Recruiting and retaining engaged board members is a primary challenge for many mission-driven organizations. Using real-world stories and strategies, our panelists will share how their organizations have increased the resilience of their boards by focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for building stronger boards that are better equipped to face the challenges of the future.

Join us for our webcast Strategies to Strengthen Board Resilience Through DEI, where we’ll discuss strategies to increase board resilience through DEI initiatives.

Annie Rose Favreau, Director, Moss Adams

Annie Rose helps public and social sector clients increase their impact through organizational assessments, strategic planning, succession planning, and governance initiatives. With a focus on strategy and organizational development, Annie Rose’s areas of expertise include leadership facilitation, stakeholder engagement, performance measure development, qualitative research, and policy development.

Annie Rose has provided strategy, operations, governance, and organizational consulting services to local, state, and Tribal governments; not-for-profits and foundations; and K–12 and higher education clients.

Maria Stroth, Senior Manager, Moss Adams

Maria has nearly a decade of experience helping public sector and community-serving organizations be more effective, efficient, and equitable. Her work has primarily focused on engagements with local government and higher education institutions in which she works to help organizations better achieve their missions and improve outcomes for the individuals they serve.

In addition to experience as a local government performance auditor, Maria has worked alongside numerous leaders to develop and implement strategic planning and continuous improvement initiatives, offering her expertise through coaching, facilitation, and evaluation.

Kinman Tong, Partner, Moss Adams

Kinman has practiced public accounting since 2003. He serves a diverse spectrum of not-for-profit organization and governmental entities, providing assurance and consulting services to educational institutions, research organizations, community health centers, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), foundations, international nongovernmental organizations, social welfare organizations, and ancillary health care providers and organizations.

Kinman is well versed in performing compliance audits of not-for-profit and for-profit entities that participate in federal programs under the Yellow Book; the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) uniform administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for federal awards; the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Consolidated Audit Guide; the US Department of Education (ED) Guide for Audits of Proprietary Schools; and other federal agencies’ program-specific audit guides.

He sits on the board at both Asian Health Services and Aurora Theatre Company.

Tamika Tremaglio, Board Member, Born This Way Foundation

During her tenure at the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), Tamika developed the organization’s strategic vision that delivers the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), increases stakeholder engagement, develops a high-performing championship team, increases equity, and grows annual revenue.

Tamika’s professional finance and accounting experience of more than 30 years includes leading large, high-profile, global, and domestic, corporate investigations with collective bargaining agreements, strategy development, operations management, talent development, compensation, corporate governance, corporate citizenship initiatives, franchise disputes, board compliance, real estate matters, and more.

Tamika speaks frequently on leadership, corporate governance, talent development, and corporate social responsibility, including the roles that DEI plays.

Sutian Dong, Director, Vitamin Angels

Sutian Dong has been a longtime advocate of women’s empowerment and is the founder of a new fund-of-funds vehicle. Dong was most recently a partner at Female Founders Fund (F3), a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. Previously, she was an investor in early-stage consumer internet and director of marketing for a New York-based couture and luxury outerwear brand.

Dong is helping to leverage her extensive network to fundraise, build brand partnerships, and provide strategic advisement to further expand nutrition intervention programs and global business.

Julie Ziegler, Chief Executive Officer, Humanities Washington

Julie Ziegler has served as Humanities Washington’s chief executive officer and executive director since 2009, joining the organization after a career in corporate philanthropy. Julie is committed to bringing engaging, thought-provoking, humanities programs that build community across Washington State.

Accomplishments during Julie’s tenure at Humanities Washington include increasing state funding more than tenfold and securing the largest multiyear private grant in the organization’s history; extensive work in equity and inclusion at all levels of the organization from board leadership to program development to operations; and the development, launch, and growth of new programs including Prime Time Family Reading and the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions.