Kelly Adams is the Senior Director of Development at UC Santa Barbara. She has held this position for three years and has worked at the University for 9 years. Kelly joined UCSB as the director for parent and family giving and is a generalist for the Unviersity. In 2018 she participated in the UC-Coro leadership development program. Prior to Kelly's work at UCSB, she held development and marketing positions focused on education, environment, and human services nonprofits. Currently her professional passion areas include supporting purpose driven fundraising; enhancing DEI in front-line fundraising; creating pathways for growth for her team and colleagues; and finding dynamic and innovative ways to provide meaningful connections for donors to the university. Kelly is a Los Angeles native, studied anthropology and writing at UC Santa Barbara. She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband and two kids. Kelly is an active volunteer in the community supporting many student support services at UCSB, the local FoodBank, the Salvation Army food distribution, and Showers of Blessing. She is a hiker, jogger, and beach walker. Kelly also loves to heal through food and can be found making healthy soups for friends and family on the weekends.

Nneka Allen is a Black woman, a descendant of the Underground Railroad, an Ojibwa of Anderson Nation, a Momma and a sixth generation Canadian. As a lover of justice, Nneka has inspired philanthropy as a Fundraising Executive in the charitable sector for over 20 years. She is the Principal and Founder of The Empathy Agency, where she helps organizations deliver more fairly on their missions and visions by coaching teams to explore the impact identity has on culture and equity outcomes. Nneka is the founder of the Black Canadian Fundraisers' Collective, a group that inspires and elevates the fundraising sector in the African tradition of Ubuntu - "I am because we are". She is also an author and joint editor of a book featuring the first-person narratives of 15 Black contributors, mainly fundraisers from the United States and Canada called Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love. 

Katya Armistead—a student-focused administrator with 30 years of experience— serves as the assistant vice chancellor and dean of student life at UC Santa Barbara. In her leadership role, Katya demonstrates broad concern for issues that pertain to the quality of student life of UCSB students; facilitates problem solving and crisis response; promotes inclusion in the campus community and equitable access to learning environment by students of all identities, and liaises between students and University administration by listening broadly to student input and representing student perspectives and interests. Katya supervises 10 Student Affairs departments, several special projects, services, and other initiatives

Alice Ayres joined the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) as President and CEO in April of 2018. Alice is responsible to AHP’s membership by inspiring, educating and serving those who transform health care through philanthropy. As health care continues to transform, philanthropy takes on an ever more critical role in the funding of key initiatives including the traditional ones of major gifts and campaigns as well as new areas like population health and initiatives around social determinants of health. Alice brings deep health care industry knowledge and strong marketing skills to the role of CEO, both of which she employs as AHP develops new educational opportunities and tools to support the important work of health care development professionals.

Alice has devoted the last 10+ years of her career to supporting the health care industry and improving patient care. Most recently, Alice served as Chief Revenue Officer at Knowledge to Practice (K2P), an early-stage company creating an alternative to cardiology continuing education, which is dramatically increasing the knowledge retention and practice by cardiologists across the world. Alice worked closely with leaders at the top training hospitals across the United States.

Previous to K2P, Alice served as an executive director with The Advisory Board Company, a global research, technology, and consulting membership organization that partners with 4,500 organizations and more than 200,000 leaders across health care. She led a team of over 200 and was responsible for the firm’s strategic marketing strategy and execution, from brand awareness to content development.  While there, she spearheaded the creation of strategy sessions for member hospital and health system C-level executives which attracted the leadership of over 150 of the leading healthcare providers in the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining The Advisory Board Company, Alice held marketing leadership roles at consumer-driven marketing companies including Kraft Foods and a wireless start-up called Kajeet. Additionally, Alice was a senior director at The Atlantic, leading the marketing and sales team for AtlanticLive, the media outlet’s live events group.

Alice has served on several boards including The Madeira School and Princeton’s Campus Club. She received her MBA from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management and her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. She lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband and her four children.

David Bass serves as AGB’s executive director for philanthropic governance, providing thought leadership on board governance and leadership best practices that relate to philanthropy in higher education. He oversees the development of programs and resources supporting institutionally related foundation boards, institutional governing boards, and other senior staff and volunteer leaders of colleges and universities. Bass previously served as AGB’s director of foundation programs and research, authoring the AGB Board of Directors’ Statement on Institution-Foundation Partnerships, Illustrative Memorandum of Understanding between a Public Institution or System and an Affiliated Foundation, and Effective Foundation Boards.

Bass also worked for 12 years at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) where he served as senior director of research, as director of CASE’s National Center for Institutionally Related Foundations and director of government relations. 

Bass taught as an adjunct faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College, Georgetown University, and the University of Virginia. 

Bass holds an MBA and certificate in nonprofit management from Johns Hopkins University and an MA and doctoral coursework from the University of Virginia. He received a BA from the College of William and Mary.

Anna Barber is president and principal consultant for Barber & Associates, a boutique fundraising consulting firm focused on helping nonprofit organizations achieve their full fundraising potential.

Prior to starting her own business, Barber was a senior major gift officer for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) where she worked for more than eight years. She was part of NMAAHC's inaugural fundraising team that surpassed its $270 million private philanthropic goal by $50 million. Personally, Barber secured $42 million in leadership (more than $1 million) and major ($100 thousand) gift support, highlighted by the closure of 22 individual one million-dollar gifts, 90 percent contributed by first time donors to the Smithsonian. She also built and maintained a portfolio of high-profile celebrities, including Pauletta and Denzel Washington, LaTanya and Samuel L. Jackson, Magic and Cookie Johnson, Michael Jordon and Kobe Bryant, among many other national individual philanthropists. Leading into NMAAHC's Grand Opening in 2016, she led the efforts to host a $1M per plate fundraiser at the home of Denzel Washington and a mid-level fundraising event that generated $5 million from $25 thousand donors.

Prior to the Smithsonian, Barber spent 10 years working as a frontline fundraiser in big-time college athletics. She served as the director of major gifts for Michigan State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics where she was part of the team that successfully completed a $110 million capital campaign, which was part of a larger $1.2 billion university-wide campaign. In addition to fundraising, she oversaw the athletics department's endowment, planned giving and communication programs, and the led the fundraising team for the renovation of the university's baseball, softball, and soccer complexes.

Prior to working at MSU, Barber served as the assistant director of development at Miami University in Ohio where she participated in launching the athletics department's $30 million capital campaign, part of a university-wide $350 million campaign. She started her career at Arizona State University where she was mentored under the legendary athletics director Gene Smith.

She earned a Juris Doctorate (intellectual property) from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree in political science from Howard University.

Monique Dozier was appointed the Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Chief Advancement Officer at Morehouse College in 2018. In just two years, she has led Morehouse to the highest single year fundraising total in its history: $107 million in FY 2020.

Kevin J. Foyle is the vice president of development and public affairs for The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) where he oversees all aspects of UTHealth’s development program including principal, planned, major and annual gifts, corporate and foundation relations and administrative and information services. He has nearly 25 years of development experience in the Houston community.

Before coming to UTHealth, he served as the associate vice president for development at Rice University raising nearly $1.1 billion and managing a team of 70. For more than thirteen years, he also managed the major and annual giving programs during the university’s $500 million comprehensive campaign. Previously, he served as associate director of development for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center within their $351 million campaign. Prior to that, Foyle was the director of institutional advancement at Texas Chiropractic College, where he oversaw fundraising, alumni and public relations.

Foyle is a graduate of Trinity University and of the University of Houston-Clear Lake with a master’s in business administration. Additionally, he serves as the vice chairman of membership services and executive committee member for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) international board. In 2017, he was awarded the Outstanding Fundraising Executive of the Year award by AFP Greater Houston Chapter.

Tyrone McKinley Freeman is an award-winning scholar and teacher who serves as Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Previously, he was a professional fundraiser for social services, community development, and higher education organizations. He was also Associate Director of The Fund Raising School where he trained nonprofit leaders in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

His research focuses on the history of African American philanthropy, philanthropy in communities of color, the history of American philanthropy, and philanthropy and fundraising in higher education. His latest book is entitled, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow, (University of Illinois Press, 2020). It examines African American women’s history of charitable giving, activism, education, and social service provision through the life and example of Madam C.J. Walker, the early twentieth century black philanthropist and entrepreneur.

His work has appeared or been cited in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, NewsOne, Blavity, The Conversation, Black Perspectives, Philanthropy Women, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Advancing Philanthropy.

He is co-author of Race, Gender and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (2011 Palgrave MacMillan). A proud HBCU grad, Tyrone earned a B.A. in English/Liberal Arts from Lincoln University (PA), a M.S. in Adult Education from Indiana University, a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University.

Harvey Green is the Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.  In this role, he has oversight of the Office of Philanthropy in helping the hospital achieve and fulfill its mission in the delivery of exceptional, patient first health care. Harvey realizes the critical role charitable giving plays in facilitating our caregivers’ ability to save and improve lives through clinical care, teaching and research. Harvey also leads fundraising efforts for the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, including the state of art, Nancy and Harold Zirkin Heart Hospital.

Most recently, Harvey was the Senior Director of Fundraising and Development at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. While there, he managed a team of professional fundraisers who ambitiously worked in the context of The Rising to the Challenge Campaign, a seven-year, $6 billion university-wide effort. Prior to Johns Hopkins, Harvey served in a leadership role as Executive Director at the University of Florida Health Science Center and College of Medicine where he worked to raise philanthropic dollars for the new medical education building. Harvey also worked at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center, where he worked on several fundraising and capital campaigns that yielded multi-million-dollar gifts to institutional priorities. 

Harvey is a former lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, where he facilitated the logistics behind air-delivery support in combat operations. He is an avid fitness enthusiast and was a third amateur-ranked kickboxer in the Marines.

David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D. is currently Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and completed his doctoral work in Basic Sciences at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Hayes-Bautista served on the faculty at the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley until 1987, when he took his current position at UCLA.

Dr. Hayes-Bautista’s research appears in a variety of medical journals including Family Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, Family Practice, Academic Medicine and Salud Pública de México. Some of his published books include The Burden of Support: Young Latinos in an Aging Society (Stanford University Press, 1988), El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition (University of California Press, 2012) and La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post Millennials (University of California Press, 2017.)  Dr. Hayes-Bautista writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and La Opinion, and is often asked to provide opinions on radio and television in both Spanish and English.

For the past five years, he has been chosen one of the 101 Top Leaders of the Latino Community in the U.S. by Latino Leaders Magazine. In 2012, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Herbert W. Nickens Award for his lifelong concerns about the educational, societal, and health care needs of underrepresented groups, and in 2016 the Ohtli Award from the Mexican Government.

Heather Infantry is the Arts & Culture Champion for the TransFormation Alliance, a collective advancing equitable transit-oriented development as a pathway to Black prosperity.  Throughout her career Heather has fostered an ongoing curiosity for people, places and ideas at the intersection of culture and equity.  In 2020, Heather publicly called out the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta for excluding Black arts organizations in COVID relief funding resulting in an unprecedented contribution of nearly $1.4M to 33 Black organizations. Later that year, she formed the Atlanta Taskforce for Philanthropic Reparations to lead the charge for institutional atonement. Heather holds a B.A. in Theater from Georgia State University and an MBA in Nonprofit Management from Trinity University.

David (Dave) Iyall serves as the University of Washington’s Interim Assistant Dean for Advancement in the College of Education and Senior Director for Advancement in the College of the Environment. Dave has been at the University of Washington since 2005. In addition to his current roles, Dave has held roles in the College of Engineering and in the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMAD). During his time in OMAD, Dave led the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House campaign, helping make the 40-year dream of the coastal Salish longhouse-style facility a reality and creating a home away from home for Native American students. Dave co-chairs UW Advancement’s LEAD Program, a leadership development course for rising stars throughout the organization. Earlier in his career, Dave worked at UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and the American Indian College Fund. Dave is an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, has served on the board of the Cowlitz Tribe Statewide Foundation, and is Vice Chair of the Cowlitz Tribe Tuition Assistance Board.

Mariam Lam joined the UCR faculty in 2002 as a member of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages with specialization in Southeast Asian studies, part of a Henry Luce Foundation and College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) initiative in Southeast Asian Studies. She is trained in comparative Asian and diasporic literatures, arts and cultures, postcolonial criticism, critical race and ethnic studies, globalization, gender and sexuality, translation, tourism, community politics, media and educational development, trauma and affect, minoritization and multiculturalism, la Francophonie, and academic disciplinarity. She was founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies for the University of California Press from 2005-2016, served as Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions Advisor for both Comparative Literature and the Southeast Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Research Program, later stepping into the position of Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Program from 2011-2016. As a faculty member, Lam has served as Vice Chair of the Academic Senate (2014-2016), Chair of the Committee on Committees and systemwide UCOC member (2012-2014), CHASS Executive Committee member (2009-2011), and in many other systemwide roles.

Professor Lam was president and a longtime board member of the Riverside Asian American Community Association and has served on the boards of Thirdway Human Rights and Development, Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Global Village Foundation, and on the Grades 7‐12 Vietnamese American Curriculum Project for the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Association. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English, a Minor in Spanish, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature with Certificates of Emphasis in Feminist Studies and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Irvine.

In her role as the Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, Lam advises the leadership team, including the Chancellor, on all issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and sets the vision and course for positioning UCR as a national leader in reimagining diversity in higher education. She heads a wide range of initiatives and committees that address DEI, partners with campus and community stakeholders to advance UCR’s diversity mission, and represents UCR at the system, state, and national levels.

In serving my enterprise and individual clients, I draw on my experiences as a District Manager with Vault.com. At Vault, I held roles both on the operations team and led a remote business development team which sold recruitment consulting services and employer branding solutions to talent acquisition, hiring and employer branding teams at AmLaw 100 law firms, Fortune 100 corporations, consultancies, accountancies, and federal agency employers.

Monica Taylor Lotty is the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She oversees the 80-plus employees in the CHOP Foundation, which raises more than $100 million in philanthropic gifts per year for the Hospital. Most recently, she was vice president for Development & Alumni Relations at the University of Delaware, where she led the institution’s multimillion-dollar fundraising efforts and advancement operations during her tenure. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, she served as executive director of External Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where she managed the overall direction and strategy for development initiatives and alumni engagement.

A Philadelphia area native, Monica is a graduate of Georgetown University and the James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University.

William (Bill) F. L. Moses serves as managing director for The Kresge Foundation’s Education Program, which supports postsecondary access and success for low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students.

The key architect of Kresge’s education programming, Bill leads the team’s continuum of domestic and international grant activities from developing program strategy, reviewing preliminary ideas, and helping grantees develop proposals or initiatives, to awarding funding and monitoring existing grants. Since his arrival at Kresge, Bill has served as a program officer and senior program officer, was instrumental in developing Kresge’s Green Building Initiative and has spearheaded the foundation’s grantmaking in South Africa.

Before joining Kresge, Bill served as executive director of The Thomas J. Watson Foundation in Rhode Island and as a senior analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C. He also worked as a research officer at TechnoServe and held various administrative positions in Alaska’s state legislature and the federal government, including the U.S. Embassy in Cape Town, South Africa.

A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, Bill holds a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University. He is the author of “A Guide to American State and Local Laws on South Africa” and co-author of “Corporate Responsibility in a Changing South Africa.”  He was the co-chair of the seven-foundation Partnership for Higher Education in Africa and serves on the steering committee of the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group, an organization he co-founded. He also is a member of the National Advisory Board of The College Promise Campaign.

Nava joined California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) as Vice President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation in November 2018. His administrative portfolio includes philanthropic giving, alumni, government and community relations, strategic communications, advancement services and operations, and the CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation.

Prior to joining CSUSB, Nava served as the Vice President for University Advancement and the President of the foundation at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He led the university through all phases of a $150 million comprehensive campaign, which exceeded its goal and included two gifts of $25 million.

He was formerly the associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). In his five years at UTEP, Nava led the development and alumni units and directed the University's Centennial Campaign, which raised almost half of its $200 million goal before its public launch.

Nava earned his Juris Doctor from Western State University College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. 
 

Patricia Châu Nguyễn (she, her, hers)  serves as the flagship Senior Director of Diversity Programs & Initiatives for UCLA Alumni Affairs. In her role, she supports 10+ identity-based alumni associations, works on diverse student to alumni pipelines, and creates holistic programming to advance issues of diversity and inclusion in UCLA’s alumni community. For the past fifteen years, she has served in multiple roles in merging student affairs and diversity, equity and inclusion work in higher education – ranging from starting up multicultural centers, improving intercultural living and learning communities, multicultural Greek life, summer bridge programs, and other social justice education initiatives in higher education.

Nguyễn also consults nationally on issues related to diverse alumni engagement, interfaith conversations, ethics, meaning-making and intersectionality in practice. She serves as a founding member of Racial Aikido, an affinity-based identity retreat that equips students of color at predominantly White institutions.

Nguyễn received her Master of Education in higher education and student affairs administration from the University of Vermont, and her Bachelor of Science in cellular and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently a doctoral student the UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences researching diverse alumni engagement and philanthropy in higher education.

Nguyễn’s experiences working with marginalized college students has fueled a commitment and passion to push institutions of higher education to build capacity towards diversity. She hopes to engage all members of the university, including alumni, to build inclusive campus communities and help new graduate manifests the benefits of higher education for themselves, their families and their communities.

Born and raised in Brazil, Camila comes from a very mixed family including Black, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Native Indian. Since childhood Camila has been involved in philanthropy through her family’s community initiatives. She is a fundraising professional in Toronto and a coach to Brazilians involved in philanthropy and fundraising in Brazil and Canada. Camila holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy/Public Administration & International Relations from Howard University. Alongside her career, Camila keeps a strong connection with her family in Brazil and loves spending time with her husband Adrian and cat Lila and travelling.

Josh Phillipson is the principal for Arts, Culture and Creative Placemaking at the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). In this role, he manages the Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta leadership development program, the ARC’s cultural forums, and leads the implementation of the ARC’s Arts, Culture, and Creative Placemaking strategic plan. Through the plan, the ARC seeks to encourage a metro Atlanta that values arts and culture as essential for building a thriving, inclusive, and economically healthy region, and recognizes the transformative role of art in addressing broader civic issues. Prior to the ARC, Josh worked at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta on the Foundation’s Metro Atlanta Arts Fund, which provided grants and capacity-building assistance to metro Atlanta’s small and midsized arts organizations. In addition, he managed the Foundation’s Grants to Green program providing grants to improve the water and energy efficiency of nonprofit’s buildings and served as a liaison for philanthropic work throughout the 23-county region. Josh has a theater degree from Emory University and has since served as the board chair for the Theater Emory board. He was a Southeastern Council of Foundations Hull Fellow and is an Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta graduate. He is currently on the board of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company and is the chair of MARTA’s Artbound advisory committee

Condace Pressley is an award-winning journalist.  She is a two-time Hall of Fame member – inducted in 2019 into the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and in 2016 into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame. 

As Director of Community Affairs for WSB-TV, Condace drives the Family 2 Family Project and leads the station’s community efforts across its broadcast platforms including WSB-TV and the company’s four radio stations. She’s executive producer of People 2 People on WSB-TV and interviews community leaders weekly during the People 2 People “One on One” segment.

Condace began her career in radio, first in Athens while studying journalism and political science at The University of Georgia and later in Atlanta at WGST, the Georgia News Network, WSB, KISS104.1 and B98.5.  For more than 30 years she’s hosted the Sunday morning public affairs program “Perspectives” where she’s interviewed hundreds of community and thought leaders.

The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication honored Pressley with the John H. Drewry Outstanding Young Alumna Award in 1992.  In 2015, The Grady College named Pressley to its Centennial Class of Journalism Fellows - the college’s highest honor.  She has been profiled by The HistoryMakers, the world’s largest African American oral video history archive for her significant contributions to media. Condace is a former President of both the National Association of Black Journalists (2001-2003) and Atlanta Association of Black Journalists (1991-1995).  She was the chapter’s 2012 Pioneer Black Journalist. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta.

Condace has passion for community and is strongly committed to the empowerment of women and girls.  Her volunteer efforts include service on the boards of the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Crime Stoppers Atlanta, Project Healthy Grandparents and Day 1 - The Alliance for Christian Media.   Condace loves travel and supports the arts.

Spending over twenty-five years working in the non-profit sector managing a variety of fundraising portfolios, in 2014 Nicole founded Boundless Philanthropy, a fundraising consultancy providing a range of fund development services, including interim senior leadership, leadership development. She is a former Director of Fund Development for a Canadian international development organization. She serves on the Boards of Realize, an organization working to improve the lives of people living with HIV and other episodic conditions, and WellFort Community Health Services. A Book Review Panelist with The Charity Report Literary Hub and an inspired member of the Black Canadian Fundraisers Collective.

Deborah A. Santiago is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Excelencia in Education. For more than 20 years, she has led efforts from the community to national and federal levels to improve educational opportunities and success for all students. She co-founded Excelencia in Education to inform policy and practice, compel action, and collaborate with those ready to increase student success. Deborah has been cited in numerous publications for her work, including The Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, AP, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Deborah serves on the Board of Visitors for the University of Mary Washington, and the advisory board of thedream.us

Henry W. Taylor is the Founder and Managing Partner of Legacy Consulting Group (LCG), a strategic consulting practice serving non-profits, higher education institutions, churches, religious organizations, K-12 schools and other entities seeking to enhance their mission driven impact. LCG builds on Henry's significant experience in advancement and strategically addresses opportunities for improvement in non-profit management, fundraising, alumni/constituent engagement, communications and marketing, diversity, board relations and operational effectiveness. Most recently, Henry led Golden Gate University's (GGU) advancement division as vice president. His team focused on rebuilding GGU’s fundraising, alumni engagement and communications efforts resulting in improved outcomes and CASE awards recognizing their achievements. 

Prior to GGU, Henry served as Senior Director of Development at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. He managed the office of development, which included annual giving, corporate & foundation relations, donor relations, leadership and legacy giving, as well as research & prospect management. Under his leadership at Agnes Scott, the college saw a 62-percent increase in money raised from FY19 to FY20, totaling a record-breaking $21.1 million. For FY21, Agnes Scott boasted its highest annual giving total in college history for The Fund for Agnes Scott. Prior to Agnes Scott, he was vice president for institutional advancement at Clark Atlanta University, where he was tasked with strengthening the advancement function and elevating the professionalism of staff, infrastructure and activity to deliver increased outcomes.

In total, Mr. Taylor’s advancement career spans more than 25 years and includes work at California State University-East Bay, Georgia State University, Princeton and Stanford as well as the KIPP Foundation and Level Playing Field Institute. He has successfully solicited more than $65 million personally and has led teams responsible for securing over $150 million throughout his career. His significant experience and expertise as well as passion for philanthropy and commitment to the advancement profession have made him a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at professional conferences including for CASE and AFP. Mr. Taylor received a bachelor’s degree in government and religion from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s degree in leadership at St. Mary’s College of California.

Peter Wambera, senior development officer at the University of Toronto, has been fundraising for educational and arts organizations since 2003. He was the lead fundraiser at the Gardiner Museum, Canada's premiere ceramics museum (2006-2011). Since the fall of 2011, he has been the lead fundraiser at the University of Toronto's Hart House, a North American leader in co-curricular education and campus community building.