National Public Radio
Jarl Mohn will step down as CEO in June after five years at the helm. He will remain at NPR in a newly created position leading the network’s forthcoming fundraising drive in honor of its 50th anniversary in 2020.
Tyler Clementi Foundation
Jane Clementi will serve as the organization’s first CEO. She and her husband, Joseph Clementi, created the anti-bullying charity in honor of their son, who died by suicide in 2010 after being cyberbullied.
Michael Barret Jones has also been hired as development director. Previously, he was director of development and social media at Iris House, which provides social services for women with HIV/AIDS in New York.
Women for Afghan Women
Najia Nasim, Afghanistan country director at this human-rights organization, has been promoted to executive director. She succeeds Manizha Naderi, who has led the group since 2006.
More CEOs
LaNiece Jones is the new executive director of the Peralta Colleges Foundation. Previously she was executive director of Black Women Organized for Political Action/Training Institute for Leadership Development.
Angela Lett, interim executive director at Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers, has been appointed permanently to the position. She was previously director of development at this group, which places capuchin monkeys as companions to people with paralysis or other mobility disabilities.
Jonathon Nevett, co-founder and executive vice president for corporate affairs at Donuts Inc., has been named president and CEO of the Public Interest Registry, a nonprofit group that operates the .org domain.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
This group and its sister organization, the Leadership Conference Education Fund, have hired three senior staff members.
Andrew Ansel, a senior associate in the Philanthropic Partnerships department at Pew Charitable Trusts, has been named director of institutional giving.
Tamara Elaine Chrisler, an Equal Employment Opportunity consultant at Resolution Services, has been appointed managing director of policy and government affairs.
Beth Lynk has become campaign director for its Census Counts program, which will monitor fairness in the forthcoming national census in 2020. Previously, she was associate director of federal communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
The community fund in Venice, Fla., has made two senior appointments.
Kelly Carlstein Buehler, marketing and public-relations coordinator at Blake Medical Center, is now the foundation’s director of marketing strategy.
Marcia Saulo, chief financial officer at Lighthouse Academies, was hired as controller.
Root Capital
The social-impact lender has made two additions to its leadership team.
Amy Mullen, director of institutional support at Oxfam America, was hired as chief development officer.
Steve Nocka, a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been appointed chief lending officer.
Other Notable Appointments
Sareeta Amrute, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, has been named director of research at Data & Society Research Institute.
Kelly Veney Brinkley, chief operating officer at the United Way of the National Capital Area, has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Executive Leadership Council.
Kathryn Carrico, associate vice chancellor for development at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been named vice president for the University of Southern California Health Sciences Advancement. In this role, she will oversee fundraising for the university’s Keck Hospital, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Verdugo Hills Hospital, and the physician practice group known as USC Care Medical Group.
Valerie Downing, executive director of development at Cedar Crest College, has been promoted to vice president for institutional advancement.
Paul Falvey, chief financial officer at Physician One Urgent Care, has joined the YMCA of Greater Boston as chief financial officer.
Lonna Milburn joined Global Communities as senior vice president of partnerships and programs. She most recently served as senior director to the chief operations officer at Creative Associates International.
Todd Sosna, interim senior vice president of clinical services at Children’s Institute, will become the charity’s chief program officer. He previously worked at this organization, which helps children living in poverty in Los Angeles, as senior vice president for program evaluation and improvement from 2012 to 2014.
Dan Stoner has been named chief operating officer at Room to Read, a charity focused on children’s literacy and girls’ education worldwide. Most recently he was vice president for education and child protection at Save the Children. (Editor’s note: A day after this column was published, the organization told the Chronicle he no longer planned to take this role.)
Departures
Elsa Longhauser, who has been director of the Santa Monica Museum of Art for 15 years and executive director of Good Works at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, for the past three years, is stepping down.
Grant Llewellyn will step down as music director of the North Carolina Symphony at the end of the 2020 season. He will be named music director laureate at that time.
Faith Mitchell, president and CEO of Grantmakers in Health for the past seven years, will leave her role at the end of 2019.
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