Ayushi Vig (she/her)
Affiliated Consultant
Ayushi Vig is a philanthropic advisor, facilitator, and strategist who partners with individual donors, foundations, and funder networks to advance liberatory giving strategies. Across a range of environmental, economic, racial, and gender justice issues, her portfolio centers on building bridges between financial institutions and the grassroots. She delights in dreaming, designing, and implementing transformative projects rooted in an ethos of reflective learning and community accountability.
Ayushi currently serves on the boards of New Economy Coalition, a network of 200+ organizations building an economy that prioritizes people and planet above profit, as well as of Clean Energy Works, accelerating inclusive investments to make the clean energy economy accessible to all. She was a 2023 Fellow at the Just Economy Institute, and was also honored as a 2023 Climate Leader by the People's Climate Innovation Center. In 2019, she was named a Dalai Lama Fellow.
Previously, Ayushi was a founding staff member of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, advocating for balancing funder-grantee power dynamics in philanthropy. Prior to that, she was a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, where she codesigned and launched The Philanthropy Toolkit, a training for wealth advisors to provide philanthropic guidance beyond tax optimization to their high-net-wealth clients.
Ayushi holds a BA from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in public policy at Princeton University. She grew up in New Delhi, and now splits her time between New Jersey and the Bay Area. She works towards a world where everyone is loved and loving.