Global Fund for Children
Hayley Roffey, global managing director, has been promoted to co-CEO of the international grant maker. She will continue to work from its London office.
Roffey will serve alongside John Hecklinger, who has been its president and CEO since 2017. He is based at its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Association of African American Museums
Vedet Coleman-Robinson has been promoted to president and CEO of the museum association.
She was appointed executive director in 2019.
Whitman-Walker Health System
Heather Aaron has been tapped as CEO of the Washington nonprofit group that specializes in health issues that disproportionately affect people who identify as LGBTQ. She will oversee the Whitman-Walker Foundation, the Whitman-Walker Institute, and Whitman-Walker Health System Real Property Holdings.
From 2019 until 2023, she was deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Aaron succeeds Ryan Moran, who departed a year ago to become deputy secretary of health, health-care finance, and Medicaid director for the Maryland Department of Health.
More New CEOs
Rhett Del Campo, executive director of iSing Silicon Valley, will become president and CEO of the Pacific Chorale on May 1.
Mohannad Ghawanmeh will be the next president and executive director of Public Art Saint Paul. Most recently he was executive director of Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arab arts organization in Philadelphia.
Michael Gustafson, a general surgeon and president of UMass Memorial Medical Center, has become CEO of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare.
Sarah Merrefield, senior program officer at RIZE Massachusetts, will serve as the inaugural executive director and chief operating officer of the Thomas E. Smith Foundation, which makes grants to support the financial and emotional needs of people with paralysis.
Spencer Morgan, director of development at the Buffalo Zoo, has been appointed executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. He replaces Stanton Hudson Jr., who joined its Board of Trustees in 1994 and has served as executive director since 2014.
Deneine Christa Powell has been named executive director of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. Most recently she was environmental and climate program director at the African American Alliance of Community Development Financial Institution CEOs.
Other Notable Appointments
Kristen Case, a professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington, has been hired as scholar research and grants manager at the Mitchell Institute. The nonprofit, which awards college scholarships to students throughout Maine, was established by Sen. George Mitchell of Maine, who served in Congress from 1980 until 1995, including six years as senate majority leader.
Shawn Castellanos has been appointed executive vice president and chief revenue officer at WETA, the public-media station in Washington, D.C. She was previously enterprise executive for emerging strategies at the American Heart Association.
Sarah Emerson, executive director for foundation relations at Georgia State University, will next serve as vice president of advancement at Oglethorpe University.
Dannette (Danni) Hill is now chief people officer at Sesame Workshop. She was most recently group vice president and head of people and culture at Schmidt Futures.
Pamela Keefe, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the Electric Power Research Institute, will join the American Institutes for Research as senior vice president and chief financial officer in April.
Former Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York has joined the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation as its chief strategy and transformation officer. She served four terms representing Long Island’s South Shore in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 until last year.
Departures
Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP since 2014, plans to step down at the end of the year. She has worked at the advocacy group for seniors since 2004.
Joana Vicente is departing the Sundance Institute, which operates the annual Sundance Film Festival, after two and a half years as its CEO. Amanda Kelso, a member of its Board of Directors and former managing director of Google Creative Lab, will serve as acting CEO until a permanent successor has been named.
Kevin Zwick, who has served as CEO of the United Way Bay Area since 2020, has departed. Kelly Batson, chief community impact officer, has stepped up as interim CEO during its search for his replacement.
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