For our Inaugural PowHer Summit, there is no better person to honor than Ana L. Oliveira, President of The New York Women’s Foundation. It was Ana’s early support of a fledgling New York Equal Pay Campaign that gave root to PowHer New York, now a dynamic network of over 100 diverse gender and racial justice groups working collectively on a united agenda and shared vision. Her continued belief in our unique model of collaboration and advocacy nurtured PowHerNY’s growth and work and inspired our vision of inclusive gender justice.
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About Ana Oliveira
Ana L. Oliveira has been a voice and a force for change in improving the lives of people in the greatest need for more than 30 years. As President and CEO, she leads The New York Women’s Foundation mission to create an equitable and just future for women and families. During her tenure with The Foundation, Ana has increased annual grantmaking from $1.7M to more than $9M today. By the end of 2021, The Foundation will have distributed nearly $100 million to more than 500 organizations, impacting millions of women and girls since its creation in 1987.
Under Ana’s leadership, The Foundation has been a pioneer in igniting many cultural justice movements of today, including Me Too, the closing of Rikers Island, and the NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color. She has also led critical cross-sectoral partnerships to advance women’s rights as a co-chair of The New York City Council Speaker’s Young Women’s Initiative and as a Commissioner of Human Rights for the NYC Commission, and sits on the Independent Commission to Study Criminal Justice Reform in NYC. She has also served as a member of the New York City HIV Planning Council and the New York City Commission on AIDS and chaired the NYC Commission for LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth and Mayor Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative.
Before joining The Foundation, Ana served as Executive Director of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and led innovative community-based programs at Samaritan Village and the Osborne Association. She also was a Board Member for Philanthropy New York and served on and chaired committees for Women’s Funding Network. Ana attained her M.A. in Medical Anthropology and a Ph.D. (hon) from the New School for Social Research. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and resides in Manhattan.