May 2008
Hispanics in Philanthropy announces the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors:
Cristina Eguizabal, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
Sandra Licon, Program Officer Education Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Julio Marcial, Program Director, The California Wellness Foundation
Phillippe Wallace, Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Zero Divide
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Press Release
HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF
FOUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
(San Francisco, June 2008) – Hispanics in Philanthropy, an association of philanthropic professionals dedicated to strengthening Latino communities, announces the appointment of four new members to their Board of Directors: Cristina Eguizábal, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center and Professor of International Relations at Florida International University and Trustee of the Fundación Amistad; Sandra Licón, Program Officer, U.S. Program Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Julio Marcial, Program Director at The California Wellness Foundation; and Phillippe Wallace, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Operating Officer at Zero Divide.
Cristina Eguizábal is the director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. Before moving to Miami and joining FIU she served as a program officer at the Ford Foundation Mexico City office working on Peace and Social Justice issues. Her portfolio included grants on peace, security, and regional cooperation in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Western Hemisphere in general. Between 1995 and 2003 she was a member of the Human Rights and International Cooperation unit at the Ford Foundation in New York. She has held research and teaching positions at the University of Costa Rica, University of Bordeaux, University of Miami, and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences and has served as advisor for regional projects at the Confederacy of Central American Universities, the Central American Institute for Public Administration, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations University (UNU). Eguizábal holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Paris-Sorbonne-Nouvelle.
Sandra Licón is a Policy Officer for US Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Washington, D.C. In this role she works to develop advocacy strategies and grants to support the scaling and sustainability of the Foundation’s education efforts focused on ensuring all students graduate from high school ready for college, work, and life. As part of her responsibilities she oversees a grant portfolio focused on federal advocacy and engages in Congressional outreach and work with other key stakeholders. Prior to assuming this position she was selected as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Fellow where she worked with Senator Edward Kennedy’s staff on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on secondary and elementary school improvement and developing legislative proposals around secondary school improvement. Licón’s commitment to educational equity began with the start of her professional career as teacher in South Central Los Angeles. She holds a Master’s degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bachelor’s in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Julio Marcial is a program director for The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF), responsible for the Foundation’s teenage pregnancy prevention and violence prevention grantmaking. In his previous position as a TCWF communications officer, Marcial managed the Foundation's electronic communications, served as editor and writer for the Foundation's website, and worked with the vice president of communications to establish news media partnerships and public affairs outreach to policymakers. Marcial is an active member of the Neighborhood Excellence Initiative committee of the Bank of America and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa’s Council of Education Advisors. He serves on the board of directors of the Communications Network, an affinity group of the Council on Foundations. Marcial received a bachelor's degree in the sociology of mass communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Phillippe Wallace is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Operating Officer of ZeroDivide, a public foundation that invests in community enterprises that leverage technology to benefit people in low-income and other underserved communities. Wallace is responsible for the ZeroDivide’s financial and administrative operations, investment management, and has oversight of the organization's information technology department. In addition, he is integrally involved with development and programmatic activities. Wallace has over eighteen years of experience, spanning foundation and asset management, corporate finance advisory, and private equity investment. Prior to joining ZeroDivide, he served as a vice president and corporate finance calling officer at SoundView Technology Group where he advised public and private technology companies on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. He has an MBA in Strategy and Finance from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Consortium for Graduate Studies in Management Fellow. Wallace received his BA from Harvard and has a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute.
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Hispanics in Philanthropy is a transnational network of grantmakers founded in 1983 on the belief that philanthropy should be more inclusive and responsive to communities of color. HIP’s mission is to serve as a catalyst to increase resources for the Latino and Latin American civil sector, to increase Latino participation and leadership throughout philanthropy, as well as to foster policy change to enhance equity and inclusiveness. HIP pursues this mission through programs, conferences, publications, and research that seek to educate the field of philanthropy about Latino issues and Latin America, to increase the representation of Latinos in the field, and to develop philanthropy from within Latino and Latin American communities. For more information, please consult their website at www.hiponline.org.
Contact:
Kate Seely
Special Projects Manager, President’s Office
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Tel: 415-837-0427
Fax: 415-8371074
kate@hiponline.org
www.hiponline.org