Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Chooses New COO (Transitions)

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund

Monica Woods has joined the two organizations as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Previously she was vice president for human resources and chief administrative officer at the Urban Institute.

LISC Bay Area

Cindy Wu, who was most recently deputy director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, will now serve as executive director of LISC’s affiliate in Oakland, Calif., overseeing local programs in affordable housing, economic development, health, community safety, and jobs.

Mass Audubon

David O’Neill, chief conservation officer and senior adviser to the CEO of the National Audubon Society, has been tapped as president of this nature-conservation organization in Lincoln, Mass.

Montpelier Foundation

Roy Young II has been named president and CEO of this organization that operates President James Madison’s historic home in Virginia. He served as a business consultant to the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Delaware and is also the former vice president for guest experience at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Young succeeds Kat Imhoff, who left last November to join the Piedmont Environmental Council as a senior conservation fellow.

More New CEOs

Ralph Boyd Jr. has been named CEO of So Others Might Eat, following the retirement of John Adams after 42 years. Boyd was most recently the senior resident fellow for leadership and strategy at the Urban Land Institute.

Chip Childers, chief technology officer at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, has been promoted to executive director. He succeeds Abby Kearns, who has been CEO since 2016.

Steve Ehrlich will serve as interim president and CEO of the TechPoint Foundation for Youth, succeeding Laura Dodds. Ehrlich is a founding member of the organization’s Board of Directors and most recently worked as chief operating officer at Bolstra, a technology company in Indianapolis.

Jay Stroman, senior associate vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Georgia, will become senior vice president for advancement and alumni affairs at the University of South Florida and chief executive of the USF Foundation on June 1.

San Francisco Foundation

The $1.5 billion community fund has announced multiple senior promotions and new hires.

Elena Chávez Quezada, who previously served as director of the foundation’s People Pathway, has been promoted to vice president of programs.

Lea Oliver-Gelwicks, associate director of finance at KIPP Bay Area Public Schools, has been hired as director of planning and analysis.

Khanh Russo has joined the foundation as senior director of the Partnership for the Bay’s Future and Great Communities Collaborative. Most recently he was director of the City of San Jose’s Office of Strategic Partnership and Performance.

Jidan Terry-Koon, senior program officer for the People Pathway, will now be its director.

Other Notable Appointments

Alexander Arnold, who joined the John Templeton Foundation in 2012 as a program officer for philosophy and theology, has been promoted to director of philosophy and theology.

Bethanie Constant, senior director of advancement at Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences, will become vice president for university advancement at Marymount University on May 1.

Susan Jaffe, a former principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre for 22 years, will be the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s next artistic director. She is currently the dean of dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Jaffe succeeds Terrence Orr, who will retire this summer after 23 years.

Carrie Jo Short has been promoted from director of community impact to senior director at the Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation, overseeing multiple portfolios that total nearly $90 million in assets.

Legacies

Irene Hirano Inouye, president of the U.S.-Japan Council, died on April 14 after a long illness. She was 71. Inouye was previously chair of the Ford Foundation’s Board of Trustees and was the founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Her late husband was U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.

Leo Kornfeld, an advocate for educ