EQUAL MEASURE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, Convergence Partnership
• Senior Leader

Amanda M. Navarro is an accomplished senior leader who has worked at the intersection of racial justice and health equity for almost 25 years. As executive director of Convergence Partnership, Amanda leads the national funder collaborative's efforts to amplify the leadership of people of color and shift power structures within philanthropy and government toward racial justice and health equity. Amanda helped guide and manage the Partnership for 13 years inside PolicyLink, where she served as Chief Impact Officer, to accelerate the organization's impact strategy. During her time at PolicyLink, Amanda worked closely with philanthropic institutions and government agencies at the local, regional, and national levels to increase investments and sharpen grantmaking strategies that deliver equitable results for low-income people and communities of color, as well as trained hundreds of diverse leaders and groups across the country on a range of strategies to advance racial and health equity. EDUCATION: DrPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston MPH, Boston University

Job Titles:

• Interim President of the Brookings Institution
• Interim President, Brookings Institution

Amy Liu is Interim President of the Brookings Institution. Amy most recently served as Vice President and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and the Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy. She is a national expert on cities and metropolitan areas, adept at translating research and insights into action on the ground. As director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, which Amy co-founded in 1996, she pioneered the program's signature approach to state and local engagements, which uses rigorous research to inform strategies for economic growth and opportunity. Amy has worked directly on such strategies with scores of public-, private-, and philanthropic-sector leaders in regions around the country, including Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, San Diego, and Birmingham. She also has extensive experience working with states and the federal government to develop policies and strategies to support cities and metropolitan areas. In 2013, Amy served as a special advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, guiding policy priorities related to trade, innovation, and data. Prior to her work at Brookings, she was Special Assistant to HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and staffed the U.S. Senate Banking Committee's subcommittee on housing and urban affairs. EDUCATION: BS in Social Policy, Northwestern University

Job Titles:

• Senior Consultant

Ana Lucía has a background in public health and community-centered monitoring and evaluation. She has a deep commitment to advancing health equity, especially in marginalized communities around the world. Before joining Equal Measure, Ana Lucía served as an evaluation lead for the Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery. She partnered with a range of community organizations to analyze the effects of social determinants of health on employment and recovery of people living with substance use disorders in southern West Virginia. Ana Lucía also has years of experience working in Peru at community health offices and clinics, leading research projects and developing local initiatives in the areas of disability health, social inclusion, and preventative health education. She enjoys using a participatory approach, working alongside communities to improve health outcomes and drive social change.

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer

Anna has a background as a CPA in both the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. She has more than 25 years of experience in auditing, finance, and treasury aspects of accounting. As part of Equal Measure's executive team, Anna has been integral to Equal Measure's strategic planning and forecasting, using her financial skills to inform organizational strategy regarding the maintenance of fiscal health within the organization. She also maintains successful fiscal partnerships in the Philadelphia area. Other responsibilities include management of Equal Measure's financial and human resource systems (payroll, benefits, tax filings, etc.) and of a growing finance, administrative, and IT team. Included within these areas are: planning and managing the annual audit, communicating key financial information to the Board, and overseeing internal accounting systems as well as all client financial reporting and billing. Prior to joining Equal Measure in 2011, Anna supported the organization as a consultant through Your Part-Time Controller, LLC. As a YPTC manager, Anna managed nonprofit clients in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and helped to manage and grow YPTC's D.C. office. She started her career at Price Waterhouse and worked in the airline, coal/oil/gas, and chemical industries over the years.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director of the Kresge Foundation 's American Cities Program
• Managing Director, American Cities, the Kresge Foundation

Chantel Rush is managing director of The Kresge Foundation's American Cities Program. Her work advances the foundation's efforts to catalyze community and economic development practice that expands opportunities for people with low incomes in American cities. Chantel manages American Cities' grantmaking to support knowledge exchange among community development practitioners; national community development intermediaries; innovative and scalable community development solutions; pioneering research; and city-based dialogues aimed at promoting effective practice and policy. She also stewards the foundation's place-based work in Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Before joining Kresge, Chantel served as senior analyst of global strategy and business development at Gap Inc. She started her career in management consulting, where her responsibilities included advising both corporate and private equity clients. EDUCATION: MBA, Harvard Business School BA in International Relations and BA in Spanish, Stanford University

Craig Howard has more than 25 years of nonprofit experience, most of them in workforce and community economic development, designing and implementing replicable programs that create jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged people in the U.S. and abroad. Until his retirement, he served as a program director for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Prior to joining the MacArthur Foundation, Craig was vice president and co-director of the Low Wage Worker and Communities unit of MDRC. He also served as a senior program director for the James Irvine Foundation, a planner with the National Economic Development and Law Center, and a program officer at the Ford Foundation-first in the Office for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, and later in the Urban Poverty Program in the Foundation's New York office. EDUCATION: MA in Public Health and International Affairs, Columbia University BA in Economics, magna cum laude, University of Massachusetts

Job Titles:

• Physician
• Founder and CEO, Grapevine Health

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick is an infectious diseases physician, CDC-trained medical epidemiologist, and founder of Grapevine Health, an organization focused on improving health literacy and patient engagement through tailored health communications and health marketing to underserved communities. Her career has spanned research, clinical medicine, global health, community health education, and patient advocacy. Most recently she served as the medical director for Washington, DC's Medicaid program. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a professorial lecturer for the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and an adjunct clinical professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. She is an Aspen Institute Health Innovator fellow and member of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network. EDUCATION: MD, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine MPH, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health MPA, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Job Titles:

• Acting Board Secretary
• Acting Board Secretary / Vice President & Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Vice President and Community Affairs Officer in the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Emily Garr Pacetti is a vice president and community affairs officer in the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She oversees the department's research, policy analysis, and community outreach throughout the Cleveland Fed's Fourth Federal Reserve District. Emily joined the Bank in July 2017. Prior to her current position, Emily was associate director at The Rockefeller Foundation, for which she developed and managed initiatives designed to support more equitable long-term economic development in the United States. Prior to joining The Rockefeller Foundation, she was director of research and evaluation at the Cleveland-based Fund for Our Economic Future, a philanthropic collaborative dedicated to making the Northeast Ohio region economically competitive and inclusive. She has also worked for the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and the Economic Policy Institute, both in Washington, DC. EDUCATION: MPA, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government MUS, concentration in Spatial Economics, El Colegio de México BA in Political Communications, Print Journalism, Global Studies, Emerson College

Job Titles:

• Consultant

Giselle has a background in mixed-method evaluations, with a focus in quantitative and qualitative data collection, data analysis, data management, and data visualization. Her work has focused on educational research and program evaluations that impact Philadelphia's youth. At Equal Measure, Giselle works on projects that draw upon her expertise in Philadelphia, including the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia and the City of Philadelphia Anti-Violence Community Partnership. She also contributes to projects that inform the national efforts of Playworks and the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions' Opportunity Youth Forum, where she develops and co-leads interviews and focus groups, conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses, supports IRB submissions, and implements tools for project workstreams. Prior to joining Equal Measure, Giselle was an analyst for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). In that role she worked on various mixed-method evaluations of early literacy, school climate, and college and career initiatives; designed and managed quantitative and qualitative data collection systems; and provided recommendations to SDP program offices for effective implementation. Her work in educational research is heavily influenced by her previous role as a Community Schools Site Director, managing school partnerships between the University of Pennsylvania and West Philadelphia high schools.

Job Titles:

• Senior Director

James brings 15 years of classroom teaching and district-level education leadership to Equal Measure, as well as experience leading and advising evidence-based philanthropic program design, grantmaking, and evaluation in support of communities, families, and students. As a former National Board-certified educator, James is an ardent advocate for investing in-and strengthening-our systems of public education, and for keeping students, their families, and the wisdom of professional teachers at the center of the work. At Equal Measure, James directs regional and national projects, including an evaluation of the Aspen Institute's Justice and Governance Partnership within its Criminal Justice Reform Initiative; the design, implementation, and evaluation of a youth research advisory group for the Annie E. Casey Foundation; and a learning and evaluation partnership with PolicyLink. James also leads a strategy and evaluation engagement for the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), and an evaluation with Playworks, a national nonprofit partner with SDP. Prior to joining Equal Measure, James was a senior consultant at a national education consulting firm, where he led strategy and operations for a portfolio focused on building strong nonprofit organizations and effective grantmaking programs in partnership with national philanthropies, nonprofits, and state and local education agencies. He also worked as a program officer at a family foundation in Philadelphia, where he developed and led a K-12 grantmaking portfolio. James also served as senior program director for the History and Social Studies Department in the Boston Public Schools, a Teaching Ambassador Fellow for the U.S. Department of Education, and advised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as an inaugural member of its Teacher Advisory Council. He continues to provide national and local leadership in philanthropy, was the inaugural recipient of the Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) Legacy Award, and is an Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Fellow.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board
• Board Chair / Co - Founder & General Partner, Closed Loop Capital
• Founder of Greener Partners

Jason Ingle co-founded and is general partner of Closed Loop Capital, an early-stage venture capital platform investing in exceptional entrepreneurs leading ventures in agriculture technology and food system innovation within the United States and Canada. Prior to forming Closed Loop Capital, Jason co-managed Fairlane Partners, which invested at an equity level in early and growth stage ventures within the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Prior to Fairlane, he helped launch and grow Aslan Capital Management, a Credit Opportunities fund based in New York City. Growing to more than $400 million in assets under management, the fund focused on capital structure allocation mostly on the credit side, but strategically within convertible and equity vehicles, and with components of the portfolio comprised of directional long, capital structure arbitrage, and directional debt and equity short positions. Jason is the founder of Greener Partners, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a mission of connecting communities to healthy food, vibrant farms, and hands-on education experiences within the Greater Philadelphia region. The organization has grown from a half-acre garden engaging 200 children with a group of volunteers in 2009, to four regional sites encompassing over 125 acres, including an urban-based farm, hospital-based farm, school-based farm, and two mobile truck gardens that together engage over 15,000 children annually. EDUCATION: BS in Finance, Suffolk University

Job Titles:

• Senior Director

Kelly brings to Equal Measure more than 15 years of experience as a researcher with expertise in race, ethnicity, class, place, and opportunity. She has a broad background in qualitative and mixed-methods research design for exploratory, implementation, and outcomes research and evaluation. At Equal Measure, Kelly leads an evaluation of Lumina Foundation's Prioritizing Adult Community College Enrollment (PACCE), an initiative that seeks to scale innovative practices to enroll adult learners-particularly adult learners of color-in participating community colleges. She also supports an evaluation for the City of Philadelphia's Anti-Violence Community Partnership Grant Program. Before Equal Measure, Kelly led or co-led research and evaluations of place-based interventions, including Say Yes to Education, Cleveland; the Philadelphia Community Schools initiative; and several pilots funded by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. Most recently, Kelly conducted a research project that privileged the perspective of Black nonprofit leaders and offered recommendations for Philadelphia's regional funders about how they can best support Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit organizations. These experiences have leveraged her expertise in trust-based philanthropy and her deep commitment to advance racial and educational equity.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• President

Leon T. Andrews, Jr. brings to Equal Measure more than 25 years of policy, management, and leadership experience. He guides Equal Measure's vision, commitment to racial equity and intersectionality, and strategic planning. He also advises projects on their racial equity focus, including PolicyLink, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Digital Learning Infrastructure: Capacity and Knowledge Sharing, The Boston Foundation, the City of Philadelphia's Anti-Violence Community Grants Program, and Comcast's Digital Equity Initiative. Leon most recently served as the inaugural leader of the National League of Cities' Race, Equity, And Leadership (REAL), which started as a CEO initiative and became a department within the organization. As the founder of REAL, Leon led NLC's strategy to help its members respond to racial tensions in their communities and address the historical, institutional, and systemic barriers that further inequity and racism in our nation's cities. Learn more about Leon. EDUCATION: ABD, PhD in Urban Planning, University of Michigan MS in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University BA in Political Science and Government, Howard University Leon T. Andrews, Jr. brings to Equal Measure more than 25 years of policy, management, and leadership experience. He guides Equal Measure's vision, commitment to racial equity and intersectionality, and strategic planning. He also advises projects on their racial equity focus, including PolicyLink, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Digital Learning Infrastructure: Capacity and Knowledge Sharing, the Boston Foundation, the City of Philadelphia's Anti-Violence Community Grants Program, and Comcast's Digital Equity Initiative. Leon most recently served as the inaugural leader of the National League of Cities' Race, Equity, And Leadership (REAL), which started as a CEO initiative and became a department within the organization. As the founder of REAL, Leon led NLC's strategy to help its members respond to racial tensions in their communities and address the historical, institutional, and systemic barriers that further inequity and racism in our nation's cities. During his time at NLC, where he also served as program director and senior fellow for NLC's Institute for Youth, Education & Families, Leon raised and managed over $25 million from foundations and corporate partners and provided direction to city officials and community leaders around the country on strategies for health and wellness, youth and workforce development, education reform, and civic engagement. Prior to his tenure at the National League of Cities, Leon completed a research fellowship at the Forum for Youth Investment. He has also worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, the United States Public Interest Research Group, the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, YouthBuild Pittsburgh, the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University. He has served as board chair for the National Recreation and Parks Association and ChangeLab Solutions. Along with his significant professional accomplishments, Leon brings to Equal Measure a compelling personal story that serves as the foundation for his lifelong focus on racial equity and community impact. He is a first-generation American, whose grandmother, mother, and father moved to the U.S. from Guyana in the 1960s. Growing up in Washington, DC, he developed a passion for football, playing the violin, and attended Howard University. He attributes those formative years, along with his time at Howard, to shaping his passion for building and sustaining communities. He lives with his wife, Dr. Kristine Andrews, and their three daughters in his childhood home.

Job Titles:

• Treasurer of the Board
• Executive Director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Lyneir Richardson is the executive director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED), a research and practitioner-oriented center at Rutgers Business School in Newark, NJ. He oversees the implementation of CUEED programs and manages partnerships, staff, affiliated faculty, and fellows. Lyneir also teaches an MBA course in Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and serves as faculty advisor to students consulting with small business owners on strategic projects. Lyneir is the former chief executive officer of Brick City Development Corporation, where he had overall responsibility for real estate development, small business services, and business attraction in Newark, NJ. Before Brick City, he was vice president of urban development at General Growth Properties, Inc. where he led the national initiative to bring quality shopping centers to ethnic neighborhoods in large U.S. cities. Prior to General Growth, Lyneir founded Lakeshore Development & Construction Company and was recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as Illinois Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lyneir started his career as an attorney for the First National Bank of Chicago.

Job Titles:

• Senior Consultant
• Team Member

Matt brings to Equal Measure more than 10 years' experience in fields such as community development, cradle-to-career educational pipelines, STEM, arts education, and population health-and has worked with organizations in the Philadelphia region and nationally. He has also led educational research initiatives in urban communities, with an emphasis on planning, stakeholder engagement, and implementation. At Equal Measure, Matt serves as a core team member for the partnership on the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, a national initiative to broaden participation of underserved youth in STEM education and careers. He also works on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Digital Learning Infrastructure initiative and an evaluation of the City of Philadelphia's Anti-Violence Community Expansion Grant Program, part of a historic investment from the city to reduce gun violence. Matt has also lent his expertise to the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Universities, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's P-16 and Equitable Futures initiatives, and a Pew Charitable Trusts initiative to improve college access and success for Hispanic immigrants, among other projects. Prior to joining Equal Measure, Matt served as the senior research associate at the Rutgers-Camden Community Leadership Center, where he researched the effectiveness of cradle to college educational pipelines in a community development context. He also managed and directed multi-disciplinary and departmental research conferences, symposia, and publications around issues of universities as anchor institutions in community development, particularly in education, population health, STEM fields, and arts and humanities.

Job Titles:

• Director

Robert's background is in survey research, data analysis, and program evaluation. He has research and evaluation experience in a number of areas, including early childhood education, postsecondary access and success, career pathways, community health, and capacity building. Robert provides mixed-methodological expertise on several projects related to place-based collective impact, economic mobility, and systems change, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Building Equitable Pathways, a community of practice to build more equitable college and career pathways; NSF INCLUDES, a national initiative to broaden participation in STEM; and PolicyLink's Winning on Equity campaign. He also manages Equal Measure's evaluation for the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, to inform the district's efforts to advance employees into professional careers. Prior to joining Equal Measure, Robert was an intern at Abt SRBI, where he supported questionnaire development and data analysis for public transportation surveys for the U.S. Department of Transportation and numerous state transportation agencies. Before that, he was an Emerging Scholar at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, where he co-authored a report on immigrant legal aid organizations. He has interned at several large nonprofit organizations, including United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Public Health Management Corporation, Consumer Reports, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Job Titles:

• Vice President, Thought Leadership

Seth has a background in strategic communications and public affairs, policy advocacy, social marketing, and writing. He has worked extensively with organizations in the nonprofit arena-from foundations and think tanks to advocacy groups and large research organizations-as well as in the for-profit sector. At Equal Measure, Seth leads all aspects of the organization's thought leadership-with an emphasis on strategic communications, social sector trend-sensing, and business development. His responsibilities include leading communications campaigns, managing publications, overseeing the website (winner of the Web Marketing Association Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award), and maintaining traditional and social media presences. He also coaches Equal Measure team members on developing their thought leadership presence. Seth serves as communications liaison with Equal Measure's clients and works with project teams to develop strategies to promote the lessons and products of those initiatives. Among his roles are serving as an advisor for the National Science Foundation's INCLUDES Coordination Hub, which manages the NSF INCLUDES National Network in its mission to broaden diversity in STEM fields. Before joining Equal Measure, Seth served as an independent consultant, working with organizations such as MWW Group's Public Affairs and Corporate Communications divisions, and with MWW's national clients. Prior to that, he was a senior consultant with Worldways Social Marketing. In that role, Seth led communications and policy advocacy campaigns for public health organizations and foundations. Seth also served as director of strategic communication for the American Board of Internal Medicine, and as director of communications for the Center for Health Care Strategies.