Upcoming May 2nd Speaker

Ryan Crane

Executive Director of NAMI Iowa

Ryan has more than 15 years of fundraising, advocacy, and nonprofit leadership experience. Prior to accepting the role of Executive Director at NAMI Iowa, he successfully led efforts to raise more than $3 million for the renovation of the children’s theatre at Des Moines Playhouse. He has also worked at the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, Planned Parenthood, and One Iowa. It was at One Iowa, his first job out of college, when Ryan became more aware of the work being done on LGBTQ issues in the state. In 2009, he attended his first FFBC meeting, and by 2011 he would be serving as the scholarship committee chair, and soon thereafter as a board member.