Newman's Own Our Foundation

Our Team

We are grateful to serve together to continue Paul’s legacy to “give it all away.”

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Alex Amouyel

President and CEO
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Jackie Blackbird

Indigenous Communities Officer

Samantha Burgan

Director of Foundation Administration

Christina Chauvenet, PhD

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer

Sam Lyman

Executive Assistant

Kathy Siever

Grants Manager

Emily Yu

Chief Partnerships and Program Officer

Our Board

Meet the members of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Michael Clayton, Chair

Founder and Retired Senior Partner of Morgan Lewis’s International Trademark and Copyright Practice

Elsa Chin

Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

John W. Everets

Partner at Arcturus Capital

Bridgette Heller

Cofounder and CEO of the Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation; Former EVP and President of Nutricia

Ellen Marram

President of the Barnegat Group LLC

Brian J. Murphy

Founding Partner of Murphy & Kress, Inc.

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

Professor of Public Health, Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, and Director of the Global Health Concentration and the Maternal Child Health Promotion Program at the Yale School of Public Health

Advisory Council

The Newman’s Own Foundation Advisory Council consists of a select group of members who contribute their unique expertise, lived experience, and insight to help the Foundation more effectively support innovative leaders and their organizations in service of our mission, to nourish and transform the lives of children who face adversity.

Isis M. Bous

Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation

Tia Breakley

Blue Meridian Partners

Joe Claunch, PhD, Puyallup Tribe

Strength-Based Consulting

Abigail Echo-Hawk

Seattle Indian Health Board

Se-ah-dom Edmo

Seeding Justice

Emmy Ganos, PhD

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Amber Garrison

Origins

Janie Simms Hipp, JD LLM

Native Agriculture Financial Services

Dr. Angela Jackson

Future Forward Strategies, LLC

Alexis Llamas

11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation

Sandy Martini

Native American Agriculture Fund

Lara Metcalf

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Matthew Minor

Elevate Prize Foundation

Mark Newberg

Stockbridge Advisors, LLC

Angela Odoms-Young

Cornell University

Nishant Roy

Chobani

Chris Scott

Chef, Author, Restaurateur

Patrick Simpson, MPH

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Nate Wong

The Bridgespan Group
Our Founder

Paul Newman

Paul Newman’s craft was acting, his passion was racing, and his heart and soul were dedicated to helping make the world a better place.

He used his influence, financial resources, and time to advance meaningful causes near and far.

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