NONPROFIT PRACTICE - Key Persons
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- Dean Emeritus / Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life
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- Lead Systems Administrator
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- Member of the Board
- Program Coordinator
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Aliyah is passionate about building community, youth development, and creating sustainable change. Aliyah brings her experience in community engagement, nonprofit administration, and project management to INP.
Prior to joining INP, Aliyah worked at The Mayor's Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN), a Louisville Metro department working to prevent gun violence. Within OSHN she was able to support grassroots organizations of all sizes to increase their capacity for violence prevention work. Aliyah also brings years of experience from the nonprofit sector from her time at Educational Justice, a local nonprofit working to bridge educational inequity in Louisville.
Aliyah received her BA from The University of Kentucky in Psychology. While there she worked to create a network of college mentors for elementary and middle school aged youth in the Lexington-Fayette area.
Aliyah is driven by her love for community and the belief that every person is resourceful and whole. When she isn't working towards building sustainable and equitable communities, Aliyah recharges by being a self-proclaimed foodie and exploring the beauty of Kentucky and surrounding states.
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- Director, Community Engagement & Expansion
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- Senior Fellow, Cape Cod & Islands
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- Executive Director / Angell Foundation
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- Senior Fellow, Western New York
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President of Advancement
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Advisor, Faculty Development & Learning
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- Founder and Former CEO / Institute
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- Human Resources Director
- Member of the Board
Bianca Colbert has extensive HR experience and is certified both by the Society of Human Resources Management as a Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) and the HR Certification Institute as a Professional in HR (PHR). Bianca's passion for people and making a difference has resulted in a 17-year commitment to serving nonprofit, mission-driven organizations, with the majority of her management career working for a Maryland licensed provider serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her background consists of oversight over general HR functions, with a focus on recruitment and retention, compensation, professional development, coaching and mentoring, organizational change, and strategic planning. Her passion for people and giving back led to her joining a national SHRM affiliate Board of Directors in 2019, where she now serves as the President-Elect. Bianca continues to expand her knowledge base by maintaining a pulse on HR trends and best practices and staying connected to her community and networks.
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- Member of the Board
- Vice President of Early Career Programs
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- Founder & Executive Chair / New Sector Alliance
john a. powell
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Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Executive Director
- Senior Fellow, Boston
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- Nonprofit and Philanthropic Advisor
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Development Operations
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- Manager of Strategic Initiatives
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- Senior Fellow, Merrimack Valley & Essex County
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Grants Writer
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- Senior Fellow, Cape Cod & Islands
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- President & CEO / Cambridge Community Foundation
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Vice President, Alumni Engagement
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- Member of the Board
- Program Coordinator
Heather (they/them) brings their experience of program coordination, mentorship, project management, and DEIB training to the team at INP.
Heather joined the Institute for Nonprofit Practice after working at Cornell University for six years: they spent five years in their most recent role as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Communication. While at Cornell, Heather co-founded a peer mentorship program to connect historically-marginalized and first-generation students with older peers, to help these students establish a social support system during their first semester at college. Heather is passionate about community building, mental health, and artistic expression of all varieties.
Heather is bilingual in English and Spanish, and is currently learning Brazilian Portuguese. They are a "foodie," and can often be found cooking, baking, and enjoying food with others in their free time; in particular, they love connecting with their Mexican-American roots by recreating the family recipes they grew up eating. Heather also enjoys performing on stage, meditating, traveling, watching movies, snuggling with their rescue dog Zelda Sayre, reading, and spending time outside enjoying nature.
Heather received their Bachelor of Arts in Culture and Communication from Ithaca College, where they studied Spanish, social justice theory, and performance art.
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- Senior Fellow, Merrimack Valley & Essex County
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- Manager of Early Career Program Operations
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- Senior Fellow, Cape Cod & Islands
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Managing Director / Sigma Prime Ventures
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO / Earth2, LLC
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- Senior Fellow, Western New York
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- Chief
- Member of the Board
- Program Officer
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Senior Fellow, Merrimack Valley & Essex County
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- Senior Fellow, Merrimack Valley & Essex County
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- Human Resources Director
- Member of the Board
Lisa has worked for twenty-five years in operations, human resource management, and program development across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors. She brings her talent as a relationship-builder and innovative problem-solver to nurturing small start-ups into thriving organizations. No stranger to challenging roles, she has coordinated paid and volunteer staff across the world for organizations such as the American Red Cross, YWCA, and MA Ombudsman Program. Prior to coming to INP, she worked as the Operations Director at Boston CASA for close to ten years, where she led the organization's expansion in staffing and regional presence while advancing people, systems, and policies. With a life goal of developing her personal and professional learning in social justice, Lisa has worked tirelessly to transform organizations to become more inclusive and equitable. As an alumnus of the INP Core program, she is thrilled to have joined this amazing team of leaders. On her "off time," you will find Lisa drinking coffee and cooking or hiking with her family.
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Marketing & Communications
Lisa's experience with communications, marketing, outreach, and engagement goes back many years. In the past decade, her specialties have come to include strategic narrative and framing, centering justice and equity, and supporting democratic and participatory approaches to system change in a variety of sectors. Most recently, Lisa held the role of Communication Director for the six-state Food Solutions New England network based at the UNH Sustainability Institute.
Lisa founded the Maine-based Resilience Hub in 2005 and directed the organization until 2018, growing it to nearly 3K members and delivering more than 800 experiential educational events as well as delivering a range of participatory design and community service programs.
She is an experienced communications professional, strategist, organizer, facilitator, host, speaker, network weaver, and educator who believes that resilience-building, community care, and democratized, participatory approaches are among the best tools we have for creating vibrant futures and for navigating the challenges of our time.
She's currently a Trustee for the North American Marine Alliance, Advisor to Interlace Agroforestry Commons, and a member of Grist's New England Fix! Network. She has served on the boards of the Eat Local Foods Coalition (ELFC), the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN), the Grant Review Committee of the New England Grassroots Fund, and the Advisory Panel for Green & Healthy Maine Homes magazine, among other volunteer efforts.
She is a graduate of Boston College and holds several graduate-level credentials and certifications. She brings to INP a rich set of work experiences in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She's an avid gardener and orchardist and lives with her family in Maine.
Loren brings a background in public service, serving in various roles across all three branches of government before joining INP's advancement team. As Development Coordinator, she supports fundraising efforts so that INP can achieve its strategic and programmatic goals. Rooted in social justice, Loren is inspired to play a part in INP's objective of making the nonprofit sector more equitable, diverse, and sustainable. She is deeply passionate about advancing racial and gender equity, eradicating poverty, and conservation and climate action.
Loren holds a BA from Emmanuel College, where she double majored in Political Science and International Relations with a concentration in Sustainability and Global Justice. In her free time, she enjoys walks with her dog, caring for her many house plants, and trying her best to cook healthy food that still tastes good.
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- Senior Fellow, Rhode Island
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- Chairman / Co - Founder and Senior Advisor / Charlesbank Capital Partners
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- Senior Fellow, Rhode Island
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- Communications & Marketing Manager
- Creative and Strategist
Meg Miner is a multimedia creative and strategist committed to social justice. She believes in the power of people to inspire progressive action through innovative storytelling. Inclusive practice, authentic representation, and community building ground her work as Communications and Marketing Manager. An AmeriCorps alum, Meg joins INP with a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. She has amplified the voices of young organizers across the country to advance anti-racism and educational opportunity at the local, state, and national level. Meg also served as a founding member of her previous organization's equity collaborative. Her passion for expansive self-growth led Meg to become a Residency in Social Enterprise Fellow with New Sector Alliance. Through this transformative professional development, she explored sustainable solutions to strengthen nonprofit leadership alongside a cohort of emerging changemakers. She holds an MA in Media and Public Engagement with a graduate certificate in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices from the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as a BA in Sociology and Communication Studies from the University of Denver.
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President of National Program Operations
Meg (she/her) brings her experience in project management, event coordination, and commitment to intersectional research and DEIB to the team at INP. She is passionate about community building, elevating voices, and reconstructive history - all of which are pursuant to molding a more equitable society that features the lived realities of previously marginalized individuals.
Prior to joining the INP team, Meg worked at the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, a state agency dedicated to providing a permanent, effective voice for women and girls across Massachusetts. At the MCSW, Meg coordinated events, research, reports, and legislative briefings while networking with key nonprofit stakeholders across the Commonwealth.
Meg prioritizes conversations which interrogate systems that perpetuate injustice in order to facilitate holistic and actionable discourse regarding racial and gender equity. She is particularly drawn to capacity building and public education reform to rectify disparities across socio-economic class, gender identity, and race/ethnic identity.
Meg holds a BA in History from Boston College with concentrations in African & African Diaspora Studies and Women's & Gender Studies. Her studies in these particular disciplines equip her with the skills, frameworks, and work ethic to foster change.
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- Member of the Board
- Program Coordinator, Black Leadership Institute
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- Member of the Board
- Development Operations Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice President of Programs
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- Director, Core Certificate Program
Natalie brings more than ten years of public service to her role as Operations Coordinator for INP. She is responsible for providing excellent support to the People & Equity team as well as to the organization at large. In her off time, she is busy creating memories with her daughter.
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Director, Black Leadership Institute
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- Chief Development Officer
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- Chief Investment Officer, Active Quantitative Equity / State Street Global Advisors
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- Senior Fellow, Los Angeles
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- Senior Fellow, Rhode Island
Patrick Kirby - Chief Strategy Officer, EVP
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- Chief Strategy Officer
- Executive Vice President
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- Director, Recruitment
- Professionals
Rayce Lamb (He/Him/His) is committed to helping professionals thrive in their vocational settings by serving as a connector to education, resources, and community that can help them flourish. His career has spanned faith spaces, the nonprofit sector, and higher education including tenures as the first Director of North Star LGBTQ Community Center and as Interim Pastor of Wake Forest Baptist Church, both in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Prior to joining INP, Rayce worked in both undergraduate and graduate-level admissions at Wake Forest University, most recently serving as the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at the School of Divinity.
Rayce received a Master of Divinity from Wake Forest University School of Divinity and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Emory & Henry College. He also holds a post-graduate certificate in Faith-Based Nonprofit Leadership from Wake Forest University School of Divinity and an Executive Certificate in Religious Fundraising from Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. An alum of the Do Good X Startup Accelerator, Rayce continues to work within his community to provide holistic financial formation to faith leaders through his social venture Faithonomics.
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- Nicholas President and CEO
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- Chief People & Equity Officer
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- Senior Fellow, New York City
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- Member of the Board
- Vice President of National Expansion
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Senior Fellow, Western New York
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- Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
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- Senior Fellow, Western New York
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Early Careers Programs
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- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- CEO
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- President and CEO / Institute
Under Yolanda's leadership, the Institute is deepening programmatic impact, scaling nationally, and leading the sector with established, high-quality programming that advances racial and gender equity.
Yolanda was recently named a recipient of the 2021 Social Capital Inc (SCI) Idealist Award. She was also recognized as one of the ‘Power & Influence Top 50' in both 2020 and 2021 by The NonProfit Times. She was named a 2019 Barr Foundation Fellow, featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy as one of ‘15 More People Changing the Nonprofit World,' and one of 25 ‘Powers That Will Be' in Boston Magazine. She is a 2018 recipient of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Leaders (TOYL) Award, a 2017 Social Innovation Forum ‘Social Innovator,' and has been featured in a number of publications including the Boston Globe, Boston Voyager, and Social Innovations Journal.
Yolanda has consulted with organizations and companies across sectors to advance organizational change and actualize their equity and inclusion objectives. She previously held leadership roles at distinguished organizations including The Home for Little Wanderers, YWCA Boston, and Horizons for Homeless Children.
She is currently on the board of The BASE, the Needham Education Foundation, and serves on Independent Sector's Public Policy Committee. She is a LEAP Ambassador and also serves on the Advisory Council of the Women's Foundation of Boston.
Yolanda is an alum of the Institute. She is a graduate of Boston College where she also earned a MSW.