As the Director of Capacity Building, Jocelyn crafts Kataly’s strategy to strengthen the capacity of our grantee partners and the infrastructure of our movement ecosystems. This includes building relationships with capacity building practitioners, identifying and connecting grantee partners to resources, funding movement infrastructure projects, and supporting the development of new programming. Previously, Jocelyn also served as an Analyst with Kataly’s Restorative Economies Fund.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Jocelyn nearly 20 years of organizing, fundraising, and management experience to their work with Kataly. Informed by prior experience in community organizing and direct service, Jocelyn believes that transforming how we mobilize resources within social movements can facilitate a just transition of our economy away from extraction and exploitation and towards cooperation and regeneration.

Prior to joining Kataly, Jocelyn had their own consulting practice, supporting and coaching resource mobilizers to step into their full capacity and power and partnering with social justice groups to design and execute values-aligned approaches to resource independence and sustainability.

Prior to consulting, Jocelyn led a capital campaign to support the success of Restore Oakland, a community advocacy and training center in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Jocelyn’s other prior experience includes serving as the Director of Development at Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, as the Director of Foundation Support at the ACLU of Northern California, as well as developing partnerships and securing resources for organizations serving youth, families, and LGBTQ communities.

Jocelyn found their calling as an organizer while studying Political Science and LGBT Studies at the University of California, Riverside. In their spare time, Jocelyn enjoys home projects, discovering new music, and cheering on Bay Area sports teams.

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Nwamaka is the CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund. In her roles, Nwamaka collaborates with the Kataly team to lead the foundation’s day to day operations, while holding the community-centered strategy and vision for the Fund.

With a background in community organizing, electoral campaigns, policy and advocacy work on racial, social and environmental justice issues, Nwamaka is deeply committed to supporting projects that build resilient, healthy and self-determined communities rooted in shared prosperity.

Prior to joining the Kataly Team, Nwamaka built an independent consulting practice guided by her framework on Restorative Economics. As a consultant, she provided technical assistance and strategic guidance to community owned and governed community wealth building initiatives like Restore Oakland, Black Land & Power and others. Her work with these community driven projects led her to providing trainings and advisory services to donors, foundations and impact investment firms including institutions like The San Francisco Foundation and RSF Social Finance. Nwamaka has served as a fellow for the Center for Economic Democracy and the Movement Strategy Center. She proudly serves on the board of Restore Oakland, Inc. and Next River.

To relax and unwind, Nwamaka enjoys spending quiet time in her backyard savoring sips of bourbon.

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As the Kataly Foundation’s Chief Investment Officer, Lynne leads the Foundation’s community investment strategy under the Restorative Economics framework. Lynne also incorporates her deep experience in the integrated capital approach to work with Kataly’s grantee and investee partners to ensure the needs of their organization are at the center of the work.

Lynne brings more than fifteen years of experience working in the fields of accounting, banking and impact investing. In her previous role as the Managing Director of the Olamina Fund and Head of Lending at Candide Group, she launched, with community feedback, the Olamina Fund, which focuses on funding organizations that have faced systemic racism and intentional extraction of resources. Olamina is also a place to train BIPOC fund managers to lead impact investing.

Prior to her work at Olamina, Lynne was the Senior Director of Credit at RSF Social Finance, one of the oldest impact funds in the country. In her role at RSF Social Finance, she helped launch the Women’s Capital Collaborative a $2M integrated capital fund committed to funding women of color-led enterprises. She double the size of the loan portfolio and co-managed a team of 13 people. She was part of the DEI committee and made specific recommendations on how to address internalized white supremacist structures to match its external funding commitments.

Lynne is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA in Corporate Finance. She lives in San Francisco with her cat Penny, who is regularly mortified by Lynne’s attempts to shuffle dance and speak Italian. When she isn’t dancing to house music, she is off on an adventure, whether it’s backpacking, a road trip, or an international flight to bring the work to the colonizers in Europe. She is committed to her anti-racism work and is grateful to Myisha Hill of Check Your Privilege for creating space to learn and grow.

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Lina Shalabi is the Program Officer of the Restorative Economies Fund, managing operations of the Foundation’s integrated capital fund. She has over 20 years of experience in a wide range of roles across a variety of fields — from accounting for a major hotel chain, to lending and technical assistance for an organization supporting refugees with their entrepreneurial goals. Lina’s diverse past experiences have helped her excel at managing key projects from conception to completion.

Lina has a master’s of Social Entrepreneurship, a bachelor’s of Arts in Economics, and minors in both Political Science and Middle East History. Born in Puerto Rico to Palestinian immigrants, she arrived in California as a toddler. Her primary interests include travel, diasporic stories, local economies, and all the little things. Currently residing in Coastal Miwok land, when not at work people often ask: “Where in the world is Lina San Diego?”

Regan is the co-founder of the Kataly Foundation and is currently serving as a board member, as well as a collaborator with the Restorative Economies Fund.

Regan has a background in education and began working in philanthropy when she took a larger role at her family’s foundation, The Libra Foundation, in 2015, and where she is now board co-president and chair of the investment committee. She is active in the Just Transition movement, taking leadership in moving progressive wealth holders and philanthropists to rethink their ethical framework for private investment.

Regan works with her family and advisors to align the Libra Foundation’s and her personal assets with progressive and radical values through investment, philanthropy, and political giving.
She is energized by the momentum that is building to shift private investment and philanthropy towards a frame of economic justice, reparations, and transformation. The founding of the Kataly Foundation in 2018 was a manifestation of her effort to move along that continuum of alignment.
Regan also serves as co-chair of Global Greengrants Fund, a global network of donors and activists supporting communities to protect their ways of life and our planet.

Regan lives in San Francisco where her greatest joys are spending time with her family, cooking for friends, and hiking and swimming around the Bay.