Speakers

Ollin has a decade of experience as an organizer and administrator in food justice, LGBTQ liberation and economic justice movements. Before joining the team at Funders for LGBTQ Issues, they worked at the National Domestic Workers Alliance as an event planner and operations aficionado. While at NDWA, he spearheaded the infrastructure and distribution of $30 million COVID relief fund to domestic workers. Ollin is thrilled to join Funders for LGBTQ Issues and to develop HR policies and resources that center racial, economic, disability, and gender justice. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts with a focus on Race and Ethnicity […]

April Bethea is the Development and Membership Officer at Funders for LGBTQ Issues, where she works to increase the organization’s capacity for effective outreach to and engagement of new funders in an effort to increase overall grantmaking to LGBTQ issues.

Rebecca Fox is Astraea’s VP, Programs and has been a long-time supporter of Astraea and grassroots, feminist LBTQI movements. In her previous role, Rebecca was the Senior Program Officer on the SOGIE team at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. In that position, she coordinated grantmaking on a variety of issues related to increasing the rights of and improving the lived experiences of LGBTI people. Formerly, she was Executive Director of the National Coalition for LGBT Health and an adjunct professor of human sexuality at George Washington University. Rebecca currently serves on the Steering Committee on the International Trans Fund and was previously […]

Kiyomi Fujikawa is the Co-Director of Third Wave Fund. She has been involved with movements to end gender-based violence since 2001. Her political home is with Queer and Trans communities of color and organizing around preventing and responding to intimate partner violence. She was most recently a Senior Program Associate at the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy and the Queer Network Program Coordinator at API Chaya.