Building Together 2024 - Speakers Speakers & Facilitators Barry M. Aarons Chairman, Development Committee Arizona Town Hall Luciano Antonio Nichole Argo Founder and Director of Research TogetherUp Institute Sulma Arias Executive Director People’s Action and People’s Action Institute Paul Bachleitner Communications Director Northwest Area Foundation David Beckman President Pisces Foundation Courtney Bengtson Chief Strategy Officer Wichita Foundation Jim Brady Vice President, Journalism Knight Foundation Samuel Bressi President and CEO Lancaster County Community Foundation Allison Briscoe-Smith Senior Fellow Greater Good Science Center David Brooks Columnist and Author New York Times Charlie Brown Executive Director Trust for Civic Life Vaughn Bryant Executive Director Metropolitan Peace Initiatives Sean T. Buffington Vice President for Programs Henry Luce Foundation Kristen Cambell Chief Executive Officer PACE Kate Carney Chief of Staff More in Common Melissa Rhodes Carter Senior Manager, Community Resilience Walmart Sandra Clark Chief Executive Officer StoryCorps Joshua Clark Senior Social Scientist Othering and Belonging Institute Stephanie Cornell Executive Director Walton Family Foundation Térèse Coudreaut Vice President/Administration John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Hilary Crow Vice President, Civics U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation D-Composed Heather Templeton Dill President John Templeton Foundation DJ Sadie Bill Doherty University of Minnesota Professor Co-Founder, Braver Angels Bob Dold Former Member of Congress, Partner Forbes Tate Partners Kathleen Enright President and CEO Council on Foundations Erica Etelson Communications Director Rural Urban Bridge Initiative Wendy Feliz Managing Director, Democracy Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Ben Fink Lead Organizer All In Initiative Anthony Flaccavento Director Rural Urban Bridge Initiative Esther Franco-Payne Executive Director Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities Jonas Friddle Jason Garrett Senior Vice President of Faith, Bridging and Belonging JPB Foundation Tim Geitner Grants Program Officer Daniels Fund Ariana Gonzalez Deputy Program Officer NRDC Jon Gruber Strategy Lead, Building Einhorn Collaborative Mónica Guzmán Senior Fellow for Public Practice Braver Angels Romanita Hairston CEO M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Andrew Hanauer President and CEO The One America Movement Becca Hartman-Pickerill Senior Director of Democracy Initiatives Interfaith America Susan Hendershot President Interfaith Power & Light Cheryal Lee Hills Executive Director Region Five Development Commission Leslé Honoré CEO Urban Gateways David T. Hsu Director, Building Cultures of Belonging Omidyar Network Dave Isay Founder & President StoryCorps Emily Janssen Director, Learning & Engagement StoryCorps Brian Kastner Director, Engagement Council on Foundations Natilee McGruder Kyle Director Alabama Leads Jonathan Leon Senior Director, Forward Promise The Moriah Group Rachel Levin Advisory Team, President of Philanthropy Hearthland Foundation Mariah Levison CEO and President Convergence Center for Policy Resolution Katie Loudin Director of Strategic Development West Virginia Community Development Hub Marie Lovejoy Scheduler/Facilitator One Small Step, StoryCorps Evelyn Lynn Special Projects Organizer Highlander Research and Education Center David Martinez III Director Vitalyst Health Foundation Sarait Martinez Executive Director Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) Joy Mayer Founder and Director Trusting News Jason McGill Founder and Principal Justice Associates, LLC Amy McIsaac Managing Director of Learning and Experimentation PACE Manu Meel CEO BridgeUSA Beth Miller Executive Vice President Convergence Center for Policy Resolution Tawa J. Mitchell Senior Program Officer John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Jenan Mohajir Vice President of External Affairs Interfaith America Ali Noorani Director, U.S. Democracy Program William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Billy Oh Joy Ossei-Anto Managing Director, Funder Engagement PACE Stacy Palmer CEO The Chronicle of Philanthropy Eboo Patel Founder and President Interfaith America Jacqueline Patterson Founder and Executive Director The Chisholm Legacy Project Hilary Pennington Executive Vice President Ford Foundation Branden Polk Director, Strategic Initiatives Stand Together Bruce Purnell Executive Director The Love More Movement, Inc. Leah Reiser Chief Training Officer Resetting the Table Sarah Reyes Chief Communication Officer The California Endowment Amanda Ripley Co-Host of the Slate podcast, How-To, and Author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Silvia Rivera Director, Local News MacArthur Foundation Katie Robinson Director Mosaic Daniela Rodriguez Ranf Director, Leadership Development and Training Council on Foundations Héctor Sánchez-Flores Executive Director National Compadres Network K Scarry Director of Partnerships Dinner Party Labs Kristen Scott Kennedy Vice President, Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness and Chief of Staff Council on Foundations Mary Bess Ser Field Manager, One Small Step StoryCorps Trabian Shorters CEO/Founder BMe Community Cary Simmons Director of Community Strategies Trust for Public Land Mandy Simon Head of Press and Social Media Ford Foundation Juliana Tafur Bridging Differences Program Director Greater Good Science Center Kristi Tate Director, Civic Health Initiatives Center for the Future of Arizona Michael Taylor Tina Tchen Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Impact Officer Obama Foundation Anne Marie Toccket Executive Director Posner Foundation Uma Viswanathan Executive Director New Pluralists Dawn Wallace Vice President Flinn Foundation Cynthia Wallace Executive Director and Co-Founder New Rural Project Eric Ward Executive Vice President Race Forward Gabrielle "Gaby" Webster Director of Donor Relations The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Melissa Weintraub Co-Founder and Co-CEO Resetting the Table Dr. Holly Whitfield Executive Director Deep Center Julie Wilen Executive Director Pritzker Foundation Jay Williams President Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Tim Wilmot Director of Engaged Learning The Denver Foundation Eden Xenakis Chief of Staff Bezos Family Foundation Layla Zaidane President and CEO Future Caucus Nidale Zouhir Senior Manager, Government Affairs Council on Foundations Questions? 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