501(c)(4)), Beneficial State Foundation, and Echoing Green, the board of trustees of both Southern New Hampshire University and St. Mary’s College, as well as numerous advisory councils.

Lili Gangas is the Chief Technology Community Officer at the Kapor Foundation, an operating foundation at the intersection of technology and racial justice, providing research and thought leadership, operating programs, supporting strategic partnerships and investments to increase diversity across the tech ecosystem--from K-12 education through entrepreneurship and venture capital - aiming to level the playing field in tech.  Lili co-leads the Kapor Center’s Equitable Tech Policy Initiative with a focus on inclusive technology policy with special interests in closing digital divide, scaling new tech workforce models,  advocating for responsible emerging technology as well as providing foundational support across civic engagement issues and tech enablement of civic organizations.

Angela Glover Blackwell is Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all. 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. Angela is also the host of the Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life podcast and the Radical Imagination podcast and Professor of Practice at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.

A lawyer by training, Angela gained national recognition as founder of the Urban Strategies Council. From 1977 to 1987, Angela was a partner at Public Advocates. Angela is also the co-author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, and the author of The Curb Cut Effect (2017) and How We Achieve a Multiracial Democracy (2023) published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

As a leading voice in the movement for equity in America, Angela serves on numerous boards. She advised the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve as one of 15 members of its inaugural Community Advisory Council, and in 2020 was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to the state Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery. 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.

Committed to proving the business case for societal and environmental impact, Oliva Khalili brings 20 years of experience as a senior practitioner and thought leader in sustainability. She was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council in 2021, and received the Stevie Award for Woman of the Year in Technology, 2021. As the inaugural head of PagerDuty.org, she established and scaled the company’s global impact strategy, comprising ESG & sustainability, revenue-generating nonprofit sales, impact capital, and employee experience.


Before joining PagerDuty, Olivia built Yahoo’s global corporate responsibility program, Yahoo for Good, to mobilize the company's technology and employee talent to positively benefit society. Prior to Yahoo, she worked with Ashoka, creating innovative social impact programs that supported social entrepreneurs and enhanced brand equity for a portfolio of companies that included American Express and Ben & Jerry’s. In 2008, Olivia launched CauseCapitalism.com, an online resource to help businesses grow by embedding social purpose. Her approach stems from cross-sector experience working with the public sector, tech companies and nonprofits, and in international development in Micronesia.


Olivia holds a B.A. Cum Laude in International Relations and Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, and served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for GreatNonprofits and CommunityConnect Labs for half a decade. Chiefly, she’s a nature mama to three spirited sons on the outskirts of Austin.

Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum, the Bay Area’s legendary current affairs show. He’s a contributing writer at The Atlantic and has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society and an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. He’s the author of Powering the Dream, a history of clean technology, and the forthcoming book, The Pacific Circuit. He’s the proprietor of the Oakland Garden Club, a publisher of tiny books and streetwear.

As managing director, Kimberly oversees Talent Rewire’s efforts to innovate new approaches, tools, and research to drive employer systems transformation, and subsequently to scale the team’s learnings to the broader workforce field. She has supported a diverse range of employers—from Fortune 100 companies to small and medium-sized businesses—to adopt new HR practices and policies that improve the economic mobility of their frontline.

Prior to joining FSG, Kimberly worked at Teach For America, where she spent 8 years in a variety of roles to expand educational opportunity for children and families including acting as the interim executive director of Teach for America in Washington, leading the region’s 50 corps members and 800 alumni.

Kimberly frequently speaks to employers and workforce organizations on the topics of job quality, economic mobility, and systems change. She was a member of the Aspen Institute’s Job Quality Fellowship Class of 2022-23.

Jessica Weare is Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, partnering with corporations across the region to help address community challenges and advance strategic corporate philanthropy. Previously, Weare directed Microsoft’s philanthropic work in Silicon Valley, supporting nonprofits working in education, workforce development, and civic technology. At United Way Bay Area’s public policy committee, Weare successfully advocated in Sacramento and Washington D.C. for legislation strengthening public education, healthcare, economic mobility, and charitable giving. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and a doctorate from Stanford University