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Courtney serves as the Director of Programs and Partnerships, Collective Impact Forum where he is responsible for the design, implementation, and management of programming that supports communities engaging in collective impact work. He has a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector including work in adult learning, coaching, facilitation, training design and implementation, and project…

Paul Schmitz builds the collective leadership of organizations and communities to achieve greater social impact through his roles as Senior Advisor at The Collective Impact Forum and CEO of Leading Inside Out. He is also the author of Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up, and the former CEO of Public Allies, where he…

Ameya Pawar is a Senior Advisor with the Economic Security Project (ESP), overseeing Illinois and leading table setting around public options policy nationally and exploring state and local legislation around antimonopoly policy. Before this, Ameya served as a senior fellow with ESP, leading efforts to advance public banking and inclusive finance. He was a 2020…

Bobby Clark is a communications strategist who advises philanthropic and advocacy organizations on investments in narrative and message development, communications structures, and campaigns. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt Law School, an alumnus of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, Bobby was an early pioneer of digital communications strategies to build power. Bobby went…

Tara Raghuveer is the director of KC Tenants. She is also the director of the campaign for a national Homes Guarantee, based at People’s Action, a national network of grassroots organizations committed to economic and racial justice. KC Tenants, founded in February 2019, has built a base of 250+ tenants who have held landlords accountable,…

Christopher Petrella, PhD, is a historian of 19th- and 20th-century racialization in the U.S. He is the new Director of Philanthropic Initiatives at the Marguerite Casey Foundation, and the former editorial director and VP of operations at Kaepernick Publishing and led political education curriculum development efforts at Know Your Rights Camp. Christopher also served as…

Kristen Scheyder leads the Citi Foundation’s Community Solutions portfolio, where she helps cities and nonprofits implement systems-change strategies to spur more inclusive economic opportunity in under-served and under-resourced communities, while also focusing on organizational capacity building to help partners to drive better outcomes for their clients. Kristen has been a community development practitioner for 25+…

Tené Traylor is vice president for nonprofits and philanthropy at the Urban Institute. She brings national expertise in place-based philanthropy, equity, and civic leadership, particularly in the South, where she has honed a distinguished career in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. She joined Urban after concluding her tenure at The Kendeda Fund, where she oversaw…

Tyeshia ‘Ty’ Wilson is an energetic millennial, activist-philanthropist, fundraiser, community organizer, expert giving circle trainer, consultant and a sought-after speaker on civic engagement, Black philanthropy, and equitable/ trust-based grantmaking. As Director of Engagement at Philanthropy Together (PhT), Tyeshia is responsible for scaling PhT’s global engagement strategy to advance the organization’s mission of democratizing and diversifying philanthropy through collective giving. Prior to…

Shantae is a United States Air Force Veteran and small business owner who began her journey at Wells Fargo ten years ago. She has been recognized both internally and externally for her initiative to serve people and achieve progress through strategic skill building, agile methodologies, and Human Resource (HR)/Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Consulting expertise. Today, Shantae is a DE&I…