Meet the Firestarters
Courtney Ford
Chief Development Officer
Miami City Ballet
Laura Kaplan
Market President
BNY Mellon
Tania Castroverde Moskalenko
Executive Director
Miami City Ballet
Kirk Brown
CEO
Handy, Inc.
Lara Hein
Client Manager
UpMetrics
Ady Arguelles
Sr. Executive Director of Development, Research Preeminence & Innovation
FIU Foundation, Inc.
Gepsie Metellus
Co-Founder, Executive Director
Sant La, Haitian Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Dido Balla
Educator, Speaker, Entrepreneur
Goldie Hawn Foundation
Lori-Ann Cox
CEO, Board Member
Breakthrough Miami / National Breakthrough DEI Initiative
Michael Hughes
Development Director
The Wolfsonian–FIU
Dr. Woody
Organizational Psychologist, Executive Coach, Media Personality
Gerald Grant Jr
Financial Planner
Equitable Advisors
Lindsey Cimochowski
Director of Operations & Administration, Development and Alumni Relations
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Kerry-Ann Royes
CEO
YWCA South Florida
Darrell Booker
Corporate Affairs Specialist, Non Profit Tech Acceleration for Black and African American Communities
MIcrosoft Philanthropies
Flavia Llizo
Co-President and Chief Development Officer
Jackson Health Foundation
Jennifer Filla
CEO
Aspire Research Group LLC
Matthew Anderson
Executive Director
MCCJ
Glenn Kaufhold
Principal
GKollaborative
Ruth Ramirez
Senior Director of Collaborative Philanthropy
The Miami Foundation
Tina Brown
CEO
Overtown Youth Center
Janice Graham
Myriam Masihy
Investigative Reporter
Telemundo 51, NBC 6
Dr. Emmanuele A. Bowles
Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Florida International University
Meg Daly
President and CEO
Friends of the Underline
Faequa Khan
Florida Muslim Bar Association
LaKeisha Wells-Palmer
Executive Director
Teach For America Florida Regions
Nikki Packer, CAP
VP Sr. Philanthropic Specialist, Southern Region
Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management
Alexandra Mandado
President and CEO
Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida
Symeria T. Hudson, MBA
President & CEO
Chapman Partnership
Andreina Weischelbaumer
Senior Program Manager of Culture & Strategy
Radical Partners
Ana Martinez
Assistant VP of Development
Miami Dade College Foundation
Orlando Gonzalez
Executive Director
Safeguarding American Values for Everyone (SAVE/SAVE Dade)
Pamela Fuertes
Executive Director
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Steven L. Schwartz
Principal Advisor
Philanthropic Visions
Howard Lipman
CEO
FIU Foundation, Inc.
Omrit Shimoni
Director of Quality Assurance
Jewish Community Services of South Florida, Inc.
David Silver
Founder
Silver Miller
Elizabeth Simonton
Co-Founder and CEO
ICU Baby
Luisana Zambrano
Program Manager
Radical Partners
Joan Marie Godoy
Executive Director
Radical Partners
Gale S. Nelson, M.S.
President and CEO
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami
Germaine Smith-Baugh, Ed.D.
President & CEO
Urban League of Broward County