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Jan

2022

Training

Course: IT Planning and Assessment

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Jan

2022

Training

Course: IT Security Fundamentals

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Develop Good Data Practice

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Intro to Google Analytics 4

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Leading with Technology Roadmaps

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Mindful Leadership in Trying Times

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Community-centered strategic planning

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Feb

2022

Training

Course: Basics of Equitable Program Design

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Mar

2022

Training

Course: Foundations of Digital Inclusion

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Mar

2022

Training

Course: Advanced Google Analytics 4

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Mar

2022

Conference

2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Location: Virtual

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Conference

2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Start

Wed, March 23, 2022

End

Fri, March 25, 2022

Location

Virtual

Presenters

(Invited) Melissa Eggleston

Founder & Designer, Birdcall UX

Birdcall UX

After 12 years of design and content experience, Melissa founded Birdcall UX to serve purpose-driven organizations making a positive difference in the world. She has helped organizations of all sizes—from new startups to government organizations to global non-profits—on user experience and communication projects. Her specialty is helping websites be more trauma-informed and inclusive.

Melissa received her Master’s degree in Visual Communication from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2009. Since then, she has worked on digital projects for the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lenovo and many others.

In addition to her consulting, Melissa teaches user experience design to graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Adrienne Figus

Project Manager

Smith College

Project manager, artist, and proud holder of an NTEN Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate. A graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in Printmaking, find me sketching notes at your lecture, getting cranky on Twitter, or swiftly hand-coloring and assembling a few hundred buttons in support of a local ballot initiative (possibly all at the same time!)

Adva Priso

Senior Vice President

Chapman Cubine and Hussey

Adva Priso has led cutting-edge digital fundraising, activation, and communications campaigns for nonprofit organizations and Fortune 100 companies for more than 15 years. As senior vice president at Chapman Cubine Allen + Hussey (CCAH), she oversees digital account strategy and leads the nonprofit digital advertising and acquisition division. She specializes in developing data and audience-driven omnichannel strategies that activate new audiences, create deeper engagement and boost revenue.

As a consultant for the past six years, Adva has led record-breaking digital campaigns for clients across mission verticals including Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the International African American Museum and World Jewish Congress.

Prior to entering consulting, she led the digital program for high-value members and prospects at World Wildlife Fund where she generated and oversaw millions in new revenue for WWF and pioneered mid-level donor cultivation and fundraising best practices that have been adopted by many other nonprofits. 

Adva is a frequent speaker at nonprofit conferences and has been interviewed for and published in numerous publications about topics such as fundraising, lead generation and donor acquisition, mid-level donor engagement and creating content that drives action. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in broadcast journalism and lives with her husband, two daughters and dog in Maryland. 

Adva Priso

Senior Vice President

Chapman Cubine and Hussey

Aki Shibuya

Senior Business Analyst

Casey Family Programs

Aki Shibuya is a Senior Business Analyst at Casey Family Programs in Seattle, WA. Previously, she was the Operations & Technology Manager at WA Women’s Foundation and fulfilled a variety of roles at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). She also taught English at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and at one point ran one of the largest Crocodile Hunter fansites on the Internet (Simply Croc Hunter). In Seattle, Aki is an active member of Social Justice Fund NW and volunteers with Densho. She also is a 2021 Emerging Leader with the U.S.-Japan Council. Aki holds a BA with Honors in History from Grinnell College, an MA with Distinction in South East Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and an MS in Information Management from the University of Washington.

Alan Wei

CEO

Humanitru

Alan Wei

CEO

Humanitru

Alex Agard

Manager of Membership

Alex Agard is the Manager of Membership at The Actors Fund.

Alex Nelson

National Digital Inclusion Project Coordinator

Kansas City Public Library

I am the National Digital Inclusion Project Coordinator at the Kansas City Public Library in Kansas City, Missouri. I work with 13 small and rural libraries all across the United States, as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to close the digital divide through local digital inclusion projects and digital inclusion community of practice.

Alexandra Mannerings

Founder

Merakinos

I am the sole proprietor of Merakinos, an analytics education and consulting business designed to support non-profits and community businesses. The Big Data revolution too often focuses on Big Resource game plans, leaving out the small but mighty organizations that can still tremendously benefit from analytics. I've spent years working in resource-limited areas, from Ghana to American non-profits, and I want to help everyone make the most of their data. I'm also deeply passionate about helping each of us learn the data conversancy skills we need to be comfortable navigating a world dominated by flying numbers and oft-quoted but poorly explained statistics. I earned my PhD in Veterinary Science (Epidemiology) from the University of Cambridge, UK, and BSc in Biology from Emory University. In past lives, I ran the Data Center at a state hospital association, rowed for the Light Blues, built trails across Colorado parks, and competed with my horse Noah in eventing. My two small children keep me very busy with Legos, ponies, and Play-Doh when I'm not data wrangling or teaching.

Alexandria Warrick Adams

Executive Director

Alexis Perrotta

Associate Director, Editorial & Career Content

Idealist.org (Action Without Borders)

At Idealist, I create, edit, and oversee our written content. As a lifelong nonprofit professional, I love that I'm able to offer job seekers, nonprofit professionals, and aspiring sector switchers the tools and tips they need to find, land, love, and grow-in their social-impact careers.

Aline Lin

CEO and Creative Director

Astriata

Alissa May

Director, Citizen Philanthropy

Alissa May leads social impact efforts in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America at Salesforce. She also maintains a consulting practice at A. May Consulting working with startups and emerging companies to build social impact into their business models. Prior to her corporate philanthropy and consulting work, she mobilized the most people in Bay Area history around a volunteer effort for the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee as their Director of Volunteers. She has served the Bay Area in her corporate social responsibility, volunteer support and advocate roles for over ten years with the Red Cross, Edgewood Center, and SF CARD. She has worked to empower people to give back and volunteer in their communities for all of her professional career.

Allison Bickel

VP of GiveSignup

Allison Fine

Possibility Labs

Allison Fine is among the nation’s preeminent writers and strategists on the use of technology for social good. She is the author of the award-winning Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, and Matterness: Fearless Leadership for a Social World. She speaks to social change makers around the world, regularly keynotes conferences, is a founding board member of Civic Hall, and is a member of the national board of Women of Reform Judaism. Her next book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human Centered in an Automated World, will be released by Wiley in March 2022

Allison Jai O'Dell

CRM Manager

The Funders Network

Allison has worked for over 15 years as a data architect, engineer, and backend developer in the nonprofit, academic, and cultural heritage sectors, including positions at The Funders Network, The Humane League, Mercy For Animals, University of Florida, University of Miami, Free Library of Philadelphia, and The Barnes Foundation.
Allison holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science, and an M.A. in Art and the Book.

Amanda Bache

IT Support & Operations Specialist

Adoptions Together

Amanda Bache is currently the IT Support & Operations Specialist for Adoptions Together. Amanda graduated from Towson University in 2008 with a major in Family Studies. Immediately upon graduation, she joined the Adoptions Together Team. Over the years, she has enjoyed helping families with many aspects of the adoption process, from applications and clearances to finalizing documentation. Her main area of focus is assisting our staff and families as they navigate our online database (My Adoption Portal). Additionally, she also loves working with our staff to analyze processes to help identify new and more efficient ways to do things. In her free time, she loves spending time with her husband, 2 daughters, and dog. She enjoys camping, bike riding, and relaxing at home with a family movie night.

Amanda Moss

Civis Analytics

Amanda Moss

Civis Analytics

Amy Chin-Lai

Engineering Partnerships Manager

Amy Chin-Lai (she/her) is passionate about mobilizing progressive activism through great technology. As the Engineering Partnerships Manager at Action Network, Amy is one of the backend engineers and specializes in integrations, building advanced features, and email deliverability. She’s been at Action Network since 2017, where she’s helped thousands of digital organizers use their tools in more engaging ways. When Amy is not monitoring email click rates, you can find her listening to true crime podcasts and walking her dog, Axel.

Amy Drader

Consultant and Leadership Coach

Growth Partners Consulting

Amy Drader is a management consultant and coach with over 20 years’ experience in HR and operations. She is the owner of Growth Partners Consulting, a boutique leadership and team development consulting firm that provides customized training, coaching, and professional development resources.

Amy knows first-hand the joys and challenges of leadership after having held a variety of leadership roles in the public and private sector, ranging from front-line supervisor to operations chief.

She is an expert facilitator of training and specializes in leading change, teamwork, effective communication, and presentation skills. Amy holds an MA in Human Resource Development, a BA in Communication Studies, is a credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation, and is a certified Senior Professional with the Human Resources Certification Institute.

Her writing has been published in Fast Company and Insights for Professionals. You can subscribe to her blog (www.growthpartnersconsulting.com/blog) where she writes weekly articles on leadership, team performance, and workplace well-being.

In addition, Amy served in the Peace Corps as a Community Development Volunteer in the Republic of Macedonia. She worked alongside local leaders focusing on women's health.

Amy lives in Washington, DC with her husband, son, and daughter.

Amy Small

EVP, Creative + Brand

Media Cause

Amy Small is the EVP, Creative + Brand at Media Cause, a mission-driven digital agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact—and the Managing Director of the RiseUP Marketing Fellowship, a fully-paid, full-time program that provides training, mentorship, and hands-on client experience to diverse talent who are often overlooked by the marketing and advertising industries.

Before joining Media Cause and opening the agency’s Atlanta office in 2018, Amy spent 15+ years in the CPG world developing award-winning strategies, campaigns, and digital activations for major global brands including Kleenex, Krispy Kreme, and Keurig. Now, having found a greater sense of purpose in her professional life, she works to bring the same human-centered approaches to building stronger nonprofit initiatives across a full-spectrum of issues, from educational and social inequity to animal welfare and homelessness.

In addition to her formal roles, Amy volunteers her time as a mentor, frequently speaks at conferences and webinars, and has been a judge for the Anthem Awards, Webbys, Effies, and CampaignUS Power of Purpose Awards. She is also passionate about breaking down the stigmas surrounding mental health, and advocates for making the practices of mindfulness, empathy, and self-compassion, as well as clinical healthcare, more accessible to everyone.

Andrea Merriam

Executive Vice President

Parkinson & Movement Disorder Alliance

Andrea Merriam currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Parkinson & Movement Disorder Alliance. A hungry learner and divergent thinker, Andrea's talents shine at the intersection of creativity and strategy. After 15 years working in private sector companies ranging from multinational banks to software start-ups, Andrea has found her home in the non-profit world with PMD Alliance.

Andrea Pilman

Client Relations Manager

Idealist.org

Andrea Pilman

Client Relations Manager

Idealist.org

Aneta Molenda

Strategy Director

Aneta Molenda is a Strategy Director at ThinkShout working with clients like the Southern Poverty Law Center, Demos, Freedom House, and others. Previously, she was the Digital Director at United for Respect – formerly known as OUR Walmart – where she experimented with online-first organizing strategies that translate to deep leadership and mass offline action. She has worked on corporate campaigns to win wage increases, paid family leave, and pregnancy accommodations at Walmart. Most recently, she led the digital strategy for the campaign that won $20 million in severance pay for laid off Toys R Us employees.

Aneta got started in the labor movement as a field organizer with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance before helping to launch an alt-labor organizing program at Working America to experiment with organizing models beyond traditional unions. She spent the next few years at M+R where she consulted on digital organizing strategy for various organizations and campaigns including the Fight for $15 and Planned Parenthood.

Angelina Marie Cortes

Librarian II Adult Services

San Antonio Public Library

Angelina is an Adult Librarian and NTEN Digital Inclusion fellow at the Central San Antonio Public Library in San Antonio, Texas. Her work revolves around researching knowledge gaps of adults in technology and continuing education fields. Currently, her training consists of basic computer literacy courses as well as providing assistance in connecting folks to social services in the area. She believes the role of public libraries should be an “open-for-all” community-driven model that welcomes and advocates social change in all of its services.

Anna N Nordstrom

Manager of Impact Partnerships & Sustainable Development Goals

Pledgeling

Aparna Kothary

Director of Technology Operations

Global Citizen Year

Aparna Kothary is the Director of Technology Operations at Global Citizen Year as well as a co-organizer of the Oakland NTEN Nonprofit Tech Club. Originally from the East Coast, Aparna has spent the last 5 years at Global Citizen Year working in admissions, enrollment, and most recently in technology operations. Post-graduation, Aparna served as an Americorps* VISTA at a civil and immigrant rights organization in Washington DC. This experience kicked off Aparna's nonprofit career and she has since then worked at a variety of organizations with technology being the common thread. Aparna is passionate about helping people be more effective and efficient by using technology innovatively and appropriately. She loves learning about new tools, tinkering, and bringing people together to talk nonprofit tech!

Ashley Fontaine

CEO

Flux AF Consulting

I am the founder and Chief Badassery Officer at Flux AF, where I help nonprofits in flux with strategic consulting, facilitation, executive coaching, and interim leadership. I bring a Master’s in Social Work and a decade of experience in the mental health field to organizational and people challenges. As both a former nonprofit executive and a current board member, I have a unique understanding of how nonprofits work and the challenges that lead to burnout.

Ashley Fontaine

CEO

Flux AF Consulting

Audra Hurd

Operations Director

Adoptions Together

As the Operations Director for Adoptions Together, Audra is responsible for the agency’s information technology, security, compliance, marketing, human resources, licensing, and facility management. She has a bachelors from Towson University in Health Science and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus. Audra has over fifteen years of experience analyzing problems, collaborating with teams, and leveraging technology to resolve operational challenges. When she’s not working, Audra loves going to concerts, reading, hiking, camping, and spending time with her family.

Audra Hurd

Operations Director

Adoptions Together

Barbara O'Reilly

Principal

Windmill Hill Consulting LLC

Barbara has nearly thirty years of annual fund, major gifts, and campaign fundraising experience at major non-profit organizations including Harvard University, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Oxford University in England, and the American Red Cross.

Her consulting firm, Windmill Hill Consulting, helps non-profit organizations of all sizes cut through the noise and develop a profitable fundraising strategy that focuses on the resources, skills and tactics they need to build more effective donor relationships and catapult their revenue.

She serves as immediate past president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Washington DC Metro Chapter and as a former member of the Advisory Panel for Rogare (Ro-gar-AY), The Fundraising Think Tank in the U.K. She is a frequent guest presenter at national and international conferences and on various webinars hosted by AFP, Network for Good, DonorSearch, Bloomerang, Firespring, OneCause, Boardable, UST, and Qgiv. In 2020, she joined the faculty at the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute teaching nonprofit fundraising. She earned her CFRE accreditation in 2015 and became an AFP Master Trainer in 2018.

Ben Miller

Chief Analytic Officer

EveryAction

Benjamin Miller is a consummate entrepreneur drawing upon degrees in mathematics and systems engineering to advance applied data science in the non-profit sector. Ben Miller is the Chief Analytic Officer at DonorTrends, and has helped raise billions of dollars from tens of millions of donors for thousands of organizations over his career. Ben also serves on the Research Council for the AFP and is the Vice-Chair of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.

Benjamin Washam

Principal Consultant

Cloud for Good

Question. Create. Change the World.

I'm inexhaustibly curious, and I love to design technology solutions to real world problems. I focus on projects that inspire people to change their world.

Beth Kanter

Author, Trainer, and Facilitator

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in digital transformation and wellbeing in the nonprofit workplace. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company, she has over three decades of experience in designing and delivering training and capacity-building programs for nonprofits and foundations. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Beth was recently awarded the lifetime achievement in nonprofit technology from NTEN. She is the author of The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and The Networked Nonprofit

Beth Kanter

Author, Trainer, and Facilitator

Bettina Sferrino

Provoc

Bettina’s purpose is to share her passion, skills, creativity and time to fight for justice. For 10 years, Bettina supported and led nonprofit communications teams, leveraging stories and connections to change hearts and minds for affordable housing, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive justice, and public land advocacy. Now a lead strategist with creative communications agency Provoc, Bettina brings intimate understanding of the communications needs and challenges many nonprofit communications teams face to her partnership with organizations working to advance racial equity. Her broad understanding of internal operations and dynamics; experience collaborating with fund development and programs teams; expertise in community building, brand strategy, and messaging; and lived experience as a fat queer femme of color all inform her approach to communications that go beyond being inclusive and accessible to actively advancing equity.

According to social media, Bettina is “super stylish,” a “cookie sorceress” and “generally awesome.” She lives on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land (colonially known as Oakland, California), with a cat named Lady Bird.

Brian Greenwald

Vice President of Business Development

Generate Impact

After spending over two decades working in-house with global brands (e.g., Metso Corporation, eBay Enterprise) and an international not-for-profit advocacy organization (CFA Institute), Brian Greenwald now serves as Vice President of Business Development at Generate_Impact. Having extensive experience as a brand, marketing and content strategist, human-centered design facilitator and business development professional, Brian is a passionate advocate for benevolence creators everywhere through the Generate_Impact mission.

Brooke Damico

Communications and Engagement Associate

Brooke is responsible for working at the intersection of communications, membership and information management at TFN. She works to craft effective messages on all platforms, in order to amplify impact, share knowledge and foster collaboration.

Brooke received her bachelor’s degree in communication from Boise State University, and her master’s degree in communication studies, with an emphasis in social persuasion, from Texas Christian University. During her graduate studies, she focused her research on the persuasive effects of messages regarding climate change, their impact on vulnerable communities and collective support for mitigation efforts.

Before coming to TFN, Brooke worked with nonprofits all around the country helping craft effective fundraising strategies, build meaningful relationships between members, and engage in community outreach.

Brynn Brasington

Sr. NPO Growth Specialist

Brynn joins Generate_Impact from the American Cancer Society, where she spent the last four years as Senior Development Manager leading the largest walkathon in the country for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, an event that draws over 80,000 participants. Brynn brings her deep experience working at ACS and other enterprise-level nonprofits as the Senior Nonprofit Growth Specialist.

Caitlin Richard

Senior Email Marketing Manager

Caitlin Richard is the Senior Email Marketing Manager for Heifer International, leading the strategy and content creation for a diverse email file.
Caitlin is driven by her passion to make the world a better place and enjoys engaging others with Heifer’s sustainable model for ending hunger and poverty around the world. She enjoys all pieces of the email marketing lifecycle – whether it’s ideating creative new strategies to meet organizational goals, coming up with fun quizzes to engage and educate, crafting compelling fundraising campaigns, analyzing data to improve KPIs, or building automations to optimize productivity.

Caitlin draws on her 13 years of marketing and advertising experience in the nonprofit and retail industries. She has worked in multiple eCRMs, transitioned two different nonprofits through eCRM migrations, and worked through multiple re-brandings.

Casey Helbling

Founder & CEO

Casey Helbling is a web application architect with over 20 years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of large web-based software systems. Casey earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. In 2003, he founded Clear Consulting, and in 2010, he rebranded the company as Software for Good to use technology for positive social and environmental impact. In 2015, Software for Good became one of the first Public Benefit Corporations in Minnesota. He contributes to the tech for good community by cofounding a nonprofit, the Center for Civic Innovation, and previously served on the board of Minnestar.

Cassandra Smallman

Head of Marketing

InitLive

Cassandra is a passionate content creator dedicated to fostering positive impact through thought leadership in both the nonprofit sector and live events industry. You can find her work at InitLive or on Linkedin and Twitter.

Catherine Shieh

Anti-Hate Training Coordinator

Cat Shieh is the Anti-Hate Training Coordinator at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago. Prior to the role, the majority of her 5-year high school teaching career was in teaching Ethnic Studies. Her anti-bias & anti-racism (ABAR) curricula have been piloted in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as multiple charter schools across California.

Before working as a teacher, Cat worked in non-profit, public, higher education, and corporate consulting sectors all dedicated to social impact. During her time working in the US House of Representatives, she opened 2 Congressional Caucuses. Cat received her BA in Political Science and Urban Planning from the University of Southern California, and she received her MA in Urban Education, Administration, and Policy from Loyola Marymount University. Cat is an alum of Teach for America, Teach Plus, Association of Raza Educators, and Coro.

Catherine Wallwork

Digital Program Manager

Avalon Consulting Group

Cathy Whitlock

Associate Vice President of Online Communications

Parkinson's Foundation

Cathy Whitlock joined the Parkinson's Foundation in 2010. As Associate Vice President of Online Communications, she directs digital communications strategy to further the foundation’s mission and increase awareness of Parkinson’s disease. Before joining the nonprofit world, she was Senior Editor for Latin American Markets at PR Newswire Association, LLC, focusing on financial, medical and nonprofit news. She also served as a design software teacher at the University of Miami Digital Media Lab. Cathy graduated from Purdue University with a Master of Science in Strategic Communication. She is married with two cats: Luther and Sabrina.

Cesar Omar Sanchez

Web Content Developer

Over 20+ years of Graphic/Web Designing/Development experience in the field, currently working at Kessler Foundation as a Web Content Developer. Traveled to many countries which helped me define my artistic and development skills within the designing field. My professional skills in Front and Back End Web Designer Development in eCommerce site, HTML, SEO and CSS, Javascript. Proficient with Graphic Print software such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator: Posters, Logos, Brochures, Booklets, t-shirts, and Photo retouching.

Cherian Koshy

Chief Development Officer

Endowment Partners

Mr. Koshy, Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), is the Chief Development Officer for Endowment Partners, LLC, leading the firm's fundraising solutions group. Unique among investment firms, Cherian's group provides consulting services to the firm's clients including feasibility studies, capital campaign counsel, and strategic planning services to grow annual and endowment revenue.

With 25+ years of direct experience in annual funds, major gifts, planned giving, and capital campaigns, he is one of the most sought-after trainers and speakers in the nonprofit sector. As the head of fundraising for various nonprofits, he's personally raised more than $100M including several seven and eight-figure gifts. As a coach and consultant, he's led organizations to scale their revenue growth and build stronger teams. He's led several successful multi-million dollar capital campaigns and worked with a wide variety of nonprofits including the arts, human services, faith-based, and education. The nonprofits he works with design strategies that give them back time and develop predictable success. His industry-specific thought leadership has been featured in Advancing Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Institute of Fundraising (UK), and dozens of keynote presentations, blogs, webinars, workshops, and podcasts.

Cherian is also active on numerous nonprofit boards. He is the Chair of the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (Volunteer Iowa) and serves on the global board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as well as eight other nonprofit boards.

Chris La Pilusa

Principal

Calliope Consulting

Nonprofit Organizations play an important role in our society, building strong communities by connecting and supporting people locally and around the world. Technology has become a vital asset within these organizations, helping them to create new opportunities for growth and outreach by directly engaging their members and supporters. Despite this importance, nonprofits need to focus their attention primarily on their mission and goals, and don’t always have the resources available to create the mobile apps, websites, and platforms that are increasingly forming the backbones of their organizations.

This is why Calliope was founded

We strive to be more than a contractor or consultant – we want to be your technology partner. We invest a significant amount of time truly understanding your purpose at its core, working with you to devise and develop technical solutions that will make a real difference to your organization and your constituents. Our goal is to work alongside you, augmenting your business with the digital tools you need to continue to grow and prosper.

Christina Crawley

Managing Director, Marketing

Forum One

Christina brings a global understanding to Forum One’s marketing and community-building efforts, providing state-of-the-art digital content, resources, and events that drive inspiration and results for mission-driven organizations. Christina’s background includes international ICT in education and collaborative multilingual learning. She is a member of the Forbes Communications Council and a regular contributor to its thought leadership for marketing and communications professionals. Christina graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a dual BA in French and English Literature, and an MA in French from the University of Waterloo.

Christina Sexton

Account Executive

Mal Warwick Donordigital

I'm a fundraising professional with over 10 years of experience in individual and major donor fundraising, grant writing, events, and communications across a variety of domestic and international nonprofit organizations. Since 2018, I've managed the production of digital projects with Mal Warwick Donordigital (MWD). I have a BA in Peace Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics.

Cindy Leonard

CEO

Cindy Leonard Consulting

Cindy Leonard has devoted over 20 years working in and with nonprofit organizations, and has served on numerous boards and committees, in various volunteer capacities, and as a consultant, a trainer, an executive director, a program manager, and an IT director.

Cindy’s consulting services are wide-ranging and encompass the many areas of knowledge gained through 2+ decades of work in the nonprofit sector and college education. Cindy is comfortable working at 50,000 feet or 10 feet and is able to switch between big picture to fine details with ease.

An experienced speaker and trainer with a highly engaging, interactive style, Cindy has successfully worked with groups as small as 10 and as large as 200 on a wide variety of topics. Cindy has presented and trained at over 100 conferences and classes, including conferences by Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Technology Network, Nonprofits LEAD, Alliance for Nonprofit Management, Association of Fundraising Professionals of Western Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Library Association.

Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Education in Instructional Design, all from Seton Hill University.

Raised in Blairsville and Derry Township, Cindy has had a lifelong love affair with the Laurel Highlands, and currently resides in Youngwood (35 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) with their husband Rob, a handful of very spoiled felines, and one very large dog.

Claire Kerr

Director

Care2

Clay Buck

Founder and Consultant

TCB Fundraising

Hi. I’m Clay and I’m a fundraiser.

Like many of us, I kind of fell into fundraising, but over the last 30 years I’ve worn nearly every hat – grant writer, special events, major gifts, corporate and foundation, and, my personal passion, individual giving. I’ve held just about every title from Development Coordinator to Chief Development Officer in shops both large and small.

And yes I’ve been a consultant. At large national firms and in data and wealth intelligence. I’ve consulted and worked on annual funds, capital campaigns, endowment funds, and planned giving. I’m proud and honored, now, to be working alongside nonprofits all over the country with my consulting practice, TCB Fundraising.

I got into fundraising because I could write. I love words and language, almost as much as I love connecting people. Along the way I fell in love with data, too, because nothing beats the power of a beautiful, heartfelt appeal getting into the right hands of caring, compassionate, giving donors.

I’m a student and teacher at heart, so I’m constantly reading and learning about the art and craft of fundraising. I have a BA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Michigan State University. Both are in theater/performance. I have a certificate in professional writing from the University of Chicago, achieved my CFRE certification in 2014, am a certified AFP Master Trainer, and just completed the Certificate in Philanthropic Psychology, With Distinction, from the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. I teach the fundraising courses for the Certificate of Nonprofit Management and Certificate in Fundraising at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Onalytica says I’m ranked #12 of the top 100 Charity Industry Influencers online but that just means I tweet about my dogs, two Labrador Retrievers (the Buck-White Boys) a lot. I mean, they're Good Boys.

Clay Buck

Founder and Consultant

TCB Fundraising

Clayton Dewey

Product Owner

DevCollaborative

From teaching linguistically diverse public school students to maintaining a Drupal-powered community media outlet, to working with the imprisoned to amplify their voices, content has always been at the heart of my work.

I now apply my background in linguistics, community organizing and web development as a product owner for DevCollaborative, a web agency specializing in Wordpress and Drupal websites for nonprofits.

I have worked with universities, open source companies, tech diversity advocates, prison rights activists, and others making change in the world to translate their organizational goals into impactful digital products with meaningful content.

Aside from content strategy and information architecture, I also enjoy being a goofy dad and always appreciate a good paraprosdokian.

Colin Boyle

Chief information Officer, Step Up Suncoast

Step Up Suncoast

Colin Boyle Lives in Manatee County, Florida. He currently the Chief Information Officer for Step Up Suncoast, a Community Action Agency. In the past he has been the IT Director for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida and for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

He's also worked for VARs, MSPs, SaaS shops and as a Navy Engineman.

He has served on the board of the New College Alumni Association and has a degree in History.

Colleen Powers

Software for Good

Colleen is a strategist for Software for Good, collaborating with the team on human-centered design and research to create ethical, impactful products. She has a background as a writer and editor with experience in copywriting, journalism, and strategic content planning. Previously, she has been a marketing agency copywriter and strategist, and has managed social media and written stories about artists in community for the nonprofit Springboard for the Arts.

Crispin Bailey

Director of User Experience

Kalamuna

Crispin Bailey, RGD, is Kalamuna’s Director of Design & UX, and a seasoned digital strategy expert and web accessibility champion. He actively coordinates design and technical efforts throughout discovery and in key times during implementation, building the bridge between research, design, and development.

Dan Berstein

Dana Litwin

Consultant

Dana Litwin, CVA, is a globally recognized strategic advisor, keynote speaker, and thought leader in volunteerism tech trends and civic service. Since 2002 she has guided organizations in California's Silicon Valley and nationwide to produce breakthrough volunteer and community engagement programs. Dana is the creator of the YouTube series “Priceless Advice for Leaders of Volunteers”, served as President of the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE), and is a founder and facilitator of the multi-sector National Alliance for Volunteer Engagement.

Dana Snyder

Founder

Positive Equation

Dana Snyder is an entrepreneur, digital strategist, and passionate conscious consumer. Through her work at Positive Equation, she teaches nonprofits how to transform their online experiences to attract recurring donors.

Based in Atlanta, Dana has worked with Movember, Dress for Success, American Idol, The Global Foodbanking Network, The Gary Sinise Foundation and many more on their digital strategies.

Dana frequently speaks on innovative ways for nonprofits to increase their online fundraising efforts. She’s been a featured speaker at We Are For Good, WISE Los Angeles, YNPN, Television Academy Foundation, NonprofitWebAdvisor, Sprout Social, Givebutter, Dress for Success, and many more.

Dana graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Central Florida.

Daniel Vincent

Director of Membership

Danielle Smith

Communications Manager

Gateway Public Schools

Dar Veverka

Solution Architect

Idealist Consulting

Dar is a Solution Architect working with nonprofits. She originally started out in international conflict resolution working in Sweden after undergraduate school, and then left grad school to join a women’s collective whole grain bakery for several years. She spent some time after that playing in the mud with pigs at an animal sanctuary and then veered into IT, where she’s been for over 20 years. She started out in IT working at non-profits and then moved into the corporate world. More recently, Dar has come full circle back to the non-profit world that she missed and works at mission-driven nonprofits focused on civil rights, poverty & education. When not doing techy things, she can be found out hiking, reading a good book. or spending time with her companion animals. And drinking coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

Darian Gambrell

Executive Director

DEAF, INC.

I am currently the Executive Director of DEAF, Inc. in Boston Massachusetts area. I am deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate daily. I didn't know ASL until I was 10 years old so my world has changed once I had access to communication. I am often someone who has to always check to be sure communication access is available for me.

Dawn McCoy

CEO/Executive Director

Chesterfield Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry (CCHASM)

Dawn McCoy

With nearly three decades in the public sector and as a non-profit executive, Dawn is a trailblazer and passionate champion for equity and innovation. She is the CEO/executive director with Chesterfield Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry (CCHASM) in a suburb outside of Richmond, Virginia.

She has been a self-proclaimed "techie" most of her life including consulting stints with Virginia's state technology agency and the city of Richmond technology team.

She serves on several regional/national boards including a gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Board. She was elected to the Sacramento School Board in 2002 and has been recognized for grassroots advocacy including being the receipt of the 2015 Elizabeth Allen Service Award.

She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Howard University and a Master's Degree from Georgetown University where she was a Bryce Harlow Scholar.

Dawn McCoy

CEO/Executive Director

Chesterfield Colonial Heights Alliance for Social Ministry (CCHASM)

Dawn McCoy

Devon Smith

Co-Founder

Measure Creative

Devon co-founded Measure Creative, a 2-person studio based in Portland, Oregon that helps progressive organizations understand, engage, and influence their audiences. Notable clients include Earthjustice, International Committee of the Red Cross, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Oakland Museum, and La Jolla Playhouse. She is a frequent speaker on how nonprofits can more effectively collect and use data in their marketing and fundraising efforts at conferences across the US, UK, and Australia. Devon holds two bachelor degrees from the University of Washington and an MBA and MFA from Yale University.

Donna Henrie

Consultant

Donna Thach

Manager of Research, Data, and Analytics

Donna Thach is a marketing research, data, and analytics manager who enjoys writing about data communication and visualization at donnathach.com. She has extensive experience conducting research, analyzing data, and communicating results to inform business decisions. She started her career in fundraising and program management where she developed a youth program in her hometown. Donna has a Master of Business Administration from Babson College and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Smith College.

Dottie Schindlinger

Executive Director, Diligent Institute

Diligent Corporation

Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of the Diligent Institute, the modern governance think tank and global research arm of Diligent Corporation. In her role, Dottie directs the Institute’s thought leadership on corporate governance and related topics. She also serves as a lead spokesperson for both Diligent Institute and Diligent Corporation, giving dozens of presentations to boards and executives at events around the globe. Dottie’s work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and multiple governance and technology publications. She is co-author of the book, Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director, ©2019, John Wiley & Sons, and she co-hosts the fortnightly show, The Corporate Director Podcast.

Dottie brings over twenty years’ experience in governance-related roles, including serving as a director, officer, committee chair, senior executive, governance consultant and trainer for private, public, and nonprofit boards. She was a founding team member of the tech start-up BoardEffect, a board management software provider focused on healthcare and nonprofit boards, acquired by Diligent in 2016. She is the Vice Chair of the Board of the Alice Paul Institute and a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar on Corporate Governance. Dottie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband, Ron.

Drew Pizzolato

Senior Program and Product Manager

NTEN

A passionate advocate for digital inclusion, Drew joined the NTEN team in 2016, bringing his deep experience in the sector to the NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellowship. Prior to joining our team his work focused on supporting service programs and research projects to address digital literacy acquisition, including health and library settings. As an expert in digital inclusion, he's contributed to local efforts and national conferences, lending his voice and his experience to strengthen the movement for access for all. The consummate Portlander, Drew worked in professional kitchens and Powell’s Books after moving here from somewhere else. In his role as Senior Education Manager Drew highlights his strongest skill - connecting with people - to support and celebrate our speakers and faculty presenting our educational programming at the NTC and throughout the year.

Drew Pizzolato

Senior Program and Product Manager

NTEN

Drew Pizzolato

Senior Program and Product Manager

NTEN

Edward Rogoff

Professor

Edward G. Rogoff is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and former Dean of the LIU Brooklyn School of Business, Public Administration, and Information Sciences.

Dr. Rogoff has served as the Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, teaches, and conducts research in entrepreneurship, particularly relative to minority and later-life issues. Dr. Rogoff was named the 2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

He is the author of Bankable Business Plans, Bankable Business Plans for Non-Profits, co-author of The Entrepreneurial Conversation and The Second Chance Revolution: Working for Yourself after 50. He has published in such journals as The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Family Business Review, and Journal of Small Business Management. He initiated and supervised the largest study of minority entrepreneurs in the United States, the National Minority Business Owners Survey.

Professor Rogoff has written articles for the New York Times, Forbes, and Newsday, as well as having been a guest on CNN. Prior to joining the faculty at Baruch College, he was an entrepreneur in the radio broadcasting industry where he headed two companies that operated 23 radio stations throughout the United States. He was the President of the Hemophilia Association of New York for more than 20 years, continues to serve on its Board and the Boards of the Hemophilia Services Consortium and LiveOnNY, the New York organ donor network. In addition, he serves on the Boards of the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the New York Family Enterprise Center.

Elizabeth Endres

Program Manager

Feeding Texas

Elizabeth provides support services and technical assistance to Community Partner Food Banks as part of Feeding Texas’s SNAP outreach contract with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. This program serves to connect Texans to food, cash, and medical social service programs. She is currently supporting her organization's digital equity journey as a NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellow. Elizabeth previously served as the Senior Program Coordinator for the Middle School Matters program at Communities in Schools of Central Texas, as the Program Coordinator for the Community Partner Program at the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, and as a Certified School Counselor in a rural elementary school in North Carolina. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work with a focus in community administration and leadership, and a Master’s of Education with a focus in school counseling. In her free time, she enjoys triathlon training and spending quality time exploring outside with her 3 dogs and occasionally a teen child.

Emily Beth Hicks-Rotella

Nonprofit Data & Technology Strategist

Make Tech Work For You

Emily's vision statement: All mission-driven, social justice-oriented people and organizations will have the confidence and skills to learn, use and love data & technology as part of achieving their missions.Emily has over a decade of experience working with organizations of all shapes and sizes to support their data and technology culture and strategy. As part of this work, Emily supports staff members to learn, use, and love their data and technology, adds capacity to teams and organizations that need additional technical knowledge and skill, and uses a uniquely human and non-technical approach to develop and support a culture that sets up staff and organizations for success using data and technology for their missions and impact. Emily lives in the Bronx, New York with their wife and two young children, and when they aren't being a total data and tech nerd, they are either singing outside, snowboarding, skateboarding, reading, or getting more tattoos.

Emily Beth Hicks-Rotella

Nonprofit Data & Technology Strategist

Make Tech Work For You

Emily Patrick

Senior Marketing Manager

Common Impact, Inc.

Emily Patrick is the Marketing Manager at Common Impact, a nationally-recognized nonprofit that breaks down barriers between sectors and industries to create meaningful partnerships between companies, social sector organizations and the people that drive them. The common purpose of these connections: to deliver real value to each partner through innovations in community engagement, and ultimately to address deeply rooted and complex social challenges. Founded in 2000, Common Impact has partnered with Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of the country’s leading nonprofit organizations to create this transformational change. Learn more about our services, impact and corporate and nonprofit partners at commonimpact.org.

Emily Patrick

Senior Marketing Manager

Common Impact, Inc.

Erica Best

Director, Direct Response

Erica Best serves as Director of Direct Response for Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. In her role, she manages all direct response channels and audiences under $10,000. In 2020 she was named a Rising Leader by the ANA Nonprofit Federation. Prior to joining Share Our Strength in 2015, Erica served as the Marketing Analytics Manager at EMILY’s List. She is a graduate of American University and currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA with her fiancé,
adorable dog, and surly cat.

Erica Braverman

Community Engagement Specialist

Knowbility

Erin Lindsay

Executive Vice President

Precision Strategies

Erin Lindsay is a digital strategist with more than a decade of experience in leading digital communications and marketing campaigns for a range of high-profile organizations and causes. She is an Executive Vice President on Digital team at Precision, which was named the 2021 Global & North American Digital Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media.

At Precision, Erin has helped non-profit, political, and advocacy clients implement cutting-edge strategies to meet their organizational goals. She has worked with clients across diverse industries to expand their digital audience and maximize the online impact. In 2020, she helped conceptualize and execute the first-ever virtual Democratic National Convention, which was heralded by the Washington Post as worthy of “Emmy consideration”. In 2021, she also helped execute President Joe Biden’s hybrid virtual and in-person inaugural events, including “Celebrating America” which earned an Emmy nomination. Since the pandemic shifted events online, she has helped clients of all sizes rethink what events look like in 2021 and beyond.

Before joining Precision, Erin served in the first-ever White House office of digital strategy as the deputy director of online engagement. At the White House, Erin helped pioneer the use of the internet, in particular social media, to communicate and engage with the American public online. Prior to joining the White House, Erin was the online marketing manager at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

A native of Westborough, Massachusetts, Erin received her B.A. in economics and history from Tufts University. She is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Marketing at American University, where she has taught courses including “Digital Advertising and Search Engine Marketing” and “Managing Digital Brand Identities”. In 2020, she was listed as a PRWeek Hall of Femme “Woman to Watch”.

Eva Sachar

Fadi Al Qassar

Executive Director

Venture 2 Impact

Fadi has come a long way from his Native Jordan. And he’s made a lot of stops along the way.

He leads Venture 2 Impact, which is a non-profit organization focused on connecting skilled tech and business professionals with marginalized communities that need their skills.

Fadi spends his days talking to employees and engaged partners from Salesforce.com, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Telus, IBM, Docusign, Stanford University and many other companies to onboard them on skills based volunteer programs.

Fadi believes that solving the world's most complex social, economic and environmental problems requires the brightest minds and our fullest commitments.

Through the work at Venture 2 Impact, valuable partnerships with tech enterprise companies, and marginalized communities his team has: helped orphans in Romania get workforce development skills allowing them to attain better paying jobs, helped young single mother in Rwanda learn English and business skills reducing child abandonment rates, and improved health care for disabled children in India.

Farra Trompeter

Co-Director, Member-Owner

Big Duck

Farra Trompeter is a Co-Director at Big Duck, a worker-owned cooperative that develops strong brands, campaigns, and communications teams for nonprofits. Farra has more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and communications for nonprofit organizations. Farra’s expertise focuses on helping nonprofits manage rebranding processes and develop compelling fundraising campaigns. She also loves building people's skills and knowledge through coaching, workshops, webinars, and classes. Farra previously served as a member and former chair of NTEN's board of directors and is a part-time faculty member at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches a class about strategic communications for nonprofits. She holds an M.S. degree in nonprofit management from The New School. Farra tweets about nonprofit communications and fundraising at @Farra.

Farra Trompeter

Co-Director, Member-Owner

Big Duck

Farra Trompeter

Co-Director, Member-Owner

Big Duck

Fatima Villarreal

Associate Development Officer, Corporate Partnerships

Francis C Scudellari

Senior Data Consultant

Cloud for Good

Prior to joining Cloud for Good, Francis spent three years helping a wide range of nonprofits make the transition to Salesforce as their fundraising application. He’s been providing technological solutions to mission-driven organizations, both large and small, for over 14 years now. Francis is a Certified Salesforce Administrator and Developer. In his off-hours, Francis is an active volunteer in the Baltimore community where he’s based, contributing his time and skills to groups such as the Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. He also likes to take long walks throughout the city, a frequent source of inspiration for the pieces he posts to his poetry blog.

Gayane Margaryan

Director, Marketing & Creative

African Wildlife Foundation

Gayane Margaryan is African Wildlife Foundation's Director of Marketing & Creative. She is dedicated to moving audiences globally to act in support of an African-led conservation vision to protect the continent's vast and unique natural beauty.

Genie Gratto

Communications Strategist & Consultant | GWRITES

Genie Gratto, GWRITES’ principal, is a mission-driven communicator with a passion for storytelling, technology, and social change. She began her career as a reporter, but has spent more than two decades communicating on behalf of nonprofit organizations fulfilling a broad range of missions. She has also worked for companies in the event and experiential, healthcare, public utility, and communications industries.

Gregoriah Hartman

Network Action Manager

National Audubon Society

Gregoriah Hartman is the Network Action Manager for the National Audubon Society. Before working for Audubon for the last three years, ze previously worked at smaller nonprofits in Denver and Madison. Ze has been a birder since childhood. Zir spark bird was the Baltimore Oriole, as zis family had a pair that nested in their backyard in rural Wisconsin. Ze graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Steven Point, a school with a strong environmental and natural resources focus, where ze double majored in Political Science and Sociology with an emphasis on Rural and Native American Social Work. This led to some wonderful learning opportunities working with certain Ojibwe and Ho-Chunk community leaders. Today, ze lives in Washington, DC, where ze enjoys museuming, gardening (with native plants, of course), birding, and kayaking.

Gwen Emmons

Creative Director

M+R

Gwen Emmons is a writer, content strategist, and the co-author of The Guide to Effective and Ethical Direct Response Creative. She is currently the Creative Director at M+R, where she creates innovative, powerful campaigns that get results for some of the most important causes of our time, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Feeding America, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Over 12 years at M+R, Emmons' copywriting, art direction, and strategic insights have inspired people to donate, raise awareness about important causes and brands, compelled people to take action, and turned people out to vote. She specializes in using data to help organizations understand their audiences and deliver tailored creative that connects and converts.

Emmons received her Masters in Social Work with a focus on public policy, organizing, and nonprofit management from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to working at M+R, she worked at Forward Together, pioneering techniques to engage rural, queer, trans, and BIPOC communities in the organization’s advocacy and culture shift work, and managed a record-breaking electoral campaign for Planned Parenthood in Pennsylvania.

Hannah Mashon

Communications Officer

Hannah Mashon is a Communications Officer with First Peoples’ Cultural Council. Hannah is Cree with relations to Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, with mixed European ancestry. She has been living as an uninvited guest on the territory of the Lekwugen Speaking Peoples, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations for the past 17 years in what is now called Victoria, B.C., where she continues to build on her spiritual connection to her culture and surroundings. Hannah believes in the importance of leadership, building strong relationships and protecting her people and culture. She understands the importance of working together, strengthening communities and lifting her people up for a successful and sustainable future.

Hannah Thomas

Director of Learning and Innovation, Member-Owner

Big Duck

In her role, Hannah orchestrates Big Duck’s learning and experimentation. She pushes the agency to evolve and grow and explores new avenues for providing value to our clients and the sector. She loves searching out imaginative solutions for nonprofits to adapt as they navigate change and opportunity.

Some recent clients she’s proud to have collaborated with include the Ms. Foundation for Women, The Intrepid Museum, The Apollo Theater, Prosperity Now, and Pasa Sustainable Agriculture. Select internal projects she’s led include the creation of the company’s first DEI and antiracist plan and a report digging into the harm embedded in fundraising communications best practices. She also loves a good conference and has in the past couple of years been a speaker at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, Association of Fundraising Professionals NYC chapter’s PhilanthroCon, and Welcoming America’s Welcoming Initiative.

Outside work, Hannah may be found exploring her new home city of Seattle with her fiance–roller skating, getting up to speed on the food scene, and catching movies at any number of wonderful little and big theaters across the city. Equally likely, she’s holed up at home obsessively, singularly focused on a puzzle.

Hannah is also a member of Big Duck’s board of directors.

Haowen Ge

Executive Director

International Student Services Association INC

Haowen Ge is originally from China and moved to Shaker Heights with his mother when he was 12 years old. Haowen experienced and fully understands the challenges and obstacles immigrant students currently face at local public schools in U.S.

Haowen Ge graduated from the University of Mount Union in 2012 with a B.A. degree in Business Administration. He also received a master’s degree in Business Administration at Baldwin Wallace University in 2017. Haowen is the executive director at International Student Services Association and also is the founder at the Haowen Cultural Foundation since 2017.

Haowen’s personal, educational and work experience uniquely qualifies to provide guidance and assistance to international students. This includes college identification and application, career advising, and financial aid planning to facilitate a potentially difficult process for students that are new to this country.

Harmonie Farrow

Director, Annual Giving

Harmonie has built a career in annual giving for the past 15 years because she is passionate about creating personal connections between non-profit organizations and their thousands of constituents. Since joining the Children’s Medical Center Foundation in March 2020, Harmonie has expanded the Foundation’s annual giving programs to include omnichannel marketing and strategic segmentation, peer-to-peer fundraising, a grateful patient family program and annual donor stewardship, resulting in a 6% increase in donor retention and 22% increase in revenue for Children’s Health in the first year. Harmonie’s contributions to the growth and success of these programs resulted in her being named to the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy’s list of “40 Under 40” in 2020. Prior to joining Children’s Medical Center Foundation, Harmonie spent 13 years working in annual giving and donor relations in higher education and received gold medal awards for “Best Practices in Fundraising” and “Annual Giving Program” from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 2014. Harmonie is a life-long learner and is passionate about exchanging ideas and best practices. She has spoken at over 50 conferences nationally and internationally and countless webinars, presenting on topics such as omnichannel marketing, the power of analytics in direct marketing and fundraising with Millennials.

Hillary Esquina

Director of Social Media

Defenders of Wildlife

Coming soon.

Jackie Day

Consultant

Cause Craft Consulting

Jackie Libby

Senior Vice President and Director of Client Services

As Senior Vice President and Director of Client Services, Jackie oversees all of Avalon Consulting's client service staff, helping to mentor team members and troubleshoot campaign concerns. Jackie’s strategic and creative analysis has proven thought-provoking and innovative—resulting in reinvigorated and strengthened fundraising programs.

Jacob Talbot

Senior Marketing Manager, Twilio.org

Twilio.org

Jamie Hampton

Principal, Strategy & Community Building

Jamie grew Mixte out of her desire to change the typical agency culture. She strived to build a workplace where people could be their true selves, not sacrificing personal values to earn a paycheck. At the same time, she wanted to offer changemakers the chance to work with an agency free from conflicts of interest.

As the Principal, Strategy + Community of Mixte, Jamie supports the team in doing what they do best — serving clients and creating effective digital marketing and public relations programs. As needed, she takes on a strategic and advisory role with Mixte’s clients, always pushing the team to remain true to community-driven values and to put equity at the forefront of all the work Mixte does.

From regionally based nonprofits to the world’s largest nonprofits and funders, Jamie enjoys digging into the communication challenges that Mixte’s clients face, earning four national awards, two best in shows, and several dozen awards of recognition throughout the years.

In her years at Mixte, Jamie has led the agency to win the distinguished PR Team of the Year award for its commitment to values-driven work and its dedication to supporting paid job training for new voices to enter into the field. She is an accomplished speaker at national and international conferences, ranging from topics such as how to address the lack of diversity in the PR industry to messaging for policy change.

Jamie is currently the Diversity Committee Chair for the Public Relations Society of America San Diego & Imperial County chapter. Her role here has led to a 3rd Place recognition by national PRSA for the organization's efforts to advance equity.

Since leading Mixte, Jamie has been recognized as a CEO of the Year and one of San Diego’s 50 most influential leaders. Her company has been honored with a Small Business Advocate of the Year award from the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, and, before going remote, earned top honors from the League of American Cyclists and iCommute San Diego for its commuter-friendly program.

Janedra Danielle Sykes

EDI Certified Organizational Development Coach and Consultat

As a Certified Organizational Development Coach and an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Consultant, I help individuals and teams deliver positive change across all levels. This is achieved through a combination of a proven change management methodology and the ability to break down problems into their component parts. The result is a more open, harmonious, and productive team based on shared values and mutual respect. As a partner at Arboreta Group, LLC a consulting firm, we serve nonprofits, government, and small businesses. I have over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector: administration, grant/contract lifecycle management, program design, and implementation. I've held positions that have ranged from front-line staff to primary grant writer to executive director. I received a MA in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of San Diego in 2005.

Janice Chan

Director

Shift and Scaffold

Janice Chan (she/her) is a nonprofit technologist turned service designer—essentially, a proud generalist whose mission is to make things less frustrating for people. Through her consulting work (shiftandscaffold.com), she helps small and mighty teams to collaborate more effectively by aligning their processes, programs, governance, and infrastructure to their mission, their theory of change, and their realities. She is also an NTEN faculty member and coach. Outside of work, Janice enjoys writing, traveling, eating new foods, building community, and making playlists.

Janine Guarino

Associate Director of Social Media

My name is Janine and I am an Associate Director of Social Media at Media Cause, with a background in international development, grassroots fundraising and nonprofit work. In my role, I support non-profit and social impact clients with social media strategies and execution. As part of our agency's social media team, I work to build thought leadership about the social media space at our agency. I have always wanted to be part of change making—and I found that in supporting non-profit and social impact work.

When I'm not working, you can find me on a long walk, planning my next trip, or finding a new cozy bar.

Jason Samuels

IT Operations Manager

American Craft Council

Jason Samuels is a technology manager with experience managing projects, budgets and vendor relations. Jason is accomplished in software implementation, staff training, network administration, end user support, procedure and policy documentation. He takes pride in meeting business needs with the right technology, and at least one co-worker likes to joke that he squeezes nickels until the buffaloes squeak.

Jason Shim

Director, Digital Strategy and Transformation

Pathways to Education Canada

How can we harness technology to make a difference in the world? That’s the question Jason loves to explore with organizations. As Director of Digital Strategy and Transformation, Jason leads technology and innovation at Pathways to Education Canada, an organization dedicated to helping youth in low-income communities to graduate from high school and reach their full potential. With experience spanning the nonprofit and academic sectors both as an employee and a consultant, Jason has consistently helped organizations stay ahead of the technology curve. In 2013, he led Pathways to Education Canada to become one of the first charities to issue tax receipts for Bitcoin donations. Jason has co-authored Bitcoin and the Future of Fundraising and also serves as an editor at Ledger, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal at the University of Pittsburgh that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Jeffrey Dugas

Communications Director

Action Network

Jen Frazier

President + Founder

Firefly Partners

Jen Newmeyer, CFRE

Director of Digital Membership

WHYY

Jen Newmeyer is a digital fundraising strategist specializing in integrated campaigns and online engagement. Through her groundbreaking work and creative approaches during her 15+ year tenure, she's raised over $10 million in online revenue for nonprofit organizations. As the Director of Digital Membership at WHYY, she provides acquisition, retention, and growth in membership and revenue through the use of digital channels and media platforms. She is host of Charity Chats, a meetup group aimed at helping professionals solve their most pressing problems, and serves on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals - Greater Philadelphia Chapter as the Program Chair for the Leading Philanthropy conference. Jen is the author of "The Insider's Guide to Online Fundraising: Finding Success When Surrounded by Skeptics," published in January of 2020. Learn more at www.charityjen.com.

Jenifer Alonzo

Associations Practice Lead

Jenn Tate

Cloud for Good

Jennifer Dyer

Owner

Jennifer Dyer Graphic Design

I'm a freelance graphic designer specializing in helping foundations develop compelling annual reports that become a vital part of their philanthropic toolkit. I'm also a UX copywriter for nptech and graphic design tech. I'm always looking for ways to help nonprofits make a meaningful connection with their stakeholders.

W00t!! I'll be speaking at 22NTC on Strengthening Your In-House Infographic Design. Hope to see you there!

I'd love to connect on LinkedIn.

If you'd like to find out more, please check out my website: jdgraphicdesign.com.

Jennifer Javornik

Vice President, Partnerships and Business Development

Filament Games

I'm at your disposal for any and all questions about how non-profits can use digital games and immersive experiences to connect with their volunteers, educate the public, and make an impact.

Jeremy Haselwood

Digital Fundraiser | Author | Trainer | Marketer

Fundraisers Unite

- Author of the Amazon Best Seller, 'The Digital Fundraising Blueprint.' Available at: https://amzn.to/2sKyDPn - Creator of online course, Digital Fundraising Blueprint (qualifies for 4.5 CFRE points): DigitalFundraisingBlueprint.com
- Creator of FundraisersUnite.com , an online community for fundraisers that features monthly training, weekly live coaching, and more. Learn more at FundraisersUnite.com.
- Forbes.com contributor about fundraising and personal development.

Jessica de Jesus

Deputy Design Director of Initiatives, Los Angeles Times

Jessica de Jesus is the Deputy Design Director of Initiatives at the Los Angeles Times, overseeing the design and art direction for Image magazine, the L.A. Times’ new style and culture publication.

Jess was most recently the Creative Director at Bitch Media, a feminist nonprofit media organization centered on pop culture. She was part of the 3-person team that redesigned Bitch magazine in 2017 and went on to lead the evolution of Bitch’s brand identity and visual voice across print and digital. During her time at Bitch, she commissioned and featured the work of over 200 illustrators, photographers, and artists, most of whom are Black, Indigenous, and Queer people of color.

She is the founder of neonhoneytigerlily, a creative studio that has collaborated over the past decade with media companies, creative agencies, nonprofits, tech startups, and entrepreneurs, with a focus on empowering marginalized voices and designing for social good.

Jess was born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in New Haven, Conn., and holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

Joan Benson

Director, Industry Marketing

Sage Intacct

Joe Hallissey

Associate Director - Digital Marketing

Mercy Home for Boys & Girls

Experienced marketing professional with 10+ years of experience with a demonstrated history of working in social services, performing arts, and culture non-profits. Skilled in project management, marketing strategy, budgeting, and cost controls.

Joey Womack

CEO

Rebel with a cause. Analytics junkie. Optimist. Cynic. Serial envelope pusher. Cult creator. Superhero. Pick one, and that's me. My life's purpose is to equalize socio-economic disparities in communities around the world, and my goal is to positively influence 1 billion people by the year 2039.

Johanna Bates

Co-owner, Co-principal, & Technical Director

DevCollaborative

Johanna Bates began her nonprofit tech career in 1999 when she was hired to write marketing copy for a nonprofit publisher, and ended up hand-coding their first-ever online book catalog as 500 pages of static HTML. She was next hired to build WGBH.org in a new, custom, open-source CMS, and she never looked back. Finding she preferred rural to city life, Johanna moved to western Massachusetts and spent eight years directing technology and writing related grants for Community Partners, a statewide health care advocacy organization.

Today Johanna co-owns DevCollaborative with Erin Fogel, who she met through NTEN. Her team focuses on building Drupal and WordPress sites for orgs in sustainable ways that help them get the most for their limited funds. She's been an NTEN member for nearly two decades, served on the NTC agenda steering committee for four years, and co-moderates NTEN's Drupal Community of Practice.

John Manganaro

Chief Product Officer

John is a lifelong data nerd who has focused on marrying actionable analytics into intuitive software. He has spent the last four years working closely with non-profits and community-based organizations to ensure that his product teams are delivering critical capabilities those organizations need to succed.

John-Mark de Palma

Director of Marketing

Director of Marketing (and Communications) at Catholic Charities of New York.

Josh Riman

Founder and President

Great Believer

Jude Shimer

CRM Manager

The Center for Popular Democracy

I believe in technology as an art form and a tool for justice. I'm thrilled to apply my geekery managing Salesforce at the Center for Popular Democracy where it can make a difference. I've been helping nonprofits benefit from Salesforce since 2013. I presented on Salesforce Admin protocols at the 2016 Dreamforce conference, and have presented on gender-inclusive data practices numerous times, including at 21NTC. Every February I manage operations for Crumby Spokes, a volunteer art-slash-activist project in which cyclists dressed as wizards, praying mantises, and romantic octopodes (among others) deliver Valentine's Day scones to raise funds for local NYC nonprofits, including New Sanctuary Coalition, New Alternatives for LGBTQ Youth, and VOCAL-NY.

Julia Toepfer

Senior Marketing & Digital Engagement Strategist

National Immigrant Justice Center

Julia Toepfer is the senior marketing & digital engagement strategist at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). Julia has more than ten years of experience working in nonprofit communications, management, and fundraising for organizations around the country. She is an experienced storyteller, writer, marketer, campaigner, fundraiser, and digital strategist. She has provided training and consulting services for nonprofits, unions, and organizations to strengthen their social media channels and develop impactful online campaigns. Julia lives in Denver and likes exploring the mountains with her husband and their dog, Bernie.

Julia Vallera

Design and Technology Manager

Libraries Without Borders

Julia (she/her) is a designer and educator who explores creative and free expression through community engagement. She has an eclectic portfolio that includes interactive exhibitions, public art initiatives, illustration and motion graphics. Before joining LWB, Julia led programs at Mozilla Foundation that focus on digital equity and internet advocacy. She has an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design and enjoys teaching college classes that focus on ethics of technology, digital design and media studies. Outside of work, she is likely adventuring outside. Bicycle touring, mountain biking and skiing are her favorites!

Julie Ziff Sint

Vice President of Account and Strategic Services, Sanky Communications

Sanky Communications, Inc.

Julie Ziff Sint joined the nonprofit sector in 1998 and she hasn't left yet. Now the Vice President of Account and Strategic Services at Sanky Communications, she has worked in-house at large and small nonprofits as well as at agencies. Julie's background touches on many aspects of fundraising and marketing, but she specializes in digital fundraising/marketing and mid-level/bridge programs. Her passion for efficiency, geekiness for data analysis, and desire for new creative ideas help her and the Sanky team push their clients' digital fundraising programs to new levels. Outside of the office, Julie teaches yoga and Thai massage, organizes large-scale art events, and spends an inordinate amount of free time in her kitchen.

Julie Ziff Sint

Vice President of Account and Strategic Services, Sanky Communications

Sanky Communications, Inc.

Julienne Shields

President/CEO

I’m passionate about helping each entrepreneurship educator be the most awesome version of himself/herself.

Kacey Crawford

Vice President, Digital Strategy

With a breadth and depth of experience spanning over 20 years, at organizations like Pursuant, Sierra Club, CDR Fundraising Group, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and others, I am dedicated to the ever-evolving digital transformation and true channel integration needed to drive meaningful constituent experiences, greater loyalty, and mission-focused growth for nonprofit organizations. I am passionate about nonprofit storytelling, leveraging digital technology to connect people with organizations and issues they care deeply about, the power of collective changemaking, and doing my small part to make this world more whole, safe, and liveable for my daughter and future generations.

When I’m not fundraising, you can find me making clay jewelry with my daughter, hiking, and exploring hidden gems with my family from New York to Delaware, drinking coffee and kombucha (but not at the same time, ewwww), traveling, attending live theater and other performances, or photographing the people and places I love.

Kami Griffiths

Executive Director/Co-founder

Community Tech Network

Kami Griffiths is the executive director and co-founder of Community Tech Network, a nonprofit with the mission to transform lives through digital literacy. With 20 years of experience working in the public sector, Kami has developed a passion for helping people gain access and better utilize technology, after witnessing firsthand how the digital divide and low literacy levels were aiding the cycle of poverty. She has worked for the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, managing 27 public access computing centers, teaching computer classes and establishing their volunteer trainer program. As the Training and Outreach Manager for TechSoup, Kami greatly expanded her knowledge and understanding of the nonprofit technology field, having conducted over 200 interviews with librarians and producing over 100 webinars. She is a founding member of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and speaks nationally about digital inclusion.

Kami Griffiths

Executive Director/Co-founder

Community Tech Network

Kassandra Swenson

Marketing Operations Specialist

Forum One

Kate Greenhouse

Copywriter

Kate Greenhouse

Copywriter

Kate is a copywriter for Sanky Communications. As a former children's book editor, Kate's approach to nonprofit writing is playful and creative. She's intentional about her use of person-centric language that honors the direct work of organizers and the communities they work alongside. The number of times Kate consults a thesaurus per day is truly astounding.

Kate Lesniak

Senior Program Manager

HubSpot, Inc.

Kate Lesniak is a strategist, speaker, facilitator, and product nerd for change working in big tech to advocate for impact-focused organizations. For 15 years, Kate's work has focused on what it means to be independent, and how an organization’s financial model finds its way into all other operational threads. Their gender identity informs how they move through the world and apply their skills to challenge all systems of oppression and create more equitable environments.

Kate is currently the Senior Program Manager for HubSpot for Nonprofits. Before HubSpot, Kate served as ThinkShout's Chief Strategy Officer, building and growing a team of strategists and designers who created some of the world's largest digital platforms for nonprofits, including the World Resources Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Map, and Freedom House's Freedom in the World map and website. Kate is also the former publisher at Bitch Media, where they applied organizing tactics to spark a thriving membership model and establish a more sustainable organization. Kate was a member of ONA WLA's 2018 cohort and is always available for mentorship and collaboration. Read more about Kate's journey and reach out at katelesniak.com.

Kate Rivera

Consultant

Technology Learning Collaborative

Kate Rivera is an independent consultant assisting organizations with project management, program implementation and strategic planning, grant writing, and more. Her focus is primarily in the fields of youth workforce development, digital inclusion, and civic engagement.

Kate has a broad range of experience in the nonprofit, higher education, and for-profit sectors, as well as a diverse educational background coupling an MBA with an undergraduate degree in creative writing. Kate has over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, specializing in project and financial management, relationship cultivation, and process improvement. She operates at the intersection of big picture strategy and practical implementation and is able to achieve results by bringing an analytical lens to a project while simultaneously emphasizing relationships and collaboration.

Kate’s past professional experience includes positions as Director of Business Operations at the Urban Affairs Coalition, Financial Manager at Drexel University, and Compliance/Reporting Analyst at the Women’s Opportunities Resource Center. Her large-scale program management experience includes managing a Summer Youth Employment program providing jobs to over 1,000 youth each year and includes over 250 community partner organizations, a Digital Transformation initiative for a $35M organization, and a $17M project to close the digital divide which served over 5,000 participants in collaboration with over 50 partner organizations. She has over 12 years experience in grant writing, including successful grant applications to foundations as well as city, state, and federal government opportunities. She has nearly a decade of experience providing capacity building, budgeting, strategic planning, and programmatic support to grassroots organizations.

Katelyn Gerber

Director of Operations

FORM

Katelyn has nearly a decade of experience helping nonprofits solve their challenges in the digital space. She manages FORM’s major project schedules, budgets, and client communications. Katelyn has over 10 years of experience in project management with specialties in process improvement and strategic planning. She thrives when organizing large teams, collecting input, keeping everyone on time and on budget.

Katelyn holds a Master’s Degree in Accountancy from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University with an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Business Management.

Katherine Karmen Trujillo

Deputy Director / Director of Education

Libraries Without Borders

Katherine Trujillo is Deputy Director/Director of Education at Libraries Without Borders US (LWB US), a nonprofit committed to expanding access to information and culture around the world. At LWB US, Kat has helped launch pop-up libraries and community centers in Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland, San Antonio, the Twin Cities, and most recently, Puerto Rico. Currently, she leads a team tasked with solving sticky problems while cultivating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across the organization. Kat is passionate about curating, creating and amplifying cultural resources that uplift the voices of communities whose stories and traditions have been omitted, annulled, or deliberately erased from dominant narratives. She aims to equip communities with the tools needed to become self-reliant and promote equity, creativity, and economic empowerment. Prior to LWB US, Kat worked at Humanity in Action, the White House Domestic Policy Council, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the National Head Start Association, where she focused on education, health, human rights, and immigration policy. Kat is a proud Cal alum and recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which funded her graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. She also holds an LL.M. from the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, where she studied as a George Mitchell Scholar. Kat was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles.

Katherine White

Director of Engineering

Kanopi Studios

As Director of Engineering, Katherine’s job is to keep Kanopi excelling in all things technical. She is a Solutions Architect with a track record spanning over 15 years of client-facing technology leadership, strategy, and development team management. As an experienced cross-functional team leader and full-stack web developer, she has provided solutions-focused technology project leadership for clients ranging from small businesses and high-growth startups to global business and consumer divisions of Fortune 500 enterprises. Katherine’s technical expertise is focused on open source content management in both WordPress and Drupal, and she is a passionate advocate for universal accessibility, rewarding user experiences, and future-proof development methodologies.

Kathryn C. Taylor

President

I am a mental health advocate and art business professional. In March 2017, I founded 501(c)(3) organization The Scooty Fund with the mission to "promote, support, and advance culture surrounding mental health and wellness in ways that enhance the lives and well-being of young people." I have presided over the organization since its launch. I also work as a luxury hospitality Art Advisor with the firm Kevin Barry Art Advisory.

Katie Appold

Executive Director

Nonprofit Hub (Do More Good)

Katie’s professional experience includes over fifteen years of marketing and leadership in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She has earned a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Grand Valley State University and later completed a Master’s of Public Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Leadership. Under Katie’s leadership, nonprofit organizations have developed new programs related to free healthcare, affordable and accessible housing and literacy programs for K-12 students. In her first Executive Director role, Katie increased the annual revenue of the organization she led by 300% and received the top grant prize in the nation for affordable housing through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis. As a volunteer, Katie co-chaired the fundraising cabinet for Imagination Station 2.0, an accessible play-space in Grand Haven, MI. The campaign exceeded goal by 30% and recruited over 1,000 volunteers for a “community build” of the play-space which took place over one week in 2018.

Katie was recognized in 2008 as one of the Top Women in Marketing by MiBiz, has been nominated for the Lakeshore Athena award twice, and recognized as one of the Top 20 under 40 for the Tri-Cities in 2015.

Katie serves on the board of Gracious Grounds and the Tri-Cities Family YMCA. She is an active member of the Grand Rapids Young Nonprofit Professionals, the Christian Leadership Alliance, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Katie Gibson

VP, Strategy and Partnerships

CIO Strategy Council

Kayleigh Torres Collins

Director of Coaching & Co-Owner

OpenTent LLC

Kayleigh is a champion of personal, professional, and communal growth. As a self-taught nonprofit Salesforce engineer turned engineer coach, she is committed to helping individuals express their true voices, develop transformative skills, and build data-driven teams. Kayleigh is a proud member of her powerlifting community, graduate of Brown University, and Prep for Prep Leadership Academy alumnus. She loves living in upstate NY with her husband, cat (Demetri), and dogs (Meatball and Jade).

Keidra Chaney

Digital Engagement and Accessibility Manager

National Network of Abortion Funds

Keidra Chaney is Digital Engagement and Accessibility Manager at National Network of Abortion Funds and a freelance writer. As a communications professional, writer, and educator, she endeavors to create equitable, just, and safe online environments for marginalized people. She is the founding publisher of pop culture website The Learned Fangirl and founder of the TLF Emergency Fund for freelance writers.

Keidra holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She started her publishing career as an editor for award-winning movement publication Clamor Magazine. More recently, she worked with the Citizen Engagement Lab’s Cultural Pulse Project, connecting non-profits and organizers with online communities to organize for social change through pop culture storytelling. She is a 2020 Disability Lead Fellow and a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC), and served on the 2021 Borealis Philanthropy Disability Inclusion Fund Grantmaking Committee. Her writing has been featured in The Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Reader, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Uncanny Magazine, Prism, and other publications.

Keighty Ward

Community Literacy Program Director

Literacy Works

Keighty began their work as an educational ASL interpreter and quickly became interested in the teaching they were interpreting. They taught English as a Second Language for three years, while pursuing their M.A in Applied Linguistics. Their thesis focused on d/Deaf adult English learners, which led them to become interested in adult education specifically. They have presented at several conferences about adult education, reflective practice, and collaboration. Through their work they hope to help make education accessible and equal for all who seek it. In their spare time, Keighty loves to grow vegetables, practice art making, or watch their cats run around in the yard.

Keighty Ward

Community Literacy Program Director

Literacy Works

Kelenda Allen-James

Director of Information Technology

Commpoint Queens

I am a technology leader experienced in bringing affordable technology to mission-driven organizations. I believe in the growth mindset. I believe all people are able to learn technologies that can improve their life and community. As a technology leader, I find it rewarding to work with mission-driven organizations because it allows me design and bring their technology strategic plans to execution.

As a speaker, I speak on Professional Development, Women in Technology, POC in Technology, and the importance of pursuing STEM careers for young people.

https://linktr.ee/KelendaTheTech

Kelley Hecht Stewart

Executive Vice President, Client Solutions

Pursuant

A leader in nonprofit fundraising, Kelley is committed to helping solve for the real-world challenges of today’s increasingly competitive environment. With more than a decade of strategic planning, marketing and fundraising experience, Kelley’s emphasis is in healthcare, multi-affiliate health and human services organizations. Her strength is in coming alongside nonprofit organizations regardless of their size or tenure, and helping them achieve their vision and goals through strong leadership and a balanced revenue portfolio.

On behalf of Pursuant, Kelley currently collaborates with partners including Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, JDRF, Children's Health (Dallas), Houston SPCA and Cleveland Clinic. Prior to joining Pursuant, Kelley led a $60M digital program for the American Cancer Society (ACS) and helped the Avon Foundation for Women conceive and implement a strategy that activated philanthropic leaders in 50 countries in celebration of 50 years of impact in their global crusade to fight breast cancer. Kelley graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is based in Pursuant’s NY office.

Kelly England

CEO/Founder

Multiply Strategies

Kelly England has served the nonprofit industry for nearly 25 years. Her consulting practice, Multiply Strategies, helps nonprofits scale by focusing on fundraising optimization and change management. Kelly has developed an extensive body of work to draw upon in serving her clients as well as a wide network of client and agency partnerships. Through her leadership roles across multiple organizations, Kelly has had the privilege to work with more than 60 national nonprofits and 15 agencies throughout her career. It is these relationships that Kelly values the most. As a consultant, Kelly brings a unique combination of diplomacy, project management expertise, and analytics/fundraising acumen that allows her to help organizations manage change effectively, break down silos, and drive rapid growth.

Kelly Velasquez-Hague

Vice President, Content Marketing & Brand Engagement

OneCause

Kelly Velasquez-Hague brings over 20 years of fundraising, nonprofit management, and sales/marketing experience to her role as the VP of Content Marketing for OneCause.

Kelly manages all of the company’s content strategy, thought leadership, and nonprofit resources. She is passionate about empowering great missions and loves that her current role allows her to continue to help nonprofits reach new donors raise more funds for their cause

Ken Montenegro

Technology Director

Center for Constitutional Rights

Ken Montenegro is the Technology Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. As the technology director, Ken is responsible for ensuring technology is used to advance the programmatic objectives of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Prior to coming to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Ken was the technology director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and of the Radical Connections Network. Ken is a graduate of the Peoples College of Law and former Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild. He is a long-time activist with grassroots communities and movements, in particular around immigration and policing. Though born, raised, and rooted in Los Angeles, Ken is now located in New York. He is part of the Guatemalan & Ecuadorian diasporas. Ken has appeared in Wired, on Democracy Now!, presented at the Internet Freedom Festival, taught at Peoples College of Law, and is published in McSweeney’s: The End of Trust.

Kevin Kennedy

Director of Career Programming

Idealist.org (Action Without Borders)

At Idealist I oversee the teams producing content and programming that help connect job seekers with hiring organizations across the sector.

Kim Richardson

Director, Client Strategy

Pursuant

I am a passionate fundraising professional who combines my nonprofit and corporate marketing experiences to bring ideas, strategies, and solutions that help nonprofit organizations fund incredible work that impacts the world.

Kristina Mack

Senior Marketing Manager

Dataprise

Kyla Winchester

Manager, Partnerships

Candela Strategies

I work with clients to streamline their work and boost fundraising. I'm passionate about making the ask, inspiring supporters and stewarding donors.

LaCheka Phillips

Director of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for TechSoup

TechSoup

Laura Cole

VP of Account Services

Sanky Communications, Inc.

I am a non-profit consultant specializing in online marketing and communication, fundraising, search engine marketing, and database management.

Laura Patch

Digital Product Manager

Sierra Club

Laura is a digital product manager at the Sierra Club, where she helps implement tools to improve the grassroots organization’s ability to provide resources for activists. At the Sierra Club, she works with digital content producers, developers, and organizers to improve the accessibility of those resources so everyone can participate in the movement.With a Master’s in Communication, Culture, and Technology and a Bachelor’s in Political Science, Laura has been working in the political power of digital space and on the importance of diverse voices in that arena for most of her career. She previously worked at AnitaB.org (formerly Anita Borg Institute), which hosts the Grace Hopper Celebration, and the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. She consults for ChIPs Network, Leadhership1, and SocioFabrica. Laura is a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies, a certificate available from the International Association of Accessible Professionals.

Laura Ross-Perry

Program Development Manager

TechSoup

I'm a Global Program Manager with TechSoup, focused on supporting civil society organizations globally and ensuring everyone has equitable access to resources to help further their necessary community work. Equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging are at the heart of how I approach my work and why I do what I do.

Lauren Kelly

Director of Membership and Community

International Society for Technology in Education

Laurie Channer

African Wildlife Foundation

Senior Manager of Membership at AWF, worked in Direct Mail/Marketing industry for 15 years.

Leah Bernthal

Head of Partnerships

Leah Bernthal is an organizational strategist and social entrepreneur whose mission is to create the next generation of bold businesses and philanthropists driven by action, community, and transparency. Leah is an advisor to Instil, a new mobile ready CRM platform reimagining the relationship between nonprofits and their technology. Leah is also the founder of Every Purpose, an impact strategy firm that collaborates with conscious individuals, businesses and Boards to build purpose-driven strategy, thoughtful engagement, and sustainable action. Prior to Every Purpose, Leah worked with the Annenberg Foundation to launch AnnenbergTech and PledgeLA. Leah began her nonprofit career in 2001 when she co-founded CoachArt, a nonprofit organization that supports families impacted by childhood chronic illness.

Leah Davenport

Senior Marketing Manager

Pursuant

Leah Price

Communications Director

Library Foundation of Los Angeles

As Communications Director of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Leah Price has a strong love of books and community. Formerly a music publicist, Leah got her start working in the operations and human resource departments of a few entertainment companies which led to new career aspirations. After going back to school to focus on public relations and communications, she reinvented her career in the press department of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl and then went on to be the Director of Publicity for the jazz labels of Concord Music group. Always able to reimagine herself, she is now with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, a non-profit that serves as the fundraising arm of the Los Angeles Public Library. Here Leah leads the communications team from digital marketing to corporate communications. Leah has a B.A. in English from Kalamazoo College and a Masters of Communications Management from the University of Southern California. Community is a very important aspect of Leah's life and she likes to give back through volunteer opportunities.

Leah Soule

Development Manager

Our Justice

Leigh Jajuga

Director of Web and Digital Strategy

Leigh Jajuga is Grand Rapids Community College’s Director of Web Content & Digital Strategy. She leads a team dedicated to empowering user experience through intuitive design and content strategy. Jajuga has been a professional content strategist for 10+ years, and has devoted the past five years to accessibility and user experience in higher education. She is passionate about using the web to achieve institutional goals, and creating communications strategies that ensure everyone is part of the process. Crispin Bailey is Kalamuna’s Director of Design & UX, and is a seasoned digital strategy expert and accessibility advocate. He actively coordinates design and technical efforts throughout discovery and in key times during implementation to ensure an air-tight website production, building the bridge between research, design, and development. Crispin has been designing websites for nearly 25 years, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and camps where he talks about user experience, accessibility, and other topics related to web design.

Lexi Milani

Proposal Manager

Fionta

Lidia Varesco Varesco Racoma

Brand Strategist & Marketing Designer

Lidia Varesco Design

Lidia Varesco Racoma of Lidia Varesco Design in Chicago empowers organizations and entrepreneurs to make a change through strategic branding and marketing design. With over two decades of experience, Lidia is known not only for her ability to express a client’s mission but also for her friendly, approachable working style. She is a blogger and speaker and leads branding and creative marketing workshops for nonprofits and small businesses all over the world.

Lidia is active in the creative and nonprofit communities, currently serving on the board of directors for the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits (ACN) as Liaison to the Marketing & Communications Committee, as well as on committees for Association Forum and the Chicago chapter of American Marketing Association (AMA). Lidia Varesco Design celebrated 20 years in business in November 2020.

Lily Berman

Senior Account Manager

Kalamuna

Lily spent five years working in campaign offices and leading nonprofits before transitioning into digital agencies over five years ago. Her passion for translating tech into English and building authentic connection through storytelling keeps Kalamuna's clients empowered and its work impactful. She cares deeply about her clients’ success and has worked with a wide range of organizations across the private sector, education and nonprofits.

Lily Berman

Senior Account Manager

Kalamuna

linsey park

senior digital ads specialist

Lisa Alvarenga

Project Coordinator

Libraries Without Borders

lisa potter

head of marketing

Liz Murphy

EVP, Client Relationships, Allegiance Group

Allegiance Group

Liz Murphy is EVP at the Allegiance Group (formerly Beaconfire RED). Allegiance Group has a long history of success partnering with leading nonprofits to increase revenue, engage more
supporters and grow brand reach. We create integrated digital and direct mail campaigns, build award-winning websites and mobile apps, and provide custom fundraising software and loyalty programs.

Lori Freeman

VP, Nonprofit Industry Solutions and Strategy

Salesforce.org

Lori Freeman is the VP, Nonprofit and NGO Solutions and Strategy at Salesforce.org where she leads a team of industry leaders working to deliver global solutions for organizations of all shapes and sizes. She has worked and volunteered in the nonprofit industry for more than 25 years. Lori’s passion is helping nonprofits leverage technology to deliver more impact and to connect the helpers.

Lucia Martinez

Digital Strategist

Free Press

Luke Dringoli

Senior Marketing Technology Director

Media Cause

Luke works with nonprofits and governmental organizations to use technology — the right mix of platforms, integrations, and tracking solutions — to achieve more impact. There are few things he enjoys more than helping his clients realize that technology can give them time back in their day instead of taking it away.

Ma'ayan Alexander

Ma'ayan Alexander is a digital products and services manager and a consultant for strategy and development of digitally based programs and initiatives.
For over a decade, Ma'ayan works in and with the Israeli nonprofit, academic and business sectors as a digital services manager, speaker and consultant. Ma'ayan holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.A. in Public Policy. She takes part in several groups and movements, among them: she codes, WikiMedia Israel, and Hasadna - the Israeli public knowledge workshop.

Marc Almanzor

Senior Manager, Gift Processing - Fundraising Operations

Doctors Without Borders USA

Nonprofit fundraising professional by day, Twitch streamer by night.

I lead MSF's Gift Processing unit in overseeing the flow of data from the organization's multiple fundraising channels into our CRM.

Got a problem? My team tackles it together and the best idea wins.

I believe that engaging the video game community, especially on livestream platforms is the future of P2P fundraising.

Marc Almanzor

Senior Manager, Gift Processing - Fundraising Operations

Doctors Without Borders USA

Maria-Alicia Serrano

Senior Director of Research, Analytics and Insights

YMCA of the USA

Marina Martinez-Bateman

CEO

New Coyote Consulting

Marina is a serial entrepreneur and a grassroots communicator with more than 20 years’ experience motivating people to take action on behalf of political, cultural, and commercial interests. They take their commitment to the people they communicate with very seriously. Marina's ongoing equity and workers’ rights practice has made them a popular speaker, trainer, and peer mentor in the industry.

They have successfully created, consulted on, planned, and launched multiple monprofit programs, and business projects that make money without sacrificing principals or values. My success in business is directly tied to my lived experience and those of my ancestors, who live on through me.

I come from a family of atheist communist activists on the one side, and marine corps veterans on the other. Along the way, we experienced and passed down generational trauma, abuse, mental illness, and addiction. My identity as a queer, non-binary, disabled Latine (Latinx, Latin@, Latina/o) person informs my sense of place in this world. My family history and personal experiences of racism, sexism, oppression, transphobia, and ablism in and out of the workplace fuel my need for justice. The work of anti-racism, decolonization, and recovery from the trauma of capitalism is a life-long journey and it’s been my daily practice to do my part in this generational work for more than 21 years.

I deeply believe and operate from the belief that until and unless we pay people a living wage, bringing marginalized people in line not only with earning, but with wealth generation available to historically privileged populations, we have no hope of a sustainable movement.

Liberation and prosperity go hand in hand. Wealth generation for communities of color and communities kept in poverty by white supremacy, especially Black and Indigenous communities will change the world. I invest in pay equity and resource development for BIPOC and trans people first and foremost.

You can learn more about me on my personal website www.marinaforhire.com, my twitter @marinaforhire, or on Linkedin where I post videos every week on Monday and Thursday setting out my intentions for the week and then updating everyone on how I did on those intentions.

Marina Martinez-Bateman

CEO

New Coyote Consulting

Mark Leta

Director of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance

Allegiance Group

Mark is the Director of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance – leading efforts to define specifications and test Allegiance Group’s work. For over 20 years, Mark has worked in functional, technical and UX capacities on projects, helping to turn business ideas into full-fledged internet applications and Web sites for major nonprofit organizations.

Marsha Sussman

Fundraising Operations

Martin Cacace

Bound State Software

Mary Carroll-Mason

Content Strategist

U.Group

As a Content Strategist, Mary Carroll-Mason supports U.Group through her expertise in communications and UX to create meaningful, user-centric digital content. By using a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches, she leverages data to create and optimize content that is findable and useful for readers.

At U.Group, she currently advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on SEO strategy and reporting, as well as works on digital transformation projects with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Prior to joining U.Group, Mary worked for one of the nation’s largest home services franchisors, where she managed content marketing and digital strategy for a national plumbing brand. She also worked in higher education for several years, overseeing digital strategy for multiple departments at the University of Maryland.

Mary’s experience includes website content management, content marketing, SEO analysis, and social media content development.

Mary holds a BA in History from UMBC and is pursuing an MS in Interaction Design and Information Architecture at the University of Baltimore.

Matt Cherry

Ability Central

Matthew L Sucre

TechCentral Assistant Manager

Cleveland Public Library

Matthew Sucre is an Assistant Manager in the TechCentral Department at the Cleveland Public Library and an instructor at the Ohio Options Program for Cuyahoga Community College. He is a graduate of Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio with a bachelor of science in Business Administration, and the University of Phoenix with a master of adult education in Adult Education and Training. Throughout his career at CPL he has worked in the TechCentral Department interacting with patrons and teaching computer classes. Recently, he launched "CodeCentral," a beginner's class in Python and HTML. He is passionate about looking deeper into his learners' struggle with the digital divide in order to help them overcome those challenges and build bridges to digital inclusion.

Max Lichtenstein

Blue State

Maïca Pichler

Director, Digital Strategy & Operations

Maïca has spent her career amplifying the impact of mission-driven organizations through data-centric digital strategies and accelerating growth within organizations. Her experience spans brand marketing, marketing automation, email strategy, digital advertising, and strategic operations management. Maïca has supported an industry leader in online B2C sales, an innovator in energy-savings solutions, and dozens of history-making political campaigns. As Director of Digital Strategy & Operations at THD, Maïca now has the privilege of focusing on her true passion: Building innovative and sustainable digital strategies to empower leading non-profits in making incredible real-world impacts.

Medha Nanal

Founder, CEO & Principal

Top Cloud Consulting

I am a data and systems advisor/consultant. My expertise is in developing transformative technology solutions for non profit organizations, and advising nonprofits on how to use their technology and systems for an improved impact on their operations. Some areas I work in are Cloud Systems, CRM/database systems, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, and process modeling and automation. My work has helped organizations achieve a greater success, productivity and efficiency in their day-to-day operations by improved understanding of their constituents and streamlined operations.
I have been a passionate non profit volunteer, serving on nonprofit boards and other volunteer roles such as fundraising, campaign management and volunteer management.
www.topcloudconsult.comEmail:medha@topcloudconsult.comPhone: 650-600-9374

Megan Buchheit

Digital Account Manager

Lautman, Maska, Neill & Co.

she/her/hers

Megan Buchheit

Digital Account Manager

Lautman, Maska, Neill & Co.

she/her/hers

Megan McDonell

Senior Copywriter

Sanky Communications, Inc.

I’ve been working in the nonprofit sector for about 8 years. I’m currently a Senior Copywriter at Sanky, Inc., where I develop digital and direct mail creative for clients ranging from animal shelters to research institutes. I live in San Diego with my partner and two small children. I attended NTC in Washington, DC (in person, back in the day when we did things in person!) and had a great time. This is my first time hosting a session.

Meico Marquette Whitlock

Speaker and Trainer on Mindfulness + Technology

Meico Marquette Whitlock is a digital wellness and leadership coach who liberates changemakers from work-life imbalance and technology overload through speaking, training, and coaching. Meico is the founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, author of the Intention Planner, and a certified mindfulness facilitator. He has worked with organizations such as Cigna, Greenpeace, and the World Wildlife Fund. He has been a featured speaker on ABC News, Fox 5, Radio One, and on the main stage at events such as the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Learn about Meico’s work at mindfultechie.com or connect with him on LinkedIn or Instagram.

Meico Marquette Whitlock

Speaker and Trainer on Mindfulness + Technology

Melanie Sampson

Clear Language Lab Program Director

Literacy Works

I'm passionate about lots of things including but not limited to:
- access to information
- clear, effective, human-centered communication
- systems change
- centering the needs of community members in all aspects of mission-driven work

Feel free to connect!

Melanie Schaffel

Parkinson's Foundation

I'm the Digital Engagement Manager at the Parkinson's Foundation. On our digital team, I focus on our social media, emails and the website.

I have been with the Foundation since moving back to Miami from San Francisco in 2018.

Melanie Starkey

Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing

Urban Land Institute

Melissa Chenok

Melissa Chenok works at the intersection of Product Management, Design, Engineering, Marketing and Business Development to create and grow products. They have experience building & scaling teams and overseeing product, design, and engineering team members success in high-growth start-up environments. Melissa is currently a Product leader at Lattice.

In their free time, Melissa enjoys fostering kittens & dogs through the humane rescue alliance, taking photos, playing instruments, and mentoring others.

Melissa Hines

Art Director

I am a designer with ten years of combined experience in the nonprofit and media sectors. My passions include inclusive storytelling, design for social change, and cross-functional systems-building.

I'm the Art Director at M+R and an Adjunct Professor at Simmons University and Lesley University College of Art & Design. Previously, I have had the opportunity to work with organizations such as AIDS Action Committee, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the Boston Foundation, Fenway Health, Her Campus Media, and Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island to create visuals and campaigns that inspire community engagement.

Mia Mack

Senior Account Manager

Mia Mack, Senior Account Manager at Chapman Cubine Allen + Hussey, has always had a desire to help others. With nearly 10 years in direct response fundraising, this desire to help others has translated to the successful management and growth of the fundraising programs of nonprofit organizations changing the world each day. She is honored and humbled each day to work with organizations advocating for civil rights, working to ensure all animals are protected and safe, and much more.

Beyond her dedication as an account manager, Mia works to help develop the next generation of fundraisers – implementing trainings, resources, and working to create a workplace where employees can thrive.

Hailing originally from Washington, D.C., Mia holds a M.A. in Communication and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Johns Hopkins University. Mia received her B.A. in Advertising from Temple University.

Michael J. Joseph Oghia

Director of External Relations

Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

Michael J. Oghia is a Belgrade-based consultant, editor, researcher, speaker, and ICT sustainability advocate working within the digital policy & infrastructure, Internet governance, and media development ecosystems. He is a third-culture kid (TCK) and a connector at heart with more than a decade of professional experience in conflict resolution, journalism & media, policy, and development across five countries: The United States, Lebanon, India, Turkey, and Serbia. Michael also loathes referring to himself in third person.

Michael Sparacino

Deputy Director, Digital Marketing

Mixte Communications

Michi Trota

Editor/Writer

Prism

Writer and editor Michi Trota is a five-time Hugo Award winner, British Fantasy Award winner, Ignyte Award finalist, and the first Filipina to win a Hugo Award. Michi is the Features Editor of the BIPOC-led news site Prism. She is also a former Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)--the first person of color to serve in that role--and co-editor of the WisCon Chronicles Vol. 12 with Isabel Schechter (Aqueduct Press). Michi was the exhibit text writer for Worlds Beyond Here: Expanding the Universe of APA Science Fiction at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA, and her writing has appeared in publications like Chicago Magazine, The Learned Fangirl, and Invisible: An Anthology of Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F. She’s been featured in publications like the 2016 Chicago Reader People Issue, Chicago Tribune and The Guardian, and has spoken at the Adler Planetarium, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Museum of Science and Industry, and on multiple NPR affiliate stations. Michi has practiced fire performance and flow arts for over a decade, served as a core organizer and foundation board member of the Chicago Full Moon Jam, and is currently a firespinner with the Raks Geek/Raks Inferno Fire+Bellydance troupe. She is a past president and past board member of the Chicago Nerd Social Club Board of Organizers, the first Managing Editor/Nonfiction Editor of the multiple Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award finalist Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014-2019), and lives with her spouse and their two cats in Chicago.

Mike Crump

Sr. Digital Advertising Manager

Chapman Cubine and Hussey

Minal Bopaiah

Founder & Principal

Brevity & Wit LLC

Minal Bopaiah is an author, speaker, and strategic consultant with more than 20 years of professional experience. Her areas of expertise include human-centered design, behavior change science, and the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as they relate to media, marketing and communications, and organization design.

As the Founder and Principal Consultant of Brevity & Wit, Minal is passionate about designing for equity. Her work includes an organization-wide assessment and strategic plan for Evans Consulting, a human-centered management consulting firm, and working with NPR’s news managers to design a system for diversifying news sources. She also designed and facilitated the DEI Executive Forum, a 6-month cohort learning experience for general managers in public media that would help them develop inclusive leadership skills and a strategic DEI plan for their stations. As a marketing strategist, Minal used her sophisticated understanding of unconscious bias to achieve a 1450% increase in website traffic and 50% increase in event revenues for Cook Ross, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, while ensuring the organization did not engage in stereotyping, tokenism, or unethical patterns online.

Minal’s previous work experience includes being an educational content specialist for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street and its international co-productions, and a press intern for Doctors Without Borders. She also served as the International and Features Editor of Boston Metro and has worked in communications and marketing for a number of nonprofits.

Minal is a sought-after speaker, and her virtual keynote for Greater Public’s Summer Series in 2020 was attended by more than 1300 professionals in public media. Her thought leadership has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and TheHill.com, and she has been a guest on several podcasts and radio shows. Her book Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives was released in 2021 and is available wherever book are sold. She is also collaborating with Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole to publish a non-fiction book on leadership and social justice.

Minal has a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College, a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Fordham University, and was formally trained in organizational development and change leadership at Georgetown University. She is a Visiting Professional at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, an Advisory Board member for Dent Education, a nonprofit teaching entrepreneurship, design thinking and making to Baltimore high school students, and an Advisory Board member for Bring Change to Mind, the nonprofit started by the actress Glenn Close and her sister Jessie Close to end mental health stigma.

She lives with her family in Silver Spring, MD.

Mira Weinstein

Founder and Organizer-in-Chief

Organizing to Win

Mira has a thirty-year history leading political and organizing campaigns. Her first campaign was in 1988, when she might have been the only person in America who thought Michael Dukakis could win. (Spoiler alert: he couldn't.) Since then, she’s directed successful organizing and mobilization campaigns with feminist activists, union members, teachers and gun violence prevention activists. She’s also directed regional field operations for two statewide ballot measures and many candidate campaigns. As the founder and organizer-in-chief of Organizing to Win, she provides training and campaign strategy for social justice organizations and campaigns. Mira conceives of projects through the lenses of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, recognizing the wide variety of experiences that organizers and activists bring to the work. Her guiding principle is that we learn oppression and must actively work to unlearn and dismantle it.

Mitch Stein

Founder / CEO

Pond

I'm the Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Impact Officer of Pond - a reimagined marketplace for nonprofit tech where the right tools find you - and pay for your time. Our goal is to put the best tools in reach for any organization by lowering the biggest barriers to maximizing technology - limited time, money, expertise & trust.

I'm a fanatic about impact with a strong belief in the scalability of social entrepreneurship. I spent 7 years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, but over a year developing Pond has taught me that the business world has way more to learn from nonprofits than the other way around.I'm a Board Member for the LGBT Center of NY and leading fundraiser for Cycle for the Cause, The Northeast AIDS Ride.

Mitchell Cohen

Content Strategy Manager

New York City Campaign Finance Board

Mitchell Cohen (he/him) is a writer and communications specialist. He is currently the Content Strategy Manager at the NYC Campaign Finance Board, where he focuses on educating New Yorkers about how to cast their ballots and why their votes matter. He previously worked with Books for Kids, a non-profit that provides books to pre-school age children in under-resourced communities. Before coming to New York, Mitchell served as Associate Director in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence, where he helped President Obama respond to thousands of letters from citizens across the country.

Mizuki Arai

Marketing Operations Specialist

As Marketing Operations Specialist at Idealist.org, my focus is on supporting, reporting on, and optimizing our various teams' marketing programs across our channels, especially through email. I manage our email program from welcome journeys to monthly newsletters., to product updates. When I don't have my head buried in Pardot, you can find me planning DIY home renovations and scoping out for the best tacos in NYC.

Molly Brush

Senior Content Specialist

Molly Cleveland

Content Specialist

Marketing Content at Social Solutions

Molly Cleveland

Content Specialist

Marketing Content at Social Solutions

Molly Kelly

President, Digital Solutions

Zuri Group

Molly believes in the power of technology for change. For over twenty-five years, Molly has been helping nonprofit organizations develop digital solutions to communicate their mission, reach monetary goals, and create real world impact.

Her consulting and guidance have played a part in the transformation and growth of technology use in the nonprofit community. Throughout this transformation, she has partnered with a diverse array of organizations.

Starting her career as a database manager and programmer, Molly understands what it takes to develop software from the ground up, and has expertise in database management, conversion and integration. Her years of experience and practical business knowledge in the nonprofit sector empower our client to exceed their digital goals.

Morra Aarons-Mele

EVP Geben Communication/host, Anxious Achiever

I am an entrepreneur and communications executive who founded the award winning strategic communications agency Women Online and The Mission List, an influencer database. I am EVP of Social Impact at Geben Communication. Geben acquired Women Online and The Mission List in 2021. I'm also an author, podcast host, and public speaker. I'm an expert in online marketing who has been working with women online since 1999. I help my clients create digital-first communications campaigns that inspire action and behavior change.

An extremely anxious introvert myself, I host top rated podcast The Anxious Achiever for HBR Presents from Harvard Business Review. I'm passionate about helping people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership. My first book Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home) published by Dey St/HarperCollins, is an Amazon bestseller and is available in five languages. I'm working on a book on anxiety and leadership for Harvard Business Review Press.

Mukunda Krishnaswamy

Founder and CTO

LumosLearning

I am on a mission to build applications that support learners when they need that extra help - like a caring parent or a teacher. I started Lumos Learning in 2007 as a community project in New Jersey. Today, we are a team of expert educators, passionate engineers, and caring parents that are working diligently to create learning resources and an empathetic platform that nurtures learners at all levels. Our customers include public schools, parents with kids in K12, public libraries, non-profits, enterprises, professional associations, and hospitals.

Munirih Santiago Jester

Programs Manager

Munirih joined the NDIA team in summer 2021. has extensive experience in the field of digital inclusion. For the past 6 years, she has played a leadership role in planning, implementing, expanding, and evaluating digital inclusion efforts in relation to training, devices, connectivity, as well as coalition work. Munirih has worked with local and federal government agencies, nonprofits, and housing authorities to help coordinate and expand digital inclusion awareness, program, policy, planning, and research. Munirih has served in various roles such as NTEN fellow, Federal Reserve Bank research intern, ConnectHome coordinator, housing policy and data coordinator, and coalition chair. Munirih has an educational background in public policy, nonprofit management, and urban and regional planning and was awarded the national Digital Equity Champion award in 2019.

Myles King

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Nardos Alemayehu

ParsonsTKO

Nhu Te

Content Manager

GiveSignup | RunSignup

OLIVIA STETLER

Creative Director

Olivia is a Creative Director at Threespot with a background in user experience and project management. Through diligent collaboration with client teams, digital analysts, designers, and technologists, Olivia guides projects from ambiguity to clarity, creating digital products that achieve tangible business and user goals. At Threespot, Olivia has worked with clients including the National Archives and Records Administration, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the PAN Foundation, Children’s National Health System, and UN Environment. Olivia earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Davidson College and a master’s degree in marketing and management from the University of Virginia.

Oz du Soleil

Oz du Soleil is a Microsoft Excel MVP. He's an Excel Trainer with many courses on LinkedIn. Oz is a U.S. Navy Veteran, and loves good bourbon, and spicy food. Above everything else, Oz's commitment is to clean data.

Oz is author of Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel, 2nd Ed., and you can find him on the YouTube Channel: Excel on Fire at https://www.youtube.com/c/OzduSoleilDATA

Pamela Rosales

Training and Community Engagement Manager

Pamela joined the NDIA team in January 2022. For the previous five years, she worked for nonprofits focusing on ending gender-based violence. She managed multilingual advocacy programs, 24-hour crisis hotlines, and provided community prevention trainings on domestic and sexual violence while serving the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Through trainings, she educated advocates on AAPI history and activism. In her work with KAN-WIN’s “Comfort Women” Advocacy, she led the Global Action Day march in downtown Chicago to the Consulate-General of Japan in August 2021. Pamela graduated from Northern Illinois University with a bachelor’s in political science and a minor in sociology.

Patricia Camerota

Social Media Strategist

Patty Breech

Founder and CEO

The Purpose Collective

I'm the founder and CEO of the Purpose Collective, a consulting firm that helps social good organizations elevate their cause. One of my strengths is digital marketing, from websites to social media to email marketing. I recently spent five years working for an international NGO based in Nepal, and I grew their social media following by 2600% and tripled the size of their supporter database. If there are any organizations who want help getting their story out to a wider audience, or who want to have a more engaging social media presence, I'd love to talk to them.

One of my other strengths is operational efficiency. I'm a big data geek, and I'm always crunching numbers and studying spreadsheets. I love putting systems into place and automating processes that result in better engagement with supporters, happier teams on the ground, and more effective use of staff time all around. I thrive on digging into difficult situations and getting to the root of the issue, whether that's staffing, volunteer management, board development, or whatever the current pain point is!

I'm a retired rugby player and I live in Boulder, Colorado. Excited to be attending NTC for the first time!

Paul Habig

President

Sanky Communications, Inc.

Paul Habig is President of Sanky Communications and SankyNet, a marketing company that specializes in integrated fundraising, communications, and advocacy for nonprofits. Paul has twenty-plus years of integrated fundraising, direct mail, online and social advertising, web design, and email marketing experience. He has developed award-winning strategies for more than 100 nonprofit organizations. Paul’s background in the nonprofit world also includes marketing and fundraising positions at diverse organizations such as the YMCA and others. He also ran his own Digital marketing business working with brands such as VitaminWater and SmartWater. He is an adjunct teacher at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and is a frequent speaker at DMA of Washington, NTEN, DMFA, and AFP workshops and conferences.

Peter J Gross

ADHD Coach and Nonprofit Tech Consultant

The Nonprofit Technologist

Certified life coach with a specialty in ADHD coaching. Certified in Brain-Based Coaching through the Neuroleadership Institute and ADHD through the Coach Approach organization.

Nonprofit technology consultant - 30 years of nonprofit and technology experience. Specialize in strategic technology support - tech roadmaps, vendor selections, and coaching/mentoring for nonprofit leaders in IT, operations, and fundraising.

Rachel Allison

Fresh Eyes Digital

Rachel Kribbs

Account Executive

FORM

FORM is a digital-first creative agency for arts & culture and nonprofits. We help our mission-driven clients thrive and connect with patrons through integrated web design, digital marketing, branding, and digital interactives.

Rachel Magnin

Older Adults Technology Services (OATS)

Organizer

Rachel Whaley

Data Equity Program Manager

LA Tech4Good

Rahul Shah

Regional Head - Americas

Sattva Consulting

Rahul has significant experience supporting non-profits on strategy, operations and change management. His diverse experience in the non-profit sector has evolved from his time working at the grassroots level in Ahmedabad, India, to community organizing in his hometown of Washington, DC, consulting with social organizations across domains and managing multi-year development projects. Over the past five years at Sattva, Rahul has led 40+ engagements across a variety of stakeholders including non-profits, social enterprises, foundations, impact investors, corporates and philanthropists ranging from short-term advisory to long-term implementation, impact assessment studies and more. Prior to joining Sattva, Rahul was at TechnoServe where he managed an accelerator program for women-led social enterprises and NGOs. He has an MBA and MS Finance from University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, and an Executive Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Rajneesh Aggarwal

President

Provoc

Raj Aggarwal is the founder of Provoc, a communications firm whose vision is a world transformed by equity, beauty, and love. With over twenty years of experience as a communications and technology strategist, he has led internal and external branding, marketing, and customer engagement efforts for more than 450 nonprofits and social impact firms. Raj actively helps to shift organizations into a space of compassion and equity. Raj keeps Provoc rooted in empathy-driven work by forging partnerships with values-aligned, visionary leaders committed to social, economic, and racial justice. He has led workshops and talks at dozens of national conferences and continues to play a pivotal role in leading movements, communities, and organizations to be more equitable, inclusive, and aware of personal biases and prejudices. As a lifelong Washingtonian, Raj is deeply rooted in the local community. He serves on the boards of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, NTEN, Washington DC Economic Partnership, and the Ben’s Chili Bowl Foundation. He is also the proud recipient of B Lab's inaugural Anti-Racism and JEDI Impact Award. You can learn more about Raj’s personal story on NPR, and more about his professional work at Provoc.me.

Rebecca Korduner

Associate Vice President, Operations

Parkinson & Movement Disorder Alliance

Hailing from small-town New England, Rebecca grew up appreciating the value of a tight-knit community. After graduating from Gordon College in Massachusetts, she launched her career helping a myriad of nonprofit organizations research and implement IT solutions. Never one to stagnate, Rebecca grew into numerous roles, including: Salesforce administrator, web developer, IT manager, grant writer, program facilitator, and associate director.

All this experience honed Rebecca’s ability to think at both the global and granular levels and instilled a passion for bringing the power of technology and connectivity to those isolated by health or circumstance. Her current role as Associate Vice President, Operations of PMD Alliance is the perfect blend of innovation, technology and program delivery, which allows PMD Alliance to grow our online community of individuals all over the world.

Rhett Allen

Rick Jardiolin

Director of Public Relations and Communications

Rob Wu

CEO

CauseVox

Rob Wu is the CEO of CauseVox, a crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising platform for nonprofits and social good projects. Rob has raised over $200,000 for his own social good crowdfunding projects, and his work has been recognized by the Mayor of Austin and featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, and WSJ.

Robyn H Mendez

VP of Marketing

Tiltify

Robyn Mendez (she/her) has been working in digital fundraising for almost 20 years, specializing in P2P Fundraising. She has a passion for helping charities adopt new technologies to raise funds and make this world a better place. In 2020, She joined Tiltify as the VP of Product Marketing and has previously worked at Blackbaud/Convio, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Susan G. Komen, and the National MS Society. Robyn lives in Houston, TX with her husband, Juan, two kids, Julianna and Jonathan, and noisy Frenchie, Rex.

Rubin Singh

Founder & CEO

OneTenth Consulting

Rubin is the Founder & CEO of OneTenth Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that works exclusively with nonprofits for their technology strategy and CRM implementation needs. Rubin is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the CRM space and over 15 years in the nonprofit sector. Throughout his career, Rubin has pursued his passion for social impact by empowering and enabling nonprofits through various roles in technology, strategy, and organizational management. Rubin is a fervent equity advocate and serves on various committees, both personally and professionally, to design and build inclusive and just systems. This is deeply intertwined with his belief that technology should be accessible, equitable, and serve the greater good.

Rubin Singh

Founder & CEO

OneTenth Consulting

Rumi Matsuyama

Director, Digital Accounts

EveryAction

Rumi has helped progressive nonprofit and political clients do digital advocacy and fundraising things for over two decades. She’s an avid cyclist, a mom of two actual adults, and is Mrs. Maryland Meadworks. Do NOT try to help her during Bananagrams.

Ryan Sauve

Mal Warwick Donordigital

Ryan is a passionate activist, advocate, and consultant with more than ten years of experience in digital fundraising and marketing.

Sadeeque Mohamed

Data Analyst

Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency

Sally Heaven

Co-Founder

Raise Heck

Sally cares deeply about progressive causes and gets especially energized by helping organizations doing good things for the world bring both proven and novel strategies, techniques and technologies to improve their outcomes. She’s as quick with a pun as she is with strategic insight.

Before founding Raise HECK with Charlotte Kresse, she was a senior member of the Customer Success team at Blackbaud. Sally managed a portfolio of the largest mission-driven nonprofits to help them achieve and exceed their goals. As a recognized subject matter expert, she brought both proven strategies and innovative new ideas to crucial areas of nonprofit fundraising and digital marketing – sustained giving, email deliverability, and online advocacy chief among them.

Originally from Ohio and a product of the very best of the Big Ten’s educational systems, she earned an M.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Biology from Indiana University. Sally now resides on the East Coast in Takoma Park, Maryland with her wife and three children. When not raising heck for progressive causes, you can find her cheering on her kids at their soccer matches and walking or riding her bicycle through the urban forest in Takoma Park.

Sally Shaughnessy

VP, Client Services

Sam Dorman

Co-Founder

The Build Tank

Sam Dorman and his firm The Build Tank have long been on a mission to help organizations not only address their technology pain, but to finally realize technology's potential to supercharge their work. The Build Tank's incisive and humorous thought leadership has become well known to a hearty and ever-growing band of strategic, communicative, ally-minded technology “unicorns” and forward thinking executives.

Samantha Elizabeth Lego

Marketing Director

Keela

Samantha Shain

Chief Problem Solver

William Penn Foundation

Samara Islam

Program Coordinator

NTEN

Samara believes strongly in the power of human collaboration and is an advocate for communication accessibility. She holds an MBA from Oregon State University and a BA in Organizational Communication from Washington State University. In her free time, Samara likes to play guitar and go running.

Sandra McDonald

Senior Web Application Developer & Web Production Manager

With the support of our donors, Kessler Foundation drives positive change for people with disabilities. We conduct groundbreaking rehabilitation and disability employment research and fund innovative initiatives to provide access to job opportunities. The Foundation bears the name of Henry H. Kessler, MD, PhD, who founded Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation to help people with disabilities regain function and achieve maximum independence. Today, Dr. Kessler’s vision is reflected in the institutions that bear his name.

Sarah American Raffurty

Membership Manager

Sarah Raffurty has been a proud founding staff member of the International African American Museum since 2019 as the Membership Manager. She is honored to contribute her talents and passions to such an impactful organization.

A Cottey College alumna, Sarah finished her B.A. from Purdue University in History focused on Women and Gender Studies. She received her M.A. in Museum Studies from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, she presented at the Museum Alliance of New York 2016 conference about the generational divides and how that will impact cultural giving. Her program was titled: “Here Come the Millennials: The Millennial Effect on Museums.” This year she is presenting at the American Membership Museum Conference with the program titled: “Building a Diverse Membership Program from the Ground Up” as well as two sessions at the 22NTC.

With work experience at such notable institutions across the U.S., such as the National WASP WWII Museum, Erie Canal Museum, National WWI Museum and Memorial, Bellamy Mansion Museum, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Raffurty has a strong background in the arts and cultural institutions. In addition to geographic locations, Sarah has experienced a range of roles: from exhibit designer at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine to Development Coordinator for Powell Gardens, where she was instrumental in rebranding their membership program. Sarah is honored to contribute to the field through various channels and talents.

In addition to working in museums, Sarah volunteered for them and was among the first Modernist Council members, a junior board that supports the National WWI Museum and Memorial. She is also a member of the DAR and PEO Sisterhood and a committee member to several national museum organizations and affiliates.

Sarah has been honored to work for a diverse array of institutes and hope to continue to share her expertise and passion in this continually changing field of nonprofits.

Sarah American Raffurty

Membership Manager

Sarah M Wolfe

Sales Manager

Community IT Innovators

Non-technical client wrangling and incoming sales are my main duties, facilitating the BLM Working Group is my passion project. Still plotting my career trajectory after switching fields (former educator). I try to keep an open mind and see what the world and my choices bring my way.

Sarah M Wolfe

Sales Manager

Community IT Innovators

Sarah Sarwar

Designer

Sarah Sarwar is a queer, biracial graphic designer located in Portland, OR. She has an extensive background in marketing and branding — art directing at several creative ad agencies previous to joining the Autostraddle team in 2016. During her 5 years at Autostraddle she crafted the look and feel of the site, membership program, merch, in-person events, ran the Instagram account, and led all paid-partnerships, ads and sponsored content. When she’s not spreading her sunny personality around, she’s dancing alone in her apartment, cooking elaborate and challenging meals for the first time, obsessing over miniatures and making space to discover the next thing that sparks her interest.

Sareen Handoush

Seth Giammanco

Team and Strategy Lead

Minds on Design Lab

Seth Giammanco is a Principal at Minds On Design Lab, a strategic design studio with digital expertise. We’re passionate about elevating small and mighty teams in the social sector. We connect people to your work through beautifully designed branding, web, and print. For more than 15 years, Seth has led the creation of digital solutions combining strategy, website user experience, and technical content strategy. He has successfully delivered solutions for a diverse collection of nonprofit organizations, such as The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and Tribeca Film Institute as well as large for-profit brands such as Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and New York Magazine. Seth is active on Twitter (@sethgiammanco and @mindsondesign), writes at the Mightier blog (http://mod-lab.com/blog), and speaks on digital strategy and website solutions.

Shana Sumers

Senior Manager, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Communities

Shana is a black, queer woman who is the Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Communities at HubSpot. Within her first year, she has launched HubSpot's first digital space for Black professionals and their professional development.

Shana is also the co-host for the podcast “Bad Queers” - if you felt like you came out of
the closet and got placed in a box, welcome to the Bad Queers Club.

Shana has had the opportunity to speak on multiple panels (as panelist and moderator), podcasts, private events and stages as both a speaker and keynote speaker. In her free time, you will find Shana running around a sports field, exploring new restaurants or getting tickets to the latest Beyoncé concert (Once we are able to be social again!). For now, she is catching up on her favorite shows, attending virtual concerts and lots and lots of Facetime.

Shayla Walker

Executive Director

Shayla is a Black Dominican American, surviving and thriving on Dakhóta + Anishinaabe land. She is a rare Twin Cities native who loves Minneapolis just as much as she loves St. Paul. She uses her leadership and organizing skills to advance the Our Justice mission to ensure that all people and communities have the power and resources to make sexual and reproductive health decisions with self-determination. In her free time she practices pleasure liberation through engaging in humor, joyus deep belly laughs, twerking, bougie restaurant eating, napping, dream manifestation and car karaoke.

Shayla Walker

Executive Director

Sonja Wiencke

Founder and CEO

EvalTech Consulting Ltd

Sonja Wiencke

Founder and CEO

EvalTech Consulting Ltd

Steph Austin

Senior Manager of Community Development

Steph Austin is the Senior Manager of Community Development Executive at Social Solutions. She spends her time connecting clients to each other and the greater community picture through empowering, responsive data systems. Steph believes in the power of data to bring to light insights that can help community leaders solve their most daunting challenges. She is passionate about advocating for the needs of social sector leaders and ensuring that data has its greatest impact where it is most needed – when one person is helping another.

Stephen Jones

Vice President, Cybersecurity Services

Dataprise

Stephen “Jones” Jones joined the Dataprise team in 2020. As our Vice President of Cybersecurity Services, Jones is responsible for the strategic design, development, and execution of our Managed Security Service (MSS) offerings. Jones is a veteran in the Security Operations space bringing 20 years of experience in Cyber Security and technical leadership to the team.

Jones’ career started in the federal government where he spent more than 10 years providing technical leadership to the Intelligence Community in the area of Cyber Security. After leaving the public sector, Jones transitioned into the commercial space where he joined GuidePoint Security to develop their initial MSS offering, a SOC-as-a-Service offering that was wildly popular and led to the spinoff of the business unit into what is now today known as Deepwatch.

Jones graduated from George Mason University with a B.S. in Information Technology. He is a Certified Information Security System Professional (CISSP) and Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Susan Comfort

Co-Founder, Nonprofit Wellness

Nonprofit Wellness

Hooked on social change since learning how messed up our planet is (at UNC-Chapel Hill), Susan has spent three decades in the nonprofit trenches. Trained as an organizer and educated in organizational development, she now coaches those who want to build trusting workplace cultures through wellness. Susan founded NonprofitComfort.com to focus on workplace cultures of well-being. With Ty Powell, she co-founded Nonprofit Wellness to focus on team-care at schools and nonprofits: www.NonprofitWellness.org

Taj Carson

CEO

Inciter, Inc

Dr. Taj Carson is the CEO and Founder of Inciter. Since 2003, Inciter has been making complicated and labor-intensive data challenges more manageable for nonprofits and public agencies. We do one thing. We use cutting-edge data analytics tools to map, integrate, and automate data, and create accurate, user-friendly, and useful reports. We provide our clients with the information they need to achieve their mission and make the world a better place.

Taylor Johnston

Media Cause

Taylor Johnston

Media Cause

Ted Whitehead

Lead Front-End Engineer

Threespot

Ted is the Lead Front-End Engineer at Threespot, where’s he worked on projects for The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Brookings Institution, Foundation Fighting Blindness, National Parks Conservation Association, and many others. In his 14 years of professional experience he’s gained a wealth of practical knowledge around developing performant, maintainable, and accessible websites.

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ted graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in economics and BFA in jazz studies. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing the piano, and listening to podcasts while walking the dog.

Thamarrah Jones

Marketing & Communications Strategist

Threespot

Thamarrah helps both clients and Threespot to shape and share their brand stories through content creation and marketing savvy. As Marketing & Communications Strategist, she brings over seven years of integrated marketing and communications experience to the table, working with brands driven by a mission to improve the lives of those they serve and the world in which we live. Thamarrah believes in the power of storytelling to help us understand the systems that are perpetuating inequity and our role in remaking the world as it should be. She hosts a podcast, As It Should Be, interviewing everyday changemakers using their skills to do just that.
Thamarrah holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration in marketing from Florida Atlantic University.

Tiffani Williams

Chief Business Officer

Adoptions Together

Tiffani Williams is an Executive-level Finance and Operations leader with extensive knowledge in all things business, to include accounting, finance, budgeting, compliance, risk management, payroll and benefits administration, and human resources. Tiffani is truly passionate about business operations, strategy, and best practices as they relate to organizational effectiveness, and thrives on her ability to problem-solve and improve efficiencies.

In her current role, Tiffani is responsible for ensuring best business practices for Adoptions Together by providing oversight of agency operations and managing the day-to-day operations of the Finance department. With almost 20 years of hands-on financial and operational experience, she has worked extensively in the private and nonprofit sectors and brings diverse experience and endless enthusiasm to her role as Chief Business Officer.

Tiffani received her bachelor’s from North Carolina Central University in Business Administration with dual concentrations in Finance and Marketing and her Master of Business Administration from University of Maryland Global Campus, formerly University of Maryland University College. When not working, Tiffani enjoys spending time with friends and family, reading good mysteries, cooking, baking, traveling and all things music.

Tim Robinson

Director of Business Development

Care2

As the Director of Business Development, Tim utilizes Care2’s community of progressively-minded members to assist nonprofits and socially-conscious brands with their fundraising, advocacy, and list-growth efforts. He’s worked on hundreds of campaigns and admits that he has a soft spot when it comes to animal welfare and LGBT rights. In his spare time, Tim enjoys living an active and healthy lifestyle. It’s not uncommon to spot him on the tennis court or enjoying a jog in Central Park. Tim earned a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and studied Marketing at the University of Richmond.

Tim Weeks

Senior Architect

Salesforce.org

Tim Weeks is a member of the Nonprofit Cloud Industry Solutions team at Salesforce.org. As a certified Salesforce Architect, he applies his deep nonprofit industry experience to advise on matters of application architecture, data management strategies, analytics, and more and as it relates to best practice adoption of technology in the nonprofit sector. Tim makes his home in Philadelphia where he is an active member in his local community, supporting causes of animal welfare, the arts, and workforce development.

Tom Anderson

CEO

IT4 Causes

I founded IT4Causes in late 2014 because I believe that small and midsized nonprofits deserve best-in-class information technology strategies and solutions to achieve their worthy missions more effectively, but many are simply priced out of the market. By developing and using a blended resource model that involves paid nonprofit IT consultants, skilled IT volunteers, and technology interns, we are able to offer fee-for-service IT services, where our nonprofit clients typically get 3-5 hours of service for every staff hour they buy. Using this model, we are able to deliver great solutions across a wide range of IT disciplines at blended rates that are far below even the nonprofit discount rate offered by most firms.

Prior to starting IT4Causes, I spent decades helping companies like Capital One, American Express, and Honeywell utilize technology to improve quality, reliability, and customer experience in applications as diverse as retail banking, online travel reservations, electronic design automation, industrial controls, and nuclear energy. I’ve been an individual contributor, a manager, and a director with teams of >150 resources and budgets >$15M annually. Throughout my corporate career, I always played a role in my employer’s community service programs. I’ve been a volunteer, a volunteer manager, and a board member working on a wide array of causes from poverty and homelessness to mentoring, financial education, STEM advocacy, healthcare, and many other causes. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine, studied graduate Computer Engineering at Loyola College in Baltimore, and completed a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management at Virginia Commonwealth University. I currently serve on the Board at Daily Planet Health Services, federally-qualified healthcare center (FQHC) and a national leader in integrated health care with multiple locations in Richmond, VA, and as Commodore of the Brandermill Sailing Club.

Tom Kamber

Executive Director

Tom Kamber is the founder and executive director of  Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) and Senior Planet. He is a leading expert on aging and technology and is regularly featured in national media. Under his leadership, OATS and Senior Planet have developed award-winning programs for older adults across America and are now charitable affiliates of AARP. Tom has taught courses on technology, urban studies, and philanthropy at Columbia University, is widely published in professional and academic journals, and has presented his work on five continents. He is also a co-founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance (which has won multiple Grammy awards) and serves on several nonprofit boards of directors and public commissions.

Tosha Anderson

Founder + CEO

The Charity CFO

Tosha has dedicated her entire career to serving the nonprofit community, first as an auditor and then as a CFO, board member, volunteer, and consultant.

After witnessing the struggles of small nonprofits to find affordable and reliable financial support (or even just answers to their questions!), she started The Charity CFO to help organizations like yours get the help you need to grow and execute their mission.

Tosha’s exposure to hundreds of nonprofits at all levels makes her an invaluable resource on accounting topics, but also fundraising, growth strategy, organizational management, and more.

Her outgoing personality and modern management style set her apart in the sometimes stodgy world of accounting. And that’s made her a sought-after speaker and thought-leader in the world of nonprofit accounting.

Tristan Penn

Senior Manager of Equity and Accountability

NTEN

Tristan is originally from Central Kansas and is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. Tristan went to college at KU in Lawrence, Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!). He moved to Portland in 2014 and he loves it! He has worked in nonprofit for the past 16 years with primarily Boys & Girls Clubs and Youth Development Organizations and is passionate about nonprofit community engagement, organizational best practices, youth development, as well as diversity, equity & inclusion.

Tristan began his professional DEI work with Pacific Educational Group's three-year cohort/professional development initiative "Beyond Diversity: Courageous Conversations" while working for Boys & Girls Club and Lawrence Public School in 2009. Additionally, coupled with his lived experience as a Black and Navajo Professional, Tristan has served on previous organizations' Equity Teams and has been a facilitator for DEI (rooted in Racial Equity) in the workplace and nonprofit programming.

Tristan earned a B.S. from the University of Kansas in Psychology - Child and Family Development with a Minor in Classical Greek Antiquity and is currently working towards his Masters in Organizational Leadership and Psychology from Colorado State University.

In his free time, Tristan likes to sample the beers that Portland's breweries have to offer, go to shows, lift weights, watch KU basketball, travel, socialize with friends, and spoil his niece and nephews.

Tristan Penn

Senior Manager of Equity and Accountability

NTEN

Vicky Liburd

Will Valverde

Senior Creative Director

M+R

Will Valverde, Senior Creative Director, has spent more than fifteen years helping major nonprofits develop memorable digital advocacy and fundraising campaigns, with a special focus on creative engagement. He has crafted innovative content and successful campaigns for groups including Planned Parenthood, Feeding America, and USA for UNHCR. He is the lead writer of M+R's annual Benchmarks Study, and a co-author of the M+R Guide to Effective and Ethical Direct Response Creative.

Yesenia Bazan

Client Services Data Processing Manager

San Antonio Food Bank

Yesenia is the Client Services Data Processing Manager within the Client Services Department at the San Antonio Food Bank. Yesenia acts as the Site Manager for the San Antonio Food Bank as part of the Community Partner Program with Texas Health and Human Services. In her role, she is responsible for compliance for all program and contract deliverables. She is also responsible for the tracking and reporting of all data received by the San Antonio Food Bank Client Services Department. Yesenia currently oversees our Get Connected Digital Literacy Program within the SAFB and hopes to bridge the digital divide within our 29 county service territory.

Yvette Scorse

Communications Director

National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Yvette is the communications director of National Digital Inclusion Alliance. She became passionate about digital equity during her six years as the communications director of Byte Back, where she led the Washington, DC-based organization’s branding, thought leadership, and media strategy. Previously, she worked with an LGBTQ youth capacity-building organization and taught English in Madrid for five years while doing freelance journalism. Yvette earned her bachelor’s in journalism and Spanish, summa cum laude, from the University of Arkansas. An active advocate for digital and IRL equity, Yvette also volunteers as co-chair of the Rainbow Youth Alliance advisory council in Maryland. In 2020, Yvette was named a DC RealLIST Connector by Technical.ly DC, and she was awarded a 2021 Queer Women of Washington Award by the Washington Blade and the Mayor’s Office on Woman’s Policy and Initiatives.

Zach N Hochstadt

Founding Partner

Mission Minded

Mission Minded is one of the nation's leading branding firms that work exclusively with nonprofits and foundations. Founded in 2002, the firm serves organizations across the United States and Canada, including Children’s Museum of Denver, National Federation of the Blind, and Colorado Health Foundation.

As a Founding Partner, Zach oversees operations for the company and provides executive level leadership in the areas of brand strategy, creative, and digital. Under his shared leadership with Jennie Winton, the company has grown from a small partnership to a nationally renowned team that has served over 300 nonprofits, enabling them to attract support to fulfill their mission.

Outside of work Zach loves to cook and is an enthusiastic ultimate frisbee player!

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Course: Expanding Home Connectivity in Your Community

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Course: 2021’s Emerging Tech Trends and Their Impact on Social Good

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Course: Racial Equity and Tech Planning

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2022

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Course: Data for Digital Inclusion

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2022

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Course: Data Management

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2022

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Course: Bringing accessibility to your nonprofit's technology

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2022

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Course: Evaluating Community Resources for Digital Inclusion

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Course: Learning & Development in Nonprofit Data & Tech

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Course: Digital Inclusion Project Planning

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Course: Developing robust and flexible campaign plans

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Course: Introduction to multi-system integration

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Course: Intro to Project Management

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Course: Operational strategies and tactics for effective small nonprofits

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Course: IT Planning and Assessment

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Course: IT Security Fundamentals

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Course: Develop Good Data Practice

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Course: Leading with Technology Roadmaps

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Course: Foundations of Digital Inclusion

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Course: Mindful Leadership in Trying Times

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Course: Community-centered strategic planning

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Course: Basics of Equitable Program Design

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2022

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Course: Advanced Google Analytics 4

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Course: Digital Literacy Curriculum Development & Design

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Course: Expanding Home Connectivity in Your Community

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2022

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Course: Racial Equity and Tech Planning

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2022

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Course: 2021’s Emerging Tech Trends and Their Impact on Social Good

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2022

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Course: Streamlining Operations

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2022

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Course: Digital Literacy and Accessibility

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2022

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Course: Data for Digital Inclusion

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2022

Training

Course: Culture Change and Management

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2022

Training

Course: Data Management

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2022

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Course: Bringing accessibility to your nonprofit's technology

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2022

Training

Course: Evaluating Community Resources for Digital Inclusion

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2022

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Course: Learning & Development in Nonprofit Data & Tech

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2022

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Course: Digital Inclusion Project Planning

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2022

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Course: Developing robust and flexible campaign plans

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Course: Introduction to multi-system integration

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2022

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Course: Intro to Project Management

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2022

Training

Course: Operational strategies and tactics for effective small nonprofits

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Course: IT Planning and Assessment

Course: IT Planning and Assessment

Course: IT Security Fundamentals

Course: IT Security Fundamentals

Course: Develop Good Data Practice

Course: Develop Good Data Practice

Course: Intro to Google Analytics 4

Course: Intro to Google Analytics 4

Course: Leading with Technology Roadmaps

Course: Leading with Technology Roadmaps

Course: Mindful Leadership in Trying Times

Course: Mindful Leadership in Trying Times

Course: Community-centered strategic planning

Course: Community-centered strategic planning

Course: Basics of Equitable Program Design

Course: Basics of Equitable Program Design

Course: Foundations of Digital Inclusion

Course: Foundations of Digital Inclusion

Course: Advanced Google Analytics 4

Course: Advanced Google Analytics 4

2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference

2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Presenters

(Invited) Melissa Eggleston

Founder & Designer, Birdcall UX

Birdcall UX

Adrienne Figus

Project Manager

Smith College

Adva Priso

Senior Vice President

Chapman Cubine and Hussey

Adva Priso

Senior Vice President

Chapman Cubine and Hussey

Aki Shibuya

Senior Business Analyst

Casey Family Programs

Alan Wei

CEO

Humanitru

Alan Wei

CEO

Humanitru

Alex Agard

Manager of Membership

Alex Nelson

National Digital Inclusion Project Coordinator

Kansas City Public Library

Alexandra Mannerings

Founder

Merakinos

Alexandria Warrick Adams

Executive Director

Alexis Perrotta

Associate Director, Editorial & Career Content

Idealist.org (Action Without Borders)

Aline Lin

CEO and Creative Director

Astriata

Alissa May

Director, Citizen Philanthropy

Allison Bickel

VP of GiveSignup

Allison Fine

Possibility Labs

Allison Jai O'Dell

CRM Manager

The Funders Network

Amanda Bache

IT Support & Operations Specialist

Adoptions Together

Amanda Moss

Civis Analytics

Amanda Moss

Civis Analytics

Amy Chin-Lai