Audio Interview with Deborah Richardson
Written by Jan Jaben-Eilon Wednesday, February 02 2011
Executive Vice President, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta
Description: DEBORAH RICHARDSON
Executive Vice President, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta
Deborah Richardson returns to her native Atlanta to assume her new position with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. She will be responsible for fundraising and program development. Most recently, she was chief program officer of the Women’s Funding Network in San Francisco. Prior to that, Richardson worked with the National Black Arts Festival, the Fulton County (Georgia) Juvenile Justice Fund, and the Atlanta Women’s Foundation.
Active in national efforts to foster inclusive philanthropy and combat human rights violations such as child sexual exploitation, Richardson serves on the executive committee for the D5 Coalition, an initiative among funders to increase diversity and equity in philanthropy. In September, she testified before the House Judiciary Committee on domestic minor sex trafficking and has been instrumental in creating partnerships to end human trafficking on websites.
Jan Jaben-Eilon was a founding staff writer of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Since then, she has been the international editor of Advertising Age magazine and has written for such publications as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Journalism Review, and Consumer Reports. She is the author of soon-to-be-published (There is) Life After Cancer. Jan and her husband have homes in Atlanta and Jerusalem.
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