‎ ‎ View the list: A-FAngelique Albert55 | CEO, Native Forward Scholars FundAngelique Albert leads the largest scholarship organization for Native students in the country, and in 2025, she secured one of the nonprofit’s largest donations to date: a $50 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. A member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and a first-generation college graduate herself, Albert has led Native Forward since 2017. During her tenure, she tripled the number of students it serves annually and has awarded $400 million in total scholarships to more than 20,000 students from 500 tribes across all 50 states. Laurene Allen64 | Co-founder & Activist, National PFAS Contamination CoalitionClinical social worker Laurene Allen learned in 2016 that her New Hampshire town's drinking water was contaminated with PFAS, a class of toxic "forever chemicals" linked to cancer and other health problems. She cofounded Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water and later helped launch the National PFAS Contamination Coalition, connecting communities facing similar contamination across the country. Allen spent years pressing regulators and lawmakers for stronger oversight while leading the campaign against a Saint-Gobain plastics manufacturing plant linked to the contamination. Her advocacy helped build momentum for the nation's first federal drinking water standards for PFAS, finalized in 2024, the same year the Merrimack plant ceased manufacturing. Shorlette Ammons51 | Co-Executive Director, Farm AidIn 2025, Shorlette Ammons was promoted from program director at Farm Aid to co-executive director of the Willie Nelson-founded organization. Since its founding in 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $90 million in support of family farmers. Ammons grew up in rural North Carolina among a family of farmworkers, and before coming to Farm Aid in 2022 she served as the children’s librarian at Wayne County Public Library and also worked with the Wayne Food Initiative. Ammons also serves on the board of the Land Loss Prevention Project, which gives legal support to Black farmers and landowners in North Carolina.Dale Anglin62 | Inaugural Director, Press Forward Local news has been decimated in the United States; some 3,500 newspapers have shuttered since the beginning of the 21st century and some 50 million Americans live in a news desert (with zero to one local news sources). Dale Anglin’s mission is to strengthen the local news organizations that still exist—and to ensure all neighborhoods in America have access to reliable information about their communities. Since becoming the inaugural director of Press Forward in 2024, Anglin has opened chapters in 40 regions across the country and raised more than $400 million in support of local news. Craig Barritt/Getty Images50 OVER 50 HIGHLIGHTAnousheh Ansari59 | CEO, XPRIZE FoundationAs CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, Anousheh Ansari leads the nonprofit behind some of the world's largest scientific competitions, designed to accelerate breakthroughs in climate, health and technology. Under her leadership, XPRIZE has launched the three largest contests in its history: the $100 million Carbon Removal prize, the $101 million Healthspan prize and the $119 million Water Scarcity prize. An entrepreneur and engineer, Ansari became the first Iranian-born woman to travel to space in 2006; she self-funded a flight on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 to the International Space Station. XPRIZE says its competitions have helped catalyze more than $31 billion in follow-on social and economic investment. Cinira Baldi57 | CEO, Good360Since becoming CEO of Good360 in 2025, Cinira Baldi has led one of the nation's largest charities, overseeing an organization that connects surplus products from corporate partners with nonprofits serving communities in need. The No. 2 organization on Forbes' America's Top Charities 2025 list, Good360 has distributed more than $25 billion in donated goods through a network of more than 100,000 vetted nonprofits while helping reduce waste and strengthen disaster response. Previously a leader at Project HOPE and Mercy Corps, Baldi is guiding the organization's next phase of growth as demand for essential goods continues to rise. Christina Beckles54 | Founder & President, Sato ProjectWhen Christina Beckles visited Puerto Rico for the first time in 2007, she ended her trip with a stray puppy named Boom Boom and a determination to save similar dogs (or “satos”) from the streets of Yabucoa and a place known as Dead Dog Beach. In 2011, The Sato Project was officially born, and in the years since Beckles’ organization has rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed more than 8,000 dogs. In 2023, she spearheaded Operation Sato, a high-volume spay, neuter and vaccination clinic in Puerto Rico that has since treated more than 4,500 dogs. Leslie Belcher60 | Managing Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, SteptoeLeslie Belcher has spent nearly four decades shaping public policy from both inside and outside government. Today, she leads the government affairs and public policy practice at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Steptoe, where she is widely regarded as one of K Street's most influential lobbyists and a trusted expert on the House Republican Conference. In July, Belcher wrote an article for Reuters sounding the alarm about “institutional atrophy” and dysfunction within the legislative branch of government. Before joining Steptoe in 2007, Belcher worked for several members of Congress and also established the House Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus for fiscally conservative centrist Democrats. Julie K. Brown64 | Investigative Journalist, Miami HeraldIt is not a stretch to say that the world would not know about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and abuse of young women without the work of Julie K. Brown. The veteran Miami Herald investigative reporter exposed Epstein’s wrongdoings in a series of stories in 2017 and 2018 that led to his arrest (and the arrest of his associate Ghislaine Maxwell). She has continued to give voice to Epstein’s victims through her reporting, and in 2026 she received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for the way her work has “reverberate[d] around the world.”Eileen Budo63 | CEO, Last Mile Food RescueHunger is a logistics problem. Those are the words of Eileen Budo, who spent 28 years understanding procurement and supply chains at Procter & Gamble, and at age 57, decided to prove a point. In 2020, Budo joined Cincinnati, Ohio’s Last Mile Food Rescue and built a logistics platform that matches surplus food with recipient food banks and pantries based on their capacity and needs. It then dispatches volunteers through an Uber-style app to move donations from businesses. The organization says it’s saved 20 million pounds of food locally, but Budo—a onetime captain in the U.S. Air Force—is aiming her sights nationwide. Glynda Carr54 | Co-founder, President & CEO, Higher Heights for America Glynda Carr co-founded Higher Heights for America to build the political power and leadership of Black women, creating a national organization dedicated to electing Black women to public office. Under her leadership, Higher Heights has helped elect Black women to Congress and the Senate—the Higher Heights PAC supported Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) in the 2024 election—while also helping increase Black women's representation in statewide executive offices, including the election of New York's first Black female attorney general, Letitia "Tish" James. Anla Chen75 | Founder, Chair & CEO, Serica InitiativeAfter a career in global finance and investment management, Anla Cheng founded Serica Initiative, an Emmy Award-winning nonprofit dedicated to amplifying Asian American and Pacific Islander voices across culture, business, science and public life. Under her leadership, Serica has expanded its reach through award-winning films, storytelling and public programming, reaching millions while elevating AAPI perspectives and leadership. Cheng also serves as a trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, bringing together leadership across finance, philanthropy and the arts. Leslie Cornfeld67 | Founder & CEO, National Education Equity Lab Leslie Cornfeld founded the National Education Equity Lab to bring college credit-bearing courses from leading universities into Title I high school classrooms (i.e, public schools serving lower income kids) at no cost to students. Since launching the organization in 2019, it has served more than 50,000 students across 34 states through partnerships with many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Independent research from Johns Hopkins University found that participating students are about twice as likely to enroll in four year colleges, helping create new pathways to higher education for talented low-income students. A former federal civil rights prosecutor, Cornfield also serves on the board of directors for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Karen Dunn 50 | Co-founder & Partner, Dunn, Isaacson & RheeIn 2025, Karen Dunn had been serving as co-chair of law giant Paul Weiss’s litigation department when the firm—one of the largest in the nation—cut a deal with President Trump that included a rollback of DEI initiatives. Dunn jumped ship and co-founded litigation boutique firm Dunn Isaacson & Rhee. Dunn continues to represent clients in some of the nation's most consequential cases, including Google's federal antitrust defense. Beyond the courtroom, she has long been known for preparing Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees for nationally televised debates. Christine Egan56 | CEO, CLASPFor more than 25 years, Christine Egan has led CLASP, a global nonprofit helping countries cut energy use by making everyday appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators, more efficient. Under her leadership, CLASP has helped accelerate the adoption of energy-efficient appliances in more than 90 countries through policy advice, financing and technical expertise. CLASP has provided 300,000 solar appliances around the world and, through a financing initiative launched in 2022 and expanded in 2025, the organization has helped lower the cost of energy-efficient appliances and irrigation equipment in six African countries. “If we’re going to prevent the worst consequences of climate change,” Egan says, “every swing of the bat has to matter.”Carly Fiorina71 | CEO, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; National Honorary Chair, Virginia 250 CommissionFormer Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time U.S. presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina is merging her business and political acumen to help shape the 250th anniversary of American independence. As head of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Fiorina’s mission is to ensure people understand the political and historical significance of Williamsburg, Virginia. She also serves as a national honorary chair of Virginia’s 250 Commission, helping spearhead a live, two-hour PBS broadcast on July 4 that marked the first Independence Day telecast outside Washington, D.C., in four decades. Elizabeth Funk57 | Founder & CEO, DignityMovesAfter beginning her career in companies like Yahoo and Microsoft, Elizabeth Funk founded DignityMoves in 2020 to tackle California's homelessness crisis with a new model: rapidly-built interim housing communities that provide private rooms and supportive services for people living on the streets while they wait for permanent housing. Since then, the nonprofit has helped more than 2,000 people move indoors, secured more than $240 million in public and private funding and expanded to 15 communities across California, with five more currently in development.G-RJoan Gabel58 | Chancellor & CEO, University of PittsburghAs chancellor and CEO of the University of Pittsburgh, Joan Gabel is leading one of the nation's leading public research universities through an ambitious strategic plan focused on student success, research, innovation and community impact. The first woman to serve as Pitt's chancellor, while also previously the first woman to lead the University of Minnesota, Gabel has advanced initiatives to expand affordability, including the Pitt Regional Campus Tuition Pledge, while advancing the university's work in health, technology and innovation. Jennifer Garner54 | Actor; Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer, Once Upon a FarmIn February, Jennifer Garner stepped onto the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell and celebrate the $724 million IPO of Once Upon A Farm, the organic baby food company she cofounded in 2017. The company closed its first day of trading up 17%, but Garner’s already mastered tuning out noise from the Street. “People say to me, ‘Oh, you have to be checking the stock,’ and I say, ‘You underestimate my discipline,’” she says. The chief brand officer has been added to her role as the face of the brand over the past decade, along with her acting career, which includes more recent hits like Deadpool & Wolverine and the latest Elin Hildebrand streaming series, The Five Star Weekend. Garner's work in film, television and commercials for Capitol One and Neutrogena has earned her at least $125 million over the course of her career, Forbes estimates. Garner is the single largest shareholder in Once Upon A Farm with a 7% stake worth about $50 million. Of even greater importance to Garner: The brand’s food is now WIC-certified in 20 states. “It’s been our North Star,” she says. Heather Gerkin57 | President, Ford FoundationHeather Gerken became president of the Ford Foundation in 2025 after serving eight years as dean of Yale Law School, where she was the first woman in the school's 200-year history to hold the role. A leading scholar of constitutional law, democracy and election law, Gerken expanded access to legal education during her tenure at Yale. Today, she leads one of the world's largest philanthropic foundations, with approximately $17 billion in assets, advancing efforts to strengthen democratic institutions and expand opportunity. Jane Gilbert63 | Chief Heat Ambassador, Atlantic Council Climate Resilience CenterJane Gilbert helped pioneer a new approach to one of climate change's deadliest threats: extreme heat. In 2021, she became the world's first chief heat officer, leading Miami-Dade County's response to climate change with public health initiatives, urban planning and tree-planting programs. Under her leadership, the county secured nearly $14 million to expand tree canopy in vulnerable neighborhoods, where additional shade can reduce temperatures by 10 to 15 degrees. In 2025, Gilbert became chief heat ambassador at the Atlantic Council's Climate Resilience Center. Since then, she has advised 15 U.S. communities on heat action planning while helping governments and businesses develop strategies to reduce the health and economic risks of extreme heat. Anna M. Gomez59 | Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission“Push back, stand up and defend the First Amendment as if our democracy depends on it, because it does,” said Anna M. Gomez while accepting the Rubén Salazar Award for Communications at the UnidosUS annual conference in August. For three decades, Gomez has led domestic and international communications efforts, most recently as FCC Commissioner, a role she was sworn into at age 53. That platform inspired her First Amendment Tour, making stops nationwide to address the consequences of censorship, political interference and overall threat to free speech.Mary Claire Haver57 | Founder and Chair, The 'Pause LifeMenopause has been having a moment, and the board-certified OB-GYN Dr. Mary Claire Haver is one of the experts driving this moment. Haver established The ‘Pause Life as the umbrella company for informational resources, books and supplements for women who want to understand more about perimenopause and menopause. With more than 8 million followers, Haver surpassed one billion impressions in the last year; her books, 2022’s The New Menopause and 2025’s The New Perimenopause, have sold nearly 1.5 million copies. Last year Haver also launched unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver, a podcast she uses to interview physicians, researchers, scientists and healthcare leaders about women’s health and wellness.Donna House72 | Ethnobotanist & Botanical ConsultantNavajo (Diné) ethnobotanist Donna House has spent more than three decades integrating Indigenous ecological knowledge into conservation and environmental policy. She spent more than a decade helping design the living landscape surrounding the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in 2004. The landscape incorporates Native plant species and Indigenous science into one of the country's most prominent public spaces. Since then, House has also advised The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and tribal governments on protecting endangered plants, biodiversity and culturally significant landscapes. Linda E. Johnson68 | President & CEO, Brooklyn Public LibraryLinda E. Johnson has spent the past 15 years transforming the 62-branch Brooklyn Public Library into one of the nation's most innovative public library systems. Since becoming president and CEO in 2011 at age 53, she's grown the library's revenue (and proceeds from charitable support) to $195 million as of 2023, from $137 million in 2012, while expanding its role as a community hub for digital and AI literacy, immigrant services and civic engagement. Under Johnson's leadership, the library also launched the Books Unbanned initiative, providing free digital access for young readers nationwide. Today, the Brooklyn Public Library serves 2.6 million residents while advancing Johnson's vision of "a place where knowledge is free, all are welcome and communities come together."María Teresa Kumar52 | Founder & CEO, Voto LatinoIn 2004, Maria Teresa Kumar founded voter registration-and-advocacy organization Voto Latino to tap into one of the fastest-growing voting demographics in the country. Since then, she’s helped register nearly 1.5 million voters while publishing crucial polling around Latino families’ financial security, healthcare access and overall confidence in the country’s direction. Kumar (who also sits on Steve Madden’s board of directors) emigrated to the U.S. from Colombia when she was four years old, and in 2025 was named as one of the Carnegie Corporation’s “20 Great Immigrant” award recipients. Jennifer "Vern" Long53 | CEO, World Coffee Research As climate change brings hotter temperatures, shifting rainfall and more crop disease to coffee-growing regions, Jennifer "Vern" Long is leading a global effort to develop hardier, more productive coffee plants. Since becoming CEO of World Coffee Research in 2019, she has brought together more than 200 companies from 30 countries and 11 governments to launch the industry's first globally coordinated coffee variety development program. The initiative delivers new coffee varieties with higher yields and greater resilience to climate threats 2.5 times faster than previous efforts, helping secure coffee supplies for farmers and consumers alike. Maya MacGuineas58 | President, Committee for a Responsible Federal BudgetAs Washington grapples with rising federal debt and the long-term financing of Social Security, Maya MacGuineas has become one of the nation's leading bipartisan voices on fiscal policy. Since becoming president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget in 2004, she has worked with lawmakers in both parties on issues ranging from taxes and health care to Social Security and the federal budget, regularly testifying before Congress. Recently, she has helped make a 3% deficit-to-GDP target a bipartisan fiscal goal, with supporting resolutions introduced in both the House and Senate. John Nacion/Getty Images50 OVER 50 HIGHLIGHTKica Matos60 | President, National Immigration Law Center (NILC) & Immigrant Justice Fund (IJF)With immigrants’ rights and racial justice at the center of public debate in 2026, Kica Matos leads what is arguably one of the most crucial advocacy organizations in the country. Matos took the helm of the National Immigration Law Center in 2023 after serving as vice president of initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. A lawyer by training, Matos started her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, worked as an assistant federal defender on behalf of death row inmates in Philadelphia, and was the first female executive director for Latino advocacy organization JUNTA. Cara McNulty56 | CEO, Vibrant Emotional HealthCara McNulty runs an organization that is better-known by the services it provides than its actual name: The nonprofit runs the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline along with the NLF Life Life, NYC 988, and other crisis intervention lines across the country. Before taking the helm of Vibrant in 2024, McNulty was the president of Behavioral Health and Mental Well-being at CVS Health and head of Population Health and Team Member Wellness at Target. She also serves on the executive committee for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro/Getty Images50 OVER 50 HIGHLIGHTBernadette Meehan51 | CEO, Wikimedia FoundationBernadette Meehan took charge of the Wikimedia Foundation—the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia—in January 2026. She is overseeing what is an existentially critical moment as the organization faces escalating criticism over its neutrality, growing public attacks from high profile critics (including Elon Musk and the site’s co-founder Larry Sanger) and the disruptive effects of generative AI on how people discover information. “How do we keep this project alive?” Meehan said during her first public interview after taking on the role. Before joining Wikimedia, Meehan was the U.S. ambassador to Chile and also held leadership roles at the Obama Foundation and National Security Council. Asha Jadeja Motwani63 | Founder, Motwani Jadeja Family FoundationSilicon Valley venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani has invested in more than 200 technology startups, including early stakes in Google, PayPal, Pinterest and AppDynamics. Following the 2009 death of her husband, the Stanford computer scientist and early Google mentor Rajeev Motwani, she founded the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation to support entrepreneurs and strengthen the U.S.-India innovation ecosystem. In 2025, she established the Motwani Jadeja Institute for American Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University with a $5 million endowment—one of the largest private investments in American Studies in India. Robin Murphy68 | Raytheon Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityRobin Murphy helped found the field of disaster robotics, transforming how emergency responders use drones and other robots in crises. Through the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), which she co-founded, she has deployed robotic systems at more than 30 major disasters, including the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Today, she leads the disaster research program of a $20 million National Science Foundation AI Institute, where AI trained on CRASAR's disaster imagery is helping emergency agencies rapidly assess building damage after major storms. Annette Nance-Holt62 | Fire Commissioner, Chicago Fire DepartmentAfter rising through nearly every rank of the Chicago Fire Department over three decades, Annette Nance-Holt made history in 2021 as the first woman to lead the department in its 165-year history. She now oversees the city's 4,800-member fire department and its more than $900 million budget while modernizing the department's fleet, expanding firefighter training and launching programs—including Camp Courage and Firefighter for a Day—to introduce young people, especially girls, to careers in the fire service. Joanne Pike51 | President & CEO, Alzheimer’s AssociationMore than 7 million Americans are living with an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and that number is expected to double over the next 25 years, but as head of the Alzheimer’s Association, Joanne Pike is working to send those numbers to zero. In 2025 she invested $112 million (a single-year record) in the organization’s research platforms to advance scientific discovery, and in April 2026 she spearheaded the launch of the association’s Brain Health Advancement Institute to transform those discoveries into actual, usable tools. Pike, who began her career as a therapist, is also vice chair of the World Dementia Council. Lee Rolontz64 | Global Head of Content and Broadcast, Global CitizenGlobal Citizen is the nonprofit and advocacy organization focused on ending extreme poverty and advancing equity worldwide, and Lee Rolontz is in charge of the concerts and broadcasts that have proven some of the organization’s best fundraising opportunities. In 2020, she produced ‘One World: Together at Home,’ a special that reached 270 million viewers across platforms and raised nearly $128 million in commitments to support frontline healthcare workers. Rolontz joined Global Citizen in 2019 after overseeing long-form content at iHeartMedia; before that, she held a variety of leadership roles at Viacom. S-ZWendy Schmidt71 | Co-founder and President, Schmidt Family Foundation and Schmidt Ocean InstituteWendy Schmidt has helped direct more than $2 billion in philanthropy alongside her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, building organizations that fund scientific research and climate solutions. Since the institute’s creation in 2009, its expeditions have helped discover nearly 50 marine species and supported more than 1,400 scientists worldwide. Today, as president of the Schmidt Family Foundation and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences, she continues investing in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to climate science. Anya Schoolman64 | Founder & Executive Director, Solar United NeighborsAnya Schoolman founded Solar United Neighbors in 2007 to help more Americans generate—and own—their own electricity. Today, the nationwide nonprofit helps homeowners go solar through bulk-buying programs to lower costs and provides advocacy for clean energy policies. Under Schoolman's leadership, the organization has helped bring 100 megawatts of rooftop solar online and expanded more than 20 programs across 15 states and Puerto Rico that help lower-income and underserved communities access solar power. Despite losing millions in federal grants under the Trump administration, Schoolman continues working to expand affordable clean energy nationwide. Allison Sesso 51 | President & CEO, Undue Medical DebtAllison Sesso is changing how states tackle one of America's biggest financial burdens: medical debt. Since becoming president and CEO of Undue Medical Debt in 2020, she has expanded the nonprofit's partnerships with governments and hospitals to buy and erase medical debt for people unable to pay. Under her leadership, the organization has erased nearly $50 billion for 31 million people. Its government partnership model now operates in 28 jurisdictions, turning debt relief from a one-time charity into public policy. Mikie Sherrill54 | Governor, NJIn January 2026, Mikie Sherrill became the first female military veteran to be sworn in as governor of any American state. Inspired by her grandfather, a WWII vet, Sherrill was part of the Naval Academy’s first graduating class of women eligible for combat roles on ships and aircrafts. She spent nearly a decade in active duty—piloting helicopters for the Navy—before going to law school and joining New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s office. She later represented New Jersey in Congress before being elected the state's 57th governor. Margaret Spellings68 | President & CEO, Bipartisan Policy CenterAfter serving as President George W. Bush's domestic policy adviser and later U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings has dedicated her career to building bipartisan solutions. While leading the George W. Bush Presidential Center, she co-founded the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, which for more than a decade has brought together mid-career leaders from across the political spectrum through four presidential centers. Since becoming CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center in 2023, Spellings has overseen growth in annual revenue from roughly $21 million to $35.7 million while helping advance bipartisan policies on housing, workforce development and education.Jemal Countess/Uber/Getty Images50 OVER 50 HIGHLIGHTStacey D. Stewart62 | CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)Fatalities from traffic and impaired driving have been falling in the U.S. for the last five years, but according to MADD CEO Stacey D. Stewart, progress could be moving a lot faster. Since taking the helm of MADD in 2023, Stewart has campaigned for the implementation of the HALT Drunk Driving Law, a piece of legislation that passed in 2021 and would mandate in-vehicle technology that would stop an impaired driver before they can press the gas pedal. Before coming to MADD, Stewart was the CEO of March of Dimes and, before that, head of United Way. Virginia "Ginnie" Sebastian Storage62 | President-General, Daughters of the American RevolutionGinnie Sebastian Storage took the helm of storied non-profit and non-political volunteer women's organization Daughters of the American Revolution in 2025, pledging to increase membership and diversify who is considered a “female Patriot” by better identifying women of color and Indigenous women who are ancestors of people who helped achieve American independence in the 18th century. In the ten years before becoming the organization's head, Storage held a variety of DAR leadership roles, most recently that of First Vice President General.Sarah Szanton60 | Dean, Johns Hopkins School of NursingWhile making house calls to low-income adults in West Baltimore, nurse practitioner Sarah Szanton envisioned a program pairing occupational therapists, registered nurses and even handy workers to help seniors improve both their health and living conditions. She created CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place – Advancing Better Living for Elders) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the institution she has led as dean since 2021, when she was 55 years old. Under Szanton, the School has expanded its focus on health equity and community-based care, doubled its research funding from $18 million in 2022 to $36 million in 2026 and scaled CAPABLE to 45 sites across more than 20 states.Ana Valdez64 | President & CEO, Latino Donor CollectiveSince taking the helm of the Latino Donor Collective in 2014, Ana Valdez has led an organization that represents the economic interests of all Latinos in the U.S. In 2023 she launched the nonprofit’s Latino Data Collective, which puts economic data and market information about Latinos into the hands of more than 650,000 CEOs, politicians, board directors and media executives. Her research partners include Stanford, UCLA, Bain, BCG, and Accenture. Earlier in her career, Valdez worked for the White House, United Nations and Banamex (one of Mexico’s largest banks). Margaret Wickens Pearce60 | CartographerCitizen Potawatomi Nation cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce received a 2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka “genius grant”) for her work in centering indigenous knowledge and history in the maps that depict our world. In 2020, she published a landmark report revealing how the U.S. government funded 50 college and university endowments with the sale of nearly 11 million acres of land taken from tribal nations. “I hope to raise people’s awareness about the world around them and inspire their curiosity to learn more, for better understanding of that world,” she has said.Michele Wise Wright60 | Co-founder and CEO, National Organization of African Americans with Cystic FibrosisMichele Wise Wright has seen the healthcare industry from multiple vantage points. From being a representative for Pfizer in 1998 and serving as an CEO of Red Cross in 2012 to handling PR for Curazene Biotechnology Company. But at 51, her husband's later-in-life cystic fibrosis diagnosis sparked a new, personal mission. She cofounded the National Organization of African Americans with Cystic Fibrosis, which works to address gaps in CF awareness, diagnosis and care among communities of color. Its goal is to create tangible resources, such as the Wright Cystic Fibrosis Screening Tool that helps clinicians identify overlooked CF symptoms earlier. Debra Wong Yang66 | Partner, Gibson, Dunn & CrutcherDebra Wong Yang is one of the foremost white-collar litigators in the country. Chair of the Crisis Management Practice Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Yang has been a key trial team member of some of her firm’s highest-profile cases, including in the defense of Uber in a class action lawsuit over driver classifications. Earlier in her career, she served as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California; when she was appointed to the position in 2002 by President George W. Bush, she became the first-ever Asian-American woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney.Diane Yentel54 | President & CEO, National Council of NonprofitsAfter nearly a decade leading the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Diane Yentel became president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits in January 2025. Within weeks, the nation's largest network of nonprofit organizations found itself at the center of a high-profile legal battle over federal funding. The council filed the first lawsuit in its 35-year history, successfully challenging a White House effort to freeze federal funding for nonprofits nationwide. Since then, Yentel has led additional legal victories while more than doubling the organization's staff and growing annual revenue from about $5 million to $18 million. Dien Yuen53 | Founder & CEO, Daylight AdvisorsWith some $124 trillion in wealth expected to change hands over the next two decades—creating an unprecedented opportunity for philanthropies—longtime wealth management and social impact expert Dien Yuen founded Daylight Advisors in 2023 to better train wealth advisors on philanthropic giving. In the last three years, Daylight has trained 800 advisors through its bespoke Certified Impact Philanthropy Advisor (IPA) program. Before founding Daylight, Yuen worked at the American College of Financial Services, where she helped shape the organization’s Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy designation.