BOARDSOURCE - Key Persons
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- Assessment Services Account Representative
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- Director of Governance Networks & Innovation
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- Marketing & Membership Manager
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- Director of Governance Strategy
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- Client & Member Services Assistant
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- Corporate & Federated Partnerships Coordinator
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- Principal / NEO Law Group
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- Executive Director / Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Jamie Allison is devoted to building a healthy, just, and vibrant society, one in which we work creatively and collaboratively to bring the benefits of inclusive community to all. Before joining the Walter & Elise Haas Fund as its Executive Director in 2018, Jamie helped lead the S. H. Cowell Foundation. She started there as Program Officer in charge of Youth Development in 2006. Her portfolio at Cowell steadily grew to encompass affordable housing and program-related investment management as she took the role of Senior Program Officer in 2012, then as Vice President Programs in 2016.
When not at work, Jamie keeps active as a hiker, runner, and frequent attendee of film festivals and Major League Soccer games. She lives in San Francisco, California and was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but feels at home around the globe, experiencing and volunteering in places from Benin to Peru. Jamie earned undergraduate degrees in Political Science, Economics, Spanish, and Humanities from the University of Tennessee and went on to receive her Masters from the University of California at Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Her breadth of civic involvement includes guest lecturing at UC Berkeley and Mills College, serving on the board of The Whitman Institute, a spend-out foundation that coined and promoted trust-based philanthropy, and serving as faculty for Northern California Grantmakers' New Grantmakers Institute.
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- Technology & Integration Manager
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- Senior Manager of Governance & Education
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- Executive Director of the John Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation
Julia R. Wilson is the executive director of the John Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation, investing in summer public interest fellowships for law students who want to build careers in civil rights, legal aid, and public defense, and is also the founder of Julia Wilson Coaching, where she works as a certified executive and leadership coach supporting leaders in the nonprofit social justice sector. Previously Julia served as CEO of OneJustice, where she led the organization's work to bring life-changing legal help to Californians in need through a statewide network of law firms, law schools, corporate legal departments, and 100+ nonprofit legal organizations.
Ms. Wilson started her legal career providing direct legal services to low-income children and families at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, including two years as an Equal Justice Works (then NAPIL) Fellow. She also served as Director of the Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC), the statewide membership and trade association for the civil legal aid nonprofits throughout the state.
Ms. Wilson was named one of the 2012 Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal for her leadership at OneJustice and received a 2010 CLAY (California Lawyer of the Year) Award from California Lawyer magazine for her work at LAAC on the successful passage of AB 590 (Feuer), which created the Shriver Civil Counsel Act to increase representation for low-income Californians in civil matters affecting basic life necessities.
Ms. Wilson graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in Linguistics in 1992 and with distinction from Stanford Law School in 1998.
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- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Treasurer
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- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- Vice Chair
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- President & CEO / Council of Michigan Foundations
Kyle Caldwell is an unabashed champion of Michigan's philanthropic sector with more than 25 years of government, nonprofit and philanthropic sector experience. Kyle's leadership experiences have run the full gambit of the Great Lakes State's philanthropic and nonprofit infrastructure organizations. Prior to his appointment with CMF in 2018, Kyle, a Michigan native, was executive director of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, one of the country's leading academic centers for philanthropy. Prior to that, he served as the director for the Pathways to Opportunity Program at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation where he helped evolve the foundation's approach to addressing poverty to focus on education. Early in his philanthropy journey, Kyle served as an intern, and then later as executive director of the Michigan Community Service Commission in Governor John Engler and Governor Jennifer Granholm administrations. A champion of public-private partnerships, Kyle helped launch and then lead the ConnectMichigan Alliance (CMA) that created a $20 million endowment to support volunteerism that engaged both state government and philanthropy in a one-of-a-kind statewide campaign. CMA merged with the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) and Kyle became its president and CEO. There, he championed the work of nonprofits and foundations to help build a stronger ecosystem for philanthropy.
Throughout his work in government and in foundations, Kyle has helped develop innovative and collaborative strategies and programming that strengthen the work of public and private grantmakers, government and nonprofits in Michigan. Philanthropy is Kyle's second career after a short tenure as a professional photographer working for a small studio as well as large industrial institutions. While still his passion, Kyle notes that photography skills of observer and showing what others don't see remain a part of the way he leads. He earned both a bachelor's and master's degree in communication from Western Michigan University (go Broncos) and an associate's in applied science degree in journalism from Lansing Community College. Kyle and his wife of more than three decades live in the greater Grand Rapids area and have two children and a mob of "grand pets."
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman / Vice President, Community Impact
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- Director of Member Engagement & Marketing
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- Associate Director of Client & Member Services
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- Member Relations Coordinator
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- President & CEO / Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
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- Executive Director / Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- Executive Director at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Silvia Argueta has been the Executive Director at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) since 2008. LAFLA is the frontline law firm for low-income individuals in Los Angeles County. LAFLA is committed to promoting access to justice, strengthening communities, fighting discrimination, and effecting systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education. Silvia leads a 200 plus staff non-profit law firm with five offices, four self-help centers, and three courthouse domestic violence clinics. She oversees an annual budget of over $41 million and all aspects of strategy, legal advocacy, finance, fund development, and technology. She recently oversaw an $18 million capital campaign and construction of LAFLA's new headquarters, a cornerstone of justice that brings respect and dignity to both clients and staff. Silvia's career has been devoted to achieving equal justice using direct representation, civil litigation and policy to effect change.
Prior to joining LAFLA in 1999, she was a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and prior to that at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California. She attended UCLA and obtained her degrees in Political Science and French in 1985. She received her law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1989.
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- Associate Vice President, Foundation Relations
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- President & CEO / Girls Inc.
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Secretary