Julie Williams
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WXXI News
Who gets a seat at the table when the decisions that shape our communities are made? Many of those decisions happen in a place most of us rarely think about: the boardrooms of nonprofit organizations.
Across the Rochester region, hundreds of nonprofits receive millions of dollars in public funding and philanthropic support to serve the community. Yet for decades, many of the people those organizations were created to serve had little or no representation on the boards that set their policies, priorities, and long-term direction.
Guest host Julio Sáenz and his panel discuss a local initiative that has become a national model for diversifying one of the community's most influential centers of power: nonprofit boards of directors.
In studio:
- LaCerius Cross, leadership development program coordinator for the United Way
- Nydia Padilla, co-founder of the Latino Leadership Development Program
- Septimus Scott, class of 2023 graduate and leadership development steering committee member of the African American Leadership Development Program
- Rodney Young, one of the first graduates and past coordinator of the African American Leadership Development Program
