invites you to a
WOC Virtual Launch Celebration
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
2:00pm EDT
RSVP is now closed.
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You can now watch the recording of the Workspace Sisterhood: Perspectives and Tools to Bring Us Together panel from our celebration— enjoy!
Workspace Sisterhood: Perspectives and Tools to Bring Us Together
Featuring a panel discussion on Workspace Sisterhood, featuring noted women of color leaders, including:
Jeannie Sager, Director, Women's Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy
Jeannie Sager is a seasoned non-profit executive with 25 years of experience in health care, higher education and independent school leadership. She was the director of philanthropy with the recently established IU Health Foundation in Indianapolis serving the adult hospitals of the IU Health Academic Health Center (Methodist, University and IU Health Simon Cancer Center). She has served as director of advancement at University High School in Carmel, Indiana, as director for the IU School of Medicine Dean's Council and special programs and as a development director with the IU Foundation in Indianapolis.
Jeannie currently serves as secretary of the Indiana University Alumni Association Board of Managers. She also serves on the executive committee for the IUPUI Board of Advisors as the corporate, alumni & community relations liaison and is a founding board member for Women4Change Indiana. She is a past founding board member for the Indiana Ballet Conservatory.
Jeannie earned her master’s degree in philanthropic studies in 2003 from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations in 1994 from Rollins College. She resides in Carmel, Indiana with her husband and two teenage children.
Allyson Reaves, Corporate Vice President, CCS Fundraising
Allyson’s work with CCS includes interim management, campaign execution, planning studies, development assessments, leadership development and capacity building for diverse organizations across social sectors. Her key achievements include heightening engagement from volunteer leaders, securing transformational seven and eight- figure commitments and implementing successful campaigns from concept to public phase.
With a sixteen-year career in philanthropy (and the past nine years with CCS), Allyson has worked directly with teams of thought leaders whose goals are to advance outreach, education and leadership around a vision. In each project, Allyson aligns the fundraising endeavor with a spirit of collaboration and team-building, which serves as the underpinning for incredible success.
Currently, Allyson is serving at Xavier University of Louisiana in the interim role of Vice President of Institutional Advancement. Supporting a staff of 15+ development professionals, Allyson managed the launch of Xavier’s L.O.V.E. Fund (Lifeline, Organization-wide, Vital, Emergency), which funds the university’s immediate COVID-19 response plan. In addition, she is advancing campaign preparation for Xavier’s 100th anniversary in 2025.
Based in Atlanta, GA, Allyson is an volunteer for several diversity and inclusion initiatives organized by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the African American Development Officers Network. She is a former board member of both the Clemson University Black Alumni Council and the Community Investment Network. A graduate of the Hilton Head Island Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Program, she also served on the Chamber’s Board of Regents. Allyson volunteers with the St. Croix Foundation for Community Development (US Virgin Islands) around hurricane recovery, community organizing and building collective leadership for non-profit organizations. Allyson was also recently invited to join the German Marshall Fellowship Program and she will complete the transatlantic project in spring 2021.
Ana Oliveira, CEO, New York Women's Foundation
Ana Oliveira is President and CEO of The New York Women’s Foundation. Since 2006, Ana has steered the increase of The Foundation’s grantmaking from $1.7M to $9M today. In 31 years, The Foundation has distributed over $66 million to over 350 organizations.
Ana serves as co-chair of The NYC Council Speaker’s Young Women’s Initiative and a Commissioner for the NYC Commission on Human Rights. She sits on the Independent Commission to Study Criminal Justice Reform in NYC and is on the board of Philanthropy New York.
Ana has held key roles as a CEO of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, VP of Programs at Osborne Association, and Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Substance Abuse Clinic. Ana attained her M.A. in Medical Anthropology and a PhD. (hon) from the New School for Social Research. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and resides in Manhattan.
Fatima Shama, The Fresh Air Fund
Fatima Shama is the executive director of The Fresh Air Fund, the over 140 year-old nonprofit agency that provides free summer experiences for New York City children from low-income communities through summer camps and a host families program in rural and suburban communities across 13 states, and provides year-round academic enrichment and support both at camp and in New York City.
Ms. Shama served in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration as the commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs from 2009 through 2013. From 2007 through 2009, she served as Mayor’s senior education policy advisor, and in 2006 when Ms. Shama joined Mayor Bloomberg’s office she worked on a special initiative on the intersection between health care, language access and literacy. Immediately after the administration and prior to joining FAF, Ms. Shama served on the senior team at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York overseeing their External Affairs department and special projects.
Ms. Shama serves as a Trustee on the boards of the New York Foundation, the Pinkerton Foundation, the New York Immigration Coalition, and Coro Leadership New York. She is a graduate of Binghamton University and Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs Executive Program. Born and raised in the Bronx, Ms. Shama is the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Palestinian father, and speaks several languages.
Katherine Giscombe, Founder, Giscombe & Associates.
Dr. Katherine Giscombe directed the groundbreaking study on race and gender in the workplace, Women of Color in Corporate Management: Opportunities and Barriers, which was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the non-profit organization Catalyst. Having authored a series of reports based on that and subsequent research, she continues to be a national presence in creating solutions for women of color and organizations. She currently conducts consulting engagements focused on creating inclusive workplaces, with clients in corporate, professional services, and educational organizations.
A frequent presenter at business and academic conferences, Dr. Giscombe received her Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and trained in research methodology at the Institute for Social Research. She has extensive corporate work experience, having supported marketing and new product development in several Fortune 500 companies prior to her non-profit work at Catalyst. She speaks on a variety of topics, including career development, glass and concrete ceiling issues, mentoring and sponsorship, and the creation of inclusive environments. Dr. Giscombe has served on several advisory boards, most recently the Women’s Inter-Cultural Exchange (WIE), a non-profit devoted to building and bridging social capital among women of diverse cultures. Given her multi-disciplinary perspective and interest in contextual factors affecting the lives of people of color, she is an active task force member of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative. This national collaborative, managed by the Center for Global Policy Solutions and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, builds awareness and support for efforts to address racial and ethnic wealth inequalities based on structural factors.
Dr. Giscombe was selected by The Network Journal as one of “25 Influential Black Women in Business” awardees for 2005. This award has normally gone to presidents and CFOs, but Dr. Giscombe was honored for her significant research contributions that influenced corporate culture. She received the 2007 “Legacy of Leadership” award from Spelman College Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated models of leadership and bridge-building across gender and race. In 2009 she was named a “Woman to Watch” by Profiles in Diversity Journal.
Dr. Giscombe is the author of several publications related to talent management and inclusion, currently pens a quarterly column for Diversity Woman Magazine, and has written several op-eds in support of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative. Her most recent work, “Creating Effective Formal Mentoring Programs for Women of Color,” appears in Mentoring Diverse Leaders: Creating Change for People, Processes, and Paradigms (Eds. A.J. Murrell & S. Blake-Beard).
Moderated by WOC founder, Yolanda F. Johnson
and more!