Eskedar Getahun

Eskedar serves as the Chief of Staff of FrameWorks. In this role, she has the pleasure of working across the team to support the creation and implementation of strategic priorities, strengthen systems, and co-create a resilient, healthy organizational culture. Prior to joining FrameWorks she was an independent consultant and coach, providing a variety of organizational development support, including one-on-one coaching and leadership development, designing and delivering content focused on strategic management, and facilitating heart-centered team gatherings. She is also an RYT 200 certified yoga instructor, who creates safe, welcoming spaces for those who are interested in integrating movement, breathwork, and meditation. This work requires the ability to work nimbly across a variety of contexts and needs, while putting people first.

Prior to launching her independent consultancy, Eskedar was a Director at Nonprofit Finance Fund, a community development finance institution, where she provided one-on-one and group financial consulting to nonprofit leaders, as well as delivered financial content in workshop and webinar forms. As Chief of Staff and Interim CEO at PushBlack, a nonprofit media organization focused on Black history, news and culture, she was responsible for managing legal, HR, and general organizational development functions, as well as supporting a culture of lean experimentation across the company. Prior to PushBlack, she served as Team Lead and Special Projects Lead at MoveOn.org. As Team Lead of the Real Voter Voices project, she coordinated the work of a team of campaigners, data scientists, and developers who gathered, tested, and amplified over 2,000 grassroots videos in midterm elections across the country. As Special Projects lead, she supported the envisioning and implementation of the 2019-2020 strategic planning process. Eskedar has also served as an Organizational Development Lead for Cornell Cooperative Extension, where she led the state-wide strategic plan update for a system which reaches 1.9 million people directly each year, employs 1,011 local and regional staff, relies on 45,000 volunteers, and partners with 276 Cornell faculty and staff. She previously held research and management positions at MDRC, a social policy research organization, and East River Development Alliance (now Urban Upbound), a community development organization serving public housing residents in Western Queens, NY.

Eskedar is a graduate of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, receiving a Master of Business Administration degree.  She holds a Master of Science degree in social research from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Barnard College, Columbia University.