Board & Advisors
Empower Work includes a talented group of board members, advisors, staff, and volunteers ranging from executive coaches and organizational psychologists to tech and operational experts and employment attorneys.
Founder & Board of Directors
Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Founder & Executive Director
Jaime-Alexis Fowler is a seasoned leader with a track record of building agile, high-performing, healthy teams. She’s developed a reputation for being a go-to resource for people management. She’s led marketing at a $100M international NGO, run operations for a national post-abortion counseling nonprofit, overseen marketing at Code for America, and most recently before Empower Work, launched a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NPR,Tech Crunch, Slate, Fast Company, and Forbes. Jaime-Alexis frequently speaks about building collaborative, healthy teams, career pathways and pivots, social entrepreneurship, and marketing for social change.
Robert Gordon IV, CEO, Launching to the Stars
Emmicia Bracey Swartz, Senior Director, Portfolio Operations, CoreTrust
Suprita Makh, Co-founder, Feta
Nancy Heinen, Board member, Advisor and Impact Investor
John Bradley, Strategic Advisor, Senior Executive
Jennifer Habig Ph.D., Leader, Consultant, Coach, and Facilitator
Megamo Nesbit, Board member, Leader in the nonprofit sector
Adam Rosenzweig, Board member, Leader, Faculty member at UC Berkley Haas School of Business
Advisors
Zoe Blumenfeld, Vice President of Communications, Nava
Alexis Charles, Learning Program Manager, Meta
Lauren Brisbo, Director of Outreach and Partnerships, Empower Work
Jen Burdick, Supervising Attorney, Community Legal Services (Board Emeritus)
Rory Gerberg, Founder & CEO, Advance Beyond Compliance
Kat Gordon, Founder/CEO, The 3% Movement
Marta Hanson, National Program Manager, Power The Polls
Leigh Honeywell, CEO, Tall Poppy
Renee Jackson, Chief Legal Officer, Clutter (Board Emeritus)
Emily Kramer, Marketing Advisor; Former Startup Marketing Executive; Advocate for Equal Compensation (Board Emeritus)
Bi Le, VP Operations, Fieldwire
Julie Lein, Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund (Board Emeritus)
Deb Levine, Senior Program Officer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Navruz Avloni, Founder, Avloni Law
Jyot Bawa, President, LA Gauge Company (Board Emeritus)
Caitlin MacDonald, Head of People + Culture, Accion Systems
Emily Miller, Founder and public servant
Aysha Pamukcu, Policy Fund Director, San Francisco Foundation
Sohana Punithakumar, Principal Program Manager Lead, Xbox Content Engagement
Amirah Raveneau-Bey, Co-Founder & CEO, The Home Dispatch
Angela Scott, Programs Director, MISSSEY, Inc. (Board Emeritus)
Courtney Visstrong, Evaluation and Measurement Consultant, Kaiser Permanente
Tina Wie, Advisor, Board Emeritus