Dana Lanza

CEO & President, Confluence Philanthropy

Intergalactic Nomad

Dana is the founder of Confluence Philanthropy, a $3.5 trillion values driven global investing network serving foundations, families, and their investment managers.  She launched Confluence after serving as the executive director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA). While at EGA, Dana provided networking services to over 250 grantmaking organizations from across North America and Europe. Dana also served as the Director and Board Advisor at The Swift Foundation while launching Confluence.  Prior to Philanthropy, Dana founded Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ), an environmental education and youth empowerment organization for at risk youth. While there, she acted as a lead organizer in the closure of San Francisco’s infamous Hunters Point Power Plant, raising funds to supplant it with the region’s first off-the-grid educational Eco Center. The EcoCenter won the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Award in 2010. She has been a fellow at the Donnella Meadows Program in Systems Theory and the California Women’s Foundation Policy Institute. In addition to her roles as a leading activist and CEO in the U.S., Dana has also lived and worked among the Samburu (Maasai) in northern Kenya for many years; the Cheyenne River Lakota; and Roma refugees in Europe. Dana lives in the Hudson Valley in New York.