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Meg Busse
Director Nonprofit Career Transitions Program, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org
Seattle, WA |
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Kimberly Caldwell
Treasurer
Graduate Student, Clinton School for Public Service
Austin, TX
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| Tuesday Çetin
Vice President of Operations, Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida
Jacksonville, FL
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| Dan Dobin
MBA Candidate ('11), Yale School of Management
New Haven, CT
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Dan is a currently a first-year MBA student at the Yale School of
Management, where he is learning to apply core
management skills to a career focused on maximizing social impact.
Before Yale,
Dan spent five years in DC helping to grow entrepreneurial nonprofits.
As part
of College Summit’s national development and growth strategy teams, Dan
helped launch
new sites, led strategy for engaging the organization’s national
network of college
partners, staffed senior executives on key projects, and stewarded
College
Summit’s relationship with the Gates Foundation. Simultaneously, Dan
was an active member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC
(YNPNdc) Board of Directors, serving as Co-Chair in 2008-09 to round
out his three-year tenure. In this role, Dan oversaw a 20-person
board that tripled earned revenue and increased membership by 50% and
programming by 33% in one year. Dan was recently elected a member of YNPN’s
National Board of Directors and will begin his term in 2010.
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Ese Emerhi
Program Officer, Exchanges Department, Freedom House
Washington, DC
Ese
S. Emerhi is a Program Officer in the Exchanges Department at Freedom
House,
where she works closely with the Middle East and North Africa region to
provide
two-way professional exchanges for human rights advocates and defenders.
Prior
to that, she served as the Program Manager for the Washington Academic
Internship Program of the John Glenn School of Public Policy. Before
moving to
Washington, D.C., she worked as Legislative Aide to Ohio Senate Minority
Leader
Senator C.J. Prentiss (D-OH) for five years. In
her capacity as Legislative Aide, Ms. Emerhi edited the National Black
Caucus
of State Legislators white paper entitled ‘Closing the Achievement
Gap –
Improving Educational Outcomes for African American Students’ 2001. The white paper highlighted the
vast
disparity in education between black and white students and outlined
possible
solutions to closing the widening gap in education.
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| Maya Enista
CEO, Mobilize.org
Washington, DC
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Maya Enista has been with Mobilize.org since July 2005. She has worked in both the Washington, D.C. and California offices as the Chief Operating Officer. On March 3, 2008, Maya became the Chief Executive Officer of Mobilize.org, following the departure of Founder and Executive Director David Smith. At 26 years old, Maya is a veteran in the public service sector, beginning her non-profit career 8 years ago. Maya has been active in public service since she was an undergraduate at Rutgers University, focusing mainly on voter empowerment and youth civic engagement. She began her career as the East Coast Coordinator for Rock The Vote at age 17, a position in which she registered over 30,000 young people. Through her work with Rock The Vote, Maya was awarded the first ever Rock The Vote "Rockin' The Street's" award. She continued her voter registration work when she accepted the position of National Field Director for the Hip Hop Civic Engagement Project, a project that grew out of the successful National Hip Hop Political Convention in Newark, NJ. Maya organized a 13 state campaign that registered over 300,000 new voters in the "hip hop generation. In addition to her work with Mobilize.org, Maya serves on the Advisory Board for CIRCLE, the Working Group for the Civic Health Index of the National Conference on Citizenship, and the Board of Directors for Youth Service California. For her leadership, Maya has been awarded a YouthActionNet Fellowship, the Independent Sector NGEN American Express Fellowship and Utne Reader’s 50 Visionaries Changing Your World Award. Maya, very proud of her Jersey roots, grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her black labs, Hudson and Zin, have grow accustomed to her busy life style and have now lived in five states in less than two years. | |
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Kim Hendler
Vice Chair
Managing Director of Talent, iMentor
New York, NY
Kim is the
Managing Director of Talent iMentor. Prior to joining iMentor, she
spent 3 years as Executive Director of Princeton Project
55. There she oversaw the growth of Project 55's flagship nonprofit
fellowship program, which encourages recent graduates from Princeton to
build careers in civic leadership through year-long fellowships at
nonprofit organizations. Prior to working for Project 55, Kim worked
for El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she
participated in a nonprofit leadership development fellowship program;
directed a youth grant making program in 138 high schools; co-directed
fellowship hiring; and supported the foundation's grant making. In
addition to serving as
Vice Chair of the YNPN National Board,
Kim is an alumni interviewer for Brown University, a mentor through
iMentor and involved with
Resource Generation. She has run workshops on a variety of topics in
leadership and nonprofit management for diverse groups including
outdoor leadership programs, youth philanthropy initiatives, community
volunteers, high school students, and young professionals. Kim is
committed to attracting talent to the nonprofit sector and making it a
sustainable place to start and grow a career.
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Matthew Nathan
Director, Sales Operations, Teachscape
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| Tera Wozniak Qualls
National Voice and Communications Committee Chair
Program Coordinator, Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
Grand Rapids, MI
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LinkedIn
Tera
is a Program Coordinator at the
Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. In her work, Tera manages the website npgoodpractice.org, manages marketing and communications for the Center, co-facilitates the Encore Coming of Age Learning Lab, and provides technical assistance to local nonprofit organizations in the areas of social media, volunteer management, capacity building, strategic planning, and governance. As
a member of the community Tera is currently serving as the Vice
President of the League of Women Voters Grand Rapids, is founder and co-chair of YNPN of Greater Grand Rapids, and is a member of the
Independent Sector NGen Planning Committee. Tera has her B.S.
from Grand Valley State University in Public and Nonprofit
Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management and is
currently working on her MPA at Grand Valley in Nonprofit Management. A proud citizen of Michigan, Tera has lived in West Michigan her entire life and now resides in Grand Rapids with her husband Rob, their great dane Penny, and cat Lucy.
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| Trisha Hasbargen Reinwald
Executive Director, Minnesota Jaycees
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| Patrick Sallee
Development Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters Greater Kansas City
Twitter
LinkedIn
Facebook
Patrick is currently the first Development Director for Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Greater Kansas City. I have been with the agency for just
over 2 years. Prior to joining BBBS I served as a fundraising
consultant with Hartsook Companies and worked for 3 years at American
Humanics in Kansas City. I am currently the Vice President of the
board of directors for Nonprofit Connect and was co-founder of the
Kansas City chapter of YNPN. I have my master's degree in nonprofit
management from University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Anthony Shop
Principal, Liftoff Solutions
Washington, DC
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| Maria Smith
Secretary
Grants Officer Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation
LinkedIn
Maria is currently the Grants Officer
at Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation. Previously, she was the
Assistant Director of Development for Institutional Support at Wave
Hill - a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx. Before
working in development, Maria developed public programs at the Brooklyn
Museum and worked in marketing at Jazz at Lincoln Center. She is also a
development consultant for the Harrigan Educational & Cultural
Center Dance Academy. Maria is an active participant in
civic life in her hometown of Mount Vernon, NY and is a member of the
historic Grace Baptist Church. Maria received her B.A. in Africana
Studies and Communications from the University of Pittsburgh and a
masters in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute. She
continues to serve on the YNPN-NYC Professional Development Committee
and is a member of Emerging Leaders in New York Arts.
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Josh Solomon
Board Chair
Associate Director of Technical Assistance at YouthBuild USA
Boston, MA
Josh is the Associate Director for
Technical Assistance at YouthBuild USA and manages technical assistance
and program improvement for a portfolio of 80 YouthBuild sites. Josh
has an MBA from the Yale School of Management and over 12
years of experience in nonprofit management, fundraising, information
technology and operations. He previously served in management
positions
at Teach For America and The Food Project. Josh has served on YNPN's
National board since 2006 and also serves on the board of The Food
Project.
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Trish Tchume
Chapters and Individuals Committee Chair
Director of Civic Engagement, Building Movement Project
New York, NY
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As the Director of Civic Engagement for the Building Movement Project, Trish Tchume supports the Project’s ongoing work of integrating social change values and practices into nonprofit service organizations. Prior to joining the Building Movement Project in April of 2008, Trish served first as a Campus Organizer and then as a Community Outreach Manager for Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. In addition to being a national board member for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, Trish serves as a member of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition and was awarded a 2009 American Express NGen Fellowship. Through each of these roles, Trish has had the privilege of helping to strengthen the social justice work of inspiring individuals and nonprofit organizations by connecting them with resources and networking opportunities.
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