Donor Panel
S. Mona Sinha
She is co-founder of Raising Change to address the funding gap in mission-driven organizations for social change. She also founded the Asian Women's Leadership University, to bring liberal arts pedagogy to train future women leaders.
She is currently the Board Chair of Women Moving Millions, a community of women who fund big and bold ($1 million+) to create a gender equal world. She is also the Board Chair of the ERA Coalition Fund for Women’s Equality which seeks to codify the 28th constitutional amendment of equal rights on the basis of sex. She is an Executive Producer of Disclosure, a documentary film on the representation of trans peoples, which premiered at Sundance in January 2020 and was released on Netflix during Pride month June 2020.
Mona serves on several non-profit boards including Breakthrough USA, which uses media and popular culture to shift prevalent norms of violence against women, and the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is on the Advisory boards of Apne Aap International to end sex trafficking, the Museum of Natural History which among many educational efforts, sponsors science education for inner city girls, and Columbia Business School Tamer Center Social Enterprise Program that pioneered the concept of connecting business leaders to purpose beyond profits. She also works with Women Creating Change at Columbia University supporting the dissemination of diverse voices in teaching and pedagogy, and Columbia Global Mental Health program that aims to destigmatize mental health through research and global collaboration. She is a trustee emerita of Smith College, where she was Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and co-led the $486 million Women for the World capital campaign, the largest to-date for women’s education.
Mona is a financial investor in women-led businesses and mentors several hundred young people. She has a BA in Economics and Art History (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Smith College and an MBA in Finance and Marketing (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Columbia University. She is a published contributor to "What I Told my Daughter - Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women" edited by Nina Tassler & Cynthia Middleton. Her story is featured in She is Me, by Lori Sokol.
Next April, Columbia Business School will recognize Mona with the Horton Award for Excellence in Social Enterprise. Women's eNews is naming her one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. In 2019, Breakthrough honored Mona with a Lifetime Inspiration award. She received the 2018 Exemplary Leadership in Development award from Smith College. In 2017, Mona was awarded The Last Girl Champion award by Gloria Steinem on behalf of Apne Aap. In 2015, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is presented annually to US citizens whose accomplishments in their field and service to the world are cause for celebration.
Scott Westerfield and Ed Miskevich
Scott Westerfield attended Brown University, studied for a semester in Nantes, France and graduated with an A.B. in International Relations in 1979. He worked in the world of medical and tech equipment finance for 38 years and was involved in LGBTQ politics as co-chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club in the 1980s and 90s. Scott founded the Brown Club of Orange County which received its charter in 2012. In 2015 Scott joined the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors, serving as co-chair of the Regional Strategy Committee overseeing Brown’s worldwide alumni club network. He termed off the board and also retired in 2019, but remains actively engaged as president of Brown Club Orange County and Treasurer of the Pelican Ridge Homeowner’s Association in Newport Coast, CA.
Ed Miskevich also attended Brown, where he was president of the Brown Gay Students Association and met Scott in 1978. For two summers, he was an intern at WNET New York with The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, which became the PBS NewsHour. While at Brown, Ed challenged a local high school to open its prom to same-sex couples. It made international news and ultimately led to a landmark case that helped solidify LGBTQ students' rights in public schools. In 1979, Ed graduated with an A.B. in Semiotics, and moved with Scott to California. He found work at KOCE-TV Orange County PBS, first as production assistant, and later as producer or executive producer in news, public affairs, and fundraising. For a decade, he was Station Manager in charge of all production, programming, news, IT, engineering and operations. During this time, KOCE expanded to become PBS SoCal, the primary PBS station for greater Los Angeles. In 2017, he retired on his 38th anniversary and remains active with former colleagues and with Brown Club Orange County.
Jocelyn Wyatt
Jocelyn is the CEO of IDEO.org, the nonprofit design organization that she cofounded in 2011 after leading IDEO's social innovation practice. As CEO, Jocelyn spends her time sorting out the vision, strategy, funding, and growth plans for IDEO.org. She heads up partner development with foundations, nonprofits, and social enterprises; builds networks by speaking widely on how design is changing the social sector; and has racked up more miles on Star Alliance than she cares to admit.
Prior to joining IDEO in 2007, Jocelyn worked in Kenya as an Acumen Fund fellow. Before that, she served as VisionSpring's interim country director in India, where she helped increase the distribution of low-cost reading glasses to the poor. Before that she did training, project management, and business development for Chemonics International, a contractor for USAID. And before that, she was in college: BA in anthropology from Grinnell College and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
For extra-curricular fun, Jocelyn is a program advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, an advisory board member to Marketplace, a board member for Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, and an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow.