Results of the EDGE’s first democratic Board elections are now out!

Davina is a Senior Program Officer at FRIDA|The Young Feminist Fund. For the past six years, she has worked to foster the sustainability of young feminist movements, advocating for interconnected funding models and support systems that strengthen interdependence among various intersectional social justice movements. She is a Guatemalan-Mexican trans woman passionate about migration and territorial autonomy, as well as transition and bodily autonomy as interwoven cornerstones of social, gender, and climate justice. Davina is finalizing her master’s degree in Gender and Public Policy and is based in Mexico City, where she also volunteers with a local organization focused on transfeminine memory and art.

charles is a Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, organizer and space holder. He is currently the Deputy Director of Fund Strategy for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). charles has worked in communities across the United States and globally with poor, working class, disabled, young, LGBT, currently/formerly active drug users and formerly homeless folks. He has worked in all realms of the social justice arena doing everything from direct service provision, lobbying, development, communications and direct action. charles uses that background to inform both his artistic and movement work with a particular lens on Black, Queer, Feminist perspectives that naturally create space for growth rooted in true freedom.

Magda is a feminist and resource justice activist committed to systemic transformation, and an Ashoka Fellow since 2025. She originated and co-founded the Feminist Fund in Poland, which is a power-shifting, community-led, trust-based, and a participatory grantmaker supporting grassroots and frontline organizing since 2018. Magda’s background spans transformative philanthropy, women’s human rights, regenerative activism and intersectional organizing. In the past, she’s been involved with FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, FundAction and Fenomenal Funds. A cross-cultural psychologist by training, she co-authored and co-edited alternative reports on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Poland.

Hilda drives the design and implementation of donor services, knowledge management, inclusive grantmaking practices, and future-centering strategies that seek to reimagine philanthropy. Prior to HIP, Hilda worked as an advisor to philanthropists and philanthropic organizations addressing issues ranging from racial justice, human rights, and criminal justice reform to climate change and early childhood education. Hilda has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in international administration from the University of Miami. She serves on the board of Drug Policy Alliance, and enjoys baking, reading historical fiction about witchcraft, and writing cranky blog posts from her home in Northern Illinois.

Darrah grew up in Kansas City, United States, before relocating to Germany in 2007. In Germany she obtained a M.Sc. in Finance and began her career. After 10+ years working in the financial sector in Africa, Asia and Europe, in 2019, Darrah settled in Berlin and began working in philanthropic financial management. Besides finance, she has also been heavily involved in DFF’s governance and management. She has led a successful collective salary reform process and co-led DFF’s shift to a distributed, anti-oppressive leadership model over the past two years. She links sound financial practice to justice-centered management and governance and is excited to her expertise to help the EDGE community thrive.

As Vice President of Inquiry & Insights, Olga leads Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ thought
leadership efforts, developing original research, programs and tools to accelerate philanthropy in
pursuit of a just world. In this capacity, Olga has led hallmark programs, including the Theory of the
Foundation and Strategic Time Horizons initiatives catalyzing knowledge, collaboration, and impact.
She currently leads the Foresight & Futures Initiative to help philanthropy innovate, envision and co-create an equitable future for the people and the planet. Olga is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.Previously, Olga held positions at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Society Foundations. Olga holds a masters of international affairs from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s in international affairs from The George Washington University. She also holds a certificate from INSEAD’s International Leaders Program. Olga currently lives in Munich, Germany, where she cheers loudly with her husband, son and dog for the Bayern München Football Club.