Rusty M. Stahl
Executive Director

Rusty Morgen Stahl is founding executive director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP). EPIP is a national network of young and new philanthropic professionals that seeks to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. Rusty was part of a group of foundation professionals and trustees who started the group together in 2001 after meeting up at the Council on Foundations conference. Rusty took on the role of coordinating the group while working his foundation job.

Before beginning work for EPIP in 2002, Mr. Stahl worked as a Program Associate at the Ford Foundation in the Governance and Civil Society Unit. At Ford, he was honored to support a team engage din grantmaking that aims to expand social justice philanthropy, increase the impact of community organizing, and nurture the nonprofit sector.

Rusty holds a Masters of Arts in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University, the first such liberal arts-based degree program. Rusty arrived at the Center after having the great luck of being selected for the Jane Addams Fellowship, which is no longer in operation. During his graduate studies, Rusty volunteered in the Indianapolis community, and was one of the founders of the Central Indiana Jobs with Justice coalition. As an undergraduate at The George Washington University, he worked as an AmeriCorps member serving local senior citizens, and volunteered in a variety of political, social and economic justice efforts.

Stahl serves as a board member of Changemakers, a national public foundation that supports innovative social change philanthropy. He sits on the board of Idealist.org, the global nonprofit web portal. He is a member of advisory committees for the Third Millennium Philanthropy and Leadership Initiative (a project at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy) and The Grantmaking School (a project housed at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University).

Mr. Stahl lives in New York City. He is originally from Philadelphia, PA.


Jennifer Kramer-Wine
Consultant for Member & Chapter Services

Jennifer currently works as an organizational development consultant. In this capacity she is working with Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and education policy organizations in Denver. Jennifer has been a part of EPIP since 2002 serving in a number of capacities from active participant, Mentoring Program co-founder, steering committee chair, to her current role .

Prior to her life as a consultant, she was a member of the Schott Foundation for Public Education's team from August 2000 until December 2004 (www.schottfoundation.org). At Schott, she focused on strategic grantmaking to increase state government funding to New York State public schools, which recently became law in New York.

Jennifer currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Urban Learning Communities, a non-profit organization in Denver that runs P.S.1 Charter School (www.ps1charterschool.org). She holds a Masters of Public Administration from Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. She also earned a B.A. in History and a B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Cincinnati. Jennifer is a former high school social studies teacher. She has taught in the Cincinnati Public School system, in Ohio and in the Valley Stream Central High School District, in New York.

She and her partner, Dennis, live in Denver and have an amazing daughter, Jade.


Acknowledgements
Many, many, many thank to the staff members, consultants, fellows, and interns who have contributed so much to the vitality of EPIP since start-up in 2001. These include:

Christopher Anderson (Administrative Assistant)
Sarah Ashcroft (Graduate Fellow)
K. Emerson Beyer (Program Consultant)
Omisade Burney-Scott, Ananse Consulting (Program Consultant)
Elizabeth Cuccaro, NYC Chapter Organizer
Milano Harden, The Genius Group (Program Consultant)
Jennifer Kramer-Wine (Graduate Fellow & Program Consultant)
Kristina Lucien (Intern)
Bodi Luse (Graduate Fellow)
Erika Scott (Post-Bachaloriate Fellow)
Sam Stegeman (Program Consultant)