Founder & Board Chair

Jackie has over 20 years of strategic planning and new program development experience in the nonprofit and healthcare fields. In addition to running PennPAC, she serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Overseers of Penn Hillel, Community Service Chair for her Penn class, and as Chair of Social Impact for PennNYC. Jackie also holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Secretary

Treasurer

Kelsey is a Senior Strategist at Indeed with strengths in strategy and data analysis. She has served as a Consultant, Deputy Team Leader, Team Leader, as well as Liaison for various PennPAC projects.

Nicole is a nonprofit arts management professional with over twenty years of experience. In her career, she has raised critical support for New York City art museums including The Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and The Drawing Center. She specializes in grant writing, Board development, and event planning. Nicole is a member of Art Table and a Board Member of Experiments in Opera. Her involvement with PennPAC began in Spring 2019 as a volunteer consultant for the Sunnyside Community Center project.

Elaine, after spending over 20 years in investment management as an equity portfolio manager and analyst, has focused her attention on charitable causes, both local and global.  Most recently, she spent 7 years as Board President for a Fairfield County nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and services to children in the custody of the state.  Elaine has also been involved in multiple roles with PennPAC as Deputy Team Leader, Consultant, ImPACt volunteer and currently sits on the DEIA and Nonprofit Selection committees.

Paula-Kaye is an experienced marketing professional with 15 years of experience in brand strategy, product development/marketing and digital marketing. She is currently the Head of Marketing and Communications for Space Capital, an early-stage space tech venture capital fund & investment platform. She has worked with PennPAC since 2013 in various ways from Consultant to Team Leader to current co-chair of the Nonprofit Selection Team.

Harriet has worked as a Health Care Consultant, focusing on marketing and strategy in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She also has extensive nonprofit lay-leadership experience.  In her involvement with PennPAC, Harriet has worked as a Team Leader, Volunteer Consultant, and Liaison on various projects, and served on the Nonprofit Relations Team and participated in ImPACt events.

Director of Marketing, Apparo – Technology Solutions for Nonprofits

Enterprise Strategic Initiatives/COO Group for CFO, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ellen has had a 20 year career in Investment Finance, working in NY and London before moving to San Francisco 22 years ago.  Her last private sector role was as SEVP, Director of Corporate Investments at Wells Fargo, where she managed a securities portfolio of over $250 Billion.   After leaving finance, Ellen began doing pro-bono non-profit work with a focus on youth development and career coaching.  She is on the board of Year Up Bay Area where she is also an Academic Coach, Mentor and Strategic Advisor.   In addition, Ellen provides career coaching to veterans and their spouses through American Corporate Partners, and she was a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster youth (CASA) for four years.  She has worked with Girls Inc., and tutored within SFUSD through The San Francisco Education Fund.

Executive Director

Karen Schub Epstein spent 12 years in the private sector, starting her career in public accounting at Ernst and Young.  She then joined Interpublic where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, financial analysis, human resources, systems implementations, business development and strategy.

In 2005, Karen transitioned to the nonprofit world.  She spent the next 10 years at the Growth Philanthropy Network, an organization focused on building a capital marketplace for high performing organizations that serve at-risk populations.  Her work there focused on evaluation, program design, strategy and operations.  Since 2015, she has been consulting with a broad range of clients and was the Interim Executive Director at Change for Kids in 2018.  Currently, she serves on the Boards of Change for Kids and Youth Action YouthBuild.

Karen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in accounting and psychology, and graduated from the Executive MBA program at Columbia University with honors.

Deputy Director

David has more than 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. He founded and scaled Pitch In For Baseball and Softball (PIFBS) where he drove the organization’s strategic planning, fundraising, and Board development. Prior to joining the nonprofit sector, David worked in consumer packaged goods marketing with Procter and Gamble and H.J. Heinz.

He currently works as a nonprofit consultant and is an adjunct professor for the Nonprofit Leadership Development Program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice.

David studied undergraduate business and graduated Magma Cum Laude from Georgetown University. He furthered his education studying International Marketing at Brasenose College in Oxford and non-profit fundraising at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with Honors with an MBA from The Wharton School.