TheDream.US
Gaby Pacheco has been tapped as president and CEO of this group that provides college scholarships and other support to immigrant students.
A formerly undocumented immigrant who left Ecuador for Miami as a child and became a U.S. citizen earlier this year, she was most recently the organization’s director of advocacy, development, and communications.
MAP Fund
David Blasher has been promoted to executive director. He has worked there since 2021 as consulting operations manager of its Scaffolding for Practicing Artists program.
Blaster will succeed Moira Brennan, who has led the performing-arts foundation for 20 years.
In addition, Ron Ragin has been promoted from director of the Scaffolding for Practicing Artists program to director of programs.
Year Up
Ellen McClain will become its CEO, effective December 1. She has worked there since 2015 and was promoted to president last year.
Gerald Chertavian, who founded the workforce-development organization in 2000, will remain with the group in a senior-adviser role for the next year and retain a position on its national board.
More New CEOs
Jewel Bronaugh, who has served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 2021, will become president and CEO of the 1890 Universities Foundation in January. She will succeed Mort Neufville, who is retiring after seven years as president of this organization that raises money for 19 historically Black land-grant universities.
Clifford Douglas is now president and CEO of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. He most recently was director of the University of Michigan’s Tobacco Research Network and an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Ray Long, senior vice president for external affairs at the Clearway Energy Group, will begin as president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy in early December. He will replace Gregory Wetstone, who plans to step down after eight years as its leader.
Anna Szczepanek is the new executive director of Penta Medical Recycling, which provides gently used prosthetic limbs for amputees in need around the world. She joined the organization in 2021 as deputy director. Szczepanek succeeds Henry Iseman, who founded the organization in 2016 and will now pursue his M.B.A. at Stanford University.
Bia Vieira, chief strategist for programs, has been named CEO of the Women’s Foundation California. She is its first Latina and queer leader. Vieira follows Surina Khan, who has stepped down after almost 20 years at the helm.
Other Notable Appointments
Jenny Einhorn, director of development at the Sunrise Association, has been appointed senior director of institutional giving at the Urban Resource Institute.
Ann Howard, executive vice president of product management at the health care tech company XiFin, has been named director of development at the Nashville Software School.
Nancy Orr, chief investment officer of Fiduciary Counselling, is joining the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation as vice president for investments and chief investment officer and will oversee its $3.7 billion in assets. She follows Jay Flaherty, who joined the foundation in 2007 and will retire in January. (The Mott Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.)
Joe Phillips is now chief philanthropy officer at the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. Previously he was executive director of the Luther Manor Foundation of Wauwatosa.
Nicole Kidston Thomson, senior consultant at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, has joined OceanX as vice president of partnerships, a new role at the ocean-exploration nonprofit group.
Departure
Regine Webster is stepping down after 10 years as vice president at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. She served as its executive director from 2010 until 2012.
