Lillian D. Singh

About Lillian D. Singh

Lillian Singh has spent her career coaching teams, organizations, and communities building and owning their power in their work for economic justice. She is skilled in program design and implementation, partnership management, and fundraising to address the racial wealth divide. Lillian launches ambitious and high-profile initiatives from donor cultivation to proposal design to implementation to evaluating and communicating program impact. She is a trained researcher, strategic thinker, and dynamic writer with 15 years of experience working at the intersections of research, policy, and practice.Lillian is a 2020 Independent Sector American Express NGen Fellow. In 2018, she was named a Top 100 Under 50 Executive Leader by Diversity MBA Magazine. She is on the board of the Avalan Institute, ROC USA®, Girl’s Inc of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area, and is a National Fellow for America’s Leaders of Change. Her commentary on issues of racial wealth equity has appeared in Ebony, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, among others. Lillian is a licensed security and investment representative. She uses these lessons to inform the project development and implementation work is advancing racial wealth equity.

Experience

1. Fellow, Civil Society Fellowship

   The Aspen Institute

   Nov 2020 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Build the Next Generation of LeadersIn this time of rising hate and extreme partisanship, we believe our nation’s next generation of community leaders and problem-solvers would greatly benefit from the opportunity to refine and hone their leadership skills while building relationships across the issue areas and movements from which they come. The Aspen Institute launched the Civil Society Fellowship to address this need.The Civil Society Fellowship is modeled on the Henry Crown Fellowship, the premier leadership development program at the Aspen Institute that moves leaders from “success to significance.” The Civil Society Fellowship builds on the Henry Crown approach of recruiting a “mosaic” of participants that represent the breadth of our country’s diversity and commit them to intense introspection and dialog. Each emerging Civil Society Fellowship class of leaders will have the opportunity to engage with one another through experiential learning and informed dialogue, building trust based on shared insights and mutual respect.

Education

• Stanford University

  BA, Urban Planning

  2000 — 2004

• Stanford University

  MA, Sociology

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Government
• Nonprofits
• Policy Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Proposal Writing
• Public Relations
• Staff Development
• Data Analysis
• Leadership
• Grant Writing
• Leadership Development
• Non-Profits
• Economic Development
• Program Evaluation
• Organizational Development
• Policy
• Program Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Philanthropy
• Program Development
• Research
• Grants
• Fundraising
• Public Policy
• Capacity Building
• Youth Development
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Training
• Volunteer Management
• Public Speaking