Board of Directors

Montserrat began her career in advocacy in 2010 when the infamous “show me your papers” bill SB1070 passed in Arizona. The unfortunate acts of discrimination towards her community lead her to social justice work. Since then she has lead substantial campaigns like Prop 206 which passed in 2016, giving 5 million families a living wage. Montserrat is formerly the Table Director at One Arizona, a coalition of twenty organizations focusing on voter registration and civic engagement. The One Arizona coalition registered has registered close to 500,000 voters since 2010.

Jen developed a passion for process, planning, and systems through her time working for political and grassroots campaigns including the Obama Campaign and Organizing for America. She honed her skills in the nonprofit world as the Director of Acceleration Services at Citizen Engagement Lab (CEL). There she oversaw a fiscal sponsorship program that provided organizational development and fundraising services to social change start-ups, including Vote.org, 18MillionRising, and MPowerChange. Jen has extensive experience building effective grassroots organizations, running organizational systems, and nonprofit infrastructure. Jen lives in Oakland, California with her husband and dog Stanley.

Shruti Garg has worked across the nonprofit sector as a grantmaker, capacity builder, and consultant. Throughout her practice, she is committed to fostering effective and dynamic pathways for organizational resiliency. Currently a program officer at the James Irvine Foundation, she was most recently a consultant to nonprofits around the country, both in her independent practice and while at the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Shruti also oversaw Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)’s membership efforts as well as managed the Open Society Foundations (OSF)’s grantmaking to immigrant rights, racial justice, and low-wage worker rights organizations. Shruti graduated from Smith College and received her Master of Public Policy from the University of Southern California.

Mera Granberg is a serial social entrepreneur with experience in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She was the founding executive director of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, bringing philanthropic support to public health. She went on to lead a national sales program for Endymion Systems, Inc. Mera is currently a strategic advisor to The Sustainable Preservation Initiative and sits on the board of The Weekend to Be Named Later and Rag Tag. A San Francisco native, Mera lives in her hometown.

Maya is the principal and founder of Mandala Change Group, a consulting practice that provides change management and organizational development strategy services with a DREI lens. Maya brings more than 20 years in philanthropy and working with nonprofit and public entities to support organizations and leaders in their efforts to align their organization’s practices, policies, and cultures to values-based mission and visions. She was previously the Director of Racial Equity Initiatives at Borealis Philanthropy where she led the Racial Equity in Philanthropy fund (REP), the Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) fund, which supports nonprofit organizations in advancing racial equity practices, and the Racial Equity in Journalism (REJ) fund. She spent nine years at the Women’s Foundation of California where she supported organizations doing systems-level change work at the intersection of gender and racial justice.