Hope Lyons

Chair

Hope Lyons is a consultant providing philanthropic advising services and working with nonprofits, foundations, and businesses to center people and mission in their processes and evaluation work. Ms. Lyons brings twenty years of experience across the nonprofit sector, most recently at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund where she served as director of program management, overseeing the Fund’s program operations and philanthropic stewardship grantmaking, with a particular focus on community philanthropy. Ms. Lyons holds a BA in economics and international studies from Johns Hopkins University, an MPA from New York University, and served with the Peace Corps in Romania. Ms. Lyons is the Board Chair of Charity Navigator and the global advisory council for the Radical Flexibility Fund.