Usha Pasi has spent her career serving as an advocate for donors and institutions pursuing their philanthropic and programmatic aims, and she has advised boards and organizations about best practices in governance. Her experience includes increasingly responsible roles at Columbia University, Yale University, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Facing History and Ourselves, the Cambridge Community Foundation, and consulting roles with local and international organizations including Stanford University. Her consulting work includes serving as an executive coach, providing development and governance guidance along with scaling entrepreneurial organizations, and pro bono community work responding to local organizations’ needs and priorities. She teaches a course on Nonprofits, Philanthropy and Impact at Tufts University.
She currently serves on the boards of the Associates of the Boston Public Library (Vice Chair); Code the Dream; and the ICTP Advisory Board, and Usha is active with HBS Community Action Partners and Community Consulting Teams of Boston (CCT). In addition, she committed to expanding professional development opportunities for colleagues in the field and has been active as a board member at the Association of Fundraising Professionals and as President of Women in Development of Greater Boston.
Usha holds an Ed.M. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her undergraduate degree from SUNY-Binghamton. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in Improved Fundraising Capabilities. In addition, she holds an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Harvard Kennedy School; a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University; and, a Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource.