Mass.-Based Cummings Foundation Appoints Its First Woman Executive Director; Calif. Supreme Court Justice Will Lead Carnegie Endowment

Cummings Foundation

Joyce Vyriotes, deputy director, will become its next executive director on October 1. She will be its first woman leader and has worked at the $3 billion foundation in Massachusetts since 2010.

Vyriotes will succeed Joel Swets, who is retiring after 15 years at the helm.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, associate justice of the California Supreme Court, will become the $346 million foundation’s next president on November 1. He previously served as a professor at Stanford Law School and a director of Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Cuéllar will succeed William Burns, who has been its president since 2015.

PAN Foundation

Kevin Hagan will be the next president and chief executive officer of this organization that helps people who have rare or chronic illnesses with out-of-pocket costs for their prescription medications.

Most recently, Hagan was CEO of Thrive Impact, a consulting firm he co-founded in 2018. Previously he served as CEO of the American Diabetes Association from 2015 to 2017.

Wikimedia Foundation

In January, Maryana Iskander will become the next CEO of the nonprofit organization that runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. She has been CEO of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator since 2013.

She follows Katherine Maher, who left in April after seven years there.

More New CEOs

Eva Giglio, deputy chief of staff of Chicago Public Schools, has been tapped as executive director of the CME Group Foundation. She succeeds Kassie Davis, who intends to retire.

Margaret Goldberg has been promoted from chief operating officer to president and CEO of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. She has worked for more than 20 years at this nonprofit group that raises money for patient care and research on spinal-cord injuries.

Christopher Harrington will become president and CEO of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on November 1. Currently he is director of audience development at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Akrama Hashmi has been promoted from managing director at the Islamic Medical Association of North America to executive director.

Cat Henry has been named executive director of the Live Music Society. Most recently she worked at Jazz at Lincoln Center as vice president for concerts and touring.

Ann Herbst, interim CEO and former vice president of institutional advancement at Young People in Recovery, has been named its new executive director.

Kimberly Hopely, senior vice president and chief development officer at Arizona State University, has been appointed executive vice president for development and alumni engagement at Rutgers University and president of its foundation.

Mike Jostes, executive director of Amita Health, has been named executive director of Holiday Heroes. This nonprofit group offers in-person and virtual programs to pediatric patients at children’s hospitals in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Justin Kiczek, executive vice president at the F.M. Kirby Foundation, has been promoted to executive director of the $357 million foundation in New Jersey. He succeeds S. Dillard Kirby, who is stepping down as president after 26 years.

Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, will be the next president of Trickle Up, effective October 19. She will succeed Bill Abrams, who is retiring after 16 years.

Margarethe Laurenzi, chief philanthropic officer at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, has been named executive director of the Maher Charitable Foundation.

Joanna Samuels, a rabbi and founding executive director of New York’s Manny Cantor Center, will serve as the next CEO of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. She succeeds Joy Levitt, who is retiring at the end of December after serving as its CEO since 2006.

Boston Foundation

The $1.2 billion foundation has announced three appointments to its senior management team.

Leigh Gaspar, associate vice president for alumni engagement at Emerson College, will become vice president and special assistant to the president and CEO next month.

Imari Paris Jeffries has been named senior adviser to the president and CEO. He will continue to serve as executive director of King Boston.

Orlando Watkins was promoted from vice president of programs to vice president and chief program officer.

Kresge Foundation

Alexa Bush has been named program officer within the Kresge Foundation’s Detroit Program. She comes to the foundation from the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department, where she was urban design director for the city’s east region.

In addition, the foundation has announced three moves in its investment office.

John Barker, deputy chief investment officer at the Kresge Foundation, will be promoted to vice president and chief investment officer in June 2022. He will succeed Robert Manilla, who intends to retire after 17 years of guiding its $3.4 billion endowment.

Also, Venus Phillips has been promoted from investment director to managing director.

Other Notable Appointments

Zeinab Chahine, managing director for strategic consulting in systems improvement, has been promoted to executive vice president of child and family services at Casey Family Programs.

Tamare Gordon has been promoted from coordinator of the coordinator of toddler program to assistant director of early-childhood education at United South End Settlements.

Vince Hall, interim chief government relations officer at Feeding America since February, will continue in the role permanently. He joined the charity last year as vice president of external affairs.

Melanie Hammer will be the first vice president of strategy and operations at the Cathedral Arts Project. Most recently she was the principal at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.

Kristin Kelley, associate vice president of financial development at the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas, has joined Communities in Schools of the Dallas Region as chief advancement officer.

Brent LaVigne, vice president for university relations at Southern Nazarene University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Bethel University.

Joshua Miller, director of government affairs at the United Negro College Fund, will now be vice president of research and policy at the Accion Opportunity Fund.

Tavia Nyong’o has been appointed curator of public programming at the Park Avenue Armory. He will continue to serve as a professor of theater and performance studies at Yale University.

Stefan Oscar, managing director of programs in Europe, Africa, and Asia at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, will next serve as the organization’s executive director for its Former Soviet Union operation in Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan.

Jennifer Sime, senior vice president for U.S. programs at International Rescue Committee, is joining Physicians for Human Rights as its chief operating officer.

Lindsay Wimmer, associate director of development and alumni relations at Indiana University School of Optometry, has been appointed as director of development at Franklin College. Also, Tracey Wischmeyer has joined the college as director of annual giving and stewardship. Most recently she was director of development for campuswide initiatives at Indiana University Foundation.

Departures

Klaus Biesenbach, the longtime artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is departing to become director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, in Berlin.

Lisa Gibert will step down as CEO of the Clark College Foundation before June 2022. She has worked there for 16 years.

In March, Martha McCoy plans to step down as president of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation and executive director of Everyday Democracy. She has been president of the foundation since 2004 and has worked at Everyday Democracy since 1991.

Legacy

George Wein, a musician who co-founded the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, died on September 13 at age 95.

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