Pamela Ross, VP of Community Leadership & Equitable Initiatives for The Indianapolis Foundation, to Speak at Boss Babe Brunch 2023
We can’t wait to start announcing the AMAZING guest speakers a part of Boss Babe Brunch 2023.
The brunch is our biggest event of this year, and we bring out hundreds of boss babes to come and enjoy a quality, yet FUN networking experience.
We intentionally select speakers who we think are influential in our community here in Indianapolis, yet their impact always seems to go way beyond. Each speaker individually goes on stage to get personal with us and share their story about what the journey’s been like to get to where they are TODAY.
Meet Pamela Ross
📣 Are you ready for our last Boss Babe Brunch 2023 speaker announcement? Meet Pamela Ross, an amazing, passionate woman who works hard behind the scenes to be able to get some of our favorite nonprofits and initiatives off the ground!
Pamela currently serves as the Vice President of Community Leadership & Equitable Initiatives for The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of the Central Indiana Community Foundation’s (CICF). She is responsible for leading and supporting the Indianapolis Foundation’s five community leadership initiatives – Economic Mobility, Family Stabilization, Neighborhood Empowerment & Placemaking, Criminal Justice Reform, Dismantling Systemic Racism as well as the foundations reactive grantmaking, major donor funding and external racial equity work, locally and nationally.
Pamela joined CICF September 2016 as a Community Leadership Officer and was promoted April 2018 to CICF’s first Vice President of Opportunity, Equity and Inclusion to support CICF’s mission change. She led the organization’s internal process of ensuring equitable policies and practices are operationalized and exemplified in all work of the foundation with the goal of becoming an antiracist multicultural organization.
Pamela has her masters in social work from the University of Georgia with a concentration focused on community development and program evaluation. She has over 30 years of professional experience in the social services field, managing multiple programs. Pamela serves on multiple boards and committees nationally and locally, including Trust-Based Philanthropy Project Steering Committee, Community Foundation Opportunity Network Advisory Council (CFON), Indiana Philanthropy Alliance (IPA), Blueprint Council for Homelessness, Kennedy King Memorial Initiative and A Seat At The Table. She frequently provides presentations, serves on panels of discussion and partners with many organizations delving into issues of race, equity and inclusiveness.
Pamela is a native of Indianapolis and her passions have taken her across the country and to Africa. Above many things, she values her family and living a purposeful life.
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