Careers in Philanthropy event - Dec. 8

I'm on the High Water Women email list - they're a bunch of women professionals in finance who also do philanthropic work.  I went to one of their events a few weeks ago and met some great people! 
Happy networking,
Katharine

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Young Women and Careers in Philanthropy Panel Discussion Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Panel discussion from 7pm-8pm) Location: Ropes & Gray, 1211 Avenue of the Americas (between 47th and 48th) HWW's Young Women's Council will host a panel to facilitate discussion about philanthropy as a career path. Meet three women who will discuss their current roles and the journey that brought them there. Our panelists include: Erica Lock - Senior Associate of Fellow Programs, Echoing Green. Justina Lai - Associate, Impact Investing and Program Related Investments, Rockefeller Foundation.  Yuki Kotani - Co-Founder, Harboring Hearts Housing (see below for further information about the panelists) Registration fee: $5.00  RSVP Required. Please go to https://www.highwaterwomen.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=378 and follow the instructions to register for the event. The HWW Young Women's Council was created to bring together driven and passionate young women in finance who hope to make a difference in their communities through service and philanthropy.    We look forward to seeing you soon! Feel free to email any of us with any questions or to get more involved in the Young Women's Council.    Best, Anu, Katie, Lizzy, and Danielle  Panelists: Erica Lock is the Senior Associate of Fellow Programs at Echoing Green. She manages the current portfolio of social entrepreneurs, providing operational and strategic guidance and facilitating access to the Echoing Green community and other resources. Erica also creates and maintains key external partnerships to benefit both fellows and alumni as well as the search and selection process for fellowship applicants. Erica graduated in May 2010 from Columbia Business School with a focus in Social Enterprise. She has done consulting work for clean water projects in India, an international women’s human rights organization, and a triple bottom line home goods store in NYC. Prior to graduate studies, Erica was a strategy and planning manager at MTV Networks and worked in business development for VH1. Erica received her undergraduate degree from Wharton, concentrating in Marketing and Communications.   Justina Lai joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009. As an Associate, Ms. Lai works with the Foundation’s Program Related Investments (PRI) portfolio and on the Impact Investing initiative. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Ms. Lai was an Associate in the New York and Paris offices of Vestar Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm with six global offices and over $7 billion in assets under management. She also worked in the sponsor coverage group within Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in New York, where she assisted in financial advisory and capital raising services for private equity clients. In addition, she has held positions with Legacy Venture in Palo Alto, CA and Rwanda Works/Rwanda Ventures in Kigali, Rwanda. Ms. Lai received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from New York University and an MBA with certificates in public and global management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Yuki Kotani is the Co-founder of Harboring Hearts Housing and an American Heart Association Go Red For Women national spokesperson. She is a congenital heart defect survivor and comes from a family history of heart disease. Her main inspiration for starting Harboring Hearts Housing comes from her father; a heart attack survivor, LVAD recipient and a heart transplant recipient. As one of his primary caretakers, she experienced first-hand the emotional strain that can be placed on families and loved ones throughout this life changing procedure. Together, Yuki and her father fixed their broken hearts and began making up for lost time. The new bond they created even changed the course of Yuki’s career. With her father’s encouragement, she transitioned from a stressful finance job to co-founder of her own nonprofit that provides affordable housing for heart transplant and cardiac patients in the Greater New York area. She hopes that Harboring Hearts Housing will not only provide patients and caregivers with temporary housing but a temporary home.