Meet the Team

Kristen Grimm is the founder of Spitfire Strategies, a public interest firm focused on advancing racial, economic and social justice, protecting the environment and promoting opportunity for all. She has extensive experience running smart communication and campaign efforts that create lasting social change. She is the mastermind behind Spitfire’s Smart Chart, Planning to Win, Mindful Messaging and Replenishing Trust, thinks fast in a crisis, is deft at drawing phenomenal visionary speeches out of leaders and is someone you want in your corner when you’re ready to go big. When it comes to storytelling, all you need to know is that her last name is Grimm.

David Fukuzawa is currently an independent philanthropic and strategic advisor. He is a retired grantmaker, with over 30 years in philanthropy. Most recently, he served as Senior Advisor to the President of The Kresge Foundation, an independent, private grantmaking organization. Prior to this he had been the Managing Director of Kresge’s Health Team for twelve years, with responsibility for leading a program which seeks to advance an equity focused system of health. From the onset of his leadership, the program prioritized environmental health and justice as part of the health portfolio. In the final years as Managing Director, he helped launch a new multi- million, multi-year grant program—The Climate Change & Health Equity Initiative—in collaboration with Kresge’s Environment Team. This represented one of the nation’s first major philanthropic programs connecting climate change and health.

Prior to Kresge, David served over 9 years as a Program Officer at The Skillman Foundation, a private foundation in the Metropolitan Detroit area, whose focus is on children, youth and families. At Skillman, David’s primary focus was on child and adolescent health.

He has spent the last 40 years in the Detroit area, where he came originally to do community organizing and youth work in the inner city fresh from seminary studies in Chicago.

Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff has focused throughout her career on achieving equity across communities and particularly for communities of color and LGBTQ communities. She is the inaugural executive director of Build Missouri Health (BMH), a nonprofit subsidiary of Missouri Foundation for Health. In this role, she leads the organization’s efforts to work with partners to change systems towards achieving health equity across the state. Prior to joining BMH, she was with Keecha Harris & Associates, Inc, a Black woman-owned consulting firm, and has held program officer roles at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Missouri Foundation for Health. Her work in foundations included policy and environmental change initiatives to support healthy children’s development with a particular focus on access to healthy food, women’s health and children’s oral health.

Ratliff earned a Master of Health Administration from the Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice and a BA in religious studies from the University of Virginia. She serves on the boards of Healthy Places by Design, the Windward Fund and is president of the University City Education Foundation. She is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She has presented at numerous national conferences on child health and philanthropy and has been published in blogs and peer reviewed journals. She has also completed fellowships in the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and the Association of Black Foundation Executives. Born in Virginia, Jasmine now resides in St. Louis, MO with her husband, teenage child and four-legged children JT the cat and Casey the tortoise. In her leisure time, she enjoys time with her family, reading, going to the movies and lounging on the beach.

Pat Gonzales-Rogers is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice and Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment as well as a Fellow of Practice and a Visiting Resident Fellow and the Distinguished Simpson-Hewett Lecturer for the Yale School of Divinity. Pat supervises the staff and the direction of the tribal land management plans for the Bears Ears Monument, which the Biden White House has called its most important conservation accomplishment to date. He also serves on the board of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition and the Windward Fund. Prior to coming to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, Pat was most recently the Senior Tribal Policy Advisor at Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has also served as the Director of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Washington, DC Office, where he oversaw OHA’s Federal Advocacy, legislation and congressional affairs. Before OHA, Pat was at the Yale School of Management where he was the Interim-Director of the Executive Management Programs for Tribal Leaders. From 2007 to 2012 Pat was the Senior Advisor for Tribal Affairs, as well as the Chief of Congressional and Legislative Affairs for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Prior to joining the Fish and Wildlife Service he was a “special policy consultant” to the Democratic Governors Association in 2005. In 2004 Patrick was the Director of Policy for Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico. He has also served as Senior Policy Advisor for the US Affiliated Pacific, Special Assistant at the Administration for Native Americans, and as Assistant General Counsel to the US Senate Indian Affairs Committee, then chaired by US Senator Daniel Inouye. Pat holds a Bachelor’s degree from University of Hawaii Mänoa, where he also played football, and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Lee is the President of the New Venture Fund and has more than 20 years of experience incubating and launching innovative partnerships with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He previously served as a Managing Director at Arabella Advisors, leading its engagement with the New Venture Fund and many national nonprofit organizations that Arabella has managed, including the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Latino Victory Project, and others. Earlier in his career, he served as the Founding Executive Director of ecoAmerica, a nonprofit that works to make conservation a higher priority for the American public. At ecoAmerica, Lee was instrumental in launching the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which put the fight against climate change at the center of higher education’s agenda. Lee also built strategic partnerships with nonprofits, including the Clinton Foundation and the Nature Conservancy.

Previously, Lee led a 40-person project team at D&R International, which established ENERGY STAR as an internationally recognized brand name for energy-efficient consumer products. Lee and his team worked in support of the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy to convince companies like Sears, The Home Depot, Whirlpool, and GE to use the ENERGY STAR label. Lee serves as chair of the board at the Hopewell Fund. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Harry Drucker is Co-Managing Director with his wife and children of Driftless Valley Farm, an organic farm in northwestern Illinois. He is also Managing Partner of North Shore Realty Partners, a diversified real-estate investment platform for family offices and is also the retired President of Revere Corp., a property management and real estate advisory services firm. Outside of his professional career in real estate, Harry has been a lifelong advocate for conservation and has served as founder and trustee of numerous environmental not-for-profits. In 2018 Harry was made a Life Trustee of The Nature Conservancy-Illinois where he has served on the board since 1995 and was its Chair in 2013-2014. In 2017 Harry became Chair for the second time of the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) whose board he joined in 2003. ELPC follows the philosophy that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together and is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. In 1996, he founded the Friends of the Depot and successfully advocated for the addition of thousands of acres to the Upper Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Refuge and prevented the destruction of a pristine sand prairie by promoting an alternative, environmentally appropriate site for construction of a prison. The Governor of Illinois appointed him to the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission in 2001 where he served as Commissioner until 2010 (Chair 2004-2006). In 2015 Harry became a founding Director of the Windward Fund, a non-profit focused on projects promoting conservation, sustainable food systems and environmental policy. Harry earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Middlebury College in Vermont, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Bruce Boyd has been a social sector leader for 30 years. Bruce is currently the Executive Director of the Morrison Family Foundation which focuses on getting black and brown kids outdoors so they experience the mental and physical health benefits of being outside. Bruce was a co-founder of Arabella Advisors and remains a Senior Advisor there. Prior to his work at Arabella, Bruce was a Senior Manager at The Nature Conservancy.

In addition to serving on the Board of the Windward Fund, Bruce is a Trustee of Rare, an international conservation organization focused on behavior change, the Lake County Community Foundation which serves the county in Illinois where Bruce lives, and Schreiber Philanthropy, a grant maker in the Chicago region.

Bruce attended Middlebury College, received his law degree from the University of Chicago, and studied business at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Bruce lives outside of Chicago where each spring he taps the maple trees in his yard and makes maple syrup.

Rachel Leon is Executive Director of Park Foundation, based in Ithaca, NY, a family foundation that supports community needs and sustainable initiatives locally and independent media, democracy, civic participation, animal welfare, and environmental issues regionally and nationally. Rachel has served in leadership roles in philanthropy and in the non-profit arena for more than 25 years.
Before starting at Park Foundation in fall 2020, Rachel served as Executive Director for more than a decade at Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), a network of hundreds of foundations within environmental philanthropy building community in their support of people, place, and planet. Prior to EGA, Rachel was Senior Program Manager for Participatory Elections at JEHT Foundation. Previously, she was Executive Director of New York Common Cause and prior to that served as Associate Director and other roles at Hunger Action Network of NYS.
Rachel is a National Urban Fellow Alumni (class of 2018) and has a BA from SUNY New Paltz and MPA from Baruch College, graduating from both with Honors.