About Us: Management

Monisha Kapila 
Founder and CEO

Monisha founded ProInspire to address the gap between nonprofits that seek broader pools of talent, and business professionals who want to transition into the sector. Monisha brings 10 years of experience in the business and nonprofit sectors. Prior to launching ProInspire, she was a Senior Business Manager for Capital One Financial Corporation. Previously, she was a Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow with ACCION International, a pioneer in the commercial approach to microfinance. Monisha has worked with a number of leading non-profit organizations throughout her career, including CARE, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and the Clinton Foundation. She began her career as a consultant with Arthur Andersen.

Monisha has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was recipient of the Dean’s Award, and a BBA with distinction from the University of Michigan. She received her Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Monisha has spoken about developing nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurship to audiences at American University, George Washington University, National Assembly, Net Impact, and more.  She was selected for the National Urban Fellows America's Leaders of Change class of 2012, is a Scholar with the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society, serves as an Advisor to the Social Enterprise Program at American University, and previously served as Vice Chair of the Board for the I Do Foundation.

Lucila Crena
Program Director

Lucila serves as Program Director for ProInspire, managing recruiting, training, professional development and special projects for the organization.  She was the 2009 ProInspire Fellow at Year Up, where she was the project manager for the Baltimore expansion, the site’s largest grant, and four critical human capital initiatives. Prior to Year Up, Lucila worked in the Atlanta office of Bain & Company on corporate growth and adjacency projects in the financial services, hospitality, telecom, and retail sectors. Outside of her business experience, Lucila has worked for the Americas Program at the Carter Center and the Latin American Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also co-founded SCEEN, an Emory organization that uses the consulting model to support non-profits by providing them with leveraged student teams.

Lucila graduated magna cum laude from Emory University with a BA in Economics.

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