Local Initiatives Support Corporation Names First Woman President

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Denise Scott, executive vice president for programs since 2014, has been promoted to president. She has worked at LISC since 2001 and will be the New York organization’s first woman leader.

Lisa Glover, a LISC board member who has served as interim CEO since February, will continue in that role while LISC continues its search for a new co-leader.

Benetech

Ayan Kishore has been appointed CEO of the nonprofit group that designs software for social good. Most recently he directed digital social innovation at Creative Associates International.

Kishore succeeds Christy Chin, its interim CEO, who will return to her role as board chair.

John R. Oishei Foundation

Christina Orsi will become its next president on January 24. She will be the first woman to lead the $320 million foundation when she succeeds Robert Gioia, who is retiring after 15 years at the helm.

Orsi currently serves as associate vice president in the Office of Economic Development at the University at Buffalo.

More New CEOs

Derrick Chubbs, CEO of the Central Texas Food Bank, has been selected as president and CEO of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. He succeeds Dave Krepcho, who has led the food bank since 2004 and will retire at the end of the month.

Dan Clark, vice president of partner development at Convoy of Hope, will be the next CEO of Westfall Gold. He succeeds its founder, Bob Westfall, who will become chairman of the consulting company he started in 2002 to help faith-based institutions, hospitals, and universities raise money.

Regina Hartfield, who has served on the association’s board of directors for three years, has been named president and CEO of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Most recently she was a manager of federal, state, and commercial contracts at CVP, an information-technology consulting firm in Virginia and Maryland.

Emily Ballew Neff, executive director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, has been named the next director of the San Antonio Museum of Art. She will begin her new role on January 18.

Jorge Petit, a board-certified psychiatrist and CEO and president of Coordinated Behavioral Care, will become CEO of Services for the Underserved on February 14. He will replace Donna Colonna, who is planning to retire after 25 years at the social-services charity.

Catrina Salinas, chief people officer at the Central Texas Food Bank, will now serve as interim president and CEO.

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

The two sister organizations have announced three staff moves.

Meeta Anand, who most recently served as census consultant to the Leadership Conference Education Fund, has been hired as senior program director for census and data equity.

Yterenickia (YT) Bell, national organizing director at Care in Action/National Domestic Workers Alliance, is now a senior adviser for voting rights.

Sarah Edwards has been promoted from senior writer and editor to editorial director.

United Methodist Retirement Communities and Porter Hills

Lori Potter, chief operating officer, will retire at the end of the month after 13 years there.

The charity that serves older people in Michigan says she will have two successors: Nicole Maag and Luke Reynolds.

Maag has been promoted from vice president of operations to chief of residential services.

Reynolds will now be chief of home- and community-based services. Most recently he was executive director of LifeCircles PACE.

Other Notable Appointments

Lida Nadery Hedayat, chief of party at the Women’s Leadership Development Program, has joined Counterpart International as associate director of its global women in management program.

Amy Saltzman has been promoted from program officer to senior program officer for the Mississippi River program at the Walton Family Foundation.

Tamia Santana, the founder and former executive director of the Brooklyn Dance Festival, has been named chief engagement and inclusion officer at Ballet Hispánico.

Departure

Anne Wallestad intends to step down as BoardSource’s president and CEO in June. She has led the group since 2013. Her successor has not yet been named. A frequent contributor to the Chronicle, Wallestad wrote this op-ed in 2017 about the role board members must play in a turbulent political environment.

Legacy

Philip Harvey, a pioneer in international sexual and reproductive health, died on December 2. He was 83. When he was in his 30s, he co-founded Population Services International. Harvey later founded DKT International in 1989 and served as its president and CEO until 2013. Subsequently he founded the DKT Liberty Project, a civil-liberties advocacy group.

He also owned the company Adam and Eve, which sells adult toys and other products, and used more than $50 million of its profits to support his charities’ mission to deliver free contraceptives as well as sexual and reproductive health care to poor people around the world.

Read more about Harvey’s work in this 2015 profile in the Chronicle.

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