Lori Hood Lawson is the Vice President of Advancement Insights for UC Innovation, a CRM Solutions & Services company with extensive expertise in Salesforce implementations and building managed products on Salesforce for Higher Education organizations. Lori is also the Co-Founder of WorkingPhilanthropy.com LLC. Lori is a member of aasp, where she has served on the Prospect Development Best Practices Committee, and Apra, where she has served with the Florida chapter as a board member and as president. Lori volunteers with Apra through serving on the Ethics and Compliance Committee. She has served on the Body of Knowledge Committee and is a former chair and co-chair for the Ethics and Compliance Committee and Online Curriculum Committee. She holds a master's degree from The Florida State University School of Information and a bachelor's degree from Emory University.

Megan has been working with UC San Diego Advancement since 2015 where she has worked with campaign operations, Corporate & Foundation Relations, and is now involved in both Prospect Research and Prospect Management. She currently serves as Chair of the Apra Ethics & Compliance Committee, and has presented at several conferences including Apra Prospect Development, AFP ICON, and CARA. Before coming to San Diego, she worked in El Salvador and Washington, D.C. where she worked in violence prevention and Latin American social justice nonprofits. Megan has a BA in International Affairs from George Washington University, and an MA in Latin American Studies from UC San Diego. 

Erin Osborn is the Prospect Development Director at Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation. She started at the Foundation in 1997, working as a coordinator in a variety of departments, including planned giving, major gifts and special events. Erin has worked in prospect research since 2001.  She is a past president of Apra-Rocky Mountains and has presented for Apra, Apra-Rocky Mountains, AFP Colorado, AHP Rockies & Southwest and other groups like Community Shares of Colorado and the Aspen Development Group.

Chandra Montgomery is a veteranfundraising strategist and certified diversity, equity, and inclusion educatorand speaker. Her background in philanthropy spans academic medicine, highereducation, public media, and social services. She is an Apra volunteer leaderand an alumna of CASE’s Minority Advancement Institute. Chandra currentlyserves as chair of Apra’s Advocacy Committee and is a founding member of theorganization’s inaugural DEI Committee. She is also founding co-chair of theAdvancement DEI Task Force at the University of Southern California where sheis the director of pipeline and prospect development for Health Sciences. Priorto USC, she led prospect development teams at National Public Radio andVirginia Commonwealth University. Chandra holds a BA from Hampton Universityand is pursuing a master’s degree at USC’s Gould School of Law. 

With nearly a decade in the nonprofit technology space, Dawn specializes in providing her clients with the best and most innovative products available in the everchanging philanthropy space. Her love of all things data has focused her career in analytic technology, including working for WealthEngine for many years. She joined iWave at the beginning of 2020 to share their new state of the art technology that she knows will help her clients understand how to engage and leverage their database to get them to mission success more quickly. After all, what other industry measures success by how many great things we can do to help others and our world?