Yamani Yansá Hernandez
Chief Executive Officer
Meet Our Team
We are the only national foundation led by women of color, transgender, and gender-expansive people of color who come directly out of community, labor, and electoral organizing. And our giving strategies are designed by advisors and board members who include some of the most prominent grassroots movement leaders of our time.
Leadership
Chanda Jones
Chief Financial Officer
Naa Amissah-Hammond
Chief Strategy Officer
Quanita Toffie
Senior Director, Groundswell Action Fund
Lorena Gamboa-Martin
Chief of Staff
Angella Bellota
Director of Funder Organizing
Bré Rivera
Black Trans Fund Director
Julieta Garibay
Senior Capacity Building Co-Director
Lanita Morris
Senior Capacity Building Co-Director
Robin Bundy
Information Technology Director
Wen Brovold
Director of Communications and Donor Organizing
Angélique Nguyễn Green
Chief Development Officer
Grantmaking & Capacity Building
Julieta Garibay
Senior Capacity Building Co-Director
Lanita Morris
Senior Capacity Building Co-Director
Naa Amissah-Hammond
Chief Strategy Officer
Bré Rivera
Black Trans Fund Director
Amy Chou
Rapid Response Fund Program Officer
Barbie Hurtado
Capacity Building Trainer
Cecilia Sáenz Becerra
Liberation Fund and Special Projects Lead Program Officer
Charity Howard
Grantmaking Executive Assistant
Diana Ramirez
Integrated Voter Engagement Program Co-Manager
Evelyn Quintana
Grantmaking Program Associate
HunterDae Goodridge
Black Trans Fund Program Manager
Janet Favela Sonneman
GOI Program Manager
Jessica Gonzalez-Wagner
Senior Grants Manager
K. Mitchell
Operations Manager, Groundswell Action Fund
Karen Diaz
IVE Program Co-Manager
Krystal Kwong
Capacity Building Operations Manager
Mariposa Tejada
Program Associate, Grantmaking and Rapid Response Fund
Rainier Miles
Black Trans Fund Program Associate
Victoria Cepeida-Mojarro
Program Manager, Groundswell Action Fund
Yuki Davis
Birth Justice Fund Program Officer
Donor Relations & Communications
Finance, Operations & IT
Board of Directors
Kimberly Inez McGuire, Board Chair
Executive Director, URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
Brook Kelly-Green, Board Vice Chair
Senior Director, Gender and Reproductive Equity Grantmaking, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Nicolle L. Gonzales, Board Treasurer
Midwifery Director/Founder, Changing Woman Initiative
Karen Grove, Board Secretary
Chair, Grove Foundation and President, Grove Action Fund
Bamby Salcedo
President & CEO, TransLatin@ Coalition
Holly Bartling
Director, Worker Justice and Dignity Fund
Laura Nixon
Program Director, Reproductive Health and Justice at The Educational Foundation of America (EFA)
Nsé Ufot
Former Chief Executive Officer, New Georgia Project (NGP)
Liberation Fund Advisors
Ai-jen Poo
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Alicia Garza
National Domestic Workers Alliance, Black Futures Lab
Angelica Salas
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
Bamby Salcedo
President & CEO, TransLatin@ Coalition
Chrissie Castro
Native Voice Network
Cindy Wiesner
Grassroots Global Justice
Denise Perry
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)
Elle Hearns
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
Isa Noyola
Mijente
Linda Sarsour
MPower Change
Mary Hooks
M4BL Leadership
Miya Yoshitani
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Sarita Gupta
Ford Foundation
Saru Jayaraman
One Fair Wage and the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley
Black Trans Fund Advisors
Aaryn Lang
Aaryn Lang Consulting
eli dru
Black Trans Media Black Trans Travel Fund Transgender Gender-variant Intersex Justice Project
J Mase III
Black Trans Prayer Book
Jai’ Shavers
BreakOUT!
Joshua Allen
Black Excellence Collective
Monica Jones
Founder & CEO, Outlaw Project
Xavier MaatRa
DAB of Consulting