The selection of Elisabeth Mason and Melissa Morales Monárrez
further aligns Public Allies' board make-up with its strategy for
growth and expansion
MILWAUKEE, July 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Allies is pleased to
announce the addition of Elisabeth
Mason and Melissa Morales Monárrez to its National Board of
Directors.
Elisabeth Mason is a social
entrepreneur, philanthropic executive, and international lawyer.
She is the Founding Director of the Stanford Poverty &
Technology Lab, the first lab dedicated to leveraging the data and
technology revolution to create new, lasting, and low-cost
solutions to poverty and inequality in the United States. A native of East Harlem,
Elisabeth was named "New Yorker of the Year" in 2015 for her
groundbreaking work fighting poverty, and her work was recognized
as "Top Ten in the World in Social Good" by Fast Company. Her
impactful work has also earned her two White House Social
Innovation Awards.
"Public Allies has a vision that speaks to the root cause
of many of the inequities that I have dedicated my life to
addressing," says Mason. "Their quiet innovation and belief in the
wisdom of collective leadership is what drew me to this
organization above others. I am grateful for the opportunity to be
a part of this team of dedicated leaders."
Melissa Morales Monárrez's career spans the nonprofit and
corporate sectors, where she has focused on creating inclusive
ecosystems that enable economic opportunity and equitable outcomes
for marginalized groups. She is currently at Google, where she led
partnerships for the US and Latin
America for the Next Billion Users organization, an internal
incubator that built early stage products to address the unmet
needs of users in emerging economies. Previously, she worked at
Vital Voices Global Partnerships, where she managed
capacity-building programs for women entrepreneurs throughout
Latin America and the Caribbean.
"I am keenly aware that without significant and intentional
reimagination and redesign, organizations and systems across
sectors will continue to debilitate marginalized leaders," says
Morales Monárrez. "Now is the time to ask ourselves what kind of
values we want our future leaders to have. Now is the time to do
the work to reframe what innovative leadership looks like and where
it comes from, something Public Allies has been doing for over
three decades."
As Public Allies looks ahead to its next thirty years, it
reaffirms its commitment to its Allies, Alumni, and partners, while
launching a new Strategic Impact Framework to address the specific
needs of emerging and ascending BIPOC leaders. Public Allies will
continue its work to flood the civic sector with diverse, proximate
leaders while supporting them to take the leadership roles and the
actions necessary to facilitate change.
"The selection of Elisabeth Mason
and Melissa Morales Monárrez further aligns our board make-up with
our vision for growth and expansion. In our selection we center our
values, equity-centered and collective leadership capabilities, and
diversity of identity, perspectives, knowledge, and networks," says
Chanda Smith Baker, Chair of the
Board of Public Allies. "I welcome Elisabeth and Melissa into the
Public Allies community, confident that they understand what it
takes to achieve lasting and transformative impact, and grateful
for their leadership."
About Public Allies
Public Allies is a 501c3 national nonprofit committed to
advancing social justice and racial equity by engaging and
activating the leadership of all people. Their mission is to create
a just and equitable society and the diverse leadership to sustain
it. For over 30 years, Public Allies has been a pioneer in
recruiting and developing equity-focused change-makers. In this
time, they have built a powerful network of more than 10,000
proximate leaders who bridge races, ethnicities, socioeconomic
levels, and cultures. Holding a range of roles across sectors,
these leaders reflect system re-designers, policy shapers, builders
of inclusive cultures, and transformers of cultures who center
equity, diversity and the values of collective leadership.
CONTACT:
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Nina Koh
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Acting VP of
Communications
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ninak@publicallies.org
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