Moore Philanthropy

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Who We Are

Team

Our dedicated and diverse staff works tirelessly to support the work of our projects, clients, and grantees. Get to know our team and learn more below. 

Yvonne L. Moore
Managing Director, Moore Philanthropy & President, Moore Impact

Yvonne L. Moore is the Founder and Managing Director at Moore Philanthropy, and President of partner organization, Moore Impact. She brings over 25 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors to her work in providing strategic and tailored philanthropic advisement and solutions to families, individuals, and institutions. 

Monica K. Lewis
Chief Operating Officer and Counsel

Monica K. Lewis is an attorney and seasoned strategy and operations professional. She has extensive experience scaling organizations, driving business development, conducting financial analysis and planning, and managing organizational risk.

Monica T. Brown
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer

Monica T. Brown has over 15 years of experience in philanthropy, cultivating her profound expertise in strategy development across individual and major giving, corporate and foundation relations, donor engagement, and board development.

A. Nicole Campbell
General Counsel

A. Nicole Campbell provides strategic legal, governance, and operational guidance as a senior advisor for two of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, and has spoken on and trained senior management teams and board members in nearly every region of the world in grantmaking, governance, and organizational design.

Alma Martinez
Grants Manager

Alma Martinez was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Prior to joining Moore Impact, she worked for The Denver Foundation for 13 years overseeing the gifts and grants team providing higher-level administrative support across the Foundation.

Emerson Soto
Director of Communications & Philanthropic Engagement

Emerson Soto brings over 12 years of experience directing multi-channel fundraising and advocacy campaigns. In 2014, he founded Emerson Soto Consulting, a full-stack creative marketing, communications, and fundraising agency that engineers impactful storytelling and design for nonprofits and entrepreneurs.

Joseph Jovel
Executive Assistant

Joseph Jovel brings with him almost 5 years of Executive Assistant experience in the Philanthropy sector alone. However, his career in customer service and team management spans over 18 years. 

Stephanie Lopez
Executive Director, Latinas Represent

Stephanie Gabriela Lopez serves as the Executive Director at Latinas Represent. In this role, she oversees and manages strategic planning, development, programming, communications, and partnerships. Before her role at Latinas Represent, Stephanie worked in international education, children’s rights, and immigration advocacy.

Steffi Krause
Director of Special Projects

Steffi Krause, PhD, has over 10 years of experience in project and program management, with a strong focus on building community  and engaging different stakeholders. She has worked across academic, philanthropic, and policy sectors, driving impactful change in international and education-focused nonprofits by fostering collaboration and leading innovative initiatives.

Adriana Rocha
Project Director, Giving Infrastructure Fund

Adriana Rocha is Project Director for the Giving Infrastructure Fund, a grantmaking fund focusing on organizations working toward racial equity, access, and visibility to everyday givers. Previously, Adriana served as a Program Officer, Director of Grants & Capacity Building, VP of Programs, and most recently as President of the Neighborhood Funders Group leading their theory of change work and the development and evaluation of all new programs.

Courtney Banayad
Assistant Director, Giving Infrastructure Fund

Courtney Banayad (she/her) joined Moore Philanthropy in November 2024 as the Assistant Director of the Giving Infrastructure Fund, a new pooled fund that addresses the disparity in financial resources given to organizations working towards racial equity. She is passionate about moving money to BIPOC communities with trust, building an abundant and liberated world for everyone, and centering joy in her work.

Moore Impact Board of Trustees

Felice Denny, Trustee
Raymond Meadows, Trustee
Madeline Holder, Trustee
Elan Moore-Jones, Trustee
Marci McLendon, Trustee
Yondell E. Moore Jr., Trustee
Ayo Roach, Trustee
Dr. Maurice A. Stinnett
Yvonne L. Moore, Ex-Officio

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Yvonne L. Moore

Founder and Managing Director, Moore Philanthropy
President, Moore Impact

With over 25 years of experience in government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors as both a practitioner and a chief executive, Yvonne L. Moore brings a wealth of practical knowledge to the creation and refinement of philanthropic goals for her clients. As Founder and Managing Director of Moore Philanthropy, a Black-owned and women-led advisory firm and public charity, she provides thoughtful, strategic, and tailored philanthropic services to individuals, families, and organizations to help changemakers solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.

With particular expertise in managing family dynamics, participatory grantmaking, and international (or cross-border) giving, as well as the full management and administration of private foundations and funds, her firm works with clients to help advance their philanthropy in a way that makes sense for them and the communities they seek to serve, whether through traditional grantmaking or more complex social investment vehicles.

Prior to launching Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne was the Chief of Staff to filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail E. Disney, where she oversaw the family’s network of media, philanthropic, and advocacy organizations. She ran the family’s private foundation, provided advisement on their personal philanthropic giving, both charitable and political, and led their expansion into international giving in 2008. 

Before joining the philanthropic sector in 1999, Yvonne spent 10 years working in child protection and advocacy. Over the span of her philanthropic career, Yvonne has grown an impressive network of both colleagues and grantee partners in both the U.S. and abroad and brings those connections to bear in her client relationships. She has successfully forged connections with foreign government officials, built strong relationships with grassroots organizations and community advocates, and successfully co-developed projects in the most challenging of environments, including post-conflict and slum communities, and most recently the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Having spent the bulk of her last 18 years focused primarily on the U.S. and Sub-Saharan Africa, she has gained a significant level of knowledge and experience in specific issue areas including economic security, anti-violence and safety, alternative energies, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), education, health, and organizational sustainability and management.

Yvonne has spoken, moderated conversations, curated programs, and written on the topics of philanthropy, diversity in philanthropy, family and next-generation philanthropy, and African Diaspora philanthropy for Yale University, London School of Economics, Indian School of Development Management, the Africa Philanthropy Forum, the Global Philanthropy Forum, Inside Philanthropy, Alliance Magazine, the National Center on Family Philanthropy, the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment, Philanthropy New York, and the Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support. She is the Vice Chair of the Daphne Foundation, serves on the boards of Comic Relief USA, Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group, and Accountability Counsel, and formerly served as the Board Chair of The New York Women’s Foundation.

Yvonne holds a BA from Texas Tech University and an MS in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School. She has completed post-graduate studies in democracy and civil society at the University of Cape Town, and nationalism, post-conflict violence, and gender at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland.

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Monica K. Lewis

Chief Operating Officer and Counsel

Monica K. Lewis is an attorney and seasoned strategy and operations professional. She has extensive experience scaling organizations, driving business development, conducting financial analysis and planning, and managing organizational risk.

Previously, Monica served as a Senior Director at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, leading an entrepreneurial team tasked with increasing earned revenue and developing the organization’s strategic plan. Prior to that, she was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for an innovative technology startup, integrating legal compliance and efficiency into every aspect of its operations. Monica is also an experienced contracts attorney, drafting and negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts with federal, state, and local governments, as well as Fortune 500 companies.

She has worked for several nonprofit organizations, such as Covenant House International, the Daphne Foundation, and Philanthropy New York, promoting mission-driven work across cultures and matrix organizations. Monica brings her deep experience and passion for efficient processes and inclusive and supportive company cultures to Moore Philanthropy.

Monica is a volunteer with Immigration Justice Project, Immigration Justice Campaign, and Catholic Charities New York providing pro bono representation to newly-arrived immigrants. She lives in the Bronx, New York, and is a graduate of Fordham University and Brooklyn Law School.

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Monica T. Brown

Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer

Monica Brown has over 15 years of experience in philanthropy, cultivating her profound expertise in strategy development across individual and major giving, corporate and foundation relations, donor engagement, and board development.

She has devoted her career to some of New York City’s most venerable civic, healthcare, and educational institutions, including Columbia University, where she currently serves as an associate faculty member in the Masters Nonprofit Management program. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Development for Educators for Excellence-NY, a teacher-led, student-focused policy and advocacy organization, where she led development growth and strategy focusing on private philanthropic investment. 

Monica is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and received her MS in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University in New York City, where she currently resides as a lifelong resident of Harlem.

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A. Nicole Campbell,

General Counsel

Nicole Campbell has provided strategic legal, governance, and operational guidance as a senior advisor for two of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, and has spoken on and trained senior management teams and board members in nearly every region of the world in grantmaking, governance, and organizational design.

With more than fifteen years of experience in the public and private sectors, Nic has deep expertise in designing and building nonprofit organizations from concept phase to full independence and designing innovative organizational, grant-making, and governance structures. For her entire career, she has been a sought-after strategist and thought partner to philanthropists, philanthropies, collaboratives, movements, and nonprofit organizations in the United States, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and around the world.

Nic is the founder of the Build Up Companies, a federated group of companies comprised of Build Up Advisory Group, The Campbell Law Firm, and Build Up, Inc. and focused on transforming outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized communities. She is Chief Executive Officer of Build Up Advisory Group, an advisory firm that specializes in improving governance, grantmaking, and organizational design for brave philanthropists, philanthropies, movements, and nonprofit organizations to provide them with the structural capacity to deliver on their missions. She is Managing Attorney of The Campbell Law Firm, a boutique law firm that serves as a trusted advisor to brave grant-making nonprofits, movements, philanthropies, and philanthropists to interrupt cycles of injustice and inequity.

She is also President of Build Up, Inc., a nonprofit capacity builder that supports leaders of color and incubates and fiscally sponsors charitable projects and organizations that work with under-resourced and invisibilized communities around the world.

Prior to founding the Build Up Companies, Nic was Senior Director of Operations and Foundation Counsel for Dalio Philanthropies, Ray Dalio’s global, multi-million dollar family philanthropy; Deputy General Counsel and Secretary for the Open Society Foundations, George Soros’s global, multi-billion dollar philanthropic network; and Associate General Counsel for the New York Community Trust, a multi-billion dollar community foundation. Prior to her in-house roles, Nic was a tax associate attorney in private practice working with both nonprofit and for-profit clients.

Nic received her B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. She earned her Certification in Executive Leadership from INSEAD.

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Alma Martinez

Grants Manager

Alma Martinez was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). 

Prior to joining Moore Impact, she worked for The Denver Foundation for 13 years overseeing the gifts and grants team providing higher-level administrative support across the Foundation. Alma is motivated by the opportunity to be creative while helping others in the community. 

In this position, she works to build both relationships with the nonprofit community to better understand community needs and trends as well as community connection and partnership. She was a former footballer who played for the Mexican Women’s National football team. Her free time is spent trail running, hiking, going on walks with her dog Jaseybear. 

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Emerson Soto

Director of Communications and Philanthropic Engagement

Emerson Soto brings over 10 years of experience directing multi-channel fundraising and advocacy campaigns, developing integrated content marketing strategies, envisioning creative branding and marketing assets, and implementing tactics to diversify and grow audiences.

In 2014, he founded Emerson Soto Consulting, a full-stack creative marketing, communications, and fundraising agency that engineers impactful storytelling and design for nonprofits and entrepreneurs. Previously, he served as The Bronx Defenders’ (BxD) Director of Advancement, where he partnered with leaders and staff members within the agency to elevate the BxD brand, generate visibility, and foster engagement with target audiences to mobilize resources for the organization. Before joining BxD, he served as Director of Communications and Fundraising Campaigns at The Fortune Society, where he developed and executed an integrated communications plan and content marketing strategy to advance Fortune’s direct service program and policy goals.

Emerson also served as Development Officer at Harmony Institute, Manager of Development and Communications at The Gbowee Peace Foundation USA, and Development Associate at The Correctional Association of New York. 

Emerson graduated from the City University of New York-Queens College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Secondary Education.

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Joseph Jovel

Executive Assistant

Joseph brings with him almost 5 years of Executive Assistant experience in the Philanthropy sector alone. However, his career in customer service and team management spans over 18 years. 

Thriving off of fast-paced, task-driven environments, Joseph has extensive knowledge of administrative duties, including scheduling and correspondence, and has been able to tailor his skills to meet the needs of various clients throughout his career. He is well equipped with the exceptional ability to facilitate all aspects of internal and external communications and support the day-to-day responsibilities by working collaboratively with the entire Moore Philanthropy team to achieve optimal efficiency.

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Adriana Rocha

Project Director, Infrastructure Fund

Adriana Rocha directs all aspects of the Giving Infrastructure Fund, a grantmaking fund focusing on organizations working toward racial equity, access, and visibility to everyday givers.  

She brings expertise in place-based and movement-led grantmaking, organizational capacity building, and nonprofit management.  Adriana has served as a Program Officer, Director of Grants & Capacity Building, VP of Programs, and most recently as President of the Neighborhood Funders Group leading their theory of change work and the development and evaluation of all new programs. 

Additionally, she currently serves on the board of Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and is an Advisory Board Member to Bowie State University Philanthropy Fellowship Program. 

She earned her BS in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz  and a MS from Columbia University in Social Organizational Psychology. Adriana is from Mexico City and calls New York City home.