Betsy Edasery

Betsy has extensive experience working with nonprofits and foundations in staff, consultant, board and volunteer roles. Most recently, she was the Community Engagement Manager at Equality Fund – a donor organizing project incubated by Asian Americans for Equality.

Prior to Equality Fund, Betsy was an Associate Consultant at TCC Group – a social impact advisory firm – where she worked on strategic planning and capacity-building engagements with funding entities, including: The LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund, Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, New Mexico Health Equity Partnership and Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

Prior to TCC Group, Betsy was an Organizing Fellow with Resource Generation helping to mobilize young people of color with wealth to leverage their resources for progressive social change causes. She also conducted research and helped share grantee learnings at Living Cities.

Betsy has served on the NYC chapter steering committee of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and on the Board of Third Wave Fund. She has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and is also a graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband, Adam.