Veronica Manning
Veronica Manning is an experienced nonprofit executive, consultant, and facilitator. In addition to leading multiple organizations centered around justice, systemic change and empowering marginalized youth, Veronica has tackled challenges of overhauling finance and budgeting processes, creating an HR department, developing a new approach to fundraising, and instituting a learning culture of inclusion and leadership that centers equity.
Most recently, Veronica was the Interim Managing Director at the CJI Fund – a fiscally-sponsored program that provided essential funds to grassroots activists working in the anti-incarceration movement. Veronica has also consulted for Dual School, a nonprofit that helps students create social change passion projects in their local communities from a design thinking lens. In addition to facilitating student cohorts, Veronica helped the organization focus its strategic planning initiative, navigate board transitions, and develop a sustainable succession plan.
In her spare time, Veronica is a writer & filmmaker. Her most recent work – a silent micro short film called The Key – was a finalist in the 2021 Micromania Short Film Festival. Veronica holds a B.A. in Organizational Behavior & Communication from NYU- SPS, and an M.P.A. in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy from NYU.