Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter Fund
LaTosha Brown is an award-winning community organizer, philanthropic consultant, jazz singer, and political strategist, with over 20 years of experience working in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors on a wide variety of issues related to social justice, economic development, leadership development, wealth creation, and civil rights. For more than 25 years, she has served as a consultant and advisor for individual donors and foundations (public and private, national and regional, all sizes).
In addition to co-founding Black Voters Matter Fund, LaTosha is principal owner of TruthSpeaks Consulting, a philanthropy advisory consulting business based in Atlanta; the founder of Saving OurSelves Coalition, a community-led disaster relief organization; and the Southern Black Women Organizing Project, which works to strengthen the network of Black women grassroots leaders in the South. She is also a founding member of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, where she also served as its first executive director.
Sponsored by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative “My whole life, I wanted to be a part of change. I wanted to use my gifts and skills to help people tap into their own sense of power.” — LaTosha Brown As a strategy for change, movement building has leapt to the forefront of philanthropic conversations.