Network
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
— STEVE JOBS
Having a great team of thought partners, advisors and experts with varying talents is important to helping achieve your vision. I’ve drawn on my over 30 years of experience to build a network of talented and dedicated professionals. I put together the right team to meet your particular challenges and needs.
KATIE BETHELL, CONSULTANT
Katie is a 20 year veteran of social change startups, campaigns, and movements. Her consulting practice includes supporting individuals and organizations through executive performance coaching, innovation thought partnership, facilitation, strategic planning, and advocacy advising. Katie is the person to call if you want to see a change in the world (or your team, or yourself), and need to figure out how to make it happen.
Katie was the founder and CEO of Paid Leave for the United States, a national campaign to advance paid family and medical leave that succeeded in winning parental leave alongside hourly workers at Walmart, Starbucks, CVS, and dozens of other major workplaces. Prior to that, Katie led North America campaigns at Change.org, and was a member of the founding team at MomsRising.org. Katie was honored to be named one of Fortune magazine’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2018, and by Fast Company as one of the "Most Creative People in Business.” A constant learner, she’s received coaching, leadership, and advocacy training from the Coactive Training Institute, Midwest Academy, Harvard Executive program, and in the Stanford Business school “Interpersonal Dynamics” method via Leaders in Tech.
LARA BERGTHOLD, COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST
Lara wakes up thinking about how to solve big intractable problems. She has a particular skill of seeing around corners and bringing two seemingly unrelated ideas together into a new kind of solution. She has spent her career working with creatives to tell stories that move audiences to change and knows how to incorporate that into strong messaging and strategy. You want her in your corner.
Lara most recently served as a Principal Partner at RALLY, a leading advocacy agency. As one of the founding partners, she helped build the agency for 10 years from 11 to nearly 100 staff, and her leading clients included March for our Lives, NARAL, Sandy Hook Promise, United Way Los Angeles, Gap, Inc., Amazon Studios, CBS, Maria Shriver’s The Shriver Report, Common Sense Media, and leading philanthropists such as the Ballmer Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and others. You can see more about her work here.
JEN BROWER, SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jen is creative director based in Minneapolis, MN. She has been working independently since 1995. During this time, she’s helped build brands that cut across a wide swath of companies and organizations: fashion, retail, cause-related, arts, financial services, hospitality, legal, health & beauty, food service, entertainment, education, and even pet food. Similarly, her clients range in size from tiny start-ups to large corporations. These diverse experiences have made Jen both flexible and unconventional. She has been described by clients as “a dream to work with” and “a design unicorn.” When she’s not clicking her mouse, Jen is either playing in the snow or swatting mosquitos with her husband and two kids.
AMY DOMINGUEZ-ARMS, PHILANTHROPIC/NONPROFIT CONSULTANT
Amy supports foundations, funder collaboratives and nonprofits in strategic planning, grantmaking program design and oversight, organizational development, and assessment. Amy has worked on a broad range of issues, including democratic reforms, voting rights and participation, early childhood, P-16 education, immigrant rights, and environmental and social justice.
Amy has served in multiple philanthropic and nonprofit leadership roles. Previously, as Vice President for Programs at The James Irvine Foundation, she oversaw a $75 million grantmaking portfolio focused on democracy, youth, education, and the arts; earlier she served as a program director, launching initiatives advancing electoral reforms, redistricting reform, immigrant rights and immigration reform, and civic and voter participation. Amy also created and led various organizational capacity-building and leadership initiatives, include The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. Prior to these roles, Amy was Vice President of Children Now, a nonprofit children’s research and advocacy organization.
Amy serves as Board Chair of Outdoor Foundation, Board Vice Chair of NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School), and Board Vice Chair of the National Immigration Forum’s action fund. Amy earned her MPA at Harvard’s Kennedy School and her BA in International Relations and Spanish at Stanford University.
MARY KOPP, PROGRAM MANAGER
Mary brings over four decades of program management and operations experience at non-profits, funder collaboratives, technology, and media companies. Mary has worked with a variety of local, state, and national nonprofit organizations, providing financial management, event planning, grant writing, technical assistance, and project management services.
KACI PATTERSON, FOUNDER, SOCIAL GOOD SOLUTIONS
Kaci has worked in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors for over 18 years. She began her career in the nonprofit sector while in college and soon developed a passion for advancing social justice through expanding educational, economic and political opportunity for people of color. Prior to consulting, Kaci held several entry-to-executive-level roles, leading capacity building, education advocacy and social justice initiatives at the local, state, national and international levels. In addition to managing multi-million-dollar grant-making portfolios in the United States and abroad, Kaci pioneered capacity building programs, professional development and organizational initiatives that served networks of grassroots organizers, community advocates and over 1,000 civil society leaders and public officials.
Always with an eye toward human dignity and community strengthening, Kaci’s mission is to push the world forward by working with philanthropic institutions, nonprofit organizations and public entities to design, operationalize and manage strategic social change initiatives from concept to implementation. In 2014, she co-founded and launched B.L.A.C.C. (Building Leaders and Cultivating Change), a grassroots social activism fund. She was named a 2016 California Community Foundation Unsung Hero of Los Angeles for her work with the fund; and was named as one of the 2016 40 Under 40 by Supervisor Ridley-Thomas’ Empowerment Congress. In 2017, she received the Liberty Hill Foundation Wally Marks Change Maker of the Year award.
Kaci is a certified mediator, a graduate of Pepperdine and holds a MBA in Organizational Management & Leadership from the University of LaVerne. She was appointed by Gov. Brown in 2014 to a CA Department of Consumer Affairs state commission. She is happily married with two young children and enjoys traveling, music and sports.
DANIEL SILVERMAN, PRINCIPAL, SILVERMAN STRATEGIES
Daniel has spent three decades helping progressive organizations communicate clearly, operate effectively, and win campaigns. At Silverman Strategies, he develops organizational, campaign, and communications strategies for foundations and nonprofits. He has worked on a broad range of issues, including public health, the environment, higher education, economic equity, and social justice.
Daniel previously served as Chief Operating Officer at The James Irvine Foundation from 2019-2020. He was Director of Communications for nine years and Corporate Secretary from 2007-2020. Prior to joining the Irvine Foundation, Daniel served as Senior Vice President at Fenton, the largest public interest communications firm in the country. Prior to Fenton, he served as National Media Director for the Sierra Club and as National Field Director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.