I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in South Florida. My family and I fled Venezuela due to its political turmoil, hoping to create a better future in the U.S. From an early age, I understood the importance of community, our interconnectedness, and our relationship with the natural world. My career has spanned various sectors including education, non-profit programming, direct services, and event management. After completing my graduate studies in Community and Social change, I made it my goal to find a job aligned with my values of collaboration, love, freedom, and innovation. LLC’s work inspires me to lean into my curiosity, lead with kindness, explore “just work in just ways” in our community, and continue to become my best version. I am a beach lover, dog mom, and adventure seeker who loves to travel, listen to music, learn new skills, and meet new people.

I was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Feldafing, Germany where my parents (both survivors of concentration camps) met. I believe history is one of the things that inform who we are, and that history has shaped me. I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and was raised in a family who were vigilant about injustice, in all its shapes and forms. I feel so fortunate to be part of a team committed to joyful learning, sharing that learning with a goal of creating a more just world where the voices of those most impacted are at the forefront.

Beth is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media, philanthropy, wellbeing in the workplace and training. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for thousands of social change activists and nonprofits on every continent in the world. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop leader. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. She is the author of the award winning Networked Nonprofit Books and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout (http://bit.ly/happyhealthynpbook) published by J.Wiley. She writes “Beth’s Blog,” one of the first nonprofit blogs. Her clients include foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Daniel Lim is a queer social change maker of Chinese descent who was born in Myanmar and raised in an immigrant, working-class family in Brooklyn, New York (Lenapehoking). These identities and the respective positions of privilege and oppression that he occupies shape his work as Founder and Principal of Daniel Lim Consulting, a social justice consulting firm that partners with organizations and communities to build regenerative and liberatory cultures. His practice is strongly rooted in the wisdom of living systems and teachings of Black- and indigenous-led liberation and sovereignty movements. Daniel’s passion in life is to advance collective liberation for all our relations, help human beings belong to the earth again and support them to live in a reciprocal, mutual care-taking relationship with each other and our more-than-human kin. He studied ecology, ecological design and community development at the University of Vermont (B.S. Natural Resources, McNair Scholar), and community-based planning, environmental justice, and disaster planning at Pratt Institute (M.S. City and Regional Planning).

Duchesne serves as President at Minnesota Public Radio. Duchesne Drew leads strategy, programming and daily operations serving MPR’s growing regional audiences through MPR News, Classical MPR, The Current and MPR’s rapidly expanding digital, social and mobile services. Drew came to MPR from the Bush Foundation, where he led the foundation’s leadership programs, community innovation and communication teams and built networks across the region as its Community Network vice president. Prior to his role at Bush Foundation, Drew was managing editor of operations at the Star Tribune, where he began as a summer intern and rose to one of the most senior roles in the newsroom. Last year, he was honored with the Widening the Circle Award by ThreeSixty Journalism, recognizing individuals who have contributed to the next generation of journalists, particularly while promoting inclusion and diversity.

Linshuang (pronounced “Lin-Shang”) Lu, MSOD, is a Principal at Praxis Consulting Group. She currently provides organization development, strategic planning, leadership development and culture change services to nonprofits and employee-owned companies. She is passionate about helping organizations develop their leaders and foster deeper staff engagement in order to create better workplaces and achieve greater impact. Linshuang plays an active role in the nonprofit and employee ownership communities. She regularly speaks at regional and national conferences, and writing on leadership development and culture topics. Linshuang also serves on the Board of the Untours Foundation and is a Steering Committee Member of Philadelphia’s INTERGEN. Linshuang teaches a master’s level course on Team Dynamics at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and financial leadership in the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) Certificate Program at Bryn Mawr College. Linshuang holds a Master of Science in Organization Development from American University.

Krystal is a Queer Femme Nuyorican. As a youth she co-founded FIERCE, an LGBTQ youth of color community based organization, to fight against the impacts of gentrification and policing in the West Village. At 19 she left New York and lived for several years in Oahu, Hawaii and San Diego, California where she worked in the areas of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS prevention and youth development. Longing for her political home, she returned to NYC in 2008 to work at FIERCE. After transitioning out of her role as Co-Director in 2015 she continued to support the movement as a consultant. She has also had the great privilege of working at Communities United for Police Reform as the Operations Coordinator and served as the Interim Deputy Director at CAAAV Summer 2017 – Winter 2018. There she supported the organizers professional development, assessed programs, created infrastructure to make critical shifts, and supported the onboarding of the new Executive Director. As a consultant, she brings her knowledge of organizational development, leadership development, fundraising, and facilitation to support grassroots organizations to build their capacity and functionality. Her approach to consulting draws from the skills she cultivated while working for social justice organizations that are rooted in an anti-oppression and intersectional analysis. Krystal also sits on the North Star Fund’s Community Funding Committee. Outside of her commitment to social justice and work life, Krystal enjoys reading, cooking, running and perfecting her winged eyeliner!

Lisa Leverette is a Detroit-based Change Orchestrator. Her experience spans over 25 years and is concentrated upon utilizing the framework of relationship building and an equity lens to identify and eliminate barriers to success, manage and change systems to improve conditions, opportunities and odds for marginalized groups and communities. Lisa currently manages Community Connections Grant Program, a philanthropic intermediary working in partnership with institutions, foundations and communities to re-grant funds to increase the capacity of institutions and grassroots groups to act and achieve relevant and transformational change. Miss Leverette serves on several local and national boards and development exchanges including co-founder and design team member, Transforming Power Fund (TPF), Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL) fellow, Grassroots Grantmakers and 1Michigan for immigrant rights, board member and chairperson of the International Committee for Self-Development of People (SDOP). Lisa enjoys traveling, listening to house music, and loves the city of Detroit.Lisa has a B.S. in Psychology from Michigan State University and M.A. in Applied Social Science from Eastern Michigan University.