Shaady Salehi

Shaady Salehi is a strategist, facilitator, and network builder with expertise in narrative and social change. She currently serves as the executive director of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, which she helped design and launch in 2020.

Shaady has held a wide range of leadership roles during her 20-year tenure in the nonprofit sector. As Executive Director of Active Voice, she oversaw an impressive portfolio of national film campaigns on topics including immigration, criminal justice, food security, and healthcare. As Managing Director of Distribution & Impact at ITVS, she led a team to broaden the reach of independent documentaries on public television. As Senior Brand Strategist with Mission Minded, she helped nonprofit organizations clarify their values, branding, and messaging to better support their missions.

As a frequent speaker and thinker on power dynamics in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, Shaady’s perspectives have been featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Social Investor Magazine, and the San Francisco Business Times. She has served on advisory committees for Human Rights Funders' Network and the National Council on Family Philanthropy; and is currently a proud board member of Color Congress, an innovative organization dedicated to strengthening the ecosystem of nonfiction storytelling by and for people of color.   

Shaady is the daughter of Iranian immigrants, and was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. She currently lives with her husband in San Francisco, CA (the ancestral land of the Ohlone people). In her downtime, she likes to go on urban hikes, practice yoga, and binge-watch cooking shows.