

Executive Director
Headwaters Foundation for Social Justice
Trista Harris is the Executive Director of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Headwaters is a community foundation with a mission to act as a catalyst for social, racial, economic and environmental justice. She oversees the Foundation’s grant making, communications, fund development and investment management activities. As spokesperson, she is responsible for developing collaborative relationships with all sectors and segments of the community, as well as with other organizations nationwide.
Trista is nationally known as a passionate advocate for new leaders in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. She is a leading voice for Generations X and Y and seeks to create professional development opportunities throughout the sector. She writes about generational change in the foundation field in her blog, New Voices Of Philanthropy and is an international speaker on working across generations to create social change.