Johanna is an institution-builder and transformer driven by the conviction that resilient nonprofit organizations are crucial for a liveable future.
With more than 20 years of top leadership and management experience in nonprofits and philanthropy, Johanna’s strengths include navigating organizational transition with boards and staff, deepening strategic collaboration, and aligning internal operations to boost external impact.
Johanna was formerly president of the Union of Concerned Scientists and an executive officer at the Open Society Foundations, where she helped steer successful organizational transformations and strategy efforts. She’s also served in board and leadership roles at a range of nonprofits including the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the Environmental Voter Project, the Blue Green Alliance, Third Sector New England, the Public Conversations Project, and the YMCA.
Across her career, Johanna has supervised mission-driven programs in the fields of arts and culture, climate change, women’s rights, food equity, workers’ rights, early childhood, health, higher education, criminal justice, migration, and more.
A skilled mediator and facilitator, Johanna earned a BA with distinction in anthropology from Stanford University and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was named a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow.
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