About us
Board of Directors
Deborah Keiko Berger - Board Chair and Co-Founder
After graduating from Smith College, where she studied both economics and French, Deborah Keiko Berger (worked for JP Morgan in New York, Tokyo and London during which time she ran interest rate derivatives trading books for the bank in a broad variety of markets. Ms. Berger left JP Morgan in 1994 to attend law school in London and subsequently spent several years in non-profit fund-raising for Comic Relief, UK. In 1998, Ms. Berger joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where she led the Client Risk Management Group until 2000, advising developing Eastern European countries on how to best manage their financial risks as they moved toward a free market system. Ms. Berger co-founded Unbound Philanthropy in 2004, with her husband William Reeves. The Foundation focuses on aiding and educating immigrants and internally displaced persons throughout the world and is based in New York City. Ms. Berger was born and raised in Hawaii, where she currently resides, to a Japanese mother and a Polish/Jewish father.
William Reeves - Board Member and Co-Founder
William Reeves is a director and co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd. Based in London, BlueCrest manages investments for a predominantly institutional investor base across 15 diverse funds. Until April 2000, when he left to establish BlueCrest, Mr. Reeves was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in London and head of macro strategy and trading within the proprietary trading group. Prior to this, Mr. Reeves was a fund manager at Salomon Brothers Asset Management Limited and at Fisher Francis Trees and Watts, with responsibility for managing leveraged capital. He has also worked for JP Morgan New York where, from 1991 to 1993, he was a Vice President in charge of a team managing the company's leveraged multi-currency proprietary investment portfolio. Mr. Reeves is a US Trustee of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. He holds an MA in Philosophy from New York University and a BA in English from Yale University. Mr. Reeves was born in Honolulu and raised in Richmond, Virginia where his parents were both educators.
Kikilia Fordham Schaefer - Board Member
Director of Alumni Relations
Punahou School
Hilary A. Weinstein - Board Member
Vice President
The Community Preservation Corporation
Staff
Taryn Higashi - Executive Director
As of June 1, 2008, Taryn Higashi became the first executive director of Unbound Philanthropy, a private foundation that promotes justice and opportunity for migrants and refugees. Unbound's program areas are migrant children and youth, migrant women and girls, migration and public awareness, and migrant justice. Grantmaking will focus initially on the United States, the United Kingdom and Africa. For the previous 11 years, Ms. Higashi worked at the Ford Foundation, where she managed the Migrant and Refugee Rights Portfolio and also became, in 2002, the Deputy Director of the Ford Foundation's Human Rights Unit. Ms. Higashi's tenure at the Ford Foundation coincided with an exponential growth in the field of immigrant rights organizing and advocacy, as well as a substantial increase in the number of foundations supporting that work. While Ms. Higashi was at Ford, the foundation provided crucial support for both new and existing national organizations, and for local coalitions and organizations that work directly with immigrants and refugees in the United States and abroad. In 2006, Ms. Higashi received the Standing Up for Justice Award from the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium and YKASEC-- Empowering the Korean American Community of New York City. In 2008, Ms. Higashi received a 40th Anniversary Community Change Champion Award from the Center for Community Change and was honored by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) for her contributions to GCIR and to the field of immigrant-related grantmaking. Also in 2008, Ms. Higashi received a Human Rights Visionary Award from the Border Network for Human Rights on the celebration of its 10th anniversary, and she has been asked by the National Immigration Law Center to accept an award from them in September. From 1999 to 2008, Ms. Higashi served as a board member of GCIR, where she was co-chair from 1999-2005. Before joining the Ford Foundation, Ms. Higashi was a program officer at The New York Community Trust, where she coordinated the Fund for New Citizens. She also worked as a staff attorney and program coordinator for Safe Horizons, a victim's rights organization in New York City, and as an associate at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers.