CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION FUND - Key Persons
Andrea (Annie) (she, her, they) has dedicated the past 20 years to working with and for organizations that strengthen communities and grow collective liberation. Dr. Hernandez cultivates strategy and partnership for CTF. She is the President of Growing Giving, LLC that creates intentional intergenerational spaces to free the abundance and joy of people involved in and impacted by philanthropy. She does this work to create systems of compassion and collective care for healing.
In addition to conflict transformation, Andrea focuses on social justice youth and international giving, liberating governance, and personal transformation and healing. She serves on the national boards for the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and Learning to Give, along with being a founding member of the Los Angeles Latino Giving Circle. Annie and her husband find meaning and inspiration in nature and live on traditional lands of the Spokane people with their young child and dog.
Ebony (she, her, hers) is a capacity builder who partners with social justice leaders, organizers, and movement builders to provide thought partnership, leadership development, and organizational development strategies that connect heart, vision, and strategy.
Before joining the Conflict Transformation Fund to lead as the Director, Ebony was Co-Director for the Transforming Power Fund, a Detroit-based social justice fund committed to transformative systems change. She has spent two decades working collaboratively to support and build beloved communities that address gender and racial inequities and health disparities, while also creating and facilitating communities of practice, fellowships, and cohorts that provide learning resources, strategies for resilience, love, and connection.
Laura served as the founding Director of CTF from 2016-2019. Laura has spent the last 20 years supporting visionary leaders to bring their ideas into action. She has been on the founding teams for more than a dozen philanthropic endeavors including Kindle Project, the Indie Philanthropy Initiative, Changemakers, Aepoch Fund and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.
In her roles as coach, facilitator, advisor, board member, and executive director Laura has navigated many types of conflict and has seen its contribution to both dysfunction and positive transformation. Laura currently provides leadership coaching and philanthropic advising to a range of non-profit leaders, individual donors, and family foundations.
In 2014, Sally spent time in Rwanda investigating its post-genocidal recovery and was inspired by the passionate commitment of the Rwandans she met who had to work creatively with the complexities of reconciliation. Upon returning home, she was not content to resume her life as a retired entrepreneur. Instead, she liquidated assets that she inherited, realizing that she wanted to see the money activate change while she was alive. She moved into action, struck by what she saw as a tremendous need for better conflict skills in the United States, and established the Conflict Transformation Fund in 2016.
Prior to entering philanthropy, Sally was drawn to entrepreneurial ventures and worked in USC's School of Business where she created an award-winning program for executives. Sally calls the San Francisco Bay Area her home.