Barney Singer is a civil society and capacity development leader with more than three decades of experience in the public and private sectors. He has taught these topics at the graduate level and has published numerous resources to support CSOs achieve their missions and enhance their organizational systems.

Julisa Tambunan is the Director of Mercy Corps’ GirlSPARKS, a global training hub that helps organizations and individuals build their skills, knowledge and practices to deliver more effective programming to adolescent girls. Julisa is a licensed psychotherapist with MSc in Child and Adolescent Psychology and a BA in Psychology

Marty Galindo-Schmith is a Senior Technical Advisor at FHI 360. She has a long history providing capacity-building support to local civil society organizations globally, and has worked in Mozambique, Thailand, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Chad, El Salvador, and Jordan. Marty has developed M&E systems, tools, and processes for projects focused on capacity building, health outcomes, youth empowerment, peace building, and economic development.

Jo-Ann Tan is the creator and Director of +Acumen, the World’s School for Social Change. +Acumen’s courses have reached more than 400,000 social change-makers in 192 countries

Tom Wolf is founder of WolfBrown, a consultancy, and a former lecturer at Harvard University. He authored the book How to Connect with Donors and Double the Money You Raise.

A leading, national scholar on public policy and philanthropy, Paul Brest is the former president of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and dean emeritus at Stanford Law School.