Fulfilling the Dream Fund Staff
Maritza Guzmán, Program Manager
212-764-1508, x229
Maritza has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit and public sector, and a track record of designing strategic responses to unmet community needs. She brings more than 12 years of experience in providing technical assistance to nonprofits to improve outcomes and enhance programmatic and organizational capacity. Maritza spent nine years working in philanthropy, where she oversaw the design and implementation of several initiatives addressing unequal access in areas such as community and economic development, education, youth services and housing. At the Wallace Funds she managed a $20 million grantmaking portfolio focused on education and youth development. Maritza earned a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and her master's in public administration from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.
Ingrid Benedict, Program Officer
212-764-1508, x233
Prior to joining PIP, Ingrid was fund coordinator for Tides Foundation's California Fund for Youth Organizing, which works with practitioners and funders to promote youth organizing as an effective strategy for developing a new generation of social-change leaders. Previously, she worked in the youth- and community-organizing sector of the social justice movement as co-director of the School of Unity and Liberation at the Youth Empowerment Center, as a school-site organizer with Youth Together, and as a trainer with the Institute for Multiracial Justice. Ingrid earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at San Diego and her master's in public administration from San Francisco State University.
Ly Nguyen, Program Assistant
646-624-5050
Prior to joining PIP in November 2008, Ly completed a year-long internship with the William Penn Foundation's Children, Youth, and Families program area. Ly graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in sociology and Asian American studies.
