Senior Director of Fiscal Sponsorship & Infrastructure
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Timezone: Pacific
Ariel joined Praxis in 2017 and comes to work motivated every day to serve our movement partners on the ground and contribute to organizational transformation. She oversees our fiscal sponsorship program and shared operational infrastructure across the organization. During her tenure at Praxis, she has implemented numerous new policies, processes, practices, and technology to more closely align our practices with our mission and support our growth. Ariel has about 13 years of experience in the nonprofit sector focused on organizational effectiveness for social justice and extensive exposure to diverse organizational structures and different approaches and modalities of fiscal sponsorship, all of which inform her day-to-day work at Praxis and continuous organizational and personal learning. Outside work, Ariel enjoys traveling, feeding people, family/community, and her multidisciplinary visual art practice. Ariel graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in sociology.