2025 Panels

Community-Centric Philanthropy and Equitable Impact

Community Engagement in Philanthropy: Innovative Approaches for Maximizing Impact and Inclusivity

  • Jackie Downing, Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

  • Jeanine Valrie Logan, Lead Steward and Founder, Chicago South Side Birth Center

  • Roland Kennedy, Director of Grants Management, Carnegie Corporation of New York

  • Shruti Jayaraman, Chief Investments Officer, Chicago Beyond

Corporate Philanthropy & Funding Equity in a Shifting Landscape

  • Erin Sternberg, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility & BI Cares, Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corporation

  • Nikhil Bumb, Managing Director, FSG

  • Zebradedra Hunter, Program Officer, Citi Foundation

Measuring What Matters in Philanthropy

  • Jason Price, Founder & Chairman of the Board, NXTHVN

  • Kara Straun, Director of Program and Evaluation, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

    Sid Ravinutala, Chief Data Scientist, IDinsight

  • Raphael Duguay, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Yale School of Management

Strategic Philanthropy for Growth and Innovation

Growth Capital and Scaling: Strategies for Supporting Organizational Stability

  • Alex Roque, President & Executive Director, Ali Forney Center

  • Alexandra Sing, COO, Capitalize Good

  • Emily Sproch, Senior Program Officer, Howard Gilman Foundation

  • Henry Fernandez, Executive Director, LEAP

  • Scott Thomas, Co-Founder & President, Arbor Rising

The Evolution and Challenges of Impact Investing in Philanthropy

  • Liqian Ma, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Cambridge Associates

  • Sarah Kearney, Executive Director, Prime Coalition

  • Sheena Strawter-Anthony, Director of Impact Investment Strategy, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

Philanthropy for a Resilient and Connected World

AI and Philanthropy

  • Chantal Forster, AI Strategy Resident, Annenberg Foundation

  • Felecia Webb, Chief Strategy Officer, Partnership on AI

  • Laura Maher, Head of External Engagement, Siegel Family Endowment

  • Sarah di Troia, Managing Director, OutcomesAI, Project Evident

  • Michael Belinsky, Director, AI Institute, Schmidt Sciences

Philanthropy's Mobilization for Climate Change and Climate Adaptation

  • Andrea Strimling Yodsampa, CEO, DEPLOY/US

  • Cary Lynch, Climate and Energy Policy Manager, The Nature Conservancy

  • Shanti Kleiman, Energy Program Manager, The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation

  • Stuart DeCew, Executive Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment

Innovating Humanitarian Aid for the Modern World: How Philanthropy Addresses Urgent Global Crises

  • Alix Cantave, Senior Program Officer, Latin American and the Carribean, WK Kellogg Foundation

  • Kaveh Khoshnood, Director, Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

  • Matthew Collins-Gibson, Vice President, USA Philanthropy & Global Board Engagement, International Rescue Committee