Meet the Spring 2024 Class of Board Service Fellows

This cohort represented a talented, passionate group of leaders across the United States

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Our Spring 2024 Cohort

This class of Cause Strategy Partners Board Service Fellows brings a wide variety of skills, experiences, and identities to their roles as nonprofit board members.

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Jordan AdamsArtist Services Program Manager

The Indiana Arts Commission

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Ayo AkandeVice President of Software Engineering

Dell Technologies

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Mariah BerrySenior Associate

Muskat Devine LLP

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Jennifer ButlerAssociate Director, IPM Site Procurement - STA

Lilly

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Constance CannonStrategic Customer Success Manager

Productboard

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Dominique GeorgeUS Assurance Learning Delivery Leader

Ernst & Young

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Leslie HardyDirector, Inclusion & Diversity

Pinterest

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Ericka HylickPatient Advocacy Liaison, Rare Disease

UCB

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Sri Divya KotteSenior Manager

Discover Financial Services

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Shahrzad MakaremiDirector of Operations

Array Education

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Rodney MaysProject Director, Project Management Office

Georgia Lottery

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Nigel PintoDirector, Research & Development

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc

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Ramya RavichandranAssociate Director

APCO

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James StratfordChief Strategy Officer

FAN4Kids (Fitness and Nutrition for Kids)

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Nina Terrero GrothLead Pipeline Manager, Target Accelerators

Target Corporation

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Chrishana WhiteDirector of Equity

Reading Partners

About the Fellowship

The Fellowship was born out of our commitment to advancing authentic leadership on nonprofit boards. This experience is designed to connect leaders of color across the United States to nonprofit board roles through BoardLead, and once elected, provide the training and support needed to thrive.

Since 2020, our team has designed ways to strengthen our board matching and training program to address the lack of racial diversity on our country’s boards. Through our efforts, 56% of the professionals that we have placed on nonprofit boards most recently through our award-winning matching program, BoardLead identify as people of color – leaps ahead of the national average of 22%.

The Fellowship represents the next phase of BoardLead's mission to elevate and transform leadership in the social good sector. Through this, we commit to ensuring that nonprofit boards represent and are led by the communities they serve by creating pipelines to positions of power for historically underrepresented identities in the boardroom.

Congratulations to the new class of fellows - your board service journey is just beginning!

Interested in joining our next cohort?

Contact us to learn more about how you can apply for our Fall 2024 Fellowship.

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