Joan Fanning
Founding Partner
Joan Fanning brings deep experience in the nonprofit sector to her work at Luma Consulting. Over 20 years, she has served in a number of leadership roles, including CEO and CIO. She was the founding CEO of NPower Network, a national organization that helps nonprofits use technology to enhance their impact. Prior to her time at NPower, Joan worked with a number of social service organizations with a focus on leading IT and direct service change management initiatives. Her previous work includes experience as a program manager, analyst, direct service provider and fundraiser.
In her current role as Principal at Luma Consulting, she helps nonprofits and foundations with strategic and business planning, change management and impact analysis. She works with clients to balance aspiration with practicality; identifying opportunities, articulating a clear vision, and building compelling and sound business plans in support of that vision.
Joan has taught at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs and has served on the advisory and governing boards of several local and national nonprofits. She’s been recognized as a leader by Fast Company (“Top 50 Social Entrepreneurs of 2002”). Joan has an MPA from the Evans School at the University of Washington and a BA in Business from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jaime Hoard
Senior Consultant
Jaime Hoard has over 25 years’ experience in the public sector. Jaime contributed to the creation of nonprofits, designed, and launched new programs, led and strengthened an organization as Executive Director, and supported the scaling of large global programs. Jaime began her career in urban planning for the City of Seattle, held senior leadership roles at NPower, a nonprofit that provided technology support to hundreds of nonprofits in Washington state and across the U.S., and went on to spend 16+ years in various leadership roles at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she was often the intrapreneur as strategist and tactician combined.
Jaime has a robust skill set that encompasses the alignment of diverse interests, can execute high-impact initiatives, and has a strong ability to lead transformational change in complex organizational landscapes. Jaime brings a unique blend of inclusive leadership, humility, and humor to every endeavor. Jaime’s passion for cultivating collaboration, paired with a keen strategic acumen, defines her approach to leadership and sets the stage for meaningful and sustainable successes across many types of groups be it community organizations or senior leadership teams. Jaime’s expertise lies in the design and launch of new endeavors, navigating intricate global operations, streamlining decision-making processes, and optimizing support models across diverse regions and functions.
Anne Green
Senior Consultant
Anne brings more than 25 years of experience in the philanthropic sector and is a seasoned leader, strategist and advisor who helps foundations and nonprofits achieve their social impact goals.
Most recently, Anne served as a managing director at Arabella Advisors and led the firm’s West Coast practice with institutional foundations, helping her clients advance their strategies – ensuring that their resources provide the greatest possible benefit to the people and causes they hope to serve through equity-centered grantmaking practices. Before joining Arabella, Anne held several leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including serving as Advisor to the Director of the Postsecondary Success team, where she managed key team operations, as well as special projects and grants that required cross-team coordination or investment from other funders. She served as the foundation’s Senior Officer of Risk, supporting the foundation’s Executive Leadership Team to identify and manage foundation-wide risks.
Before joining the Gates Foundation, Anne worked as a consultant and supported key corporate, private and family foundations in the Pacific Northwest. Her support ranged from designing and launching national grantmaking programs and developing communications strategies for specific projects to providing interim staffing support. Clients included organizations like AOL-Time Warner, REI, Safeco Insurance, the Packard Foundation, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Russell Family Foundation.
Anne resides in Seattle, where she is a member of Washington Women’s Foundation and a board member of the Holocaust Center for Humanity. She received her JD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she was the recipient of the Albert Ellis Scholarship for Recognition in Public Service. She received her BA with honors from Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Susan Coliton
Senior Consultant
Susan Coliton is a Partner with Luma Consulting, where she offers strategic counsel to philanthropists, foundations and non-profits to help them deepen their impact in the communities they serve. She spent 15 years as the head of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s philanthropic activities, where she oversaw regional, national and international grant-making programs through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. Through her work, she aligned donor vision with results; designed new initiatives in science, education, and the arts; and built nonprofit sector capacity through research, workshops, and convenings.
Prior to joining the Allen Foundation, Coliton held management positions at several national philanthropic organizations in the arts. She directed the west coast office of the New York-based Nonprofit Finance Fund, designed corporate giving programs for Gap, Inc., and worked as a visual art specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Coliton is a gubernatorial appointment on the Washington State Arts Commission and is past-chair of the Philanthropy Northwest Board. She serves on the board and the executive committee of Americans for the Arts, a national advocacy organization in Washington D.C. She is also a member of the Board of the Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation, Earshot Jazz, and Spectrum Dance Theater.
Coliton received a B.A. in art history from Saint Mary’s College and a masters from Johns Hopkins University. She completed Stanford’s Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders and the Executive Seminar at the Aspen Institute.
Jeffrey Ried, PhD
Senior Consultant
Jeffrey Ried, PhD, specializes in creating effective partnerships and collaborations. He brings over 15 years of experience in building partnerships and catalyzing change in complex, multicultural settings where sensitivity, consideration, and action are called for. He has held leadership positions in non-profit, philanthropic, and government organizations in the US and Africa including developing and managing projects for the Gates Foundation and as a member of the leadership team of the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency within the Government of Ethiopia. He has been director of a health center in Ethiopia, a foster parent, and co-founded and continues to operate with his wife Stephanie the Ethiopian Education Fund, an nonprofit organization that supports disadvantaged and marginalized youth in rural Ethiopia with a focus on enabling girls to remain in school.