Phyllis Cook served for 25 years as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Under her leadership from 1983-2008, the Endowment Fund assets grew from $28 million to over $2.8 billion. She was responsible for major gift solicitations, development, grantmaking, and oversight of 800 donor advised funds, 70 supporting foundations and 100 restricted funds. Ms. Cook also served as Assistant Director of the Jewish Community Federation.

Today, in addition to her responsibilities with PLC Philanthropic Services, where she works with individuals and families to achieve their philanthropic objectives, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Bernard Osher Foundation, Jim Joseph Foundation, Gerson Bakar Foundation, Maisin Foundation, Sarlo Foundation, Sandler Foundation and the I-Center for Education in Israel, among others. She has received numerous awards, including: 2008 Founders’ Medallion from the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles; 2007 Association of Jewish Community Organizational Professionals Mandelkorn Distinguished Service Award; 2007 Trustees’ Citation for fundraising from the University of California, Berkeley, 2007 Community Endowment Excellence Award from United Jewish Communities; 1976 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Young Leadership Award, and; JCF Women’s Division Award for Devoted Service & Creative Leadership. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan (Phi Beta Kappa), where she was voted “Outstanding Senior Woman”. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School in English.

Robert (Bob) Friedman founded CFED in 1979 and continues as CFED’s Chair of the Board and General Counsel. He continues to contribute to numerous efforts to develop the asset-building movement, as well as advising on new strategies to bring excluded communities into the economic mainstream as entrepreneurs, savers, investors, and skilled employees.

A recognized leader in economic development innovation, Bob has contributed to the development of the U.S. microenterprise field, flexible business networks, state and federal entrepreneurial policy, innovative benchmarking tools, like CFED’s Assets and Opportunity Scorecard and asset building. He helped found the Association of Economic Opportunity (AEO).

Based in San Francisco, Mr. Friedman also serves on the Boards of CFED, the 1:1 Fund, Ecotrust, Child and Youth Finance International, the Friedman Family Foundation, Family Independence Initiative, the Koshland Committee of the San Francisco Foundation and is a former board member of Levi Strauss & Co. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He is author of The Safety Net as Ladder: Transfer Payments and Economic Development and a contributor to numerous publications.

Daniel Grossman is the Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Previously, he was CEO of SLOW Food for Fast Lives, founded in 2013 in order to provide healthy food options for people on the go. Prior to that, he founded Wild Planet Toys in 1993 and ran the company as CEO until 2012. Wild Planet was dedicated to developing non-violent, innovative products that appeal to both parents and kids. Before founding Wild Planet, Mr. Grossman was at Aviva Sports from 1991 to 1993. In 1992, he joined the senior management team of Mattel International.

Prior to joining Aviva Sports, Mr. Grossman earned his M.B.A. from Stanford University. He joined the program after serving seven years in the U.S. Foreign Service as a diplomat, both overseas and at the Department of State. Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Grossman served as a legislative aide to Congressman James Coyne in Washington D.C. He received his B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University in 1980.

Marco (Mick) Hellman is the founder and managing partner of HMI Capital. Prior to creating HMI Capital, he spent most of his career at Hellman & Friedman, LLC, where he was a managing director and member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Hellman also established Hellman & Friedman’s Hong Kong office in 1992 and currently serves as a senior advisor. He is the former chairman of the Board of Directors of Blackbaud, a trustee at UC Berkeley Foundation, and a trustee of the USA Cycling Development Foundation. Mr. Hellman received an A.B. in Economics with high distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Benjamin Todd Jealous is a Partner at Kapor Capital, where he invests in seed-stage startup companies that use technology to narrow gaps in society. An internationally renowned civil and human rights leader, Jealous works at the intersection of technology and social impact.

Between 2008 and 2013, Jealous served as the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. Under his leadership, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile as well, experienced its first multi-year membership growth in 20 years, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country. A builder of robust coalitions, Jealous’ leadership at the NAACP included bringing environmental organizations into the fight to protect voting rights, and convincing well-known conservatives to join the NAACP in challenging mass incarceration.

Prior to leading the NAACP, he spent 15 years serving as a journalist and community organizer. While at Mississippi’s Jackson Advocate newspaper, his investigations were credited with exposing corruption at a state penitentiary and proving the innocence of a black farmer who was being framed for arson. At Amnesty International, he led successful efforts to outlaw prison rape, expose the increasing trend of children being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and draw attention to expanded racial profiling in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Jealous has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and free multiple wrongfully incarcerated people.

Jealous currently serves on the Board of Directors of the tech firm Pigeonly, which helps incarcerated men and women stay in contact with their families and society through low-cost cutting-edge voice and image sharing technology. He is an advisor to WorkAmerica, a social impact startup company that helps unemployed Americans embark on well-paying technical careers. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Level Playing Field Institute and the Environmental Defense Fund.

A Rhodes Scholar, Jealous has been named to the 40 under 40 lists of both Forbes and Time magazines. In 2013, he was #1 on TheRoot.com’s list of black leaders under 45.

Kate Kendell leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. NCLR’s legal, policy, and legislative victories set important precedents that improve the lives of all LGBT people and their families across the country. Ms. Kendell grew up Mormon in Utah and received her J.D. degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1988. After a few years as a corporate attorney she was named the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. In this capacity, she oversaw the legal department of ACLU of Utah and directly litigated many high-profile cases focusing on all aspects of civil liberties, including reproductive rights, prisoners’ rights, church/state conflicts, free speech, and the rights of LGBT people. In 1994 she accepted the position as legal director with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and made the move to San Francisco. In 1996, Ms. Kendell was named as NCLR’s executive director. In that capacity, she assists in the development of litigation and litigation strategy, and is responsible for all aspects of agency operation, and development of strategy. She is also responsible for executing a broad and forward thinking vision around all policy and project initiatives.

She has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America, CNN, and dozens of on-line blogs. She lives in San Francisco with her spouse and their children.

Bill Lann Lee is shareholder at Lewis, Feinberg, Lee & Jackson, P.C., where he prosecutes civil rights and disability rights actions. Mr. Lee is a 40-year veteran civil rights lawyer. From December 1997 to January 2001, Mr. Lee served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the United States Department of Justice in the Clinton Administration, as the nation’s top civil rights prosecutor. Before joining Lewis Feinberg in 2007, Mr. Lee was a partner at the firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, from 2001-2006. Earlier in his career, he spent 18 years as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the law firm founded by Justice Thurgood Marshall, in New York City and Los Angeles. He headed the Legal Defense Fund’s western regional office in Los Angeles. He also prosecuted employment discrimination class actions for the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles. Super Lawyers magazine has named Mr. Lee one of the Top 100 Northern California Lawyers each year since 2011, and a Northern California Super Lawyer each year since 2004. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including from the U.S. Department of Justice, the American Bar Association, the California State Bar, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Asian American Bar Association. He is a graduate of Columbia University Law School iand Yale College.

Shauna Marshall received her B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis and her J.D. from U.C. Davis. She then joined the U.S. Justice Department’s Honor Program as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division. She left the Justice Department in 1984 and spent six years as a staff attorney for Equal Rights Advocates, working on impact cases, public education, and organizing campaigns on behalf of low income women and women of color.

Ms. Marshall spent the next four years in the Stanford and East Palo Alto community, receiving her J.S.M. from Stanford, lecturing in the areas of civil rights and community law practice at Stanford Law School, and directing the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. She joined the UC Hastings faculty as a Clinical Professor in 1994 and served as Associate Academic Dean from 2000 to 2002 and became Academic Dean in 2005. She stepped down as Academic Dean in June 2013 and is now an Emeritus member of the UC Hastings faculty. Her writings reflect her interest in ethical issues apparent in community law practice and civil rights litigation.

Hugo Morales is the Executive Director of Radio Bilingüe, Inc. In 1976, Mr. Morales and an all-volunteer staff of farmworkers, former farmworkers, and artists founded Radio Bilingüe, which, on July 4, 1980, began radio broadcast operation over the entire San Joaquin Valley. Radio Bilingüe is now a national satellite community radio service in Spanish, English and Mixteco that serves Latino radio audiences in the Northern Hemisphere. It has its headquarters in Fresno, regional offices in Salinas and El Centro, and national production studios in San Francisco. Radio Bilingüe has six full-power FM radio stations: 3 serving the San Joaquin Valley (KSJV- Fresno, KMPO-Modesto, KTQX-Bakersfield), one station serving Mendocino county (KVUH- Laytonville), one serving the Salinas Valley (KHDC-Salinas), and one serving the Imperial Valley (KUBO-El Centro). Radio Bilingüe is the recognized Spanish-language radio service for the public radio system in the United States. It serves over half a million listeners with its pioneering daily Spanish-language national talk show, Línea Abierta, its independently produced news service, Noticiero Latino, and its rainbow of Spanish-language traditional folk music for its national Latino audiences. The entire 24-hour daily operation is totally devoted to public service. Radio Bilingüe has a full-time staff of 25.

Mr. Morales is a Mixtec Indian from Oaxaca, Mexico. He was raised in Oaxaca until the age of nine when his family immigrated to California. He grew up as a farmworker in Sonoma County until he graduated in 1968 from Healdsburg High School where he had been elected student body president. He then went on to graduate from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. In 1994, he became the first resident of the San Joaquin Valley to be a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (known as the “genius award”). In May 1999, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting honored Mr. Morales with the Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest distinction. Mr. Morales received the 2006 Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation. “The Prize for Cultural Freedom was established to recognize people whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry, and expression.” Some of Mr. Morales’ board memberships include: the Board of Directors of The California Endowment and the San Francisco Foundation, Fresno County First Five Commission, and The California Post Secondary Education Commission.

Albert F. Moreno served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Levi Strauss & Co., from 1996 to November 2005. Mr. Moreno joined Levi Strauss & Co. in 1978 where he was responsible for legal and brand protection affairs and oversaw the company’s global security department. Mr. Moreno served as the Assistant Secretary of Levi Strauss & Co. until November 2005. He served as the Chief Counsel for Levi Strauss North America from 1994 to 1996 and also as its Deputy General Counsel from 1985 to 1994. He has been a Director of Xcel Energy Inc. and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, the Mexican Museum, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund, and the American Corporate Counsel Association. He served as a Director of New Century Energies Inc. and Levi Strauss Foundation. Mr. Moreno holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from San Diego State University and a degree in Latin American Economic Studies from the Universidad de Madrid. In 1970, he received his Law Degree from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.

Clara Shin is a Partner of Covington & Burling LLP and concentrates her trial and appellate practice on complex technology, intellectual property, and commercial disputes. Her pro bono representations focus on the defense of constitutional rights, including challenges to the constitutionality of medical care provided by the California prison system. Ms. Shin previously served as a special assistant and White House Fellow in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff, and was a law clerk to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Earlier in her career, Ms. Shin helped to start AmeriCorps, a national service program created under President Bill Clinton. She also worked for USAID in South Africa and co-created Tahoe-Baikal Institute, a bi-national environmental institute in California and Siberia. Ms. Shin serves as Commissioner of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and on the Board of Directors of the National Partnership for Women and Families, and the United States District Court Northern District of California Historical Society. She is a former Director of Music National Service (Chair), Asian Pacific Fund, ACLU of Northern California, Rebuilding Together San Francisco, and OneJustice. Clara earned her B.A. with honors from Smith College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Lateefah Simon joined Akonadi Foundation as President in August 2016. As a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, she brings over 20 years of executive experience in advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. Prior to joining Akonadi, which seeks to eliminate structural racism that leads to inequity in the United States, Lateefah served as Program Director for the San Francisco-based Rosenberg Foundation. Lateefah managed the Foundation’s portfolio of grants supporting groundbreaking advocacy in criminal justice reform, immigrant rights, low-wage workers’ rights, and civic engagement. In 2016, Lateefah helped launch the $2 million Leading Edge Fund, created to seed, incubate, and implement bold ideas from the next generation of progressive movement leaders in California.

Before joining Rosenberg, Lateefah was Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she revamped the 40-year-old organization’s structure and launched successful community-based initiatives, including the Second Chance Legal Services Clinic. Lateefah also initiated San Francisco’s first reentry services division and spearheaded the flagship program, Back on Track, under the leadership of then-District Attorney Kamala D. Harris. Back on Track, an advocacy program for young adults charged with low-level felony drug sales, brought recidivism for the population it serves below 10 percent. Lateefah’s passion for supporting low-income young women and girls, and her advocacy for juvenile and criminal justice reform, began at San Francisco’s Center for Young Women’s Development (CYWD), now called the Young Women’s Freedom Center. Lateefah became Executive Director of that grassroots organization, run for and by young women who come through and are affected by these systems, at age 19; she remained in that role for 11 years.

Lateefah has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Jefferson Award for extraordinary public service. She was named ‘Most Promising New Foundation President’ by Inside Philanthropy in 2017 and was one of the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 40 Under 40 in 2016. The California State Assembly named Lateefah Woman of the Year and she has also been recognized by the Ford Foundation, the National Organization for Women, Lifetime Television, and O Magazine. In 2016, Lateefah was elected to serve District 7 on the BART Board of Directors and was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California State University’s Board of Trustees. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Tipping Point Community.

Sarah Stein is President of Hall Capital Partners LLC. She is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Investment Review Committee. Ms. Stein joined the firm in 2002 in the Portfolio Management practice. She moved to the Research Group in 2006 where she held several roles, having served most recently as Managing Director and Co-Director of Research. Ms. Stein was appointed President of the firm in 2012. Her prior experience includes working in the Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs & Co., the Fisher Family Foundation, and teaching English in Guangzhou, China. Ms. Stein was named one of Foundation & Endowment Money Management’s 2011 Rising Stars. She serves on the Board and Investment Committee of the San Francisco Foundation, the Board of Directors of the Rosenberg Foundation, the Investment Committees of the Crystal Springs Uplands School and the Foundation for California Community Colleges, and the Endowment Committee of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She previously served as a Trustee of Princeton University, the Breakthrough Collaborative, and KIPP Bayview Academy. Ms. Stein graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in History. She also earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an M.A. from the Stanford School of Education.