Beth Grupp has been raising money and serving as an organizational expert for over three decades. She founded Beth Grupp Associates in 1996 and works nationally and internationally providing best-in-class expertise on growing bottom-line revenue and increasing organizational effectiveness. Beth is recognized as an innovative leader in fundraising strategy, organizational capacity building, and board development.

Before opening her own firm, Beth was the Finance Director for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) in both his 1988 and 1994 races and some of the programs she has run have broken national records. She went on to work in the races of Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), John Kerry (D-MA), and Ron Wyden (D-ORE), among others.

Her clients range from those with portfolios of $100 million to portfolios of $100,000. Beth has a particular commitment to encouraging others to becoming more adept at fundraising skills through training and executive coaching. Over the years she has trained hundreds of people at all levels of skill and experience.

Beth was educated at Cornell University in New York where she received a B.A. in an independent major entitled “The Use and Abuse of Power.” She is also the recipient of the 1984 Cornell Peace Studies Award.

Beth was raised in New York City and has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1985.

Darrick Hamilton  is chief economist at the AFL-CIO. He also serves as Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy and the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at The New School. He is the former Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. In addition, Professor Hamilton holds a primary faculty appointment in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, with courtesy appointments in the departments of economics and sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Hamilton is a pioneer and internationally recognized scholar in the field of stratification economics, which fuses social science methods to examine the causes, consequences and remedies of racial, gender, ethnic, tribal, nativity, etc. inequality in education, economic and health outcomes. This work involves crafting and implementing innovative routes and policies that break down social hierarchy, empower people, and move society towards greater equity, inclusion, and civic participation.

Joan Marsh, now retired, was AT&T’s Chief Regulatory and State External Affairs Officer, responsible for federal regulatory relations, state external and legislative affairs and the national regulatory organization supporting AT&T.

In 2016, Ms. Marsh was named SVP – Federal Regulatory; and in 2007, she was named VP – Federal Regulatory, with responsibility for AT&T’s wireless, spectrum and public safety regulatory affairs. From 1997 to 1999, she served as Senior Regional Attorney for AT&T in its Chicago offices, representing AT&T before various state public utilities commissions in the Midwest.

Ms. Marsh is active in the community, particularly in mentoring women as they launch or build their careers. She participates in the Year-Up mentoring program, which empowers low-income young adults to transition to professional careers, as well as American Corporate Partners, which helps retiring veterans transition to the private sector through mentoring, networking, and career advice. She is also on the Board of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in DC.

Prior to joining AT&T, Ms. Marsh spent five years as a trial litigator with the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. She received a J.D. with Honors from the University of Southern California Law Center in Los Angeles in 1990 and upon graduation was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward Rafeedie of the U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Marsh received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986.

Anne Mosle is a vice president and executive director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute and also serves as co-chair of the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls. As a leader in building pathways to opportunity for children, women, and families with low incomes, her expertise is in the sweet spot of policy, practice, and philanthropy, and she has been a catalytic force in the two-generation approach and leadership strategies for child and family well-being. Among other roles, Mosle was previously a vice president and officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she led Family Economic Security, Civic and Philanthropic Engagement, and Impact Investing teams, and was president of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation. She serves on the board of American Public Human Services Association, Institute for Women’s Policy Research Institute as well as a trusted advisor to numerous public, private, and philanthropic efforts focused on creating intergenerational economic mobility.

Executive Director/CEO and Co-Founder of MomsRising, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner has been deeply involved in grassroots engagement and policy analysis for more than two decades. Rowe-Finkbeiner is a frequent public speaker, radio host of the nationally syndicated program, Breaking Through; and an award-winning author of books, including The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy and The Motherhood Manifesto, which she co-authored with MomsRising co-founder and board President Joan Blades. Her most recent book is Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World.

Rowe-Finkbeiner has received numerous accolades for her work. Among them are: Spirit of Motherhood Award from the Maternity Care Coalition; the 2014 Spirit Black Civic Participation 2014 Spirit of Democracy, Community Empowerment & Social Innovation Leadership Award; 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award; National Priorities Project Democracy Champion Award; Center for Women & Healthcare Heroine award; SheKnows named her as one of Ten Inspiring Moms, as well as a Prime Mover; and she received the Washing State League of Women Voters Good in Government Award; and ParentMap Magazine’s “Super Hero” award. Her awards for writing include the Society for Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award for magazine writing, the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Award, as well as an award from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Paula Sammons is National Program Officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, with expertise in family economic security. She has over 25 years of experience in philanthropy, with the majority of her career focused in family economic security. She is currently leading a portfolio of $53 million.

Paula has led multiple national family-centered programmatic and policy change initiatives, including “A Whole Family Approach to Jobs,” “Parents and Children Thriving Together,” and “Supporting Transitions to Employment for Parents.” She also led the development of family-centered coaching, a trauma informed coaching toolkit based on the latest brain research and behavioral economics that is being scaled across the country. Additionally, she was also co-chair of the Working Families Success Network. She is a licensed master’s social worker by training with 7 years’ experience in counseling and therapy.

Earlier, Paula worked in various sectors including the banking industry, secondary education, higher education, retail sales, and nonprofits. She currently serves on the Children, Youth, and Families Funders Roundtable, as well as previously on Workforce Matters, Economic Opportunity Funders, and the Earned Income Tax Funders Network. She has over 15 years serving on boards.

Daisy Chin-Lor has served as a leader, advisor, and role model for Fortune 100 companies throughout her career. She is a longstanding advocate for women through service on the Board of Directors of IWPR, the American Institute for Managing Diversity, and the Council of Asian American Women. Daisy is a transformational business leader with deep experience in quickly adapting to a changing marketplace, assessing the landscape and identifying the strategy, people and processes to bring the highest value to the organization. Over the course of Daisy’s career, she has proven to be an accomplished strategic marketer with an outstanding track record in fast paced, competitive global brands. She is best known for her visionary and global thinking while being cognizant of local requisites. She led multinational companies in growth strategies, global business initiatives, operational excellence, and leadership team development.

Monique Garcia Rizer is a Vice President at a social impact consulting firm where she leads and advises on a range of projects related to economic mobility and brings unique lived and learned expertise to her work. She has advised major philanthropies and nonprofits on new research initiatives related to economic mobility, investment strategies to increase Black equity, and advises a place-based family philanthropic office, among many other areas of work. Prior to this role, Monique was a nonprofit leader, having served as the regional executive director of a youth development nonprofit that provided workforce readiness skill development, evidence-based programming, and rigorous work-based learning experiences to nearly 800 youth and young adults in six school districts.

She previously led a national coalition that developed and relaunched an Opportunity Index and secured partnerships with social science researchers and the media to tell the story of opportunity in America. She also previously created and grew a workforce program for military spouses who are predominantly women and has written extensively about career transitions in the military community.

Monique’s lived experiences and professional work on economic opportunity have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise Magazine, and the Washington Business Journal, as well as at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Biden Institute, among others. She is a first-generation college graduate and an inaugural Gates Millennium Scholar. She earned a B.A. from Gonzaga University and an M.S. from Syracuse University. Monique is a mom to three children and her eldest serves as an officer in the Army National Guard.

Jocelyn Frye is President of the National Partnership for Women & Families. Under her leadership, the organization is focused on advancing economic justice, affordable and equitable health care, civil rights, and reproductive freedom for women who face the steepest barriers—including women of color, women with the lowest incomes, women with disabilities, and transgender women.

Prior to taking the helm of the National Partnership, Frye was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), one of the country’s foremost progressive think tanks. In that role, she shaped policy development for CAP’s Women’s Initiative across a wide range of issues—including narrowing the gender pay gap, improving women’s employment opportunities and economic stability, combating gender-based discrimination and gender-based violence, and addressing the Black maternal health crisis.

Before joining CAP, Frye served in the White House during the administration of Barack Obama. As Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Special Projects for the First Lady, she oversaw a broad issue portfolio focused on improving the lives of women and families. She helped lead the two signature initiatives of then-First Lady Michelle Obama: tackling childhood obesity and supporting military families. She also played an important part in fostering career development opportunities for young women through the White House Leadership and Mentoring Initiative.
Frye’s current tenure at the National Partnership marks her second stint with the organization. She previously acted as the National Partnership’s General Counsel, concentrating on employment and discrimination issues facing women of color and low-income women. Furthermore, she helped spearhead the organization’s advocacy around judicial nominations and the Supreme Court.

Frye began her legal career at the firm of Crowell & Moring. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.

Lee Christian Parker is an Executive Director and Banker at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Lee works closely with some of the most influential clients in the Washington, DC area, including diverse business founders, women wealth creators, and endowments and foundations. She serves as a powerful champion in connecting clients with the full force of J.P. Morgan so that they may grow and protect their assets, and establish important legacies for future generations.

Lee has found that for many clients, wealth reflects their talent, innovation and entrepreneurship, and is a source of social impact that enhances strong communities. She leads with advice driven by a genuine appreciation for their investment in growing a thriving business and the effect these financial decisions can have on their personal balance sheets.

By employing a layered and multidisciplinary approach, Lee surrounds clients with a team of specialists to curate strategies for the opportunities and challenges they face. She views her role as a partner in their success, introducing them to like-minded individuals, other lines of business and external stakeholders to share inventive and groundbreaking ideas. Her leadership within the community parallels these ideals, and she is a board member of the National Black Child Development Institute and an advisory board member of The BOW Collective.

Before joining J.P. Morgan, Lee was a Senior Vice President and Philanthropic Client Manager at Bank of America Private Bank. Previously, she directed philanthropic advisory services for the Greater Washington Community Foundation. She holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland.