Publications
Philanthropy and Culture Change
A Sector in Need of Rebirth, Part One: On the Precipice of Change, Center for Effective Philanthropy, October 2023.
A Sector in Need of Rebirth, Part Two: Shedding Old Ways, Center for Effective Philanthropy, October 2023.
Words Matter: Defining Sustainability and Equity for a More Just World, Center for Effective Philanthropy, February 7, 2023.
The Importance of Distinguishing Safety from Comfort in Changing Workplace Culture, Medium, January 29, 2023.
How To Develop a Strong Vision to Deepen a Nonprofit’s Impact, Maine Biz, September 2021
Zip Codes Don’t Kill People—Racism Does, Health Affairs Blog, November 29, 2018 (One of 5 most read Health Affairs blogs of 2018)
Health Philanthropy’s Shift to Equity: Let’s Address the Scaffolding that Buttresses the Injustices, Health Affairs Blog, March 29, 2018.
Co-authored
· Las Chicas Are Not Alright: Lessons for Organizational Culture Change, with M. Cristina Alcalde, Medium, April 16, 2022.
· Two Maine Health Foundation Leaders Discuss their Organizations’ Racial Equity Journey, Health Affairs blog, March 21, 2021, with Barbara Leonard
· Star Trek Discovery: 10 Lessons for Imagining and Designing a Truly Different Future, with Attica Scott, Medium, July 20, 2021.
· Transnational Considerations in Equity Work in Three Contexts: Higher Education, Philanthropy and Public Policy, Integral Leadership Review, with Cristina Alcalde and Gonzalo Alcalde, June 2019.
· A Southern Foundation’s Journey Towards Equity, Views from the Field, Grantmakers in Health, January 29, 2019, with Mark Constantine
· Investing in Policy and Advocacy: A Foundation Shares Lessons Learned, Health Affairs Blog, June 2017, with Maggie Jones
Reports
Integrating Care for Better Health: Charting a Course Together for Better Health for All Kentuckians, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, September 2012.
Health Care Price Transparency: A Meeting of the Minds in Kentucky, Health Affairs Blog, December 8, 2015
How to Build Healthy Places Through Cross-Sector Collaboration, Health Affairs Blog, October 7, 2015
Community Health Workers Attend Convening Cosponsored by a Foundation, Health Affairs Blog, September 30, 2014
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Family planning experiences and perceptions of access: Latina immigrants in a new settlement state, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2012.
Presentations
Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy: A conversation about heartbreak and hope in philanthropy. September 2023.
“The Elephant in the Room: Funder listening for the collective good,” Feedback Labs annual summit, funder plenary, Atlanta, GA. February 9, 2023.
Maine Development Foundation, Annual Meeting, “Strength In Community,” keynote. September 23, 2022.
Strategies for Shifting Power from Funder-Driven to Community-Driven, with Lauress Lawrence, Fowsia Musse, and Lisa Sockabasin. Tamarack Institute, August 24, 2022.
Invited speaker on racial equity and trust-based philanthropy, Pivotal Ventures, May 3, 2022.
“Confronting Historical Power Imbalances in Philanthropy” 2022 Northeast Trust-based Philanthropy Cohort Session. A Trust-based Philanthropy Project, Philanthropy Network, Philanthropy New York collaboration. April 7, 2022.
“Centering Equity and Power-sharing in Philanthropic Practices, Culture, Structures, and Leadership”, Trust-based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series. Trust-based Philanthropy Project and BlueSky Funders. March 31, 2022.
“The Power of Relationships to Build Equity and Change Systems,” Council of Foundations Leading Together conference, June 16, 2021. (with Shima Kabirigi, Lauress Laurence and Barbara Leonard)
“Trust-based Philanthropy Project: The Values, Culture, and Practices of Trust-based Philanthropy,” 2021 Philanthropy Partners Conference, Maine Philanthropy Center, May 18, 2021. (with Ian Yaffe and Shaady Salehi)
“Ethos of TBP: Reimagining Funder Roles,” Trust-based Philanthropy Project webinar series Ethos of TBP, April 27, 2021.
“Building a Trust-based Culture Among Staff and Board,” Blue Sky Funders Trust-based philanthropy webinar series, April 21, 2021.
Panelist, A Conversation with Edgar Villanueva and The 2019 Funders Forum, Maine Philanthropy Center, September 26, 2019.
Equity in Philanthropy, speaker for the Terrance Keenan Institute reunion, Grantmakers in Health annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 20, 2018.
“A Southern Foundation’s Equity Journey,” Health Equity Funder Network Breakfast, Grantmakers in Health annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 2018.
“Philanthropy’s Equity Imperative,” 2017 Southeastern Council of Foundations, Orlando, Florida, November 15, 2017.
“Equity in Rural Kentucky,” panel presentation at the Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conference, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, February 2017.
“The ACA and Philanthropy: Strategies to Support Implementation,” 2014 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 17, 2014.
“Latina Immigrants’ Perceptions of Access to Family Planning in a New Settlement state,” 141st American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 2013.
“Health Equity and Public Health,” Kentucky Public Health Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 27, 2013.
“Health Equity in the Affordable Care Act,” Kentuckiana Black Nurses Association training, Louisville, Kentucky, September 25, 2012.
“Reproductive Justice as a Public Health Tool to Improve the Reproductive Health of Latina Immigrants”, 138th American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, November 8, 2010.
“Reproductive Justice: Deepening Our Understanding of the Interplay of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Reproductive Health,” 11th Ending Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Annual Conference, Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs and Kentucky Domestic Violence Association, Lexington, Kentucky, December 2, 2009.
“Reproductive Health and Domestic Violence: The Issue of Pregnancy in Intimate Partner Violence,” Kentucky Domestic Violence Association Training Institute (4-hour workshop), Frankfort, Kentucky, June 18 and August 28, 2009.
“Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal Mortality,” Issues in Maternal Mortality in Kentucky, Kentucky Section American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Kentucky Medical Association, April 28, 2006.
“Breastfeeding, Health, and the Economy: Challenges and Benefits,” Kentucky Public Health Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 20, 2005.
“The Changing Face of Kentucky,” Kentucky Public Health Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 20, 2005.
“Child Fatality Review: Current Status of Legal Mandates,” poster presentation, ATPM Annual Conference: Teaching Prevention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 28, 2003.
“Child Fatality Review in the United States,” with Nanette Elster, Sixth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 15, 2002.
“Child Fatality Review: Current Legal Mandates,” with Nanette Elster, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA, April 15, 2002.
“Public Health and Clinical Trials: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities,” Bioethics, Minorities and the Law: Rights and Remedies, an American Bar Association and Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care Conference, Tuskegee, AL, April 5, 2002.
“Disparities in Reproductive Health: Impact on racial and ethnic minorities”, with Nanette Elster, National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Louisville, KY, November 9, 2001.