A Conversation with The Compton Foundation

A Conversation with The Compton Foundation

Executive Director June Wilson

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Guest Speaker

Meet June

June Wilson is Executive Director of the Compton Foundation and a nationally recognized philanthropic leader advancing racial justice and alternative approaches to legacy and perpetuity. She is guiding the foundation’s 75-year trajectory toward a “Spend Up” strategy, deploying all assets by 2025 to support leaders, organizations, and priority areas including racial repair, climate resiliency, reproductive justice, democracy, and peacebuilding, while expanding philanthropic practice beyond traditional grantmaking toward relational models of redistribution.

Previously, Wilson served as executive director and trustee of the Quixote Foundation, where she led its successful sunset in 2017 and implemented a limited-life “Spend Up” approach focused on fulfilling mission rather than preserving assets. Her work is deeply informed by a background in cultural and community organizing, and she continues to advise philanthropic and family foundation leaders on racial equity–centered, decolonial frameworks that strengthen the connection between philanthropy and community engagement.

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