Experience
Work & Projects
Principal
Freedom Futures
Nov 2020 - Present
New York, NY
Freedom Futures fuels the frontlines of social justice by flanking clients in moving money to organizations, coalitions, leaders, and movements.
We help clients transform their individual and institutional values to align with Black liberation, social justice and self determination for all.
We provide advising, consulting, coaching and strategy development to clients working across public and private sectors, including foundations, nonprofit organizations, family philanthropies and high net-worth individuals.
Senior Advisor, Liberated Capital
Decolonizing Wealth Project
Jun 2020 - Present
New York, NY
Incubated by Decolonizing Wealth Project, Liberated Capital is a donor community and funding vehicle aimed at moving untethered resources to Black, Indigenous and other people-of-color communities for liberation and racial healing. As Senior Advisor, Will has supported the development of funding initiatives aimed at resourcing repair and healing. This includes the Case 4 Reparations Fund.
Board Member
Tides Advocacy
Tides Advocacy is a team of political, legal and financial experts that identify, connect, and fuel movements for social justice and the health of democracy. Tides Advocacy helps with strategy development, legal guidance, and the infrastructure to quickly establish, scale, and run high-impact advocacy initiatives and funds.
Jun 2021 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Board Trustee
HILL-SNOWDON FOUNDATION
The Hill-Snowdon Foundation, founded in 1959, envisions a fair and just society for low-income families, particularly youth of color and no-and low-wage workers. Our mission is to work with low-income families and communities to create a fair and just society by helping them develop the capacity and leadership skills necessary to influence the decisions that shape their lives.
Jun 2020 - Present
Washington, DC
Director,
Reparative Action Fund
Satterberg Foundation
Sep 2020 - Jan 2024
Seattle, Washington
The Reparative Action Fund (RAF) is Satterberg Foundation’s first national grantmaking program. RAF is committed to redistributing at least $50 million over 10 years to help strengthen the efforts of Black and Indigenous-led community organizing for freedom – and it is done with an intention to repairing some of the harm caused by centuries of anti-Blackness and extraction from Native peoples. This $50 million is over and above Satterberg Foundation’s annual grantmaking of $35+ million through our Core Support Program.
Member, Economic Justice Advisory Committee
Provide best thinking on economic justice issues and ways NPQ can be effective in promoting conversations in nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
Greater Boston Area
Nonprofit Quarterly
Donor Advisor & Consultant
Leverage Philanthropic Partners
Since 2011, Leverage Philanthropic Partners has worked to advance social impact by providing capacity building to foundations, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists.
We create space for institutional and individual transformation that advances equity and social change through organizational, philanthropic and social impact.
May 2020 - Dec 2021
New York, NY
Facilitator & Curriculum Advisor for the Global Engagement Lab
EDGE Funders Alliance is a globally-focused network that organizes within philanthropy to raise awareness and deepen understanding of the interconnected nature of the social, economic and ecological crises threatening our common future. EDGE works to increase resources for communities and movements creating systemic change alternatives for a transition to a society that supports justice, equity and the well-being of the planet. The Global Engagement Lab is a six-month program for co-learning, collaboration, and practice building of funders working across various issues and living in different countries around the world--challenging systems of oppression, including poverty, racism, sexism, colonialism, and environmental extraction.
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Brussels Area, Belgium
EDGE Funders Alliance
Member of the Board of Directors
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Currently serve as Chair of the Development Committee where I lead the board's effort in donor cultivation and solicitation to support strengthening the foundation's organizational capacity. As a voting member of the board of directors, I help to develop policies, procedures, and regulations for the operation of Astraea; monitor finances, its programs and performance; and actively participate in fundraising activities.
Jun 2013 - Oct 2020
New York, NY
Program Officer, Racial Justice
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Formerly Wellspring Advisors, LLC
Jun 2017 - May 2020
New York, NY
Program Officer, Strong Local Economies
May 2015 - May 2017
New York, NY
Surdna Foundation
Advance grantmaking aimed at creating robust and sustainable economies that include a diversity of vibrant businesses and sectors, improved access to quality jobs for low to moderate income individuals, people of color, women, and immigrant populations (the Program’s priority communities), economic development practices that produce equitable outcomes, improved job quality in existing low-wage income structures, and ultimately, opportunities for economic stability and upward mobility.
Program Officer
Marguerite Casey Foundation
As Program Officer, I staff the Foundation’s grantmaking programs in the Southern region. I steward of resources in the Foundation’s grantmaking programs; coordinate required grantmaking efforts; contribute to yearly regional and cross-regional assessments of grantee progress based on defined indicators; and identify opportunities to enhance and leverage the Foundation’s work.
May 2012 - Apr 2015
Seattle, WA
Senior Development Officer, Southern Region
Amnesty International USA
As Senior Development Officer for the Southern region, I manage the organization’s relationships with its major donors across 11 Southern states; stewarding individual relationships to our human rights work and cultivating their long-term giving to Amnesty. My specific duties include identifying and researching existing donors, executing major gift campaigns, developing a fundraising & cultivation plan and event budgets, as well as providing systematic feedback to the local field management, volunteers, donors and the major gifts group.
Apr 2008 - May 2012
Atlanta, GA
Development Director, Executive Leadership Team
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
I oversaw all aspects of Project South’s revenue streams—foundation relationships, membership, major donors, publications, and fee-for-service. Its constituency and membership consists primarily of low-income and working middle class families across the Southeast and the US. All major gifts to the organization—individual, organizational, and foundation—are solicited and secured through personal relationships.
May 2003 - May 2008
Atlanta, GA