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Monday, July 27, 2020
2PM EDT
The inaugural gathering of Allies in Action™, a community pledging to support equity and justice for women of color in the nonprofit sector, features an international panel of leaders in a discussion about their personal journeys of awareness and understanding of bias as well as effective strategies and actions we can employ to ensure equity for our colleagues of color in philanthropy. Please join us for this candid and personal conversation about how we can all be better allies.
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Claudia Abate-Debat, Founder, The Foundation for Post Conflict Development
Claudia Abate-Debat is the Executive Advisor at Synergos. She is an experienced philanthropy advisor with expertise in the United Nations Global Goals, international project management and strategic partnerships.
Claudia received her undergraduate degree in Spanish from Rowan University and her Master’s Degree in Social Science from Long Island University. From 1993-2006 Claudia worked at the United Nations where in addition to organizing daily diplomatic meetings, she served on peacekeeping missions in Fiji and Timor-Leste.
In 2005 she founded the Foundation for Post Conflict Development, a non profit organization that works on maternal health and family empowerment projects. Through triangular cooperation, the landmark Prince Rainier III of Monaco Maternity Clinic was established in Timor-Leste. From 2006-2012, she served as Special Advisor for Investment and Development to the President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste. From 2011- 2018 Claudia lived in France and established a Monaco Branch of her foundation under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Claudia has provided strategic advice through a variety of positions with members of European Royalty, Permanent Missions to the UN, civil society and humanitarian organizations and was nominated for the Seoul Peace Prize in 2012.
Sophia Copeman, Partner, Global Nonprofits, Perrett Laver
Sophia Copeman is a Partner in the Non-Profits and Social Impact practice at Perrett Laver, a leading international executive search firm finding outstanding leaders for ‘mission-driven’ sectors in over 70 countries worldwide. Her experience of senior level executive search includes Board, Chief Executive and Senior Administrative appointments internationally in the Global Non-Profit space including for organizations such as Amnesty International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Greenpeace International, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She has spent the last year working with Perrett Laver’s North America team and before this, was based in the London office for eight years.
Sophia is a Trustee of the Margaret Pyke Trust, a leader in contraception and sexual health for 50 years. Before joining Perrett Laver, she worked as Parliamentary Assistant to Lord Skidelsky and on the Secretariat of the Centre for Global Studies. Prior to this, she worked as Media Services Manager at the Foreign Press Association. Sophia holds a BA (Hons) in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
Wanda Deschamps, Founder and Principal Liberty Co
Wanda Deschamps is founder and principal of Liberty Co., a consultancy working to advance meaningful societal causes through forming organizational and individual partnership.
She’s had a twenty-five year career in the philanthropic sector serving as a consultant for KCI (Ketchum Canada Inc), a leading Canadian fundraising consultancy, as well as an institutional development leader.
A champion for inclusivity, with a special focus on gender equity and neurodiversity she is the co-founder of the (virtual) National Day of Conversation about Sexual Harassment in the Charitable Sector and catalyst behind the #women4women collective. She enjoys writing under the banner of the Inclusion Revolution, a worldwide movement launched in 2018 to spearhead broader thinking about disability. Her ultimate goal is to bring members of the neurodiverse population into fuller participation in the workforce.
Outside of work she relishes time with friends, following the Pittsburgh Penguins, exercising and reading biographies, as well as books about history and current affairs. Recently she was appointed to The Charity Report’s Literary Hub Review Panel which has given her a new avenue to indulge this passion for learning.
Wanda lives in Waterloo Ontario with her husband and their two sons.
Kathleen Loehr, Senior Consultant, Aspen Leadership Group
Kathleen Loehr, Senior Consultant at Aspen Leadership Group, has thirty-five years of experience in partnership with university and nonprofit leaders, as well as philanthropists. She combines nonprofit expertise, fundraising, coaching, and strategy to help individuals and groups navigate change. Kathleen is a national thought leader and expert regarding the role of women in modern philanthropy, and their role more frequently in the philanthropic driver seat, given the increased money being earned and inherited, and their influence in the household giving. Kathleen translated the research on how women give into practical action fundraisers can take. Her book, Gender Matters: A Guide to Growing Women’s Philanthropy, was published by CASE in August 2018. Kathleen was a C-suite leader of fundraising for the American Red Cross, Save the Children, the International Crisis Group, and key departments at Cornell University. She is the chair of the Advisory Council for the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Kathleen received a BA in Government from Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Henri van Eeghen, CEO, Synergos
Henri van Eeghen is CEO of Synergos, a global organization helping solve complex issues around the world by advancing bridging leadership, which builds trust and collective action.
Henri’s roots are in Tanzania, where his family has lived for more than 15 years. Henri has worked on three continents in a wide range of capacities. Most recently, he has been with Mercy Corps, a US-based international development organization with offices in 45 locations, where his portfolio includes both private sector partnerships and new financial models. Prior to that, he was chief operating officer of Cordaid, the Netherlands’ largest NGO, and helped to transform it into a social enterprise with a greater focus on transparency and financial sustainability.
He has also been CEO of the Van Eeghen Group, the oldest family-run business in the Netherlands, which is an international producer and distributor of food ingredients. Henri has also worked in the printing, communications and paper industries.
The family business has two philanthropic foundations, and Henri has been an active member of Synergos’ Global Philanthropists Circle for the last five years, where he and his wife Carolien have played a role in the GPC’s affinity groups on the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Impact Investing, and Spiritual Civilization.