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Dear John,
We are excited to announce Gwen Chapman, Charline Gipson, Diane Manuel, and Pamela Shifman as new members and the return of René Redwood to our distinguished Board of Directors. These additions bring background in finance along with expertise in environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG) through the lens of gender and race equity.
“We are thrilled to add five brilliant women to our board this year as we identify and understand the challenges facing many communities throughout the country,” said Teresa C. Younger, President, and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women. “We believe these additions to our board bring with them the passion, lived experience, and geographic diversity needed as we continue to lead the way in our fight for gender and racial equity.”
Please join us in welcoming Board Members:
Gwen Chapman - Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Social Responsibility Chair for Teleflex, Inc. Ms. Chapman has spent the last twenty years as a healthcare compliance professional with a concentrated focus on corruption, bribery, fraud & abuse, health equity, and modern slavery. Over the last decade she expanded her focus to include environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG), as viewed through the lens of the financial industry and investors in publicly traded companies.
Charline Gipson - Co-founder and equity partner of Davillier Law Group, a full-service business law practice with offices in Louisiana and Idaho. A seasoned corporate generalist and strategic advisor with strong business acumen, Charline is licensed to practice in Louisiana and New York. She is a former Law Clerk in the Eastern District of Louisiana, United States District Court, and has resided in New Orleans since 2004. Charline’s civic engagements focus on equitable access to quality public education and advocacy related to racial and gender equity.
Diane Manuel - Board Chair of the Women’s Foundation of California. Diane’s commitment to advocacy began at an early age. Her very first job as a teenager was at the Watts-Willowbrook Boys’ & Girls’ Club. While working at the Club, located in a deeply marginalized community in Los Angeles, she experienced firsthand how committed adults can support and expand the lives of children living in underserved communities by listening to their needs, making connections, expanding their horizons. Working in a variety of industries, Diane has had opportunities to travel the country and support communities focused on expanding educational opportunities, eliminating pay inequity, and creating healthy communities.
René Redwood – CEO of Redwood Enterprise, directs initiatives resulting in judicial, legislative, commercial, and political wins for public and private sector organizations, and nonprofits. For over 25 years, Rene has led strategic projects on equity and fairness, facilitated discourse on the business advantage of diversity, promoted policies and practices that value the human resource as an asset, and applied research and experience that offer solutions to reduce risk from and in organizational cultures.
Pamela Shifman - A passionate and experienced advocate for girls’ and women's rights, social justice, and transformative philanthropy. As an executive director, lawyer, educator, strategic advisor, and social justice funder, Pamela has spent 25 years building organizations, teams and strategies that advance justice and liberation for everyone, with girls and women at the center. First as Director of NoVo’s Initiatives for Girls and Women and then as Executive Director, Pamela oversaw the Foundation’s historic 90 million dollar commitment to girls of color, the creation of NoVo Foundation’s Radical Hope Fund following the 2016 election in the US and more.
Read full bios and press release in Philanthropy Women >>>
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