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Erin Dawkins is an experienced business leader with a passion for creating and enabling cultures that succeed and grown in ways that are inclusive, collaborative, empowering and impactful. She has a proven background for visionary strategic thinking, execution & achieving ROI, team building and purpose. She started her career in corporate management consulting and has used her business acumen to create long-lasting solutions for both for-profit and non-profit brands.

At EJD Consulting, Erin provides executive management and leadership, branding and marketing, and social impact and philanthropy. Before serving in her role at EJD Consulting, Erin was Senior Vice President, Brand and Operations at House of Taylor — The Elizabeth Taylor Companies, where she served as the primary and lead executive related to Elizabeth Taylor's lifestyle brands, including developing purpose-driven business strategies benefiting The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. Prior to that, Erin was a Senior Division Director of the Office of the Senior Vice President (OSVP) at NYU Langone Medical Center, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. Erin has designed and managed capital campaigns ranging from $10 million to $350 million for national and international non-profit organizations. She is passionate about issues related to women & girls and underrepresented communities and continues to serve as a volunteer in this capacity.

Erin serves on the Board of the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, and on the Advisory Board for CareerSpring LA.

Erin earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Dartmouth College and her Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.

Erich Broksas is the founder of Pröst Bear, a boutique consulting agency dedicated to empowering purpose-driven companies and entrepreneurial nonprofits to launch, scale, and transform with a vision for impactful change. With over 25 years of experience as a purpose-driven leader in the philanthropy and technology startup sectors, Erich is passionate about pioneering innovative solutions and forging creative partnerships to tackle global challenges and drive positive change.

For five years, Erich served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at World Central Kitchen, a globally renowned disaster response organization. In this role, he oversaw global operations, technology, strategic partnerships, and innovation. Before that, Erich spent nearly a decade as an executive at The Case Foundation and Revolution, where he spearheaded initiatives in impact investing, entrepreneurship ecosystem building, online crowdsourced donation platforms, and universal access to clean water.

Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, Mike Strouss  made his way through New York City, Washington D.C. and finally settled in LA in 2016. He has spent the majority of his career working with start-ups at varying stages of maturity, starting with LivingSocial where he focused on new initiatives, with a heavy emphasis on entertainment and live events. Mike opened a music venue for LivingSocial and quickly saw an opportunity to create a more equitable financing option for artists leveraging rapidly growing streaming revenue. In 2014, MIke co-founded Chime, which leverages debt and equity financing to provide fair financing to artists. 

In 2016, Mike  joined Todd Wagner’s effort to change the charitable fundraising landscape with Prizeo and Charitybuzz, working with celebrities and causes to maximize their fundraising potential. Bringing more tech to cause, they expanded an already great business into live events, and worked hard to align a celebrity’s commercial focus (album, film, book, merchandise release) with their cause of choice. He found early on that aligning all stakeholders from a business and philanthropic perspective produced outsized results for both initiatives. After raising millions for deserving nonprofits and having the good fortune to work with great partners like Lizzo, Carson Wentz, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Steve Carell, Pete Davidson,  Dead & Co., Charlize Theron, United Airlines, NBC, Adult Swim, and Netflix, he decided to dive deeper back into tech and join Capsule, the country’s fastest growing digital first pharmacy.

Diana Cutaia founded Coaching Peace in 2012, but her journey began two decades earlier. Today, her clients span from school districts to national organizations to global companies. The focus of Coaching Peace is to create positive and safe cultures that enable its members to lead with empathy and understanding. 

Prior to starting Coaching Peace, Diana served as the Director of Athletics and Sport-based Initiatives for Wheelock College. Her unique approach to sport was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, NCAA On Campus, and Athletic Management Magazine. 

Diana also pioneered the first-ever academic program in Sport-Based Youth Development at Wheelock College. She taught several courses, including Sport and Society, Intro to SBYD, and Intro to Youth Sport Coaching. Additionally, Diana taught a Leadership in Coaching course for the Institute for Rowing Leadership and served as an adjunct instructor at Dean College and Northeastern University. Over the years, Diana has presented to colleges on topics ranging from diversity and gender equity to sportsmanship and decision making, and Title IX. 

Diana's coaching experience includes notable roles such as head women's basketball coach at Curry College and assistant women's basketball coach at Mount Holyoke College. She also led the women's basketball program at Norwalk Community College, propelling it to National Standing in just four years. Under her leadership, the Panthers achieved remarkable success, ranking #1 in the New England Region for three seasons and among the top eight teams nationwide.

Misty Espinoza is a Marketing and Communications professional with over 15 years of experience who has forged a unique professional path with roles at The Walt Disney Company, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and premier public relations agencies, including Rogers and Cowan. Career highlights include managing the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, coordinating media relations for the 2007 Takashi Murakami retrospective, developing social media strategies for the world’s most famous Mouse, managing communications for three biennial Stand Up To Cancer telecasts, and corralling puppies with Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart to promote pet adoption.

Misty has spearheaded projects that have received national media coverage in outlets including Good Morning America, USA Today, People Magazine, W Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. Additionally, she has extensive digital marketing experience managing partnerships with Facebook, YouTube, and top social media influencers. 

Misty holds a BA in communication and drama from Stanford University. She calls sunny Los Angeles home, where she resides with her four-legged partner-in-crime, Jake. 

Deidre Lind is an award-winning community leader respected as an expert in philanthropy and civic partnerships with impact-driven results.  Deidre co-founded the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles in 2014 as a platform for public/private partnerships focused on innovation and effectiveness and lead the organization through its unprecedented COVID-19 response efforts. In 2023, Deidre and the Fund received Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies award for social impact. In 2019, she created and served as the founding Executive Director of the California Volunteers Fund in partnership with the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Deidre built her career over two decades leading corporate responsibility and philanthropy programs, including serving for a decade as Mattel’s chief global social impact strategist where she launched their two-percent pre-tax profit annual commitment, and delivered the Company’s first global sustainability assessment. In 2018, Deidre served as the President of the Pfaffinger Foundation, one of the oldest private foundations in Southern California, where she led a change transformation process for the organization. In addition, she has consulted to a number of corporate and nonprofit clients and government entities including larger bureaucratic organizations, and smaller, more nimble private entities.

Deidre currently serves as Chair of the Board of Accelerator for America Action, a national civic infrastructure advocacy organization, as well as on the Board of the Social Impact Fund and the Advisory Board of LA’s BEST, an afterschool enrichment program. She has also served on the Board of Southern California Grantmakers and in 2021, she served as Co-Chair of the Working Group coordinating the Council on Foundation’s virtual Annual Conference, Leading Together.

Maddy Roth is a social impact and culture change strategist with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of philanthropy, social movements, and entertainment. As the Founder of MLR Impact Consulting, she collaborates with companies, organizations, and talent to meaningfully expand their social impact initiatives.

In her current role as the first Vice President of Social Impact at OBB Media, Maddy spearheads social impact strategies across OBB’s television, film, branded and podcast slates. She also oversees the company’s sustainability initiatives, employee service opportunities, and below-the-line workforce development programs.

Prior to joining OBB, Maddy served as a Foundation Executive at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) where she advised actors, writers, directors, musicians, and athletes on their philanthropic and advocacy endeavors, and led the agency’s narrative change and civic engagement efforts. During her tenure, Maddy launched the Full Story Initiative, a groundbreaking industry effort aimed at generating more authentic and equitable storytelling in television and film, developed in collaboration with 27 leading nonprofit organizations and activists. She also played a key role in the formation of the Civic Alliance, a nonpartisan group of over 1,000 businesses dedicated to fostering a future where everyone participates in shaping our country.

Maddy holds a BA in journalism and international development and conflict management from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a founding board member of the culture-led, nonpartisan voter engagement organization, I am a voter., where she also serves as the interim co-Executive Director in a consulting capacity.

Jsmine Thomas is the Founder and Managing Partner of Beacon Rowe, a global boutique advisory firm helping executives, civic leaders, and boards align strategy, leadership, and capital to deliver durable, double-bottom-line outcomes at the intersection of private capital, social impact, and institutional leadership. She holds more than two decades of executive experience advancing economic inclusion, community development, and digital transformation across philanthropic, corporate, and public sectors, with initiatives spanning 90+ countries. At Microsoft, Jasmine served as Senior Director in the Trusted Technology Group, where she led the Higher Education Talent Ecosystem and built national partnerships to expand the workforce of innovators in artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and data science. Earlier, she led Microsoft’s flagship ESG program—Airband Initiative—and forged public-private partnerships that expanded high-speed internet access to more than 4.2 million rural households across the US. Prior to Microsoft, Jasmine held executive leadership roles at Citi, mobilizing more than $1 billion in investments across consumer, mortgage, and investment banking, serving as an inaugural member of the $500 million Citi Impact Fund, and managing a $30 million global grant portfolio through the Citi Foundation. Jasmine holds an M.B.A. from London Business School, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, an M.S.W. from New York University, an Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She serves on the boards of Social Impact Fund, Pacific Community Ventures, and Cheri Chef (a London, UK-based start-up), with prior service on American Bankers Association Foundation.

Elizabeth Woolfe has been a nonprofit professional for over 25 years, creating and implementing innovative organizational, marketing and educational strategies, with significant experience working on a senior level with many organizations. Since forming Intuition Consulting in 2008, she has specialized in working with advocacy organizations and other nonprofit and for-profit companies on strategies to encourage growth, expansion and visibility. She also works with for-profit companies to articulate their philanthropic needs, as well as organizations undergoing executive or board transitions. In many of her engagements, she is also responsible for initiating, cultivating and maintaining relationships with key Fortune 500 corporate partners for corporate philanthropy, cause marketing, sponsorship, and other support.

In addition to experience as a nonprofit professional, Elizabeth’s service as a Board member has informed her work as a consultant, and has given her a unique ability to understand the different sides of an organization’s development. Board governance and functionality is a cornerstone of a healthy organization, and Elizabeth has a passion for helping to facilitate both. As a volunteer, she served on the Board of Peninsula Counseling Center for 10 years and helped the organization through its executive succession as a key member of the Transition Committee. She has also served on the Board of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County’s Action Fund, and formerly was a member of NY Women in Communication’s Mentoring and Matrix Committees. She is also a past President of the Greater NY Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education.

Elizabeth lives on Long Island with her husband, where she can indulge her gardening and yoga passions.

Greg Propper is President of Propper Daley, a social impact agency headquartered in Los Angeles with clients that include Activision, Best Buy, Bradley Cooper, Everytown for Gun Safety, John Legend, SoulCycle, and Viacom. A social impact innovator, Greg has worked at the intersection of public policy, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and entertainment for over 25 years. Greg served as Executive Director of ServiceNation and Managing Director of Be the Change, Inc., leading the effort to pass the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act during the first 100 days of the Obama Administration — the largest expansion of national and community service since the Great Depression. As an advocate and organizer, Greg helped lead the “Save AmeriCorps” campaign of 2003 that successfully restored funding to the marquee national service program. He is a member of the board of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, LIFT Los Angeles, the New Politics Leadership Academy, and serves as a board member and President Emeritus of the Social Impact Fund. 

He holds a B.A. with high honors from Tufts University and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law in New York City.