Heather Benjamin

Biography

Heather Benjamin is the founding executive director of Nebula Fund. She is a queer feminist activist with a background that bridges philanthropy, global policy advocacy, and grassroots activism. Prior to launching Nebula, Heather spent the last decade with Open Society Foundations Public Health Program, where she served as a Senior Program Officer focused on global health and HIV financing, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ), and health governance issues. She has served as a member of the International Steering Committee of the Red Umbrella Fund, a sex worker-led participatory fund that supports the rights of sex workers globally, and on the Private Foundations Delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Prior to joining Open Society, Heather served as the program director of a grassroots organization dedicated to preventing gender-based violence through community mobilization, youth organizing, arts and culture production.