Jodeen Olguín-Tayler

Board Member

Jodeen Olguín-Tayler has nearly 20 years of experience leading initiatives to build a more inclusive democracy and an economic system rooted in racial and gender equity.

Following her role as campaigns director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations, Jodeen served as vice president at Demos, where she designed and launched the Inclusive Democracy Project. As a program officer at the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, she expanded the civic engagement program, leveraging over $26 million. Currently, she is leading the Investing in Racial Equity and Democracy” initiative at the Amalgamated Foundation.

A mother and queer Chicana, Jodeen sits on the board of directors of several impact investing ventures, as well as the National Institute for Money in Politics, the Chicana Empowerment and Climate Justice Fund, B Local Colorado, GALvanize, the Community Power-Building Fund, Business for America, and the Southwest Abortion Fund.

Prior to joining the board at MVF, she was a senior donor advisor to many of MVF’s major donors and provided coaching support to over two dozen grantees.