MIE National Conference 2022 | Mission Investors Exchange | 5 December 2022 | Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 700 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA

This conference is one of the most anticipated events for impact investors in philanthropy, offering an action-focused and collaborative space for foundations to build partnerships, experience on-the-ground impact investments, and more.

2022 Speakers

CO-CHAIRS:

Lisa Hamilton
President and CEO, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Shanaysha Sauls
President and CEO, Baltimore Community Foundation

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Tonya Allen
President, McKnight Foundation

Judy Belk
President and CEO, The California Wellness Foundation

Janis Bowdler
Counselor for Racial Equity, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Dr. Heber M. Brown, III
Executive Director, Black Church Food Security Network

Don Chen
President, Surdna Foundation

Damien Dwin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lafayette Square

Rodney Foxworth
CEO, Common Future

Gary Gensler
Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Tamara Larsen
Co-Chair of the Investment Committee, David Rockefeller Fund

Bruce McNamer
President, Builders Initiative

Amoretta Morris
President, Borealis Philanthropy

Cecilia Muñoz
Trustee, Kresge and MacArthur Foundations

Ashani Collins O'mard
Senior Vice President of Strategic Housing Investments, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership

Tracy Palandjian
CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance

John Palfrey
President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Dr. Robert K. Ross
President and CEO, The California Endowment

Dr. Mohan Suntha
President and CEO, University of Maryland Medical System

Nick Tilsen
President and CEO, NDN Collective

Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation

Sherece West-Scantlebury
CEO, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

Ali Zaidi
Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor

SPEAKERS:

Alisa Ahmadian
Senior Manager - Impact Innovation Engagement, Salesforce

Tonya Allen
President, McKnight Foundation

Kunle Apampa
Director and Head of Client Solutions & Partnerships, Capricorn Investment Group

Andrea Armeni
Executive Director, Transform Finance

Ada Arevalo
Founder and CEO, iimpact

Rasheed Aziz
Executive Director, Citywide Youth Development

Jim Baek
Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP)

Donnel Baird
CEO, BlocPower

David Bank
Editor and CEO, ImpactAlpha

Kory Bailey
Chief Ecosystem & Relationship Officer, UpSurge Baltimore

Andrea Barrios
Senior Impact Investment Manager, Vancity

Judy Belk
President & CEO, California Wellness Foundation

Mark Bernstiel
Impact Investing Lead, Alabama Power Foundation

Marla Bilonick
President & CEO, NALCAB

Ryan Bowers
Co-Founder, Activest

Tynesia Boyea-Robinson
President and CEO, CapEQ

Janis Bowdler
Counselor for Racial Equity, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Melissa Bradley
Founder, 1863 Ventures

Paul Bradley
President, ROC USA

Heber Brown, III
Executive Director, Black Church Food Security Network

Watchen Bruce
President & CEO, Baltimore Community Lending

Laura Budzyna
Founder and Principal Consultant, Beyond Measure LLC

Catherine Burnett
Chief Impact Officer, Phillips Foundation

Ben Bynum
Senior Director of Impact Investing, The Colorado Health Foundation

Laura Callanan
Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab

Tina Castro
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Avivar Capital

Don Chen
President, Surdna Foundation

HyeSook Chung
President, Baltimore Civic Fund

Allison Clark
Associate Director - Impact Investing, MacArthur Foundation

Sarah Cleveland
Trustee, The Russell Family Foundation

Sean Closkey
Executive Director, ReBUILD Metro

Adam Connaker
Director - Impact Investments, Surdna Foundation

Luke Cooper
Founding Partner, Latimer Ventures

Kimberlee Cornett
Director of Impact Investments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Manuel Costa
Principal, Cogent Consulting PBC

Andrew Crosson
CEO, Invest Appalachia

Mark Crosswell
Managing Director, Social Impact Strategy, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Chris Crothers
Director of Impact Investing, Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Smitha Das
Impact Investing Principal, World Education Services

Paris Dean
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sparen Homes

Tim Docking
CEO, Refugee Investment Network

Daryn Dodson
Managing Director, Illumen Capital

John Duong
Founder, Kind Capital

Damien Dwin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lafayette Square

Delali Dzirasa
Co-Founder, Fearless

Zenna Elhasan
General Counsel & Board Secretary, The Kresge Foundation

Daniel Ellis
Executive Director, Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore

Shawn Escoffrey
Chief Executive Officer, Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation

Humaira Faiz
Mission Investment Manager, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Emily Fan
Deputy General Counsel, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Bert Feuss
Senior Advisor - Consultant, Community Capital Advisors

Justin Fier
Head of Impact Strategy, Timberland Investment Resources LLC

Kate Finn
Executive Director, First Peoples Worldwide

Nicholas Fletcher
Assistant Director, Morgan State University

Rodney Foxworth
CEO, Common Future

Betty Francisco
CEO, Boston Impact Initiative

Meredith Freeman
Director - Impact Investing and Alignment, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation

Deborah Frieze
Founder & President, Boston Impact Initiative

Noah Fulmer
Director of National Partnerships, Fair Food Network

Tony Gattuso
Director of Investments and Treasury, Cleveland Foundation

Sarah Gelfand
Managing Director, BlueMark

Gary Gensler
Chairperson, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Anabel Giron
Director of Investments, The California Wellness Foundation

Anita Graham
Managing Director, Arctaris

Darius Graham
Program Director, Weinberg Foundation

Talib Graves-Mann
Founding Partner, Partners in Equity

Tracy Gray
Managing Partner, The 22 Fund

Patrice Green
Program Director - Inclusive Economies, Surdna Foundation

Travis Green
Vice President of LOCUS Investment Strategy, LOCUS Impact Investing

Denise Griffin-Johnson
Chairwoman, West Baltimore Council

Mary Grissom
Director of Community Investment, Community Foundation of Louisville

Lisa Hamilton
President & CEO, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Susan Hammel
CEO and Founder, Cogent Consulting PBC

Erin Harkless Moore
Director - Investments, Pivotal Ventures

Antonio Hayes
Senator, Maryland State Senate

Kris Hermanns
Chief Impact Officer, Seattle Foundation

John Holdsclaw IV
CEO, Rochdale Capital

Talib Horne
Director - Baltimore Civic Site, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Sydney Hulebak
Impact Investment Manager, GoATL Fund

Tomer Inbar
Partner, Morgan Lewis

Mauri Ingram
President & CEO, Whatcom Community Foundation

Caroline Jacobs
Investing Partner, UTA Ventures

Ishita Jain
Impact Manager, Autodesk

Hanna Jamal
Vice President, Social Finance

Zoila Jennings
Impact Investment Lead, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Henry Jiménez
Executive Director, Latino Center for Economic Development

Bree Jones
Founder and CEO, Parity

Kenneth Jones
Vice President and CFO, MacArthur Foundation

Sayer Jones
Principal Consultant, Occam Advisors

Margot Kane
Chief Investment Officer, Spring Point Partners LLC

Megan Kashner
Clinical Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management

Mark Kaufman
President, Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund

Laura Kernaghan
Senior Director of Investments, Chicago Community Trust

Cathi Kim
Director, Inclusiv/Capital, Inclusiv

Brian Komar
Vice President - Global Impact Innovation & Engagement, Salesforce

Megan Lamke
Founder, Business For Good Family Foundation

Tamara Larsen
Co-Chair of the Investment Committee, David Rockefeller Fund

Andrea Levere
Executive Fellow, Yale School of Management

John Lewis
President, Harbor Bank of Maryland

Elise Liberto
Partner and Private Equity Portfolio Manager, Brown Advisory

Lenwood Long
President & CEO, African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs

Christine Looney
Deputy Director, Ford Foundation

Vanessa Lowe
President, VLL Consulting & Financial Education

Tammira Lucas
Founder, The Cube

Kyle Lukianuk
Managing Director - Impact Investing, UpMetrics

Ryan MacPherson
Impact Investing Lead, Autodesk Foundation

Deb Markley
Senior Vice President, LOCUS Impact Investing

Scott Marquardt
Senior Vice President, Southwest Initiative Foundation

Rebecca Marx
Research Analyst, Urban Institute

McKeever Conwell II
Founder and Managing Partner, RareBreed Ventures

Mike McCreless
Executive Director, Impact Frontiers

Jamie McDonald
Chief Executive Offer, UpSurge Baltimore

Elizabeth McGeveran
Director of Investments, McKnight Foundation

Bruce McNamer
President, Builders Initiative

Samantha Mellerson
Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute

Nicole Milne
Vice President of Food and Agriculture Initiatives, The Kohala Center

Tom Mitchell
Managing Director, Cambridge Associates

Nick Mitchell-Bennett
Executive Director, Community Development Corporation of Brownsville

Bonny Moellenbrock
Principal, Millbrook Impact

Karla Moreno
Senior Analyst, Avivar Capital

Amoretta Morris
President, Borealis Philanthropy

Cynthia Muller
Director, Mission Driven Investments, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Cecilia Muñoz
Trustee, Kresge and MacArthur Foundations

Sandhya Nakhasi
Executive Director, Community Credit Lab / Common Future

Lolita Nunn
Director of Program and Investor Relations, Potlikker Capital

Jay Nwachu
President and Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Works

Ashani Collins O’Mard
Senior Vice President of Strategic Housing Investments, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership

Matt Onek
President & CEO, Mission Investors Exchange

Funlola Otukoya
Investment Analyst, McKnight Foundation

Tracy Palandjian
CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance

John Palfrey
President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Brigid Peterson
Head of Endowments & Foundations, Brown Advisory

Susan Phinney Silver
Mission Investing Director, Packard Foundation

Santhosh Ramdoss
Chief Investment Officer, Gary Community Ventures

Marc Rand
Managing Partner, Community Capital Advisors

Stephanie Randolph
Deputy Director, Cassiopeia Foundation

Philip Reeves
Partner, Apis & Heritage Capital Partners

Jane Reisman
Founder, Jane Reisman Consulting

Michelle RhodesBrown
Director of Finance & Investments, The Walters Art Museum

Frederick Riley
Executive Director, Weave: The Social Fabric Project, Aspen Institute

Patrick Robinson
CEO and Founder, Paskho

Gary Rodwell
Executive Director, Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation

Robert Ross
President and CEO, The California Endowment

Everett Sands
CEO, Lendistry

Shanaysha Sauls
President & CEO, Baltimore Community Foundation

Joseph Scantlebury
President and CEO, Living Cities

Debra Schwartz
Managing Director / Impact Investments, MacArthur Foundation

Fran Seegull
President, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance

Erika Seth Davies
Founder, Racial Equity Asset Lab

Ben Seigel
Various Roles, Baltimore Development Corporation

Aaron Seybert
Managing Director - Social Investment Practice, Kresge Foundation

David Sharp
Founder and CEO, Urban Advisors

Rosalie Sheehy-Cates
Senior Advisor, The Giving Practice

John Sherman
Chief Partner, John Sherman Impact Consulting

Beth Sirull
President and CEO, Jewish Community Foundation San Diego

Jim Sorenson
Chairman, Sorenson Impact Foundation

Lindsay Smalling
Head of Sales, 60 Decibels

Angel St. Jean
Chief Executive Officer, The Equity Brain Trust

Mohan Suntha
President and CEO, University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)

George Suttles
Executive Director, Common Fund

Roy Swan
Director, Mission Investments, Ford Foundation

Colin Tarbert
President and CEO, Baltimore Development Corporation

Jason Teeters
Nurturing Lead, Collaboratory

Nick Tilsen
President & CEO, NDN Collective

Danielle Torain
Director, Open Society Institute-Baltimore

Tené Traylor
Fund Advisor, Urban Institute

Margret Trilli
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, ImpactAssets

Robert Tucker
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Programs, Chicago Community Loan Fund

Ernst Valery
Co-Managing Member, SAA | EVI

Maggie Villegas
Executive Director, Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network

Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation

Kevin Walker
President and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation

Wendy Walker
Managing Director, Cambridge Associates

Sherece West-Scantlebury
CEO, Withrop Rockefeller Foundation

Ebony White
Director - Racial Economic Justice, Prosperity Now

Sean White
Impact Investing Manager, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation

Cassandra Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Hope Enterprise Corporation

Chad Williams
Executive Director, West North Avenue Development Authority

Janelle Williams
Principal Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Sidney Williams
CEO, Crossing Capital Group

Rochelle Witherana
CFO, The California Wellness Foundation

Richard Woo
Board Member, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

Candice Wynter
Communications Manager, Nathan Cummings Foundation

Ali Zaidi
Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor, White House Climate Policy Office

2022 Sponsors

PRESENTING:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation

FORMAL RECEPTION:
Brown Advisory Thoughtful Investing

WELCOMING RECEPTION:
T.Rowe Price

PREMIER:
The Califonia Endowment
The Colorado Health Foundation
GEM
W.K Kellogg Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
VISA Foundation

FEATURED:
The Baltimore Community Foundation
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gary Community Ventures
Jessie Ball Dupont Fund
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
the Mcknight Foundation
Mission Throttle

PARTNERING:
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
Cambridge Associates
Cleveland Foundation
Glenmede
Northern Trust
Pathstone
Surdna Foundation

CONTRIBUTING:
Abell Foundation
Arctaris Impact Fund
Builders Asset Management
California Health Care Foundation
Carefirst Bluecross Blueshield
France-Merrick Foundation
Goldseker Foundation
Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation
Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
Sorenson Impact Foundation
Stewart Investors
Straus Foundation
the Nathan Cummings Foundation

SUPPORTING:
Rbc Global Asset Management
Supporting
Altman Foundation
Arabella Advisors
Ascendium Education Group
Bader Philanthropies
the California Wellness Foundation
Locus Impact Investing
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Melville Charitable Trust
Morgan Lewis
Native American Agriculture Fund
Pnc Institutional Asset Management
Veris Wealth Partners
Weingart Foundation
Weissberg Foundation
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation