Shruti Garg has worked across the nonprofit sector as a grantmaker, capacity builder, and consultant. Throughout her practice, she is committed to fostering effective and dynamic pathways for organizational resiliency. Currently a program officer at the James Irvine Foundation, she was most recently a consultant to nonprofits around the country, both in her independent practice and while at the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Shruti also oversaw Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)’s membership efforts as well as managed the Open Society Foundations (OSF)’s grantmaking to immigrant rights, racial justice, and low-wage worker rights organizations. Shruti graduated from Smith College and received her Master of Public Policy from the University of Southern California.

Suneela Jain is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Chief of Staff at Tides where she oversees Tides’ legal risk and compliance function, supporting organizational awareness and frameworks for risk management that center Tides’ mission and values. Prior to joining Tides, Suneela worked as an attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Gunderson Dettmer, and as a pro bono attorney at The Nature Conservancy. In those roles, she advised individuals, non-profits, and a range of private and public actors about issues relating to corporate governance, stakeholder relationships, investments, and structuring joint venture and other partnerships. At Cleary, she also advised small businesses as chair of the Microenterprise Project at Volunteers of Legal Services and served as a member of the Pro Bono, Diversity & Inclusion, and Mentoring Committees.

In addition to her role at The New Left Accelerator, Suneela is also a member of the Investment Committee at Realize Impact, and a member of the Ethics Task Force of the Council on Foundations. Suneela received her JD from Yale University, and her BA from UCLA.

As Justice Funders’ Senior Innovation Director, Mario partners with philanthropy and field practitioners to design, pilot, and scale both innovation and collective action that advances social movements through our Movement Commons Lab. Mario comes to the organization via Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), as well as Guidestar, where he held the position of Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is the founder of the movement-building technology platform Giving Side. In 2010, Mario co-founded the New American Leaders Project. He has held leadership positions at the Kapor Center for Social Impact and the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation. He built significant community organizing experience as the National Coordinator of Racial Justice 911 and at CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities in the Northwest Bronx. He is a graduate of Columbia University.

Marj Plumb, DrPH, MNA, (She/They) is a non-profit consultant, executive coach, and trainer specializing in public policy and policy advocacy, community engaged research and evaluation, strategic design, and organizational and leadership development. Marj served as Director of the Women’s Foundation of California’s Solis (formerly Women’s) Policy Institute (SPI) for 16 years, training over 500 diverse nonprofit cisgender women and trans leaders in public policy advocacy, passing 35 statewide bills into law. Marj has created other training programs focused on administrative policy advocacy, replication of the SPI in other states, and for specific communities.

Guillermo is the Executive Director and Managing Weaver of the Partnership for Democracy & Education, LLC helping facilitate synergy among various organizations and programs, weaving together 501c4, 501c3, and investment capital; organizing donors, funders, and investors towards more generative and democratic forms of politics and solidarity economy. Before joining The Partnership, he was Senior Fellow and Founder of the Independent Resource Generation (IRG) Hub at Amalgamated Foundation. Earlier and for several years, Guillermo was the Program Director for both the Solidago Foundation, a public charity, and the See Forward Fund, a 501c4 social welfare foundation where he contributed to the development of independent political organizations (IPOs). Guillermo currently serves on the boards of the Proteus Action League and the Boston Impact Initiative. Guillermo holds a Master in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Maya is the principal and founder of Mandala Change Group, a consulting practice that provides change management and organizational development strategy services with a DREI lens. Maya brings more than 20 years in philanthropy and working with nonprofit and public entities to support organizations and leaders in their efforts to align their organization’s practices, policies, and cultures to values-based mission and visions. She was previously the Director of Racial Equity Initiatives at Borealis Philanthropy where she led the Racial Equity in Philanthropy fund (REP), the Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) fund, which supports nonprofit organizations in advancing racial equity practices, and the Racial Equity in Journalism (REJ) fund. She spent nine years at the Women’s Foundation of California where she supported organizations doing systems-level change work at the intersection of gender and racial justice.