This Monday, July 26, I invite you to tune in on your lunch break to my internet radio show, All Nonprofits Considered on BlogTalkRadio! Join me for a live discussion with Alexis Terry of ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership, Gen Y Nonprofit Blogger Anh Phuong Tran, and Erin O’Connor Jones, a consultant with the Nonprofit Professional Advisory Group and career advisor for the Jobs for Change blog on Change.org as they offer insight and information and talk about the benefits of board leadership experience for young nonprofit professionals. Remember, this will be the last show of the summer; All Nonprofits Considered will return the first week of September, Monday the 6th. Don’t miss it!
July 26, 12:00-1:00pm EST
Alexis Terry, Anh Tran & Erin O’Connor Jones Discuss the Importance of Board Leadership for Young Nonprofit Professionals
Alexis Terry is director of diversity and inclusion at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership in Washington, DC. In this role, she works with staff and volunteer leaders to advance diversity and foster a more inclusive association community. In addition, Alexis serves as the senior staff liaison for ASAE & The Center’s Diversity Committee. Prior to joining ASAE & The Center, Alexis held a variety of roles at BoardSource, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service. In 2005, Alexis worked as a Consulting and Training Associate to engage nonprofit boards in the many educational programs and benefits the organization offers. For four years she generated revenue and cultivated and managed relationships with national nonprofits, foundations, associations, and corporations.
Alexis is the author of BoardSource’s 2008 Next Generation and Governance Findings Report and served as project manager of BoardSource’s Diversity and Next Generation Initiative, a multiyear program designed to reach and prepare diverse, next generation leaders for board service. In this role, Alexis led an internal taskforce through the creation of a three-year operational plan for this initiative, which included a goal of advancing BoardSource’s commitment to becoming a model organization on diversity and inclusion. She also worked with a team to launch Board Life Matters (www.boardlifematters.org), which is the first national blog designed to reach and inspire the next generation of nonprofit board leaders.
Alexis graduated from Pepperdine University with a bachelor’s degree in Communication and holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management. She is pursuing an Executive Certificate in Diversity Strategy from Georgetown University. Alexis is a Steering Committee Member of the Next Generation Leadership Forum with American Humanics and an Advisory Committee member to the board of the DC chapter of Young Nonprofit Professional Network (YNPN).
Anh Phuong Tran is the Empowerment Manager at IMPACT Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD. In her current position, Anh directs several empowerment programs to build community assets, including microenterprises and workforce efforts for diverse immigrants and low-income residents. She is devoted to a career in public service, having served as an AmeriCorps director, and member, previously teaching math and science in Los Angeles with Teach For America. She is a writing coach with the University of Maryland, University College for the graduate program in management. In her free time, Anh enjoys practicing yoga and cooking 30-minute meals. She currently serves on the board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, DC chapter, the Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association, and recently joined the board of LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics ). Anh graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Economics and Mass Communications and a minor in Education.
Erin O’Connor Jones manages a portfolio of nonprofit searches and oversees candidate consulting services on behalf of nonprofit job seekers currently in or new to the sector at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, a niche consulting firm. Throughout her nearly 20 years career leading and managing large and small entrepreneurial nonprofits, Erin has been committed to mentoring candidates from resume writing to final negotiations in their nonprofit job search. She works directly with job seekers, including those transitioning from the private sector, to understand the distinct language and complexity of the nonprofit world. In addition, Erin is featured as one of five career advisors at www.change.org, where she leads their Jobs for Change.org sector switcher blog. Prior to joining NPAG, Erin served as the Executive Director of the Family-to-Family Project, a Boston-based agency committed to ending family homelessness. She was formerly the Vice President of Communications and Business Development at Youth Alternatives, a statewide child welfare and mental health agency based in Portland, Maine, and was the Director of Program Development and Evaluation at the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston. Her diverse background includes management, mentoring, program development, communications and fundraising in the areas of child welfare, mental health, homelessness and housing. Erin earned her Master’s of Public Administration from Suffolk University and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Keene State College. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from Boston College’s Program for Women in Politics and Government, now a program of the McCormack Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston.
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