Board of Advisors

Adeline Azrack is the Managing Director of US, Mexico, and Caribbean Programs at the FondationCHANEL, an international corporate foundation dedicated to improving the economic and social conditions of women and girls. Prior to joining the Foundation, she spent over 10 years working with the UN, governments and NGOs in the Caribbean, South Asia, East and West Africa and the United States as a specialist in social justice and health justice movements, global maternal and child health, public health policy, and research and evaluation. In addition to her role at the FondationCHANEL, she serves on the Board of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti.

Adeline has an M.A. in Public Health from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and a B.A. in Cultural and Social Anthropology with a minor in Feminist Studies from Stanford University. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and Nairobi, Kenya with her family.

Aleyamma Mathew is a nationally known expert on the intersection of gender and economic justice. With over 20 years of experience in the philanthropic and advocacy sectors at the local, state, and national levels, she has led advocacy, grantmaking, capacity-building, and campaigns for economic policies to protect women’s rights, safety, and economic security, with a focus on women of color, immigrant and refugee women, and low-wage women workers.

Aleyamma is currently the executive director of Collective Future Fund, an organization that brings together social justice movements, survivors, and donors to heal, resource, and mobilize to shape a collective future free from sexual harassment and violence. With a priority on supporting and sustaining efforts that are led by survivors and women of color, the Fund envisions a world in which all women and girls––cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming––can live, learn, and work in safety and dignity.

Ana L. Oliveira has been a voice and a force for change in improving the lives of those people in the greatest need for more than 30 years. As President and CEO, she leads The New York Women’s Foundation mission to create an equitable and just future for women and families.

Under Ana’s leadership, The Foundation focuses on funding organizations by and for women of color, having constituted itself as the preeminent funder for gender and racial justice in New York.  The Foundation has increased its presence in philanthropy, increasing its annual grantmaking and working side by side other partners in collaborative funds – the Girls and Young Women of Color Fund and the Justice Fund. The Foundation has also co-founded a very successful and first national collaborative that centers and focuses on young women of color and hosts the National Collaborative of the Young Women’s Initiative, with 17 women foundation members.  Additionally, The Foundation is a pioneer in igniting many cultural justice movements of today, including Me Too and the closing of Rikers Island, and is a member of the President’s Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy.

Ana has led critical cross-sectoral partnerships to advance women’s rights in a variety of appointed positions, such as a former Commissioner of Human Rights for NYC, the New York City HIV Planning Council, and the New York City Young Men’s Initiative.

Before joining The Foundation, Ana’s career focused on issues surrounding substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and incarceration. Ana has served as Executive Director of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and Vice President for Programs at the Osborne Association, and has developed the first acupuncture detoxification clinic for methadone and alcohol-involved patients at Kings County Addictive Diseases Hospital.

Ana serves on the board of Point Source Youth and Sanctuary for Families. She is an Advisory Committee member to Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy and is part of the President’s Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy.  Ana has served as a board member for Philanthropy New York and chaired the Women’s Funding Network.

Ana attained her M.A. in Medical Anthropology and holds a Ph.D. (Hon) from the New School for Social Research. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and resides in New York

Currently CEO of the think and action tank New America, Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar and public intellectual. She was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School and served as President of the American Society of International Law. From 2002 to 2009 she was Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed her as the first woman Director of Policy Planning in the U.S. State Department. Slaughter has written and lectured widely on global network design and leadership; on gender equality and elevating the value of care for both men and women; and on American renewal. The author or editor of nine books, she is a contributing editor to the Financial Times and a regular columnist for Project Syndicate

Christian F. Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW, is a dynamic advocate and strategist who made history when she assumed the role of President of the National Organization for Women in August 2020. Before this, she served as Vice President, appointed by the board in May 2019. Christian is also the Founder and CEO of Equity Bound Solutions LLC, a consulting firm that focuses on creating equitable and just solutions for corporations and institutions.

As the organization’s second African American president and the youngest person of color to hold the position in over 50 years, Christian leads NOW’s intersectional mission, rallying grassroots activists against structural sexism and racism. With over two decades of experience advocating for mental health and children’s and women’s issues, Christian’s leadership at NOW has seen the launch of multiple impactful initiatives.

Her thought leadership and intersectional insights have not only made a significant impact but have also earned her features in prominent media outlets such as Forbes, CSPAN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and many more esteemed outlets.

Cindi Leive is a journalist, media leader and advocate for women. She is the co-founder of The Meteor, a collective of journalists, artists, media leaders and filmmakers committed to building a platform for modern feminist work.

She is also the former editor-in-chief of both Glamour and Self; a cultural critic who speaks frequently about women, media and the arts; and the co-producer of several New York Times bestsellers, including the 2018 book Together We Rise about the making of the women’s march. She is the host of the second season of The Barneys Podcast, which celebrates fashion, style, and creative personalities.

During Leive’s 16 years at Glamour, she grew the brand’s audience to a record 20 million across print and digital, and built barrier-breaking initiatives like Women of the Year (the country’s preeminent event showcasing women), #PoweredByWomen (a global movement supporting female photographers), #The51Million (about women and politics) and more. As a journalist, Leive has interviewed Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Vice President Joe Biden, and personalities ranging from Jennifer Lawrence to Angelina Jolie. She also founded The Girl Project to support girls’ education, making Glamour the first women’s media brand with a nonprofit initiative.

A frequent TV contributor, Leive appears regularly on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, Today, CNN and many other outlets and live events, discussing everything from the wage gap to women in Hollywood.

Dr. Wendy Ellis has spent the last decade developing a national ‘resilience movement.’ She created the Building Community Resilience process and collaborative, now being implemented in five metro regions, to address systemic inequities driving disparities and a range of poor outcomes transmitted in families and communities across generations. BCR is framed around what Ellis describes as the ‘Pair of ACEs’ – adverse childhood experiences in the context of adverse community environments. Previously, as a journalist, Ellis saw multiple systems – from juvenile justice to health care – fail the very children and families they were meant 
to serve. The BCR work has garnered $1.6 million in funding, including from the Kresge Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Ellis has been featured in Congressional briefings and in the Washington Post, US News and C-SPAN.

Erin Vilardi is the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead Action (VRLA), the nonpartisan  nonprofit working to create a reflective democracy where women hold more than 51% of  government office. VRLA has recruited and trained tens of thousands of women and  gender-expansive people run for office as part of its mission to increase their  representation and political power, especially in key state legislatures.

As an expert on women’s leadership, democracy, and social change, Erin has two decades  of experience scaling positive impact for women in the public and private sectors, including  partnering with Fortune 100 companies, global girls’ initiatives, and the U.S. Department of  State. She serves on advisory boards for Future Forward Women, the Brennan Center for  Justice, and RepresentWomen and is a Keseb Democracy Fellow.

Erin has appeared at the Skoll World Forum and Personal Democracy Forum. She has been  interviewed on CNN, NPR, CSPAN, BBC, PBS, and more. Her writing has appeared in Oprah  Magazine, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, New York  Magazine, and more. She is the co-author of the Athena Core10©, an innovative set of  leadership competencies for 21st century women leaders. She is an Executive Producer of  “Ann Richards’ Texas,” a documentary about the pioneering governor.

Erin lives in the historic Harlem neighborhood of New York City with her husband and  children.

Jeannette has since 2007, led Justice & Joy National Collaborative (Justice + Joy) through the reinvention of this 142-year-old intergenerational gender and racial justice nonprofit engaged in advocacy, organizing, and research. Her commitment to advocating with and for girls, young women and gender-expansive young people of color began as a young activist in the 70s. Justice + Joy works collaboratively across the country with staff in 5 states and Canada, young advocates in 40+ states and community-based partners in 45+ states.

Her prior experience includes being a partner for ten years at Metropolitan Group, a national social change consulting agency; working in human and civil rights in Oregon for the cities of Salem, Portland, and Multnomah County and serving as a senior policy advisor on Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts’ team; founding a nonprofit education program for middle and high school students in Washington County, Oregon; and holding leadership roles in student services in public and private four-year universities.  Jeannette holds a master’s degree of education in student development theory, counseling and administration. She and her husband are the parents of four “grown” children ages 40-46.

Latanya Mapp is the President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), a global nonprofit that remains at the forefront of philanthropic growth and innovation with a mission to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world. RPA currently advises on and manages more than $500 million in annual giving by individuals, families, foundations, and corporations while serving as a fiscal sponsor for over 100 projects.

Recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy by Inside Philanthropy, Ms. Mapp’s track record in philanthropy makes her a uniquely well-connected powerhouse.

Previously, Ms. Mapp was President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and, prior to that, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with regional and country offices in Africa and Latin America. In both roles, she enjoys the distinction of quadrupling the size and impact of the organizations. Preceding this, Ms. Mapp worked eight years as a human rights officer for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and 10 years with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She also served as a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and continues to fight for women's human rights.

An attorney by training, Ms. Mapp began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington, DC. She has received many honors and awards, including two esteemed Meritorious Honor Awards from the U.S. government and the highest honor in civil service, the Superior Honor Award, from the U.S. State Department. Ms. Mapp was one of 30 Foreign Service Officers honored with the Colin Powell Fellowship by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Mapp currently serves on the Board of Directors at Oxfam International and Oxfam America and Management Sciences for Health, Luminate, and Global Fund for Women U.K. She is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Ms. Mapp is also an author of four UN human rights reports and manuals and the recently published The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More Than Ever.

Rosa Maria Castañeda is a Director at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. In her role, she supports the foundation’s president to advance special projects that help Hewlett connect to, learn from, and support the broader racial justice community within the United States.

She has deep experience designing major philanthropic initiatives and bridging advocacy, mobilization, and policy development to achieve racial and economic justice and advance family and child wellbeing. At the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Rosa Maria helped win economic support for immigrants through seeding the largest state and federal campaign with racial equity, immigrant rights, and child advocacy groups. While there, she also shifted the foundation’s investments to focus on advancing economic mobility in southern states.

Rosa Maria began her career in philanthropy at Pew Charitable Trusts after a decade developing actionable policy research to tackle economic and racial inequality at the nation’s leading think tanks, including Urban Institute, Center for Law and Social Policy, and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

A child refugee to the U.S., she is motivated to reimagine philanthropy, government, and business to realize the promise of a just multiracial democracy. She serves as an advisor to numerous philanthropic associations. Rosa Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts from American University, a Master of Science in research methods and social policy from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University.

Sarah is a philanthropy and social impact leader, currently serving as the CEO of Women Moving Millions. For over two decades, Sarah has been building, guiding, and leading nonprofit organizations in Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York dedicated to strengthening democracy, expanding human rights, and advancing gender equality. Sarah has been recognized throughout her career for her ability to drive strategic growth in mission-driven organizations and is known for her ability to mobilize and inspire philanthropists to make significant investments in social change.  At WMM, Sarah is responsible for building strategy and scale around its mission to catalyze greater resources for gender equality. Previously, Sarah worked for notable organizations, including the Joyful Heart Foundation, where she led the campaign to eliminate the backlog of hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits in the U.S. Sarah served as a founding board member for Hive Gender Climate Justice Fund, is an Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, and Women’s Foreign Policy Group Board Member. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Shawnda Chapman is the Ms. Foundation’s Director of Innovative Grantmaking and Research. Prior to joining the organization, Shawnda worked as a lead program specialist on a national initiative aimed at preventing and ending girls’ incarceration at the Vera Institute of Justice. She also served as Director of the Beyond the Bars Fellowship program at the Center for Justice at Columbia University. Partially based on her own experiences, her work has focused on racial justice, gender justice, and understanding the ways girls of color get pushed into the criminal justice system. With a particular focus on marginalized and vulnerable populations, Shawnda has broad experience developing as well as implementing research, monitoring, and evaluation materials both domestically and internationally.

Shawnda earned her Bachelor degree in sociology and Master of Science in applied social research from The City University of New York, Hunter College.

Sonja Diaz is the Co-Founder of the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab, a pioneering initiative that envisions a society where Latinas have an equal opportunity to lead. For over seven years, Diaz co-founded and directed the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, the University of California’s first comprehensive Latino think tank. Prior to UCLA, Diaz served as policy counsel to former Vice President Kamala D. Harris during her first and second terms as California Attorney General. Diaz routinely briefs elected officials from across the U.S. on evidence-based governance and her research has been mentioned in major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, and NPR. Diaz received her J.D. from UC Berkeley’s School of Law, holds a M.P.P. from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and a B.A. in politics from UC Santa Cruz.

With over 25 years of experience in the government, civil, and philanthropic sectors, Yvonne L. Moore brings a wealth of knowledge to the creation of philanthropic goals for her clients. As Founder and Managing Director of Moore Philanthropy, a Black-owned and women-led advisory firm and public charity, she provides thoughtful, strategic, and tailored philanthropic services to individuals, families, and organizations to help changemakers solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.

With expertise in family dynamics, participatory and equitable grantmaking, international giving, and administration of private foundations and funds, Yvonne works with clients to help advance their philanthropy through traditional grantmaking or more complex social investments.

Prior to launching Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne was the Chief of Staff to filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail E. Disney where she oversaw the family’s network of media, philanthropic, and advocacy organizations. Before joining the philanthropic sector in 1999, Yvonne spent 10 years working in child protection and advocacy.

Yvonne holds a BA from Texas Tech University and an MS in Nonprofit Management from the New School. She completed her post-graduate studies in democracy and civil society at the University of Cape Town and nationalism, post-conflict violence, and gender at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland.