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Deepak Bhargava, vice chair of the $3 billion foundation’s Board of Directors, will be its next president. He will start on a part-time basis in August and officially take the helm in February 2024. Currently he is a distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Bhargava will succeed Barbara Picower, who will step down as president in February. She is its founding donor and has led the grant maker since its creation in 2011. Her late husband, the billionaire financier Jeffry Picower, was an associate of Bernie Madoff; he died in 2009.
Read some of the opinion pieces Picower and Bhargava have written in the Chronicle.
Frédérique Irwin has been named president and CEO of the museum in Washington.
Most recently she was managing director of impact strategy at the Sorenson Impact Center and previously was founder and CEO of Her Corner, a company that helped women entrepreneurs expand their businesses.
Laleh Ispahani, co-director of Open Society-U.S., has been promoted to executive director. She starts her new role in July.
Ispahani will succeed Thomas Perriello, a former congressman from Virginia who has led the U.S. arm of the $18 billion grant maker since 2018.
Read an op-ed by Perriello about the role philanthropy can play in driving public policy at the state level.
Meenakshi Batra, former CEO of the Charities Aid Foundation India, has been named director of Americares India. She will be based in Mumbai.
Regina Montoya has been tapped as executive director of the Tricolor Foundation, a community-development financial institution that primarily serves Hispanic people. She is a lawyer in Dallas who currently is CEO and chairperson of Regina T. Montoya PLLC.
Lydia Saloucou Zoungrana has been promoted from country director in Burkina Faso to president for Africa at Pathfinder International. She will continue to be based in Burkina Faso. Saloucou Zoungrana will serve alongside Lois Quam, CEO of the reproductive rights and health organization, and Tabinda Sarosh, who is Pathfinder’s president for South Asia, Middle East, and North Africa.
The organization has hired three new program officers for its Collective Abundance Fund, which will make grants to support wealth-building programs for Indigenous people in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Courtney Davis previously served as director of Minogitooon, which worked to establish a community center in Grand Forks, N.D., for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
Wicahpi (Star) Means is a former housing and loan specialist at Black Hills Community Loan Fund, a Native community-development financial institution.
Sharon Pazi Zea was previously executive director of Dakota Wicohan.
Rutledge Simmons has joined the organization as vice president and general counsel. He has spent 20 years at NeighborWorks America, most recently as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary.
In addition, the philanthropy group has hired two new program directors.
Aileen Rosa Sánchez, senior director of philanthropy at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, will now serve as director of donor services and special projects.
Chhandasi Pandya Patel, program officer for human rights at the Heising-Simons Foundation and Heising-Simons Action Fund, is now director of inclusive democracy at NEO Philanthropy’s Four Freedoms Fund.
Snehal Desai will become artistic director at the Center Theatre Group in August. Currently he is producing artistic director at the East West Players, where he has led the Los Angeles company since 2016.
Bill Johnson, vice president of university advancement at the University of Nevada at Reno, has been appointed senior vice president of development at the University of Nebraska Foundation.
Brandi King will join All Our Kin as chief strategy officer, effective May 15. Currently she is deputy chief of programs at Child Care Aware of America.
Francois Louw has been promoted from director of fundraising and marketing at Christel House South Africa to director of corporate partnerships at Christel House International. In addition, Raina Mansukhani has been appointed vice president for expansion at Christel House International. Previously she was an engagement manager at the Cicero Group.
Lucy Roberts, an executive and leadership consultant, has returned to the American Friends Service Committee as international peacebuilding director. She previously worked there from 2013 to 2018 as Asia regional director. In addition, Lewis Webb has been promoted to U.S. peacebuilding director. He has worked there for 12 years, most recently as coordinator of the organization’s national healing justice network.
Sara Curtis Robinson, executive director of advancement at the Van Wezel Foundation/Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation, will become vice president for advancement at the Ringling College of Art and Design on May 15.
Yecenia Tostado, executive director of Project Azul, has joined the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust as senior program officer for Indianapolis.
Lulani Arquette will leave the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation at the end of 2023. She has been the $12 million foundation’s president and CEO since its inception in 2009.
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