Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Anita Zaidi, a pediatric infectious-diseases physician who is currently its director of vaccine development and surveillance and also director of enteric and diarrheal diseases, will become the foundation’s first president of gender equality on November 2.
In this new role, she will oversee a division that comprises the $51 billion foundation’s gender-equality program team as well as its gender-program advocacy and communications team.
King Boston
Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of Parenting Journey, has been hired as executive director.
He succeeds Marie St. Fleur, who has led the organization through the process of securing city approval for a planned memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common, as well as the King Center for Economic Justice at the Boston Public Library.
National Council on Aging
Ramsey Alwin will return to the council as CEO on August 31. She previously served as vice president for economic security from 2009 to 2015 and, more recently, was director of global thought leadership and financial resilience at the AARP.
Alwin replaces James Firman, who led the group for 25 years and has now retired.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
This summer, Lorelle Espinosa will join the $1.8 billion foundation as program director for diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM higher education. She is currently vice president for research at the American Council on Education.
Espinosa will succeed Elizabeth Boylan, who is retiring in December.
More New CEOs
Satonya Fair will be the first president and CEO of Peak Grantmaking, a national association of 5,000 grants-management professionals. She has served on its Board of Directors and most recently worked as vice president and chief philanthropy officer at the Executive Leadership Council.
Deeohn Ferris, an environmental lawyer and former vice president for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the National Audubon Society, has been named president of the Institute for Sustainable Communities.
Katrina Forrest and Catherine Patterson will team up as co-executive directors of CityHealth, beginning August 1. Forrest is currently national director of partnerships, and Patterson is director of operations. CityHealth is a joint project of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente.
Stephanie Piccirilli, vice president of mission engagement and innovation, has been promoted to CEO of Ignite, a nonprofit group that works with youths experiencing homelessness and poverty in Chicago. She follows Jeri Linas, who is retiring.
Mary Beth Powers, vice president of programs at the Dalio Foundation, has been named president and CEO of Catholic Medical Mission Board, effective September 1. She follows Bruce Wilkinson, who is retiring after nearly 10 years.
Laura Segura, vice president of membership and industry relations at the Recording Academy, has been promoted to executive director of MusiCares, a charitable foundation operated by the Recording Academy to provide financial assistance and other support services for musicians.
Other Notable Appointments
Ella Bouriak, annual fund manager at Columbia Journalism School, has been appointed director of development at Rollins College.
Nisha Chakravarty, CEO and co-founder of LeadersXL, a consulting firm in India, has been hired as the chief financial officer at the Safe Water Network, based in New York.
Chanté Coleman, director of equity and justice at the National Wildlife Federation, has been promoted to vice president for equity and justice.
Claudia Cornejo, an administrative assistant, has been promoted to strategic initiative officer for economic security at the Rhode Island Foundation.
Corina Gardner, director of global strategy at the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect program, has been named executive director of education at the IDP Foundation.
Lynn Harwell is joining the Barr Foundation as vice president for administration. Most recently she was administrative director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Maria Kozlowski, former global head and chief investment officer of private-equity funds at the International Finance Corporation, is joining the Rockefeller Foundation as senior vice president of innovative finance.
Kimberlyn Leary will join the Urban Institute in July as senior vice president, overseeing research and program development. Currently she is an associate professor at Harvard University who teaches at both the Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.
Kiren Marshall, deputy press secretary at the American Association for Justice, has been appointed national communications strategist for the voting-rights program at the Leadership Conference Education Fund.
Troy Robinson, chief development officer at Camp Fire, has joined Rise Against Hunger as chief development officer.
Michelle Rhee Weise, senior vice president for work-force strategies and chief innovation officer at the Strada Education Network, has become entrepreneur-in-residence and senior adviser at Imaginable Futures, an education group that spun off from the Omidyar Network earlier this year.
Departures
Elliot Bostwick Davis, director and CEO of the Norton Museum, in West Palm Beach, Fla., has resigned after 15 months there.
Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text Line, has been dismissed by the group’s Board of Directors following internal allegations of a racist organizational culture and bullying of employees. Dena Trujillo, a board member and former venture partner for education at the Omidyar Network, will serve as interim CEO until a successor is hired.
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