Sarah (姗姗) Lee, MPA

Sarah Lee has decades of experience as a dot connector, bringing together people, organizations and public/private resources to support action-oriented projects and programs that build economic inclusion and prosperity for all.

She brings together government agencies, private organizations and communities themselves to build trusting relationships that leverage each other’s work.

Sarah and her partners serve as “matchmakers” between government/private high-impact projects and social impact investors, philanthropy, foundations and other mission-driven funders to create strategic partnerships.

Currently, Sarah serves in two roles:

Senior Advisor for Capital Access for the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative, an alliance of communities dedicated to building equitable and inclusive economic growth, environmental performance and family-wage jobs in manufacturing.

Managing Director for Innovate2Impact, a consulting firm specializing in strategic public/partnerships, social impact strategy, and impact investing.

Sarah Lee makes Big Hairy Audacious Goals happen

Over her career, Ms. Lee has developed programs and helped secured over $100M in public and private funding to support small and historically underserved communities, businesses, and manufacturers. While serving as the WA State Governor’s Advanced Manufacturing Economic Director, she created a $9M state-led Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to support communities and businesses hit hard by the economic impacts of COVID . There is only one other government-connected DAF in the country. This fund leveraged government grants for organizations that provided in-community culturally and linguistically appropriate small business support; helped grass-roots coalitions respond to childcare needs; and, replaced an antenna tower for a rural TV district that provides the only emergency communications for a large Tribal Nation.

Ms. Lee’s proposal to create a Character Based Loan Fund received funding from the Washington State Legislature. This loan product will ensure businesses in historically underserved communities have equitable access to capital. During the D she oped and managed a $15M US Economic Development Administration grant award from the to create , which create programs and projects that developed programs thatWhile at the state, she secured funding to develop Maritime Blue, a nonprofit organization which is transforming the legacy maritime industry.

Ms. Lee served as Economic Development Manager for the Puget Sound Regional Council, where she built a national coalition public and private manufacturing organizations and secured funding for a nonprofit that recycles carbon composite from aerospace manufacturing into consumer products.

As Deputy Executive Director for a redevelopment authority, she brought together a collaboration of community members and public and private organizations to implement a strategy that’s now creating businesses and jobs in a formerly economic distressed city. As part of that effort, the redevelopment authority received $60M in New Markets Tax Credits to fund capital improvements for private and nonprofit organizations and build good-paying jobs.

At Delta Dental of Washington, she developed the Smilemobile, which delivers free dental care for low-income children and led a successful effort to include preventive dental care for kids in Washington State’s health care reform legislation. She also served as Communications Director for then-US Congressman Al Swift; Vice President for an international multimedia firm; and as a product safety consultant for manufacturers worldwide.

Ms. Lee provided economic development strategy assistance to the City of Odessa, Ukraine as part of a US State Department program, and has presented to a wide variety of organizations, including the Brookings Institution, San Diego Grantmakers, the National Governor’s Association and the US House of Representatives Manufacturing Caucus. She speaks (in varying levels of fluency) Mandarin Chinese, Québécois French, and Russian.

Tresa Thomas Massiongale, CFRE, PhD ABD, MA

Tresa Thomas Massiongale serves as Managing Director for Peacefield, a consulting firm specializing in social impact strategy, strategic partnerships and impact investing. Her work engages cross-sector partnerships, collaborating across the full spectrum of the impact investing ecosystem including finance, philanthropy, corporate, government, research, and all types of mission-driven organizations. Using a multi-capital framework and Asset Based Community Development best practices, Ms. Thomas Massiongale has led multiple strategic funding partnerships.

Ms. Thomas Massiongale’s research specialization and impact measurement explores the intersection of inclusive economies, impact investing and the social determinants of health. She has conducted research on behalf of the New York Academy of Medicine, Columbia University, Yale University School of Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, the State of Arizona, the State of Washington, Open Society Institute and numerous other academic and community-based organizations. Her most recent study “Time, Trust, Technology: Community First for Small Business Success”, was published in nine languages in October, 2022 by the Washington State Department of Commerce.

She has served in leadership positions in healthcare organizations including research institutes, federally qualified health centers, community based mental health centers and a blood center that serves 90 hospitals and health systems. She has a unique specialty in academic entrepreneur-investor partnerships, having worked to spin companies out of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington. Ms. Thomas Massiongale served as a U.S. Delegate to the Binational Alliance of US-Mexico Border Coalitions from 2005-2011 and has earned awards for collaborative leadership, community service and advocacy. After earning degrees from Columbia University and San Francisco State University, Tresa trained in Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania.

A seasoned expert in impact investing and philanthropy, she holds the designations of Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) and Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE) and has a lifetime fundraising total of over $185 million, primarily benefitting underserved and rural communities. Her work in marketing and communications has produced over 575 Earned Media placements including national media across multiple channels, Her extensive history of community board service includes the Impact Hub Seattle, the Freedom Project Seattle, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Columbia University Alumni Association of the Pacific Northwest, LatinX Outreach of Yakima, Farm to Pantry Sonoma County, Arizona Alliance of Nonprofits, Skrappy’s Youth Culture, Jovenes en la Frontera, AZ LULAC Youth Leadership Conference, Citizens for Border Solutions, Douglas Boys & Girls Club, among many more.

Dr. Sandra O. Archibald

Dr. Sandra O. Archibald is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance where she served as dean from 2003-2019. She has held faculty appointments at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University. She holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her BA was in history at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Archibald is the past president of the Association of Public Policy and Management, the top national research organization in the field, and has held numerous leadership positions with the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the American Society for Public Administration. In 2009, she was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration, involved in the most important and complex public governance issues that public administrators face. She has served on several national advisory committees including the Academe, Policy, and Research Senior Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the Educators’ Advisory Panel to the U.S. Comptroller General and the Government Accountability Office. More recently, she served as a non-resident senior Fellow at the Volcker Alliance and presently serves on the Board of the Ruckelshaus Foundation and is a founding member of Restart Partners, a non-profit organization focused on ensuring equitable access to a range of government programs for those historically underserved populations.

Dr. Archibald has made significant contributions to policy making and civic engagement in the United States and abroad. She was director of economic analysis for Rockefeller’s Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, served in the Office of Research and Development in the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe designing environmental curriculum and academic programs for higher education. She has also worked with several United Nations agencies on questions of sustainable development.

Dr. Archibald has served on numerous National Research Council committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine focusing on a variety of environmental policy issues. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior, and numerous other state, national, and international organizations. In June 2010, Governor Christine Gregoire named Dr. Archibald to serve on the Committee on Transforming Washington’s Budget.

Dr. Archibald’s research interests focus on the intersection of economics, institutions, and public policy. She is the co-author and author of more than 100 research publications. She has won several teaching and research awards, including the Public Administration Educator of the Year award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2009. Archibald is also the recipient of numerous research grants, most recently from the Washington State Department of Commerce where she was the co-lead for Restart Partners on a large Federal CARES project.

She lives in St. Helena, California where she continues to contribute to emerging public policy issues through consulting and public service.