Loree Lipstein

Founder and CEO, Thread Strategies

Loree Lipstein is Founder and CEO of Thread Strategies, a firm that helps small and medium-sized nonprofits build sustainable development departments. With three decades of nonprofit experience, she has worked with more than 150 organizations worldwide on strategy, operations, and staffing. Before founding Thread in 2015, Loree earned her MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as a CASE Scholar in social entrepreneurship. Earlier in her career, she held fundraising and partnership roles at KaBOOM! and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Sara LaCava Lieberman

Principle, Thread Strategies

Sara LaCava Lieberman is passionate about fundraising as movement building and supporting people to be confident fundraisers and ambassadors for their cause. As a principal at Thread Strategies, Sara combines sharp analysis with thoughtful strategy to help partners develop their fundraising capacity. Sara has nearly twenty years of fundraising experience and a track record of helping organizations achieve significant and sustainable fundraising growth as a staff member, board member, and consultant. Sara graduated from Vassar College and currently serves on the board of her local abortion fund, the REACH Fund of Connecticut.

Tim Paris

Co-founder and CEO, Dataro

Tim Paris, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Dataro, a fundraising intelligence platform used by 300+ nonprofits worldwide. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, Tim co-founded Dataro in 2017 to help fundraising teams replace manual segmentation with clear, ranked decisions — who to focus on, who to engage now and what to do next. Dataro is trusted by UNICEF, Greenpeace, Save the Children and organizations across 20+ countries..

Meena Das

Founder, Namaste Data and the AI Equity Project

Meena Das is a data equity and responsible AI consultant helping nonprofits and fundraisers navigate AI with more trust, thoughtfulness, and humanity. She is the founder of Namaste Data and the AI Equity Project, where she helps organizations ask better questions about data, power, and impact.