Henry R. Muñoz III

 Social Activist, Designer, 

Opinion Leader, 

Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

Henry R. Muñoz III is an American business leader, Tony and Emmy winning producer, activist, designer and philanthropist. He has launched national movements on behalf of the underserved and the rising populations of the United States including Momento Latino, TheDream.US and Latino Victory to support the Latino community through awareness, educational funding, and electoral empowerment. But, at the core of his career, he is best described as center of convergence across culture and industry: he existed as a DC changemaker able to float between political circles who recently transitioned his career and now owns a major comedy studio.

Dolores E. Roybal

Former Executive Director

Con Alma Health Foundation 

Dolores, a native New Mexican, retired in 2021 after a career spanning 50 years in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector centered on transforming philanthropy together. Most recently, she supported NGOs in New Mexico by leveraging over $60 million dollars during her 15-year term as the former executive director of the Con Alma Health Foundation (CAHF). She credits all accomplishments to the strong CAHF team, authentic collaborative relationships with community-based nonprofits, and numerous equity-focused initiatives supported by local NM and national philanthropic partners such as the HIP NM Funders' Collaborative, instrumental in building the capacity of Latino-led/serving organizations in New Mexico. She has served on several boards, including the U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership, Grantmakers in Health, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers (now Groundworks NM). Aligned with her career path, her studies focused on social work, community services and social planning, and organizational behavior and development in the philanthropic/nonprofit sector. She currently serves as a volunteer and consultant for nonprofits working with diverse communities.

Rosie Rios

Chair, America 250 

United States 

Congressional Commission

Rosie Rios is the Chair of America 250, the United States Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. She served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States and was the CEO of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint, including Fort Knox with oversight over 4,000 employees and a $5 billion budget. She also initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in over a century. Following her eight-year tenure, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University with a focus on Millennials and Post-Millennials and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm and a co-host of several reality series focused on pre-IPO investments. Rosie served twice on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Teams on behalf of President Barack Obama at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and again during the pandemic economy of 2020 on behalf of President Biden.

Rosie’s entire career has focused on real estate finance, economic development, and urban revitalization in both the public and private sectors. Prior to her presidential appointment in Treasury, she was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was selected as the first Latina in Harvard’s 388-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. The portrait was unveiled in Winthrop House in 2019. She currently serves on the board of American Family Insurance, Ripple Labs, Inc., and Fidelity Charitable Trust and was previously a board member for the Alameda County Employees Retirement Association (ACERA) prior to her time in the Obama Administration. Her personal passion includes serving as Founder and CEO of EMPOWERMENT 2026, an initiative that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women in classrooms and public spaces across the country.  Rosie is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was honored as one of USA Today’s Women of the Century.

Dr. Nelson I. Colón

President & CEO
Puerto Rico Community Foundation

Dr. Nelson I. Colón is the president and CEO of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (Fundación
Comunitaria de Puerto Rico), a philanthropic institution with a 35-year trajectory, working with communities in Puerto Rico and sharing its knowledge internationally. He holds a Doctorate degree in Education from Harvard University, an MA in Cultural Anthropology from SUNY Binghamton, and a BA in Sociology from University of Puerto Rico (UPR).  

He joined the Foundation in the early 80’s as program director and became president and CEO in 2000. Under his leadership, several initiatives aimed at building equity in Puerto Rican communities have been launched, in the areas of education, housing, community, and economic development, and—after Hurricane María— renewable energy, water, racial, and gender equity, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The PRCF is leading the initiative of the first voluntary report of Sustainable Development Goals. Also, after the 2020 earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Colón lead the design and implementation of the Foundation’s philanthropic response to both emergencies, focusing on promoting and strengthening community action. The Foundation has centered its strategy on building community capital from the ground up: human, social, physical, financial, environmental, and cultural. 

After Hurricane Maria, Dr. Colon led the successful implementation of a grant-making strategy supporting solar communities in Puerto Rico. Nelson Colon also led the grant-making strategy for building the capacity of community aqueducts in Puerto Rico. 

Also, he has spoken on topics of community capital, racial equity, economic development, human rights and philanthropy, locally and internationally, and has received numerous awards. He has also taught anthropology at local universities and has served on several boards related to philanthropy and education in Puerto Rico and the United States. 

Over the past few years he has been an active participant in the Pan-Africanist movement having participated in the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland and the Conference of the African Diaspora in the Americas in Salvador Bahia.