About Diana Ayton-Shenker

FFF Fast Forward Fund (FFF) Founder & CEO, Diana Ayton-Shenker is Sr. Fellow & Professor at Bard College's Globalization & International Affairs Program. She previously taught at The American University of Paris, and Hunter College, where she directed the first U.S. undergraduate human rights program. Also the founder of Global Momenta, a social investment consulting firm, Ms. Ayton-Shenker brings decades of work with high-impact philanthropy, private-social sector partnerships, the UN, and international organizations. She has held sr positions with Mercy Corps, PEN, Human Rights Watch and served on international, national and local nonprofit boards. Ms. Ayton-Shenker holds an LLM from the University of Essex Law School, and BA from University of Pennsylvania. The author of 2 books on the U.N., an original collection of poems, Ms. Ayton-Shenker is also a certified yoga instructor, and the mother of 3 children. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, artist William T. Ayton.

Diana Ayton-Shenker supports the following educational non-profits:

• The Fast Forward Fund