Interim Leader Named at Planned Parenthood (Transitions)

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Marcus Walton, director of racial-equity initiatives at Borealis Philanthropy, has been tapped as president and CEO, effective in September. He replaces the interim CEO J. McCray, who will return to his role as chief operating officer.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Fay Twersky, founding director of the foundation’s effective-philanthropy group, has been promoted to vice president of the $9.8-billion foundation, managing special projects for its grant-making program. (The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)

Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center

Leslie Koch has been named president of the center, which is under construction at the World Trade Center site. She succeeds Maggie Boepple, who has served as president since 2012. Koch, a consultant to philanthropists, was president and CEO of the Trust for Governors Island from 2006 to 2016.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Leana Wen, who started as president and CEO this past November, has stepped down. Alexis McGill Johnson, co-founder of the Perception Institute and a former chair of Planned Parenthood’s Board of Directors, will serve as acting president and CEO until a successor is named.

More New CEOs

Sarah Armstrong has been tapped as the first executive director of the Internet Society Foundation, a new grant maker that promotes ways to use the internet to promote the common good. Previously she was senior director for marketing communications at Abt Associates.

Gary Blau will become executive director of the Hackett Center for Mental Health on September 13. He is chief of the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch at the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Amina Dickerson, a board member who previously led global philanthropic programs at Kraft Foods, is now serving as interim president of the Woods Fund of Chicago. She replaces Grace Hou, who left the $61-million foundation after seven years to become secretary for human services of the state of Illinois.

Kelly Capen Douglas, general counsel at the University of San Diego, has been appointed president and CEO of Voices for Children, a charity that recruits and trains volunteers to be court-appointed special advocates for children in foster care.

Anne Huang, deputy director of World Arts West, has been promoted to executive director, effective September 1. She succeeds Julie Mushet, who is departing after 17 years.

Bradley Leibov, president and CEO of the Liberty Prairie Foundation, has been named CEO of EarthShare.

Sarah Lyman, executive vice president at the Empire Health Foundation, has been appointed executive director of the Alliance Healthcare Foundation.

Connie Malloy, portfolio director at the James Irvine Foundation, will become executive director of the Panta Rhea Foundation on October 1.

M. Greig Metzger II, executive director of Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf, has been appointed executive director of the Little Free Library. He succeeds its founder, Todd Bol, who died unexpectedly in October.

Paul Provost, an art consultant who was director of trusts and estates and deputy chairman at Christie’s, in New York, until 2016, has been selected as CEO of the Art Bridges Foundation.

Other Notable Appointments

Kirstin Fulkerson, senior philanthropic adviser at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, has been promoted to senior vice president for philanthropy.

Verity Jones, an ordained minister and former publisher of DisciplesWorld, a Christian magazine, has joined the Lilly Endowment as program director in the religion division.

Geneviéve Jones-Wright, a deputy public defender in San Diego County, will be the first legal director at the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans.

Shaheen Kassim-Lakha, director of international programs at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, has been promoted to director of strategic partnerships.

Wendy Kobler, vice president for institutional advancement at Kentucky State University, will become vice president for institutional advancement at Ithaca College on September 1.

Victor Ramos, campus vice president at Harrisburg Area Community College, has joined Millersville University of Pennsylvania as vice president for advancement.

Departures

Caryl Stern, president and CEO of Unicef USA, will step down from the humanitarian-aid group at the expiration of her contract, in June 2020, after 13 years at the helm.

Legacies

Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a community organizer in Louisiana who founded the Baton Rouge nonprofit groups Community Against Drugs and Violence and the Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African American History, was murdered on July 12. She was 75.

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