The Caring Economy with Toby Usnik

Dick Tofel, was the founding general manager (and first employee) of ProPublica from 2007-2012, and has been its president since 2013. He has responsibility for all of ProPublica’s non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. During the period of Tofel’s business leadership, ProPublica has won six Pulitzer Prizes , seven Natio...

Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech, a scholar and an expert of pre-Columbian art, Paloma today teaches pre-Hispanic and colonial art in the Architecture Dept of the University of Lima in Peru. She received her degree in the history of art at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (Spain) and specialized in Latin American and Caribbean studies and in museology at New York University. In 2010 she published I...

Rob Smith, the CEO and Founder of The Phluid Project , has created a brand, combining his profession, which is retail, along with his passion, a commitment to social justice. After graduating from Michigan State University, Rob began a long retail career, spanning over 30 years, orchestrating multi-billion dollar businesses through merchandising,  e-commerce, marketing, product development an...

Zach Buchwald, Managing Director, is the Head of BlackRock's Institutional Business for the U.S. and Canada. He leads sales, client service, strategy and research, and is responsible for delivering BlackRock's investment capabilities to the firm's institutional clients. Prior to this role, he led BlackRock's Financial Institutions Group in the Americas, and earlier he helped establish the firm's R...

Crawford F Sherman’s, family has had a history of involvement in the hospitality industry going back to before the turn of the century (1900) and continued with his father having been involved in the building of several Hotels including the Boars Head Inn, Charlottesville VA. Crawford decided to learn the business the hard way by running away from school in France and starting his career as a dish...

April Goess, is the Managing Director at The Culinary Institute of America, San Antonio campus. Ms. Goess graduated top of her class in 2003 with a Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) degree from The Culinary Institute of America. She earned an associate degree with honors in Baking and Pastry Arts in 2001. Her professional experience includes two years as executive chef at California’s histori...

Zheming is an expert on strategic & international communication, stakeholder engagement, crisis management, and policy advocacy. In 2019, he founded Taskforce Consultancy, a Beijing-based strategic communications and stakeholder engagement firm. He is actively involved with many of the firm's clients, including UN Women, PICC Group, Hongkong Land, Envision Group, LONGi Group, CBRE, LinkedIn, M...

Christine Heenan serves as Flagship’s senior partner and chief communications officer, overseeing communications, external affairs, brand and marketing for Flagship and its enterprise companies. She also serves as an advisor to the dozens of Flagship-founded companies in its broader ecosystem. She is the founder and former president of Clarendon Group, a consulting firm focused on social impact, c...

Dominic Kalms is a venture backed entrepreneur and philanthropist with an expertise in Financial Technology (FinTech), nonprofits, and charitable fundraising. He has raised over $50M in venture and philanthropic capital during his career and has been featured in an array of media publications (e.g. NBC, Forbes, CBS, Entrepreneur, BBC, Yahoo etc.) where he discusses philanthropy and impact. He was...

Gregory D. Hess, Ph. D., is President and CEO of IES Abroad, a not-for-profit academic consortium of 270 top-tier American Colleges and universities, with more than 240 additional partner universities worldwide. IES Abroad provides premier study abroad and internship programs around the world through IES Abroad , IES Internships , IES Abroad Customized & Faculty-Led Programs , and The Study Ab...

Christina Farrell Danka is a Partner for the Consumer & Retail practice at H.I. Executive Consulting , a leading global executive search firm focused on hiring Board, CEO, and Senior-level executives globally. Based in the New York City Office,  Christina brings over a decade of high-level executive search experience in the retail, consumer, and fashion sectors spanning North America, Eur...

Richard Marshall leads the Firm's specialty practice globally which focuses on corporate communications, investor relations, and government affairs. Since joining the firm in 2005, he has led nearly 400 successful engagements globally, including C-suite officers at Softbank, Alibaba, PepsiCo, Boeing, General Mills, and the NFL , and other Fortune Global 500 organizations. In addition, he plac...

Nixon Joseph, President & Chief Operating Officer, SBI Foundation, is a postgraduate in English Language and Literature, joined State Bank of India in 1985 as a probationary officer. As a career banker, he has extensive experience in various facets of Banking like Corporate Credit, Retail Operations, International Banking, etc., has worked all across India. He was also Manager(Operations), SBI...

Vanessa Cheung is the Group Managing Director of Nan Fung Development Ltd. , managing the Group’s Hong Kong property division. She is also the Founder of The Mills – a revitalization project of transforming the Nan Fung Textile Mills into a global innovation tech style destination comprising of art, start-up incubator, and experiential retail. Through  The Mills project and her experience in...

Majken Gilmartin  founder of Eir org and Global Goals World Cup (GGWCUP) , an activist women's football tournament. She currently resides in Denmark. Longtime film producer, event producer, footballer, and certified football coach, organizer of 100+ multiple sports events, inventor of EIR / Global Goals ball, and founder of Longrunning women’s refuge league Asylum United. Winner of the Olympi...

A native of Northern Michigan, Neil Vogler is a chemical engineer professional who spent the majority of his career with German chemical conglomerate BASF SE, the largest chemical producer in the world. Spanning two decades of work that included roles in product management, sales and marketing, he and his family enjoyed the enlightened beneficence of a corporate giant in the era of boundless globa...

How do we align incentives so that organizations aggressively move us towards better societal outcomes in ways that our political class is unable or unwilling to do? How do we create and live into the potential of strengthening our communities from a place of “want to” rather than “need to”? Those are the questions that Nate Garvis has successfully answered for leaders in a wide spectrum of sector...

Gwen Greene is a Financial Advisor at JP Morgan Chase, by way of Bear Stearns and Co Inc, and started her career on Wall Street at the former Smith Barney Harris Upham and Co Inc 40 years ago. Prior to that Gwen worked, variously, as Director of Tourism for then-Mayor John Lindsay in NYC,  and as a Producer and Reporter for local TV news. Gwen is a graduate of the University of Rochester, whe...

LYDIA FENET  is Global Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, and Lead Benefit Auctioneer at Christie’s Auction House. She has led auctions for more than six hundred organizations and raised over half a billion dollars for nonprofits globally. Lydia is a keynote speaker represented by CAA and travels internationally speaking to groups about unlocking their sales potential and empower...

Emily Kernan Rafferty, President Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, served for 40  years at the Museum: as chief of institutional advancement, Senior Vice President of External  Affairs, and as President from 2005 to 2015. As President, she was the Museum’s chief administrative officer, supervising a staff of 2,000 full- and part-time employees and volunteers.  Ms. Rafferty’...

Rebekah Skovron  The Caring Economy podcast series Executive Producer and a Digital Marketing Specialist. Previously, Rebekah graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2018 as a double major in Women’s Studies and Media and Society with a minor in Studio Art. She earned an award for Cum Laude and the Toni Flores Prize, that is for “Celebrating her unselfish spirit of caring and her...

Rhea helps nonprofits raise more money. Though she has deep experience with institutional, corporate, and event fund-raising, she is passionate about major individual donors and helping organizations to establish individual giving programs. She has raised millions of dollars in private philanthropy and is passionate about building the next generation of fundraising leaders. She has become a leader...

Hannah Young is a diplomat with the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. She is currently the Deputy Consul General at the British Consulate General, New York. She recently joined from Number 10, where she was the Prime Minister’s lead official on home affairs policy, a brief that covered everything from criminal justice reform to counter-terrorism and immigration...

Nikita Singhal is the Co-Head of Sustainable Investment & ESG at Lazard Asset Management. Nikita oversees the firm’s ESG integration strategy. She works closely with analysts and portfolio managers to enhance their investment processes and on launching new strategies. She co-chairs the firm’s ESG Steering Group and sits on the firm’s Proxy Voting Committee. She also leads client engagement and...

"By the time I was 40, I had a great track record of designing for other people – Giorgio Armani, Anne Klein, Perry Ellis, Paco Rabanne – and I joined Gap to head up their global design team in 2007. But then I started hearing stories from our denim factories: The rivers downstream were blue from all the dyes, and the fish and the water that these communities depended on were becoming contaminated...