Carol Loftur-Thun
Health Tech Access Alliance
Executive Director
An entrepreneurial, strategic leader, Carol has been nimble and pragmatic in leading nonprofits for 20 years and turning crises into opportunities. Carol specializes in turnarounds, mergers, re-starts and start-ups. She has served in both permanent and interim CEO, Executive Director and COO roles with regional and international nonprofits focused on ending domestic violence, sexual assault, mental illness, human trafficking, homelessness, hunger and suicide. Carol has led efforts to raise over $22 million, and personally raised over $9 million for these nonprofits.
At My Sister's Place, she led the agency to become the first in DC to adopt a public health approach to domestic violence. She also launched an innovative, evidence-based program for fathers at-risk of domestic violence, and garnered coverage by WJLA, NBC4, Good Morning America, the Washington Post and BET. As CEO of The Women's Center, she led the largest private provider of mental health services in Northern Virginia with over 4,000 clients and 65 therapists. At Free the Slaves, she managed operations in seven countries as well as offices in DC and LA. While Executive Director of CrisisLink, she doubled hotline call volume and funding, and launched 2-1-1 statewide. Under her leadership, CrisisLink was named one of the region's best-run charities by The Washingtonian and Catalogue for Philanthropy, and was featured by CNN, MSNBC, Kojo Namdi, and the Washington Post.
A graduate of Davidson College, Carol was born in Quito, Ecuador, and studied in India through the Fulbright Program. She pursued her MBA at George Washington University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Administration. Carol is an executive coach certified by Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership.
At My Sister's Place, she led the agency to become the first in DC to adopt a public health approach to domestic violence. She also launched an innovative, evidence-based program for fathers at-risk of domestic violence, and garnered coverage by WJLA, NBC4, Good Morning America, the Washington Post and BET. As CEO of The Women's Center, she led the largest private provider of mental health services in Northern Virginia with over 4,000 clients and 65 therapists. At Free the Slaves, she managed operations in seven countries as well as offices in DC and LA. While Executive Director of CrisisLink, she doubled hotline call volume and funding, and launched 2-1-1 statewide. Under her leadership, CrisisLink was named one of the region's best-run charities by The Washingtonian and Catalogue for Philanthropy, and was featured by CNN, MSNBC, Kojo Namdi, and the Washington Post.
A graduate of Davidson College, Carol was born in Quito, Ecuador, and studied in India through the Fulbright Program. She pursued her MBA at George Washington University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Administration. Carol is an executive coach certified by Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership.