Paula Moreno To Join Ford Foundation Board of Trustees; Kofi Appenteng Elected as Board Chair

 

 

Paula Moreno has been named to the Ford Foundation's board of trustees and Kofi Appenteng has been elected as its 11th chair.

 

Ms. Moreno is a social justice pioneer who previously served as Colombia’s minister of culture, the first Afro-Colombian woman and the youngest person to hold a cabinet-level ministry in the history of the country. Moreno founded and directs Manos Visibles, a nonprofit foundation established to promote social inclusion and peace building in Colombia. In addition, she was a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow for Urban and Regional Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Kofi Appenteng joined the board in 2007 and will succeed Irene Hirano Inouye, who will continue as a trustee until 2017, as board chair. He was born in Ghana and came to the U.S. in 1977 to study at Wesleyan University and went on to earn his law degree at Columbia University School of Law. He is a partner at Constant Capital (Ghana) Limited and chairs the boards of the Africa-America Institute and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He also serves on the board of the Instituto de Empresa Fund Inc.