Janna Stieg Watkins

Janna Stieg Watkins has worked professionally with a variety of nonprofit organizations for the past 18 years, including a Catholic-based Central America solidarity organization, a food bank in a Lutheran church, and an organization serving low-income seniors that was started by the Sisters of Charity and the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters. Janna was raised as a protestant Christian, and is very interested in commonalities shared by different faiths. For much of her professional life she has done fundraising as a Development Director, and the last four years were spent as Executive Director of a faith-based organization in Denver. She brings to NYIPL a passion for the environment and an excitement for nonprofit management. Janna holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Colorado at Denver, and lives with her family in Manlius (near Syracuse), New York.