A virtual interview series with dynamic, expert leaders from San Diego and around the world who are navigating real-time change amid this global health crisis and economic turmoil. During the interviews, we will learn how the pandemic and its consequences:
- impact the US/Mexico border and migrant workers,
- change the reality of leading a global organization,
- affect life on the ground in Jerusalem and
- can be mitigated by mega-philanthropy.
June 24: State of Philanthropy with Felicia Herman, Executive Director, Natan Fund and Barry Finestone, President and CEO, Jim Joseph Foundation.
The Zoom link will be sent in your confirmation email, the link will be the same for all the sessions.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
