Board

Artemisa is a longtime advocate of natural resource conservation, and holds a PhD in marine and fisheries science. She has spent the past 25 years working on socio-environmental justice projects, leading a local NGO and working with indigenous and fishers’ communities in the northwest of Mexico. She is one of the founders of Global Greengrants’ sister fund, Fondo Acción Solidaria, AC a fund that promotes a just, equitable, and participatory society in Mexico through natural, cultural, and social heritage conservation. Artemisa has been an Independent Voting Member since April 2018.

Roger-Mark De Souza is a leading entrepreneurial nonprofit executive with more than 25 years’ experience driving innovation through local and global initiatives, streamlined operations and impactful teams. Over his career, he has built social, economic, health, and environmental justice programs, teams, and movements across the world to encourage local buy-in and empowerment. He currently serves as the Vice President of Sustainable Markets at Pact, leading work on energy and environment, livelihoods and extractives. His commitment to promoting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility through allyship, service, and organizational action stems from his lived experiences, his community engagement, and his deep desire to improve the welfare of diverse populations. He brings to bear his contagious laugh, energy, and drive to engage others, lift their aspirations, and deliver on key program objectives. Outside his professional life, he thrives on his Caribbean heritage, loves to cook, is an avid traveler, and enjoys the outdoors with his wife, sons, and rescue dogs. His pronouns are he/him/his. Roger-Mark De Souza has been an Independent Voting Member since October 2022.

Chinesom is a former Director of Investments at Africa Integras, an asset management firm headquartered in New York City that invests early-risk capital for the development of educational real estate. Prior to Africa Integras, Chinesom was Managing Director at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, where he managed over $900 million in capital reserved for private equity funds that hold investments in companies across four continents and over 30 countries. Previously, Chinesom worked in the fixed income industry - specifically asset and mortgage backed assets. Additionally, he was an Executive Member of the Washington Latin Public Charter School Board where he served as President and previously served as the Treasurer and Head of the Finance Committee. He maintains an honorary role on the Board. Chinesom graduated from The Colorado College with a B.A. in Economics and was a four year football varsity letter. He also holds an MBA from The Darden School of Business. Chinesom has been an Independent Voting Member since October 2018.

Stefan is a marine biologist with an interest in the social dimensions of marine conservation and management. His dissertation was on the experience of co-management in Chilean coastal fisheries. Stefan conducts field research on artisanal fishermen, local government, and scientific research for marine management. He has broad experience working directly with fishing and indigenous communities in environmental education, management of fisheries by local fishermen, repopulating invertebrate species, and the creation of protected woodlands. He received a 2014 Pew fellowship in marine conservation for a project to examine the social and ecological incentives that enable territorial fishing within no-take zones along the Chilean coast. Stefan has been an Independent Voting Member since November 2013.

Kim is a civil rights litigation attorney—usually in Title IX cases involving sexual harassment and sexual assaults—and she has spoken and written on the rights of students subjected to sexual harassment and sexual violence. Having previously practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Kim has been listed for several years as one of "The Best Lawyers in America." She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her law degree from Cornell University. In 2010, Kim took a sabbatical from her practice and moved with her family to Morocco. Kim has been an Independent Voting Member since October 2015.

Shannon is Program Director of the Civil Society program at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. She oversees Mott’s Civil Society program. Since joining the foundation in 1995, Shannon has served as a program officer, focusing on Russia and Ukraine, and as the Regional Director for the foundation’s work in Central and Eastern Europe/Russia. Prior to joining the foundation, Shannon was the International Program Director at the Olga Havel Foundation in Prague, where she coordinated international assistance programs to help people with disabilities and chronic illnesses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Shannon has been an Independent Voting Member since November 2013.

Josh Mailman is Founder and Managing Director of Serious Change L.P., a sole L.P. impact investment vehicle started in 2009. He serves on the board of the following companies: Social Imprints; BenefitHub; Jaguar Health; and the following non-profits - Global Greengrants Fund, the Mailman School of Public Health, Echoing Green, the Sigrid Rausing Trust U.K., and the Threshold Foundation. He was a co-founder of the Fund for Global Human Rights in 1992, and is a former board member of Human Rights Watch. Josh Mailman founded Social Venture Network (now Social Venture Circle) with Wayne Silby of Calvert Group in 1987. He also co-founded the Threshold Foundation (1981) and Business for Social Responsibility (1992).

Katherine Pease is Managing Director at Pathstone. She has worked with foundations, investors and nonprofit organizations for more than 20 years, most recently as the principal of KP Advisors, a Colorado-based firm that worked with foundations, nonprofits and investors. Previously Katherine served as the executive director of the Gill Foundation and as Senior Vice President for Philanthropic Investments and Policy at Gary Community Investments/Piton Foundation. She has also been a member of Cornerstone’s Global Advisory Council. Katherine regularly speaks about the intersection of impact investing and social equity and has written about the subject extensively. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from The Colorado College and her Master's in Public Administration from The University of Colorado, where she is also a Lecturer in the School of Public Affairs. Katherine Pease has been an Independent Voting Member since July 2013.

Bobby Peek is Director of groundWork, Friends of the Earth, South Africa. He grew up on the fenceline of south Durban’s Engen oil refinery, co–founded the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, was national campaigns coordinator for the Environmental Justice Networking Forum, and in 1998 received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa. He was on South Africa’s first National Environmental Advisory Committee to the South African Minister of Environment. From 2008 to 2012 he was on the international executive committee of Friends of the Earth International. At Global Greengrants Fund, Bobby has been an advisor for the Southern Africa Advisory Board since 2002, and he served as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee from 2016-2017. He advises on various national and international environmental justice strategies. He has received an honourary PhD from the Durban University of Technology. Bobby has been an Independent Voting Member since April 2018.

Regan Pritzker is an elementary school teacher and mother of three teens. As chair of the investment committee of her family’s foundation, the Libra Foundation, Regan works to accelerate alignment of the invested assets with their mission to support transformative social justice. She also serves on the boards of Global Greengrants Fund and The Urban School of San Francisco. She holds a Master’s degree in Developmental Education from the UC, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Stanford University. Regan has been an Independent Voting Member since July 2013.

Lauren is a manager at a professional services organisation, working exclusively with international bilateral and multilateral donors and grant-giving charitable foundations. She is a qualified chartered accountant, and her work involves overseeing the provision of assurance work over grant funding, capacity building of key partners, and forensic investigations across the world. Lauren is currently completing a graduate diploma in international development and development economics with the University of London (LSE). She is committed to supporting initiatives to reduce inequalities and provide agency to local communities in the sphere of development and humanitarian funding. Lauren Stevenson has been an Independent Voting Member since October 2022.