Henry Berman leads Exponent Philanthropy as CEO using his wealth of experience managing people, projects, and budgets in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. He was instrumental in helping the Association of Small Foundations (ASF) evolve into Exponent Philanthropy.

In his formal philanthropic career, Henry has served as a foundation president and co-trustee, gaining significant experience working closely with grantees and evaluating funded programs. In his continuing role as a foundation trustee, Henry has been a dues-paying member of Exponent Philanthropy since 2003. He served on the Exponent Philanthropy (then, ASF) board from 2008–2010 and was appointed CEO in 2011. Through his experience as a member and a leader within the organization, he brings to the CEO role a firsthand understanding of the needs of philanthropists with few or no staff.

Before joining the staff at Exponent Philanthropy, Henry had a long career in educational media and technology. He also served as a board member, volunteer, fundraiser, and/or marketer for several organizations including the American Society for Training and Development, the American Occupational Health Association, and the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation. He is a founding board member of the Museum of Broadcast Technology and also currently serves on the board of the National Council of Nonprofits.

Henry earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Ithaca College, a master’s and doctorate in education from Boston University, and a certificate in business and management from the Harvard University Extension School.

Originally from Massachusetts, Henry now lives in Washington, DC. When not here, you might find him, still camera to his eye, exploring back roads and wilderness trails.

Elizabeth Madjlesi is Candid‘s Programs Manager – Northeast. In this role, she helps increase Candid’s visibility by connecting the social sector to our vast capacity-building trainings and resources.

In addition to delivering training courses on nonprofit management and fundraising best practices, she organizes special programs and networking events on topics related to philanthropy and the social sector. Elizabeth brings to Candid over 10 years of experience in education and training, fundraising, and program management in the nonprofit sector.

She is a proud alum of The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and served as a teaching fellow in Nashville Public Schools before moving to the DC area. In her previous position, she served as Director of Volunteer Programs and later as Deputy Director for the Washington English Center, a community-based nonprofit English language school serving over 1,500 adult students from over 90 countries each year. 

Elizabeth holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Belmont University and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Management from Georgetown University.

Allison Zaucha (pronounced: zoo-kah) is an independent award-winning photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about working on social issues with a variety of news publications and nonprofit organizations. In addition to her daily assignment work for such publications as The Washington Post and The New York Times, Allison enjoys developing meaningful storytelling campaigns with brands and commercial clients. She considers the camera her means of connection, empowerment, and understanding. Allison is a member of Women Photograph and NPPA and is represented by ZUMA Press.

She has been chosen for honors such as PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, American Photography 32, 34 & 35, and Artpil’s 30 under 30 Women Photographers. Allison is also one of the faculty for Momenta’s annual Project Los Angeles: Photographing Nonprofits workshop.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The CUT at New York Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg News, NBC News, USA Today, ESPNW, BuzzFeed News, Cosmopolitan, Broadly-VICE, Life & Thyme, Youtube, sweetgreen, The Wing, Kohler, International Rescue Committee, Travis Manion Foundation and the historical book Together We Rise: The Official Oral History of the Women’s March by the Organizers.

You can find her work at Allisonzaucha.com or @allisonzaucha on Instagram.

For more than two decades, John Harrington, photographer and best selling author, has traveled the world creating visual stories of every day lives and history-making events through his camera. His work has appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. His images from the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001 are a part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Images from his work as a part of the team documenting the historic inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009 are also a part of that same Smithsonian collection.

John is a San Francisco Bay area native and came to Washington, DC in the mid 1980s as a student at Catholic University of America. He graduate in 1990 with a political science degree , then hired for on as a with The World & I, where he routinely covered the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon. Soon after, he was signed under contract by the Black Star picture agency exclusively licensing his stock images and to fulfill assignments in Washington, DC.

In addition to location assignments, John has taken his editorial magazine eye and applied it to corporate clients including Coca-Cola, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Lockheed Martin, and the National Geographic Society, to name just a few.

John has a true love for his art and takes time to satisfy his artistic whims. His original images have been purchased as art on both coasts. One particularly striking image has been printed as an inspirational poster by the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum. Harrington is also a Native-American and has put his skills to use for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

John has lectured across the United States for the North American Nature Photographers Association, American Society of Media Photographers,  American Photographic Artists, Momenta Workshops, Professional Photographers of America, and the National Press Photographers Association.

He is an ex-officio President Emeritus of the White House News Photographers Association and is actively involved in his profession as advisor, board member, and consultant to American Society of Media Photographers, National Press Photographers Association, and the International League of Conservation Photographers to name a few.

Harrington has produced three commissioned books for the Smithsonian and the fourth edition of his book Best Business Practices for Photographers, remains a bestseller. Harrington lives in Washington, DC with his three daughters – the most amazing subjects he has ever captured.

You can see his work at John Harrington Photography and @johnhharrington on Instagram.