The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced that cellist YO-YO MA will join its board of trustees. As a musician, educator, and innovator, according to the foundation, Ma's work outside the concert hall is driven by his enduring belief in the power of music and culture to generate the trust and empathy required to connect people to one another, their local communities, and the world. He also is founder of Silkroad, a collective of artists who create music that engages their many traditions, to promote learning through the arts and foster multicultural artistic exchange.

The Kresge Foundation has announced the appointment of ASHLEY JOHNSON as a program officer on its education team and TRACEY PEARSON as a communications officer. Johnson joins the foundation after serving as founding executive director of the Detroit College Access Network, which provides critical college access and success programming, where she also helmed the Detroit Promise, the city's place-based tuition program. Pearson, who previously led media strategy and PR planning for the City of Detroit as deputy media relations director, will work primarily with Kresge's American Cities and Education programs. The foundation also announced that ARTURO GARCIA and CHIKAKO YAMAUCHI have joined the foundation's Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation Practice and will develop and refine strategies, foster cross-team collaboration, and draw insights from data to advance equity. Garcia previously served as learning manager at First 5 Los Angeles and led evaluation and community-based participatory research at Special Service for Groups Research & Evaluation. Yamauchi most recently served as senior manager of evaluation, research, and strategic learning at Community Partners and previously worked as research and evaluation manager at EmcArts.

The Levi Strauss Foundation has announced the appointment of California Wellness Foundation vice president of programs FATIMA ANGELES as its next executive director effective August 16. Angeles joined Cal Wellness in 1998 as a program officer and advanced to become a program director, director of evaluation and organizational learning, and, in 2013, vice president of programs. In addition to overseeing $40 million in annual grantmaking, she helped launch the foundation's Program-Related Investments program and established the Hope and Heal Fund in support of efforts to reduce gun violence in California.

The McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis has announced that PAUL ROGÉ, a former professor and research advisor at Merritt College, will join the foundation in July as senior program officer for its International program. Rogé brings more than twenty years of experience in agroecology research and collaboration with farmers in nine countries to his new role leading the biophysical science research in the Collaborative Crop Research Program, which works with smallholder farmers, research institutions, and development organizations to improve access to local, sustainable, nutritious food and create a just global food system.

The Skillman Foundation in Detroit has announced the appointment of ANGELIQUE POWER, who currently is president of the Field Foundation in Chicago, as its next president and CEO effective September 13. During Power's tenure, the Field Foundation doubled its grantmaking and staff through strategic partnerships, added a socially responsible and racially equitable focus to its endowment, created new funding paradigms, and redesigned its impact measurement efforts. Power also is co-founder of Enrich Chicago, a nonprofit focused on anti-racism organizing, and Just Action, which is focused on helping organizations follow through on the racial equity statements they made in 2020. She succeeds TONYA ALLEN, who stepped down as president & CEO in February 2021 to lead the McKnight Foundation.

The Stoneleigh Foundation has named MARIE N. WILLIAMS as its deputy director. Williams, who previously served as a senior program officer, will lead the Stoneleigh Fellowship program in partnership with the executive director, build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, and develop and articulate thought leadership on issues within the foundation's mission and focus. Before joining the foundation in 2016, Williams served as executive director at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice and earlier as a public policy advocate in the areas of immigration, economic justice, and women's reproductive rights.

The Natural Resources Defense Council has announced MANISH BAPNA as president and CEO, succeeding RHEA SUH, who has been appointed president and CEO of the Marin Community Foundation. Bapna currently serves as interim president and CEO at the World Resources Institute, where he has served in leadership roles since 2007, overseeing the organization's program work on climate change, energy, cities, food, forests, oceans, and water, while helping transform the organization's scale, reach, and impact. MITCH BERNARD, who has served as interim president and CEO and chief counsel, will remain in his role until Bapna takes the position on August 23.

The World Resources Institute has named ANIRUDDHA (ANI) DASGUPTA as its next president and CEO, succeeding Manish Bapna, who is leaving to lead the Natural Resources Defense Council after fourteen years as executive vice president and managing director. A highly respected leader in sustainable cities, urban design, and poverty alleviation, Dasgupta has led WRI's Cities program for the past seven years and previously served as a director of knowledge and learning at the World Bank.