Third Wave Fund Staff

A photo of Ana Conner, a Black gender non-conforming person with black braids going over their shoulders. They're wearing a light collared shirt.

Ana Conner, Co-Director

(they/he/she) is a mixed, Black, queer, gender non-conforming organizer and fundraiser living in Harlem, NY. They are committed to community building and resourcing movements, particularly those rooted in Black liberation, racial and gender justice, queer and trans liberation, and youth leadership. Ana is currently the board Secretary for the Transgender Law Center and their local community garden, and is on the board of Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Before Third Wave Fund, they were the Senior Program Associate for the Transforming Movements Fund and Black-Led Movement Fund at Borealis Philanthropy, and the Database and Operations Manager for Astraea Foundation's Development team.

ana@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 897

Kiyomi Fujikawa, Co-Director

(she/her) has been involved with movements to end gender- and state-based violence since 2001. Her political home is with queer and trans communities of color and organizing to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence. Kiyomi is a current board member of Funders Concerned About AIDS and a former board member of Groundswell Fund, Seattle Young People's Project, and API Chaya. She is an alum of Neighborhood Funder's Group Philanthropy Forward and Funders for LGBT Issues’ Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) Fellowship. She formerly was a Senior Program Associate at the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and the Queer Network Program Coordinator at API Chaya. She has lived in Duwamish and Coast Salish’s people’s land (Seattle, WA) since 2005 and is an astrology and WNBA fan (go Storm!).

kiyomi@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 897

Christian Giraldo, Director of Programs

(he/they) is a Brooklyn-based community organizer, musician, and yoga enthusiast born in Medellin, Colombia. Most recently, Christian held the role of Program Officer for the Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund, supporting sex worker-led resourcing and capacity building of sex worker movement, and the leadership development of sex worker leaders through the Fellowship. Christian spends most of his free time biking from one corner of the city to the other, finding new vegan eateries, making music on analog electronic equipment, and reading leftist theory and science fiction. When they're not working on his own music, you can catch him attending one of the seemingly infinite number of outsider art events in Brooklyn that keep him from calling any other place home.

christian@thirdwavefund.org | 917. 387.1262 ext. 804

Maryse Mitchell-Brody, Director of Development

(they/them) is a white, Jewish, and trans facilitator, fundraiser, and radical social worker. They have been active in movements for healing justice, sex worker organizing, racial justice, economic justice, and LGBTQI+ liberation for over twenty-five years. In 2018, Maryse co-organized the Sex Worker Giving Circle (SWGC), the first sex worker-led fund housed at a U.S. foundation, and joined Third Wave’s staff in 2019 to continue that work. Raised in NYC, Maryse now lives on Mahican land in the Northern Catskills region of New York with their partner and dog, along with their many non-human neighbors in the beech-maple forest.

maryse@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 809

mai doan, Program Officer, Mobilize Power Fund & Accountable Futures Fund

(they/them) is a queer, mixed, nonbinary poet and writing living in Albuquerque, NM. To their role at Third Wave Fund, mai brings over 13 years of experience as a writer, facilitator, and youth worker within movements for gender and racial justice and anti-violence work. At Third Wave Fund, they are committed to ensuring that the leadership, labor, wellness, and dreams of queer and trans BIPOC youth are abundantly resourced and recognized. mai is also the author of water/tongue, a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee.

mai@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 802

Rachel Caïdor, Program Officer, Grow Power Fund & Own Our Power Fund

(she/her) is a queer, Floridian, Haitian-American abolitionist feminist who has worked for over two decades supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence both within and outside of social service agencies. Rachel's movement work focuses on supporting survivors criminalized for defending themselves against gender based and / or state violence. She also supports practitioners building responses to gender-based violence that do not rely on existing criminal legal systems and social services that are rooted in carceral feminism. Rachel loves radical nuns, watching television, eating for pleasure, and caring for hard-shelled cold blooded creatures. She lives in Chicago.

rachel@thirdwavefund.org | 917. 387-1262 ext. 805

Pati Morales, Program Officer, Sex Worker Giving Circle

Pati is a former fellow of Third Wave Fund’s Sex Worker Giving Circle. She holds a Master’s in Latin American and Latino Studies and a B.A in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Guided by disability justice, anti-work politics, and abolitionist principles, she’s come to philanthropy to assist sex workers in getting the resources they need. When she’s not busy co-organizing the fellowship, you can find her practicing new nail art trends while watching reality tv dating shows or lounging at the beach. She lives in Chicago.

pati@thirdwavefund.org | 917. 387-1262 ext. 910

Sylvia Jung, Development Officer, General Funds

(she/her) is a Korean American settler on Lenape land, born and raised in the Bronx. Sylvia has served a variety of development roles at NYC-based and national nonprofits for the past 15 years, most recently as the Senior Development Manager at Grantmakers in the Arts. In her out of office life, Sylvia was a longtime crisis hotline volunteer with the New York City Anti-Violence Project, and is a TNR-certified butler to two rescue cats. She dreams about all the paths to liberation. Abolition and noodles are her love languages.

sylvia@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 816

Monica Trinidad, Communications Officer

(she/they) is a queer Latinx visual artist and cultural strategist in Chicago, IL. For the past ten years, Monica has created zines, digital graphics, mixed media posters, and other visual art amplifying youth-led, intersectional, and grassroots abolitionist organizing work in Chicago and nationally. She is a co-founder of Brown and Proud Press, For the People Artists Collective, co-host of the Lit Review podcast, and an emerging member of Justseeds Artists Cooperative. At Third Wave Fund, Monica is committed to amplifying and sharing out the work of our grantees in accountable ways that support their visions and leadership.

monica@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 812

Priya Dadlani, Communications Associate

(all pronouns) is an Indo-Caribbean, queer cultural worker from Silver Spring, MD. Dedicated to liberation from the oppressive boxes white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy work overtime to keep us in, Priya's work is rooted in constantly standing on the edge of transformation, believing in the possibility of a new world. Their toolbox consists of political education, zine making, strategy, and storytelling. Priya currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where she organizes with SPICY, a collective she founded led by and for queer people of color working at the intersection of art, justice, and cultural archival. In addition, they are a member of the Jahajee Sisters grassroots action team, working to end gender-based violence in Caribbean communities, works with Media Sutra to support the dreams of Black and brown creative entrepreneurs, and self-publishes a monthly newsletter.

priya@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 813

Hạ Trần, Program Associate

(they/them or their name) dreams, lives and works as a GRITS + GLITS (Gay* Raised/Living in the South) hoping for a future where all families are safe, supported, and valued. Hạ is grounded in creative movements for Reproductive Justice and survivor-led healing for/by TLGBQ+ communities. They're a collective member of both the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project and SOFT WEB Studio Collective, and came to Third Wave Fund after four years of directly supporting TLGBQ+ survivors of interpersonal, sexual, and state-sanctioned violence. Hạ cultivates joy and pleasure through textile arts, zine-making, porch sitting, D.I.Y. music, and with all bodies of water. Southern‐born by way of the Việt Nam diaspora, Hạ is a tuff puff looking forward heart first!

ha@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 806

Nico Fonseca, Program Associate

(they/them) is a neurodivergent, recovering community organizer. They are a fat painter, maker, healer, lover, sick, queer and gender variant creature being. Some pronouns you can use are he/her/they, elle/ella/el and soft papi. They were born on Lenapehoking land, with roots in the west side of Borikén too. Raised by their mother and their mother, red dirt, sweet water, and bodegas. Part of their sacred work is also about liberating our pleasure and desire. Experiencing, unveiling, indulging them. Understanding how they’ve been weaponized against us through their relationship to violence. It’s about exploring what safety, care and wellness feel like when we ground our pleasure and desire in abundance, consent, interdependence, autonomy, access, and love without ownership. Their visual art explores what these worlds look and feel like. Their political work embodies them through practice, studying, lots of messing up, loving, and humbly committing to the unfolding.

nico@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 807

Carlton V Bell II, "C.J", Program Associate

(they/them) is an overall curator & facilitator of artistic expression through multiple disciplines, primarily through theatre & film. As an artist, their praxis is to consistently interrogate the word around them, and expressing what they learn by modes of performance based art by craft & by conjure. They are an advocate & agent for representation through change in the way Art is landscaped globally. They hope to continue to inspire, make space, & take space for other performers across the African Diaspora. In addition to their work as an artist, they are also a community farmer, cultural worker, and co-founder & one of the key artistic partners of The Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Company.

carlton@ thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 912

Jillian Jacobs, Development Associate

Jillian Jacobs (they/them) is a white, Jewish queer educator born and raised on Wabanaki land. They began organizing in 2013 as a trauma-informed peer educator, LGBTQIA+ leader, and PIC abolitionist. Jillian became a communications intern at Third Wave Fund in 2014, and has supported TWF as a consultant in many roles since. Their political home is working with queer and trans youth in rural and working class/poor communities, especially with LGBTQIA+ youth with disabilities. Jillian spent six years working as a special education teacher and administrator before completely changing careers to join Third Wave Fund full time. They currently live in rural Maine with their dog and love paddleboarding, rollerblading, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and watching sturgeon jump out of the Kennebec river.

jillian@thirdwavefund.org | (917)-387-1262 ext. 815

Paige Fulton, Administrative Assistant

Paige Fulton (she/her) is an artist, writer and lover from Virginia with 8+ years experience in racial and Reproductive Justice organizing. Paige believes in liberation as a daily practice. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she collaborates in queer + creative + caring community with Soft Web Collective, and is interested in Gullah-Geechee land rights and restoration.

paige@thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext: 913

Agustina Vidal, Director of People, Culture, & Operations

[Ah-goos-tee-nah] (she/they) is a first-generation immigrant from northwest Argentina. Agustina has spent the last 15+ years creating mental health tools and resources for both the U.S. and Latin America, with a particular focus on disaster mental health, most recently at the Fireweed Collective. A lover of Argentinian empanadas and Juan Gabriel, Agustina lives with their family on Waccamaw land in South Carolina.

agustina@ thirdwavefund.org | 917.387.1262 ext. 897

All general inquiries about Third Wave Fund should be directed to info@thirdwavefund.org.

All media & press inquiries should be directed to monica@thirdwavefund.org.

All inquiries about donations or development-related questions should be directed to fundraising@thirdwavefund.org.