Wendi Huestis

An experienced leader of mission-driven organizations, Wendi Yen Huestis has worked as a C-level executive in fundraising, business development, marketing, and communications for over 20 years, impacting local and global initiatives by raising more than $155 million over her career.

Wendi’s personal mission is to build and strengthen relevant, innovative, and equitable organizations by reimagining their structures, growth potential, internal staff and external stakeholders’ satisfaction. She has presented on over 50 panels, media spotlights, webinars, and events about corporate and individual social responsibility; financial and social capital; literacy, education, housing and employment for all; gender and racial equality; and de-stigmatizing mental illness.

Wendi graduated from Cornell as a Cornell National Scholar, received her health certification at Columbia University, and her MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School, where she was elected Class President, the student deputy for the Advisory Council, and founded the Women’s Executive Leadership Board. She is a member of the American College of Musicians, Technology Enterprise Network that supports individuals through the racially equitable use of technology, on the board of MusicBreeds, and was a co-founder of S.A.M., which provided medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Bolivia.