Announcing Hire of Gina Ackerman, Head of Operations

RootProject is excited to announce the hiring of Gina Ackerman. Gina will be joining RootProject as Head of Operations, bringing with her a wealth of business development and corporate relations experience from the Gerson Lehrman Group and The Earth Institute to lead the roll out of a number of creative, powerful crowdfunding campaigns with leading NGOs and nonprofits.

Gina has over 10 years of experience cultivating and managing operations, creating growth strategies, assisting with branding, and driving overall marketing execution across media channels.

Gina has worked to forge public-private partnerships for sustainable development, policy reform in education, and international development. She worked with Jeffrey Sachs at The Earth Institute to grow and leverage private revenue toward the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and to support the ideation of the Global Goals.

Gina studied English Literature at the University of Washington and Economics at Columbia University.