Thursday, February 16, 2023
5:30 pm PT
via Zoom
*Founder’s Circle Members-Only
Are you charting your leadership trajectory for 2023 and beyond? Ready for your next opportunity to shine? WOC’s Founder's Circle will exclusively join together to provide tools, tips and support for how to thrive and succeed as a woman of color leader in our sector.
Join our Founder, Yolanda F. Johnson, and inspiring women of color leadership experts, Rosann Santos and Caroline Kim Oh, for an open, honest and impactful roundtable discussion, followed by a Q&A session.
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Speakers
Winsome Foderingham, Strategist and Research Connector
Winsome Foderingham is a strategist and resource connector with a cross-sector career background that began internationally in agricultural research.
After migrating to the United States, she worked in library administration and telecommunications sales. Upon completing her master’s degree in public administration, she worked in nonprofit management, corporate philanthropy, and higher education.
Always driven by mission, curiosity, observation and connecting the dots to offer solutions, she is an innovator. In her career, she thrives in exploring ideas and building partnerships to accomplish process improvement, equity, culture enrichment, talent engagement and organizational efficiency.
Relevant to philanthropy and fundraising, Winsome worked in corporate philanthropy as the Community Relations Manager for Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation. In that role, she managed grant making and sponsorships for markets in New York’s Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Western NY.
There she was a voice for opportunity and funded capacity building for several nonprofits while developing sponsorship strategy, building community partnerships, leading volunteer activities, and serving on four local boards of directors. After Bank of America Foundation, Winsome worked at the University at Albany’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. In this consulting capacity and grant writing role, she managed external relationships with foundations and corporations while also preparing faculty for seeking grants.
As a grant writer for the university’s colleges and schools, she raised over $6 million in grants and designed and delivered grant proposal writing workshops for faculty. While in higher education administration, Winsome managed an executive education program at UAlbany’s Center for Technology in Government and was also an instructional designer for faculty development at the university’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She published an article with a team that also presented at CASE.
As a speaker, retreat leader and group facilitator, she has moderated panels and presented at conferences related to fundraising and women’s leadership. Winsome left UAlbany in July 2022 to continue her career in strategy planning, program assessment and design, and process innovation. Winsome volunteers for local, regional, national and international organizations in the areas of entrepreneurship, youth talent development, and women’s leadership.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University at Albany, and also a Master of Public Administration from UAlbany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.
Yolanda F. Johnson, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy & YFJ Consulting
Caroline Kim Oh, Executive and Leadership Coach, OK Coaching & Consulting
Caroline Kim Oh is an executive and leadership coach with a focus on BIPOC and women leaders in diverse fields, including social impact, marketing, creativity, entrepreneurship, and technology. Caroline is especially energized by supporting her clients to become confident and high-performing leaders while enjoying the right mix of work-life-fulfillment ratios. Caroline also advises senior leadership teams, facilitates team retreats and meetings for client organizations, and provides group coaching for Chief, a private network of senior women executives. Caroline is also a trainer with the Paradox of Leadership, a boutique leadership company.
Prior to coaching, Caroline was the President of iMentor, a youth mentoring organization. During her thirteen years of tenure, Caroline led iMentor through national expansion; growing the budget from under $350K to over $10MM and staff from 4 to more than 80 full-time employees. Caroline holds an MPA from NYU and a BA from Cornell University. Caroline is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a certified administrator in The Leadership Circle Profile and DiSC assessments.
Rosann Santos, Director of Alumni Engagement at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Born and raised in the Bronx to Dominican parents, Rosann has her bachelor’s degree in History and Mathematics from Syracuse University. She also holds a Master’s degree in history from the University at Albany. Currently serving as the Director of Alumni Engagement at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Rosann has worked in higher education for over 20 years.
Today, Rosann owns her own coaching and consulting firm. She is a fundraiser, inspirational speaker, trainer, ICF Certified Professional Coach, a FranklinCovey Consultant, and a Certified Gallup Strengths Coach. She speaks on topics such as Unconscious Bias, Branding and Career Readiness, Leadership competencies, Hispanic Heritage, and a host of other topics. What allows Rosann to stand out above the crowd are her exceptional communication skills in both English and Spanish.
Her most recent accomplishment was lead fundraiser for an endowed scholarship for her alma mater, Syracuse University, where she led the charge to raise $100,000 in two years.
Rosann lives here in New York City with her teenage son and strongly believes that people should view themselves and others from a strengths-based lens rather than a deficit lens.