Independent Sector is delighted to announce the selection of the second cohort of American Express NGen Fellows. Over the course of nine months, these accomplished and innovative leaders will collaborate with other talented under-40 leaders, interact with established mentors, and contribute to Independent Sector's work on nonprofit impact and leadership.

The 2010 American Express NGen Fellows are:

• MacArthur Antigua, Director, National Recruitment and Expansion, Public Allies
• Janella Franklin, Vice President, Development, Communities In Schools
• Ruben Gonzales, Deputy Vice President, Resource Development, National Council of La Raza
• Tine Hansen-Turton, Vice President for Health Care Access and Policy, Public Health Management Corporation
• Andrew Ho, Manager, Global Philanthropy, Council on Foundations
• Tanya Clay House, Director of Public Policy, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Lynsey Wood Jeffries, Executive Director - DC Metro, Higher Achievement
• Casey Lozar, Director of Corporate and Tribal Development, American Indian College Fund
• Jethro Miller, Vice President, National Campaign, American Red Cross
• Ruth Rechis, Director of Evaluation and Research, Lance Armstrong Foundation
• Jennifer Ford Reedy, Vice President, Strategy and Knowledge Management, Minnesota Community Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation
• David Smith, Executive Director, National Conference on Citizenship

MacArthur Antigua is director of national recruitment and expansion for Public Allies, where he has overseen both the growth of their national network to 21 cities and the highest numbers of applicants in their history.  Prior to this position, he served as Program Director for Public Allies Chicago and led the development of Turning The Tide, an AmeriCorps Professional Corps/human services fellowship jointly managed by both Public Allies and the Alliance for Children and Families.  Mr. Antigua is also the founder of Massive Creativity, a consulting and coaching firm that has provided pro-bono coaching for nonprofit executive directors and social entrepreneurs.  He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication studies from Northwestern University. 

Janella Franklin is vice president of development at Communities In Schools.  She is responsible for creating and executing the organization’s national resource development strategy.  During her tenure, she has secured the two largest grants in the organization’s history, $9.9 million and $10 million.  Ms. Franklin has more than a decade of development experience and previously held positions at the Cincinnati Zoo and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she participated in their first-ever comprehensive campaign, raising $135 million. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and participates in the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Ms. Franklin earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Xavier University and a master’s in community planning from the University of Cincinnati.

Ruben J. Gonzales is deputy vice president for resource development at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Mr. Gonzales builds and manages relationships with some of NCLR’s most crucial funders and supervises communications between NCLR and its many contributors.   With nearly a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, Mr. Gonzales has developed extensive experience in major gifts fundraising, grant writing, board development, event planning, corporate sponsorships, volunteer management, and field organizing.  Prior to joining NCLR, he served as director of development for The Urban Assembly, a school management organization based in New York City, where he oversaw all fundraising efforts.  Mr. Gonzales holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Santa Clara University.  

Tine Hansen-Turton is vice president of healthcare access and policy at Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), where she assists PHMC and its affiliates with business and programmatic strategy, development, coordination and implementation, as well as with policy development and state and national advocacy. Ms. Hansen-Turton has over 15 years of experience in providing executive management.  She serves as executive director of National Nursing Centers Consortium and is co-founder and executive director of Convenient Care Association. Ms. Hansen-Turton writes for and has published numerous peer-reviewed professional healthcare and legal journals and has authored two award-winning books: Conversations with Leaders and Community and Nurse-Managed Health Centers: Getting them Started and Keeping them Going.  She was recently inducted as a Fellow in the Philadelphia College of Physicians and she is an Eisenhower Fellow.

Andrew Ho is manager, global philanthropy, at the Council on Foundations, an association representing approximately 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. He provides resources, programs, and services to family philanthropies and next generation philanthropic leaders. Previously Mr. Ho was a consultant at TCC Group, where he specialized in strategic planning and capacity building. He has also spent time at Asian Americans / Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), and The Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.  Mr. Ho is a contributing writer to the blog Asian American Giving, and has written several papers on Asian American philanthropy cited in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He holds both an M.B.A. and a master's in public policy from Georgetown University, where he was a Waldemar A. Nielsen Philanthropy Fellow. 

Tanya Clay House is director of public policy at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.  She is the principal representative of the Lawyers’ Committee on Capitol Hill and in state and local legislative bodies, and coordinates their communications with the White House and federal, state, and local agency officials on a variety of issues, including education, voting rights, employment discrimination, fair housing, affirmative action, criminal justice, and environmental justice.  Previously, she was public policy director at People For the American Way (PFAW). She has also worked for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Mrs. House was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus Chair’s Award in 2003.  She earned her B.A in political science from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.

Lynsey Wood Jeffries is executive director for Higher Achievement – DC Metro. After five years as a Higher Achievement volunteer mentor, Ms. Jeffries joined the professional staff in 2005. During her tenure, the organization has expanded from serving 350 middle-school scholars to more than 500, weekly volunteer mentors have increased from 250 to 400, and revenues are up from $1 million to more than $2.5 million.  Prior to joining Higher Achievement, Ms. Jeffries was a program officer for the Fannie Mae Foundation, and a congressional liaison and special assistant to the CEO at NeighborWorks, a Congressionally-chartered national affordable housing nonprofit intermediary. Ms. Jeffries holds a B.A. in English and sociology from Wake Forest University. She earned a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh, with a concentration in nonprofit management.

Casey Lozar is director of corporate and tribal development for the American Indian College Fund. Born and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana, the traditional customs and lessons of his childhood motivated Mr. Lozar to be a leader of the Kootenai Tribe of the Flathead Nation. He has been involved with Native American education in a variety of capacities: from school teacher and coach to tribal culture camp leader and fundraiser.  He currently directs a team that develops partnerships with tribal governments and Fortune 500 corporations. Mr. Lozar recently graduated from the Leadership Entrepreneur Apprentice Development fellowship program for American Indian non-profit leaders. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University. 

Jethro Miller is vice president, national campaign for the American Red Cross, overseeing the development of a principal gifts program and planning for the organization’s first national, multi-year fundraising campaign.  Prior to joining the Red Cross, he was director of development at Children’s Rights, a national organization based in New York City, and assistant vice president with Community Counselling Service (CCS), an international fund-raising consulting firm.  He is a member of Princeton University’s Annual Giving Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of Cluster, a social service organization in Yonkers, New York. Mr. Miller graduated from Princeton University and has a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago. 

Ruth Rechis is director of evaluation and research at LIVESTRONG, a cancer advocacy organization founded by Lance Armstrong. During her five-years at LIVESTRONG, she has worked to establish an office of Evaluation and Research and helped to design, implement, and evaluate programs and resources for people affected by cancer, including LIVESTRONG at School.   In her current role, Dr. Rechis and her team conduct intramural research, oversee extramural research projects, and develop and implement strategic yearly evaluation plans. She is also the principal investigator on the LIVESTRONG Survey for Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors, a comprehensive survey assessing the experience of cancer survivors after treatment ends. As a cancer survivor, she also has a personal connection to the mission of LIVESTRONG. Dr. Rechis earned her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Jennifer Ford Reedy is vice president of strategy and knowledge management for Minnesota Community Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation, where she is charged with driving strategy development and implementation. Since joining the Foundations in 2008, Ms. Reedy has guided two major ventures: GiveMN.org, a giving portal that raised $16 million from more than 40,000 donors in its first six months; and the Minnesota Idea Open, a platform created with Ashoka Changemakers to get Minnesotans talking about solutions to critical issues facing the state.  Ms. Reedy was previously a consultant with McKinsey and Company and from 2003-2007 was “on loan” to direct the Itasca Project, a CEO-led regional economic development initiative in the Twin Cities. Ms. Reedy holds a master’s degree in social policy from the University of Chicago and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kansas, where she received a national Truman Fellowship for Public Service.

David B. Smith is executive director of the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), a Congressionally-chartered nonprofit that defines modern citizenship through tracking, measuring and promoting civic engagement with the goal of building a more informed, engaged, giving and trusting citizenry.  Prior to NCoC, David founded and directed Mobilize.org, which, under his tenure, expanded from a team of 10 students to over 30,000 activists in over 200 communities and published the acclaimed Mobilizer's Guidebook and Democracy 2.0 Declaration. David co-founded the Youth Policy Action Center and serves on the board of directors of Common Sense California, Prepare the Future, Americans for Generational Equity, and Mobilize.org.  He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Splashlife, and on the Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. David holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.