Grassroots International’s diverse Board of Directors brings deep experience working for human rights, global justice and international philanthropy. Meet the Board…
Mijo Lee is the Executive Director at Social Justice Fund Northwest in Seattle. In her previous role as Program Director at SJF, she helped develop and establish an innovative Giving Project model of grassroots funding and donor organizing. Mijo graduated...
Sam Vinal lives in Los Angeles, California/occupied Tongva land. Sam is a filmmaker whose work consists of documentary and narrative projects grounded in the sociopolitical landscape. He found the medium as a means to combine his passion for the beautiful...
Kalila has over a decade of experience in community organizing around affordable housing, land development, and environmental justice. She served as the Executive Director at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) for eight years. Before joining ACE in 2009, she...
As a young graduate of Barnard College, Janet Axelrod became the first employee at the Haymarket Peoples Fund in Boston, where she began her fundraising and grantmaking career. She was a producer of Amandla, a 1979 concert featuring Bob Marley...
Nidal Al-Azraq is a Palestinian refugee who was born and raised in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, the West Bank, Palestine. He is currently working as the executive director of 1for3.org, a US based organization that focuses on water, food,...
Jesenia A. Santana has over 15 years of experience dedicated to intersectional liberatory movements centering racial and gender justice. She is currently the Senior Resource Strategist with Solidaire Network where she works to mobilize resources for and build trusted relationships...
Maria Aguiar was, until spring of 2016, technical support staff for La Via Campesina at the international level on several internal organizational work teams and supported La Via Campesina North America Region. She is a Brazilian by birth, and has...
Ninaj Raoul is a co-founder and community organizer at Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) in New York, an organization founded in 1992 to respond to the human needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants in the U.S., fleeing persecution. Through education,...
Sam Jacobs is a movement donor and works in resource development at the Right to the City Alliance. Sam focuses his funding efforts on grassroots social movements that challenge white supremacy, colonialism, and corporations that threaten democracy and public health....
Denise Perry is a longtime community and labor activist and the Director and co-founder of Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD).
M. Brinton Lykes, PhD, is Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. She has worked with survivors of war and gross violations of human rights for over three decades....
Kathy Mulvey has a quarter century of experience in strategic corporate research, policy analysis, and campaigning and advocacy.
Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown has worked to strengthen movements for social justice as an organizer, fundraiser, artist, trainer and consultant since the late 90s. He is currently the Development Coordinator at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ). Sha worked with Committee In...
Diala Shamas is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her areas of practice include...
