Miyesha Perry is the Chief Program Officer for the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. She serves on the Foundation’s executive and leadership teams to support a diverse grantmaking portfolio and foster collaboration, evaluation and learning, and impact.
Before holding this position, Miyesha was the Director of Grants Management & Learning from 2019-2024. In this role she guided the grants management strategy and practice to support operationalizing equity across the grantmaking lifecycle, developed the learning practice and culture, supported collaboration and interconnection across the giving areas and most importantly supported Foundation partners.
Miyesha has held numerous positions at private and family foundations in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for more than 15 years. At the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, she designed and created a grantmaking process that allowed grantees to spend more time serving the community and as little time as possible on applications, reporting and administrative tasks and developed the long-term vision and strategy for grants management.
As a Program Officer, she designed the grantmaking portfolio and strategy to support organizations serving citizens reentering society after incarceration. Her portfolio also supported groups working in primary health care, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and homelessness. She serves as the current Chair Emeritus of PEAK Grantmaking and as Nominating Committee Co-Chair. Miyesha formerly served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the PEAK Grantmaking DC Chapter and as a founding board member of the Black Philanthropic Alliance.
Miyesha received her MBA in Nonprofit Management and BA in Human Relations from Trinity College in Washington, DC. She is a third-generation native of Washington, DC, certified travel agent, dance mom and busy mother of two teenagers.
