In October 2008, the Board of Directors of the Rosenberg Foundation appointed Timothy P. Silard as the Foundation’s fifth president.
Since joining the foundation, Tim has led the development of criminal justice reform as a core grantmaking focus. The foundation has partnered with a number of other funders to create a new affinity group focused on criminal justice reform, Funders for Safety and Justice in California. FSJC includes the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation, and others.
In October 2008, the Board of Directors of the Rosenberg Foundation appointed Timothy P. Silard as the Foundation’s fifth president.
Since joining the foundation, Tim has led the advancement of statewide and national criminal justice reform as a core grantmaking focus. In 2011, Rosenberg joined with other funders to create an affinity group focused on criminal justice reform, Funders for Safety and Justice in California. FSJC includes the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation, and many others. Together with members of FSJC, Tim spearheaded the creation of Californians for Safety and Justice, a campaign designed to replace the state’s over- reliance on incarceration with common sense solutions that build safe neighborhoods, help families thrive and save public dollars. In addition, Rosenberg Foundation funded the creation of a network of county-based reentry councils around the state, supported a group of organizations working together to dismantle barriers to opportunity and restore the rights of formerly incarcerated people, and is working to address the intersection of criminal justice and immigrants’ rights. Recently, Rosenberg joined fellow funders to support bail reform and advance prosecutorial accountability in California.
Under Tim’s leadership, the foundation also is resourcing innovative solutions in the areas of immigrants’ rights and integration, immigrant workers rights and civic participation. Efforts in these areas include: dramatically increasing giving to strengthen the immigrants’ rights field in California and to advance immigration reform; building the organizing and leadership capacity of California’s DREAM movement, including the launch of the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, a statewide network of organizations led by undocumented immigrant youth; seeding a new agricultural product certification system that aims to mobilize retailers and consumers to improve working conditions for farmworkers while reducing food safety risks and pesticide use; and partnering with the California Civic Participation Funders Roundtable to build progressive infrastructure in San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Fresno counties. In partnership with the Hellman Foundation, the Rosenberg Foundation also launched the Leading Edge Fund, a new $2 million fund created to seed, incubate and accelerate bold ideas from the next generation of progressive movement leaders in California.
Tim joined the Rosenberg Foundation from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where he served as Chief of Policy, developing reforms in criminal justice, civil rights and immigrants’ rights. Mr. Silard distinguished himself by launching the nation’s first civil rights division in a local prosecutor’s office; designing model reentry programs that have proven to sharply reduce recidivism; drafting and advocating for state and local legislation in the areas of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and alternatives to incarceration; expanding access to services for immigrants and low-income families; and other public safety policy innovations. Tim also was a leader of San Francisco’s nationally replicated approach to addressing commercial sexual exploitation, which won the Ford Foundation’s Innovations in American Government Award.
Tim previously served as the HOPE VI Director for the Corporation for National Service, where he served on the Community Enterprise Board and White House Urban Policy Working Group. Earlier in his career, he served as a Skadden Fellow at the Income Rights Project and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa.
Tim earned his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his law degree from Stanford Law School. He is recognized as an expert in racial justice, sentencing reform and urban policy, and as an advocate for children and youth. He currently serves as an advisory board member for the Alliance for Safety and Justice, the Smart on Crime PAC, and the National Resource Hub for Police Reform and as the advisory board chair for Californians for Safety & Justice. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. In 2016, he was appointed by then Attorney General Kamala D. Harris as a member of the California Racial and Identify Profiling Act Advisory Board. His commentary and opinions have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Huffington Post, The Advocate, The Hill and other publications.
closeLinda has dedicated her working life to philanthropy and non-profit organizations for the past 20 years, and has managed the Rosenberg Foundation’s grants and business administration for over a decade. She is co-founder of the Mad Hatter’s Network hosted through the Northern California Grantmakers, a group dedicated to connecting small foundation staff who juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, and is a former Co-chair of the Northern California Grantmaker’s Emergency Loan Fund Committee.
Linda has dedicated her working life to philanthropy and non-profit organizations for the past 20 years, and has managed the Rosenberg Foundation’s grants and business administration for over a decade. She is co-founder of the Mad Hatter’s Network hosted through the Northern California Grantmakers, a group dedicated to connecting small foundation staff who juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, and is a former Co-chair of the Northern California Grantmaker’s Emergency Loan Fund Committee. Previously, she administered the grants, fiscal sponsorship and donor advised fund program at RSF Social Finance, a nonprofit organization offering investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and organizations committed to improving society and the environment. She started her nonprofit career as the sole employee working for the Board of the Randall Museum Friends. She graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Art from UC Santa Barbara. In her free time, she can be found on a hiking trail, in a yoga class, or reading books in her garden.
closePhyllis 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.
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 role as Managing Director of PLC Philanthropic Services where she works with individuals and nonprofits to achieve their philanthropic objectives, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Bernard Osher Foundation, Gerson Bakar Foundation, Maisin Foundation, and Sandler Foundation 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” and completed graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School in English.
closeKendra Fox-Davis, a long-time racial justice and gender justice advocate, previously served as an attorney at the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, leading civil rights investigations of harassment and discrimination on the basis of race and gender, and investigating and resolving complaints of race and sex-based harassment and discrimination
Kendra Fox-Davis, a long-time racial justice and gender justice advocate, previously served as an attorney at the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, leading civil rights investigations of harassment and discrimination on the basis of race and gender, and investigating and resolving complaints of race and sex-based harassment and discrimination. As a Thurgood Marshall Fellow and staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Kendra helped challenge discriminatory police practices and gang injunctions targeting African American communities, among other accomplishments.
Kendra also has worked as the manager of the Legal-Policy department at the ACLU of Northern California, and as training director for the Center for Third World Organizing and NAACP National Voter Fund. She began her social justice work as a youth organizer and later served as President for the United States Student Association. She is on the Board of Governors for Public Advocates. Kendra joins the Rosenberg Foundation from the University of California, Office of the President, where she worked to protect the rights of survivors of sexual violence, ensuring compliance with Title IX across the university’s 10 campuses, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as the Office of the President. Kendra earned a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles – School of Law with a specialization in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy.
closeRobert (Bob) Friedman, fourth generation resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, has devoted his career to closing the racial wealth divide and unleashing the genius of all people. He founded Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) in 1978, which led the development of the US microenterprise, asset-building and economic development fields.
Robert (Bob) Friedman, fourth generation resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, has devoted his career to closing the racial wealth divide and unleashing the genius of all people. He founded Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) in 1978, which led the development of the US microenterprise, asset-building and economic development fields. He also helped found the Association of Economic Opportunity (AEO). In 1998, he received the Presidential Award for Microenterprise from President Clinton.
In addition to being a longtime Rosenberg Foundation trustee, Bob currently serves on the boards of Prosperity Now, Ecotrust, and 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 A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone (2019), The Safety Net as Ladder: Transfer Payments and Economic Development (1989) and Expanding the Opportunity to Produce (1983).
closeDaniel Grossman was the Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Community Federation of the Bay Area until December 2021. 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.
Daniel Grossman, retired Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Community Federation of the Bay Area. 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.
closeKrea is an Indigenous mother of six who believes in community initiated solutions and the power of redemption and has anchored her work in education,community organizing, youth development, juvenile and criminal justice values for more than 20 years. For the past five years, she has served as member of the leadership team at the Young Women’s Freedom Center where she began her journey in community work as a youth more than 27 years ago. There she supported the leadership development of system involved young women, gender non-conforming and trans young adults.
Krea is an Indigenous mother of six who believes in community initiated solutions and the power of redemption and has anchored her work in education,community organizing, youth development, juvenile and criminal justice values for more than 20 years. For the past five years, she has served as member of the leadership team at the Young Women’s Freedom Center where she began her journey in community work as a youth more than 27 years ago. There she supported the leadership development of system involved young women, gender non-conforming and trans young adults.
Prior to her return to YWFC, she served as Dean of Students & School Culture at the North Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS) where she revamped the Community Action Learning (CAL) program from a civic engagement elective to a comprehensive middle school capstone program that engaged youth in ethnic and cultural studies, social justice and community organizing projects in their North Oakland community and beyond. While at NOCCS, she was the recipient of the 2015 Teachers 4 Social Justice Award. Krea also served as the Western & Southern Regional Program Manager at the W. Haywood Burns Institute for 2005-2010, where she co-managed the Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY) a national network of over 140 organizations working to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. At CJNY, she provided organizational and technical support to grassroots and non-profit organizations all over the country and trained hundreds of young people and allies on how to become community-centered and initiated alternatives to detention programs for system-involved youth. Krea is a founding member of the Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, a powerful statewide coalition of directly impacted cis and trans girls and women, trans men, and gender-expansive individuals committed to shifting power and leading local and statewide policy changes across CA. She was recently named one of nine fellows of the 2022-2024 Leading Edge Fellowship of the Rosenberg Foundation. The Leading Edge Fund seeds, incubates and accelerates bold ideas from the next generation of progressive movement leaders in California.
closeRaj Jayadev is the co-founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug. De-Bug is an organization that focuses on community organizing, advocacy, and multimedia storytelling based out of San José, California. Through De-Bug’s criminal justice community program, the Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project, they created “participatory defense.”
Raj Jayadev is the co-founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug. De-Bug is an organization that focuses on community organizing, advocacy, and multimedia storytelling based out of San José, California. Through De-Bug’s criminal justice community program, the Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project, they created “participatory defense.” Participatory defense is a community model that was developed for families whose loved ones are facing the criminal court system. The model will help impact the outcome of the case and transform the landscape of power in the courts.
De-Bug has initiated campaigns around bail reform, police accountability, sentencing reform and more. De-Bug has worked with and trained community groups across the country to become participatory defense hubs. There is now a National Participatory Defense Network that De-Bug coordinates, which represents hubs in over 30 cities. Jayadev’s community work and writings have been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, BBC, TIME Magazine and media outlets across the country. In 2018, he was selected as a MacArthur Fellow.
closeBenjamin 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.
Benjamin Todd “Ben” Jealous was named the seventh executive director of the Sierra Club in November 2022. Previously, he was a Partner at Kapor Capital, where he invested in seed-stage startup companies that use technology to narrow gaps in society. An internationally renowned civil and human rights leader, Jealous worked 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.
closeLisa joins the Rosenberg Foundation from the Friedman Family Foundation. For more than 30 years, she directed the Foundation’s grantmaking focus on creating financial stability for all, including policy efforts on financial equity and innovative anti-poverty strategies.
Lisa joins the Rosenberg Foundation from the Friedman Family Foundation. For more than 30 years, she directed the Foundation’s grantmaking focus on creating financial stability for all, including policy efforts on financial equity and innovative anti-poverty strategies. Lisa also worked as an Administrative and Development Manager for Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap Initiative, a national nonprofit that advocated for policies and strategies to close the gender wealth gap in the U.S. She began her work within the economic security field as Special Assistant at Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit that drives change for racial and financial equity. Lisa has also consulted with a variety of nonprofit community organizations and foundations in the San Francisco Bay Area providing grantmaking, fundraising, administration and event planning.
Lisa is an Advisory Board member of the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center in San Francisco and volunteers as a small group facilitator with the Peninsula Conflict and Resolution Center. She is past Co-chair and longtime member of the Bay Area Asset Funder’s Network. She co-founded the Mad Hatters network previously hosted through the Northern California Grantmakers and is former Co-chair of the Northern California Grantmakers’ former Emergency Loan Fund Committee. Lisa has an associate degree in business management and a Bachelor’s in Humanities.
closeBill 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.
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.
closeShauna 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.
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.
closeHugo 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.
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.
closeAlbert 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.
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 has served 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.
closeBoard director and investment executive, Paula Pretlow, built a career helping company leaders maximize shareholder and stakeholder value—and has personally delivered half-a-billion dollars in revenue. As a consultative thought partner, growth driver and management executive, she brings a unique blend of strategy, sales planning, and team development to her work scaling and building businesses.
Board director and investment executive, Paula Pretlow, built a career helping company leaders maximize shareholder and stakeholder value—and has personally delivered half-a-billion dollars in revenue. As a consultative thought partner, growth driver and management executive, she brings a unique blend of strategy, sales planning, and team development to her work scaling and building businesses.
Paula began her career at Wells Fargo Bank, before moving to GATX Capital, where she played a pioneering role in the creation of a secondary market in capital equipment leases and portfolios. She then transitioned to Wall Street, working on the bond desk at Credit Suisse and later moving into investment management with AXA Rosenberg, and subsequently, BlackRock.
Prior to retiring from the investment field, Paula spent twelve years at the $2.6T privately held investment firm, The Capital Group, where she led the public fund team and managed her own client base representing $700B+ in combined assets.
In addition to The Rosenberg Foundation, current board appointments include Northwestern University; The Kresge Foundation; and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, where she serves as board chair. In the corporate sector, Paula serves as an independent director of Vroom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRM) and Greenlight Financial Technology.
She holds an MBA in finance and economics from Kellogg School of Management, a BA in political science from Northwestern University, and is a 2017 Fellow of Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute. Paula has been recognized with numerous awards, including The Women’s Legal Defense & Education Fund’s Aiming High Award, The National Council of Jewish Women’s Outstanding Humanitarian Award, and the Northwestern|Kellogg Alumni Award. Speaking appearances include Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences convocation, and Groundbreakers: Women in Leadership Summit, where she shared the stage with Gloria Steinem and Ali Wentworth. She has also co-taught design thinking at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”) and is a guest lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Paula is still writing stories about her life and, in addition to world travel, loves most spending time with family, including the two cutest grandchildren, ever!
closeClara Shin is a partner with Covington & Burling and co-chairs the firm’s global commercial litigation practice group. In the last few years alone, she obtained defense wins valued at over $3 billion in intellectual property, trade secret, and licensing disputes. Clara also developed the firm’s first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic plan and vice-chaired the Pro Bono Committee.
Clara Shin is a partner with Covington & Burling and co-chairs the firm’s global commercial litigation practice group. In the last few years alone, she obtained defense wins valued at over $3 billion in intellectual property, trade secret, and licensing disputes. Clara also developed the firm’s first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic plan and vice-chaired the Pro Bono Committee.
Earlier in her career, Clara served in the federal government on two occasions. From 1992 to 1995, she was on the start-up team that launched the AmeriCorps national service program. In parallel, she codesigned a $1 billion HUD program to revitalize distressed public housing developments and a DoD program to assist communities affected by military downsizing. Clara subsequently was appointed as a White House Fellow and served from 1998 to 1999 in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff. Clara has also led international initiatives. In the early days of glasnost, she helped to design Tahoe-BaikalInstitute, an environmental institute in California and Siberia which launched in 1991. During this same time period, she was involved in establishing Earth Train, a youth-led program for environmental activists worldwide.
Clara’s board experience spans 25 years. In addition to the Rosenberg Foundation, she serves as a Director of the National Women’s Law Center and People for the American Way. Her prior board service includes the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, ACLU of Northern California, Asian Pacific Fund, National Partnership for Women and Families, and others. Clara earned her JD from Stanford Law School and clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her BA from Smith College.
closeLateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. She serves as President of Meadow Fund. Prior to Meadow Fund she served as President of the Akonadi Foundation.
Lateefah Simon is President of Meadow Fund. She is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. Prior to Meadow Fund she served as President of the Akonadi Foundation. In 2016—driven by Oscar Grant’s death—she was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors as President. She was elected to a second term in November 2020. Since 2015, Lateefah also has served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the California State University, the nation’s largest public university system, and state officials often turn to her for strategic advice on policy matters related to racial justice. In 2022 Akonadi Foundation welcomed Lateefah Simon to the Board of Directors as she transitioned from President of Akonadi to lead Meadow Fund. Lateefah received the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award in 2003, making her the youngest woman to receive the award —in recognition of her work as Executive Director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center.
Lateefah previously served as Program Director at the Rosenberg Foundation, where she launched the Leading Edge Fund to seed, incubate, and accelerate bold ideas from the next generation of progressive movement leaders in California. She also held the position of Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, successfully launching community-based initiatives, such as the Second Chance Legal Services Clinic. In addition, Lateefah spearheaded San Francisco’s first reentry anti-recidivism youth services division under the then-District Attorney Kamala Harris leadership.
Lateefah’s other numerous awards include the California State Assembly’s “Woman of the Year,”; the Jefferson Award for Extraordinary Public Service, and Inside Philanthropy’s “Most Promising New Foundation President” (2018). Lateefah’s additional awards include the Ford Foundation, the National Organization for Women, Lifetime Television, and O Magazine.
closeJamey Spencer is a Managing Director at Hall Capital Partners LLC and a member of the firm’s Portfolio Management practice in San Francisco. He is responsible for developing investment strategy and constructing and managing client investment portfolios. Mr. Spencer also serves on the firm’s Investment Review Committee.
Jamey Spencer is a Managing Director at Hall Capital Partners LLC and a member of the firm’s Portfolio Management practice in San Francisco. He is responsible for developing investment strategy and constructing and managing client investment portfolios. Mr. Spencer also serves on the firm’s Investment Review Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Mr. Spencer was a Senior Vice President at Jordan Park, where he led the firm’s private investment efforts. Previously, Mr. Spencer was a Managing Director in the Private Client Practice and co-managed the Co-Investments team at Cambridge Associates. He has spent nearly two decades focused on private investments, including previous experience with The Riverside Company, Morgan Creek Capital Management, Fort Point Capital, and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, and began his career in energy M&A and corporate finance with J.P. Morgan. Mr. Spencer is a member of the Investment Committee of the Marin Community Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of Summer Search Bay Area, a member of the College Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University, and a member of the Bay Area Development Council of U.S. Soccer. He received a B.S. in Business magna cum laude from Wake Forest University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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