19NTC Agenda

David Woody

Director, Innovative Solutions

American Heart Association

Over 25 year experience in non-profit business technology with a focus on technology strategy, data analytics and innovative solution development.

Amy Harrod

Associate Director of Digital Fundraising

Alzheimer's Association

I have been with the Alzheimer’s Association for over 4 years with the Digital Fundraising team. I previously worked for the American Cancer Society for 13 years. I love being part of a team that can make it easier for our participants and donors to support our cause.

Roz Lemieux

Sr. Director

Blackbaud, Inc.

Roz Lemieux is the Director of Blackbaud Labs. Previously, Roz was the CEO of Attentive.ly (a Blackbaud company) and founding partner at Fission Strategy, a creative agency that has helped over 200 organizations “ignite social action for good” using the latest social, web, and mobile technology. She served as Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute (NOI), a training institute for tech-enabled grassroots organizers. NOI grads have served in the White House, as New Media Directors of federal agencies, and today lead the digital teams at a number of national nonprofits. Roz gained experience in large-scale grassroots organizing as an early member of the MoveOn.org team after getting her start in online advocacy in 1999, serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation’s web team director. Roz has spoken at dozens of conferences about the power of technology and social media for empowering individuals and groups to make positive change in the world. She has won awards for her work, including a 2014 Stevie Award for Women in Business, a 2012 Campaigns & Elections Innovator award, the 2009 Women’s Information Network “Young Women of Achievement” award and recognition from Planned Parenthood for the Feminist Majority’s trailblazing online campaign in support of women and girls in Afghanistan (2003). She has served on the boards of Turing School, National Priorities Project, the Chattahoochee Hills Charter School Foundation; and was an advisor to LP2X, an Atlanta-based incubator for female-founded businesses.

Josh Hirsch

Director of Mission and Communication

Susan G. Komen Florida

Josh Hirsch is the Director of Mission and Communication for Susan G. Komen South Florida. He has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2006 with a focus on educational philanthropy for both public charter and independent private schools. He has an extensive background in social media, digital communications, and marketing along with experience in grant research and writing, individual giving, special event planning, stewardship, and cultivation of donors. He is past Communications Chair and incoming President-elect for the Association of Fundraising Professionals Palm Beach County Chapter. Josh is also a member of the AFPeeps, the social media vanguard for the AFP International Conference and other AFP initiatives. He has spoken nationally on social media and has had numerous articles published in professional journals. Josh received a Master of Science in Family, Youth and Community Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising from the University of Florida. He has a Certificate in Strategic Fundraising and Philanthropy from Bay Path University and is a Certified Social Media Strategist by the National Institute for Social Media.

Julia Campbell

Speaker, Author, Consultant

J Campbell Social Marketing

Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations. A mom of 2 and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, she is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits, a call-to-action for nonprofits to use stories to accomplish their missions.

Based in Boston, Julia is a global authority on digital storytelling, with happy clients spanning the globe from Moscow to San Francisco. She has provided workshops and training to Meals on Wheels America, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Facebook. Julia is a frequent contributor to Nonprofit Tech for Good, Social Media Today, Maximize Social Business, Elevation Web, Network for Good, Wild Apricot, and others.

Her passion is to get nonprofits of all sizes to stop spinning their wheels on social media and to start getting real results using digital tools. You can check out her thoughts and ideas on all things nonprofit digital storytelling and social media at www.jcsocialmarketing.com/blog.

Caitlin Rulien

Communications Manager

League of Women Voters of the United States

Caitlin Rulien is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of the United States. Passionate about voting rights and the possibilities of a democracy without barriers to the ballot, Caitlin works with the national communications team to help support and advocate for the organization’s mission work.

Caitlin holds a Bachelor of Science in public relations from the University of North Florida. Before joining the League, she worked in an array of fields, including agency, nonprofit, and media communications work. Her specialties include grassroots digital communications and social media strategizing, photojournalism, and copyediting.

Caitlin can usually be found listening to podcasts, refreshing Twitter, or playing with her dog while enjoying the DC seasons (a new experience for someone from Florida!)

JoMarie Hoholik

Director, Project Management

Beaconfire RED

JoMarie is the Director of Project Management at Beaconfire RED, where she is responsible for overseeing and improving operations within the Project Management department and supervising all PM staff. She is also a senior consultant who leads teams on technical, marketing, and redesign projects. JoMarie has been leading large-scale website redesign projects for non-profits and associations for 10 years, and has worked on projects for clients such as the Ad Council, American Sociological Association, Habitat for Humanity, League of Women Voters, the Foundation Center, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center. Prior to joining BF RED, JoMarie was a Senior Project Manager and Director of Client Services for Balance Interactive. She was also at the American Red Cross, managing disaster fundraising campaigns, and at The Nature Conservancy. JoMarie holds a B.S. in Environmental Policy from St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI.

Amy Sample Ward

CEO

NTEN

Driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change, Amy is NTEN’s CEO and former membership director. Her prior experience in direct service, policy, philanthropy, and capacity-building organizations have also fueled her aspirations to create meaningful, inclusive, and compassionate community engagement and educational opportunities for all organizations.

Amy inspires the NTEN team and partners around the world to believe in community-generated change. She believes technology can help nonprofits reach their missions more effectively, efficiently, and inclusively, and she’s interested in everything from digital equity to social innovation.

Afua Bruce

Director of Engineering

New America

Afua Bruce is the director of engineering for New America’s Public Interest Technology program. Bruce joins New America after spending several years working in the Federal government—at the White House and at the FBI. From 2015 to 2017, Bruce served as the executive director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council at the White House. In this role, she oversaw 100 different Federal inter-agency working groups, tackling challenges on environment, and sustainability, homeland and national security, science, technology, and STEM education. While at the FBI, Bruce held a variety of strategy and program management positions. She led work on data challenges, technical project management, process improvement, and strategic change for the Bureau’s engineering, lab, and financial programs. Prior to joining the Federal government, Bruce was a software engineer at IBM. Bruce holds a degree in computer engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Kayleigh Collins

Co-owner

OpenTent

Kayleigh is the co-owner of OpenTent where she leads a consulting team of community-driven problem-solvers. Kayleigh helps organizations achieve their missions faster by implementing the transformative relationship-building strategies and technological tools that are right for their staff and their vision. She brings to this work a commitment to unlocking both organizational and individual growth along the way.

Before joining OpenTent, Kayleigh led the operationalization of Knowledge Management initiatives at Echoing Green, a global organization providing seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs. She served previously as a family services caseworker in Rhode Island and an education policy advocate in Washington, DC.

Kayleigh has degrees in Community Health and Public Policy from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Sean, where they own a powerlifting gym and enjoy spending quality time with their cat, Demetri.

Rachel Clemens

CMO

Mighty Citizen

Rachel Clemens builds things.  First, she built a career as a designer – working for some of the most recognizable names in advertising, including stints in London and Australia. Then, she returned to Austin, Texas and built Creative Suitcase – her own strategic communications firm. Over the next 11 years, Creative Suitcase helped organizations like United Way, Habitat for Humanity, The University of Texas, and countless others, raise money and awareness to improve their communities. In late 2016, Creative Suitcase was acquired by Mighty Citizen. As the Chief Marketing Officer, Rachel splits her days between promoting Mighty Citizen’s digital and marketing services and working directly with nonprofit clients on their branding, marketing, and campaigns. She is also a frequent speaker at local and national conferences and events.

Brett Ashley Crawford

Executive Director/Assistant Teaching Professor

Arts Management and Technology Lab/Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford is an Associate Teaching Professor of Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.

Dr. Crawford has worked extensively as a professional arts manager, primarily in theatre, and as professor in both arts management and theatre history. The highlights of her private sector work include serving as Managing Director with Imagination Stage, an arts education and professional theatre located in Bethesda, MD, the managing director / production manager of Rep Stage and the Horowitz Center for the Arts in Columbia, MD, managing director for St. Bart’s Playhouse in New York City. She is a member of AEA in stage management and has held myriad independent management, marketing and consulting engagements in theatre, film, and arts festival work in PA, NY, GA, TN, TX, and MD.

She currently serves as the executive director for the Arts Management and Technology Laboratory, a Research Center in Heinz College. AMT Lab serves the field through active research and engagement into the technology solutions artists and institutions are utilizing in their workdays and public programs. Recent national research studies include emerging digital fundraising pathways and a recurring study of ticketing and CRM systems used in the field. AMT Lab also provides interviews of leaders in the field as well as reviews of new software, apps, or unique technology implementations.

Nili Yosha

Executive Director

Outside the Frame

Bi-lingual, bi-cultural and the daughter of independent film makers, Nili thinks the best way to change the world and have a good time is to make movies. A supplemental educator for over a dozen years, Nili brings an allergy to injustice and a tested vision for the program. Before founding Outside the Frame, Nili created and ran an innovative and visible media program at Outside In for three years, with support from the Office of Minority Health. She continued amplifying the voices of youth with a mental health awareness campaign through Clackamas County, leading an educational program at Planned Parenthood and teaching film making with POW Girls.

Stephanie Craig

Project Director

Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s Tribal Epidemiology Center

Stephanie Craig Rushing, PhD, MPH is a Project Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s Tribal Epidemiology Center, and has worked at the Board for 16 years. Dr. Rushing’s work focuses on designing technology-based interventions to improve AI/AN adolescent health, overseeing mixed methods community-based participatory research activities at the regional and national level. Recent research activities include: a national multisite RCT to adapt and evaluate It’s Your Game (an online teen pregnancy prevention curriculum for middle school students), the adaptation and evaluation of Native VOICES (an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention) for Native young adults, a dissemination and implementation study building tribal capacity to implement Native STAND (a healthy decision-making curriculum for high school students), design of an online portal for tribal health educators to access effective sexual health curricula (www.HealthyNativeYouth.org), and the delivery of a national multimedia health resource for Native teens and young adults (We R Native: www.weRnative.org) that empowers teens to get actively involved in their health and wellbeing. Stephanie completed her Masters of Public Health concentrating on International Health Development at Boston University, and her PhD in Public Administration and Policy at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, focusing on Community Health and Social Change.

Idalin Bobé

Founder

TechActivist.Org

Idalin is founder of TechActivist.Org, a grassroot organization providing free technical training and political education workshops to working-class youth, activists, and disruptors interested in using technology for social good.

Coming from a poor Afro-Latinx community in North Philadelphia, PA, Idalin witnessed firsthand how the people most impacted by social ills were and still are on the losing side of the digital, educational, and economic divide. That understanding led her to dedicate herself to work directly with organizations that are focused on social change and are part of the communities they serve. Through her tech literacy programs, Idalin provides hands-on workshops introducing communities to digital media tools, digital security, open source, web development, and emerging technology like virtual reality.

Prior to TechActivist.Org, she served as the Global Social Justice Lead and Senior IT Consultant at ThoughtWorks, where she provided tech support to social justice organizations worldwide. Idalin has impacted thousands of men, women and children globally with her work in tech literacy and empowerment. Her work includes spearheading tech initiatives within organizations like Hands Up United, India Rise, Qeyno Labs Hackathons, #YesWeCode and Black Girls CODE.

Idalin received her Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Applied Statistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a proud alumna of the Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College, where she received her Master’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on technology and human-centered design.

She is influenced by the work of the Black Panther Party, specifically the 10th Point of the party’s 10-Point Platform, “Community Control of Modern Technology” and Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. She loves R&B and Reggae, rice & beans, resides in New York City and is currently building out a movement incubator with the People’s Forum.

Amy Sample Ward

CEO

NTEN

Driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change, Amy is NTEN’s CEO and former membership director. Her prior experience in direct service, policy, philanthropy, and capacity-building organizations have also fueled her aspirations to create meaningful, inclusive, and compassionate community engagement and educational opportunities for all organizations.

Amy inspires the NTEN team and partners around the world to believe in community-generated change. She believes technology can help nonprofits reach their missions more effectively, efficiently, and inclusively, and she’s interested in everything from digital equity to social innovation.

Adam London

Founder

Project Donor Love

Adam’s passion for human-centered web design drives him to place the needs of nonprofits at the heart of his work. As a marketing technologist, Adam meshes best practices from the tech world with the fundraising goals of the nonprofit world. He believes that user-centered web design offers empathy and motivation for donors, promotes new and repeat donations, and improves daily life for nonprofit staff.

Adam has brought his expertise to national nonprofits including Guide Dogs for the Blind, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the American Red Cross. Project Donor Love will allow local, national, and even international organizations to benefit from his unique perspective.

Carrie Rice

Nonprofit Consultant

Carrie Rice Consulting

After five years as the principal of Carrie Rice Consulting, Carrie has recently decided to return to the non-profit sector as a full-time senior staff member in the San Francisco Bay Area. She hopes to bring tech-forward solutions to whatever organization she ends up joining!

To Carrie, the key to any nonprofit’s success is empathy. That may seem like a given, but empathy must extend beyond a nonprofit’s constituents to all stakeholders within an organization.

After earning a master’s degree in public policy at The George Washington University, Carrie began working with nonprofits, planting the seeds of her management philosophy. She prides herself on improving the fundraising, efficiency, and longevity of nonprofits. Simply put, she helps nonprofits foster progress and loyalty through treating staff, board members, and donors with the same empathy that they feel toward the causes they care about.

Anneliese Davis

Executive Director

Rahab's Sisters

Anneliese Davis serves as the first executive director of Rahab’s Sisters, creating community through radical hospitality with those marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence and substance abuse. The opportunity to lead an organization offering kindness, listening and nonjudgmental acceptance to those who identify as women drew her to Rahab’s, where gender justice work happens on the most grassroots level. Prior to moving to Portland in 2013, Anneliese served as Chief Development Officer for the Houston Area Women’s Center and has held leadership roles in Planned Parenthood, Moms Demand Action and EMILY’s List. She has a B.A. from Rice University and an M.P.A. from American University.

Jason Shim

Director, Digital Strategy

Pathways to Education Canada

How can we harness technology to make a difference in the world? That’s the question I love to answer for organizations.

With over 10 years of experience spanning the nonprofit and academic sectors both as an employee and a consultant, I have consistently helped organizations stay ahead of the technology curve. In 2013, I led Pathways to Education to become the first Canadian charity to issue tax receipts for Bitcoin donations. To date we have raised $8000 in this innovative way, however what is more exciting is that we have opened access and awareness to a brand new tech-savvy audience.

I have taught Digital Marketing at George Brown College. I find it rewarding and inspiring to help students understand the power and potential of digital media and gain the confidence they need to succeed. When I have the opportunity I love to speak and write about digital marketing strategy, digital fundraising, online youth engagement, website analytics, and of course digital currency.

I’ve been honoured to be recognized by some wonderful organizations, including the 2014 NTEN Award for contributions to the nonprofit technology community. Most recently, I was awarded Young Alumnus of the Year by the Wilfrid Laurier University Alumni Association, which recognizes the outstanding achievements by a young alumnus.

Some other projects I’ve been involved with include The Fastest Donation Form in the World Project, where I initiated and led the development of a proof of concept to explore the question, “What would the fastest donation form in the world look like?”. The answer? 2 clicks and 15 seconds. And Roo.io, a mobile-optimized system that provides a streamlined and cost-effective way to record telephone interviews for content producers and journalists.

Meico Whitlock

Speaker and Trainer

Mindful Techie

Meico Marquette Whitlock is a speaker and trainer on mindfulness, technology, and productivity and the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, an organization that helps purpose-driven high achievers and organizations have an impact without burning out and being distracted by technology. Meico’s work has been featured on ABC News, Fox 5, Radio One, and on the main stage at events such as the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Beth Kanter

Trainer, Speaker, Author

Happy Healthy Nonprofit

Beth is internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media, philanthropy, wellbeing in the workplace and training. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for thousands of social change activists and nonprofits on every continent in the world. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop leader. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. She author of the award winning Networked Nonprofit Books and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout (http://bit.ly/happyhealthynpbook) published by J.Wiley. She writes “Beth’s Blog,” one of the first nonprofit blogs. Her clients include foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Carrie Rice

Nonprofit Consultant

Carrie Rice Consulting

After five years as the principal of Carrie Rice Consulting, Carrie has recently decided to return to the non-profit sector as a full-time senior staff member in the San Francisco Bay Area. She hopes to bring tech-forward solutions to whatever organization she ends up joining!

To Carrie, the key to any nonprofit’s success is empathy. That may seem like a given, but empathy must extend beyond a nonprofit’s constituents to all stakeholders within an organization.

After earning a master’s degree in public policy at The George Washington University, Carrie began working with nonprofits, planting the seeds of her management philosophy. She prides herself on improving the fundraising, efficiency, and longevity of nonprofits. Simply put, she helps nonprofits foster progress and loyalty through treating staff, board members, and donors with the same empathy that they feel toward the causes they care about.

Ananda Leeke

Chief Social Media Officer

Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council

Ananda Leeke serves as the Chief Social Media Officer at the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in media, telecommunications, and technology. Ananda is also a certified mindfulness teacher, author, speaker, trainer, yoga instructor, reiki practitioner, and artist. Her books, “Love’s Troubadours,” a yoga-inspired novel; “That Which Awakens Me,” a mindful creativity memoir; and “Digital Sisterhood,” a mindful technology memoir, are available on Amazon: amzn.to/2MuIHoJ. She speaks at events sponsored by AT&T, Automattic, Big Bear Retreat Center, BlogHer, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Howard University, Institute for Medicaid Innovation, Latinos in Tech Innovation and Social Media, Marisla Foundation, Meetup/WeWork, Nonprofit Technology Network, Spelman College, Unity of Washington, DC, Washington National Cathedral, and Web of Change. She regularly shares her meditation, mindfulness, and social media expertise as a commentator on WHUR 96.3 FM. In addition, she hosts and produces the #ThrivingMindfully Podcast: bit.ly/2Ue48gd. She is a proud alumna of Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University School of Law, and Morgan State University. Learn more at AnandaLeeke.com.

Liza Dyer

Volunteer Services Program Coordinator

Multnomah County Library

Liza J. Dyer, CVA, has been working and volunteering in the nonprofit and public sectors for more than 15 years. She is currently a Volunteer Services Program Coordinator at Multnomah County Library, a public library system in Portland, Oregon which engages over 2,000 community members as library volunteers each year. Liza has previously worked in museums and science centers where she taught people about science, led teams of citizen scientists, and talked about whales (almost) every day. When not at work, Liza can be found knitting, reading, exploring, and volunteering in the community. She is proud to be an AmeriCorps alum and Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Pronouns: she/her/hers

Jesse Bisignano

Curriculum Manager

Samaschool

Jesse is the Curriculum Manager at Samaschool, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that equips people with the skills they need to succeed as freelancers and leverage independent work to achieve their career goals. As Curriculum Manager, he designs and implements in-person, virtual, and self-paced versions of Samaschool’s core freelance training, creates digital tools for freelancers, and manages alumni engagement. Jesse holds a BA in Political Science from Vassar College, and an MA in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland.

Kami Griffiths

Executive Director

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 over 15 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 Global, 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.

Amber Carroll

Director

Covia

Amber Carroll is the Director of Well Connected, a Covia Community Service. Well Connected aims to increase social connection and lifelong learning opportunities for older adults across the country. Using technology as a tool, older adults are able to engage in group activities as participants and/or volunteers – all from the comfort of home.

Before coming to Covia in 2015, Amber led the San Francisco Transitional Care Program, a CMS-demonstration project that successfully decreased hospital readmissions for Medicare recipients. Her career in aging services began at the San Francisco Aging and Disability Resource Center which provided information, referral, and assistance to nearly 10,000 seniors and adults with disabilities each year. Amber is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco.

Eric Babb

Digital Literacy Program Manager

Community Tech Network

Eric is a Kansas native with a background in teaching at the high school and college level. As a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Eric was the College Algebra course coordinator, supervising a staff of teaching assistants and tutors. While at KU, Eric oversaw the development of a blended learning classroom that combined short instructional videos and group activities to help learners at all levels.

With a focus on curriculum development, Eric hopes to build upon the strong foundation at CTN and continue to support and motivate volunteers and those working to bridge the digital divide.

You can find Eric at the gym or ballet studio.

Luke Ehler

Web Developer

Union of Concerned Scientists

Luke builds websites.

More specifically, he helps organizations design, create, implement, maintain, and extend highly customized instances of open source content management systems as a web developer, accessibility advocate, and occasional system architect. Luke has been with the Union of Concerned Scientists since 2017 and spent the previous decade partnering with arts and cultural organizations, higher education and academic research institutions, and many others while working at Sametz Blackstone Associates.

Jeff Herron

EVP and Partner

Beaconfire RED

Jeff is a co-founder of Beaconfire RED. Having worked with nonprofits and associations for over 20 years, Jeff brings a strategic and operations perspective to marketing and technical projects. Jeff focuses on the business decisions that all nonprofits face when selecting technologies, partners and solutions for their online presence. Jeff’s background is in the project management and implementation of Web-centric applications for large nonprofits and corporations. Jeff’s clients have included the American College of Cardiology, Truth Initiative, AOTA, American Sociological Association, INFORMS, Foundation Center and Commonwealth Foundation.

Jeff is a member of ASAE’s Technology Council and is a former board chair of Idealware (www.idealware.org).

Jeff has also been a featured speaker on Internet issues and Web development strategies, presenting to nonprofits and associations at conferences including NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, ASAE Annual, ASAE Technology Conference, SXSW, Council on Foundations, eZ Publish Users Summit, and Idealware webinars.

Adam Good

Engagement Director

ParsonsTKO

Adam Good has been working with organizations on their engagement strategies and platforms since “social widgets” were a thing and MySpace was still the space. He blends his professional experience in communication strategy, organizational change and digital engagement with a lifelong love of board games, music production and experimental poetry and art. The throughline connecting these interests is an abiding fascination with the systems that connect and empower people to have meaningful experiences and change the world. Beyond these interests, Adam is a voracious consumer of ideas and information across sources and boundaries; he folds his findings from all fields into an ever-evolving notion of engagement.

Throughout his career, Adam has had the privilege of working with leading edge organizations on a wide range of digital communication projects. He’s worked on enterprise-level site redesigns for the Brookings Institution and Amnesty International USA, social media campaigns for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, celebrity-driven video marketing campaigns for IBM, marketing automation efforts for Urban Land Institute and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and custom software development for the Folger Shakespeare Library. He even created a seemingly paradoxical “exclusive, shareable social widget” for the U23D movie site and social campaign, driving millions of U23D superfans to unlock a widget easter egg to reveal a secret backstage entrance behind which lay exclusive music and videos.

Through Adam’s independent art practice focused on collaborative, interactive experiences, he has had the honor of presenting work at institutions such as the Phillips Collection, Bien/Bielle Festival of Photography, Corcoran College of Art and Textile Museum in Washington, DC.

Amanda Smith

Digital Engagement Specialist

Enterprise Community Partners

Amanda Smith is a Digital Engagement Specialist for Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit creating opportunity for low- and moderate-income people through affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. She is responsible for managing a wide variety of email sends, while modernizing Enterprise’s email marketing efforts including automation, customer journeys and data-driven, targeted outreach.

She has a BA in Communication and recently completed her Digital Marketing certificate from Georgetown University. In any spare time you can find her working on an embroidery hoop, cheering on the Atlanta Falcons and playing 18 games in a row of Hi-Ho Cherry-O with her husband and 5-year old while her two cats, Lulu and Glitter look on.

Natalie Khairallah

Manager, Membership and Marketing

Urban Land Institute

Natalie turns email into revenue, using automation strategies to help expand a network of professionals dedicated to the responsible use of land and creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Email, however, is not her lonesome lover: through a targeted multi-channel strategy, she helps drive recruitment and retention numbers by way of direct mail, telemarketing, web, and paid ad strategies.

It was during her time in the Middle East, in the midst of electricity cuts, water shortages, and bordering wars, where Natalie fully realized the benefits of being adaptable. Inquisitive by nature, Natalie is driven by experimentation in all that she does, using her enthusiasm for consumer behavior and empathetic global perspective to drive results.

The proud daughter of immigrants, Natalie studied marketing and psychology at the University of Iowa, followed by linguistics and Middle East studies at the American University of Beirut. She enjoys languages, spicy foods, and yoga.

Ana Sady-Dubon

Chief Technology Officer

Mothership Strategies

Ana has 15+ years of experience in software development. As Chief Technology Officer, she oversees the development of the proprietary data and technology solutions that power Mothership campaigns. Ana’s experience developing web applications inside and outside the government is broad, ranging from high profile work at the Cabinet Secretary level to mission critical B2B integrations for Fortune 100 companies. She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Chris Lundberg

CEO and Founder

Frakture

Chris Lundberg is a geek with a passion for starting and running scalable organizations that change the world. Chris launched Frakture to help companies and nonprofits efficiently handle their increasing number of data sources. Frakture has built 140+ Robots to pull data out of systems, feed a Data Warehouse, normalize and standardize that data and then pipe it where it needs to go for integrations and reporting. DBAs and Data Scientists love Frakture because Frakture frees their brain by running 8,000+ data jobs daily and processes hundreds of thousands of transactions allowing them to focus their time on higher value tasks that need a human brain – like analysis. Co-founder of DemocracyInAction, Wired For Change, and Salsa Labs — all companies that supported thousands of organizations, engaged over 70 million people, and generated millions of dollars in revenue. Chris has degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Math from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Rob Manix

Digital Operations and Fundraising Project Manager

AARP Foundation

Rob has twenty-five years of hands-on experience working at and with nonprofits to identify, implement and manage solutions to support nonprofit marketing technology. He is currently the Digital Operations and Fundraising Project Manager at AARP Foundation where he manages fundraising technology solutions to support the organization’s Direct Response and Major Giving units.

Before joining AARP Foundation Rob worked for the Rad Campaign, a leading web agency serving the nonprofit sector, as Senior Web Director. As the primary project lead, he worked with his team to identify a strategic roadmap for success. He also worked as the Director of Marketing Technology for Defenders of Wildlife. A signature achievement at Defenders included the revamp of the institution’s website Defenders.org. The site was migrated to a new CMS and integrated with the organization’s ECRM and CRM.

Aurora Holder

Tech Advocate

Disability Rights Wisconsin

Aurora currently manages all aspects of IT at Disability Rights Wisconsin, along with website development and teaching/supporting IT interns to be better techs. Aurora has a passion for working in Non-Profits, especially with technology. Aurora has a long history of supporting individuals with disabilities in the workplace with different assistive technologies and modified workspaces.

Teaching technology and improving processes with technology are her key strengths along with providing compassionate tech support to our staff. #Accidental Techie.

Keith Casebonne

Technology and Communications Manager

Disability Rights Florida

Keith Casebonne is the Technology and Communications Manager at Disability Rights Florida where he has worked for 17 years. As manager of both information technology and communications, Keith regularly works in social media, website development, graphic design, podcasting, network administration, computer security, and technical support. Digital accessibility is an area of special focus. Keith regularly speaks about accessibility, security, and social media.

Nikki Henry

Founder & CEO

Ladies Leading Ladies

Nikki is fueled by the missed opportunities she has witnessed and lived through herself, by her optimism that the workplace can be better for her and the next generation, and by the incredible energy of the women she surrounds herself with every day.

Nikki is a leader in her community, recognized for her effective leadership and supportive managerial style. Nikki has helped teams grow from just a few staff to over 55 full-time staff and budgets from a couple hundred thousand to the multi-millions. She credits her success to being an open and accessible leader, who works intentionally to have the right people in the right roles.

Nikki has her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, and a Master of Public Administration. She has worked in victim advocacy, workforce development, social services, economic development, and philanthropy. She currently serves as a Commissioner for the Fresno Housing Authority, a Board Member with the Child Care & Development Local Planning Council, and a founding committee member of Dress for Success Fresno.

In the past she has been a Women’s Policy Institute Fellow of the Women’s Foundation of California, an honoree of Fresno’s 40 under 40 at age 28, and the recipient of the Women’s Empowerment Award at Central Washington University. She brings this breadth of experience and passion to her everyday challenge of helping women find their voices and lead both professionally and personally.

Liza Dyer

Volunteer Services Program Coordinator

Multnomah County Library

Liza J. Dyer, CVA, has been working and volunteering in the nonprofit and public sectors for more than 15 years. She is currently a Volunteer Services Program Coordinator at Multnomah County Library, a public library system in Portland, Oregon which engages over 2,000 community members as library volunteers each year. Liza has previously worked in museums and science centers where she taught people about science, led teams of citizen scientists, and talked about whales (almost) every day. When not at work, Liza can be found knitting, reading, exploring, and volunteering in the community. She is proud to be an AmeriCorps alum and Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Pronouns: she/her/hers

Jeanne Allen

Trainer & Consultant

Jeanne Allen Consulting

Jeanne Allen is a consultant with nonprofits (Jeanne Allen Consulting) focusing on Leadership, Innovation and Strategy. She loves her volunteer role as an organizer for NCTech4Good, the local club that brings technology ideas together for social good in Raleigh-Durham Triangle (NC), allowing local nonprofits to explore technology, and other ways to capture innovation. Jeanne teaches in the Duke University Nonprofit Mgt Certificate program, offering courses in Board Development and Governance, Volunteer Engagement and Strategic Planning. Her favorite part of nonprofits is how the work with volunteers and build their community of supporters.

Amy Sample Ward

CEO

NTEN

Driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change, Amy is NTEN’s CEO and former membership director. Her prior experience in direct service, policy, philanthropy, and capacity-building organizations have also fueled her aspirations to create meaningful, inclusive, and compassionate community engagement and educational opportunities for all organizations.

Amy inspires the NTEN team and partners around the world to believe in community-generated change. She believes technology can help nonprofits reach their missions more effectively, efficiently, and inclusively, and she’s interested in everything from digital equity to social innovation.

Tristan Penn

Community Engagement & Equity Manager

NTEN

Tristan has worked in nonprofit for the past 14 years with primarily Boys & Girls Clubs and is passionate about youth development, nonprofit administration, nonprofit community engagement, organizational best practices, as well as diversity, equity & inclusion.

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 getting 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, socialize with friends, and spoil his niece and nephews.

Sam Chenkin

Director of Consulting

Tech Impact

Sam is the Director of Consulting Services at Tech Impact, a US based nonprofit providing support to the global nonprofit community. In this role they help organize the 10 person consulting staff as they help nonprofits focus on their mission. The team supports hundreds of nonprofits every year as they make decisions about their technology strategy, build data systems, and understand their data.

Sam’s responsibility is to help the nonprofit community think creatively about technology and find ways to harness it for true social change. Sam has a technical background and expertise in Office 365, Cloud Security, AI and ML, Salesforce, and other data and infrastructure related areas.

Sam uses they/them/theirs pronouns and can be reached at sam@techimpact.org

Ken Montenegro

Information Technology Director

Advancing Justice Los Angeles

Ken Montenegro is a technologist with twenty years of experience working with nonprofit and social change groups to securely leverage technology for their mission-driven work. Ken also holds a law degree.

He has been employed by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles; Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles; Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles; Maternal and Child Health Access; and the Northeast Valley Health Corporation. He has also worked with numerous other groups on a contract basis. Ken is also a board member of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center; the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN); and is National Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild.

Ken brings a commitment to meaningful social change and insight on areas of compliance and security that are not theoretical but experience based. He also brings a passion for understanding process because people power is the foundation of impactful technology adoption.

Ken was born, raised, and remains rooted in Los Angeles. You can learn more about him at https://www.comeuppance.net.

Vanice Dunn

Director of Equity

Provoc

Vanice hails from years of experience working directly with members of various non-profits, so she’s all about participation and collaboration. Vanice began to hone her skills in social justice advocacy in an organic way — as a young girl of color in a small southern town, her existence itself became a political statement. Those experiences gave Vanice practice in being critical of assumptions, dissecting polarizing arguments, and ultimately standing strong in her convictions. Her passion led her to the Provoc team, where she strives to make an impact by building partnerships with visionary clients and serving as lead strategist for brand and communications projects. By rooting her work in a womanist lens, Vanice has a particular passion for projects that combat the ‘isms’ — including racism, classism, and sexism.

Rajneesh Aggarwal

President, Lead Strategist

Provoc

Raj founded Provoc in 1999 and serves as President and Lead Strategist. Over twenty years of experience as a communications and technology strategist, he has worked with more than 400 nonprofits and socially responsible businesses on a variety of projects including internal and external branding, marketing and customer engagement. Raj keeps Provoc rooted in empathy-driven work by forging partnerships with values-aligned, visionary leaders and has led workshops and talks at dozens of national conferences. He serves on the boards of Think Local First, DC and Ben’s Chili Bowl Foundation, and recently shared his personal story on NPR.

Lindsey Watchman

Umatilla/Walla Walla Tribal Member Health Educator

Oregon Community Health Workers Association

Lindsey is a Persian Gulf War Veteran, an educator, father, enrolled Native American tribal member, and Cultural Acclimation trainer. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals, including his Native American grandmother (a CHR) who sat on the CTUIR Health Commission; which self-compacted federal Indian Health Services to local community control in 1996. Yellowhawk serves over 4,000 American Indian/Alaska Native people who reside on or near the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.

After seven years in the US Air Force, Lindsey served 17 years in Oregon Indian Education. Later migrating into the Health Education field…in order to holistically empower tribal members towards individual self-sufficiency. As Yellowhawk’s Workforce Development Manager, his aim is to support ‘community members, serving community members’ by integrating Traditional Health Workers into healthcare delivery systems. He sits on the OHA, OEI THW Commission, and ORCHWA Board.

Ambar Mentor-Truppa

Vice President of Communications

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Ambar Mentor-Truppa is the Shriver Center’s first-ever Vice President of Communications, providing strategic direction and oversight to the organization’s public relations, brand management, and marketing activities. She has 15 years of private sector experience in strategic communications, previously working as a consultant for several boutique public affairs agencies. She has directed communications and community outreach projects to support policy work on behalf of major public interest organizations, including foundations and government entities. An active civic volunteer, she supports causes connected to feminism, education, race equity and public media. Ambar holds a B.S. in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lives in Chicago.

Cheryl Contee

CEO

DoBigThings

Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things, a diverse team that is using new narrative and new tech to create global change in a new era. Previously, Cheryl was CEO of Fission Strategy, which brought Silicon Valley startup culture to the world’s leading causes and campaigns. She’s the co-founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, the National Board Chair for Netroots Nation, an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a proud co-founder of #YesWeCode. Learn more: www.dobigthings.today

Eric Okimoto

Chief Operating Officer

boodleAI

Eric Okimoto, Chief Operating Officer at boodleAI, oversees product management, engineering operations, marketing and sales, customer success, and back office support operations. Eric is a technology executive with a twenty-year success record in technology, strategy consulting, enterprise solution sales, and product management.

Eric previously worked in London-based Crown Agents, a global consulting firm that specializes in public sector reform and international development. He initially focused on enterprise solutions sales and marketing for Crown Agents IT Group, but expanded his responsibilities to include product strategy, product development, and account management.

Prior to Crown Agents, Eric was a Managing Director at two Washington D.C.-based firms, RGS Associates and Phase One Consulting Group. He helped both organizations expand and transform their services, operations, and strategy while providing IT strategy and technology thought leadership to numerous U.S. public sector clients.

Eric received a B.S. in Economics from the United States Military Academy, and subsequently spent five years in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer. While stationed in Germany, he served as a Platoon Leader, Reconnaissance Platoon Leader, and a Battalion Logistician. Upon completion of his service, Eric earned an M.B.A. at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where he completed a thesis on the effects of knowledge management on new product development and innovation.

Kristy Kaufmann

CEO

Code of Support Foundation

Kristina (Kristy) Kaufmann is the CEO and co-founder of Code of Support Foundation. During her 11 years as a wartime Army wife, Kristy recognized that the mental impact on soldiers and families was not being appropriately addressed. Her determination to improve the approach for providing the support needed to endure repeated deployments often ruffled feathers among senior leadership but Kristy pressed on. Upon realizing that driving change from inside the system was ineffective, she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post, titled “Army Families Under Fire.” The piece resulted in a platform upon which she and her co-founder, Major General Alan B. Salisbury, USA (R) built the Code of Support Foundation. Kristy is considered a subject matter expert regarding the mental health impacts of war on military families, and her publications and media appearances include The Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CNN, and other major network channels. Kristy is a leading force in the cross-sector collaboration drive to facilitate the public-private collaborations necessary to meet the needs of the military and veteran community. She is a 2017 Presidio Institute Fellow and a graduate of the University of California Berkeley.

Joe Moran

Chief Innovation Officer

True Colors United

For more than 15 years, Joe Moran has worked as a creative producer and nonprofit techie. As True Colors United’s Chief Innovation Officer, Joe is responsible for defining and maintaining organization-wide standards for project management, facilitating strategic thinking, developing effective systems, cultivating collaboration, and ensuring integration across all departments. He also provides creative direction and oversees the organization’s communications and marketing strategies. Joe currently sits on the board of Westbury Arts, a local arts and culture organization on Long Island, where he serves as corresponding secretary and publicity & marketing chair. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®, an avid comic book reader, retro video game player, and wacky snacker. Twitter: @JoeSaidSo

Ryann Miller

Director, Partnerships

Grassriots

Hi I’m Ryann Miller, Director of Partnership at Grassriots, a boundaries-pushing, global strategic and creative agency based in Toronto, that serves the social profit sector. I help social profits use digital and integrated strategies for fundraising, marketing, advocacy and engagement. I’ve been doing digital fundraising for 13 years: most recently at Care2 for 8 years, focusing on the digital acquisition / lead gen part of the fundraising funnel. I’m big on sector growth, big on building relationships and community, and big on leveraging digital maturity #ftw.

Ryan Baillargeon

CEO & Founder

Grassriots

In 2011, Ryan launched Grassriots with a mission to challenge organizations to embrace digital transformation and tap into the human capital potential of their supporters to drive social change. A lifelong developer and technologist, he’s led digital strategy for numerous campaigns with issues ranging from cancer control, modern slavery, wildlife protection, and climate justice. As Founder and CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership and operations of Grassriots.

Prior to founding an agency, Ryan helped launch Leadnow, Canada’s first digitally-empowered progressive advocacy group. He designed and developed tools to help mobilize hundreds of thousands to rally in support of climate justice, electoral reform, and the rights of Indigenous peoples through coordinated direct action. Ryan’s been a featured speaker on innovations in technology and campaigning at many conferences.

Anil Kanji

Director, Digital Engagement

Mozilla Foundation

I help organizations build movements, and empower their people to make possible the change they want to see in the world.

Over the past ten years, I’ve built national and global teams focused on inspiring and engaging supporters, through compelling digital content and campaigns. I’m an integrator and relationship-builder internally in organizations, desilozing and creating alignment around common campaign and organizational missions.

I’ve served on two organizational leadership teams, Greenpeace International’s global digital product team, and have managed distributed teams of up to 40 staff.

Brian Pagels

Principal & Chief Strategist

Brian Pagels Strategic Consulting

Brian Pagels a senior strategist and communications professional who has spent the past 14 years helping influential organizations increase their impact. Since founding his independent consultancy and partnering with Structure3C in late 2016, his work has included developing a new content strategy to accelerate progress toward USAID’s education goals, helping define the next generation product offering for leading higher education software provider TargetX, and aligning newly-formed teams at IBM, Salesforce, and Autodesk around collaboratively developed visions and strategies for their online customer communities.

Earlier in his career he designed multi-channel campaigns to disseminate research for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that led to hundreds of press clips, helped the Brady Campaign significantly increase end-of-year fundraising in only six weeks, and co-produced a music festival that was featured on NPR and the Washington Post.

Beverly Slabosky

Usability and Design Lead

City of Seattle

Beverly is currently leading a digital team of user experience professionals at the City of Seattle. Beverly has been in the field of user experience for 12+ years and has worn many hats, including taxonomist, information architect, user researcher, and design manager. She is an advocate for content-first design using human-centered design principles. Currently, she is creating a strategy to revamp the City of Seattle’s navigation.

Drew McManus

Principal

Venture Industries Online

Drew McManus may be Venture’s Principal but don’t let that title fool you into thinking he’s just a tech geek. He brings 20 years of global broad-based arts consulting experience to the table and helps clients break the cycle of choosing one-size-fits-none solutions and instead, deliver an option that allows them get ahead of the tech curve instead of trying to catch up by going slower.

With the vision of legacy support strategy and the delights of creative insights, his mission is to deliver a sophisticated next generation technology designed especially for our business. The first step in that journey began in 2010 when he released The Venture Platform, a purpose-designed managed website development solution designed especially for arts organizations and artists.

His expertise spans across multiple sectors and regularly quoted as an industry expert in media outlets including New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Dallas Daily News, The Guardian Unlimited, and the Melbourne Age along with more than 100 additional newspapers, trade journals, and magazine outlets. Broadcast appearances include NPR’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Weekend Edition, MPR’s Morning Edition, WQXR’s Conducting Business, WNYC’s Soundcheck, CBC One’s Definitely Not The Opera, and SoundNotion.TV along with two dozen additional regional market appearances.

As a sought-after speaker and panelist, he has worked with the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Opera America, Americans for the Ats, National Arts Marketing Project Conference, Southeastern Theatre Conference, National Performing Arts Conference, Chamber Music America, NewMusicBox, The Conductors Guild, the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians, and the International Conference of Symphony Orchestra Musicians. He’s been a featured lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Northwestern University School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Arizona State University. In 2011, he was featured presentater for Chicago’s TEDx Michigan Ave conference.

For fun, he writes a daily blog about the orchestra business, provides a platform for arts insiders to speak their mind, leads a team of intrepid arts pros to hack the arts, founded a free arts admin jobs board, and loves a good coffee drink.

He currently reside in the Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood with his wife, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera concertmaster, Holly Mulcahy.

Michael Hoffman

CEO

Gather Voices

Michael Hoffman is the CEO of Gather Voices and founder of See3 Communications. He is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and businesses and a long-time consultant to leaders on constituent engagement strategies.

He started his career as a political consultant and Washington-based nonprofit fundraiser before joining a venture investment firm to develop internet start-ups. Hoffman worked in web and software development and founded See3 to bring together his belief in the power of the web and his passion and experience with nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, and education. In 2017, Hoffman founded Gather Voices to revolutionize how organizations collect, manage and publish user-generated content.

He is a frequent blogger and tweeter on marketing (@michael_hoffman) and is a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and social media for social change. Michael is the founder of the DoGooder Awards, a video contest for social good co-sponsored by NTEN and See3.

Specialties: User-generated content and the intersection of nonprofits, content marketing, software development, video and social change.

Cheryl Contee

CEO

DoBigThings

Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things, a diverse team that is using new narrative and new tech to create global change in a new era. Previously, Cheryl was CEO of Fission Strategy, which brought Silicon Valley startup culture to the world’s leading causes and campaigns. She’s the co-founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, the National Board Chair for Netroots Nation, an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a proud co-founder of #YesWeCode. Learn more: www.dobigthings.today

Farra Trompeter

Vice President

Big Duck

Farra Trompeter is Vice President at Big Duck, a firm that develops the voices of determined nonprofits by developing strong brands, campaigns, and teams. 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 serves as Chair of NTEN’s board and is a part-time faculty member at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches a class about communications and branding for nonprofits. She holds an M.S. degree in nonprofit management from The New School. Farra tweets about nonprofit communications and fundraising at @Farra.

Bridget Jackson

Senior Public Affairs and Communications Advisor

NeighborWorks America

Bridget Jackson is a Senior Public Affairs and Communications Advisor for NeighborWorks America, a national nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1978.

NeighborWorks America serves a network of more than 240 independent nonprofit organizations that help individuals, families and communities thrive through comprehensive approaches to affordable housing and community development.

Bridget has been developing her public relations and marketing expertise for nearly 20 years, having made multiple career milestones at corporate, agency and nonprofit organizations. She joined NeighborWorks in 2014, where she currently provides public relations and marketing support for 70 of NeighborWorks’ network member organizations located in the Western United States.

Chris Tuttle

Director of Communications

GLSEN

Chris Tuttle leads communications and marketing at GLSEN, a leading education organization working to create LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 schools. With more than 20 years working with leading nonprofit organizations, Tuttle has a wealth of experience developing digital campaigns that reach and engage millions of people annually. Highlights include developing GLSEN’s Day of Silence, an annual campaign with more than half-a-million students participating in more than 5,000 K -12 schools, as well as working with The Arcus Foundation to create the first-ever international Giving Day for Apes, raising more than 1.5 million dollars for wildlife sanctuaries.

Amy Dorfman

Associate Director, Project Management

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Amy Dorfman is the lead project manager on the development operations team at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In this role Amy led the organization through a successful CRM migration and implementation of Salesforce. Previously, Amy served in the development department at the national headquarters of the American Civil Liberties Union where she managed database business support for the ACLU national office and 53 affiliates. Amy has over 12 years of nonprofit experience in both New York and Washington, DC. Amy holds a Masters of Public Administration with a Nonprofit Management concentration from The George Washington University. When not at work you can find Amy taking care of her foster dogs or geeking out over all things Harry Potter. Pronouns: she/her/hers

Rubin Singh

Founder & CEO

OneTenth Consulting

Rubin is a seasoned nonprofit professional with over 20 years of experience in the CRM (constituent relationship management) space in the nonprofit sector. Throughout his career, Rubin has pursued his passion for social impact by empowering and enabling nonprofits through a variety of roles in technology, strategy and organizational management. In addition to being a technologist, Rubin’s volunteer work ranges from coaching youth soccer, to pro-bono strategy work, to serving on the board of directors for local nonprofits. His experience of engaging directly with donors, making fundraising asks, and participating in all aspects of operations gives him a deep appreciation for the work nonprofits do and the challenges they face.

Ruiyong Chen

Managing Principal

Precision Strategies

Ruiyong is a Managing Principal at Precision, leading the firm’s digital advertising practice. She oversees the paid media work on a wide range of clients from General Electric to the Center for American Progress and The Weather Channel. She focuses on building data-driven targeting strategies, content planning, and developing innovative media plans across a wide variety of traditional and emerging platforms.

Ruiyong came to Precision after serving as a Client Services Manager at Warc, an advertising research and media investment firm, and is an alumna of Governor Deval Patrick’s re-election campaign.

Since joining Precision, Ruiyong has been focused on helping our clients leverage and implement digital advertising strategies to meet their branding and acquisition goals. She had helped run persuasion and direct response campaigns to targeted voters on high profile political races in the US and abroad, connect millennials with new and disruptive programming to drive tune-in for a growing media company, and identify new audiences for national nonprofits and advocacy organizations.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in international politics and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Laura Packard

Partner

PowerThru Consulting

Laura Packard is a stage 4 cancer survivor (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), based in Denver, Colorado. She is a digital consultant for non-profits, a health care and voting rights activist, and a Health Care Voter national co-chair. She has been blocked by President Trump on Twitter, thrown out of a town hall with U.S. Senator Heller, and her story has reached millions of people worldwide. Laura worked for the AFL-CIO in 2009-10 to help get the Affordable Care Act passed, and now it is saving her life.

Emily Seldin

Associate Director of Digital

The Hub Project

Emily Seldin is the Associate Director of Digital at The Hub Project.

Prior to The Hub Project, Emily served as the digital content manager at the Labor Department as a political appointee in the Obama administration. She created and managed content for official digital and social media accounts of the department and the Secretary of Labor. In this role, she developed a number of digital strategies for ongoing campaigns including minimum wage, paid leave, and worker voice; and final rule rollouts for conflict of interest and overtime. Previously, Emily worked for Young Invincibles’ consulting arm, managed health care advocacy clients at Blue State Digital, and worked on a number of issue-based campaigns at the Center for American Progress. Emily began her career in Washington working for Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Emily is a St. Louis native and graduated cum laude from Bucknell University.

Brandon Zavala

Organizer

SoCal Health Care Coalition

A lifelong resident of the Antelope Valley, Brandon Zavala has been active in community organizing since 2012. In 2013, Brandon Zavala came out at the age of 20 while testifying before a Lancaster City Council meeting opposing the city’s harmful policy of protecting a city commissioner anti-semitic and homophobic slurs during a public event. In 2014, he was appointed to the Palmdale Mobile Home Rental Review Board, the youngest appointee in Palmdale history. Brandon has worked in the labor movement, and within swing districts on multiple top-targeted legislative races during the 2014 & 2016 election cycles. In 2017, Brandon has organized the Antelope Valley organizing efforts against Congressman Steve Knight, successfully working with ally groups to knock on more than 15,000 doors, register hundreds of voters, and mobilize more than 2,000 people in the district in unique actions.

Barion Grant

Creative Director

Health Care Voter

Barion Grant is Creative Director at Health Care Voter, developing original content for the campaign and partner organizations. Barion has produced award-winning documentaries and television programming focused on creating cross-platform content to connect brands with niche audiences.

Barion has more than 15 years of production experiences as an innovative film and television producer, a new media entrepreneur and founder of theGrio.com. With a client list including media companies like MTV, MSNBC, ASPiRE TV, BET and TV ONE, he has produced over 100 programs and served as Associate Producer of the Oscar nominated documentary Tupac: Resurrection.

Barion is from Harlem, NY and is a proud native of Newark, New Jersey. He studied radio, television and film production at Rowan University and spends his free time enjoying live music and traveling to independent film festivals.

Elijah van der Giessen

Community Manager

TechSoup

Eli strives to be a connector – the interstitial tissue that holds the muscle of a community together. He’s been a volunteer manager, an event organizer and a digital campaigner. Basically he’ll take any gig that allows him to enable a group of passionate people to create things they love.

Currently he’s the NetSquared Community Manager supporting a global volunteer network of 120 monthly meetups for the nonprofit technology sector. Together they hold over 800 events per year.

Emma Togni

Marketing Manager

SocialTechno

Mixed up humanistic background and business mindset and now I’m applying skills, passion and creativity to the No Profit sector I came across with. You never know where the paths of life lead you. In other words, I’d rather be a comma than a full stop,

Jade Frank

Director of Internal Communications and Knowledge Management

Mercy Corps

Jade is an engagement strategist. For the past 12 years she has worked across sectors leading the design and mobilization of social change networks, with a special focus in the global women’s and girls’ movements. Whether engaging youth leaders, international development practitioners or fishermen, Jade builds the relationships and tools that drive collective action. With roots in the Alaskan Arctic and investigative journalism, Jade has lived, worked and mobilized change in communities across the Pacific Northwest, Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Tobias Eigen

Community Manager

Namati: Innovations in Legal Empowerment

Techie with 20+ years experience working in Africa, Europe and North America. Persistent and adaptable problem-solver focused on technical, strategic and organizational solutions. Lifelong passion is to strengthen organizations working on meaningful social, political, economic and environmental issues by promoting and implementing effective use of technology.

Specialties: strategic planning, leadership, community management, project management, and training.

Drew McManus

Principal

Venture Industries Online

Drew McManus may be Venture’s Principal but don’t let that title fool you into thinking he’s just a tech geek. He brings 20 years of global broad-based arts consulting experience to the table and helps clients break the cycle of choosing one-size-fits-none solutions and instead, deliver an option that allows them get ahead of the tech curve instead of trying to catch up by going slower.

With the vision of legacy support strategy and the delights of creative insights, his mission is to deliver a sophisticated next generation technology designed especially for our business. The first step in that journey began in 2010 when he released The Venture Platform, a purpose-designed managed website development solution designed especially for arts organizations and artists.

His expertise spans across multiple sectors and regularly quoted as an industry expert in media outlets including New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Dallas Daily News, The Guardian Unlimited, and the Melbourne Age along with more than 100 additional newspapers, trade journals, and magazine outlets. Broadcast appearances include NPR’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Weekend Edition, MPR’s Morning Edition, WQXR’s Conducting Business, WNYC’s Soundcheck, CBC One’s Definitely Not The Opera, and SoundNotion.TV along with two dozen additional regional market appearances.

As a sought-after speaker and panelist, he has worked with the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Opera America, Americans for the Ats, National Arts Marketing Project Conference, Southeastern Theatre Conference, National Performing Arts Conference, Chamber Music America, NewMusicBox, The Conductors Guild, the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians, and the International Conference of Symphony Orchestra Musicians. He’s been a featured lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Northwestern University School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Arizona State University. In 2011, he was featured presentater for Chicago’s TEDx Michigan Ave conference.

For fun, he writes a daily blog about the orchestra business, provides a platform for arts insiders to speak their mind, leads a team of intrepid arts pros to hack the arts, founded a free arts admin jobs board, and loves a good coffee drink.

He currently reside in the Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood with his wife, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera concertmaster, Holly Mulcahy.

Ceci Dadisman

Digital Marketing Manager

FORM

Ceci is a multi-faceted marketing professional with over 10 years of experience successfully marketing the arts and nonprofits utilizing innovative and cutting-edge initiatives. Currently the Digital Marketing Manager at FORM, she is nationally recognized as a leader in digital and social media marketing and specializes in the integration of digital marketing and technology into traditional marketing methods.

A frequent public speaker, Ceci’s recent and upcoming engagements feature national conference appearances at NTEN, National Arts Marketing Project, Arts Midwest, OPERA America, and Chorus America in addition to many other local and regional events. Known for her easy-going and vernacular style, she creates open learning environments with an emphasis on information sharing and useful takeaways.

Ceci is passionate about empowering people through marketing and is a contributor to Arts Hacker where she regularly shares timely information and step-by-step tutorials. She also teaches the arts marketing course at West Virginia University’s College of Creative Arts.

She is on the Arts Midwest Conference Professional Development Committee, the NTEN Conference Session Advisory Committee, is the Immediate Past President and Chapter Founder of Femfessionals West Palm Beach, the Immediate Past Chapter Leader and Chapter Founder of the West Palm Beach Chapter of Girl Develop It, the Immediate Past President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and served for many years on the National Arts Marketing Project Advisory Committee and as the OPERA America Marketing Network Chair. She also serves on the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts Visiting Committee.

Ceci was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and graduated from West Virginia University with a music degree in vocal performance. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Anna Marshall

Director of Digital Media

AdoptUSKids

Anna builds and directs creative digital teams to deliver user-centered strategies and products. She serves as director of digital media for AdoptUSKids, a national project that connects children in foster care with families who are looking to adopt. Before joining AdoptUSKids, Anna spent 11 years shaping the brand and digital presence of the global health nonprofit PATH. Among her many professional passions: content strategy, Agile, and user experience.

Janice Chan

Consultant

Shift and Scaffold

Janice Chan never was able to pick one thing to be when she grew up. While grown up status could be debated, what she currently does is consult (shiftandscaffold.com), teach data management in NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate Program, and co-organize NTEN’s Nonprofits and Data online community group. She is also is working towards a Master of Information Management at the University of Maryland.

Originally from New York, Janice arrived south of the Mason-Dixon Line via St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Post-graduation, Janice served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA before officially joining the nonprofit sector. She has worn hats in data management, volunteer management, marketing and communications, grant writing, curriculum development, program management, technical training, change management, and project management.

In short, Janice has spent 11+ years and counting leading the messy work of organizing and restructuring information so that teams can work together more effectively and focus on their missions. She also enjoys writing, traveling, making playlists, and figuring out how we could do this better. You can find her on Twitter @curiositybone.

Adam London

Founder

Project Donor Love

Adam’s passion for human-centered web design drives him to place the needs of nonprofits at the heart of his work. As a marketing technologist, Adam meshes best practices from the tech world with the fundraising goals of the nonprofit world. He believes that user-centered web design offers empathy and motivation for donors, promotes new and repeat donations, and improves daily life for nonprofit staff.

Adam has brought his expertise to national nonprofits including Guide Dogs for the Blind, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the American Red Cross. Project Donor Love will allow local, national, and even international organizations to benefit from his unique perspective.

Carrie Rice

Nonprofit Consultant

Carrie Rice Consulting

After five years as the principal of Carrie Rice Consulting, Carrie has recently decided to return to the non-profit sector as a full-time senior staff member in the San Francisco Bay Area. She hopes to bring tech-forward solutions to whatever organization she ends up joining!

To Carrie, the key to any nonprofit’s success is empathy. That may seem like a given, but empathy must extend beyond a nonprofit’s constituents to all stakeholders within an organization.

After earning a master’s degree in public policy at The George Washington University, Carrie began working with nonprofits, planting the seeds of her management philosophy. She prides herself on improving the fundraising, efficiency, and longevity of nonprofits. Simply put, she helps nonprofits foster progress and loyalty through treating staff, board members, and donors with the same empathy that they feel toward the causes they care about.

Emilio Arocho

Director, Technology and Digital Strategy

Food and Drug Law Institute

Emilio Arocho is a Washington, DC professional with over a decade of experience empowering nonprofit organizations by allocating their modest resources towards mission-focused digital optimization. As Director of Technology and Digital Strategy at the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), he facilitates data-driven decision making across departments, and tailors cloud architecture and business processes to anticipate and exceed stakeholder requirements. Emilio holds a BA degree from Mount Saint Mary’s University.

Nick Arevalo

Manager, Insights + Analytics

Tipping Point Community

Over the last decade, I’ve helped nonprofits develop performance management systems and integrating technology to increase the impact of their work. I believe long-term client outcomes are the currency nonprofits need to show their success and an important tool to help raise more funds. At Tipping Point, I’ve helped implement our impact framework focused on collecting and analyzing long-term client outcomes that our grantees help individuals attain.

Prior to joining Tipping Point Community, Nick was an Orfalea Fellow at the William J. Clinton Foundation in Harlem, where he worked on domestic programs focused on entrepreneurship and helping individuals gain access to the financial mainstream. He earned his M.P.A. from the University of Southern California and his B.A. in Political Science from Sonoma State University. Born in El Salvador, his Latino heritage inspires his passion for life, dancing, and food.

Alessandra Perotti

Digital Engagement Manager

Center for Constitutional Rights

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” That’s why, for the last 8+ years, Alessandra (or “Al3x”) has been helping give power back to the people by crafting social and digital media strategies for progressive advocacy, issue and political campaigns. Currently, she’s the social media voice behind the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Her unique communications background crosses online campaigning, digital writing and advertising: she believes that only by listening to our people, analyzing connections and correlations, and understanding people’s behavior we can find better ways to craft relevant messages.

Throughout her career, she learned how to keep a strategic perspective even when much of the content distributed on social and digital media is the result reactive opportunities. She’s worked extensively with email, websites and blogs (SEO, Google Ads), Facebook (organic and ads), Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Youtube. She’s worked in multiple languages and campaigned across several countries.

When she’s not solving digital communications problems, she’s probably sending boulder problems. She’s a political news junkie, undercover geek of the tech kind, and full time activist.

Taylor Shanklin

VP Marketing

Pursuant

Taylor serves as Vice President of Marketing. She brings a background of nonprofit industry expertise to lead the marketing team. Taylor is responsible for driving brand awareness and evangelism of Pursuant’s thought leadership, events, and industry events. With 11 years’ experience in both client services and marketing at leading nonprofit technology companies such as Convio, Blackbaud, and Kimbia, Taylor has interfaced with hundreds of organizations on both national and local levels. By working with so many different clients, she truly understands nonprofit organizations’ pain points and brings solutions to life through Pursuant’s resources.

Karen Cramer

Performance Measurement Group Leader

TechBridge

Karen Cramer leads the Performance Measurement Group whose offerings help nonprofits to define and measure mission success. Karen joined TechBridge because she is passionate about reducing poverty in America. Her mission in life is for all kids to have the resources and opportunities they need to thrive. Karen is a licensed master’s social worker and has been a nonprofit professional for 15 years. Karen is a proud co-founder of Helping Mamas, the metro Atlanta baby supplies bank and winner of United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Spark Prize. From working in large and small nonprofits, Karen understands the power of utilizing technology to make nonprofits more effective and efficient. She received her master of science in social work from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s degree in social work from James Madison University. Karen serves as a peer reviewer for the Council on Accreditation and is an active volunteer in many nonprofit organizations in her community.

Sean Williams

Performance Measurement Consultant

TechBridge

Sean Williams is a Nonprofit Operations Consultant and joined TechBridge in June 2014 through the acquisition of SEMA Development, a nonprofit with a mission to deliver affordable mobile apps to other nonprofits. Through experience at SEMA and TechBridge, Sean has more than six years of nonprofit experience, working directly with over 35 nonprofits with operating budgets ranging from $500K to $125M. Sean serves on the innovation and advisory boards for the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative and leverages his background as a public speaker to advocate innovation and social enterprise across the country. This will be Sean’s third time presenting at NTC and he is excited to share from experience on measuring and communicating project ROI at NTC Portland to help more nonprofits win the funding they need and bring more technology transformations to the nonprofit sector.

Elizabeth Quick

Director of Development

Mercy For Animals

Elizabeth Quick (Liz) is the Director of Development at Mercy For Animals, a international farmed animal advocacy organization. Liz has over six years of nonprofit experience ranging from digital and direct mail strategy, events, mid/major giving and strategic management. She has a special emphasis, knowledge and fondness for annual giving. Liz leads a team of 12 and established MFA’s fundraising efforts in Brazil and Latin America. Liz is based in sunny Los Angeles, and is the owner of a rescued Chihuahua named Cocobella, and a excitable pug named Penny. In her free time, you can find Liz hosting her beer run group, the LA Craft Runners.

Julia Toepfer

Marketing and Online Engagement Manager

National Immigrant Justice Center

Julia Toepfer is the marketing and online engagement manager at the National Immigrant Justice Center. Julia is an experienced storyteller, writer, marketer, campaigner, fundraiser, and digital strategist with more than 10 years of experience working with nonprofits across the United States and internationally. She has provided training and consulting services for organizations to strengthen their social media channels and develop impactful online campaigns. Julia received her bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Latin American studies from Boston College. She lives in beautiful Colorado and loves exploring the mountains with her husband and dog, Bernie.

Judith Hellerstein

Ms.

Hellerstein & Associates & Naralo, ICANN At Large

Judith Hellerstein is the Founder and CEO of Hellerstein & Associates, www.jhellerstein.com, a research consultancy specializing in opening up telecom and technology opportunities worldwide. Judith has over thirty years experience in developing policies, regulations, building regulatory capacity, strategy development, broadband build out, e-Government assessment, regulatory reform, competition law, and on Internet Governance issues having worked on several high-profile projects while she was at the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, MCI Communications, and Former Vice President Gore’s Reinventing Government office before founding her firm. Judith has advised regulators, Governments, international organizations and commercial and non-profit clients around the world on the adoption of telecom laws and policies, competition policy, and the development of the ICT sector, including market and regulatory reforms. She conducts research and analysis on Internet Governance, tracking of Internet policy issues, ICT regulations, cloud computing, smart cities, broadband deployment, ICT policy development, mainstreaming ICT, cybercrime, and on competition policy issues. She has also designed and developed tools for sector assessments and e-government assessments.

Judith is a passionate advocate for helping to bring connectivity and empower communities which is why I have been working on connectivity and infrastructure issues as well as digital literacy. She is also very active within ICANN and is the Chair of the At-Large Technology Task Force and an active participant of the Cross Community Working Groups on Internet Governance and Auction Proceeds. Judith has worked with actors across stakeholder groups in the Internet ecosystem to develop and manage Internet-related projects and campaigns. She helps clients keep current on states of affair across the many areas that Internet Governance and Policy issues are debated and discussed, monitoring & tracking developments, providing analysis, and intervening if desired.
Over the past eight years Judith has worked with several African, Caribbean, South American and Central and East Asian Countries on developing new ICT and e-Government laws and policies, reviewing and amending old laws, providing regulatory and policy capacity building, developing, researching and evaluating ICT policy and egovernment service delivery projects. She has worked with actors across stakeholder groups in the Internet ecosystem to develop and manage competition policy and Internet-related projects and campaigns. She has extensive experience with multistakeholder approaches to governance and other policy issues and also has strong research, writing, and analysis expertise.

Judith has a Master’s Degree in public policy with a concentration in international management from the Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City, where she focused on International Development. She was awarded a Public Fellowship Award and has published many papers relating to public policy in the ICT market.

Debra socia

Executive Director

Next Century Cities

Deb Socia is the Executive Director of Next Century Cities, a nonprofit that strives to support community leaders across the country as they seek to ensure that all have access to fast, affordable, and reliable Internet. More than 180 cities strong, Next Century Cities is committed to celebrating city successes, demonstrating the value of truly high speed broadband, and elevating the importance of next generation broadband as essential infrastructure.
Prior to her current role, Deb was the Executive Director of the Tech Goes Home program in Boston whose mission is to ensure digital equity. Previously, Deb spent 32 years as an educator and administrator. She was the founding principal of the award winning Lilla G. Frederick Middle School, a Boston Public School where she led the one-to-one laptop initiative.
Deb has been the recipient of many awards for her work, including the NATOA Community Broadband Hero, the Pathfinder Award from MassCUE, the CRSTE Leadership and Vision Award, Motherboard Human of the Year, an NTENny Award, and the Charles Benton Digital Equity Award.

Chelsea Lewis

Marketing Manager & Digital Strategist

Juvenile Law Center

As Marketing Manager and Digital Strategist at Juvenile Law Center, Chelsea oversees the organization’s branding, marketing, and digital strategy. She works closely with development staff, executive leadership, and the legal team to craft solid, fully integrated communications plans. She is passionate about finding innovative uses of tech to create engaging digital ecosystems for mission-drive organizations and brands. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Louisiana State University, and her background includes fundraising, corporate communications, event planning, and university administration.

Marcus Iannozzi

Founder and Principal

Message Agency

Marcus is the founder and principal of Message Agency, a digital agency based in Philadelphia, PA, which he founded in 2007. Message Agency is a certified B Corporation and social enterprise that focuses on using web-based technologies to meet the needs of nonprofits, universities, foundations, and progressive organizations that serve the public good.

Marcus is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing strategies and social marketing campaigns for the public and nonprofit sectors. He has gained extensive expertise in Internet-based communications, website design and development, messaging/branding, content strategy, and project management.

Underlying Marcus’ professional experience in the public sector is over two decades of volunteer work around civil rights and economic and community development. He has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia and is often challenged with finding ways to balance the interests of a range of stakeholders for development and public projects and bringing disparate groups together to collaborate. He currently serves as a board member of the Independence Business Alliance, Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, where he is founding an economic opportunity project called TransWork. This project will help connect members of the transgender community with employers and entrepreneurship opportunities.

Kami Griffiths

Executive Director

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 over 15 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 Global, 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.

Amy VanDeVelde

National Technology Program Manager

The Oasis Institute

Amy has managed the Oasis Connections technology literacy program for 6 years. She has directed the development of new curricula as new technologies relevant to older-adult literacy needs have appeared, and oversees the design of all instructional materials, as well as keeping all relevant content current with ongoing application, device, and platform changes to function, format, and interface. Amy is a champion of accessibility, digital equity, inclusion and media literacy. She is keenly interested in technology that supports and enhances interpersonal relationships by decreasing social isolation. Amy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Illinois State University. Her minor, Recreation and Park Administration, included a semester studying best practices for delivering services to people with disabilities with Patricia Malik, Ph.D.

Diana Rodriguez

drodriguez@ypi.org

YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE

For the past 17 years, Diana has worked in the nonprofit sector providing direct service and advocating for the rights of others. Her career has been driven by her passion and commitment to community development. Since joining the Youth Policy Institute in 2011, Diana has led the efforts to reinforce YPI’s commitment to bringing technology, training, and resources to Los Angeles’ youth and families. As Director of Expanded Learning, Diana is currently responsible for managing a portfolio of grants and initiatives that include after school as well as digital inclusion programs. Diana holds a bachelor’s degree in human services and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University.

Brian McGuirk

Digital Equity & Learning Librarian

Multnomah County Library

Brian McGuirk is the Digital Equity & Learning Librarian for Multnomah County Library where he partners with community based organizations to deliver programs and services to community members who have been traditionally digitally excluded. Presently those partnerships include work in digital literacy instruction and participating in programs connecting people in need of technology to devices. Brian aso is a participant and planner for the area’s Digital Inclusion Network which provides an opportunity for area organizations practicing digital inclusion work to inform one another of their efforts, advocate for policy change, and form partnerships to providing unique programming to digitally excluded residents. Prior to joining the library, Brian was a privacy policy analyst during development of the Oregon’s ONE system for integrated benefits eligibility determination.

David DeParolesa

CEO

Give Lively

David DeParolesa is CEO of Give Lively, a philanthropist-funded tech company that builds digital fundraising products for nonprofits and gives it away for free (seriously). David spends most of his day working directly with nonprofits, understanding their fundraising pain points and imagining creative ways to solve them. Prior to Give Lively, David founded Web Philosophic, where he created a way to help bring attention to Democrats running for Congress. He previously worked at Discovery Communications and American Express, where he led product development for Discovery’s TV-Everywhere product and helped reshape Food & Wine Magazine’s digital experience. When he isn’t developing products, coding, or designing, David can be found bopping around Hell’s Kitchen, making improvements to his rental, or traveling back to Boston to play with his baby niece, Olivia.

Brooke Currence

VP of Marketing

Give Lively

Brooke brings a decade’s worth of B2B tech experience at Fortune 500 companies to the nonprofit fundraising world at Give Lively, a philanthropist-funded tech company that builds digital fundraising products for nonprofits and gives it away for free (seriously). Brooke has been growing Give Lively’s marketing arm for over two years and is energized by the privilege to work alongside nonprofits fighting for the causes she loves—like gender equality and social justice. When she isn’t helping nonprofits, Brooke is staying active through dancing and running around NYC, attending panels on social change, planning her next big trip, and soaking in all the culture New York City has to offer.

Nicko Margolies

Digital Fundraising Strategist

Malala Fund

Nicko Margolies is the Digital Fundraising Strategist for Malala Fund, the nonprofit founded by student and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to champion every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. Nicko works across multiple departments to expand Malala Fund’s online giving and engagement programmes, including special fundraising campaigns.

Robin Dupont

Director Social Innovation

PayPal

PayPal
Director, Social Innovation
With more than a decade of payments industry experience, Robin Dupont leads the Social Innovation Team at PayPal as the Director of Social Innovation. Leading a business team serving mission-focused organizations and the individuals who support them, across charities, universities, Edtech, K12 schools, political campaigns and parties, associations, other nonprofits and crowdfunding platforms. Representing business, product and brand priorities – working in tandem to drive business and social impact In her previous role Robin helped lead Chase Paymentech Solutions as Director of Client Relations. Recognizing the rapid growth rate and consumer demand for payments, Robin established exclusive working agreements between Chase Paymentech and Visa and MasterCard. As she is heavily involved within various payment industry organizations, Robin currently serves as an advocate with Visa and MasterCard to ensure complete understanding of merchants and the associations. Robin oversaw and managed all aspects of client relations for several of Chase Paymentech’s largest accounts. Robin joined Chase Paymentech in 2005 , as a National Account Manager and then was promoted to a Director role in 2006 . Robin is the recurring expert at PayPal. Prior to joining Chase Paymentech, Robin worked in Client Relations for over 20 years.

Maggie Cameron

Director of Enterprise Products

Personify

Maggie Cameron is the Director of Enterprise Products for Personify, overseeing the strategy and execution of the product roadmap. Maggie’s team is responsible for the features, design and documentation of the products. They conduct market analysis, gather client feedback and work closely with industry experts to deliver compelling solutions to the nonprofit market. Prior to heading the product team, Maggie was Personify’s Lead Designer heading the user experience transformation of PersonifyGO. Before joining Personify, Maggie was a designer in the Washington D.C. area. Her work with the organization Not a Bully was featured on a Cesar Millan television special. She now lives in Austin, Texas with a 10-pound dog named Bear.

Michael Fiaschetti

Senior Director, System Integration & Business Intelligence/IT

Alzheimer's Association

As Senior Director of Business Intelligence & System Integration at the Alzheimer’s Association, Michael works closely with business stakeholders to manage the CRM Database and data warehouse development and deployment for Senior Leadership, National organization and field offices Nationwide.. He is responsible for all aspects of data integration between multiple systems. These systems include the Association’s constituent facing websites and processing centers, financial system, reporting warehouse and CRM database. He and his team have developed, maintain and enhance real time reporting and analysis for the national organization as well as chapters for data related to Financials, Contact Center, Fulfillment and Key Performance Indicators. Michael is called upon to lead multi department work groups to assure CRM,data needs and processes are met for organization initiatives. Michael is passionate about data hygiene to assure enhanced results and constituent satisfaction, he has implemented aggressive best practices for any organization he has been involved with. Prior to joining the Alzheimer’s Association in 2007 Michael worked for Blackbaud/Target Software’s Managed Services Department as the Director of Production Management where he was in charge of hosted account production tasks and data hygiene.

Joe Shaffner

Senior Communications Specialist

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

I have 15 years of experience in communications, marketing, client relations, partnership development, business development, project & process management, and team leadership. I have a master’s degree in Public Relations & Corporate Communications from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

I currently work with the communications team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). I am a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former marketing manager of an international development consulting firm. I have broad experience working with agencies, corporations, nonprofits, small businesses, and individuals aiming to grow capacity and develop capabilities.

Minal Bopaiah

Principal Consultant

Brevity & Wit

Minal Bopaiah is a marketing, communications, and branding strategist with nearly 20 years of professional experience. Her areas of expertise include branding and identity, corporate marketing, and strategic communications, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

As the Founder and Principal Consultant of Brevity & Wit, Minal is an expert in using psychological principles to create brand identities and communications that win both hearts and minds. Her work includes helping Cook Ross, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, increase its website traffic by 1450%, its social media impressions by 120%, and its event revenue by 50% in less than a year. She also helped the company re-position its products and services so that they were more aligned with solving customer pain points and scaling diversity and inclusion initiatives. Previously, she developed an organization-wide framework and integrated communications plan for Population Services International (PSI), a global health NGO with $600 million in annual funding, so that they could share their research, data and evidence more effectively. Her clients include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and EngenderHealth.

Minal’s previous nonprofit work 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. Her for-profit experience includes being the Executive Editor of Subscription Insider, an online business publication for which she single-handedly generated $200,000 in annual revenues.

Minal’s thought leadership has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and she has been a guest on several podcasts and radio shows, including The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU/NPR.

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. In 2016, she was selected as a Digital Production Fellow by Organizing for Action, the nonprofit advocacy group started by President Barack Obama. She is currently working on her first book with Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, President Emirita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women and former Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. She also serves on the Board of Lifestock International, a non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives of livestock holders around the world through increased food security and economic sustainability.

Sarah Boison

Director, Digital Strategy

Communities In Schools

As the digital director for Communities In Schools, Sarah believes in cultivating strong and highly-engaged communities around social issues and causes. She has an eye for enhancing the user experience through owned and shared media platforms, while increasing conversation around powerful and dynamic issues among key publics online.

Sarah has nearly ten years of experience working in the nonprofit sector and has worked at other organizations such as Independent Sector, Points of Light and America’s Promise Alliance. Sarah also managed other digital projects such as day-of social media for the Women’s March in 2017, social media for the United State of Women summit in 2018, online engagement for Justice Roundtable’s Vote for Justice event, and Eighteenx18’s We Vote Next Summit.

Sarah also worked on local campaigns in Washington, DC, serving as a digital strategist for DC Councilman Robert White in 2014 and 2016. In her free time, Sarah manages a personal blog called The City Girl Hustle, designed to encourage women of color to take their mental health and self-care more seriously.

Michelle Shefter

Product Director, Fundraising

EveryAction

Michelle is the Product Director, Fundraising for EveryAction, where she leads the product development of the EveryAction fundraising CRM solution. Michelle is passionate about bringing tools to nonprofits that drive bottom line fundraising results and make fundraisers lives easier. Prior to joining EveryAction, Michelle had over 2 decades of experience in fundraising, marketing, and advocacy for nonprofit advocacy organizations, including including Defenders of Wildlife, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and League of Conservation Voters. When not in the office, you can find Michelle in her kitchen, trying out new recipes that are centered around her latest find at the farmer’s market.

Wendy Husman

Account Director

Mal Warwick Donordigital

Wendy Marinaccio Husman is a digital fundraising consultant with 16 years’ experience in nonprofit development. An Account Director with Mal Warwick Donordigital, she helps organizations like Mercy For Animals and KQED grow and engage their email file, optimize their donation form, design effective and innovative fundraising campaigns, and integrate their marketing across channels. She previously worked as Membership Director for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Development Director for Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and an independent consultant while living in Shanghai. Wendy has degrees from Stanford University and New York University and works remotely from Minneapolis. She is a racial justice activist in any extra time she can find.

Michael Kawalek

Director of Development

Sempervirens Fund

Michael Kawalek joined Sempervirens Fund in 2013, and he currently serves as the Director of Development. Before coming to Sempervirens Fund, he worked as Director of Development and Finance for Bay Area Wilderness Training and as a fundraiser for the Oakland Museum of California, the San Francisco Zoo, and KQED. Michael earned his Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential in 2015, serves as a Board Member for the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and is a Bay Area native.

George Weiner

Co-founder

PowerPoetry.org

Co-founder of PowerPoetry.org the largest platform for young people and poetry online. Building a safe, supportive and creative platform home to half a million young people around the world. George is the former CTO of DoSomething.org and the founder of Whole Whale, a social impact digital agency. He is also the Chairman of America’s Charities, a leading workplace giving solution for employees.

Alison Glazer

Digital Advertising Whaler

Whole Whale

Ali leads Whole Whale’s Advertising and Analytics teams, helping nonprofits build, measure, and learn from campaigns towards the digital metrics that matter to most to their missions. In her time at Whole Whale, Ali has spent over $1 million in ad dollars to drive impact through resource distribution, volunteer recruitment, and online community growth via digital advertising campaigns. Client work has included Greater Than AIDS, the Cancer Research Institute, Crisis Text Line, PJ Library, the Vilcek Foundation, and the National Stroke Association. Certified in Google Analytics and Google Ads (Search, Display, and Video) Ali and has managed over $4 million of Google Ad Grant dollars, helping nonprofits reach and engage core audiences. She has successfully managed the Ad Grant and increased on and offline conversions for over a dozen nonprofits — in one instance increasing volunteer registrations by over 250% in just 3 months. She also trains clients and the nonprofit community on all things digital advertising and has presented at the Grantmakers in Health Fall Forum and lectured at Columbia University.

Brady Josephson

Vice President, Innovation & Optimization

NextAfter

Brady is the VP, Innovation & Optimization at NextAfter — a fundraising research lab and consultancy. A charity nerd, adjunct professor, and international speaker, his thoughts have been featured in The Huffington Post, NPR, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy and at conferences like AFP Congress, BBCON, and RaiseNow Inspire among others.

Brady lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife Liz, son Hendrix, dog Melly, and cat Thor.

Ceci Dadisman

Digital Marketing Manager

FORM

Ceci is a multi-faceted marketing professional with over 10 years of experience successfully marketing the arts and nonprofits utilizing innovative and cutting-edge initiatives. Currently the Digital Marketing Manager at FORM, she is nationally recognized as a leader in digital and social media marketing and specializes in the integration of digital marketing and technology into traditional marketing methods.

A frequent public speaker, Ceci’s recent and upcoming engagements feature national conference appearances at NTEN, National Arts Marketing Project, Arts Midwest, OPERA America, and Chorus America in addition to many other local and regional events. Known for her easy-going and vernacular style, she creates open learning environments with an emphasis on information sharing and useful takeaways.

Ceci is passionate about empowering people through marketing and is a contributor to Arts Hacker where she regularly shares timely information and step-by-step tutorials. She also teaches the arts marketing course at West Virginia University’s College of Creative Arts.

She is on the Arts Midwest Conference Professional Development Committee, the NTEN Conference Session Advisory Committee, is the Immediate Past President and Chapter Founder of Femfessionals West Palm Beach, the Immediate Past Chapter Leader and Chapter Founder of the West Palm Beach Chapter of Girl Develop It, the Immediate Past President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and served for many years on the National Arts Marketing Project Advisory Committee and as the OPERA America Marketing Network Chair. She also serves on the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts Visiting Committee.

Ceci was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and graduated from West Virginia University with a music degree in vocal performance. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Meghan Nash

Senior Implementations Manager

DonorDrive

As DonorDrive’s Senior Implementations Manager, Meghan welcomes new clients into the DonorDrive family and guides them through the on-boarding process. As their main point of contact, Meghan strategizes with clients on how to best utilize the DonorDrive platform, leads design conversations, and implements additional tools such as chatbots and paid social marketing.

Meghan also plays a key role in building DonorDrive’s Partner community, helping vet potential partners and acting as the touchpoint for existing partners, providing essential resources and documentation.

Wayne Baldaro

National Walk Manager

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Wayne Baldaro has been fortunate to have had 3 careers – for 15 years he was a marketing and regional manager in the wholesale electronic component distribution business in Southern, Northern California and Arizona. For 22 years he owned and operated a successful educational business teaching young children technology. In 2008 he was recruited to run the NAMIWalks event in Los Angeles County – in five years the event went from $240,000 to $375,000 with over 4,000 participants. In 2012 he joined the “national team” and worked with 25 walks across the western United States. He currently leads the team of five, working with over 95 walks and raising over $12 MM in 2018.

His philosophy is there are no failures only learning experiences, success is always closer than we realize, and gratitude is what brings us joy in life.

Josh Hirsch

Director of Mission and Communication

Susan G. Komen Florida

Josh Hirsch is the Director of Mission and Communication for Susan G. Komen South Florida. He has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2006 with a focus on educational philanthropy for both public charter and independent private schools. He has an extensive background in social media, digital communications, and marketing along with experience in grant research and writing, individual giving, special event planning, stewardship, and cultivation of donors. He is past Communications Chair and incoming President-elect for the Association of Fundraising Professionals Palm Beach County Chapter. Josh is also a member of the AFPeeps, the social media vanguard for the AFP International Conference and other AFP initiatives. He has spoken nationally on social media and has had numerous articles published in professional journals. Josh received a Master of Science in Family, Youth and Community Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising from the University of Florida. He has a Certificate in Strategic Fundraising and Philanthropy from Bay Path University and is a Certified Social Media Strategist by the National Institute for Social Media.

Julia Campbell

Speaker, Author, Consultant

J Campbell Social Marketing

Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations. A mom of 2 and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, she is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits, a call-to-action for nonprofits to use stories to accomplish their missions.

Based in Boston, Julia is a global authority on digital storytelling, with happy clients spanning the globe from Moscow to San Francisco. She has provided workshops and training to Meals on Wheels America, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Facebook. Julia is a frequent contributor to Nonprofit Tech for Good, Social Media Today, Maximize Social Business, Elevation Web, Network for Good, Wild Apricot, and others.

Her passion is to get nonprofits of all sizes to stop spinning their wheels on social media and to start getting real results using digital tools. You can check out her thoughts and ideas on all things nonprofit digital storytelling and social media at www.jcsocialmarketing.com/blog.

Beth Kanter

Trainer, Speaker, Author

Happy Healthy Nonprofit

Beth is internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media, philanthropy, wellbeing in the workplace and training. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for thousands of social change activists and nonprofits on every continent in the world. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop leader. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. She author of the award winning Networked Nonprofit Books and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout (http://bit.ly/happyhealthynpbook) published by J.Wiley. She writes “Beth’s Blog,” one of the first nonprofit blogs. Her clients include foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Marco Kuntze

CEO

Relishing Digital

Marco is a digital fundraising expert, specialising in Peer to Peer fundraising having worked for eight years at JustGiving, the UK fundraising platform that has raised $5 billon for good causes.

He has shaped the online fundraising of some of the world-leading digital fundraising campaigns such as Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life with 100s of thousands of fundraisers and has helped to raise tens of millions for charities annually.

He now advises charities including Unicef on digital fundraising and provides strategic advice to fundraising platforms such as RaiseNow and Give.asia

Marco is a Board Member of the Resource Alliance, the charity behind the world leading International Fundraising Congress (IFC) and IFC Asia which every year brings together up to 1000 fundraisers from over 60 countries for a week of intense learning and experience exchange.

Susan Walsh

Director of Research and Strategic Impact

Friends of the Children

Susan Walsh focuses on the long-range sustainability and policy development plans to advance the mission of Friends of the Children. She oversees data and evaluation, including the longitudinal RCT study of the Friends model. Susan is committed to ensuring that holistic, individualized K-12 support for high-needs children is an essential priority for public and private sector investment. She currently serves on the Board of The Children’s Institute. Prior to joining Friends, Susan served as Executive Vice President of The Campbell Foundation and as Executive Director of Committed Partners for Youth in Eugene, OR from 2001-2011. In addition to her non-profit work, Susan was an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students about youth development. Susan holds a B.S. degree from Georgetown University, a law degree from Villanova University, and a doctorate in special education from the University of Oregon.

Terri Sorensen

CEO

Friends of the Children

Terri Sorensen is the Chief Executive Officer of Friends of the Children, a national nonprofit that is breaking the cycle of generational poverty. As national chief executive officer, Sorensen oversees strategic direction, fundraising, expansion, and evaluation for the network.

Since becoming chief executive officer in 2011, Sorensen has diversified funding streams and raised more than $85 million in private and public funds, opening the door for an aggressive national expansion campaign. In just five years, Friends of the Children has expanded from five to 15 locations in the U.S. and United Kingdom.

Prior to being appointed national chief executive officer, Sorensen served as the executive director of Friends of the Children – Portland, the founding chapter, for 11 years. Under her leadership, Friends of the Children has been named by Portland Business Journal as the most admired nonprofit in Oregon for four consecutive years in a row.

Sorensen was recently selected for Results for America’s Moneyball for Government Nonprofit All-Star Team. Friends of the Children won the 2014 Social Impact Exchange business plan competition. She is a member of the Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community, a cadre of leaders who share a core commitment to high performance, and has served as a board member for Social Venture Partners and Oregon Mentors. She also received a 2012 Orchid Award for the 25 Most Influential Women in Business by the Portland Business Journal.

In addition, Friends of the Children has become a national leader in evidence-based mentoring with its rigorous evaluation: conducting a return on investment (ROI) study with the Harvard Business School Association of Oregon, securing a Social Innovation Fund sub-recipient award from Third Sector Capital Partners for a Pay-for-Success feasibility study, and engaging in a longitudinal randomized control trial of the model.

Sorensen holds a B.S. in accountancy from the School of Business & Public Administration at the University of Missouri, and is a Certified Public Accountant. Previously, she was controller for the American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter, held key managerial positions with Sprint Corporation, and worked in public accounting for Ernst & Young in Kansas City, MO.

Dar Veverka

Director of Information Technology

Urban Teachers

Dar Veverka has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years. She started out in IT working in non-profits on small networks, moved on to teaching technology courses, and then moved into the corporate world working in IT infrastructure and management. In the past few years, Dar has coming full circle back to the non-profit world that she missed. When not doing things in IT, she can be found out hiking or playing in the mud with the residents at the nearest animal sanctuary. And drinking coffee. Lots of coffee.

Paula Brantner

Senior Advisor

Workplace Fairness

Paula Brantner is the Senior Advisor to Workplace Fairness, after serving as Executive Director (2008-2016) and Program Director (2003 to 2007) writing legal content for the Webby-nominated site www.workplacefairness.org, and developing products for WF’s social enterprise program, 0.1.2.3. In 2016, she founded PB Work Solutions, LLC, to counsel and coach workers in toxic workplaces and consult and advise on workplace issues, including sexual harassment training and policy development. An employment lawyer for over 25 years, Paula has degrees from UC-Hastings College of the Law and Michigan State University’s James Madison College. She is a former co-coordinator for NetSquaredDC and a retired DC Rollergirl. She volunteers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, travels around the world to see pandas, and lives for karaoke and trivia nights.

Laura Cole

Director of Account Services

Sanky Communications

Laura has been working with nonprofits as a digital fundraising and marketing strategist at Sanky Communications for nearly a decade. Areas of particular focus include integrated campaign strategy, digital acquisition and advertising, and fundraising program analytics. She has spoken at various DMA, NTEN, DMFA, and AFP events. Prior to joining Sanky, she worked on the marketing team for the Broadway musical Wicked. Laura holds a B.A. in History and English from Columbia University and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School.

Paul Habig

President

Sanky Communications

Paul Habig is President of Sanky Communications, a marketing company that specializes in integrated fundraising, communications, and advocacy for nonprofits. Paul has twenty years of integrated fundraising, digital, direct mail and social advertising, web design, and email marketing experience. He has developed award-winning strategies and campaigns for more than 90 nonprofit organizations. Paul’s background in the nonprofit world also includes marketing and fundraising positions at diverse organizations such as the YMCA and CNEWA. He also ran his own Internet marketing business working with brands such as VitaminWater and SmartWater. He is an active member of the Greater New York Chapter of the AFP and serves as co-chair of the Web, Tech & Social Media track for Fundraising Day in New York, and also as a board member for the DMFA. He is an adjunct teacher at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and is a frequent speaker at DMA, DMA of Washington, NTEN, DMFA, and AFP workshops and conferences. During his spare time, he loves spending time with his daughter at the playground, music class, and reading new books together.

David Onate

Director, Marketing & Creative

African Wildlife Foundation

David Onate is Director of Marketing and Creative at the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the leading conservation organization focusing solely on the continent of Africa. Since joining AWF from Discovery Communications in 2009, David has progressed through various roles to oversee organizational multi-channel marketing strategy, creative direction, and integrated fundraising.

David is an active member of the Direct Marketing Association and also volunteers time to help local arts and community-focused small business build effective web presences and grow digital strategies. Through creative solutions in multi-channel marketing, brand exploration, and embracing change, he strives to help organizations big and small stand out from the crowd to share their passion.

Katherine White

Director of Engineering

Kanopi Studios

I’m a full-stack LAMP web developer, building websites since 1999. I’ve worked in WordPress since 2003, Drupal since 2007, and have done work with numerous other content management systems over the years.

As Director of Engineering at Kanopi Studios, I work to keep Kanopi excelling in all things technical. I’m a solutions architect for clients ranging from small businesses and high-growth startups to global Fortune 500 business. I love helping clients see the relationship between their business goals and their technical solutions, and maximizing the impact and longevity of their sites within the constraints of their project.

I’m a passionate advocate for accessibility, rewarding user experiences, and future-proof development methodologies.

I also travel, knit hats, and inhale books!

DeDe Dunevant

Director of Communications

Physicians for Human Rights

DeDe Dunevant oversees all communications efforts at Physicians for Human Rights, including publications, media relations, and digital communications. She has overseen an update to the organizational identity as well as a complete overhaul of the website and digital advocacy and fundraising toolsets. Her communications career spans twenty years and includes experience in the fields of drug policy reform, education, international volunteerism, and global public health.

Before coming to PHR, Dunevant was managing director of communications for the Drug Policy Alliance, where she led the organization in a comprehensive rebranding process and development of an integrated communications practice.

Prior to the Drug Policy Alliance, Dunevant served as the senior marketing official for the Peace Corps, where she managed the creation of a recruitment communications campaign that included production of collateral print materials, a recruitment video, and public-service announcements for television, radio, digital, and print. She also worked as a program manager for Population Services International overseeing a social marketing portfolio of reproductive health products in seven countries in West and Central Africa. Previously, she taught English for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa.

Originally from Los Angeles, Dunevant holds a BA in French and linguistics from the University of California Los Angeles. She is fluent in French.

Madeline Stanionis

Partner,

M+R

Madeline Stanionis has been raising money and organizing for 25 years, and figuring out kooky ways to do it for most of that time. She’s led internet strategies, written copy, launched campaigns, produced videos, raised money, schemed, planned, dreamed, and laughed with many organizations, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, CREDO, The Nation, Ocean Conservancy, Amnesty International USA, the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, Mozilla Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, the Humane Society of the United States, ACORN, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and CARE. Madeline is a frequent speaker and writer at fundraising, advocacy, and technology conferences and publications across the country, and is the author of The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising Thousands (If Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with E-mail, published by Emerson and Church. Madeline holds a Masters of Social Work from San Francisco State University. She, her husband, rescued greyhound Jem, goats Peanut Butter & Jelly, and chickens (the Dozen Divas) live part-time in Berkeley and part-time in Mendocino where they run a pretty fun and funky inn called The Andiron.

Dustin Kight

Vice President

M+R

Dustin Kight came to M+R from the marketing and communications teams at AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Family Equality Council, a national LGBTQ family rights organization. His clients are Planned Parenthood, Union of Concerned Scientists, and The Nature Conservancy. He previously worked with AARP, CARE, National Geographic Society, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, The Humane Society of the United States, McKesson Foundation, Oxfam America, and Human Rights Campaign. Dustin is a South Carolina native and a graduate of Vassar College, where he studied political science. In August 2018, he moved from Boston, MA to Portland, OR, where he shares a co-working space with his partner, Neil, and their dog, Hank (aka their home).

Eleanor Hyde

Director of Sales

Firefly Partners

Eleanor joined Firefly in 2016 as Account Manager. Prior to her time at Firefly she worked in nonprofit theaters large and small including Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Hangar Theatre, and Emerald City Theatre. As a nonprofit professional she wore all kinds of hats including development, event planning, communications, business strategy, and HR. She spent a stint working at NeonCRM helping organizations through the tool selection process. Eleanor has an MFA in Arts Leadership and Administration from DePaul University, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and spent some formative time at the University of Cape Town.

Mary Margaret Callahan

Chief Mission Officer

Pet Partners

Mary Margaret Callahan is the Chief Mission Officer at Pet Partners, where she oversees the Therapy Animal Program which registers nine different species.

Responsible for supporting safe and effective animal-assisted interventions for the Pet Partners teams across all 50 states and internationally, Mary Margaret works to ensure highly trained and professional volunteers making a difference in their community while also promoting industry standards to ensure animal welfare.

The daughter of a veterinarian, Mary Margaret grew up surrounded by pets and has a deep appreciation for the strength of the human-animal bond. She lives in a small farm outside the Seattle area with her husband, daughter, and pets including dogs, cats, miniature goats, a mini donkey and an assortment of backyard poultry.

Colleen Campbell

Senior Project Manager

Firefly Partners

Colleen brings more than seven years of digital marketing and communication experience to the Firefly Partners team, with a focus on building data driven strategies and leveraging online tools to support fundraising and communication strategies. She joined Firefly in 2013 and uses her strong project management skills, creativity, and passion for data analysis to every engagement. Prior to joining Firefly, Colleen worked in development and communications for The Global FoodBanking Network, where she developed their online fundraising and communication strategy and managed a major website redesign and online marketing tool migration project. Colleen received a B.A. in international affairs from the University of Colorado. She is a Chicago native now living in Milwaukee.

Jeremy Spake

Principal, Thought Leadership and Advisory Services

Cornerstone OnDemand

Jeremy’s experience ranges both as a business leader and consultant in compensation, mergers & acquisitions, workforce analytics, and strategic planning.  At Cornerstone, Jeremy develops compensation strategies to advise clients on how to drive theory into practice. Areas of focus have included change initiatives in compensation planning; short & long-term incentive plan design; continuous performance management and succession planning.

Jeremy has also served on the following boards:
Positive Impact Health Centers
Oglethorpe University
AID Gwinnett
Forever Family
SPARK! Reproductive Justice Now

Marisa Lopez

Director of Account Management

Presence Product Group

Marisa is a results-driven leader in the dynamic world of Nonprofit Technology. She self-defines as an innovator, social entrepreneur, technology therapist, Salesforce evangelist, mother, and outdoor enthusiast. She also leads Amplify, an organization that empowers underrepresented voices to be fearless leaders in technology.

Angela Adams

Executive Vice President

Now IT Matters

Angela Adams has managed product and professional services delivery in the social impact sector since 2004. Having formally studied Creative Writing and Rhetoric, Social Work, and Theology, Angela brings an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to business analysis, technical architecture, process design, and professional development. Part geek, part wayfinder, and all analyst, Angela is adept at finding themes hidden in complex user stories and creating and executing a plan for transformation. Angela is co-founder of Amplify and The Nourish Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to nourishing hope in communities through education and shared resources. Angela and her family live in rural Illinois in an old farmhouse that will never cease to be a project.

Sara Chieco

Director of Technology, Social Impact

Presence Product Group

For the past 10 years, Sara has worked exclusively with Salesforce.com for Non-Profits: analyzing, architecting, designing, implementing and delivering custom solutions. For the 10 years prior, she designed and coded both enterprise and client/server applications as a software engineer. Sara is passionate about solving problems, delivering high-quality solutions and enabling non-profits to be more efficient to better serve their constituents.

Tami Lau

Senior Salesforce Engineer, Social Impact

Presence Product Group

Tami is a Salesforce architect and developer who has worked in the nonprofit space for ten years and counting, combining her interest in technology with a passion for mission-driven work. She graduated with a degree in Environmental Science, and although her plans to become a wildlife biologist did not pan out, she loves her current work and the community she has found because of it.

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!

Michael Hoffman

CEO

Gather Voices

Michael Hoffman is the CEO of Gather Voices and founder of See3 Communications. He is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and businesses and a long-time consultant to leaders on constituent engagement strategies.

He started his career as a political consultant and Washington-based nonprofit fundraiser before joining a venture investment firm to develop internet start-ups. Hoffman worked in web and software development and founded See3 to bring together his belief in the power of the web and his passion and experience with nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, and education. In 2017, Hoffman founded Gather Voices to revolutionize how organizations collect, manage and publish user-generated content.

He is a frequent blogger and tweeter on marketing (@michael_hoffman) and is a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and social media for social change. Michael is the founder of the DoGooder Awards, a video contest for social good co-sponsored by NTEN and See3.

Specialties: User-generated content and the intersection of nonprofits, content marketing, software development, video and social change.

Jono Smith

Director of Digital & Brand Communications

Make-A-Wish America

Jono Smith is the digital & communications director for Make-A-Wish America, where he is responsible for the organization’s owned and earned media strategy. At Make-A-Wish, Jono has helped lead the global repositioning of the Make-A-Wish brand, as well as playing a key role in the creation of over $50 million in earned media value through the development of new campaigns. Jono has also held senior marketing roles at Event 360, Network for Good and Ellucian, in addition to serving as a Special Assistant for Communications in the Clinton White House. Jono is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University.

Will St Germain

Cloud Solution Architect

Miscrosoft

I work in Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact. I am a cloud solution architect, focused on Azure and developing and assisting in the implementation of common nonprofit solutions. I have been in technology for years, and have worked on some amazing projects, including the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Dynamics solution for the State of Texas. I have generated, with the help of the Microsoft village of nonprofits, a number of AzureFoundation accelerator packs. https://aka.ms/azurefoundation

Lila Pigott

Director of Services

Idealist Consulting

Lila has a long history working in nonprofit and mission-driven organizations and has been an Idealist since 2012. She has a focus on program management and fundraising, is a casual cyclist and loves spending time with her young son.

Jebidiah Ory

CEO

Phone2Action

Jeb Ory is the CEO and Co-founder of Phone2Action, an award-winning digital advocacy and engagement platform. A frequent blogger and speaker on how technology can power civic engagement, he is also a member of the Stanford University Social Impact Grant Board, where he helps identify and fund the next generation of social entrepreneurs. He lives in DC with his wife, Lea, and daughters, Sybil and Seneca.

Russ Fagaly

Head of Audience

FWD.us

Martin Froger-Silva

Multimedia Specialist

FWD.us

Martin Froger-Silva is the Multimedia Specialist at FWD.us, a bipartisan political organization that believes America’s families, communities, and economy thrive when more individuals are able to achieve their full potential. Martin produces video content for different social channels, drives short and long term video storytelling, and creates content in response to breaking news. Martin has written, shot, directed, and edited award winning short films in the United States and the United Kingdom. While he is mainly a filmmaker, Martin is also a photographer, and you can find his work on Instagram @martinfroger.

Brenton Gieser

Filmmaker and Photographer

LvL Films

Brenton Gieser is a photographer, filmmaker, documentarian, and visual storyteller originating from Half Moon Bay, California and currently producing the majority of his work in San Francisco. He approaches his work as a personal mandate to help raise questions about social and economic injustice with a desire to move us towards deeper community understanding and social equity. His first short documentary film, Tender Souls, has been screened live for thousands of San Franciscans at SF DocFest, SF Urban Film Festival and at companies like Twitter, Salesforce, Wells Fargo, Zendesk, amongst others. His current project, The 50, unveils the story of the first 50 men to become California certified drug and alcohol counselors while serving either life or long-term prison sentences.

Mahri Bahati

LGBTQ Community Engagement Specialist

PRIDEnet - Stanford University

Mahri Bahati, MPH is a creative and passionate public health professional with extensive experience across the HIV/AIDS continuum of care, including anti-retroviral medication access, HIV prevention and surveillance, harm reduction, and community mobilization. Most recently she worked for MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights where she developed and managed a global capacity building project to facilitate organizational development and build self-sustainability for trans-led organizations throughout the global south. Her professional interests include sexual and gender minority health equity, HIV treatment adherence, PrEP access, and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

Mahri earned her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Kentucky in 2013, with a focus in Epidemiology. As an undergrad, she began volunteering with local HIV/AIDS non-profits which sparked a professional interest in public health along with a lifelong interest in volunteering and community organizing.

Jenn Lejano

Partner (Chicago, IL)

Fresh Eyes Digital

Jenn has been proud to work with innovative organizations and companies on their digital programs for over 15 years. A marketing and fundraising professional with deep experience in lead generation, management, donor conversion and acquisition, Jenn has developed strategic, creative communications and marketing campaigns for mission-driven organizations to help them reach their goals. Jenn is thrilled to help nonprofit organizations create outstanding relationships with their donors and prospects through meaningful engagement on multiple digital channels.

Darren Arquero

LGBTQ Communications Specialist

PRIDEnet - Stanford University

Darren Arquero, MA uses the power of storytelling to advance multidisciplinary research for strategic communications and impactful change. With a decade of nonprofit experience, he serves as the LGBTQ Communications Specialist for PRIDEnet.

Prior to joining the PRIDE team, Darren served as a Butler Koshland Fellow to Kate Kendell at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) where he focused on strategic messaging through a broad range of issues affecting LGBTQ people and their families, including nondiscrimination in employment and the transgender military ban under the Trump administration. Through NCLR’s Born Perfect campaign to end conversion therapy, Darren successfully secured coverage for conversion therapy survivors in national news and media outlets including The Advocate, Teen Vogue, and Colorlines.

BETH BRODOVSKY

President

Iris Creative

As the president of Iris Creative, Beth Brodovsky helps visionary organizations focus their brand, attract the right people and inspire them to take action. She is the Founder of Nonprofit Toolkit, where nonprofit staff learn to market like a pro and the host of the nonprofit marketing podcast Driving Participation.

Colin Boyle

IT Director

Step Up Suncoast

Colin Boyle is a Navy veteran and has a degree in history from New College of Florida. He is currently taking his 22nd gap year before going to grad school.

Since there wasn’t a huge market for historians, he started doing IT work. He has worked for a variety of nonprofits as well as VARs, MSPs, and SAAS shops.

Colin is currently the IT Director for Step Up Suncoast, an anti-poverty non-profit in Sarasota, Florida.

Ken Montenegro

Information Technology Director

Advancing Justice Los Angeles

Ken Montenegro is a technologist with twenty years of experience working with nonprofit and social change groups to securely leverage technology for their mission-driven work. Ken also holds a law degree.

He has been employed by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles; Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles; Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles; Maternal and Child Health Access; and the Northeast Valley Health Corporation. He has also worked with numerous other groups on a contract basis. Ken is also a board member of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center; the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN); and is National Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild.

Ken brings a commitment to meaningful social change and insight on areas of compliance and security that are not theoretical but experience based. He also brings a passion for understanding process because people power is the foundation of impactful technology adoption.

Ken was born, raised, and remains rooted in Los Angeles. You can learn more about him at https://www.comeuppance.net.

Matthew Eshleman

CTO

Community IT

As the Chief Technology Officer at Community IT, Matthew Eshleman is responsible for shaping Community IT’s strategy in assessing and recommending technology solutions to clients. With a deep background in network infrastructure technology he fundamentally understands how technology works and interoperates both in the office and in the cloud.

Matt joined Community IT as an intern in the summer of 2000 and after finishing his dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems at Eastern Mennonite University he rejoined Community IT as a network administrator in January of 2001. Matt has steadily progressed up at Community IT and while working full time received his MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University.

Matt is a frequent speaker at NTEN events and has presented at the Inside NGO conference and Non-Profit Risk Management Summit. He lives in Baltimore MD with his wife, daughter and son. Matt is an active member of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and a foster parent.

Chris Schoenwetter

Security Team Lead

American Technology Services, Inc.

Chris Schoenwetter leads a team of security engineers for American Technology Services, a leading technology consulting firm headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. His team is responsible for performing security assessments, implementing security controls and monitoring their client’s IT environments to detect attacks and avoid data breaches. He often works with nonprofit IT Directors, Executive Directors and boards to develop and implement sound security strategies.

Chris frequently speaks about cybersecurity trends at conferences and on webinars for ATS or it’s clients. He frequently writes about emerging trends and provides detailed advisories on high-impact cybersecurity news for his company’s blog. When he’s not helping nonprofits stay out of the news you can typically find Chris running around his adopted hometown of Raleigh, NC.

Courtney Clark

VP of Design

Forum One

Courtney Clark is the Vice President of Design at Forum One. She’s a user experience designer and content strategist with over a decade of experience designing for nonprofits, foundations, and government. Some of her recent clients include Peace Corps, Smithsonian, American Red Cross, MacArthur Foundation, and California Air Resources Board.

She currently leads the design team at Forum One where she manages and mentors staff, grows and improves the design practice, and brings design thinking and strategy to project teams and clients.

James Kinser

Senior Associate, Digital Communications

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

James Kinser is the Senior Associate of Digital Communications at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He manages the Foundations website and email communications and for the past two years has served as the lead project manager for the redesign of MacArthur’s website. He has presented at conferences on integrated communications systems and strategies.

Cyndi Rowland

Director, WebAIM

Utah State University

Dr. Cyndi Rowland is the Founder and Executive Director of WebAIM and the National Center on Disability and Access to Education housed at Utah State University. Since 1999 she has focused on research, tool and resource development, training, and policy initiatives in web accessibility for education. The work of both WebAIM and NCDAE are viewed as important resources in web accessibility. Both groups have a rich history of research and product development to benefit the broader community and an inclusive web. WebAIM is consistently in the top 5 Google returns when searching for “web accessibility”, where there are typically millions of returns. Some of WebAIM’s content includes issues and technical recommendations for developers who wish their designs to be inclusive of individuals with disabilities. NCDAE has rich resources for administrators and faculty alike who wish to make changes in their systems and individual practice. This includes an institutional Benchmarking and Planning Tool as well as accessibility Cheatsheets used frequently by faculty and staff. Dr. Rowland has engaged in her accessibility work at top tier national and international levels. Examples include sitting on the Section 508 refresh committee, and working on initiatives out of UN organizations such as the ITU and UNESCO where she was an invited expert to assist in the creation of global guidelines for online distance education, where accessibility plays a role for UN Member States.

Kirk Schmidt

Director, Foundation Analytics, Systems & Operations

STARS

At the intersection of nonprofits and mathematics, Kirk is sitting there, probably playing random board games or running a session of D&D.

Prior to joining STARS, Kirk spent the previous eight years consulting nonprofits throughout Canada and the United States on fundraising data, the underlying systems, analytics, and business process. In his current role, he is responsible for the fundraising systems, donations processing, direct mail, metrics and analytics.

Wes Moon

Co-Founder and COO

Wisely

Wes launched his not-for-profit career by accident at one of Canada’s most prestigious fundraising organization, the University of Toronto. While at UofT he helped build the process, operations and tools that fundraisers needed to be successful with data backed decision making. Driven to innovate, Wes’s worked with some of the leading Canadian charities before joining Blackbaud, the de facto not-for-profit sector technology provider where he lead the Canadian team. It was there that Wes saw a gap in the market and built Wisely, an AI powered fundraiser acceleration tool.

Amy Van Wyngarden

Vice President, Peer-to-Peer Client Experience

OneCause

Amy Van Wyngarden brings more than 13 years of nonprofit fundraising technology experience and 14 years of high tech experience in product, sales, marketing and client success to her role as VP of Peer-to-Peer Client Experience for OneCause. Amy works directly with clients and cross-functionality within OneCause to continually improve the experience we provide. Once Amy began working in nonprofit technology, she got hooked on serving nonprofits and helping them engage supporters. This passion eventually led her to co-create the OneCause Peer-to-Peer solution (formerly Great Feats) to enable innovative social engagement and fundraising approaches as well as reimagine traditional peer-to-peer fundraising.

David Smith

CEO

United Way for Greater Austin

David C. Smith, CEO of United Way for Greater Austin (UWATX), has been in Executive Non-Profit Leadership for over 25 years in Austin, Texas, leading mission focused and results driven organizations to substantial growth. David’s philosophy to non-profit leadership is that while there are many factors that go into a successful organization, one common thread through all is reaching out to diverse parts of the community to collaboratively find solutions that create real impact.

David was the founder and Executive Director of Hill Country Ride for AIDS from 2001 – 2012. Concurrently from 2008 to 2012 he founded and was the Executive Director of Mamma Jamma Ride for Breast Cancer. Under his leadership Hill Country Ride grew to be the second largest ride for AIDS in the country, and Mamma Jamma the largest ride for breast cancer in the country.

After that long and highly successful tenure, David started David C. Smith Consulting. Prior to joining UWATX, David served as the Interim Executive Director of The Thinkery from October 2014 to September 2015 and Interim Managing Director of Conspirare from September 2012 to August 2013.

David has served on many non-profit boards and currently sits on the boards of: Austin Theater Alliance (Paramount and State Theaters), Red Bird Foundation, Nobelity, Barton Springs Conservancy, United Ways-Texas, E3 Alliance, Community Action Network, and the Austin Healthcare Council. David has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the South (Sewanee), and a Masters in Theological Studies (ABT) from Wesley Theological Seminary and he is conversant in Spanish.

In his first two and half years at UWATX, David has led the organization through a 5-year strategic planning process resulting in a renewed focus, a new mission, and an increased and diversified funding base. David is proud of UWATX’s role as an investor in community impact through innovative programs to fight poverty. David is a 2018 recipient of the Best CEO Award from the Austin Business Journal.

Prentiss Douthit

Ride Director

Hill Country Ride for AIDS

Prentiss Douthit is the Director of the Hill Country Ride for AIDS, the largest fundraiser for AIDS services in Central Texas and a beloved family-friendly event that gives close to 1,000 riders and volunteers a platform for generating lifelines of hope and good will to those in need. Prentiss’s career was in design and advertising for twenty years before stepping away and moving into the world of nonprofit. As director of the HCRA, he manages operations, logistics, and is generally responsible for cheerleading hundreds of riders and volunteers, motivating and encouraging them to train, fundraise, and have an amazing experience while carrying on a legacy of love and kindness as they help those affected by HIV and AIDS.

Sarah Evans

CEO

Well Aware

Sarah Evans is the founder and Executive Director of Well Aware and the founder and CEO of Aurora Global. Evans began her professional life as a securities lawyer but launched her career in international development working with communities in emerging nations to establish safe and sustainable water infrastructure as a foundation for growth and prosperity. Through this work, her team-building and her dedication to realistic solutions, she has become a subject-matter expert and has published several articles on international development, nonprofit management and water system success on various platforms; including MariaShriver.com, Wandering Educators, Stilettos on the Glass Ceiling, among others. She has been twice a finalist in the Austin Under Forty Awards, a finalist in the Austin Business Journal’s Profiles in Power, featured in the New York Times’ Women In The World Summit, and Austin Woman Cover Story; memberships have included/include the board of Austin Cosmopolitan Rotary club, the Entrepreneurs Organization Ignite program, Impact Hub and Rural Water Supply Network.

Farra Trompeter

Vice President

Big Duck

Farra Trompeter is Vice President at Big Duck, a firm that develops the voices of determined nonprofits by developing strong brands, campaigns, and teams. 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 serves as Chair of NTEN’s board and is a part-time faculty member at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches a class about communications and branding for nonprofits. She holds an M.S. degree in nonprofit management from The New School. Farra tweets about nonprofit communications and fundraising at @Farra.

Katherine Ollenburger

Director of Brand Strategy and Chief Writer

Community Change

Katherine is the Director of Brand Strategy and Chief Writer at Community Change, a national organization that builds the power of low-income people of color to fight for a society where everyone can thrive. She co-leads the team responsible for fundraising, donor communications, and marketing, and her work shapes the organization’s voice, positioning, and story of impact. She has more than 10 years of nonprofit experience, including seven years with the refugee resettlement agency Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and an academic background in economics and international studies. She holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s from Macalester College. Katherine lives with her husband and their pets, Artemis and Apollo, in Baltimore, MD.

Rinku Sen

writer

Race Forward

Rinku Sen is a writer and a political strategist. She is formerly the Executive Director of Race Forward and was Publisher of their award-winning news site Colorlines. Under Sen’s leadership, Race Forward generated some of the most impactful racial justice successes of recent years, including Drop the I-Word, a campaign for media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as “illegal,” resulting in the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, and many more outlets changing their practice. She was also the architect of the Shattered Families report, which identified the number of kids in foster care whose parents had been deported. Her books Stir it Up and The Accidental American theorize a model of community organizing that integrates a political analysis of race, gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other systems. She writes and curates the news at rinkusen.com.

Mica Bevington

U.S. Director of Marketing & Communication

Humanity & Inclusion (the new name of handicap international)

Mica Bevington is the U.S. Director of Marketing & Communications for the award-winning international NGO, Humanity & Inclusion, which specializes in disability in 60 low-income and post-conflict countries. At Humanity & Inclusion she has reached key American audiences through earned media, digital marketing, events, congressional advocacy, advertising, and VIP outreach. She was a member of the organization’s global brand working group, which resulted in a full rebrand in January 2018 (after 35 years as Handicap International). She also manages internal communications for the U.S. team. Prior to Humanity & Inclusion, she supported internal and alumni communications at London Business School. And at BusinessWeek, she covered management education and contributed to the magazine’s business school rankings. A long-ago graduate of the George Washington University, she lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and three children.

Mike Gzowski

Consulting Partner

ECHO Technology Solutions

Mike has implemented or worked on disaster recovery and business resumptions plans at over forty companies, agencies, and nonprofits. Mike has been involved with IT and cybersecurity for over 25 years.

Adam Rosenzweig

Nonprofit Success Program Manager

Okta

Adam has the privilege of pursuing positive social impact by creatively deploying Okta’s products and services. He currently manages Okta’s product philanthropy, nonprofit demand generation, employee pro bono, and nonprofit customer success programs. Prior to Okta, he spent 10 years in the education sector and is passionate about quality instruction, student data privacy, and educational equity. Adam studied history at Pitzer College, earned a master’s degree in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is an MBA candidate at the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business. He also has a couple of really cute kids and a very understanding wife.

Sejo Jahic

CEO

ECHO Technology Solutions

Sejo is the founder and CEO of ECHO Technology Solutions, a firm focused on improving nonprofit’s impact through technology.
Sejo believes that technology is one of the best things that happened to nonprofit world and is primarily focused on the topic of IT management.
While not skiing, Sejo serves on the board of The Arc San Francisco (http://www.thearcsf.org) and consults numerous organization as their part time CIO.
I am very excited to be in Portland!

Nina Asay

Chief of Strategic Planning and Innovation

The Arc San Francisco

Nina Asay is The Arc San Francisco’s Chief of Strategic Planning and Innovation. The Arc San Francisco is a lifelong learning and achievement center for over 700 individuals with developmental disabilities in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties. She is currently responsible for facilitating the development and implementation of The Arc SF’s Strategic Plan, leading the agency’s innovations that help create an efficient, transformative and empowered agency, as well as driving company culture into a collaborative, person centered, value driven organization.

Colin Boyle

IT Director

Step Up Suncoast

Colin Boyle is a Navy veteran and has a degree in history from New College of Florida. He is currently taking his 22nd gap year before going to grad school.

Since there wasn’t a huge market for historians, he started doing IT work. He has worked for a variety of nonprofits as well as VARs, MSPs, and SAAS shops.

Colin is currently the IT Director for Step Up Suncoast, an anti-poverty non-profit in Sarasota, Florida.

Richard Wollenberger

IT Director and HIPAA Compliance and Security Officer

Parents as Teachers

Experienced IT leader passionate about learning and helping in the nonprofit world.

Gordon Withers

Director of Digital Services

Fionta

As Director, Digital Services at Fíonta, Gordon oversees the organization’s web design and development group, ensuring that Fíonta delivers the highest-quality services to its nonprofit, association, and foundation clients. Gordon also consults on the technology needs of web projects, which includes analyzing clients’ technical capabilities, identifying areas for improvement, and recommending new technologies and integrations. He advocates for human-centered design approaches, ensuring organizations have sustainable content strategies and making websites accessible to all audiences. Other recent speaking appearances include a panel on human-centered design for associations at the 2018 Surge: Optimism conference.

Prior to Fíonta, Gordon served as a technology consultant at two other nonprofit-focused agencies: Freeflow Digital and Threespot, working on accounts such as the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, Pew Charitable Trusts, the James Irvine Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and NOAA. He also served for five years as the Director of Web Services at NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the leading association for international exchange in higher education. Prior to NAFSA, Gordon spent over 10 years as a business analyst, web developer, and programmer. Gordon enjoys spending time with his family and playing rock cello whenever possible.

Lisa Godare

Drupal 8 Grand Master

Fionta

Lisa does everything with Drupal and has been active on the platform for over five years. She has special expertise in module development and theming, and has worked with many clients including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, PetSmart Charities, Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, and others. Lisa is an Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master.

In her free time, she volunteers with Portland, Oregon-area nonprofits, is a cat mom, and enjoys participating in pirate camping and other live action role-playing communities.

John Harrison

Associate Director, Digital Engagement

Enterprise Community Partners

As a digital transformer for over 20 years, John is a marketing leader in interactive media, digital strategy, website development, information tech, project management and instructional technology. He serves as the Associate Director of Digital Engagement for Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit creating opportunity for low- and moderate-income people through affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. John oversees the administration, analytics, SEO and SEM for Enterprise’s large Drupal 8 website (and microsites). Most recently, John project-managed a large-scale migration to Salesforce Marketing Cloud, bringing automated emails, customer journeys and data-driven, targeted outreach to the organization’s marketing and communications platform.

John is a graduate of the 2014 Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business Leadership Essentials Community Impact Program. He received his Bachelor of Science in Art with a minor in Art Education from James Madison University. He’s also UX Certified through the Nielsen-Norman Group, and Google Analytics IQ certified.

Rachel Renock

CEO + Creative Director

Wethos

Rachel is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Wethos, a platform that enables nonprofits to rent curated teams of cross-disciplinary specialists across creative, research, marketing, fundraising, strategy, tech, and more to tackle their most important initiatives.

As an activist and former advertising creative, Rachel has been featured in the New York Times, on NBC, and on stage at Politico for breaking the silence on a culture of sexism and sexual harassment in tech. She believes that now more than ever people must speak up for what is right and has made it her mission to empower organizations committed to positive social impact.

Heather Griswold

Sr. Engagement Manager

Substantial

Heather is a Lead Engagement Manager at Substantial, a digital product studio in Seattle. Passionate about mobile strategy and end-to-end integrated experiences, she has over 10 years technology experience with a diverse set of companies both nonprofit and for-profit. Heather works to build effective product teams and strong client relationships through active collaboration on strategy, release roadmaps, and prioritization to deliver value to businesses and users.

Tim O'Connor

Technology Director

Cascade Bicycle Club

Tim leads Cascade’s technology team and develops solutions that scale for the organization’s 30k annual customers and 80k supporters. Coming from a startup background he infuses his teams with a focus on a lean, scrappy and data-driven approach and developing an effective and holistic digital strategy through all their recently revamped systems: CMS, eCommerce, CRM and Email and Marketing Platforms. Tim is about to be a new father (again) and loves home renovation, biking, sci-fi, game nights, and local beer!

Nam-ho Park

Principal

PLAIN Strategies

Nam-ho is the principal at PLAIN Strategies, where he leads digital strategy and solutions to help nonprofits, startups and issue-driven clients increase their impact and reach. He has been active in web technologies and crafting user experience for over 16 years, both in the US and Asia. He is a board member of NTEN and a regular speaker at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. He teaches at the University of Washington Information School and holds a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University.

Colleen Campbell

Senior Project Manager

Firefly Partners

Colleen brings more than seven years of digital marketing and communication experience to the Firefly Partners team, with a focus on building data driven strategies and leveraging online tools to support fundraising and communication strategies. She joined Firefly in 2013 and uses her strong project management skills, creativity, and passion for data analysis to every engagement. Prior to joining Firefly, Colleen worked in development and communications for The Global FoodBanking Network, where she developed their online fundraising and communication strategy and managed a major website redesign and online marketing tool migration project. Colleen received a B.A. in international affairs from the University of Colorado. She is a Chicago native now living in Milwaukee.

Jeanne McCabe

Sr. Digital Producer & Project Manager

Center for Reproductive Rights

Jeanne joined the Center in 2013 and oversees the development process for the Communications team’s digital projects while also maintaining responsibility for the organization’s websites. She comes to the Center after working in advertising for many years as a senior digital producer, most recently for the firm J. Walter Thompson, where she developed and executed digital marketing campaigns for consumer product, travel, financial and health care brands and companies. Jeanne graduated from Villanova University with a BA in psychology and women’s studies.

Josh VanDavier

Manager, Digital Fundraising

KQED Public Media

Josh is currently heading up digital fundraising at KQED Public Media. He’s previously worked for the Wikimedia Foundation and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Jack Hilson

Senior Account Executive

Mal Warwick Donordigital

Jack Hilson is an Online Senior Account Executive at Mal Warwick Donordigital, based in Berkeley, California. Jack has over 6 years of experience in non-profit and political campaign-based digital consulting. They specialize in email marketing, fundraising, deliverability assesment, optimization testing, and social media management. Jack has developed strategies for various high-profile non-profits like National Organization for Women, Mercy For Animals, Corporate Accountability, and more.

Nick Garcia

Senior Account Executive

Mal Warwick Donordigital

Nick Garcia, Senior Account Executive at Mal Warwick Donordigital, has worked in nonprofit fundraising for over 10 years, with experience ranging from direct response to event planning and data management. He has coordinated multichannel fundraising campaigns for KQED Public Media, National Alliance on Mental Illness, and many more. An east Bay Area native, Nick graduated with a degree in Business Management from San Francisco State University.

Brenna Holmes

VP, Digital Servies

CCAH

Brenna Holmes is Vice President of Digital at CCAH, an award winning multichannel direct response firm specializing in nonprofit fundraising. She specializes in multichannel integration and SMART digital acquisition. She possesses an extensive background in cross-channel marketing and advocacy integration and is passionate about UX; creating unified surround sound campaigns that maximize supporter engagement and organizational loyalty by integrating traditional direct marketing with innovative digital media.

Since joining CCAH’s Interactive department, she’s mapped the online advocacy and fundraising strategy for clients such as Greenpeace US, MADD, California State Parks Foundation, People For the American Way, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, City of Hope, The Trust for Public Land, Mayo Clinic, and others. She also has a background in digital brand management, public relations and design. You can reach Brenna at bholmes@ccah.com or @bfholmes.

BETH BRODOVSKY

President

Iris Creative

As the president of Iris Creative, Beth Brodovsky helps visionary organizations focus their brand, attract the right people and inspire them to take action. She is the Founder of Nonprofit Toolkit, where nonprofit staff learn to market like a pro and the host of the nonprofit marketing podcast Driving Participation.

Lev Tsypin

CEO

ThinkShout

Lev co-founded ThinkShout with the goal of bringing digital tools and strategy to organizations working to create lasting, positive change in the world. He believes that business can be a force for good in society, and strives for ThinkShout to reflect that ideal.

In addition to helming a team of incredibly talented individuals, Lev endeavors to keep ThinkShout on the cutting-edge of open source technology, and contribute back ThinkShout’s own time and expertise to the community. Lev began his career in software development as a consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation, saving us all from the Y2K apocalypse, and Inforte Corporation in Chicago before moving to Portland and serving as the Director of Programming at Pop Art, Inc. After spending a year abroad reconnecting with the world and his values, Lev started Level Online Strategy, which shared ThinkShout’s commitment to working with clients who make a positive impact on the world. Lev holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (BBA) and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He spends his off hours chasing after his two boys in the great outdoors that many ThinkShout clients strive to protect.

Tauno Hogue

Tauno created his first website sitemap over 20 years ago on a painted 4’x8’ sheet of plywood with pins and threads to show the links between pages. This decidedly low-tech approach set the stage for his human-centric approach to technology. While he doesn’t recommend using sheets of plywood for presenting sitemaps, he leads the ThinkShout development team to focus on the positive outcomes that technology can provide our clients.

Tauno’s years as a multi-day river guide and outdoor educator have given him a cool head and great communication skills, which come in handy as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to ThinkShout, Tauno worked at the University of Oregon, where he contributed to the development of a complex Drupal-based online learning platform for language teachers. He holds a degree in Natural Resources Planning & Interpretation and directed a nonprofit that took at-risk youth and people with disabilities on outdoor adventures. He continues to pursue his passion for the outdoors by spending a great deal of his free time floating rivers and exploring trails with his family.

Chris Tuttle

Director of Communications

GLSEN

Chris Tuttle leads communications and marketing at GLSEN, a leading education organization working to create LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 schools. With more than 20 years working with leading nonprofit organizations, Tuttle has a wealth of experience developing digital campaigns that reach and engage millions of people annually. Highlights include developing GLSEN’s Day of Silence, an annual campaign with more than half-a-million students participating in more than 5,000 K -12 schools, as well as working with The Arcus Foundation to create the first-ever international Giving Day for Apes, raising more than 1.5 million dollars for wildlife sanctuaries.

Monzurat Oni

Digital Engagement Manager

GLSEN

Monzurat Oni is the Digital Engagement Manager at GLSEN, a leading education organization working to create LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 schools. Monzurat comes from a marketing and growth background at several startups before entering the non-profit world. Her work at GLSEN focuses on building multi-channel digital campaigns around days of action and awareness initiatives. She is passionate about optimizing funnel performance to create active constituents that become your advocates. Highlights taking one of her former companies from 85 early users to 1500 overnight through one social media campaign, and creating a Facebook ad strategy for another startup that drove down user acquisition costs by over 60%.

Shea Morrissey

Senior Manager

Hustle

Shea Morrissey works to strengthen organizations and movements with Hustle. They have spent nearly a decade implementing tech solutions, leading communications, and mobilizing resources for groundbreaking organizations on five continents. At Akili Dada, Shea forged partnerships with tech companies to increase access to STEM learning for Kenya’s young women leaders and led fundraising efforts in the U.S.. Prior to that, they were part of the Women Win team where they managed the development and launch of the International Guide to Designing Sport Programs for Girls, an open-source, wiki-style knowledge sharing platform. Shea is an alum of Whitman College and the THNK School of Creative Leadership.

Jacqueline Murphy

Director of Digital Supporter Engagement & Innovation

Planned Parent Federation of America

Jacqueline Murphy has more than 8 years of experience in digital and traditional media, helping corporations, foundations, and non-profit campaigns tell their stories effectively, recruit new advocates to their cause, and cultivate communities ready to act. With a passion for out-of-the-box thinking, Jacqueline specializes in developing content marketing and advocacy programs, including creative strategy, customer care, and community management, analytics and paid media.

Peter Schiano

Project Manager and Consultant

Tech Impact

Before joining Tech Impact in 2017 I held various leadership roles in technology companies serving industrial automation and higher education. At Tech Impact I help nonprofits with strategic planning and execution, project management and data systems including Salesforce.

I’ve experienced small non-profit life first hand on the board of several Quaker organizations. My wife and I dance every chance we get, especially when we help bring Cajun and zydeco bands to Philly. I also like to sneak off saltwater fishing. Excited to be joining the conversation at NTC!

Ilene Weismehl

Knowledge and Database Manager

Community Catalyst

Ilene has worked in non-profits for over 20 years. At Community Catalyst, she oversaw the organization’s migration to Salesforce and continues to act as its system administrator. She is also guiding the organizational knowledge management strategy. The goal is to create systems that allow staff members to devote more time to their work and the organizational mission, and to spend less time looking for things.

Ilene is also a bibliophile and hosts a book stall at the Providence Flea. Plus gardening: planning it out and then maintaining it through weeding and other necessary upkeep. It all comes together.

Elena Francis

Digital Marketing Account Manager

hjc

Elena is a marketing specialist from London, England with vast non-profit experience in the UK, Canada and the United States. Having worked for agencies with a range of clients and as part of in-house marketing teams, she understands the needs of both sides and can effectively plan, administer and optimize omnichannel campaigns.

As a Digital Marketing Account Executive, Elena liaises closely with clients to define campaign objectives then produces comprehensive marketing strategies and execution to drive robust lead generation and brand building efforts. Her marketing experience is profoundly well-rounded with specialisms in fundraising, PPC, SEO, email, social media, analytics, design theory and more.

Charly Jarrett

Nonprofit Digital Consultant

hjc

Charly Jarrett has spent well over the last decade dedicating her life to fundraising for great causes and organisations. She believes that a combination of creative solutions & embracing technology is the way forward for a modern nonprofit. Now specialising in online giving, she oversees fully integrated fundraising campaigns that consistently surpass targets.
When she isn’t working, you can find her at the dog park with her 13 year old dog Bambam.

Jennifer Jones Ingram

Director, Strategy & Partnerships

Care2

For more than twenty years, Jennifer has been a direct response fundraiser, working at such well-known charities as GMHC, The ASPCA, Greenpeace, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and CARE USA.

While at The ASPCA and Greenpeace, she significantly increased supporter numbers & revenue and developed large monthly donor acquisition programs using mail, telemarketing, email, face to face, and DRTV. She also served as an internal consultant to 30 international Greenpeace offices, implementing and improving their fundraising programs around the world. At CARE USA, she grew and diversified a complex, 65-year old program, bringing new techniques to out-of-date campaigns.

In recent years, Jennifer worked as a consultant, helping raise revenue for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the AARP Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, The Smile Train, and dozens of humane societies and SPCA’s around the country.

Jennifer joined Care2 in 2016, where she loves helping nonprofits find new and amazing supporters, donors & advocates for their causes.

Jennifer is a graduate of New York University and lives in Atlanta with her husband and their “children” who all have four paws and tails (the cats, not the husband).

Stephanie Henyard

Systems Administrator

Society for College and University Planning

Genie Gratto

Communications Consultant

GWRITES

Genie Gratto 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 nonprofits, fulfilling a broad range of missions including ensuring freedom of choice for all women, progressive police research, labor rights, protecting the public’s health, and promoting diversity in tech.

Nathan Gasser

President & Executive Chef

Report Kitchen

Nathan Gasser is a digital strategist and interactive systems designer with 20 years experience creating web sites and web applications. His experience ranges from content management solutions, to web security and performance optimization, to data visualization, to user experience design, to social media analytics and more. His career focus is on building teams and systems that use technology, data, and stories to connect people in meaningful ways.

Nathan is president and owner of Rock River Star, a web development and consulting company, and recently launched Report Kitchen, a service for turning structured report documents into engaging web experiences.

Meghan Hess

Digital Manager

Campaign Legal Center

Meghan is the Digital Manager for Campaign Legal Center, using online storytelling to support an organization of lawyers and policy experts working to protect and strengthen the democratic process in the United States. She has eight years of experience driving social good through her work with nonprofits, both in the digital sphere and as an on-the-ground grassroots organizer.

Meghan is based in Washington, DC but a proud New Jersey native, and she will happily talk your ear off about the trials and tribulations of backyard vegetable gardening.

Jake Grinsted

Founder

Simply360

As early as college, Jake Grinsted began working with The Fresh Air Fund – a nonprofit serving New York City children – but a summer adventure soon became a full-time job. After inheriting old program management tools built with MS Access, Excel, Oracle, and paper filing cabinets, he soon began a quest for a more useful program management CRM system. Not satisfied with the tools on the market, Jake headed a small team who built a new in-house CRM that now manages over a million people… helping staff with program relationships, registration and attendance, transportation, geographical mapping, and of course outcome reporting. Before long, The Fresh Air Fund’s partners were asking to use this CRM too, and what began in-house inspired a new stand-alone platform called Simply360. Jake now works with other nonprofits to help them manage their data, and dreams of creating “blueprints” for program management in multiple sectors, demystifying and simplifying the implementation of a CRM for smaller nonprofits.

Leah Kopperman

Director, Data & Constituent Relationship Management (CRM)

Keshet

Leah Kopperman (she/her) has been working with nonprofit CRM systems since 2001. She has worked as a consultant implementing Blackbaud Enterprise CRM, and as a staff member leading the organization-wide adoption of Salesforce at a mid-sized education focused nonprofit in New York City. She currently directs ongoing CRM use and development at Keshet, the national Jewish LGBTQ+ rights organization. She holds an MS in nonprofit management and has been in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years. This will be her 9th NTC; she presented on two panels at 17NTC and has appeared on Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio. Leah is an out lesbian, gender diversity advocate, and voice for fat acceptance.

Medha Nanal

Principal

Top Cloud Consulting

Medha has over two decades of experience developing database & CRM systems and related products, and helping organizations utilize technology to achieve their goals and mission. After working for Silicon Valley’s top technology companies, she started work with non profit organizations and currently helps them with Information Technology Assessments, Data Strategy, Data Governance and Analytics & KPI’s, to make fundraising, operations and programs more successful. Medha is also an NTEN faculty and a member of Association of Fundraising Professionals, and lives in Palo Alto, CA with her family.

Kai Williams

Executive Director

The International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council

Kai absorbs information the way most people drink coffee and is fascinated with the junction of technology, organizational theory, and the ability to do good for our world.

Executive director of The International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC), she attended Lawrence University and has a Masters degree in Public Policy & Administration from Northwestern University.

Diego Ortiz Quintero

Director of Communications

American Heart Association

Diego Ortiz Quintero is a Colombian-born nonprofit communications professional. He currently serves as the Communications Director for the American Heart Association in New York City. Diego graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in journalism from Rutgers University in New Jersey and holds a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management from Antioch University in Los Angeles. He entered the nonprofit and social impact field as a student journalist and advocate for the D.R.E.A.M. Act.

Maria Elena Hewett

Account Executive

International Documentary Association

Maria Elena Hewett is an arts professional who has executed contracts for multiple charitable organizations in the theatrical arts, homeless services, and independent film. With a dual undergraduate degree in visual arts and gender studies from UCSD, Maria Elena has fought for inclusive representation in the arts and media. After more than a decade in the private sector, she decided to permanently join the third sector in 2015 while pursuing a master’s in nonprofit management. You can catch her hiking with her demanding border collie and participating in the local arts community during her free time.

Alexis Marion

Program Officer

Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation

Alexis, in addition to being a trustee, is the Program Officer and Junior Board Advisor for the Frieda C Fox Family Foundation. In her role, she oversees the day-to-day grant administration and guides the Junior Board members (ages 8-21) in their grantmaking. Alexis considers her journey in philanthropy much like that of the delta symbol Δ: 3-sided and focused on change. She has been a recipient of philanthropic funds during her years as a foster youth in Los Angeles, a grant-seeker as a nonprofit employee, and now a grantmaker whose passion is to support young people in making a difference through philanthropy. Alexis sees philanthropy as a privilege, and works toward creating a grantmaking culture that is brave, empowering, and focused on the liberation of all people. Alexis received her M.A. in Nonprofit Management from Antioch University, LA and is a 21/64 Certified Advisor. If you want to see her face light up, just ask her why play-doh and pipe cleaners are required meeting supplies!

Aaron Teskey

Vice President of Digital Advertising and Acquisition

Anne Lewis Strategies, an Infogroup Company

Aaron Teskey, vice president of digital advertising and acquisition, is knee-deep in the world of cost per acquisition and conversion rates. The technology behind Google, Facebook, and other ad networks changes constantly. Aaron keeps up with those changes and works to maximize return for our clients’ acquisition budgets. Previously Aaron developed strategy for and managed the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute’s websites, microsites, social media, email marketing, and online advertising. He utilized his extensive technology background to streamline and optimize list growth, online fundraising, and marketing efforts using a data-driven approach. Aaron is a summa cum laude graduate of George Washington University.

Dawn Lyons

Vice President, Marketing and Programs

Sandy Hook Promise

Dawn Lyons, vice president of marketing and programs for Sandy Hook Promise, focuses on how to drive awareness of the organization’s work to prevent gun violence before it happens, while growing a strong grassroots audience and funding to drive SHP programs. She also works to continually develop strategy, materials, and curriculum for the organization’s Know The Signs violence prevention programs, including Start With Hello and Say Something. Dawn has leveraged her background in brand building with Procter & Gamble and consulting to apply this knowledge to her work now in the non-profit sector. Dawn is a graduate of The Ohio State University and has her MBA from the University of Cincinnati.

Adva Priso

Vice President, Marketing & Development

Anne Lewis Strategies, an Infogroup Company

As vice president of marketing and development at Anne Lewis Strategies, Adva develops strategy and oversees its execution on behalf of the firm’s nonprofit clients including Mercy Corps, Smithsonian Institution, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and Doctors Without Borders. She specializes in developing data-driven multichannel strategies that stand out and boost revenue and has led cutting-edge digital fundraising, activation, and communications campaigns for nonprofit organizations and Fortune 100 companies for more than 15 years.

Prior to joining Anne Lewis Strategies, Adva led the digital program for high-value members and prospects at World Wildlife Fund. She generated and oversaw millions in new revenue for WWF and pioneered mid-level donor cultivation and fundraising best practices now being adopted by the industry. Adva graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Noah Barnett

Marketing

CauseVox

Noah currently leads marketing at CauseVox, a community-driven fundraising platform designed to help nonprofits simplify and grow their online fundraising.

With nearly a decade of experience in crafting marketing and integrated fundraising strategies, Noah has counseled and led B2B, B2C, and nonprofit organizations across industries. Noah was most recently Director of Digital at The Adventure Project and Director of Growth at World Help.

Prior to these, Noah was an Inbound Marketing Consultant at HubSpot. He had the opportunity to consult with 40 B2B and B2C clients, helping them leverage inbound marketing strategies to grow their businesses.

Justin Yuen

CEO

Grouptrail

Justin Yuen is CEO of Grouptrail (formerly FMYI), a visual database for goal tracking software company with a focus on school districts and nonprofits working with youth and families. The user friendly and highly configurable platform has been used by the New York City Department of Education, Portland Public Schools, College Access: Research & Action, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, Oregon MESA, Nike, Sony, Aflac, HBO, Hyatt, Disney, Scholastic, the UK National Health Service, and thousands of other nonprofits, schools, government agencies, and companies. Grouptrail/FMYI has been covered by the New York Times, Businessweek, TechCrunch, and more. Before launching the company, he was a Senior Manager in Corporate Sustainable Development at Nike, Inc. Prior to that, Justin was Nike’s head of Quality for the Europe/Middle East/Africa region in the Netherlands. Justin is the Board Chair of The Street Trust, on the Board of Trustees for the National Crittenton Foundation, and the Leadership Council of the Oregon Community Foundation. He has a degree in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University.

Amy Sample Ward

CEO

NTEN

Driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change, Amy is NTEN’s CEO and former membership director. Her prior experience in direct service, policy, philanthropy, and capacity-building organizations have also fueled her aspirations to create meaningful, inclusive, and compassionate community engagement and educational opportunities for all organizations.

Amy inspires the NTEN team and partners around the world to believe in community-generated change. She believes technology can help nonprofits reach their missions more effectively, efficiently, and inclusively, and she’s interested in everything from digital equity to social innovation.

Chris Fink

VP Customer Support & Implementation

Arreva

Chris has spent more than 15 years working with over 100 nonprofit organizations, large and small. Experienced with both technology and fundraising, Chris oversees Arreva’s Product Development, Services and Marketing divisions. Prior to joining Arreva, Chris managed IT operations and was a Senior Software Trainer in the retail industry. Chris holds a B.A. degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Ramona Dopps

Data and Administrative Director

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho Inc.

Ramona Dopps has over 25 years of experience working in non-profits and technology in Boise, Idaho. She started her path in data and technology management at National Data Corporation and then moved into the non-profit arena at Idaho Public Television as the director of membership and managed their donor database, direct mail program in addition to on-air fundraising. She started work at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho in March of 2014 to help with the conversion of their database to the cloud-based system, Beyond. She is responsible for management and oversight of the RMHC Idaho databases and technology needs.

Josh Levy

Chief Technology Officer

Center for Digital Resilience

Josh Levy is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Center for Digital Resilience (CDR), a global NGO that facilitates digital security support for communities around the world. He’s also the founder and director of the Digital Security Exchange (DSX, the U.S. project of CDR. He’s been a digital rights advocate for more than a decade, working as Advocacy Director for Access Now, Campaign Director for Free Press, and other groups running initiatives to protect the free, open, private, and secure internet.

Tracy Kosa

Researcher

Stanford University

Tracy Ann Kosa is a privacy researcher and advocate. She was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS when this work was developed. Dr. Kosa is currently teaching tech ethics at Seattle University, serving on Axon’s AI Ethics Board, and working in security engineering at Google.

Her current research work focuses on computational models for human values (ethics in privacy) to help data subjects and practitioners better understand the implications of their design and consent choices. For two decades, as a privacy director at Microsoft, privacy officer at UHN, DPIA analyst at the Government, and doctoral student, Kosa has written, taught and preached about the need to make informed choices and transparent system design. She holds a PhD in applied computer science (UOIT), Masters degrees in public policy (UM) and ethics (York), and was the founder of the first PIA Center of Excellence in Ontario.

Ann Nguyen

Design Whaler

Whole Whale

Ann joined Whole Whale in 2013 and has been making splashes since then in the areas of design, development, and A/B testing. During her time at Whole Whale, Ann has overseen site builds that include DREAM, the LAMP, and Donate Life America. Beyond website development, Ann has led the charge on work with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the One Love Foundation, Charitybuzz, Prizeo, and United Way ALICE. Ann is also the product manager behind Lighthouse by Whole Whale and is currently working with Power Poetry on their Poetry Genome. Ann is a regular speaker and lecturer on nonprofit tech topics, including appearances at the Strata Data Conference in both San José and New York, NTC, NYU, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, the Lowline, and the White House.

Cindy Iker

Operations Manager

Lung Cancer Foundation of America

Cindy Iker joined Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) in 2011 and serves as the Operations Manager. With a very small team, all LCFA-ers wear many hats and Cindy’s include overseeing the CRM, facilitating donation and fundraising processes, managing social media platforms, email outreach, writing grant proposals and helping facilitate and write website content. Beginning in 2018, she’s even been trying her hand at video editing and is always looking for new strategies, tools and tricks to tell the story and raise awareness for lung cancer research.

Donna Whitney

Digital Strategist

Lung Cancer Foundation of America

Donna Whitney is adept at handling website management, SEO improvements and digital strategies for non-profits, professional associations, and small businesses, while fitting in time to do things like help to renovate a 17th-century chateau into a yoga studio in Gascony, France. Life as a digital nomad is an amazing lifestyle.

Eric Lovell

Account Manager

Esri

Eric is an Account Manager with the Nonprofit & Global Organizations team at Esri. He supports research policy centers and humanitarian organizations in the Washington D.C. area. Prior to joining Esri, Eric completed his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado. Eric is a West Virginia native and enjoys any opportunity to return to the Mountain State’s rivers and streams.

Salim Sawaya

Manager

Esri

At Esri, we believe that location and GIS technology can help our customers and partners to make a difference in the world. Having worked at Esri for the past 15 years, Mr. Salim Sawaya is the Manager of Esri’s Nonprofit & Global Organizations (NGO) team based in Washington, DC. Esri’s NGO team leads Esri’s work and partnerships with UN agencies and other International Organizations, Nonprofits and Foundations, and US Foreign Assistance agencies working in the fields of sustainable development, humanitarian assistance, and conservation. He has 18 years of experience working in the fields of ICT and GIS in positions focused on requirements analysis, solution design, implementation planning, application development, customer support, project management, business development and marketing. He holds a MS in Geographic and Cartographic Sciences from George Mason University, 2008, and a BA in Economics from Bucknell University, 2000.

Emily Swenson

Nonprofit Program Manager

Esri

At Esri, Emily helps nonprofit organizations to make a difference in the world through the use of mapping, location data, and analytics. Esri’s Nonprofit Organization Program was established in 2010 as means to get GIS technology & resources into the hands of organizations that are leading important work, at the local to the global scale. Before coming to Esri in 2015, Emily obtained a BA in Environmental Studies & Geography from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and is actively continuing her studies through a the Geographic Information Systems graduate certificate program from Penn State. Emily has experience applying GIS to community development, natural resource management, and youth education efforts in both her work and off time and is passionate about helping others to do the same.

Rajneesh Aggarwal

President, Lead Strategist

Provoc

Raj founded Provoc in 1999 and serves as President and Lead Strategist. Over twenty years of experience as a communications and technology strategist, he has worked with more than 400 nonprofits and socially responsible businesses on a variety of projects including internal and external branding, marketing and customer engagement. Raj keeps Provoc rooted in empathy-driven work by forging partnerships with values-aligned, visionary leaders and has led workshops and talks at dozens of national conferences. He serves on the boards of Think Local First, DC and Ben’s Chili Bowl Foundation, and recently shared his personal story on NPR.

Vanice Dunn

Director of Equity

Provoc

Vanice hails from years of experience working directly with members of various non-profits, so she’s all about participation and collaboration. Vanice began to hone her skills in social justice advocacy in an organic way — as a young girl of color in a small southern town, her existence itself became a political statement. Those experiences gave Vanice practice in being critical of assumptions, dissecting polarizing arguments, and ultimately standing strong in her convictions. Her passion led her to the Provoc team, where she strives to make an impact by building partnerships with visionary clients and serving as lead strategist for brand and communications projects. By rooting her work in a womanist lens, Vanice has a particular passion for projects that combat the ‘isms’ — including racism, classism, and sexism.

Melissa Chavez

Racial Affinity

To the Point Collaborative

Melissa is a UX Strategist consultant for To The Point Collaborative, a Portland-based digital agency specializing in health care-related companies and nonprofits. In her spare time, she volunteers with Books to Prisoners, helps run the Portland chapter of Tech4Good, and learns languages.

Lindsey Watchman

Umatilla/Walla Walla Tribal Member Health Educator

Oregon Community Health Workers Association

Lindsey is a Persian Gulf War Veteran, an educator, father, enrolled Native American tribal member, and Cultural Acclimation trainer. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals, including his Native American grandmother (a CHR) who sat on the CTUIR Health Commission; which self-compacted federal Indian Health Services to local community control in 1996. Yellowhawk serves over 4,000 American Indian/Alaska Native people who reside on or near the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.

After seven years in the US Air Force, Lindsey served 17 years in Oregon Indian Education. Later migrating into the Health Education field…in order to holistically empower tribal members towards individual self-sufficiency. As Yellowhawk’s Workforce Development Manager, his aim is to support ‘community members, serving community members’ by integrating Traditional Health Workers into healthcare delivery systems. He sits on the OHA, OEI THW Commission, and ORCHWA Board.

Rajneesh Aggarwal

President, Lead Strategist

Provoc

Raj founded Provoc in 1999 and serves as President and Lead Strategist. Over twenty years of experience as a communications and technology strategist, he has worked with more than 400 nonprofits and socially responsible businesses on a variety of projects including internal and external branding, marketing and customer engagement. Raj keeps Provoc rooted in empathy-driven work by forging partnerships with values-aligned, visionary leaders and has led workshops and talks at dozens of national conferences. He serves on the boards of Think Local First, DC and Ben’s Chili Bowl Foundation, and recently shared his personal story on NPR.

Vanice Dunn

Director of Equity

Provoc

Vanice hails from years of experience working directly with members of various non-profits, so she’s all about participation and collaboration. Vanice began to hone her skills in social justice advocacy in an organic way — as a young girl of color in a small southern town, her existence itself became a political statement. Those experiences gave Vanice practice in being critical of assumptions, dissecting polarizing arguments, and ultimately standing strong in her convictions. Her passion led her to the Provoc team, where she strives to make an impact by building partnerships with visionary clients and serving as lead strategist for brand and communications projects. By rooting her work in a womanist lens, Vanice has a particular passion for projects that combat the ‘isms’ — including racism, classism, and sexism.

Melissa Chavez

Racial Affinity

To the Point Collaborative

Melissa is a UX Strategist consultant for To The Point Collaborative, a Portland-based digital agency specializing in health care-related companies and nonprofits. In her spare time, she volunteers with Books to Prisoners, helps run the Portland chapter of Tech4Good, and learns languages.

Lindsey Watchman

Umatilla/Walla Walla Tribal Member Health Educator

Oregon Community Health Workers Association

Lindsey is a Persian Gulf War Veteran, an educator, father, enrolled Native American tribal member, and Cultural Acclimation trainer. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals, including his Native American grandmother (a CHR) who sat on the CTUIR Health Commission; which self-compacted federal Indian Health Services to local community control in 1996. Yellowhawk serves over 4,000 American Indian/Alaska Native people who reside on or near the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.

After seven years in the US Air Force, Lindsey served 17 years in Oregon Indian Education. Later migrating into the Health Education field…in order to holistically empower tribal members towards individual self-sufficiency. As Yellowhawk’s Workforce Development Manager, his aim is to support ‘community members, serving community members’ by integrating Traditional Health Workers into healthcare delivery systems. He sits on the OHA, OEI THW Commission, and ORCHWA Board.

Melissa Wyers

Executive Director

EveryAction

Melissa is widely respected as one of the top practitioners in the nonprofit fundraising and marketing world. She brings more than 20 years of experience helping nonprofits increase their revenue and build their supporter base. For the last 9 years, she was the owner and President of Breakthrough Strategies, fundraising, marketing, and communications agency developing multi-channel programs for organizations like National Geographic, Heifer International, and the World Food Program.

David DeParolesa

CEO

Give Lively

David DeParolesa is CEO of Give Lively, a philanthropist-funded tech company that builds digital fundraising products for nonprofits and gives it away for free (seriously). David spends most of his day working directly with nonprofits, understanding their fundraising pain points and imagining creative ways to solve them. Prior to Give Lively, David founded Web Philosophic, where he created a way to help bring attention to Democrats running for Congress. He previously worked at Discovery Communications and American Express, where he led product development for Discovery’s TV-Everywhere product and helped reshape Food & Wine Magazine’s digital experience. When he isn’t developing products, coding, or designing, David can be found bopping around Hell’s Kitchen, making improvements to his rental, or traveling back to Boston to play with his baby niece, Olivia.

Matt Scott

CEO

CauseMic

Matt Scott is an industry-leading nonprofit fundraiser. He helped Team Rubicon scale from $250K in annual revenue in 2011 to $30M in 2017. He has led the CauseMic Crew to help a diverse range of nonprofits raise millions of dollars online. World-renowned nonprofits such as Movember, Volunteers of America and the Humane Society, have sought Matt’s expertise in online fundraising to help optimize their digital strategies and drive greater social impact. On the speaking circuit, Matt’s energy and passion for helping nonprofits amplify their cause shines through.

Erin Dunne

Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer

Humanity Lab

Erin is the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Humanity Lab and the Global People’s Summit – the first ever 100% online summit during the UN General Assembly. With over ten years of experience developing winning strategies and campaigns, Erin is passionate about the intersection of technology, design thinking and storytelling. She helps brands and nonprofits come to life through creative design, storytelling and building impactful partnerships.

Erin was the founding member of the Hive, an innovation lab within the UN Refugee Agency and one of Fast Company’s 2017 most innovative brands for its work adapting technology and data in support of refugees to support long-term fundraising goals. Erin developed and led award-winning digital and advocacy campaigns while at the UN Foundation, including the brand launch of Giving Tuesday, Rio+Social, and the Social Good Summit.

Debra Askanase

Social Impact Program Manager, Capacity-Building Initiatives

Oracle NetSuite

I am honored to be part of the NTEN, nptech and nonprofit communities. I started my career in nonprofits as a community organizer, expanding to become a program director and an executive director. After graduating from business school in 2008, I founded my own digital strategy company for nonprofits, Community Organizer 2.0, and taught social media strategy at Marlboro College Graduate School. Since May 2017, I’ve been honored to work with the Social Impact team at Oracle NetSuite, managing our global pro bono initiatives. It’s my pleasure to continue to collaborate with the nptech community in this role, and I look forward to building more connections and community at 19NTC.

Want to chat about non-nptech stuff? Yes! Hit me up about…Boston Red Sox, excellent ice cream retailers, sci fi or fantasy fiction, musicals, and anything else you want to talk about. Plus, always looking for a good veggie restaurant while at NTC!

LaCheka Phillips

Program Manager, NGOsource and Grantmaker Success

TechSoup/NGOsource

LaCheka Phillips is the Program Manager for NGOsource – a program of TechSoup and the Council on Foundations, where she has been responsible for NGOsource’s operational success for nearly three years. As the NGOsourceress, as her team affectionately calls her, she manages stakeholder relationships and works to improve the technical solutions for the program. When she is not working with NGOsource, she facilitates TechSoup Tours, a quarterly webinar/virtual tour featuring techsoup.org.

LaCheka has represented NGOsource at two NetSuite Oracle Buildathon events, and she champions a culture of collaboration with a focus on relationships. Prior to joining NGOsource, she operated her own consultancy in Nashville for 16 years called The Go2Chic, where she provided business management and operational support for small to mid-sized businesses and nonprofits. When she is not working, you can find her cooking, spending time with family and exploring the SF Bay area (all things food and music).

Kevin Martone

Technology Program Manager

Harold Grinspoon Foundation

Kevin has 20+ years managing teams and processes to effectively implement business systems and communications tools based on organization requirements. He has helped research and implement websites, intranets, financial calculators, donor management systems, social media presences, etc. in financial services and nonprofit organizations.

Kevin currently works with small and medium size nonprofits to help them reach their outreach and communications goals. He also develops and delivers professional development programs in the areas of communications and the effective use of data and databases.

Kevin enjoys preparing and delivering presentations on various subjects in person and via Webinars to diverse audiences.

Kevin is a big fan of the Heath Brothers, especially Switch and The Power of Moments. He is also interested in the ideas of Design Thinking about how it can be leveraged effectively. More recently, he is considering how to best utilize the learning from Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering.

Margaux O'Malley

Senior Manager, Digital Communications, Web Operations

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

For most of her career Margaux has used her web and communication skills to help nonprofits better engage their stakeholders, and have greater impact on the causes they address. Working with a range of organizations, she has built expertise across many digital channels in various combinations (web, blog, podcasting, email, social media, etc.). In 2017 Margaux joined the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, where her core duty is to create an excellent digital supporter experience for people with CF and those who love them. She was awarded an NTENny for being the “most likely to be a calming presence during your communications and Drupal crises,” and served as a co-organizer of the NTEN Drupal Community of Practice from 2015-2017.

Katy Hinz

Senior Designer

Teal Media

Katy Hinz is a seasoned visual designer who just loves to make stuff. She solves problems through the lens of design by combining a natural visual sense with deep analytical thinking. With over 15 years industry experience, Katy has spent time managing and motivating multidisciplinary teams, leading complex design and UX projects, and occasionally writing a line of code. She loves to have her hands in many things at once to keep her creativity sparked, and finds energy in sharing great ideas with fellow design nerds.

Daniel Schutzsmith

Digital Technology Director

NRDC

Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts design, code, and strategy. He’s devoted his career to making positive change to protect our world for generations to come!

Currently Daniel is the Digital Technology Director of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) leading an amazing team to create websites, apps and interactive experiences to help safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Previously Daniel was the Digital Technology Manager / Senior Web Developer for Amnesty International USA.

He also gives back his time by teaching our next generation of web designers at SUNY New Paltz as an Adjunct Professor. Previously he taught at NYU SCPS and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Over the past two decades he has worked with clients such as Adobe, Women’s March, Greenpeace, The Pixies, MTV, Phish, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Oxfam, PBS, They Might Be Giants, TBS, Pepsico, Dave Matthews Band and many more.

In his free time he enjoys inspirational wanderings through the streets of NYC, single malt scotches, and fun in the sun with his family. He calls Tampa, Florida and Hoboken, NJ home.

Aruna Mall

Creative Director

Teal Media

Nearly midway into a second decade as a creative, Aruna is a seasoned professional who has spent her entire career in the digital design field. Aruna possesses a passion for the underdog, the nonprofit, and organizations driving social change. Her time at Teal Media has allowed her to lead client and creative teams in a collaborative way to produce results-driven design solutions that are also innovative, inspiring, and human-centric.

Genie Gratto

Communications Consultant

GWRITES

Genie Gratto 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 nonprofits, fulfilling a broad range of missions including ensuring freedom of choice for all women, progressive police research, labor rights, protecting the public’s health, and promoting diversity in tech.

Adrienne Figus

Project Manager

Smith College Libraries

Digital fundraiser, project manager, artist, and proud holder of an NTEN Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate.

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!)

Camille Matson

Annual Giving Officer

Global Fund for Women

Camille has six years of experience managing Global Fund for Women’s Annual Fund. She holds a M.A. in International Policy and Development from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Nicole Crossley

Web & Creative Manager

Global Fund for Women

As the Web and Creative Manager at Global Fund for Women, Nicole works on the website, publications, graphics, and design projects. Nicole is passionate about gender equality, and supporting the local arts, crafts, and food scene.

Jenn Lejano

Partner (Chicago, IL)

Fresh Eyes Digital

Jenn has been proud to work with innovative organizations and companies on their digital programs for over 15 years. A marketing and fundraising professional with deep experience in lead generation, management, donor conversion and acquisition, Jenn has developed strategic, creative communications and marketing campaigns for mission-driven organizations to help them reach their goals. Jenn is thrilled to help nonprofit organizations create outstanding relationships with their donors and prospects through meaningful engagement on multiple digital channels.

Burt Edwards

Communications Director

Friends of the Columbia Gorge

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Burt brings over 20 years of public affairs experience working on pressing policy issues from climate change to international development. Before joining Friends, Burt worked for over nine years at The Pew Charitable Trusts and National Environmental Trust where he developed and managed opinion media outreach and editing/writing projects on an array of conservation, energy and health campaigns. He most recently served for as communications director for InterAction in Washington, D.C.

Ken Montenegro

Information Technology Director

Advancing Justice Los Angeles

Ken Montenegro is a technologist with twenty years of experience working with nonprofit and social change groups to securely leverage technology for their mission-driven work. Ken also holds a law degree.

He has been employed by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles; Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles; Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles; Maternal and Child Health Access; and the Northeast Valley Health Corporation. He has also worked with numerous other groups on a contract basis. Ken is also a board member of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center; the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN); and is National Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild.

Ken brings a commitment to meaningful social change and insight on areas of compliance and security that are not theoretical but experience based. He also brings a passion for understanding process because people power is the foundation of impactful technology adoption.

Ken was born, raised, and remains rooted in Los Angeles. You can learn more about him at https://www.comeuppance.net.

Idalin Bobé

Founder

TechActivist.Org

Idalin is founder of TechActivist.Org, a grassroot organization providing free technical training and political education workshops to working-class youth, activists, and disruptors interested in using technology for social good.

Coming from a poor Afro-Latinx community in North Philadelphia, PA, Idalin witnessed firsthand how the people most impacted by social ills were and still are on the losing side of the digital, educational, and economic divide. That understanding led her to dedicate herself to work directly with organizations that are focused on social change and are part of the communities they serve. Through her tech literacy programs, Idalin provides hands-on workshops introducing communities to digital media tools, digital security, open source, web development, and emerging technology like virtual reality.

Prior to TechActivist.Org, she served as the Global Social Justice Lead and Senior IT Consultant at ThoughtWorks, where she provided tech support to social justice organizations worldwide. Idalin has impacted thousands of men, women and children globally with her work in tech literacy and empowerment. Her work includes spearheading tech initiatives within organizations like Hands Up United, India Rise, Qeyno Labs Hackathons, #YesWeCode and Black Girls CODE.

Idalin received her Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Applied Statistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a proud alumna of the Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College, where she received her Master’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on technology and human-centered design.

She is influenced by the work of the Black Panther Party, specifically the 10th Point of the party’s 10-Point Platform, “Community Control of Modern Technology” and Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. She loves R&B and Reggae, rice & beans, resides in New York City and is currently building out a movement incubator with the People’s Forum.

Isaac Shalev

President

Sage70, Inc.

Known to his clients as “The Data Therapist,” Isaac helps nonprofit organizations with technical expertise, human sensitivity, and quiet confidence. Isaac has over a decade of experience leading non-profit organizations, offering strategic consulting, and guiding organizations to greater achievement and greater wisdom.

Sage70’s clients include foundations, state agencies, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. If you’re ready to make data and technology work for you, Sage70 is your partner.

Graziella Jackson

CEO

Echo&Co

Graziella Jackson is CEO of Echo&Co, a design and innovation company that helps purpose-driven organizations improve their relationships with end-users. Echo&Co shares its talent and expertise with clients to co-create inspiring human journeys, the modern platforms to enable them, and the internal capacity to improve them over time.

Graziella has a background in brand strategy, human-centered design and innovation, and information design. She’s worked in the public and social sectors for 15 years as well as in the private sector, leading customer experience strategy for Fortune 500 companies. Her heart is in design innovation for social impact, and she has led experience design programs with AARP, ASPCA, Climate Reality Project, Free Press, Greenpeace, NRDC, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Newseum, The George Washington University, The Wilderness Society, and others. Graziella has a bachelor’s degree in communication with a journalism focus from George Mason University and a master’s degree in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University. She is a member of the 2017 class of Leadership Greater Washington and has presented at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, ADWKDC, Web of Change, and Newseum Summer Teaching Institute. Graziella serves on the board of the Center for Digital Resilience, a NGO that connect organizations and digital security experts to build tight-knit, secure civil societies. She also chairs the board of United for Iran, a nonprofit organization that uses digital technology to advance civil liberties in Iran, whose work has been featured at the Oslo Freedom Forum and in WIRED, BuzzFeed, and Fast Company. Graziella has taught English as a second language and literacy in Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County, Md. In her native D.C., she is an active playwright and a board member of the nonprofit Washington Improv Theater (WIT), which brings creativity and a spirit of play to people around the Greater Washington region.

Marcy Rye

Founder & Principal

Wire Media, LLC

Marcy is the founder of Wire Media, an award winning branding and design firm that helps clients communicate more authentically and effectively with their audiences. She is passionate about bringing both order and delight to complex communications challenges. Wire Media’s expertise in visual storytelling and data design helps our clients create a meaningful, emotional connection with their audience, driving lasting relationships.

In her role at Wire Media, she has led branding and design projects for clients including the Humane Society, Box Inc., CREDO, Environmental Defense Fund, River LA, Women’s World Banking, Stanford University, and numerous Democratic and progressive political campaigns at all levels of government in the US, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Marcy has nearly 20 years of experience working at the intersection of cutting-edge design and
technology to help clients communicate better, create opportunities to engage, and build lasting and meaningful relationships. Her prior work experience includes branding and design for leading organizations including the Smithsonian, the World of Coca-Cola Museum, the Women in Military Service Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and AARP. She also has a long history of creating print direct mail for Democratic campaigns at all levels of government in the United States.

Marcy is a frequent speaker and author on topics including data design, visual storytelling, web design, and branding. She’s presented at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, Web of Change, California Association of Nonprofits, and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

She serves on the board of the Los Angeles County Firefighters Foundation, which focuses on bringing health and safety information to the public in Los Angeles County, and she chairs the marketing and communications committee. She is Vice President of the board of directors for Charity on Top, a nonprofit that provides gift cards allowing people to use the card to make a donation to their nonprofit of choice.

Marcy holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master of fine arts in design and technology from Parsons the New School for Design, where she double majored in web/user experience design and physical computing. She lives in Marina del Rey, California where she is passionate about sailboat racing, kayaking, and anything on the water, and where she serves on the race committee at her yacht club.

Apollo Gonzales

Digital Grassroots Engagement Director

PL+US

Apollo Gonzales is a digital engagement and mobilization strategist with a decade of experience working inside, and providing consulting services to, the non-profit social good sector. He is currently the Digital Grassroots Engagement Director for PL+US, and non-profit advocating for corporate and federal paid family leave policy for all working families.

Previously Apollo served as Owner and President of Nimbus Strategies, a digital engagement and mobilization consultancy that focuses on providing digital strategies for issue advocacy campaigns. His work on corporate campaigns on global overfishing, deforestation, and palm oil led to major commitments from companies like Thai Union and Mondelez, and mobilized nearly 2 million supporters to action.

While in DC, Apollo served as Principal for EchoDitto, and Digital Campaign Director for the NRDC and NRDC Action fund. Apollo served on the founding board of directors of Web Of Change, and currently serves as the Chair of the board of directors at Resource Media. He lives in Houston with his wife, 2 sons, and dog Jackson.

Andrew Buck

Content Strategist

Mighty Citizen

Andrew writes.

He writes copy. He writes taglines and headlines and titles. He writes messaging platforms. He writes surveys. He writes marketing strategies. (And he writes staff bios.)

From an early age, Andrew has been obsessed with words—considering a mastery of language key to mastery of thought.

That’s why he studied English and Communications at The University of Texas before beginning a long career in the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Eventually, he combined his love of words with his love of performance to become a software trainer, traveling the country teaching fundraisers how to better manage their data.

At Mighty Citizen, Andrew plays a dual role: helping craft our own marketing content and partnering with our clients on a variety of content projects—including research, messaging, strategizing, branding, and content governance.

Outside of work, you can usually find Andrew performing improv at one of Austin’s many improv theaters. (Or reading. Always reading.)

Becca Montjoy

Communications Director

Sustainable Food Center

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art in 2005, Becca moved to New York City and worked as Multimedia Manager for jewelry designer Tina Tang. After 3 years in NYC, Becca decided to make a career change. In 2011 she received her Master’s of Science in Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin.

While studying at UT, Becca began working with the Sustainable Food Center. Her work with SFC combines her skills in marketing, web design, and graphic design with her social work education. As the leader of the Development and Communications team, Becca oversees the fundraising and marketing strategies for the organization. Her duties include managing the SFC website, social media networks, and Raiser’s Edge and Luminate Online systems. She designs SFC’s weekly eNewsletter, creates marketing materials, and manages SFC’s annual fundraising appeals.

Jed Miller

Digital Strategist

3 Bridges

Jed Miller is a writer and strategist who helps mission-driven organizations think before they build things. He has consulted to groups including the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Greenpeace, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and Open Society Foundations, among others. His most recent report, “The Story Behind the Story,” written with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, explores the challenges for donors and NGOs seeking to tell authentic, compelling stories about their work. Jed previously served as the first internet director for the American Civil Liberties Union and as interactive editor of NYTimes.com. He has taught advocacy communications at Columbia’s School for International Public Affairs and has written for the Guardian, Civic Hall and the General Services Administration, among others. Jed is a native New Yorker who lives ambivalently in Washington, D.C.

Felicia Perez

Innovation Director

Center for Story-based Strategy

Felicia T. Perez is the Innovation Director at the Center for Story-based Strategy. Her previous organizing experience includes work for United Workers Congress, GetEqual, the ACLU of Southern California, No on Proposition 21 campaign, and Californians for Justice. Felicia holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction. She is a published author and co-author of social studies curriculum and in anthologies on teaching and performance. Prior to her work in strategic communications, she taught social studies for twelve years in Los Angeles and was a union chapter chair for UTLA.

Dar Veverka

Director of Information Technology

Urban Teachers

Dar Veverka has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years. She started out in IT working in non-profits on small networks, moved on to teaching technology courses, and then moved into the corporate world working in IT infrastructure and management. In the past few years, Dar has coming full circle back to the non-profit world that she missed. When not doing things in IT, she can be found out hiking or playing in the mud with the residents at the nearest animal sanctuary. And drinking coffee. Lots of coffee.

Janice Chan

Consultant

Shift and Scaffold

Janice Chan never was able to pick one thing to be when she grew up. While grown up status could be debated, what she currently does is consult (shiftandscaffold.com), teach data management in NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate Program, and co-organize NTEN’s Nonprofits and Data online community group. She is also is working towards a Master of Information Management at the University of Maryland.

Originally from New York, Janice arrived south of the Mason-Dixon Line via St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Post-graduation, Janice served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA before officially joining the nonprofit sector. She has worn hats in data management, volunteer management, marketing and communications, grant writing, curriculum development, program management, technical training, change management, and project management.

In short, Janice has spent 11+ years and counting leading the messy work of organizing and restructuring information so that teams can work together more effectively and focus on their missions. She also enjoys writing, traveling, making playlists, and figuring out how we could do this better. You can find her on Twitter @curiositybone.

Ash Shepherd

Chief Program Officer

NTEN

Ash has been in love with the nonprofit sector for over two decades, where he has worked in the areas of conservation, environmental education, social work, technology consulting, project management, and program development. He is a systems thinker who enjoys going form 30,000 feet down into the weeds and back up again.

Ash earned a B.S. from the University of Montana in Resource Management and a Masters in Environment and Development from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. He is a well respected public speaker and has developed numerous nonprofit resources.

Alice Hendricks

CEO

Jackson River

In her role as CEO and founder of Jackson River, Alice helps nonprofit organizations find creative, people-oriented solutions to complex strategy and technology problems. In her 20+ years working with mission-driven organizations, she has provided executive coaching, organization development, process design, and staffing strategy to nonprofit leaders across the sector. Alice is an expert in cause marketing, online fundraising, political engagement, website strategy, social and mobile media, marketing automation, and brand empowerment. But her particular gift lies in identifying the emotional intelligence and wisdom within nonprofits and offering a holistic approach to organizational change. She co-founded Jackson River in 2008 out of the belief that the nonprofit sector deserves access to powerful, corporate-scale technologies. By the numbers, she counts 20+ years working exclusively with nonprofits; 200+ causes assisted; and too many RFP processes to count.

Kristen Avery

Assistant Director, CRM

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kristen has been with the Wildlife Conservation Society since March 2014, a dream job as a kid who loved wildlife. She held two roles before moving on up to Assistant Director, CRM. In this latest role, Kristen handles email marketing for fundraising and attendance driving efforts, Salesforce database management, and incentive fulfillment (who wants swag?) In 2013, she completed her Masters in Transnational Media and Globalisation at City University in London and before that, worked in the media analysis space for four years. Outside of work she enjoys playing soccer, listening to Kylie Minogue, and eating ice cream.

Kiva LaTouche

Assistant Director

Wildlife Conservation Society

As Assistant Director for CRM, Kiva handles email marketing for members, ticket sales, and attendance driving efforts. She also oversees the health and data quality of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s growing CRM system of donors, advocates, members, Zoo and Aquarium visitors, and partners. Kiva joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2015 after years of working and living in the beautiful cities of Johannesburg, South Africa and Sydney, Australia where she worked with international NonGovernmental Organizations on communications enablement and public relations initiatives.
Outside of work she loves her blue tabby (Diaby), great Karaoke jams (Love Shack), and Pub trivia.

Morgan Goode

Director, Digital Marketing & Advocacy

Brennan Center for Justice

As the inaugural Director of Digital Marketing and Advocacy at the Brennan Center, Morgan is helping shape efforts to grow the Center’s audience from grasstops to grassroots. Her team is leading a significant internal cultural shift in terms of how the organization thinks about Digital by positioning themselves as strategic partners working toward shared goals with Programs and Development. With that in mind, the Digital team at the Brennan Center is also undertaking an expansive website rebuild project and the implementation of marketing automation software, along with a new campaign-based strategic approach to digital engagement. Morgan joined the Brennan Center for Justice in 2018 with ten years of non-profit advocacy experience and has worked in organizations both small and large with a wide range of digital literacy and capacity. She’s always searching for new challenges in or out of the office, and is equally at home in libraries and boxing gyms.

Rachel Kottler

Digital Account Mananger

Lautman Maska Neill & Comapny

As a Digital Account Manager at Lautman, Maska Neill & Company, Rachel oversees and executes the digital strategies for clients including the Human Rights Campaign and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Her goal is to combine advocacy and fundraising in order to help organizations fulfill their missions. In her spare time, Rachel enjoys teaching fitness classes and running a volunteer tutoring program.

Kristina Williams

Senior Manager, Membership Operations

Human Rights Campaign

Kristina manages the day-to-day operations of HRC’s large and sophisticated direct response program for all channels including direct mail, digital, telemarketing and monthly giving. Since joining HRC in 2016, Kristina has focused on optimizing the systems and strategies that underlay a complex membership fundraising department, which includes everything from budget building and maintenance to direct mail strategy, copy and segmentation.

David Ballinger

Online Fundraising and Advocacy Manager

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

David has worked in digital fundraising, advocacy, and e-mail marketing for over 10 years, primarily with non-profit organizations, with the exception of a two year stint in the boating industry. At the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine David manages digital fundraising, advocacy, and e-mail marketing campaigns as well as day-to-day management of their online CRM.

Outside of work, you can find him riding a bike in NYC, playing computer games, or chasing his mischievous kitten around his apartment. You can follow her on Instagram at @tali_the_tabby.

Peggy Duvette

Senior Director of Social Impact

Oracle NetSuite

Peggy has been a thought leader in technology & social change for over 15 years. As the Senior Director of Social Impact at Oracle NetSuite, she is responsible for the software donation of the NetSuite products to nonprofits located all around the world as well as all pro bono and capacity interventions for nonprofits customers. She is committed to helping nonprofits and social enterprises to further their social impact through technology. Previously, as Executive Director of WiserEarth, Peggy was responsible for growing an online community of over 80,000 members from all around the world working towards sustainability and social justice issues. She earned an MBA with honors in Management and Sustainability from SFSU. She is a board member of WiserGiving.

Rebecca Wang

Boardmember

Taproot Foundation

Rebecca Wang is driven by her personal passion and belief that any individual can make social impact, and that everyone has a responsibility to serve.

Rebecca most recently led Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s award-winning employee engagement strategy – which included everything from hands-on/ team-building activities to skills-based and pro bono volunteering – for its employees worldwide.

She moved into the corporate world when hired by Cisco Systems in 2000, to design and scale the company’s volunteer program globally and manage the Cisco Systems Foundation matching gift and disaster relief programs. She then joined Hewlett Packard in 2010.

Rebecca has her professional roots in the nonprofit sector, spending ten years as a fundraiser and volunteer manager at a variety of organizations including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and YMCA.

She currently serves as a Board member on two national organizations focused on social impact through pro bono volunteering: Taproot Foundation and CreateAthon.

Mizgon Darby

Executive Director

Arts in Action

As a seasoned professional in marketing, digital strategy, and fund development in the nonprofit sector, Mizgon leads Art in Action’s strategic growth and program initiatives through new partnerships and funding sources.

Brad Struss

CEO

Bigger Boat Consulting

Bigger Boat Consulting founder Brad Struss has been consulted with nonprofit organizations around CRM systems and effective data management for 9 years. Brad and his team at Bigger Boat Consulting build custom Salesforce systems for human and social services agencies.

Brad has been a speaker on a range of nonprofit data management topics at Do Good Data, UW DRIVE, Dreamforce, and the Social Venture Partners International Conference.

Marie-Josée (MJ) Christopher

Enterprise Program Manager

Engie Insight

MJ’s career spans more than 20 years managing complex business operations in various industries. For the past 11 years, MJ has focused her business operations expertise in the sustainability arena(residential and commercial). MJ currently works for Engie Insight as an Enterprise Program Manager and has worked with other local companies Enhabit (a non-profit formerly Clean Energy Works) and RWDI (formerly Green Building Services Inc.) MJ is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and she holds a B.Soc.Sc. Economics and Business Administration. She is a fluent French speaker and enjoys spending time with her family doing outdoor activities in her spare time.

Rachel Allison

Principal and Co-founder

Fresh Eyes Digital

Rachel has helped nonprofits like NARAL Pro-Choice America, Earthjustice, 350.org, Fountain House, The Marfan Foundation, and many more build their online communities, gain new donors, and launch innovative digital fundraising programs since the early 2000’s. She has a proven track record creating campaigns that combine smart research, fresh storytelling, and a relentless focus on results. Rachel is excited to help organizations leverage cutting-edge digital technology and strategy in order to raise more money and build more powerful supporter relationships.

Angie Aker

Manager of Web & Social Storytelling

Food & Water Watch

Angie Aker is our Manager of Web & Social Storytelling, based in Kenosha, WI. She applies her background in empathy- and data-driven storytelling to our web and social content to elevate the stories that matter to our audience.

Angie’s spent most of the last decade refining the ability to reach average Americans where they’re at on issues that matter. Starting with her pioneering viral media work at MoveOn.org, she wrote many of the headlines that went on to help launch Upworthy (as well as the political careers of those that she highlighted). Angie was a panelist and speaker at the 2014 Gates Foundation Annual Media Summit, with a focus on how to reach audiences in new ways and how to measure impact. She is also an ardent activist in Wisconsin’s first Congressional district, known internationally for her viral and earned media-garnering progressive protests.

Andre Sternberg

Associate Director, Digital Advertising

Sierra Club

Associate Director, Digital Advertising at Sierra Club, running the digital ads program across the organization for advocacy, political, fundraising, list growth, and ecommerce goals. Previously was the Digital Marketing Manager at CREDO Mobile and a Digital Producer at LinkTV. Wesleyan University grad and Oakland, CA resident.

Amanda Robinson

Digital Organizer

Stand Up America

Amanda has worked as a Digital Organizer at Stand Up America for almost two years. From day-to-day production, copywriting, and strategy, she’s helped this new non-profit grow into a leading Resistance group. She’s also helped triple the size and reach of their SMS program, which has become the number one driver of advocacy action for the organization. She graduated from New York University with a degree in Public Policy and previously worked for the U.S. Department of Education, Open Primaries and Hillary for America.

Taylor Behnke

Mobile Strategist

Upland Mobile Messaging

Taylor Behnke is a Mobile Strategist at Upland Mobile Messaging, where she helps nonprofits and advocacy organizations design effective SMS campaigns. Prior to Upland Mobile Messaging, she worked in nonprofits herself, creating digital campaigns at organizations like Hillary for America, GLAAD, and United Way of Dane County.

Misty McLaughlin

Principal & Founder

Cause Craft Consulting

Misty McLaughlin is a capacity-builder for all things marketing, comms, advocacy and fundraising. At Cause Craft Consulting and Jackson River, she has midwifed nonprofits and NGOs of all shapes and sizes through critical times of change, from shifting to digital-first ways of thinking and working to creating website ecosystems to crafting team structures and workflows that engage supporters and advance a cause. Prior to joining Jackson River, she spent 8 years founding and leading a user experience consulting practice at Convio, where she helped hundreds of organizations to better understand their audiences and create web presences targeted to their supporters’ needs. She has also lived on the inside of nonprofit digital teams as a content manager and digital strategist for universities. Misty holds a Master’s degree in Information Science, has chaired a tiny nonprofit board on a shoestring budget, and is also a writer, advocate for flexible work cultures, and mother to 2 young sons.

Justin Birdsong

Director of Data Operations & Strategy

ACLU

Justin Birdsong manages the operations of the ACLU’s enterprise CRM and analytics programs, serving the National Headquarters and 53 nationwide affiliates to support ongoing constituent engagement. Justin’s team leverages data, software, and business support and training to build and optimize a global 360° view of ACLU constituents that enables coordinated, data-driven decision making across communications, fundraising, and advocacy.

Kiva LaTouche

Assistant Director

Wildlife Conservation Society

As Assistant Director for CRM, Kiva handles email marketing for members, ticket sales, and attendance driving efforts. She also oversees the health and data quality of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s growing CRM system of donors, advocates, members, Zoo and Aquarium visitors, and partners. Kiva joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2015 after years of working and living in the beautiful cities of Johannesburg, South Africa and Sydney, Australia where she worked with international NonGovernmental Organizations on communications enablement and public relations initiatives.
Outside of work she loves her blue tabby (Diaby), great Karaoke jams (Love Shack), and Pub trivia.

Julia Campbell

Speaker, Author, Consultant

J Campbell Social Marketing

Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations. A mom of 2 and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, she is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits, a call-to-action for nonprofits to use stories to accomplish their missions.

Based in Boston, Julia is a global authority on digital storytelling, with happy clients spanning the globe from Moscow to San Francisco. She has provided workshops and training to Meals on Wheels America, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Facebook. Julia is a frequent contributor to Nonprofit Tech for Good, Social Media Today, Maximize Social Business, Elevation Web, Network for Good, Wild Apricot, and others.

Her passion is to get nonprofits of all sizes to stop spinning their wheels on social media and to start getting real results using digital tools. You can check out her thoughts and ideas on all things nonprofit digital storytelling and social media at www.jcsocialmarketing.com/blog.

Daphne Lagios

Courses Specialist

TechSoup

Daphne has divided her professional career between the nonprofit world and public education. She started with working at a small nonprofit partner of a national park and like many employees at many nonprofits, wore numerous hats: development, administration, education and events. Then, she spent 15 years in adult education, teaching ESL and computer skills to new immigrants and developing programs for parents of young ELL learners. Transitioning back to nonprofit world, she worked in Account Management and Fulfillment at TechSoup before starting her current position as Courses Specialists as part of the Services & Solutions Team.

Maureen Wallbeoff

Nonprofit Digital Strategist & Technology Coach

Practical Wisdom for Nonprofit Accidental Techies

Maureen Wallbeoff is a nonprofit digital strategist and technology coach. If you are drowning in data or your systems aren’t working efficiently together, she’s got practical wisdom to share!

In addition to her work with clients, she has authored several guides on nonprofit engagement software, blogs at her website, and answers questions live every Friday afternoon on her Facebook page. A regular contributor to nonprofit industry media channels, Maureen has led workshops all over the U.S. and Canada and is one of Idealware’s expert trainers.

Nathaniel Payne

Managing Director

Better Business Technology

An innovative and collaborative technology strategist, Nate knows how to get things done. Recognized for his resourcefulness, exceptional communication skills, energy and determination, he thrives on designing and implementing IT infrastructures and processes that help organizations attain operational efficiencies and drive bottom line growth. Success is realized through relationship-building and delivery of enterprising solutions that align with client and organizational objectives. His easy-going manner and sense of humor has proven highly effective in leading project teams, internal stakeholders, and business partners to consistently achieve peak performance.

katherine Lagana

Chief Technology Officer

Fidelity Charitable

Katherine Lagana is the Chief Technology Officer for Fidelity Charitable®. The organization’s mission: to further the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that makes charitable giving simple, and effective. Fidelity Charitable launched the first national donor-advised fund program, democratizing philanthropy by making a giving vehicle available to a broad array of people. Today, Fidelity Charitable® sponsor smore than 75,000 donor-advised funds connected to more than 120,000 donors and are the nation’s second-largest grant maker behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since founding, Fidelity Charitable® has helped donors support over 219,000 nonprofit organizations with more than $22 billion in grants.

Prior to joining Fidelity Charitable®, Katherine led global product development for LexisNexis, and advanced global product delivery for Microsoft Office. Apple shaped the first decade of her career, engineering developer, consumer and higher education products.

She is an avid volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and STEM programs for young women. Within the broader cosmos, you will find Katherine teaching, and hiking with her husband while tons of sci-fi books fill her iPad.

Rachel Paris

Manager, Digital Strategy and Community Engagement

Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Canada

Rachel Paris is the Manager, Digital Strategy and Community Engagement at the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Canada, the only Canadian foundation 100% dedicated to participatory youth grantmaking. In her role, she manages the data systems for a national program reaching 20,000 youth, as well as communications, impact reporting and engagement for a community of stakeholders including youth, charities, schools & funders.

Before landing at YPI, Rachel came from a background in community-based interventions with a variety of groups, including youth, women, people living in poverty, and gender & sexual minorities. This direct service experience informs a strong commitment to equity and ethics, and she is interested in the ways that technology as a tool can be used to either empower or disenfranchise communities.

Rachel is a White settler from the traditional territory of Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), where she participates in the crafting, roller derby and activist communities.

Arjun Reddy

Sr. Technology & Operations Manager

Global Impact Investing Network

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is the global champion of impact investing, dedicated to increasing its scale and effectiveness around the world. Impact investing is an exciting and rapidly growing industry powered by investors who are determined to generate social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. This is taking place all over the world, and across all asset classes.

Arjun Reddy serves as the GIIN’s Technology and Operations Senior Manager. In his role, he supports the organization by designing, evaluating, and implementing technical solutions to address strategic operational and programmatic needs.

Over the course of his career, Arjun has held technical leadership positions in a number of industries, including enterprise software, energy, and financial services. Arjun holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Rice University, and is an avid tennis player in his spare time.

Sarah Durham

CEO

Big Duck

Sarah founded Big Duck in 1994 to help nonprofits increase their visibility, raise money, and achieve their missions. Today, she uses her deep experience in nonprofit communications to guide the entire Big Duck team.

The author of Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2010), her expertise has been borrowed by NPR, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Guidestar, and beyond. She is a sought-after speaker on topics such as branding, fundraising, and other nonprofit communications topics. Sarah is a regular speaker at local and international AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) conferences, the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) in the Netherlands, and the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC).

Sarah is a total nonprofit communications nerd. She was named a “top fundraiser under 40” by Fundraising Success magazine in 2006, and one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company magazine in 2010. An adjunct professor at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Sarah teaches strategic communications to other aspiring nonprofit nerds.

Sarah serves as Vice Chair of the National Brain Tumor Society’s board of directors.

Chandra Hayslett

Communications Director

Center for Constitutional Rights

Chandra M. Hayslett is a Pulitzer Prize winning communications executive with more than 20 years’ experience spanning the public relations, marketing and journalism industries. She is currently the director of communications for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal and advocacy organization that stands with social justice movements and communities under threat to dismantle systems of oppression. In this role, Chandra is responsible for leading the overall development of communications strategy and guiding the department’s coordination with the legal and advocacy departments and case-specific communications plans.

Before joining the Center for Constitutional Rights Chandra was a managing supervisor at G&S Business Communications, where she positioned CEOs and other C-level executives as industry thought leaders; led the development of core materials for M&A and new product launches; increased public awareness for clients by securing print and broadcast media placements in top-tier outlets and secured new business and developed integrated marketing communications campaigns to grow the businesses of national and global publicly-traded companies. While at G&S, Chandra designed and implemented an agency-wide diversity and inclusion program, Think Differently Together, which was awarded Best New Diversity Initiative 2015 by PR Council and PRWeek.

Before transitioning into public relations, Chandra spent 11 years as newspaper reporter covering K-12 education, first-degree murder cases and politics for The Jackson Sun in Tennessee, and in New Jersey for the Home News Tribune, the Asbury Park Press and finally the Newark Star-Ledger, where she was part of reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Chandra is a member of The Communications Network, New York Women in Communications, Inc., PR Council and the New York Association of Black Journalists. She has a Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies from the University of Tennessee and lives in New York City

Ambar Mentor-Truppa

Vice President of Communications

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Ambar Mentor-Truppa is the Shriver Center’s first-ever Vice President of Communications, providing strategic direction and oversight to the organization’s public relations, brand management, and marketing activities. She has 15 years of private sector experience in strategic communications, previously working as a consultant for several boutique public affairs agencies. She has directed communications and community outreach projects to support policy work on behalf of major public interest organizations, including foundations and government entities. An active civic volunteer, she supports causes connected to feminism, education, race equity and public media. Ambar holds a B.S. in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lives in Chicago.

Suzanne Shaw

Director of Communications

Union of Concerned Scientists

Suzanne Shaw is director of communications at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In her role, she oversees issue campaign communications and brand marketing, digital and web engagement strategies, earned and paid media, and publications and collateral development. Since 2000, she has helped scientists communicate their research to decisionmakers and the public on issues including climate science, clean energy and transportation, sustainable agriculture, and nuclear weapons. She has developed public education materials for major studies on the local impacts of climate change in the Northeast, California, and the Great Lakes region, and co-authored the book Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living. She also co-led the Union of Concerned Scientists’ effort to expose the abuse of science by the Bush administration, and helped build and launch the UCS Center for Science and Democracy that arose from this initiative.

Ms. Shaw is a communications strategist, science communications trainer, and expert on crisis communications, message research, and framing, who brings three decades of experience in nonprofit and private sector marketing and communications to her role. Prior to joining UCS, Ms. Shaw was the director of communications for Project Bread, a nonprofit committed to ending hunger in Massachusetts, and worked in public relations in the private sector.

Molly Swonger

Advancement Systems Manager

Dogwood Alliance

Self-described data nerd, small shop enthusiast, creator of solutions, puzzle solver, and above all else person who wants to make the world a better place.

Matt Howell

Director of Information Systems & Technical Training

CCO

Everywhere Matt went in his career, he ended up being the designated trainer. In a career that spans radio, newspapers, higher education, and non-profits, Matt has always been motivated to find ways to help others succeed in their jobs through professional development.

Matt has earned the CPLP (Certified Professional in Learning & Performance) credential given by the Association of Talent Development, the world’s largest organization focused on employee learning and development. He earned a degree in Broadcast Management from the University of Akron and a Master’s Degree in Non-Profit Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

In his free time, his nerdy obsessions include the Civil War and anything relating to weather. His wife thinks he is a swell guy. His two adult children are still unsure.

Carrie Mann

Deputy Director of Digital Membership and Advocacy

Friends of the Earth

Carrie manages Friends of the Earth’s email program, including digital advocacy, organizing, and fundraising. She focuses on using digital tools to advance campaigns to protect the environment and fight for social and economic justice. In her spare time, Carrie likes to travel and play the guitar.

Sara Kerrigan

Email Director

ActBlue

Sara Kerrigan is the Email Director at ActBlue, where she oversees the email fundraising program. She focuses on empowering small-dollar donors online and training other digital experts to do the same. When she’s not obsessing over email strategy, she enjoys astrology, caring for her plants, and running.

Michael Rasko

Owner

Rasko Digital Marketing

Michael Rasko is a nonprofit marketing consultant who specializes in Google Grants, an online advertising program for nonprofits. He has been a volunteer, board member, and employee at nonprofits. He is currently on the board of Friends of the Multnomah County Library. Immediately prior to starting his own company, he worked at a law firm, specializing in digital marketing.

Jason King

Google Ad Grants Certified Professional

Jason King

Jason King is a freelance Google Ad Grants Certified Professional, and a Google Partner. He audits and manages Google Ad Grants for nonprofits, helping them to maximise the benefits of Google’s free online advertising. He’s an ex-librarian who’s worked in the charity sector for over 20 years, running ICT projects, supporting staff and volunteers to use technology, and helping plan, build and promote non-profits’ websites. Jason’s a co-organiser for NTEN’s WordPress Community forum for non-profits. He lives in Mirepoix, France.

Michelle Hurtado

Head of Google Ad Grants

Google Ad Grants

Michelle Hurtado leads the Ad Grants program at Google, which offers $10,000 per month in free advertising to nonprofits around the world. From starting her career supporting nonprofit communication strategies to diving into digital marketing for over fifteen years, she’s grateful to bring interests together and serve nonprofits through Ad Grants. She resides in California with her husband and three children and holds degrees from Duke University and Wharton.

Paul Keogan

CEO and co-founder

BackOffice Thinking

Paul Keogan: CEO and co-founder at BackOffice Thinking. Paul has been a leading technology consultant for the past 20 years. Paul’s passion is to transform his clients’ use of technology to better serve and engage their constituents, grow their donor base, and run their organizations more effectively. He consults with nonprofit executives on technology, finance, and communication strategy and, with the BackOffice Thinking team, has led numerous software selection, design, and implementation projects throughout the U.S.

Jacqueline Tiso

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

JMT Consulting

Jacqueline is a frequent speaker on financial management and Cloud (SaaS) technology and is regularly called upon for her expertise by the media and as a conference speaker. As a visionary, Jacqueline continues to think years ahead – anticipating where technology is going – and what the impact and changing needs of nonprofits will be. Several years ago, JMT migrated most of its internal systems to the Cloud, and after experiencing the benefits of these systems, Jacki has been a leading proponent of Cloud systems for non-profits ever since.

Jacqueline has over twenty-five years experience in the nonprofit sector. Prior to founding JMT Consulting Group, she was CFO and Comptroller for a number of nonprofit organizations. From her hands-on experience, she has helped organizations in assessing problems and executing a solution. She has assisted nonprofit organizations with all financial aspects of their business from accounting services and technology to high-level management and board consulting.

Through Jacqueline’s leadership, her company has received national recognition with the Technology Pacesetter award in Accounting Today, a Var 100 member, as well as being featured on the cover of Accounting Technology and featured articles.

Jolie Bou

Chief Financial Officer

Samaritan House

Jolie Bou leads the Finance/Accounting team at Samaritan House. She’s passionate about having positive synergy between finance and developments departments. Her responsibilities also include Information Technology and risk management. She has been in this role since September 2005. Prior to joining the Samaritan House team, she was the Executive Director for the Women’s Recovery Association in Burlingame and prior to that was their Director of Finance for 10 years. Jolie’s career began in accounting and her non-profit work goes back more than 35 years with experience and expertise in wide range of key areas including finance, accounting, strategy, development, human resources and capacity building. In addition, Jolie has participated in several distinct national and local organizational learning collaboratives such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national collaborative, “Paths to Recovery”. These initiatives focused on process improvement, infrastructure capacity, outcomes, and learning from peer organizations.

David Jost

Chief Marketing Officer

Arreva

David is a passionate, strategic, marketing, and digital technology executive leader who joined Arreva as Chief Marketing Officer in 2018.

Here at the intersection of technology and social good, David blends 20+ years of marketing, advertising, enterprise software (SaaS), management, cause marketing, and digital transformation success across entrepreneurial and corporate environment including Papirfly Brand Automation Software, TMP Worldwide, CBS Television, McClatchy, Tribune Company, technology and media startups with a passion for helping nonprofits do good, better through Arreva’s transformative donor relationship management and online fundraising software ecosystem.

David has been a featured speaker on innovation, digital transformation, marketing, and technology for the Business Journals, South Florida Interactive Marketing Association, Florida Diversity Council, and at leading industry conferences.

David holds an MBA in Strategic Management and Marketing with a focus on Digital Strategy from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He also has significant experience and training in personal and professional development coaching including through Anthony Robbins Mastery University and as an Event Crew Leader.

He has a long-standing passion for the arts, education, and personal and professional learning and development and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for North Broward Preparatory School (Nord Anglia Education), where he also serves as President of the school’s nonprofit Fine Arts Boosters organization.

Isaac Shalev

President

Sage70, Inc.

Known to his clients as “The Data Therapist,” Isaac helps nonprofit organizations with technical expertise, human sensitivity, and quiet confidence. Isaac has over a decade of experience leading non-profit organizations, offering strategic consulting, and guiding organizations to greater achievement and greater wisdom.

Sage70’s clients include foundations, state agencies, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. If you’re ready to make data and technology work for you, Sage70 is your partner.

Leigh Kessler

VP, Marketing

CharityEngine

Leigh Kessler is VP of Marketing and Communications at donor management software platform CharityEngine and a frequent speaker on branding, fundraising, data and technology. He is a former nationally touring headline comedian and has appeared on numerous TV shows including VH1’s “Best Week Ever”, CNN’s “Showbiz Tonight”, Discovery Channel & Sirius Radio. Over the past 15 years, he has overseen and informed research and branding strategies for some of the most well known brands in America.

John Coogan

President

Folded Flag Foundation / Vegas Golden Knights Foundation

John Coogan has served in the non-profit & technology sectors for over twenty years and offers experience and expertise in strategic fundraising planning, fundraising infrastructure management, donor operations management, and program services management.

Throughout his non-profit career, Mr. Coogan has been involved in the successful solicitation of millions of dollars in charitable gifts from individuals, corporations and foundations; and in the design and deployment of critical fundraising and program delivery systems for a variety of charitable organizations.

Mr. Coogan is highly committed to veterans and military families, having served in the past as Executive Director for Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation and as Director of Technology & Fundraising Infrastructure for Wounded Warrior Project. He currently serves as President of The Folded Flag Foundation, which focuses on enabling surviving military families for success after loss, using education as the cornerstone. He also serves as President of the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation, which is committed to supporting local Las Vegas charities and philanthropic efforts across five pillars – Education, Health & Wellness, Hunger & Homelessness, Military & First Responders and Youth Development & Sports.

Mr. Coogan holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a master’s degree in Business Administration and Information Systems Management from the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business. He recently completed the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders at Stanford University.

Prior to his work in the non-profit sector, Mr. Coogan served in various technical leadership roles with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and VERITAS Software Corporation, among other organizations.

Matt Thompson

Vice President, Sales

EveryAction

Matt is the VP of Sales at EveryAction, working with EveryAction’s prospective and current clients to connect them with the right tools to grow their fundraising, organizing, and advocacy programs. Matt has been an active member of the DC Nonprofit and Progressive Political Community for over 13 years. Prior to joining EveryAction, Matt spent 7 years at Blue State Digital, where he built and led their business development team, as well as 3 years as Managing Director of Global Sales at Change.org.

Brian Lauterbach

CFRE, Vice President of Programs & Capacity Building

Network for Good

Brian has served as a professional fundraiser and consultant for more than one hundred nonprofit organizations in the United States. In this capacity, he was chiefly responsible for the process and strategy redesign, integrating fundraising activities that lead to more 4 million donors giving $300 million to causes most important to them. Brian teaches fundraising and nonprofit management at George Washington University and Northwestern University and has served as the Annual Giving Track Chair for AFP International’s Conference on Fundraising. He is founder of the Network for Good Jumpstart Program and works in partnership with grantmakers, nationally, to ensure nonprofits of the tools, tech, and coaching required to build fundraising capacity.

Ryan Peasley

Technology Manager

Wipfli, LLP

Ryan is an experienced IT consultant, advocate, and technology enabler. He has over 15 years of experience in working with and planning for technology in regulated industries, helping organizations manage, implement, and utilize technology to promote productivity and achieve organizational goals. Ryan’s experience includes all aspects of IT service delivery and planning, including assessment, planning, migration, configuration, training, documentation, report writing, and user adoption.

Emilio Wagner

Director of Operations

Community Action Partnership of Kern

Emilio is an experienced Director of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Technology Operations, Budgeting, Contractors, and Strategic Planning.

Katie Fogleman

Deputy Director of Digital Strategy

Burness

Hi! I’m Katie.

I’m a native North Carolinian, perennial optimist, former middle school teacher, and current digital strategist and video producer.

At Burness, I work with nonprofits across issues—from education to health to climate change and more—to help them communicate their work in simple, compelling ways. I then work with our amazing creative strategy team to figure out how to help amplify those messages, whether that’s through video, social media, partner engagement, email, websites or something else entirely.

I graduated from Duke University with a degree in international studies and history. Since then, I’ve been a teacher, education program coordinator at a small nonprofit, global media consultant, and video producer. (I also got married and had a kid, who is now 18 months!) My work has taken me to all sorts of places—from the Amazon to Appalachia to the Bronx to Switzerland—but my heart is in the American South, where I was born and raised.

I’m passionate about good stories, and I believe that video can be a powerful awareness and persuasion tool. It can be pretty expensive, though, so part of my job is to advise nonprofits on how to create video content that doesn’t break the bank.

I’m looking forward to my first NTEN and can’t wait to meet everyone!

Nick Dean

Director of Digital Strategy

Burness

Nick Dean is the lead digital strategist at Burness, where he guides a team of creative strategists as they develop and launch innovative, effective and authentic digital campaigns and products.

From digital advertising and social media content strategy to website redesigns and email marketing campaigns, Nick’s work in the digital realm runs the gamut. His work looks to engage the right people in the right way with the right message.

Prior to Burness, Nick was a strategist at 270 Strategies, where he ran social media, email marketing and online organizing and fundraising campaigns for international nonprofits, political campaigns and companies. He’s worked with organizations like Facebook, Chobani, Texas Children’s Hospital, the National Patient Advocates Foundation and more.

He’s a former journalist with a passion for the written word. He studied journalism and political science at Baylor University, working first as the social media editor and online breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before moving to Washington, D.C. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with his wife, Sommer, and daughter, Maya.

Courtney Clark

VP of Design

Forum One

Courtney Clark is the Vice President of Design at Forum One. She’s a user experience designer and content strategist with over a decade of experience designing for nonprofits, foundations, and government. Some of her recent clients include Peace Corps, Smithsonian, American Red Cross, MacArthur Foundation, and California Air Resources Board.

She currently leads the design team at Forum One where she manages and mentors staff, grows and improves the design practice, and brings design thinking and strategy to project teams and clients.

Vanessa Schnaidt

Vice President

Cause Communications

Vanessa Schnaidt is the Vice President at Cause Communications, the first nonprofit to focus exclusively on communications effectiveness in the social sector. Vanessa leads the ongoing development of the organization’s capacity building tools and training programs, in addition to overseeing projects within the organization’s consulting practice. Vanessa has been helping causes leverage strategic communications to achieve their missions for 15 years, serving in leadership roles at a variety of national nonprofits, grantmaking public charities, foundations, and agencies. She also serves on the national Board of Directors for the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.

Gabriel Sanchez

Director of Communications

First 5 LA

With nearly 20 years of experience in behavior change campaigns, Gabriel is passionate about using communications to connect audiences with ideas that captivate, educate, engage, and spark change.

For Gabriel, a big part of marketing and communications is discovering the emotional connection points of an issue to captivate audiences, stripping them of jargon so stories can be easily understood, move audiences to action, and in the case of First 5 LA benefit kids and their families.

As Director of Communications at First 5 LA, Gabriel leads the charge in advancing the agency’s goals to help every child, prenatal to age 5, be healthier, safer and better prepared for school and life. Along with his team, he is helping to build the agency’s brand, engage decision makers, elevate and create awareness on early childhood development issues, and support internal communications.

Throughout his career, Gabriel has developed long and short-term strategic communications plans for state and local governments, public agencies, non-profit groups, foundations, private corporations, and candidates at the national, state, local and legislative levels. Among his leadership positions prior to joining First 5 LA include communications director roles for Green Dot Public Schools, Obama for America, and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. He also has served as a senior communications consultant for several non-profits, foundations, corporations and elected officials at the national, state and local level.

Gabriel earned bachelor of arts degrees in Political Science and Chicano Studies from California State University at Fullerton.

Sam Chenkin

Director of Consulting

Tech Impact

Sam is the Director of Consulting Services at Tech Impact, a US based nonprofit providing support to the global nonprofit community. In this role they help organize the 10 person consulting staff as they help nonprofits focus on their mission. The team supports hundreds of nonprofits every year as they make decisions about their technology strategy, build data systems, and understand their data.

Sam’s responsibility is to help the nonprofit community think creatively about technology and find ways to harness it for true social change. Sam has a technical background and expertise in Office 365, Cloud Security, AI and ML, Salesforce, and other data and infrastructure related areas.

Sam uses they/them/theirs pronouns and can be reached at sam@techimpact.org

Ramya Gopal

MAF Lab Director

Mission Asset Fund

Ramya Gopal leads the MAF Lab, the R&D lab within Mission Asset Fund, to build products to financially empower low-income and immigrant families. Prior to MAF, she conducted research at Center for Effective Philanthropy to help foundations work more effectively with nonprofits.

Ramya received her MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she specialized in leadership in the social impact sector.

Carrie Boron

Consultant

Ideal State

Carrie is a consultant with Ideal State, a firm working with organizations engaged in social good to create digital workplaces that combine people, processes and technology to redefine how people work and learn together. Before joining Ideal State, Carrie served as director of knowledge management at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) based in Baltimore. During her time at LIRS, Carrie built a robust internal KM practice spanning content management and collaboration and also led the launch of a highly successful partner extranet. Prior to that she spent 11 years as a communications and business planning lead at Everyday Democracy. She is passionate about social causes and brings a depth of KM expertise along with strong project management skills to every project.

Kay Bellor

Vice President for Programs

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Vice President for Programs for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, has dedicated nearly her entire career to advocating on behalf of immigrants and refugees. Kay previously served as Vice President for U.S. Programs at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) headquarters in New York City. From 2005 to 2008 she was Director of the IRC Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) in Bangkok, Thailand. From 1995 to 2005, Kay was the Senior Director for Resettlement at the IRC. Prior to joining IRC, Kay was employed by Church World Service (CWS) from 1984 to 1995. While at CWS, Kay served as the Associate Director, and as the Deputy Joint Voluntary Agency Representative in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Liza Dyer

Volunteer Services Program Coordinator

Multnomah County Library

Liza J. Dyer, CVA, has been working and volunteering in the nonprofit and public sectors for more than 15 years. She is currently a Volunteer Services Program Coordinator at Multnomah County Library, a public library system in Portland, Oregon which engages over 2,000 community members as library volunteers each year. Liza has previously worked in museums and science centers where she taught people about science, led teams of citizen scientists, and talked about whales (almost) every day. When not at work, Liza can be found knitting, reading, exploring, and volunteering in the community. She is proud to be an AmeriCorps alum and Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Pronouns: she/her/hers

Elisa Kosarin

Volunteer Engagement Specialist

Twenty Hats

Elisa Kosarin, CVA, helps nonprofits deliver fully on their mission and raise more money by strategically integrating volunteer management and development. With over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Elisa’s work is driven by the underlying belief that volunteers have the potential to transform communities – if nonprofits commit to nurturing the volunteer/nonprofit relationship and developing high impact volunteer programs.

Elisa is Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA) and guest blogs regularly for the VolunteerMatch Engaging Volunteers website, and has hosted webinars for the AL!VE and VolunteerPro communities. In her spare time, you can find Elisa in a dance studio or behind a sewing machine, putting together a new quilt.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Lesley Hostetter

Vice President

Lautman Maska Neill & Company

Lesley is a Vice President at Lautman Maska Neill & Company, where she oversees the Digital Department, and manages the direct response programs for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Parkinson’s Foundation.

Before joining Lautman Maska Neill & Company over 10 years ago, Lesley worked for Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) as the Manager of Donor Relations, where she oversaw the direct mail and major donor programs. Before that, Lesley spent 4 years at Adams Hussey & Associates, where she worked with a wide variety of nonprofit and advocacy organizations to grow donor bases and instill the art of effective fundraising.

Lesley is proud to bring her extensive experience raising money through mail, telephone and digital campaigns to Lautman Maska Neill & Company.

Kristina Williams

Senior Manager, Membership Operations

Human Rights Campaign

Kristina manages the day-to-day operations of HRC’s large and sophisticated direct response program for all channels including direct mail, digital, telemarketing and monthly giving. Since joining HRC in 2016, Kristina has focused on optimizing the systems and strategies that underlay a complex membership fundraising department, which includes everything from budget building and maintenance to direct mail strategy, copy and segmentation.

Karen Uffelman

Principal

Percolator Consulting

In her twenty-year career, Karen has mounted large theater productions, worked on local and regional political campaigns, managed fundraising teams and lobbied at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on international policy. For the last decade, she’s been consulting with nonprofit organizations on the creative and strategic use of technology for social change.

Karen has partnered with organizations such as Greenpeace, SEIU, and The Mountaineers, helping them think through their best and most critical engagement opportunities and challenges. She is expert at shepherding clients through big changes to engagement and mobilization practices as well as the adoption of technology to power those practices. In past lives, she was the Director of Client Strategy at Groundwire, the Development Director for Corporate Accountability International, Managing Director of Washington Conservation Voters, and Producer and General Manager of New City Theater.

Elijah van der Giessen

Community Manager

TechSoup

Eli strives to be a connector – the interstitial tissue that holds the muscle of a community together. He’s been a volunteer manager, an event organizer and a digital campaigner. Basically he’ll take any gig that allows him to enable a group of passionate people to create things they love.

Currently he’s the NetSquared Community Manager supporting a global volunteer network of 120 monthly meetups for the nonprofit technology sector. Together they hold over 800 events per year.

Ryan Hollett

Information Systems Manager

Ceres

Ryan oversees the coordination and usage of IT systems at Ceres, including database, productivity and communication systems. Ryan joined Ceres in the spring of 2018 after 4 years with Scholar Athletes as Information Systems Manager.

Previously Ryan worked in various nonprofit and education settings, including direct service for juvenile delinquents in NYC and STEM curriculum design for Emirati youth in the United Arab Emirates.

Barbara Grant

CEO

Crux Consulting Consortium

Barbara is well versed in a variety of organizational development models, tool-agnostic, and uses multiple methodologies to assist leaders and teams in moving forward. She started consulting with local and regional non-profits, foundations and public sector groups in 2000 after leaving a 10 year career at Microsoft. She has a passion for public education, strengthening leadership, and working effectively across differences of culture, generations and power. Her experience ranges from running lines of business and eventually directing Microsoft’s Leadership Development programs worldwide to working with CEOs and Executive Team members in a variety of international, national and regional organizations. She has a working knowledge across the social, public and private sector as well as two decades of experience working with international NGOs. With 30 years of leadership experience, she has hired and managed hundreds of people, has worked with and consulted with boards, executives, teams, and organizations across size, structure and cultures.

Barbara has a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Bastyr University and a BA in International Relations from the University of Notre Dame. She learns context quickly, is intuitive and direct, and believes in being a “disappearing stitch,” where clients continue to grow and scale successfully long after the interaction with Crux is completed. Barbara works in a variety of countries and settings, is fluent in Spanish, and, being of Irish heritage, has a well-developed sense of humor.

Eve Gourley

Director of Information Systems

Food Lifeline

Eve Gourley is a queer transgender woman living on Capitol Hill in Seattle. She immigrated from Ireland in 1998 and is currently the Director of Information Systems for Food Lifeline, a regional food bank based in Seattle, and is a board member for UTOPIA Seattle and the Greater Seattle Business Association.

Eve embraces opportunities to be visible as a successful transgender woman, clearing space for other trans folks to express themselves and take on leadership roles in society. She is especially committed to fighting gender discrimination in the workplace, and building solidarity between trans and cis women.

Moshe Hecht

Chief Innovation Officer

Charidy

Moshe Hecht is a philanthropy futurist, public speaker and chief innovation officer of Charidy, a crowdfunding platform and consulting company that has helped 2000 organizations raise over a half billion dollars. Moshe is an accomplished entrepreneur whose passion lies at the intersection of technology and charitable giving. His articles have been published publications such as Forbes, Nonprofit Quarterly and eJewishPhilanthropy. When Moshe is not at the office, he is writing music and enjoying downtime with his wife and three redheaded children.

Ann Nguyen

Design Whaler

Whole Whale

Ann joined Whole Whale in 2013 and has been making splashes since then in the areas of design, development, and A/B testing. During her time at Whole Whale, Ann has overseen site builds that include DREAM, the LAMP, and Donate Life America. Beyond website development, Ann has led the charge on work with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the One Love Foundation, Charitybuzz, Prizeo, and United Way ALICE. Ann is also the product manager behind Lighthouse by Whole Whale and is currently working with Power Poetry on their Poetry Genome. Ann is a regular speaker and lecturer on nonprofit tech topics, including appearances at the Strata Data Conference in both San José and New York, NTC, NYU, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, the Lowline, and the White House.

Alice Northover

Senior Marketing Manager

Cancer Research Institute

Alice Northover is senior marketing manager at the Cancer Research Institute. In this role, she is responsible for several marketing initiatives, working to attract and engage donors, fundraisers, patients, scientists, and others with cancer immunotherapy research. In particular, she focuses on digital marketing, including user experience, discoverability, content optimization, and advertising. Prior to joining CRI, she worked across publicity, marketing, and social media, primarily in the publishing industry. Alice graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Medieval & Renaissance Studies (magna cum laude), a Master of Arts in French Studies, and a Certificate in Digital Media Marketing.

Maddie Schlapprizzi

Solutions Engineer

Mission Matters Group

Maddie is in her 5th year at the Mission Matters Group and currently serves as a Solutions Engineer. MMG partners with nonprofits to help them harness the power of technology to maximize their impact. MMG fulfills a piece of Maddie that provides her with the opportunity to contribute to all of their clients’ missions and witness how they change lives and communities. Although she works with many nonprofit organizations she has a special place in her heart for those who serve women and children.

Maddie earned her bachelors degree and MBA from Saint Louis University. There, she also competed in cross country and track & field, earning 8 all-conference awards. Maddie is a Cincinnati native, who currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and two sons. When she is not chasing her children, she still enjoys a light run to motivate her thoughts.

Joshua Aranda

Managing Partner

Mission Matters Group

Joshua is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Mission Matters Group. Joshua is a passionate leader and determined Social Entrepreneur. He is driven by a childhood belief instilled by his parents, “You have the ability to change the world.” Fortunately, he is co-founder and partner with his father and brother, so the family belief to pursue changing the world is reaffirmed every day.
As a managing partner, Mr. Aranda is plugged into all aspects of the business of Mission Matters Group. One of his main responsibilities is the lead architect for all Health and Human Service solutions. He is responsible for the design and oversight of the solution implementations that streamline the efforts for 1000s of front line staff providing critical services to those in need. In all of the solutions he designs, Joshua has a commitment to user experience, inspired by giving staff more time back with their clients as opposed to clicking through technology systems. As a business leader, he knows that the data produced from staff is essential for leaders to make decisions on how to improve services and deliver greater impact. Thinking holistically, he designs systems that will not only be easy to use but will ensure the necessary data is there to more efficiently and efficiently inform decisions and tell the story of an organization’s impact.

Prior to Mission Matters Group, Joshua was a data center engineer at World Wide Technology, chartered with building cloud infrastructure for fortune 500 organizations.

Josh has been married to his wife Laura for 8 years. The have a baby boy and 2 dogs. Josh enjoys running, climbing and exploring the beauties that this world has to offer. He is the proud uncle of 14 and lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon.

Jason Ott

Business Architect

Mission Matters Group

Jason currently serves as a Business Architect at Mission Matters Group and has been with the organization for 3 years. MMG partners with nonprofits to help them harness the power of technology to maximize their impact. Coming from a larger corporate IT company, Jason was drawn to the work at Mission Matters Group because of the ability to support and represent those who are truly impacting their communities. He also appreciates the opportunity to customize the work based on the unique needs of the individuals or organizations.

Jason earned degrees in both Applications of Computing and Sociology from Princeton University while competing on the varsity wrestling team. Outside of MMG, if it is a sport, game, or anything competitive, Jason is interested. He enjoys coaching wrestling and plays baseball every summer. Jason resides in St. Louis with his wife Margaret, has 5 siblings and is an uncle to 17 kiddos.

Vee Bell

Director, Board Governance

Teach For America

Vee Bell (they/them) is a tech-savvy learning evangelist with insatiable enthusiasm for knowledge management, professional development & creative problem solving. They work with Teach For America as a member of Executive Leadership & Learning, a 100% remote team, bringing virtual L&D experiences to a network of regional leadership teams, both internal and external, across Teach For America’s 51 regions nationwide.

Shasti Walsh

Associate Product Manager

PatronManager

Shasti Walsh (she/her) is an Associate Product Manager at PatronManager, a cloud-based CRM system built on Salesforce. Shasti’s background is in nonprofit arts management, and she was most recently a training specialist and manager on the client support team at PatronManager. In addition to three years of experience onboarding, training, working with, and managing remote employees, Shasti is a digital nomad who works from her laptop, primarily in Europe.

Christina Johnson

Senior Manager of Client Support

PatronManager

Christina Johnson (she/her) is the Senior Manager of Client Support at PatronManager, a cloud-based CRM system built on Salesforce. PatronManager provides a platform to support performing arts organizations in creating and maintaining better relationships with their patrons. In addition to leading a highly-collaborative remote team of 17 people who operate smoothly across the US and beyond, Christina is an experienced Salesforce Administrator and trainer, with a nonprofit background which includes marketing, fundraising, and the performing arts.

Chris Harmoney

Senior Developer

Cornershop Creative

Chris began coding in elementary school and has been telling computers what to do ever since. During a decade working with Boeing, Chris developed and supported an eclectic collection of enterprise web and mainframe applications. At Cornershop, he focuses on architecting and developing CMS and CRM solutions that snugly fit client’s needs and budgets. He loves seeing how Cornershop’s work directly and noticeably helps clients fulfill their missions.

Carrie Mann

Deputy Director of Digital Membership and Advocacy

Friends of the Earth

Carrie manages Friends of the Earth’s email program, including digital advocacy, organizing, and fundraising. She focuses on using digital tools to advance campaigns to protect the environment and fight for social and economic justice. In her spare time, Carrie likes to travel and play the guitar.

Alan Gordon

Senior Director of Data, Analytics & Operations

National Trust for Historic Preservation

For over 3 years, Alan has managed the Data, Analytics and Operations teams at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Focusing on technology change management and building out extensive reports for executive and finance teams, Alan’s passion for data analytics and the challenges they propose in understanding KPI’s and successfully interpreting them keep his professional appetite satisfied. With over a dozen large complex CRM implementations under his belt, he enjoys managing teams that help improve the organizations understanding of their data.

In his spare time, he can be found avidly traveling the world or in the kitchen mastering a new recipe.

Liz Polay-Wettengel

Vice President, Digital Strategy and Content

InterfaithFamily

Liz is a veteran marketing professional and prolific storyteller with extensive experience in creating thoughtful digital strategy. She digs deep into marketing trends and tools and has a strong background in the online landscape.

She began her professional marketing career in the music industry in the mid-1990s and subsequently moved to the Boston area to bring digital marketing to small to mid-sized business operations. Since 2006, her roles have been primarily in the nonprofit world. She introduced social marketing techniques, creative storytelling in written, photo and video formats and the creation of social media presence for several nonprofits. During this time she also played a leading role in co-creating JewishBoston.com, she has created roadmaps for planned success and strategic communication implementation and has had many online successes.

Karim Lessard

CEO

7 Simple Machines

After 17 years as an intrapraneur in the banking industry, Karim started a consulting company to accelerate growth in non-profits and startups. He went on to found a startup where he learned the power of Lean and Agile methodologies and recognized how they could be implemented within large organizations to streamline technology projects and improve outcomes. Karim is now co-owner and CEO of 7 Simple Machines, an enterprise software development and services company. He’s also a husband, a father of two lovely children, and the owner of an ill-mannered golden retriever.

Vanice Dunn

Director of Equity

Provoc

Vanice hails from years of experience working directly with members of various non-profits, so she’s all about participation and collaboration. Vanice began to hone her skills in social justice advocacy in an organic way — as a young girl of color in a small southern town, her existence itself became a political statement. Those experiences gave Vanice practice in being critical of assumptions, dissecting polarizing arguments, and ultimately standing strong in her convictions. Her passion led her to the Provoc team, where she strives to make an impact by building partnerships with visionary clients and serving as lead strategist for brand and communications projects. By rooting her work in a womanist lens, Vanice has a particular passion for projects that combat the ‘isms’ — including racism, classism, and sexism.

Lane Trisko

Director of Digital and Data Strategy

Provoc

Lane joined the Provoc team with over ten years of experience in data architecture and strategy, analytics, and database development. He has served both higher education and non-profits as a consultant and takes pride in offering his technical expertise to organizations that are changing the world. Lane’s varied and unique skillset ranges from big picture digital and data strategy/product development to the technical nuts and bolts of database development to analytics and data consumption. This puts him in a unique position to serve non-profits in ways effective, efficient and far-ranging as a ‘jack of all trades’ in all things data. Since joining the Provoc team, Lane has taken an active interest in exploring the relationship between data and equity both by providing data visualizations to demonstrate racial inequality and exploring the racial digital gap and inherent racial biases in data analytics and research.

Sarah Hoang

Youth Leader

Park Youth Collaborative

Sarah is an alumnus to park programs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which started with a middle school internship in the Urban Trail Blazers leadership program. She is passionate about connecting youth to parks as well as promoting youth voice in communities across California. Her involvement has led to her becoming a youth leader in the Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders program and Park Youth Collaborative. Today, she is an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S degree in Public Health at San Diego State University. She is excited to further impact her campus community through health and wellness to promote sustainable and equitable opportunities.

Lucky Lim

Environmental Education Mentorship (TEEM) Intern

NatureBridge Marin Headlands

Lucky is a high school senior from San Francisco who hopes to double major in Public Health and Economics. His involvement in multiple community youth leadership programs is what inspired him to want to pursue policy as a career. During his free time, he enjoys hikes in the parks and the newest Rap and R&B. Lucky is looking forward to continuing his park experience with PYC, providing and sharing youth perspectives in collaboration with park projects.

Lalee Simeso

High School Programs Coordinator

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Lalee was the coordinator for the Youth Advisory Council at the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (GGNPC) where high-school and college members provided feedback to the process of building a national parks app. She is currently the high-school leadership program coordinator at GGNPC and is delighted to support young people to share their brilliance with the world. In her free time, Lalee is a student of plants, practices improv, and is an avid cyclist.

Oliver DelGado

Director, Marketing & Communications

Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles

As Director of Marketing & Communications, Oliver cultivates the branding and media landscape for Levitt Pavillion Los Angeles. Oliver’s repertoire spans an array of communications industries including corporate entertainment, city government and non-profit. Previous roles include: Communications & External Affairs Director at Para Los Niños (For the Children), a long-standing Skid Row organization; Communications Specialist for L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, helping manage the city’s global brand via innovative campaigns boosting municipal services (Metro, Rec & Parks, etc) and homeland security policies. Prior to his close work with Mayor Garcetti, Oliver held roles with then Councilmember Garcetti’s 13th Council District and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In 2016, Mayor Garcetti appointed Oliver to the Central Area Planning Commission, a board overseeing urban land-use and real estate development in DTLA, Greater Wilshire and Hollywood. Additionally, he serves on the Arturo Sandoval Institute Board, an organization founded by jazz legend, Arturo Sandoval, bridging the access gap in music education. Born and raised in LA, Oliver attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied journalism and mass communication. His role with Levitt LA is an amalgamation of his passion for music entertainment and all things LA.