Imoleayo Adeyeri
Imoleayo (Ayo) Adeyeri is a doctoral student in philanthropy at IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Ayo is originally from Nigeria but became a permanent resident of Canada in 2017. Ayo received a master of arts degree in philanthropy from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, a master of science degree in finance from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and a bachelor’s in accounting and management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Nigeria. In addition, she has 15 years of work experience in nonprofit program management and fund development, raised funds, and implemented nonprofit programs in Africa, the United States, and Canada. Her most recent role was donor relations advisor with a local nonprofit in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Her research interests include data and philanthropy: understanding the emergence of data in philanthropy, its influence on philanthropic projections, usage in evaluating and measuring development interventions, innovation, and investments.
Jin Ai is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her research centers on the intersection of interorganizational relationships and community philanthropy, and developing partnership strategies that improve nonprofit performance. Her primary focus is understanding the collaborative and competitive relationships within nonprofits and across different sectors. Jin is currently working with her advisor, Dr. Laurie E. Paarlberg, on a project examining characteristics of and relationships between local United Ways and community foundations. Before joining the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Jin served as a research fellow in the China Institute for Philanthropy and Social Innovation. She obtained her M.A. in Public Affairs at Renmin University of China, and B.A. in Public Administration at China University of Political Science and Law.
Cathie Carrigan is a doctoral candidate at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, where she also serves full time as the managing director of international programs. Her research interests include the role of philanthropy in university technology transfer and innovation in international research and exchange. Before joining the school, she served as communications manager for the 
Dana R.H. Doan is a Ph.D. student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She has over 20 years work experience leading, advising, and conducting research with nonprofit and community-based organizations in the U.S., Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Her research interests include community philanthropy, equity in the helping relationship, and evaluation. Dana is passionate about bridging research and practice and has published in both academic and practitioner-oriented publications.
Christina Eggenberger is a Ph.D. student with research interests in global service learning and the civic outcomes of philanthropic education and action. Prior to starting the doctoral program at Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, she worked for over a decade directing the community engagement efforts at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Christina has a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in higher education administration.
Megan Hillier-Geisler holds an MPA from the University of Utah and a BA in Folklore and Religious Studies from Indiana University (Bloomington). Her research interests include the application of folkloric archetypes to modern fundraising, philanthropy in public administration, and sports philanthropy. She plans to study the use of personal narrative in online, peer to peer fundraising. She was previously the Director of Innovation for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Yue Ming is a doctoral candidate at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her research interests include community philanthropy, donor-advised funds, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is currently working on her dissertation to examine the effects of the staff diversity and inclusive decision-making process on grantmaking in community foundations. Yue holds a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in applied economics from Beihang University in China.
Afshan Paarlberg is a doctoral student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, where she also serves as a visiting assistant professor with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative. She is engaged in mixed-methods research with special attention on forced migration, third-sector organizations, and governance. Afshan has a JD from the University of Houston Law Center and a BBA and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She recently completed a fellowship with the Zakat Foundation Institute on Muslim Philanthropic and Humanitarian Studies. Prior to joining the school, her legal career focused on immigration law, nonprofit governance-risk-compliance, and access to justice initiatives.
Ronnie is a doctoral candidate studying lived philanthropy with intersections in religion, spirituality, and morality. He returned to academia after 15 years serving as a director of development for UChicago & UC Berkeley. He holds a BA in Psychology from Wheaton College (IL) and a MA in religious studies from the University of Dayton. He also earned his CFRM from The Fund Raising School. He is a Lake Enright Fellow and instructs both undergraduate and graduate courses. When he isn’t researching or teaching, you might find him running marathons, traveling the world, advising nonprofits, or mentoring first-generation college students.
Andy Williams obtained his BA at Furman University and has master’s degrees in theology from Gordon-Conwell and Harvard. In addition, he has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, most recently in religious international humanitarianism in Rwanda and the Dominican Republic. He is currently in the dissertation phase of the Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies program with a minor in global studies. His research interests center around the intersection of humanitarianism and religions. His current research focuses on the development of the notion of human rights in the lead-up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Kidist Yasin is a doctoral student in philanthropy at IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Kidist is originally from Ethiopia, and she received her B.A. and master’s degrees in economics from Dire Dawa University and Addis Ababa University, respectively, both located in Ethiopia. She served in a lecturer position for two years in one of the well-known universities in Ethiopia, Adama Science and Technology University. She also won the VLIR-UOS scholarship to obtain an advanced master’s degree in Development and Globalization from the University of Antwerp in Belgium before joining the Ph.D. program in philanthropy. Her research interest is in understanding variations in the motivations for giving across countries and the influences of demographics, socioeconomics, culture, and political and legal environments on giving.
Wenpei You is a doctoral student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her research interests are in social enterprises, collaborative governance, organizational efficiency, and women empowerment. She is currently working on two research projects. One is a qualitative study on organizational imprinting, taking Grameen China as a case; the other one is quantitative research on the forms and the corresponding determinants of decoupling, with the case of local United Way affiliates. Before joining the school, she served as a research assistant at Center for Civil Society Studies in Peking University, doing research on social enterprises legitimacy, social enterprises certification indicator, as well as case study on rural aging problem. She holds a BA in Politics and Administration and an MA in Public Administration.