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Had to look up the Borealis Foundation.

Here's their cadre;

http://www.borealisphilanthropy.org/#!staff/cfvg

Staff

ABOUT BOREALIS

Magui Rubalcava Shulman

President

Borealis Philanthropy was founded by Magui Rubalcava Shulman, a seasoned professional with 22 years experience in local and national philanthropy and close to 15 years in senior leadership with two philanthropic intermediaries. Magui is passionate about the role of intermediaries in helping funders be more effective.

Most recently, Magui led the Four Freedoms Fund, the major driver of immigration reform funding and policy advocacy on behalf of immigrants in the U.S., raising over $90 million in 8 years and quadrupling the size of the Fund from $4 million to over $16 million a year in 2014. Prior to that, she also helped launch and lead the Funders Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities, engaging over 100 local, national and transnational funders in the project (and exceeding the project’s $16.5 million fundraising goal in three and a half years) to build the capacity of Latino nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Latin America. Magui’s earlier experience includes working with the New York Community Trust, Otto Bremer Foundation and the General Mills Foundation. In 2003, Magui was honored as a co-recipient of the Council on Foundations’ Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking.

Magui received her graduate degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego. She also studied at Keski-Suomen Opisto in Suolahti, Finland.

The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Magui grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three kids.

Rickke Mananzala

Program Officer

Rickke has been involved in racial, economic, and gender justice advocacy and grassroots organizing for over 15 years. Prior to joining the Borealis Philanthropy team in August 2015, he was an independent consultant for community-based organizations and philanthropic institutions focusing on organizing strategy, policy analysis, program design, and organizational development. He previously served as the Executive Director of FIERCE, a grassroots organization for LGBTQ youth of color in New York City. As a former New Voices Fellow at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, he worked to integrate legal services, litigation, policy advocacy, and organizing strategies by and for low-income transgender people in New York City. Rickke was a founding board member of the Right to the City Alliance and he served on the board of the Third Wave Foundation where he helped develop grant-making strategies to support feminist youth organizing work nationally. He received his B.A. in political science from Columbia University and Master of Public Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs with a focus on urban policy and management.

Alejandra Martinez

Program Associate

Alejandra has experience in the non-profit sector in both administrative and programmatic capacities. As a Program Assistant to the Four Freedoms Fund, she helped to manage grants and provide logistical support on various convenings. Alejandra also worked in the literacy and development programs of the Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA) in Rhode Island. In 2008, Alejandra received training from the Center for Third World Organizing and interned as a community organizer at the Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action in Oakland, California. She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies.

Ed Kegle

Director of Finance and Operations

Prior to joining Borealis Philanthropy, Ed served over 8 years as Director of Finance of Neighborhood House, a 118-year old multicultural, multilingual community center located in the culturally diverse Westside of Saint Paul, Minnesota. In addition to his financial knowledge and expertise, Ed has over 15 years of nonprofit program management and direct service experience, including 3 years working at District 202, the first by and for queer youth center in the country. Ed served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Africa where he conducted health education and established a regional office of the Peace Corps. Ed received his B.A. in American Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz.