People Post: Staff And Board Changes, Honors, In Health Philanthropy

Gail C. Christopher, senior adviser and vice president for the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation initiative at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, “has decided to exercise her option for retirement from the foundation and devote her creative energy to writing, speaking and developing the Ntianu Center for Healing and Nature,” according to a June 7 Kellogg press release. Her departure is effective August 31. Christopher founded the Ntianu Center, which is located in Maryland, to honor her firstborn child, who died in infancy, the release noted. Tracey Greene-Washington joined the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in March 2017, in a newly created position—director, special initiatives. She will lead strategic implementation of the trust’s two major long-term initiatives, Healthy Places NC (which focuses on bettering the health of ten to twelve rural North Carolina counties) and Great Expectations, an early childhood initiative. Previously, Greene-Washington was at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in the position of program officer for community economic development. She holds a master of social work degree from the University of South Carolina. (According to a trust spokesperson, Kate B. Reynolds and Z. Smith Reynolds were part of the same family, but the two philanthropies “have no formal relationship.”) Kathy Ko Chin, president and CEO of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, has been appointed a member of the Kresge Foundation’s board of trus...
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