Polaris
Alfonso Wright joined Polaris in April 2015 and assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer in 2020. As CFO, Alfonso provides strategic leadership for the organization’s finance functions. In his role, Alfonso oversees the annual operating budget, multi-year financial plan, procurement, investments and directs the preparation of finical reports. Alfonso leads the leads the finance team to ensure that all financial planning, budgeting, expense management, cash flow, and organizational operations achieve optimal resource allocation that balance programmatic goals, new opportunities, and resource restrictions.
Alfonso has over 20 years of financial management experience, including internal control systems, cash forecasting and management budgeting and risk management. Prior to joining Polaris, Alfonso was the controller for Legal Aid Society DC, DC’s oldest and largest civil legal services organization, where he oversaw the annual audit, investments and managed all of the finance and accounting operations.
Alfonso is a graduate of Howard University and The Washington School of Photography. He has served as Treasurer for Green East Community Garden and Lifting Voices.
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Named after the North Star, an historical symbol of freedom, Polaris is leading a survivor-centered, justice- and equity-driven movement to end human trafficking. Since 2007, Polaris has operated the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, connecting victims and survivors to support and services, and helping communities hold traffickers accountable. Through that work, Polaris has built the largest known dataset on human trafficking in North America. The data and expertise gained from two decades of working on trafficking situations in real time informs strategies that hold traffickers accountable, support survivors on their healing journeys and address the vulnerabilities that enable the business of stealing freedom for profit.