Philanthropy Roundtable Promotes Christie Herrera to CEO; Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Will Install New Leader in January

Philanthropy Roundtable

Christie Herrera will be its next president and CEO. She has worked there since 2019, most recently as senior vice president of policy and programs.

Herrera has served as its interim leader since Elise Westhoff departed at the end of May.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Latanya Mapp Frett will become its president and CEO in January. She is currently president and CEO of Global Fund for Women.

Mapp Frett will follow Melissa Berman, who has led the philanthropy group since its inception in 2002.

Berman has been a frequent contributor to the Chronicle over the years; read more about her thoughts on how large foundations should wield their influence.

California Association of Nonprofits

Geoff Green will become CEO of the association on January 1. He is currently the CEO of the Santa Barbara City College Foundation.

Green will succeed Jan Masaoka, who has led the group since 2012 and will depart at the end of the year.

Read a profile of Masaoka’s work at CalNonprofits in the Chronicle.

March for Our Lives

Natalie Fall, director of development and partnerships, has been promoted to executive director.

She was one of the first hires at the gun-safety group, which was formed in response to the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

More New CEOs

Fatimah Loren Dreier, executive director of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, was selected as executive director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education. In addition, Angelina Ruffin has been appointed managing director. Previously she was deputy managing director and director of performance management for the city of Philadelphia under Mayor Jim Kenney.

Randy Ford has been promoted from chief operating officer to president and CEO of the Idaho Foodbank.

Bro Krift, executive editor at the Indianapolis Star, has been tapped as CEO of the Indiana Local News Initiative.

Dan Lehman has been appointed president and CEO of HELP USA, which provides transitional housing and other services to homeless adults, families, and migrants. Most recently he worked at the Primary Care Development Corporation as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Amanda Sturgeon, founding CEO of Built by Nature, has been appointed CEO of the Biomimicry Institute. She succeeds Beth Rattner, its executive director since 2012.

Astrida Orle Tantillo has been appointed president and librarian at the Newberry Library. She joins the organization from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is a professor of Germanic studies and history.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Allan Madoc, a former technology investment banker at HSBC who is currently a Sloan fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, will join the $2.5 billion grant maker as its program director for San Jose, Calif.

His new role is effective November 6.

Open Society Foundations

The $18 billion grant maker has promoted several of its top executives.

Pedro Abramovay, director of the Latin America Program and regional director of Latin America and the Caribbean, is now vice president for programs.

Issandr Amrani, executive director for Open Society–Middle East and North Africa, has become managing director of programs.

Brian Kagoro has been promoted from director of justice and intersectionality to managing director of programs.

Binaifer Nowrojee will now serve as vice president for programs. Most recently she was the foundation’s vice president for organizational transformation.

Dierdre Williams, director of the foundation’s Reassigned Grants Unit, is now managing director of core partnerships.

Other Notable Appointments

Karen Anderson, senior director of policy and communications at the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, has been appointed managing director at the Social Finance Institute.

Brandolon Barnett, chief product officer at Humanitas Technologies, has been named head of innovation and philanthropy at Giving Compass. He has served on the organization’s board since the beginning of this year.

Alisha Collins, vice president for corporate giving and development at the Possible Zone, has joined the energy company National Grid as its first director of community impact and engagement in New England.

Cheryl Cook-Posley, chief impact officer at United Community, will now serve as national director of movement building at the Children’s Defense Fund.

Michael Pasquarella has joined the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences as vice president for institutional advancement. Most recently he held the same role at Converse University.

Tehout Selameab, founder and CEO of Arcadia Research and Evaluation, is now senior program officer for learning at the McKnight Foundation.

Ken Surratt has been promoted from chief community investment officer to chief development and investment officer at United Way of Greater Cleveland.

Departures

Ellen Gilligan, president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, plans to retire next summer. She joined the $1 billion community foundation in 2010.

Ellen Medearis, vice president for Duke Health development and alumni affairs at Duke University, will retire on January 5. She has worked at the university for 29 years.

Legacy

Charles Feeney, an Irish American billionaire who co-founded DFS, a chain of airport duty-free stores, died on October 9. He was 92. In 1982, he transferred nearly the entirety of his net worth to his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. The foundation spent down its $8 billion in assets and closed in 2020. Read more about Feeney’s legacy of giving in the Chronicle.

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