Published on Mar 17, 2021
We’re so excited to introduce you to our newest staff members who have joined Astraea over the last several months, helping to further our mission of shifting power and resources to LBTQI grassroots organizing around the world.
We’re so excited to introduce you to our newest staff members who have joined Astraea over the last several months, helping to further our mission of shifting power and resources to LBTQI grassroots organizing around the world. They bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge in their respective fields, fresh energy and perspectives, and share our deep commitment to advancing gender, racial, and economic justice around the world. We’re so excited to learn from our newest Astraeans, and to work together to keep building power for our movements! Join us in welcoming them and check-out their bios and photos below.
Additionally, we are thrilled to announce that Kerry-Jo Ford Lyn has been promoted to the newly created role of Astraea Deputy Executive Director. You will know Kerry-Jo from her previous role stewarding Astraea’s Global LGBTI Human Rights Initiative with USAID, Sida and Global Affairs Canada. A leader on staff since she joined in 2015, Kerry-Jo is a strategic systems thinker with impeccable skills in organizational management. She will play an essential role leading Astraea through this time of reinvention and reimagining.
In an interview for Astraea’s Collective Care Blog, we spoke to Kerry-Jo about exploring the power dynamics inherent in philanthropy and how we as a feminist funder must work to break those down in order to uplift and center the voices, work, and priorities of our LBTQI grantee partners. We also take an internal look at how we are threading trust building and anti-oppression work through the entire fabric of Astraea as an organization. Check out that interview here!
joins our Development team as Associate Director of Individual Giving at the Astraea Foundation. She joins Astraea with 20 years of non-profit development experience most notably with the ACLU. [Read more]
joins our Fiscal team as Senior Accountant.
leads our Fiscal team as Vice President of Finance. Douglas comes with over 20 years of community based and International nonprofit leadership, particularly, internal controls, compliance and reporting. [Read more]
joins our Program team as Project Manager of Astraea’s Intersex and Trans Movement Building Project. She is an experienced transgender activist and has been involved in the establishment of several transgender organizations – locally, nationally in Thailand, and internationally. [Read more]
joins our Programs team as Senior Manager of Astraea’s Global Human Rights Initiative. She is a queer feminist, born and raised in the American South, with over 10 years of experience working to advance human rights. [Read more]
joins our Communications team as Communications Associate. They are a transmasculine & non-binary Muslim media maker, writer & curator from Bangladesh who invests their care and energy into advocating for trans and gender-expansive youth and communities of color. [Read more]
joins our Program Team as Program Associate for Astraea’s U.S. Fund, with a background in organizing Asian immigrant communities in New York City for housing justice and language access. [Read more]
joins our Development team as Development Associate, Partnerships. She is a biracial Black lesbian, proudly hailing from Minnesota. Before joining Astraea, she worked in Development at BRIC Arts and Media supporting the Membership team for BRIC Celebrate! Brooklyn and BRIC House. [Read more]
joins our Fiscal team as Director, Reporting and Compliance.
joins our Program Team as Program Associate for Astraea’s International Fund with a background in tenant organizing and experience working in New York State government. [Read more]
