Stephanie Tanny has over 15 years of professional experience in development. She loves raising money; creating systems for improved workflow and efficiency; analyzing and organizing data; and serving diverse communities. She started Kasih Initiative in 2015 after seeing the need from government agencies and non-profits for knowledgeable development professionals.

Randall Navarro has been a high-impact fundraiser for the last 15 years. He has written and been awarded grants for several industries, including disaster relief, transportation/infrastructure development, healthcare, and social justice issues. He is particularly adept at writing federal grants, and has helped many state agencies and municipalities raise tens of millions of dollars.

Nicole Hubert (she/her) has been working in the development, social impact, and non-profit sectors since the start of her career. Nicole has technical proficiency working in social justice, gender equity and social inclusion, and environmental justice, both domestically and internationally, having spent extensive time working in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She is deeply passionate about supporting organizations to build capacity and scale sustainably to fulfill their missions, and is excited to leverage her federal and foundational development expertise to grow Kasih’s clients.

Vanessa Ojeda (she/her) graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2021. Since then, she has worked as an ESL program manager, copywriter, and backcountry mule packer. As a member of the Andean diaspora, she is passionate about preserving indigenous traditional knowledge, languages, and oral histories. She is excited to join Kasih Initiative as a grant writer, and equally committed to winning the funds necessary for our clients to make the greatest impact possible. In her free time, Vanessa can be found riding across the states on the back of her mule, Bella

Tabitha brings over six years of experience in operations, supporting mission-driven organizations across the DEI and ed-tech nonprofit spaces. As Grants & Operations Coordinator, she helps keep the organization running smoothly by strengthening systems, supporting grant processes, and bringing order to day-to-day operations. She is known for her thoughtful, reliable approach and for creating clarity and ease behind the scenes so teams can focus on their impact.  

Amanda has been working with government and non-profit organizations for over 10 years in subjects of DEI, JEDI, and IDEA as well as youth leadership, nutrition, and most recently Scrum. Amanda has adopted agile methodologies through Scrum Master training to facilitate groups.