Heather is the CEO of Giving Gap, the largest free searchable platform of Black-founded nonprofits in the United States. With a long history as a fundraiser, Heather has stated that she "saw a chance to take this fight from a local to a national level, shedding light on how philanthropy has historically denied, excluded, and redlined organizations, preventing them from reaching their full potential."

Heather has extensive membership affiliations, including as a Board Member of the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta and MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority), a Steering Committee Member of United Arts Front, Committee Member of the TransFormation Alliance, and Culture Chair of Old Fourth Ward Business Association.

Regina (Gina) is the Co-Founder of Bright Minds Africa, a nonprofit dedicated the educating and empowering girls in Nigeria and Cameroon. Gina met her co-founder Yvette Mohbashi while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. They started working to make education and healthcare accessible to women and children in Yvette's village and have been working together ever since, founding Bright Minds in 2018. As Director of U.S. Operations, Gina gets to collaborate with the incredible individuals, organizations, and schools that support Bright Minds.

Gina was named a 2020 Women of Courage Finalist, a community initiative sponsored by Cynthia Schuman and inspired by the lifetime work of her friend former Congresswoman Jackie Speier to highlight and support outstanding young women in San Mateo County.

Sierra is a professional skier, climate activist and the Founder and CEO of Time for Better, a creative climate communications and consulting agency born out of the belief that we are at a critical juncture where we must unite to address humanity’s most pressing issue: climate change. "My greatest hope is that soon we will live in a world where humans understand themselves as a part of nature and not separate."

In 2024, she co-founded Better Earth, a philanthropic initiative cultivating cultural change for people and the planet. It aims to foster a deeper culture of hope, altruism, and collective action by inspiring and empowering individuals and communities to create a better world for present and future generations.

She also co-founded Plastic Free Fridays in 2019 to help reduce single-use plastics consumption among individuals by raising awareness and shaping positive habits on a broad scale. She is a proud champion of organizations such as NATO, Protect Our Winters, and Climate Power.

Aurora is the Founder of the Fifteen Percent Pledge and Creative Director and Founder of luxury accessories brand Brother Vellies. In June 2020, Aurora founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge, a non-profit advocacy organization that is closing the racial wealth gap by partnering with retailers to diversify their shelves and commit 15 percent of their purchasing power to Black-owned businesses.

Under Aurora’s leadership, the Pledge has partnered with nearly 30 major companies across industries, including Macy’s, Nordstrom, Sephora, Ulta Beauty and more. By 2030, the organization aims to drive $1.4 trillion of wealth generation by Black entrepreneurs and increase Black business representation by 14.6 percent. 

As a result of her advocacy work, Aurora has been awarded the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Founders Award, and named to the 2021 TIME100 and the 2020 Bloomberg 50.

Lilli is the Co-Founder of Bay Area Border Relief, a grass roots humanitarian organization that serves and advocates for children and families seeking their human right to asylum in the U.S.

A long-time fundraiser, Lilli has coordinated annual fundraising events, raised money, recruited and organized teams of volunteers for fundraisers, and organized other election, campaign and thank you events throughout the years.

She is the Board President of ALAS, a nationally recognized, award-winning nonprofit with a dual focus on immediate needs and long-term transformation for Latino farmworkers and their families in Half Moon Bay, and on the board of Protect Our Defenders, a human rights organization addressing military sexual assault. She is Co-Chair of the POD Squad here in the Bay Area that is a fundraising and awareness arm of the organization. Lilli has also been involved with NARAL Pro-Choice for many years in various capacities, currently as a Leadership Council Member.

After several decades of witnessing the harsh culture of business, the power dynamics with money, the singular definition of success as scale, and the biased systems and structures in which we all operate, Vicki had a dream about another way.

Author, entrepreneur, and mentor Vicki founded Coralus (formerly called SheEO) in 2016 to collectively practice different ways of doing things, where members offer and access resources at their own pace, creating a self-regenerating, pay-it-forward pool of skills, connections, funds, and support then used to advance ventures and the collective doing world changing work. In 9 years, Coralus has circulated nearly $19M to 190+ women- and non-binary-led ventures by distributing capital via collective decision-making.

Vicki was named a YWCA Woman of Distinction for Entrepreneurship in 2021, a UBS Global Visionary in 2020, and was one of the Empowering a Billion Women by 2020's 100 Most Influential Leaders of 2015.

During her career Jackie has taken on some of the most difficult and controversial problems. Women and children have benefited from her work in areas such as funding and legislation in pediatric cancer research, creation of the breast cancer postage stamp to fund breast cancer research, sexual assault prevention legislation, child abuse prevention, and financial privacy. Jackie also created the Professional and Business Women’s Conference (PBWC) which has become among the largest in the nation and has educated tens of thousands of women. She is a bestselling author of two books and was named one of the fifty most fearless women in the world by Newsweek.

After 40 years of public service, Jackie Speier retired from Congress at the end of 2023 to come home and revitalize the fight against poverty in San Mateo County. Since that time, she has launched the Jackie Speier Foundation, dedicated to ending child poverty in one of the wealthiest districts in the county, and early this year was sworn in as a San Mateo County Supervisor for District 1.