Philanthropy harnesses hearts and minds: You invest in people, you invest in possibility, and you invest in the world.

These are the values and beliefs that guide New York Women’s Foundation President and CEO, Ana L. Oliveira said work, values that are rooted in her own experience growing up in Sao Paulo, in what she described as “an incredible community of sharing, with the idea that there’s always room for someone at the table—a paradigm of generosity.”

Oliveira has consistently fought to empower and increase the dialogue for those who are often left without a voice—mainly women and people of color, through her earlier work in helping to set up the Lincoln Hospital Acupuncture Center and as Executive Director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, both in New York City, where she also had obtained a master’s degree in medical anthropology from the New School for Social Research.

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