WNBA President Named CEO of Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund

Time’s Up

Lisa Borders, president of the WNBA, the professional women’s basketball association, has become the first president and CEO of this legal-defense fund that combats sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. The organization began in January as a fund administered by the National Women’s Law Center.

Read more of our coverage of the millions in gifts that Time’s Up has raised since the beginning of the year.

Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

British Robinson, founding CEO of the Women’s Heart Alliance, has been chosen as the literacy group’s new president and CEO.

Harvard University

Brian Lee will become vice president for alumni affairs and development, the university’s top fundraising role, on November 19. Most recently he was vice president for development and institute relations at the California Institute of Technology. Lee succeeds Tamara Rogers, who has stepped down after 11 years.

More New CEOs

Wayne Edwards, vice president for student affairs and chief diversity officer at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, has been promoted to vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the Old Westbury College Foundation.

Leah Garcés, executive director of Compassion in World Farming USA, has been named president of Mercy for Animals, a charity that protects farm animals from abuse. She is the first woman to serve in the top role.

Stevan Gibson, president of the Lupus Foundation of America, was promoted to president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandra Raymond, who led the research organization for the past 17 years and will remain with the charity as a senior adviser.

Tim Hanstad, co-founder of Landesa, has become CEO of the Chandler Foundation, which was previously known as the Cassia Foundation.

Nichole June Maher, president and CEO of Northwest Health Foundation, has become president and CEO of the Group Health Foundation.

Hadley Baas Streng has been named president of the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. She most recently served as the senior vice president of strategy and development at Centegra Health System and its foundation.

Christiana Thornton, who most recently led the New Hampshire Bankers Association, is the new president and CEO of the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation Network Organizations. She succeeds Rene Drouin, who has retired after 21 years in the role and 40 years at the charity.

Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County

The charity has hired two new executives.

Behzad Dayanim, a marketing consultant and creative director at Berach Productions, has been named chief learning officer, a newly created role.

Matthew Kernkraut, vice dean for external relations at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, will now be the federation’s chief development officer.

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The conference and its sister organization, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, have hired two new staff members.

Leigh Chapman, senior policy adviser at Let America Vote, is now director of the voting-rights program.

Gabrielle Sherb, director of development for New York and Washington, D.C., at the Anti-Defamation League, joined as vice president for development.

Other Notable Appointments

Tamara Holmes Brothers, director of corporate and foundation relations at Fayetteville State University, has been appointed director of development at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Kate Cleveland, senior director of development at the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, has joined the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute as vice president for development.

Dolores Estrada, director of grant operations at the California Endowment, has joined Peak Grantmaking as its chief operating officer.

Lavastian Glenn, program director at the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, will soon join the Nathan Cummings Foundation as its director for racial and economic justice.

Elizabeth Goodman, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has been appointed executive vice president and chief medical officer of the Children’s Health Fund.

Deb Miller, an event-fundraising consultant in New Jersey, has been named development and communications director at the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

Paul McEntire, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Houston, has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of Y-USA, the national headquarters of the YMCA.

Dennis Ripley, chief business development officer at Water4, has been named chief program officer at Opportunity International. He previously worked at Opportunity International from 1992 until 2016.

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