Jason was appointed in June 2015 as the W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to which he brings a background in grantmaking and donor education, nonprofit strategy and leadership, social entrepreneurship, & community organizing and advocacy. As holder of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on community philanthropy, he engages in research, teaching, service, and thought leadership to explore and advance the field, nationally and internationally. Additionally, Jason is the President of Ktisis Capital Advisors through which he serves as a strategic advisor to a mix of progressive individual donors, families, foundations and philanthropic collaboratives.  He serves as board chair of the Proteus Fund; co-founder and co-chair of the Solidaire Donor Network; and on the boards of WiserGiving, Proteus Action League, and the Michigan Civic Education Fund. He is also an advisory board member of the Chartered Advisors in Philanthropy Program, Amplifier, Our LGBT Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and the Movement Voter Project and a member of the Democracy Alliance, Threshold Foundation and their High Impact Documentary Funding Circle, and WINGS: Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support. Prior to his appointment as the Kellogg Chair, he served as Executive Director of Bolder Giving, an organization that inspired people to give big & take more risks with their philanthropy and was credited by Melinda Gates as an inspiration for the billionaire Giving Pledge. He received his PhD in Public Administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service where he also held an appointment for ten years as an award-winning adjunct professor teaching about philanthropy and social change.

Ingrid, director of the Daphne Foundation, has spent over a decade helping leaders and organizations reach new levels of capacity and efficacy. In addition to working with the Daphne Foundation, Ingrid works with philanthropic and community-based organizations as an organizational development consultant and capacity builder,  facilitator, and grantmaker. She is the co-founder and co-chair of New York Blacks in Philanthropy and is on the board of the United We Dream Network and the Steering Committee of the Solidaire Network. Ingrid is dedicated to building the field towards social and systemic change, Ingrid brings her perspective and experiences to all of her work with social change leaders and organizations. A first generation immigrant from Nicaragua, Ingrid’s family moved to California in the early 1980s where she began her work in social justice as a regional organizer against an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative – Proposition 209. She continued to work in the field of student and youth leadership and organizing, supporting the programmatic direction of Youth Together, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), and as the Director of the California Fund for Youth organizing, she helped foster collaboration between practitioners and funders to promote youth organizing as an effective strategy for developing a new generation of social change leaders.

Holmes is the founder of Clean Energy Works, which connects champions of energy efficiency and renewable energy with resources that accelerate investment in the deployment of clean energy solutions. In addition, he serves on the board of Cleantech Open, the world’s largest accelerator built to find, fund, and foster the most promising cleantech startups and also on the board of Cornerstone Capital Inc.

In 2009, Holmes was appointed as the Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs, serving through 2013. In that capacity, Holmes engaged a wide range of industry and public interest stakeholders to inform energy policy decisions on such topics as clean energy finance, water-energy interdependency, natural gas resource development, trade policy, climate change, environmental regulation and grid reliability. In addition to stewarding agency work on energy and climate policy development, Holmes founded the Water-Energy Technology Team within DOE and also led the DOE Energy Finance Working Group.

In earlier public service, Holmes served as a Congressional Science Fellow focused on energy and climate policy. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., Holmes designed corporate energy strategies for clients of Silicon Energy, an energy software firm acquired by Itron, and later consulted briefly with the Google Energy & Climate team. Holmes was first hooked on energy technology innovation 20 years ago as a co-leader of the Clarkson University Solar Car Team, which designed and raced a highly efficient experimental electric vehicle across the country using only the power of the sun.

Jennifer Hu Corriggio is a philanthropist who serves on the Board of Directors for Faces of Giving, Inc., Greenburgh Nature Center, and Asian Women Giving Circle. She is the former Director of Philanthropy & Donor Relations at the Westchester Community Foundation. Previously, she specialized in nonprofit law and worked in corporate, litigation, and academia. She has been a life-long supporter of the arts and was a flamenco dancer who spent substantial time in Spain learning the art form. She has a BA in Political Theory & Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University, and a JD and LLM in International & Comparative Law from Duke Law School. She loves hanging out with her family and thinking about how philanthropy can be used to change the world.

Laura Flynn is writer, teacher and activist. She is the author of the memoir Swallow The Ocean (Counterpoint Press 2008), and editor of Eyes Of The Heart: Seeking A Path For The Poor In The Age Of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (Common Courage Press, 2000). She was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and received her BA at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

She lived in Haiti from 1994-2000 and remains deeply involved in the struggle for democracy and human dignity in that country. She serves on the board of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. (And is particularly proud that IJDH’s groundbreaking lawsuit against the United Nations recently forced the UN to admit responsibility for introducing cholera to Haiti!) She also helps shepherd Friends of UNIFA which raises funds and support for UNIFA, the Haitian University founded by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide dedicated to opening higher education to groups who have traditionally been excluded.

While her primary philanthropic interests are in Haiti, she joined Solidaire in order to broaden her focus, heighten the impact of giving, and to benefit from the collective knowledge and experience of this group. She continues to be inspired by the creativity, strength and courage of a new generation of activists, particularly those driving the movement for black lives in the Twin Cities. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Mike Rollin and their two children.

Brooke has been active as an educator and activist since the mid 80s. She was a founding member of the Direct Action Network, Bluestockings Bookstore (NYC), and most recently The Watershed Center. Brooke serves on the faculty of the Institute for Social Ecology, as well as on the Steering Committee of  Solidaire, and the Board of the Schumacher Center for New Economics. Brooke leads workshops on generative communication, yoga, non-violent direct action, and structuring democratic organizations, and works as an organizational transformation consultant for social justice organizations. Her true passion, however, is match-making and turtle whispering.

Sophie is a filmmaker, social justice activist, and philanthropist. Sophie is the Executive Producer and Director of Outreach for the Age of Consequences, a documentary about how climate change impacts national security. She organized and coordinated with The Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts for two years – spearheading one of the leading statewide climate networks in the country. Sophie has Psychology and Environmental Science degrees from Williams College, and is currently finishing a masters degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard. Her focuses in philanthropy are in racial justice and environmental justice.

Deborah is the president of the Sagner Family Foundation whose mission is to support non-profits working to make structural change in order to advance education, economic, and racial justice.  She is also the vice president of The Sagner Companies, Inc., a residential and commercial real estate development company. Deborah practiced as a family and play therapist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ.  She is the author of The Family Play Genogram (1999), a guidebook for the play therapy technique she pioneered and popularized; she has presented workshops on the Family Play Genogram technique in the US and internationally. Deborah is a member of the Steering Committee of Solidaire. She served on the board of directors of the HealthCare Foundation of NJ, New jersey Performing Arts Center, Culture  Project and J Street. Raised in New Jersey, Deborah has a BA from Brandeis University, an MA from Tufts, and an MSW from Fordham. She has four grown children and four granddaughters.

Anna is the Executive Director of the Arca Foundation, which works to advance social justice and human rights in the US and abroad. During Anna’s tenure, Arca has turned its attention toward growing economic inequality, promoting citizen engagement in Wall Street accountability as a means to advance a more equitable economy and just democracy. Prior to Arca, Anna was a Program Officer at the Open Society Foundation, where she conceived of and led two initiatives that helped to build a movement of diverse, progressive youth activists leading change on social justice issues. Anna is the Co-Chair the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, is a trustee of the Center for Working Families, and is on the advisory board of the Youth Engagement Fund, a project she launched with the Democracy Alliance in 2008. She previously served on the boards of the White House Project, the Urban Justice Center and the League of Young Voters. Anna is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and was a member of the 2004-2005 class of Coro Leadership New York. Anna and her husband Jonathan live in Washington DC, and are the proud and exhausted parents of twin kindergartners.

Sam Vinal lives in Los Angeles, California/occupied Tongva land. Sam is a filmmaker whose work consists of documentary and narrative projects grounded in the sociopolitical landscape. He found the medium as a means to combine his passion for the beautiful struggle and the power of art. Sam is an active member of both Solidaire Network and Resource Generation. He is currently serving on the advisory council of The Emergent Fund, a partnership between the Women Donors Network and Solidaire Network.