Collin Shepard
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Iqra Hameed
Sarah Aasbo
“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.” — Amartya Sen
Meenakshi Abbi
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." — Henry David Thoreau
Segilola Adeola
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.” ― Socrates
Natalie Aguilar
Alex Alberti
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." - C. S. Lewis
Le Anne Alexander
Le Anne believes you are not able to be truly philanthropic unless you are thoughtful—that mindfulness and thoughtfulness spur true love of humanity.
Shirley Alvarez
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt
Alejandro Alvarez von Gustedt
Marisa Arellano
“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ”― Gloria Anzaldúa
Henrietta Bankole-Olusina
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell (Retired General)
Donzelina Barroso
Melissa A. Berman
Philanthropy – whether through giving, investing or advocating – has embarked on an exciting age of exploration with new horizons, new tools and new commitment. We’re creating the maps as we discover opportunities.
Shermane Bilal
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Maya Angelou
Nikki Biratsis
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” - Pablo Picasso
Patrick Briaud
Patrick believes a flourishing donor is the seed of social good—within the individual, then in the world.
Cordell Brown
Cordell believes that the foundation for success comes from creating connections across people, process and planning.
A. Nicole Campbell
A. Nicole Campbell specializes in creating peace of mind. She has provided strategic legal, governance, and operational guidance as a senior advisor for two of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, and has spoken on and trained senior management teams and board members in nearly every region of the world in grant making, governance, and organizational design.
Kimberly Campbell
Throughout her career, Kimberly’s work has focused on positioning non-profit organizations and higher education institutions as thought leaders in their communities.
Before joining Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Kimberly worked at BPI Chicago as the Director of Communications and Marketing and served as the Director of Law Communications and Marketing at DePaul University College of Law. She has consulting experience with media companies, higher education institutions, and associations.
Kimberly holds a BA in Journalism and Marketing from Columbia College Chicago and a Project Management Certificate from DePaul University.
Matthew Cerullo
Steven Chang
"I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed." – Charles Feeney
Lillian Wambui Chege
"There is no passion to be found in playing small – settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
Nick Chen
Wanda Colon
"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
Katie Cornell
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” –Helen Keller
Catherine Crystal Foster
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” -Coretta Scott King
Nancy Delgado
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
Kelly Diggins
Cheikh Diop
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” - Les Brown
Elizabeth Droggitis
Elizabeth is motivated on a daily basis by the wide array of projects she supports that are working towards positive social change.
Margaret Elam
“Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it yet.” -L.M. Montgomery
Yaremis Felix
“We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.” - Augusto Boal
Mildred Garcia
Heidi Hernandez Gatty
Heather Grady
Heather’s lifelong experience in supporting social progress and economic development define how she helps foundations, philanthropists and impact investors craft effective pathways to sustainable, effective and rewarding systems-level change.
Johanna Grande
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” - Maya Angelou
Andreas Gonzalez
Sara Lopez Gonzalez
"The best thing about your life is that it is constantly in a state of design. This means you have, at all times, the power to redesign it. Make moves, allow shifts, smile more, do more, do less, say no, say yes—just remember, when it comes to your life, you are not only the artist but the masterpiece as well." – Cleo Wade
Emmanuel Guerrero
Alexandria Hamlette
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Davis
Nick Hodges
"Be Kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - possibly Plato
Ian Holly
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Amy Holmes
Amy believes that giving can create meaning for donors, inspire generosity in others, and build connections between people.
Mae Hong
“I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” — Tupac Shakur
Ajani Husbands
Carissa Ibert
Austin Jarred
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” - Marie Curie
Chase Jaz
Tina Joh
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world” — Desmond Tutu
Dana Joyce
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
Halit Karagoz
Renee Karibi-Whyte
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be..." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Maddie Kinzie
Maddie is motivated by the opportunity to ensure good ideas become good solutions that can lead to positive social change and sustainable philanthropic impact.
Kristina Lytovchenko
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” — Joel Arthur Barker
Loise Maina
“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.” – Koffi Annan
Maureen Mahoney
Mahlet Moges
“Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.” ― Angela Davis
Dean Morris
Michelle Ng
“The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation” — Miriam Beard
Yogita Naik
Germain Ngaba
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." - Maya Angelou
Tobechukwu Mary-Ann Njideaka
Deji Oguntonade
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible" - Walt Disney
Rena Peng
Trevor Pollack
Alta Buden
Erin Prescott
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
Linda Quaynor
Jon Quinn
“If we are honest with ourselves today, we will acknowledge that the ideal of Democracy has never failed, but that we haven't carried it out, and in our lack of faith we have debased the human being who must have a chance to live if Democracy is to be successful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Adrian Rai
Tia Rashke
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi
Ingrid Rasmussen
Greg Ratliff
Greg is a Vice President at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New York office beginning in 2019 and manages client engagements with a range of individual, family and corporate donors.
Lisa Riera
Zayra Rivera
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” - Paulo Coelho
Roxana Rodriguez
“As an individual or an entity, make a commitment to meet challenges with gratitude and live with an expectation to improve the lives of those around you.”-Denisa Livingston
Naamah Paley Rose
The philanthropist Naamah most admires is Julius Rosenwald (d. 1932), a child of German Jewish immigrants who created the Sears Roebuck empire and practiced “giving while living” when he funded nearly 5,000 schools for African American children across the rural Jim Crow South.
Demaris Sand
Joanne Schneider
Joanne appreciates working with passionate, thoughtful philanthropists—helping them to engage meaningfully in their giving. She also enjoys connecting nonprofit organizations with the resources they need to thrive.
Bharathi Sethumadhavan
Camille Serrano
‘The arc of the moral universe is long,’ he said, but ‘it bends toward justice,’ if there is a steadfast commitment to see the task through to completion. – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dannielle Scott
Michelle Shum
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the Earth as its other creatures do.” —Barbara Ward
Sheri Signer
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.” - Chinua Achebe
Jessica Simmons
Hayley Smith
Sarah (Hera) Smith
“Kotahi te tapuwae, he mano, he mano.” The first sacred footprint is followed by thousands upon thousands - Ngāti Kuri whakatauki (proverb) nā Tumatahina.
Caroline Suozzi
Walter Sweet
Walter is driven by the opportunity to help donors turn talent and motivation into philanthropic impact.
Olga Tarasov
"Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering." — Nikola Tesla
Sheila Thélémaque
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi
Luz Torres
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” — Frank A. Clark
Aaron Xia
James Yeagley
“Life’s persistent and most urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Ana Marie Argilagos
Ana Marie Argilagos is the President and CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), a transnational network of foundations and philanthropists that makes impactful investments in the Latino community in the U.S. and across Latin America.
Mac Broderick
Mac Broderick is Executive Director, Merchant Strategy for Castleton Commodities International (CCI).
Kyungsun Chung
Kyungsun Chung is the Founder and CEO of Root Impact, a nonprofit that focuses on building capacity for the social innovation sector in Korea.
Peter Gill Case
Peter Gill Case is an architect, developer, and Principal at Truth Box Architects in Providence, Rhode Island, focusing on bringing sustainable design to the urban core.
Melvin J. Galloway
Melvin J. Galloway is chief operating officer (COO) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
Philomena Gibbons
Philomena Gibbons is the Deputy Director of Culture and Society at the Wellcome Trust, where she has served for nearly thirty years.
Rien van Gendt
Rien van Gendt is the former Executive Director of the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, Netherlands.
Cathy Frank Halstead
Cathy Frank Halstead serves as a Trustee of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, which makes more than 90 annual grants in education, the arts, and the environment throughout the United States and the United Kingdom.
Cathy Frank Halstead serves as a Trustee of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, which makes more than 90 annual grants in education, the arts, and the environment throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Additionally, she is also a co-founder and trustee of the Tippet Rise Art Center as well as of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation. Cathy is also a member of the Corporation of Brown University.
Cathy is an abstract painter and has shown her work internationally for more than two decades. She and her husband, Peter, established the Tippet Rise Art Center on an 11,000-acre ranch north of Yellowstone National Park. The center provides a unique environment for music and theater in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains. The Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation focuses on classical poetry and drama, bringing them to new audiences in innovative ways.
Cathy is a returning board member to the Board of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She served three consecutive full terms on the RPA Board from 2007 through 2015.
Crystal Hayling
As the executive director of The Libra Foundation, Crystal brought to The Libra Foundation a fresh vision of philanthropy that rejects business as usual and is responsive to the needs of frontline communities.
Massimo Lapucci
Massimo Lapucci is the Secretary General of Fondazione CRT.
Michael Quattrone
Michael Quattrone serves as a Director of the David Rockefeller Fund, a family foundation that invests in catalytic ideas, people, efforts, and institutions working strategically toward ecological regeneration, justice system reform, and art for social impact.
Mosun Layode
Luther Ragin Jr.
Luther Ragin Jr. is the retired President and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
Vinit Rishi
Valerie Rockefeller
Valerie Rockefeller chairs the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a nonprofit philanthropic services organization that accelerates philanthropy for a more just world. She also co-chairs BankFWD, a network dedicated to persuading banks to phase out financing for fossil fuels and fund clean energy. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from the Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in Social Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University. She majored in International Relations at Stanford University and worked at the U.S. Department of Education during the first Clinton administration. She serves as a trustee of Achievement First, the Asian Cultural Council, the Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, Columbia University’s Teachers College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Greenwich Academy, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding. She was a trustee of Spelman College and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute K12 Climate Action Commission, and the Generosity Commission.
Theo Spencer
Theo Spencer is a Senior Policy Advocate at the Natural Resource Defense Council and a fifth generation member of the Rockefeller family.
Robin Strawbridge
Robin Strawbridge has had a career in non-profit arts management and philanthropy.
Sarah Teacher
Sarah Teacher is Executive Director at the Impact Investing Institute, an organization with a mission to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of impact investing in the UK and internationally.