Christie started her career at a venture capital firm, spent six years managing sales and marketing for Women Make Movies, the world’s leading distributor of films by and about women, and is a co-founder of Louder, the crowd-promotion platform for ideas that matter. She serves on the board of the Roosevelt Institute and was recently named a Social Citizen Ambassador by the Case Foundation.

Christie holds a BA from Yale University and a MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford, where she was a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship and graduated with the Said Prize, awarded annually to the program’s top student. She lives in Oakland and is a proud co-owner of the Rio Theater in Monte Rio, CA.

Shannon is passionate about bringing people together, making the complex simple, and getting results that last. Her deep and diverse fundraising and communications experience – including running grassroots campaigns with the State PIRGs and securing major gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations at Stanford Law School, The Nature Conservancy, and Citizen Engagement Lab – allows her to design and execute winning programs and campaigns. In addition to her commitment to fundraising for causes and issues that matter, Shannon leverages story-telling, strategy, and organizational development to help mission-driven organizations build thriving cultures and grow.

Shannon has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from University of Michigan, where she focused on organizational strategy and social innovation. When not at work, she enjoys international travel and photography, personal growth workshops and retreats, the East Bay’s best eats and treats, and walking her rescue pup Hamilton near Lake Merritt.

Throughout her career, Julie has searched for opportunities to make a positive impact on the world around her. As a strategy consultant, first with the Boston Consulting Group and then with Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting, she has worked with large companies and non-profit organizations to redefine what good business means.

Julie is also a co-founder of the GreenerMind Summit: a 3-day retreat for change makers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She is originally from France where she received her MBA.

Alex joins from Grassroots Campaigns, where he fundraised for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Southern Poverty Law Center, and other progressive nonprofits. Previously, he wrote freelance book reviews and worked in Publicity and Online Marketing at Yale University Press.

Alex earned a BA in English from Yale University and originally hails from San Diego, CA. Outside of work, he loves running, surfing, and reading and writing fiction.

Wes joins from the Global Development Incubator, where he helped domestic and international startups and social enterprises think through capital raises, growth plans, and ways to partner to scale their impact. Previously, he was trained as a strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte where he worked with a variety of public, private, and nonprofit clients, focused on market entry strategy and data analytics.

Wes earned a BA in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, with minors in Business and Music. Outside of work, Wes loves to go camping, listen and play jazz music, and is a diehard fan of the NBA and his favorite team, the Utah Jazz. Originally from the East Bay, he is thrilled to be back to explore Oakland and San Francisco again.

In summer 2016, Laura was invited to join the Obama Administration for a six month term as a senior advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. At the White House, Laura focused on issues of diversity and inclusion related to ensuring the hiring practices, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and tech products and platforms of the future work for all Americans, particularly those from historically marginalized backgrounds.

Most recently before co-founding Code2040, Laura served as VP of product at a consumer web startup. Prior to that, she directed operations for New York City’s largest public art project and co-founded two organizations in the education space, one nonprofit arts education organization in West Philadelphia that is currently celebrating its 14th year, and one for-profit tutoring company that gave rise to a book.

Laura is a 2018 Stanford Social Entrepreneur in Residence, and a 2016-2017 New America California Fellow. In 2016, Ebony included her on their Power 100 list, Foreign Policy Magazine gave her a Global Thinker award, and The Root named her one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans. In 2015, Fortune named her one of 10 Female Executives on the Rise and San Francisco Magazine saluted her as one of 37 Soldiers of Social Change. From 2014-2016 Laura sat on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) for the US Department of Commerce. Goldman Sachs named her one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2013. She was a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Fellow. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, NBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Inc. NPR, and others.

Laura has a BA cum laude from Harvard College and a JD and an MBA from Stanford University. In fall 2018 she, her husband, and their new baby are taking a nine month sabbatical to travel, and then after more than 10 years away she’s finally moving back to her hometown of New York City. You can find her quick thoughts on Twitter (@laurawp), her longer thoughts on Medium (@laurawp), her management musings on LinkedIn (/in/laurawp), and her personal adventures on Instagram (@lewp).