Team

Alya Davis is the Founder of PhilanthroSee. As a first generation student at Marist College, Alya was a summer intern on the NRCC team at the Ford Foundation, an experience which introduced her to the philanthropic sector. After graduating in 2019, Alya worked in the non- profit sector before finding her way back to philanthropy where she spent the past 3.5 years working on the Sustainable Environments team at the Surdna Foundation.

There she started as a Program Assistant and most recently led the team as interim Program Officer. In this role she managed a $9.2M budget supporting grantmaking to build power for communities of color and low-wealth communities as determined by those on the frontlines of racial, economic, gender, environmental, and climate justice.
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Passionate about demystifying entering the philanthropic sector, Alya founded and launched PhilanthroSee in November 2022.