Luc Athayde-Rizzaro

Luc Athayde-Rizzaro (he/him) is a grantmaking effectiveness officer with the Office of Strategy and Learning, where he works to strengthen the Ford Foundation’s grantmaking practices.

Originally from Brazil, Luc has expertise working on social justice as both an advocate and a funder in the United States and the Global South. Prior to Ford, Luc held several roles at the Open Society Foundations, working to foster effective, efficient, ethical and equitable grantmaking in the network, with a particular focus on applying diversity, equity, and inclusion principles externally and internally. Luc also served as a grant maker at OSF’s Latin America Program, where he supported local organizations working on human rights and citizen security. He is also a proud human husband and cat parent.