Meet Our Team

Founded and led by women of color, both staff and board leadership share a lived experience with our grantee partners. Groundswell Action Fund understands first-hand the needs and challenges our partners confront.

Staff
Board of Directors

Staff

Yamani Yansá Hernandez

Chief Executive Officer

Quanita Toffie

Senior Director

Chanda Jones

Chief Financial Officer

Wen Brovold

Director of Communications and Donor Organizing

Victoria Cepeida-Mojarro

Program Manager

K. Mitchell

Operations Manager

Board of Directors

Chrissie Castro

Co-Founder, Advance Native Political Leadership

Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd

Founder & Executive Director, TAKE Resource Center

Dawn Boudwin

Director of In Solidarity, Center for Inclusive Growth - Mastercard

Jessica Byrd

Founder, Three Point Strategies and Co-founder, Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project

Kierra Johnson

Executive Director, National LGBTQ Task Force