Jill Cartwright Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 4/25/2024 on 4/25/2024 Jill Cartwright is a program officer with the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2024, Jill served as a Program Officer for the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, collaborating with frontline leaders to build power in communities in the U.S. South that are historically denied access …
Rose Cahn Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 3/9/2023 on 3/9/2023 Rose Cahn is a program officer with the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2023, Rose served as the managing attorney at Immigrant Legal Resource Center, where she oversaw the organization’s national work at the intersection of criminal and immigrant justice. Rose has worked closely with stakeholders from …
Laura Vesga Villalba Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 10/14/2022 on 10/14/2022 Laura Vesga Villalba is a program associate for the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2022, Laura worked for the Center for Global Education at the University of San Francisco (USF), promoting study abroad opportunities to students and assisting them throughout the study abroad process. During her time …
Tina Oliva Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/4/2022 on 2/4/2022 Tina Oliva is a program associate for the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2022, Tina provided program support for Mission Asset Fund’s grant and credit-building programs for low-income and immigrant communities. She also is actively involved in the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley which provides professional growth …
Karimah Nonyameko Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 11/1/2021 on 11/1/2021 Karimah Nonyameko is a program officer with the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Karimah worked for the National Alliance on Mental Illness South Carolina (NAMISC) as the Ending the Silence Lowcountry Regional Program Manager. Before joining NAMISC, Karimah worked with Encore.org’s Generation-to-Generation Program designing an online learning community …
Gina Peralta Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/29/2019 on 7/29/2019 Gina Peralta is a program officer with the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2019, Gina served as the director of site management at The W. Haywood Burns Institute (the Burns Institute), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing racial and ethnic equity in the justice system by …
Yalda Mohammadi Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/28/2019 on 2/28/2019 Yalda Mohammadi is a program associate for Human Rights at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Yalda brings a demonstrated commitment to working and volunteering in the nonprofit sector, with a focus on women’s and immigrants’ rights. Some of her previous roles include teaching at-risk communities with the Institute of Reading Development, mentoring refugee families from Afghanistan, and co-leading statewide capacity …
Angie Junck Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/18/2018 on 12/18/2018 Angie Junck is the director of the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2018, Angie was the director of Immigrant Defense Programs and Supervising Attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) for over 13 years. In that role, she led a state and federal policy agenda and …