Nonprofit and Social Impact
DSG Koya believes that the right person in the right place can change the world. This belief guides their work with leading social impact organizations.
The DSG | Koya difference
Mission-driven organizations and leaders are solving the world’s most pressing problems. They are partnering across sectors to create social impact and elevate innovative solutions that create opportunity and access, advance arts and education, protect our planet, and build a better world for all. This requires values-driven leaders who bring a diverse range of perspectives and skills combined with the ability to lead in complex environments.
DSG | Koya is the nation’s premier search firm dedicated to mission-driven leadership. We bring decades of experience, an exceptional network of proven leaders across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, and a track record of identifying candidates with the passion and the leadership skills required to advance impactful work.
Our processes reflect deep expertise in partnering with complex organizations, engaging varied constituencies, and a commitment to the importance of a rigorous, transparent process that lays the foundation for a future leader’s success.
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Tailored Search Process
We craft a search process that is rooted in a deep partnership with our clients, drawing on a fundamental understanding of their unique goals, culture, and values.
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Lasting Impact
We identify leaders who strengthen their organizations and create meaningful change in the world.
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Social Impact
We are proud to have placed leaders at some of the most transformative and high-impact nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the country.
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Inclusive Process
Our role is to establish an inclusive, fair, and rigorous search process, and we offer counsel and best practices at every stage.
The sectors we serve
- Arts and culture
- Environment and conservation
- Foundations and Philanthropy
- Global
- Social Justice and Advocacy
- Social Services
- Women and Girls
- Youth Development and Educational Equity Advocacy
- Social Impact Companies
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Arts and culture
We partner with leading arts and cultural institutions, including art, history, science, and children’s museums, botanical gardens and conservancies, performing arts organizations, associations advancing the arts, and the funders that support this work.
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Environment and conservation
We partner with environmental and conservation organizations supporting hyper-local, national, and global spaces, and whose focus areas span environmental justice, policy, advocacy, wildlife protection, climate, and energy.
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Foundations and Philanthropy
We have a long history of engaging with clients in public, private, and family foundations. We understand the philanthropic sector and how to best support funders and their constituents through leadership transitions.
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Global
The need for strategic leaders who can communicate and solutionize across geographical and interpersonal borders is more critical than ever. Our clients span NGOs to global foundations addressing human rights, food and water security, refugee support, and so much more.
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Social Justice and Advocacy
We are proud of our long history partnering with social justice and advocacy organizations around the country working to protect and uplift marginalized voices and communities. Our clients in this space are creating systemic change across a range of issues, including racial justice, gender equality, criminal justice, economic justice, immigration and refugee rights, and environmental justice. We fill senior philanthropic roles with leaders who maximize organizational impact.
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Social Services
We have extensive experience in the social services sector, with clients who address homelessness, hunger, nutrition and food insecurity, accessibility, and health equity. We partner with funders of these initiatives to discover transformational leaders across a spectrum of roles.
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Women and Girls
We partner with organizations focused on supporting women and girls in the US and globally, including on issues related to gender-based violence, education and literacy, economic empowerment, reproductive health and justice, political participation and advocacy, and other intersectional issues.
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Youth Development and Educational Equity Advocacy
We partner with hundreds of organizations focused on youth development, early childhood education, educational equity and reform, education technology, college readiness, and workforce development, along with dozens of foundations that fund these initiatives.
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Social Impact Companies
We have partnered extensively with companies doing social good and/or seeking to increase their social impact. Our overlapping expertise in the environmental, social justice, philanthropic, and other sectors is a benefit to these mission-driven organizations.
Current Opportunities
Recent placements
These leaders are poised to make an incredible impact.
A specialized team
We’ve diversified the talent on our team to provide first-hand insight into how to build yours.
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Molly Brennan
Global Managing Partner and Practice Leader, Nonprofit and Social Impact
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Maureen Alphonse-Charles
Managing Director and Senior Vice President, Inclusion and Equity
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Gerard F. Cattie, Jr.
Global Managing Partner, Practice Founder and Leader, Fundraising & Advancement
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Michelle Bonoan
Managing Director
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Alexandra Corvin
Managing Director
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Turner Delano
Managing Director
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Kim Dukes
Managing Director
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Trevor Hooper
Managing Director
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Liz Lombard
Managing Director
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Anne McCarthy
Managing Director
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Ian McCray
Managing Director
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Tiara D. Muse
Managing Director
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Erin Reedy
Managing Director
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Alicia Salerno
Managing Director
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Cassie Scarano
Managing Director
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Beth Schaefer
Managing Director
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Cheryl Stevens
Managing Director
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Amy Sugin
Managing Director
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Trisha Sutrisno
Managing Director
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Andrew Tarsy
Managing Director
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Naree W. S. Viner
Managing Director
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Sarah Avendaño
Managing Associate
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Tenley Bank
Managing Associate
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Medelene Beasley
Managing Associate
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Corina Benitz
Managing Associate & Research Manager
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Malissa Brennan
Managing Associate
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Laurie Casteen, PhD
Managing Associate
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Amber Gomes
Managing Associate
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Judene Hylton
Managing Associate
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Stephen Milbauer
Managing Associate
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Ariella Pasackow
Managing Associate
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Angie Sessoms
Managing Associate
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Shelby Woods
Managing Associate
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Yvette Bahena
Search Coordinator
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Kaley Blaszinski
Senior Search Coordinator
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Katanya Cathcart
Senior Search Coordinator
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Rachel Cheng
Senior Research Associate
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Marisa Chock
Senior Search Associate
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Maureen Clancy
Search Associate and Chicago Office Manager
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Machele Daye
Executive Assistant and Project Manager
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Kristina Dorne
Senior Search Associate
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Michael Duffin
Senior Research Associate
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Christy Farrell
Vice President and Senior Search Associate
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Meghan Franklin
Senior Vice President, Search Operations
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Liam Gibbs
Senior Research Associate
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Deanna Goldner Britton
Senior Research Associate
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Manuel A. Gongon, Jr.
Vice President and Senior Search Associate
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Kirstin Griffiths
Vice President and Senior Search Associate
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Rebeca Hernandez
Search Associate
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Claire Hunt
Senior Search Associate
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Amanda Lauder
Search Associate
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Nikki Lynch
Senior Search Associate
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Jessica McIlhenny
Director, Search Operations and Quality
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Shannon O'Neill
Senior Search Associate
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Natalie Okiishi
Senior Search Coordinator
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Maleka Pensky
Senior Search Associate
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Nikki Piston
Search Associate
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Tanya Radocesky
Senior Research Associate
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Beth Reeves
Vice President and Senior Search Associate
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Katryna Robinson
Search Coordinator
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Casey Shea
Senior Search Coordinator
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Polina Shurygina
Senior Search Coordinator
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Jennifer Smith
Senior Search Associate
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Dina Tyler
Senior Search Associate
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Christopher Wilson
Senior Research Associate
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Gina Wrolstad Kueber
Search Associate
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