About Susan Shiroma

Susan Shiroma provides leadership and support for Foundation Center public services for social sector professionals in the NY metro area. Susan's achievements since joining the organization in 1995 include directing the national expansion of Foundation Center's proposal writing seminar program and managing prospect and philanthropy research for over 1,000 nonprofit members of Foundation Center's historic Associates Program. She is a popular and engaging Foundation Center training expert and public speaker.

Previously, Susan was an associate curator at New York University and adjunct professor of library sciences at St. John's University and Long Island University. She is former Chair of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries, an affinity group of Council on Foundations. Susan is currently on the Board of Directors of King Manor Museum in Jamaica, NY and has contributed over a decade of public service and advocacy work on behalf of New York City's community education councils. She has an M.L.S. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Barnard College.

About Alexis Flannagan

Alexis S. Flannagan has spent over twenty years in Atlanta’s social sector, inciting change in intersecting aspects. Prior to her role as Network Engagement Manager in the southern FIN region (beginning her tenure as Community Outreach Manager with Foundation Center South classic), she served the public as a Montessori Teacher for many years, and more recently as an ECE Site Director within homelessness spearheading outreach, advocacy, and public benefits services. As the Network Engagement Manager, Alexis serves as liaison by providing a deeper level of engagement, technical assistance, and training to the southern FIN network. Alexis strives to encourage and inspire each and every person she meets, and hopes to always do so with a sunny disposition and a warm smile.