Chris Grumm
Chris is WFN's President & CEO. She comes to the Women's Funding Network from the Chicago Foundation for Women. With a background in nonprofit management, fundraising, and women's studies, Chris led the Chicago Foundation for Women's endowment campaign, which surpassed its goal by over $3 million.

Amy Zucchero
Amy, our Member Services Director, joined the network in January 2004 after completing her Masters in public administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amy's worked with several non-profit organizations focused on empowering women and girls, including the Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence in Ventura County California and Tapestry Health in Northampton Massachusetts.

Andrea Small
Andrea, our Interim Budget & Finance Analyst, has a combined eight years of experience in financial analysis, customer service, project management, and nonprofit administration. Before coming to Women’s Funding Network she worked in the private sector at a portfolio management company in Boston . Andrea then started to shift her focus toward the nonprofit sector as a corporate community relations program manager in San Francisco and Silicon Valley . She was most recently with the United Way of the Bay Area, working with local businesses and government officials on a new youth employment initiative. She maintains her connection to the youth employment field as a volunteer committee member of the Northern California Grantmakers’ Summer Youth Project, and as a board member of GirlSource. Andrea studied Economics and Sociology at Tufts University , and is currently a candidate for a Masters of Nonprofit Administration at the University of San Francisco .

Clare Winterton
Clare is the Vice President of Communications and Marketing for the Women’s Funding Network. She has an MBA in international business from Cambridge University where she specialized in strategy and marketing, as well as over 10 years of social sector marketing and communications experience. Clare was formerly Head of Communications for Prince Charles' major charity, The Prince's Trust, where she headed a team of 13 working on media relations, corporate social responsibility and marketing. Clare managed major media opportunities, PR programs and fundraising events for Prince Charles and the charity’s 200+ celebrity ambassadors. Clare has directed and consulted on strategic marketing and fundraising for organizations including Craigslist Foundation, TransFair USA and SF Works. She is a former Board Chair of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs and a Board member of Urban Solutions.

Cynthia Schmae
Cynthia, our Chief Operations Officer, has devoted her career to connecting, and responding to the needs of, various constituencies. Wanting a more hands-on experience after working as a legislative aide to Senator Dianne Feinstein, she went on to create and manage dozens of online communities for iVillage.com: The Women's Network, and for BBI Systems where, as Membership Director, she also oversaw all client relationships. Prior to coming to WFN, she specialized in e-democracy and consulted for nonprofit organizations and government agencies expanding citizen's civic involvement.

Debbie Zamd
Debbie is our IT Manager. Prior to joining WFN as a staff member, Debbie served as a consultant to WFN in 2004. She researched diversity demographics among WFN member funds, analyzed results and created a "Best Practices for Diversity" report for member funds. She also compiled data for WFN’s 2002 membership financials report. Debbie’s secret skill is web site design and management, which has come in quite handy here at WFN. While getting her MA in Social Science from the University of Amsterdam, Debbie picked up some Dutch speaking skills, giving her a third language (she is also fluent in Spanish.) Debbie’s field experience includes teaching computer courses to low-income Latino women for a job training program.

Elaine Edgar
Bookkeeper

Elizabeth (Liz) Schaffer
Liz, our Chief Financial Officer, is also a consultant, trainer and author. She is the co-author of Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives: Guiding Your Organization to Long Term Success (Wilder). Liz is a very popular trainer at CompassPoint’s workshops and conferences and lectures in Nonprofit Financial Management at The Haas School of Business and The University of San Francisco. In her consulting work, Liz coaches nonprofit leaders and helps organizations enhance their decision-making ability by improving the quality of their financial data and analysis.

June Katzschner
June, WFN's Grant Writer/Grants Manager, draws upon 15 years of writing and editing experience. Before joining WFN in September 2006, she helped several organizations in Los Angeles secure major funding for programs striving for social and economic justice for indigent, recent immigrants from South and Central America. Prior to becoming a grant writer five years ago, June worked as a journalist, marketing and communications writer/editor, copy writer for print and the web, and as a college writing instructor. Her interest in women’s causes originated early in her career, when she reported on the rising incidences of sexual assaults on college campuses. June has a B.A. in English/Journalism from the University of Delaware and an M.A. in English Literature from California State Long Beach.

Karen Brightly
Consultant, Individual Giving

Kelly Dawson
As Executive Associate, Kelly draws on a strong background of volunteer and internship management, event planning, administrative expertise and a knack for managing multiple projects concurrently. This last skill is especially beneficial since Kelly also serves as Project Assistant for Jo Ann Madigan & Company, a consulting group and co-tenant within the WFN offices. Kelly’s interest in women’s issues is clear; not only was she a Program Assistant for the A.S. Women’s Center in Chico, but she also has a B.A. in Multicultural and Gender Studies from the California State University, Chico.

Lorna Lathram
Growth and Impact Services

Marcel Reynolds
Marcel joined Women’s Funding Network as the Communications and Marketing Manager in September 2007. Marcel comes to us with a Master’s Degree in International Relations from The New School. Previously, Marcel kept on top of current events as a breaking news editor and producer for a major cable news channel’s Internet site in New York City.

Megan Cayler
Development Assistant

Maren Anderson
Maren, our Member Programs Fellow, is the second Lutheran Volunteer Corps member to serve at Women’s Funding Network. LVC is a year-long national volunteer service program for people seeking to unite faith, social justice, intentional community, and practice simple and sustainable living. Maren is working on many of our new poverty initiatives. Prior to joining us, Maren received her B.A. in Environmental Studies and French from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter , Minnesota . Maren’s professional interests lie in the area of population, health, and environmental policy, which led her to study in Madagascar . She plans to continue her studies with either an international environmental policy program or a population and international health program.

Nancy Wan
Nancy, our Finance Coordinator, has a Master of Arts degree in Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University , where she wrote her thesis on the mediating impact of ethnicity, gender and race upon the sexual socialization of Asian American queer adolescents in contemporary Asian American literature. Prior to coming to WFN, Nancy worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, specifically on the Adolescent Girls’ Risk Behavior project and the Adolescent Sexuality & Media project. Her other areas of interest include literature by women of color, human rights, and women in Islamic cultures. She also earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Asian American Studies from the University of California , Davis in 2005. Nancy is currently in the Master of Nonprofit Administration program at the University of San Francisco.

Shauné Zunzanyika
Shauné is the Poverty Program Director for the Women’s Funding Network. Prior to coming to WFN, Shauné served as the Director of Volunteer Resources at the American Red Cross Bay Area (ARCBA). She has worked with several non-profits, focusing on poverty alleviation programs supported by both traditional and non-traditional volunteers as well as paraprofessionals. Shauné gained additional experience in program and volunteer administration, supporting the development and implementation of poverty alleviation projects internationally with Africare in Lusaka, Zambia where she served as a Projects Officer as well as in the U.S.- Western Region with the Corporation for National and Community Service, AmeriCorps*NCCC program where she served as an Assistant Projects Director. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Development from the University of California at Davis and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

Sherrie Prasad
Sherrie, our Development Assistant, comes to us with a background in business administration and marketing. At WFN, Sherrie is working on strategic projects and assisting with foundation/corporate outreach and fundraising including all prospect research. Prior to joining WFN, Sherrie was the Program Specialist at Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, where she helped the Deputy Director manage the program at University of California. She got her start in the non-profit sector as an intern at Zeum, a non-profit multimedia art and technology museum for children and their families in San Francisco. Sherrie has a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from San Francisco State University.