Yvette Diaz
Senior AdvisorYvette Diaz is a Senior Advisor on the Sponsored Projects & Funds team at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Yvette has two decades of professional experience in the social justice and philanthropic sector. She has worked with a number of philanthropic organizations including several fiscal sponsors such as Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Tides. Through years of supporting a multitude of nonprofit projects, she has grown her expertise in the nonprofit industry to support a wide range of operational functions to help donors and social change leaders with a range of goals from grantmaking, program strategy and organizational development, to supporting organizations to their full potential as self-sustaining 501c3 organizations.
Before joining RPA, Yvette consulted with several social justice organizations. seeding operational structures for organizations such as Strategies for Social Change, gMoxie consulting, and Leadership Reimagined, all notably BIPOC women-led organizations rooted in a love and liberation approach to support leadership development that draws strength from identity, race and culture to transform organizations. While supporting these entities Yvette honed her skills around capacity building and strategic planning. She continues to invest in organizations such as JULIAN, a nonprofit focused on interrupting criminal injustice and advancing effective, accountable policy change to eradicate systemic racism in our justice system.
Yvette is deeply passionate about work that advances principles and practices around equity, justice, and human rights protection. She believes that movement spaces and global communities are interdependent and that using narrative justice is an important instrument to disrupt paradigms and structures in order keep all communities safe, prevent harm, and uphold values of fairness, equal justice, and accountability.