Renay Loper | April 2026
Visionary Speaker: Renay Loper
Join us on April 21st at 12pm Pacific | 3pm Eastern for a Visionary Speaker Session with special guest J. Renay Loper.
Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions are private member and invite-only gatherings that bring respected women leaders in impact to share about their personal leadership and impact journey and important lessons learned along the way.
Our guests share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their own leadership and impact journey and share tips and tools they’ve learned, giving members the real talk, connection, and truth we all crave and inspiration you can take with you on your own path.
Following the speaker’s share is an open Q&A with the speaker and time for members to break out into small groups.
About Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions
Too many women in social impact are under-resourced and under-supported, navigating their leadership and impact journey alone, or in a silo. We know, doing the world’s most important work isn’t a solo gig. One way we can stop patching together a leadership journey built on trial and error and instinct alone is to listen and learn from others share the truth behind how they’ve navigated own leadership and impact journey, and share about our own experiences. Through Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions, we remove the veil and the misconceptions of what it takes to lead an impact journey that truly transforms lives and we inspire and equip Impact Table members to elevate their own leadership.
About Renay
J. Renay Loper is an impact strategist who centers people, catalyzing change and leveraging the power of strategic partnerships across sectors to shift systems that address complex social problems and injustice in communities, globally.
Renay brings extensive experience leading initiatives across Southeast Asia, Europe, Western Africa, and the US, including work with Fortune 100 corporate clients on social impact strategy, leadership of five country offices, and co-leading work on inclusive circular cities. She is the creator of Rhetoric to Action, a series of conversations designed to bridge sectors toward collective action around social and racial justice.
Prior to her current work, Renay managed the Grassroots Exchange and Education grant portfolio for the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, managed partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern PA, and led the Greece-immersive undergraduate program for Northeastern University, among others.
Renay is a professor at Bard College in the MBA in Sustainability program, where she teaches Personal Leadership Development, and serves as an adjunct professor at NYU. She is an avid speaker and writer who has facilitated sessions at the United Nations and the US Department of State, and has authored and edited numerous publications, including a resource journal, Student Affairs Professionals Cultivating Campus Climates Inclusive of International Students, and a chapter, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in People Economics: Defining and Measuring the True Value of Human Capital.
Renay serves on the board of directors of nonprofits including Community Change, Harpswell Foundation, Girl Rising, and HATCH, and is a member of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. She holds a MS in Higher Education/Post-Secondary Counseling and a BS in Business Management/International Business, both from West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
