Christine Kawakami Edmunds provides strategic business assistance across the REDF Portfolio and manages REDF’s Farber Interns and Fellows Program. Created in 1997 as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, REDF is a high engagement grantmaker that provides guidance, leadership and investment to a portfolio of nonprofit social enterprises, changing the lives of people who face poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and other barriers to employment.

Ms. Edmunds was introduced to REDF through summer internships just before and during business school. In 2001, she was a Farber Intern with Community Gatepath, a nonprofit in the REDF Portfolio, and in 2002 she interned with REDF itself.

Prior to business school, Ms. Edmunds was a Consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. She holds a BA from Harvard University, and an MBA and Certificate in Nonprofit Management & Social Entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate School of Business completed in 2003.

Russ Hall co-founded Legacy Venture in 1999. Prior to Legacy, he served as the senior vice president at R. Eliot King & Associates, a money management firm. Earlier in his career, he was vice president of marketing for Logic Modeling, director of sales and marketing manager at Silicon Solutions, and an associate at Merrill Pickard. Mr. Hall was also a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a graduate of the Philanthropic Workshop West and is active in nonprofits, serves on the local advisory board of FaithWorks, is on the board of Trinity Guardian Foundation, and was on the boardand executive committee of FACT.

Mr. Hall holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar in 1981, an MSCE from the University of California at Berkeley, 1975, and a BS from the United States Military Academy, 1972.

As CEO and President of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg leads the organization’s team in advancing systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. A leader in the social sector for more than 20 years, she was formerly Executive Director of the Children’s Discovery Museum (CDM) of San Jose, which she guided from its inception to national recognition. She sits on the boards of CDM, the John Gardner Center and the Oracle Education Foundation.

Ms. Osberg earned her M.A. in literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The American Leadership Forum has awarded her the John Gardner Leadership Award, and the San Jose Mercury News has recognized her as one of the individuals who have shaped and led Silicon Valley.