Affiliates
Affiliates
I’ve been fortunate to engage numerous colleagues in projects I’ve led across my institutional homes. Building on our history of successful collaboration, I look forward to partnering with the trusted affiliates below when a specific project would benefit from their talent and expertise.
Molly Schultz Hafid
Molly is the Executive Director of the Butler Family Fund, a progressive family foundation funding at the intersection of housing justice and racial justice. She also manages a consulting practice that provides strategic guidance to individuals and family foundations on their grantmaking, governance, next generation engagement, and organizational development. Molly previously served as the Associate Director of the Philanthropy practice at TCC Group, where she worked closely with Melinda Fine to guide their foundation clients through the development of strategies for building community power and advancing equity. A sector leader, Molly was a competitively selected member of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Power Moves Consultant Learning Cohort and received the 2018 Neighborhood Funders Group Award for Excellence in Philanthropy. Molly has an M.P.A from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a B.A. from Antioch College.
Maritza Guzmán
Maritza brings experience working with large national foundations, corporate philanthropy, government agencies, and the nonprofit sector, helping clients achieve their goals and desired impact. In her role as Senior Philanthropy Consultant at TCC Group, Maritza guides grantmaking management services for two family foundations housed at TCC, and formerly with Melinda Fine helped to lead Robert Wood Johnson’s Health Equity Research Initiative. Maritza also currently serves as Principal of Guzmán Consulting. Previously, she worked at the national I Have a Dream Foundation, where she developed partnerships with national allies to promote college access for youth of color. Earlier still, Maritza directed Fiscal Sponsorship Services at NEO Philanthropy. Before that, she was Program Manager of the Fulfilling the Dream Fund, leading a 40-member funder collaborative advancing equal opportunity for people of color and women. Maritza has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.P.A. from Columbia University.
Steven Lawrence
Steven partners with funders, philanthropy-serving organizations, nonprofits, and others to develop the knowledge they need to make well-informed, strategic decisions. An expert on trends in U.S. and global philanthropy, he offers deep experience in creating custom research and learning resources, including landscape analyses, surveys, interview studies, literature reviews, and more. Throughout his career, Steven has led ground-breaking research on philanthropic support for priorities such as human rights, social justice, health equity, education reform, peace and security, and mission investing. Steven is Principal of Steven Lawrence Consulting and also serves as Senior Philanthropy Research Consultant at TCC Group. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
Jason McGill, Ph.D.
Jason is the Founder and Principal of Justice Associates, LLC, a consultancy he established to work with family and private foundations in advancing their programmatic foci and legacies. His consulting practice is particularly committed to supporting foundation executives and boards in aligning their organization’s governance and grant program strategies with social justice principles and values, irrespective of their funding focus. Jason has worked at a national and international level in donor-centered and institutional philanthropy for more than twenty years. Prior to starting Justice Associates, he worked at the Arcus Foundation as Vice President and as Co-Executive Director, at Philanthropy New York as Vice President, and at Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Prep for Prep. He has extensive board service experience both in New York and nationally. Jason completed his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in History at the University of Michigan, and his B.A. and B.S. degrees at Cornell University.
Shadiin Garcia
Shadiin is Chicana and Laguna Pueblo from New Mexico. She has worked for over 20 years as a teacher, public school administrator, researcher, policy analyst, Indigenous education leader, and consultant with many organizations, including the Bay and Paul Foundation, and (through TCC Group with Melinda Fine), the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Rose Community Foundation. Her work centers on organizational change, culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum, diversity, equity, and belonging, educational and systemic equity, culturally appropriate research, and community-driven systemic change. Currently serving as Senior Strategy and Operations Officer for the Oregon Department of Education, Shadiin works in partnership with community to create conditions to execute and sustain a strategic equity and anti-racist vision. Shadiin has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education from the University of Oregon.