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Meet our team
We bring a passion for progress and deep expertise in social change.
Monitor Institute by Deloitte's multidisciplinary team brings a diverse blend of cross-sector experience, and a balance of analytic capability with sensitivity to the workings of human systems.
Dana O’Donovan
Social Impact and Monitor Institute by Deloitte Leader, US Purpose and DEI Office
Dana currently serves as Deloitte’s Social Impact and Monitor Institute by Deloitte leader. In addition to her role as the practice leader for the Monitor Institute by Deloitte, she oversees Deloitte’s 10-year, $1.5B social impact investment strategy and Deloitte’s Social Impact Activation efforts, which implements these strategies in alignment with the priorities and needs of our people, the markets where we live and work and our in purpose – our social impact , clients and alliances.
The Monitor Institute is a social change consultancy within the Purpose Office that works with innovative leaders to surface and spread leading practices in public problem solving and to pioneer next practices. Drawing on her twenty-five years as a social impact adviser, consultant, and non-profit executive, Dana works with the CEOs and leadership teams of national foundations, non-profits, and corporations as they transform their ability to drive social impact. She supports leadership teams on their strategic journeys from choice making to operations planning to organizational design and change management, and guides leading organizations through critical inflection points such as CEO/Founder succession, financial turnarounds, and strategic pivots.
She chairs the Green Dot Social Impact Investment Committee and serves on Deloitte’s Responsible Business Practices working group. She has also served on many non-profit, foundation and government boards, including the Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund Board, the North Carolina Council for Women, the North Carolina Aquarium Society Board, ADAP Capital Guidance Council, The University of North Carolina’s Kenan Institute Board of Mentors and the Peace First and Hill Center boards. She graduated from The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.
Joanna Burleson
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
Joanna is a leader of Monitor Institute by Deloitte Adaptive Strategy practice. She works closely with social sector leaders, organizations and networks to help them deepen and scale their impact on some of society's most complex social challenges. Her work is driven both by her passion for deep strategic insight and a commitment to centering the human system at the heart of every organization in her work.
Joanna's work builds on nearly two decades of strategy experience across the for-profit and non-profit world, both in the United States and abroad. She brings this experience to her clients, where she focuses her time supporting social sector organizations and networks committed to advancing equitable outcomes and opportunity.
Joanna currently serves on the national board of Eye to Eye. She obtained her B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and her MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Kerri Folmer
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
In her work, Kerri is driven to apply her experience, and passion for, creating new models of change to help find innovative solutions to many of today’s most complex issues. Over the last 25 years, Kerri has worked with leaders in the public, private and social sectors, and importantly at the edges of these sectors, to bring leaders and organizations together to tackle issues no one person or organization can solve alone. Her experience in a range of industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, and philanthropy, helps her to find the shared interest amongst diverse groups. Kerri advises organizations and ecosystems through transformational change, defining and adapting strategy, and helps with organizational issues and developing business models to improve impact and return.
Kerri has long been fascinated by the power of leadership and the human will to overcome complexities and inherit bias and, throughout her work, focuses on helping to create just and equitable change.
Kerri holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and is a published author and speaker on the topic of social change.
Gabriel Kasper
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
Gabriel Kasper is a Managing Director with Monitor Institute by Deloitte and co-leads the Institute’s philanthropy consulting practice. He has spent more than two decades helping funders understand the changing context for their work and make sense of what those shifts will mean for both what they do and how they do it. He tracks emerging trends inside and outside the field and translates cutting-edge commercial innovation methods into new approaches for addressing philanthropic and social-sector challenges.
His work with funders is grounded in first-hand experience, both as a program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and as a manager of neighborhood programs at the Berkeley Community Fund. He is an award-winning writer about the future of philanthropy, and has authored Stanford Social Innovation Review cover stories on “The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation” and “Working WIkily: Social Change with a Network Mindset,” as well as the Monitor Institute publications What’s Next for Philanthropy, What’s Next for Community Philanthropy, Intentional Innovation, Re-imagining Measurement, and On the Brink of New Promise: The Future of U.S. Community Foundations.
Allan Ludgate
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
Allan brings over 25 years of experience as a strategist helping a generation of innovative leaders scale the impact of their organizations. His work focuses on increasing educational and economic opportunity for all. Allan’s client portfolio includes national non-profits, foundations and higher education institutions. He has also worked extensively on place-based strategies to address poverty in his hometown of New York City.
Allan sits on Deloitte’s Higher Education leadership team and is a Fellow at Deloitte’s Center for Higher Ed Excellence. He writes and speaks extensively on issues and trends in higher education with a particular focus on student success. Allan has advised the White House on STEM education, social entrepreneurship, and increasing opportunity for racially and ethnically diverse young men through the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative.
Allan holds a B.S. in Jazz Studies (magna cum laude) and an M.B.A. in management (1st in class), both from New York University, and started his career as a jazz musician.
Tracie Neuhaus
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
As a Managing Director with Monitor Institute by Deloitte, Tracie works with mission-minded leaders to help them develop compelling strategies for tackling some of society’s biggest problems. She draws upon over two decades of experience across the non-profit and for-profit sectors advising social entrepreneurs, foundation leaders, and public sector organizations on issues of strategy, growth planning, social impact measurement, and organizational effectiveness, with a focus on the fields of workforce development and education. She has co-authored several publications, including “Data as a Means, Not an End” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 2016), Supporting Worker Success in the Age of Automation (June 2019), and Catapult Forward: Accelerating a Next-Generation Workforce Ecosystem in Greater Boston (December 2019).
Tracie also leads Deloitte’s Social Impact Activation practice, which is a team within Deloitte’s Purpose & DEI Office focused on enacting positive change for our people and communities through corporate social responsibility efforts, relationships with nonprofits, and initiatives like Impact Day.
Tracie has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Monitor Institute by Deloitte, Tracie worked as a strategy consultant at Monitor Group in Europe. She began her career as a financial analyst, contributing to her deep interest in organizations operating at the intersection of the business and social sectors.
Core Team
Jasmine Arai
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Jasmine is a social impact strategist with over 15 years of experience advising leaders through change. She has worked with nonprofit institutions of all sizes to help as they define their strategic position, design new initiatives, and improve organizational effectiveness. Prior to working in the social sector, Jasmine led organization transformation efforts with higher education, life sciences, and media clients.
Jasmine believes in the power of narratives to spark change and shape a more equitable society. She has co-authored and contributed to articles outlining strategies to advance equity, including “BIPOC Organizations and the Hamster Wheel of Philanthropy” and “What businesses can learn from the social sector about racial equity.”
Jasmine earned her BA from the University of Michigan and her MS from Northwestern University. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She is always on the hunt for a compelling story, a memorable photo, and a sweet treat. On weekends, she can be found scouting out new pastries and enjoying Saturday morning cartoons with her two children and husband.
Sarah Brayton
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Sarah is passionate about helping people reach their full potential across the education and workforce development spectrum. Sarah’s background blends private sector experience with 5+ years working with nonprofits and foundations on strategy development and activation.
Sarah’s experience includes scenario planning, growth strategy, funder initiative design, and organizational strategy for networked/federated models. Sarah also helped design, launch and scale Pathfinder, a workforce development program run by Deloitte and Salesforce.
Sarah graduated with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management where she was the Student Association President and graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC with a BA in Economics. She also serves as a board member for YMCA-USA, the national governing body for YMCAs.
Bridget Brennan
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Bridget brings over a decade of experience in strategy development and activation in both the commercial and social sectors. Today she focuses on helping leaders of nonprofits, philanthropies and corporate impact teams develop strategies for addressing social challenges. Bridget focuses on corporate philanthropy and corporate social impact strategy as well as the education and workforce development sector. She is a lead author on a forthcoming report on trends in corporate philanthropy.
Prior to joining Monitor Institute by Deloitte, Bridget worked in Deloitte’s commercial Strategy & Operations practice and as an account manager for global life sciences organizations. She has also been a language and reading educator.
Bridget currently serves on the board of the Urban League of Central Carolinas. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, where she graduated summa cum laude, and an MBA with a focus in sustainable enterprise from the University of North Carolina.
Rhonda Evans
Senior Manager II, Deloitte Services LP
Rhonda co-leads Monitor Institute by Deloitte’s Impact Measurement Program, which helps organizations more effectively use data to assess and improve the impact of their work. She has more than fifteen years of experience developing data and measurement approaches and using data to promote environmental and social well-being.
Rhonda has extensive experience with impact measurement across philanthropic, corporate, and impact investing sectors. Before joining Monitor Institute by Deloitte, Rhonda co-founded and was a managing director of an applied research consultancy focusing on labor and working conditions, environmental, and health issues. She was also the Director of Research at a for-benefit company with a mission to help consumers make purchasing decisions that reflect their preferences and values. At that organization, she co-developed the original data platform and oversaw data and ratings redesign for all environmental and social product and company ratings, incorporating more than 800 data points and developing ratings for more than 95,000 products and their companies.
Her work has been published in legal, social science and policy journals, as well as the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Oxford University Press, and Deloitte University Press; noted in press such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian (U.K.); and recognized on the floor of the United States Senate.
Rhonda holds a social science Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Labor and Employment.
Jenny Hoang
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Jenny co-leads Monitor Institute by Deloitte’s Purpose Ecosystems practice that focuses on high impact ways for organizations to drive systemic change through collective action. She has been in professional services for nearly twenty years, with the last decade focused on social impact strategy consulting, especially in public education and sustainability.
Jenny is experienced in community-driven vision and strategy development and implementation. She is dedicated to supporting purpose-driven organizations and their stakeholders in effectively fulfilling their missions for scalable impact.
She specializes in strategic foresight, social innovation and equity-centered design and incorporates futures research and scenario planning in her work to help clients prepare for continuously changing landscapes.
Jenny currently serves on the Sustainable Conservation board. She has an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BA in Political Science from University of California, San Diego. She is a community organizer promoting equity and advancement for historically marginalized and underinvested communities.
Mariam Mansury
Senior Manager II, Deloitte Services LP
Mariam Mansury is a Senior Manager at the Monitor Institute, where she founded and leads the Family and Individual Philanthropy practice. The practice offers a comprehensive array of strategy and philanthropy management services to family and individual philanthropists. Mariam has nearly 20 years of experience in philanthropy and social sector consulting. She serves philanthropy executives, nonprofit leaders, and government officials to help them with transformative change through strategy design and evaluation, organizational learning, and a meaningful focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has deep experience in gender equity and has advised over a dozen national governments on how to create, implement, and measure high-impact national security and development strategies that can elevate the roles of women in decision making.
Prior to joining the Monitor Institute, Mariam created and led the Families and Individual Philanthropy Community of Practice at a national philanthropy management firm. She received a Master of Public Policy at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Political Science from Boston College. Mariam lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and two boys.
Justin Marcoux
Senior Manager II, Deloitte Services LP
Justin has spent a decade working with private, corporate, and community foundations to challenge old assumptions and creatively imagine new possibilities.
Justin also writes and speaks regularly about philanthropy and social innovation. He has co-authored a number of articles about how foundations can find and fund new ideas including “The Re-emerging Art of Funding Innovation,” “Case Studies in Funding Innovation,” “8 Common Innovation Traps,” and “How to Find Breakthrough Ideas.” Justin’s work also focuses on innovation in community philanthropy, highlighted by the two-year What’s Next for Community Philanthropy initiative which engaged over 2,000 community philanthropy practitioners across six continents to discuss the future of place-based philanthropy. His work has appeared in publications such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Alliance Magazine.
Prior to joining Monitor Institute, Justin worked at an organization advising U.S. and European foundations, nonprofits, and universities on investing their endowments.
Justin holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he earned the Public Management and Social Innovation Certificate. He received his BA from Boston College with Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude distinctions.
Amanda Olsen
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Amanda is a strategist that gets excited about helping organizations with their complex social issues. She has worked with entrepreneurs, executives, and boards, across non-profits, philanthropies, and purpose-driven businesses.
Amanda has deep experience in strategy and has worked across a variety of areas including: education, workforce development, inclusive economic growth, financial inclusion, and health equity.
Amanda is a coach at heart and was trained as an executive coach while obtaining her MBA from Stanford. She also focused on leadership training while earning her BA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Illinois.
Amanda loves connecting with new people, building community, and fostering relationships. She loves furthering her well-being practices --- keeps a joy and gratitude list on her phone and appreciates all that nature, meditation, music, and movement add to her life.
Ricardo Roman
Senior Manager I, Deloitte Services LP
Ricardo works at Monitor Institute by Deloitte in the greater Washington DC area. He joined the Institute in 2022 and has been involved in leading the practice’s internal operations as Chief of Staff and managing client-facing and internal Purpose and DEI Office strategy projects related to education and workforce development and employee engagement, respectively. Ricardo also leads Deloitte's work with the Cristo Rey Network, managing the organization's engagement with 38 network high schools and students nationwide, as well as their graduates.
Before joining the Monitor Institute, Ricardo had over 10 years of experience at Deloitte Consulting LLP, where he led customer strategy and operations improvement projects for federal clients, mainly focusing on simplifying operations and delivering customized products and services using customer insights. Prior to Deloitte, Ricardo served as a US Naval Officer for more than 10 years and was an operations and technology leader at various commands during overseas operational assignments. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the United States Naval Academy and his Master of Science in Physical Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School.
