Two Leaders. Thirteen Organizations. Fifty Sources. One Meta-Analysis

Juliet Buder is a nonprofit professional and leader in the field of philanthropy. She generates revenue, delivers community outcomes, and builds mutually beneficial partnerships for individuals, corporations, institutional funders, and nonprofits.

Juliet most recently served as Executive Director of the Bellevue Schools Foundation, bringing with her a proven track record of expanding educational access through philanthropy. She transformed the organization’s impact through internal and external capacity-building, and strategic resource allocation to execute programs across 28 public schools in Bellevue, Washington. She has progressed local, national, and international missions through positions of increasing responsibilities at Equal Justice Works, Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Oliver Scholars, and Abaarso Network.

Originally from Virginia, Juliet graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and went on to earn her Master’s in Social Work from Catholic University. Juliet has devoted her career to developing strategic partnerships for public, private, and community-based organizations committed to serving individuals furthest from social, economic, and educational justice.

Minakshi Velamoor spent 15 years at Microsoft leading global product management teams, building data-driven technology solutions for big-data needs across major product lines. Her work in data-driven decision management shaped product strategy and drove revenue growth across some of Microsoft's largest businesses, combining technical rigor with collaborative leadership.

Beyond her product career, Minakshi has spent over a decade serving on nonprofit boards, giving her a dual vantage point most governance practitioners lack: the operational discipline of enterprise product management and the lived reality of nonprofit board service.

She served as an advisor to Optio3, an AI-powered IoT management technology startup, and as Director of BoardReady, an organization focused on advancing board diversity through data and thought leadership, and as a speaker for the Women Board Directors Development Program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.