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Britta has over 20 years of experience addressing the needs of diverse housing insecure and homeless people. She recently served as Executive Director of the City & County of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (HOST). She has served both Republican and Democratic Governors in Colorado, including on the Blue-Ribbon Panel on Housing, the State Housing Board, and the Affordable Housing Strategy Group convened by US Senator Michael Bennett, and also serves as Chair of the High-Cost Cities Housing Forum. Prior to her tenure at HOST, Britta served in Executive Director roles at mpowered, Localworks, and Housing Justice, and previously worked for CCH.

Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of experience in community mental health. Nicole’s knowledge is vast, with many years of direct service and ten years of clinical supervision and senior leadership. Nicole’s most recent position was as Director of Behavioral Health at West Oakland Health Council. In that role, she oversaw the mental health and substance abuse disorder teams for children and adult services.

Williams served as Executive Director of Between Friends where she successfully led the organization through the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic while also strengthening and diversifying its board of directors, expanding programming, and developing a strong financial foundation for the organization. She previously provided leadership and management of the residential and community-based domestic violence services of YWCA Evanston North Shore.

Haenel is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Cultural Vistas, a nonprofit exchange organization based in Washington, DC, and Berlin, Germany whose mission is to promote global understanding and collaboration among individuals and institutions. Prior to that he spent 20 years at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany, one of Europe’s largest private foundations. He served most recently there as a Senior Vice President, Future Issues and Foundation Development and before that as Senior Vice President, International Relations overseeing the foundation’s portfolio in America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. He also served for eight years at the Foundation as an Executive Board Member. 

VanDerziel served as Chief Human Resources Officer at the Field Museum and Chief of Staff for the museum’s 85-member Board of Trustees; was previously Manager of Recruitment at Norrell Corporation; and was Associate Director of Student Enrollment at National-Louis University. A past-president of NACE and long-time leader in the organization, VanDerziel is a graduate of Michigan State University, a Senior Certified Professional through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and a Senior Professional in Human Resources through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI).

Jami steps into the role of Executive Director at Ballet Arizona with over 13 years of experience in the performing arts sector with a record of consistently meeting and exceeding contributed revenue goals. During her time at Ballet Arizona, the organization established a culture of philanthropy that permeates throughout the entire organization. Jami helped secure more than $36 million in contributed revenue. She led the Be Our Bridge Recovery and Relief Fund charge that ensured all staff members and dancers remained fully employed during the COVID-19 crisis.