Board of Directors

Shilpa Andalkar is a Wealth Advisor in the San Francisco office of Corient Private Wealth. She focuses on building financial plans and portfolios with purpose to support the missions of individuals, families, and philanthropic entities.

Shilpa holds a B.S. in Management Science with honors from the University of California, San Diego and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® practitioner and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® professional. In the past, she’s held roles with an emphasis in the social sector, including analyzing investments for environmental and social outcomes.

Shilpa joins the board from the EBCF Professional Advisory Leadership Council, where she has participated since 2021. She also currently serves on the URI Foundation Board Investment Committee, a global interfaith grassroots organization. 

Bernard Boudreaux’s professional life comfortably rests at the intersection of the corporate and nonprofit worlds. He collaborates with nonprofit leaders in creating and executing a sound revenue strategy as well as board development and works with corporate responsibility leaders to create and execute relevant, authentic, and effective community engagement strategies. Bernard is the founder and principal of Be Beneficent Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that assists individuals, nonprofits and businesses in addressing social issues through action that achieves measurable results. 

As the former Director of the New Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Bernard engaged dozens of major corporate and foundation leaders, as well as thousands of nonprofit leaders enrolled in New Strategies.  

Prior to joining Georgetown, he worked for Target Corporation for over 30 years, where he held various leadership roles, including as a Director within Target’s Corporate Responsibility division. Bernard serves on the board of directors for multiple nonprofit organizations and is a former board member of the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP).  

A Bay Area native, Bernard has lived in Oakland for 30+ years. 

Joe Dougherty is a senior partner at Dalberg Advisors, where he formerly served as Managing Director of the Americas as well as acting Global Managing Partner, as well as a member of the professional faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he teaches courses on Leading Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship. Joe has been a trusted advisor to foundations, corporations, and government agencies for twenty-five years and has worked in more than thirty countries. His clients have included the Bill & Melinda Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, MacArthur, and Skoll Foundations, the Barbara Bush Foundation and the Office of First Lady Michelle Obama, Visa Inc., Google, Facebook, Intel, and Bank of the West, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC), along with the City of San Jose, the City of San Francisco’s Department on the Status of Women and its Human Rights Commission, and the City of Richmond, CA and the Richmond Rapid Response Fund and Crisis Support Services of Alameda County.

Previously, Joe served as Managing Director of the Economic Development Practice at Deloitte Emerging Markets and, before that, as A.T. Kearney’s first Country Manager for Thailand. He has also worked for Citibank, the US FDIC, and Bank of Ireland’s Small Business Lending Unit. Joe graduated from Loyola University in Maryland and went on to earn an MA from The Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as well as an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Joe splits his time between Emeryville and North Oakland.

John Govea was the Program Director for Immigrant Rights and Integration at the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. He joined the Haas, Jr. Fund staff in 2017 after 10 years with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in New Jersey, where he managed national programs and initiatives focused on childhood obesity and health equity. Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, John is descended from Mexican immigrants who settled in California. His father came to the United States under the bracero program during World War II to work on the Santa Fe Railroad. His mother worked the fields and orchards of California as a migrant farmworker. John started his professional career as an attorney representing farmworkers in rural California. He has worked on the staffs of the Community Foundation for Monterey Country and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and was senior program officer with the State of California’s California Volunteers, where he oversaw implementation of the state’s AmeriCorps program.

Brandi Howard is a dynamic and results-driven leader with extensive experience in philanthropy, public health, and community development. As the President and Chief Executive Officer of East Bay Community Foundation, she provides strategic vision and operational leadership for a nearly 100-year-old philanthropic institution with more than $500 million in assets under management. Under Brandi’s leadership, EBCF is leveraging its resources to promote economic freedom and sustainable development in underserved East Bay communities. Since joining EBCF in 2022, Brandi has mobilized $4-5 million in annual strategic grantmaking, enhanced capacity building for organizations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and advanced local advocacy efforts that influenced critical public safety policies. 

Brandi has demonstrated a deep commitment to equity and social impact throughout her career. Her tenure as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Interim Vice President of Programs at The San Francisco Foundation (SFF) highlighted her ability to lead organizational strategy and foster cross-sector collaboration. She was pivotal in designing SFF’s first multi-year strategic plan, developing success metrics, and overseeing a $5 million annual grantmaking budget. 

An expert in health equity, Brandi held leadership positions at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she spearheaded citywide initiatives to address racial inequities in chronic disease and maternal health. Her efforts resulted in policy interventions and place-based strategies that improved health outcomes for marginalized communities. She has also contributed to improving maternal and child health in Alameda County, California, through program development and policy consulting with First 5 Alameda County and her work as a doula.  

A respected thought leader in social determinants of health, economic inclusion, and organizational development, Brandi has served in numerous advisory and consultancy roles. She is passionate about fostering sustainable social change through collaborative philanthropy, data-driven evaluation, and inclusive community engagement. 

Brandi has a Master of Social Welfare with a focus on Management and Planning and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also pursuing executive education at Harvard Business School, focusing on Leading Business Transitions. 

In addition to her professional accomplishments, Brandi is committed to mentoring future leaders, especially in Oakland where her family has lived for four generations.  

Shirley J. McLaughlin is a principal at Adler & Colvin, a law firm specializing in the law of nonprofit organizations.  She specializes in working with community foundations, private foundations, and family offices, and on the issues they face, including grantmaking and social investing, social enterprise, nonprofits structures, relationships and affiliates, fundraising and endowment management, and corporate governance.  Prior to joining Adler & Colvin, Shirley was the Director of Grants Administration for San Francisco Foundation.  She also worked for Silicon Valley Community Foundation for ten years in grants administration, donor engagement, and early childhood and family program roles.  She received her law degree from University of San Francisco in 2013 and an undergraduate degree from Mills College in 2006.

Xavier Morales, Ph.D., MRP, is the Executive Director of The Praxis Project, where he leads national strategies that center equity as a core operating principle for community power‑building, fiscal sponsorship, and systems change. His work is grounded in the belief that durable health and racial equity outcomes require strong community leadership supported by accountable governance and disciplined stewardship of philanthropic resources. Morales serves on the boards of the East Bay Community Foundation, Saba Grocer’s Initiative, and the Vital Village Network, and advises UC Berkeley’s Latinx in the Environment initiative; he also serves on the City of Berkeley’s Sugar‑Sweetened Beverage Panel of Experts. Originally from Sanger, California, he is a former Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary and holds a B.A. in Environmental Sciences from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. and Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Katherine is the Vice President & Regional Counsel for Northern California at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. In this role, Katherine is a member of Kaiser’s Northern California regional executive team and is the lead attorney on legal matters impacting Northern California. Prior to her current role, Katherine managed significant litigation and investigations at Kaiser and as a Litigation Partner at a major law firm. Katherine is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. with the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She has degrees in Economics and Political Science from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from UC Law, San Francisco, and she attended Executive Leadership and Disruptive Strategy programs through the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program.

Mona Williams is Chief Operating Officer of Bivium Westfuller (BWF), an OCIO partnership between Bivium Capital Partners and Westfuller Advisors serving mission-driven organizations. As BWF’s first dedicated COO, she is responsible for institutionalizing the joint venture with an emphasis on firm-wide operational excellence and execution, infrastructure build-out, process development and implementation, and strategic growth initiatives. Mona reports to the leadership of both firms, supporting the constituent firms independently as needed.

She was formerly President of Progress Investment Management Company, LLC, where she spent 19 years dedicated to “Changing the Face of the Investment Management Industry.” A pioneer in diverse and emerging multi-manager investing, Progress managed an array of customized and pooled investment vehicles for institutional pension funds, foundations, and endowments. She served on the firm’s Board of Directors, the Investment Committee, and chaired its Management Committee.

Her earlier experience includes positions at regional and global investment banks, including Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch. She has served on the board of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP), the National Council on Teacher Retirement Corporate Advisory Committee (NCTR) and has been an active member of 100 Women in Finance (100WF), co-sponsoring events that address the underrepresentation of women in finance. She is a frequent industry speaker on diversity and inclusion in asset management and has taught financial literacy, her passion, to young women and people of color throughout her career.

Mona received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds Series 7 and 63 licenses (inactive). She lives in Oakland with her husband and son.