Tides Board of Directors
Noa Emmett Aluli
Noa Emmett Aluli is a Native Hawaiian physician on Moloka'i and a long-time activist for the preservation of Hawaiian culture and beliefs, the preservation of historical sites, and environmental integrity. He serves as a member of a number of organizations pursuing this work and he serves as the Chairman of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, the State agency overseeing the clean-up and restoration of Kaho'olawe.
Melissa L. Bradley, CEO
Melissa L. Bradley is CEO of Tides. Prior to Tides, Melissa founded and served as managing director of New Capitalist, an organization that leverages human, financial and social capital to create economically profitable and sustainable individuals, businesses, and communities. She is the founder and former President of Reentry Strategies Institute – the only national criminal justice intermediary explicitly focused on reentry. And, she founded The Entrepreneurial Development Institute as well as Positive Impact. She has served as a Senior Adviser to the Center for American Progress, as a regular consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on Family Economic Security and Civic Engagement, and as a Senior Strategist for Green For All.
Joanie Bronfman
Joanie Bronfman is a long-time advocate for social justice and donor activism. She is the Associate Dean of the Family Office Exchange Learning Center and works as a consultant and speaker on issues of wealth. Over the years, Joanie has served on the boards of Tides Canada and the Threshold Foundation; where she helped found Threshold's Social Justice Committee.
Stephanie J. Clohesy, Vice Chair
Stephanie J. Clohesy is a public service leader with experience in public policy, women's rights, citizen participation/democratization, organizational and leadership development for the U.S. and international nonprofits. As founder and Principal at Clohesy Consulting, she specializes in providing strategic organizational, program planning, research, and design services to philanthropic foundations and to national and international nonprofit institutions.
Lisa Hall
Lisa Hall is the President and CEO of Calvert Foundation. Lisa joined Calvert Foundation in 2005 and has held multiple policy and financial posts with nearly 25 years of industry experience. She has held positions in real estate and community development finance with the Enterprise Foundation, JP Morgan Chase and Travelers Insurance. She holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard University. In 2003, Lisa participated in the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a travel program for emerging leaders from the US and Europe. Lisa serves on the Boards of Mentor’s Inc., The Funders’ Network, and ROC USA. She also serves on the executive committee of ANDE (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) and the Board of Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC.
Lawrence Litvak
Lawrence (Larry) Litvak serves as a board member of, or adviser to, several nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Larry was part of the management team at Working Assets, a socially progressive wireless, long distance, and credit card company, until 2003 when he retired as CFO. Before joining Working Assets, Larry co-managed $3.2 billion in assets as a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the U.S. Trust Company of Boston. He is the author of Pension Funds and Economic Renewal and Innovations in Development Finance.
Peter Mellen
Peter Mellen is an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in online business and commercial real estate. He is currently President of Mellen Investment Properties, a real estate investing firm that manages and develops residential and commercial properties. He also served as co-founder and CEO of Edison|Wright, where he launched one of the first PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) programs in the world to finance clean energy projects in buildings through voluntary property tax assessments. Previously, he served as Director of Premium Education Services at AOL, where he managed a portfolio of online education services provided to K-12 students. Prior to AOL, Peter served as Vice President of Business Development for Safari Books Online. Immediately after earning his MBA in 1998, Peter co-founded Headlight, an online learning company that raised more than $15 million of venture capital from investors that included Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the Silicon Valley Band of Angels. Peter currently serves as chairman of the Washington DC Local Advisory Board for BUILD, a program that provides entrepreneurship education for high school students in under-resourced communities. He earned a Bachelor's degree and an MBA (Honors) from Georgetown University, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
Anne Mosle
Anne Mosle is Executive Director of Ascend at The Aspen Institute. Prior to joining The Aspen Institute, she served as a Vice President and Officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As part of Kellogg’s executive team, she contributed to steering the Foundation’s overall direction and execution of its philanthropic strategy and development. She was previously President of Washington Area Women’s Foundation where she led an initiative to build financial independence for low-income women-headed families earning national recognition and causing the organization to become one of the fastest growing women’s foundations in the country. In addition to serving on the Board of Tides, she Anne also sits serves on the boards of the Women’s Funding Network and the National Board of Women and Philanthropy, and is a member of the Children, Youth and Families Steering Committee of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers.
Iara D. Peng
Iara D. Peng is the director of Young People For, a project of People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF), an organization that is committed to identifying, engaging and empowering young progressive leaders and activists across the country. Before joining PFAWF, she was the Executive Director of the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative, a nonprofit that supports communications strategies which contribute to change throughout the country’s juvenile justice systems. Iara also worked as the Vice President of Doble Research Associates, a public interest consulting firm, and was Vice President of Marga, Inc., a consulting firm to nonprofit organizations which specializes in strategic planning, board development, fundraising and communications.
john a. powell
john a. powell, a nationally recognized authority on civil rights and civil liberties, is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law, at Ohio State University, and is the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity in the Americas. He has taught law at Columbia, Harvard, University of Miami, and University of San Francisco, and has served as National Legal Director of the ACLU. john also serves on the board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
Chuck C. Savitt
Charles (Chuck) C. Savitt co-founded Island Press in 1984 to stimulate, shape, and communicate the ideas essential to solving environmental problems. Under Chuck’s leadership, Island Press has become more than a publisher—it convenes experts, helps them hone their ideas, then helps share the results. Chuck received a B.A. in Community Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a M.P.A from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also serves as a director of Fauna & Flora International and the National Environmental Trust Action Fund.
Tuti B. Scott
Tuti B. Scott is President and Founder of Imagine Philanthropy, an international consulting firm that supports philanthropists in building effective giving strategies and guides organizations and nonprofit leaders seeking to enhance and energize their work. As a certified fundraiser, a member of the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers, and through her work on the Board of Directors of the Women Win Foundation, Tuti’s commitment to the women's funding movement has elevated the conversation about health and wellness, movement, gender equity, and leadership excellence for women in the global philanthropic arena. In addition to lecturing and presenting internationally on leadership, organizational development, fundraising, and brand building; Tuti serves as an adjunct professor at Bay Path College in the school of Nonprofit Management and as a research associate for the Smith College Project for Social Change.
Joel Solomon
Joel Solomon is President of Renewal Partners seed capital firm and the Endswell Foundation, both focused on a conservation economy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a founding Board member of Tides Canada, former President of the Threshold Foundation, and a founding member of the Social Venture Network.
Veronique Spruill
Veronique (Vikki) Spruill is president and CEO of Ocean Conservancy, applying skills she developed in her private sector career in strategic communications to the challenge of raising public awareness and policy action on behalf of our oceans. Vikki founded the nonprofits SeaWeb and FoundationWorks. She serves as director or advisor for multiple organizations, including Sky Truth, COMPASS, Pew Fellows, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, Ocean Hall (Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History), Ad Council and SeaChange Investment Fund.
Maya Wiley, Chair
Maya Wiley is the founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI), an applied research and advocacy organization which supports community groups to dismantle structural racism. As a civil rights attorney and social justice advocate by trade, she has worked for the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Maya also served as an advisor to the Open Society Institute and as a consultant to the Open Society Foundation. She has assisted several nonprofits on program and strategy development.
Tides is a network of nonprofit organizations. The Tides Board of Directors oversees Tides as a whole, and its members also make up the directors for each Tides organization.
| TIDES FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS | TIDES CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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Joanie Bronfman | Noa Emmett Aluli |












