Wendi Huestis

Wendi is the Executive Director of the Gramercy Consulting Group, an organization focused on finding capital and distributing philanthropic investments back to the NGOs who do the best work, based on evaluations done by her and her fact-finding group of kids. She has worked with philanthropic organizations for over a decade as an educator and fundraiser in the U.S. and abroad. She is a volunteer for Child Family Health International and was a co-founder and served for 6 years on the board of S.A.M., an organization that provided medical and dental supplies for pediatric hospitals and orphanages in La Paz.

Wendi graduated from Cornell University where she was a Cornell National Scholar, continued her education in health at Columbia University where she received her certificate in Integrative Health and Nutrition, later receiving her Reiki I and Reiki II certifications, followed by mat pilates certifications. She completed her MBA at Cornell where she was recently nominated for the Leadership Advisory Council and established the Women’s Executive Leadership Board. She was born in Japan, raised in Vermont, studied in France, volunteered in Bolivia, worked in the Czech Republic and lives in Manhattan with her family.