Leadership Forum: The Evolving Architecture of Impact

Aggrey Aluso

Aggrey Aluso is the Director, Africa Region for the Pandemic Action Network (PAN) and the Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA). He oversees the operationalization of RANA as a vibrant and effective advocacy Hub to champion an Africa-centric, globally facing Resilience agenda. This agenda encompasses the interconnected issues of pandemic preparedness and response; climate change and its impact on health; as well as galvanizing and enhancing African voices in global health governance .

A seasoned social justice advocate with expansive experience, spanning over 20 years, in advancing intersectional justice, using citizen led, rights-based advocacy efforts. Previous roles include senior manager at the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa leading the Health and Rights program, Technical Expert Lobby and Advocacy at Terre's des Hommes, Technical Manager – Policy & Advocacy for the University of Manitoba's global institute for public health seconded to Kenya's Ministry of Health, and inaugural Country Advocacy and Campaigns Manager for Plan International, Kenya Country office. Aggrey holds an advanced degree in Gender and development from the University of Nairobi and is also a recipient of various certificates for strategic professional courses including from INSEAD on Leading for Results, and a certificate in Policy and Legislative drafting by University of Johannesburg and TCA.

Thalia Beaty

Thalia Beaty is a reporter with The Associated Press covering nonprofits and philanthropy. She reports on the giving of billionaires, the nuances of nonprofit law and the social issues that nonprofits seek to address. An Arabic speaker, she has previously reported about the experience of asylum seekers who cross the Mediterranean. Thalia has also worked as a radio journalist.

Matthew Bishop

Advisor, author, innovator. Was editor/writer for 25 years at The Economist, including business editor. Book author (Philanthrocapitalism etc). Cofounder: Social Progress Index, #givingtuesday, 17 Rooms, Catalyst Now.

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of Panorama Group, a platform for social change comprised of three entities: Panorama Global, Panorama Strategy, and Panorama Action. Gabrielle created Panorama to maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions with audacious thinking and bold action.

With decades of experience in politics, policy, and philanthropy, Gabrielle has become a recognized voice and thought leader on catalytic philanthropy, women’s leadership, and pandemic preparedness and response.

Gabrielle holds an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a B.A. from American University.

Jim Fruchterman

Jim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, author, MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.

After starting two successful for-profit AI companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built tools which help people with disabilities read independently and human rights groups document and analyze abuses.

His current nonprofit projects include Aselo, a shared modern contact center for the crisis response field; Terraso, software for the people on the front line of the climate crisis; and the Better Deal for Data, a data governance reform movement. His first book is Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most Pressing Social Problems, MIT Press.

Jacob Harold

Jacob Harold is a social sector executive, advisor, and author. He served as CEO of GuideStar, cofounder of Candid, and as a staff leader at the Hewlett Foundation, Bridgespan, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network.

His book on social change strategy, The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, was published by Wiley in 2021. Harold studied ethics at Duke and earned an MBA at Stanford.

Allison Holder

Alison Holder is the Executive Director of Equal Measures 2030. She has over 20 years' experience in international development and the private sector, including leading policy, advocacy and campaigning work on issues ranging from inequality, tax justice, and corporate accountability with Action Aid, Oxfam, and Save the Children.

Isabelle Kamariza

Isabelle Kamariza is the founder of Solid'Africa, a Rwandan nonprofit transforming food security and public health. Since 2010, she has championed access to nutritious meals for vulnerable hospital patients, with Solid'Africa now serving three meals daily to over 1,700 patients across six public hospitals and benefiting over 100,000 people annually. In 2023, it entered a Public-Private Partnership with the Rwandan government to scale this model nationwide, and in 2024 partnered with the Ministry of Education to improve the National School Feeding Program, now providing daily meals to 7,500 students through a sustainable farm-to-fork model.

Isabelle's impact has earned global recognition, including the 2024 Global Citizen Disruptor of the Year, the Elevate Prize, the Cartier Women's Initiative Award, and the Forbes Woman Africa Social Impact Award. She is also an Ashoka, Imagine Leaders, and Praxis Fellow, and serves on the boards of the Segal Family Foundation and Panorama Global.

Jeremy Konyndyk

Jeremy Konyndyk is president of Refugees International. A committed humanitarian advocate and seasoned emergency operator, he has served in senior appointments in two U.S. administrations and in a range of U.S. and overseas NGO leadership positions.

Melanie LeGrande

Melanie LeGrande is the managing director of Panorama Strategy, a consulting firm that partners with organizations and leaders to turn their vision for social impact into a reality. She has more than two decades of social impact and communications experience across multiple sectors ranging from her work with Major League Baseball and the Baltimore Ravens (National Football League), Amazon Web Services, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Melanie holds the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP ) designation and earned a B.S. in marketing from Morgan State University and a M.S. from Georgia State University. She serves on the boards of Empowered Network and the International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy.

Elaine Martyn

Bio: Elaine Martyn has dedicated her career to the pursuit of justice, health, and dignity for all through strategic advocacy, policy, fundraising, and grantmaking in the US, Europe, Asia, and the United Kingdom. She serves as Senior Vice President for the Private Donor Group at Fidelity Charitable, where she oversees a philanthropic strategies team who support donors making over $10 billion in annual grants, and is passionate about family philanthropy, impact investing, international grant-making and values-based giving.

Ms. Martyn previously served in executive roles at Global Fund for Women, Refugees International, King's College London, the British Medical Association, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, and leverages these experiences to help ultra-high-net-worth donors achieve their family and philanthropic goals. Named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen and Save the Children's Centenary Changemakers for Children, she holds degrees from Gannon University and the University of Leeds, serves on multiple advisory boards, and is a frequent lecturer at Harvard Business School and Stanford University.

Michelle Milford Morse

Michelle Milford Morse is the United Nations Foundation’s Vice President for Girls and Women Strategy. She leads the Foundation’s organization-wide efforts to promote gender equality and the rights and agency of all girls and women, working in collaboration with the United Nations and its partners. Michelle has worked on global issues with a range of UN, private sector, and civil society partners, including the Gates Foundation, UNICEF USA, Sesame Workshop, the UBS Optimus Foundation, mothers2mothers, amFAR, ICRW, LIVESTRONG, and the University of Texas.

Michelle is the past chair of the Ann Richards School Foundation board and now serves on its Advisory Council. She serves on the Reykjavík Action Advisory Board, the Livestrong Foundation and the She Runs It Foundation boards, and is a member of the Global Advisory Council for the Miracle Foundation. Apolitical named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2021.

Beatrice Onyango

Based in Nairobi, Beatrice serves as Senior Equitable Giving Manager. She supports our partnerships work engaging peers in the funding community in the U.S. and globally. She also manages the African Visionary Fellowship, a revenue accelerator for select Segal grantee partners. Through the Fellowship, Beatrice connects grantee partners to financial and non-financial resources that enable them to grow their revenue and impact.

Beatrice has over a decade of experience supporting more than 100 organizations across Sub-Saharan Africa to build their organizational capacity, increase their fundraising resources, and manage relevant stakeholders. Prior to Segal Family Foundation, she worked at Acumen, where she provided support for the Acumen East Africa Fellows Program, a premier leadership development program for social change leaders. Before Acumen, she served as the President of AIESEC in Rwanda, working with university students to develop their leadership potential through global exchange programs and experiential learning activities. She also served as the public relations officer at the University of Rwanda’s College of Business and Economics (then School of Finance and Banking). Outside of work, Beatrice is a hiker, recreational runner, plant parent, and upcoming podcaster.

Sonia Park

Sonia Park is a Managing Director at Namati, where she leads global efforts in resource mobilization, partnerships, and communications. She focuses on weaving every facet of Namati’s work — from grassroots legal empowerment to national policy reform to global movement-building — into a unifying, inviting vision of justice that resonates with partners and supporters around the world. Prior to Namati, Sonia spent nearly a decade at Ashoka, where she founded the organization’s South Korea office and collaborated with teams in over 30 countries to support system-changing social entrepreneurs.

Jean Scrimgeour

Jean Scrimgeour leads Innovation & Operations as Co-CEO of Accountability Lab whose mission is to make governance work for people by supporting active citizens and accountable governance. With experience across the Americas and Africa, she has advanced civic innovation, youth engagement, and governance reform from grassroots initiatives in South Africa to continent-wide democratic frameworks. Jean brings a systems-change perspective to the accountability conversation, exploring how new models of collaboration, technology, and community-driven leadership can reshape the architecture of social impact for the future.

Kendall Turner

Kendall Turner is the Director of the Fund for Alternative Journalism and a professor with the Bard Prison Initiative, where she teaches classes on constitutional law to people earning their college degrees in prison. She also writes about gender and the law for various publications. Kendall previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland, taught at Stanford Law School and the University of Washington, and argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as other federal and state courts. She was recognized by Forbes as 30 under 30 in Law & Policy and is one of the youngest women ever to argue and win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.