“Misha brings great passion, drive, and strategic thinking to everything she does. As an engagement manager at Open Impact, she has lead projects to support clients with large scale philanthropic assets of $B+ scale up their impact, helping them define their vision, values, issue areas of interest, and launch grantmaking initiatives to support transformative change on some of the most important issues of our time.

Misha is an excellent manager of teams and projects. She leads research efforts to bring forward data and evidence to more deeply understand problems and offer solutions. She also expertly crafts and facilitates client and stakeholder workshops to get to the heart of challenges and tensions a client is holding in order to align key stakeholders around a final plan/deliverable that can be owned and implemented by the client.

She also brings a contagious joy and optimism to ever project she takes on, modeling how to be a collaborative team member every step of the way. She loves people and is a natural mentor and advisor to those she works with.”

— Alexa Cortes Culwell, Open Impact Founder/ Chief Impact Officer, The Sobrato Organization; President, Sobrato Philanthropies