Aldita Amaru Gallardo (she/her/ella) is a philanthropic consultant, resource mobilizer, and director of the Action for Transformation Fund. She is a disabled, Indigiqueer trans woman from Lima, Perú, and has called Oakland, California on unceded Ohlone Land home for over ten years.
She is an experienced grantmaker and donor organizer, and serves on the Board of Directors at Funders for LGBTQ Issues. She is the founder and principal consultant of her own philanthropic advising practice. Her insights on social justice philanthropy have been published in Nonprofit Quarterly, Inside Philanthropy, and the Stanford Innovation Social Review.
Currently, she is an Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellow, working to mobilize new donors to invest in intersectional racial and gender justice movements while supporting trans leaders to navigate philanthropy.
A Northwestern University graduate, she is committed to resourcing generative movements working toward collective liberation and transforming philanthropy, so that no one is left behind.