Janis Rosheuvel

Janis Rosheuvel is a Black immigrant who was born in Guyana, South America. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Building Movement Project. For over two decades, Janis has organized with communities most impacted by injustice, following their lead and demanding just and right repair for past and ongoing harms. Previously, she helped to build strong collaborations and accountabilities in philanthropy at the Solidaire Network where she advanced a liberatory learning and evaluation process fostering deeper movement partnerships. At Solidaire she also helped raise and move over $40M to movement organizations working on a range of intersectional issues including racial and climate justice, land protection, sovereignty and stewardship, decarceration, housing and tenant rights, and reproductive justice.

Additionally, Janis worked as Executive Secretary for Racial Justice with United Methodist Women (now United Women in Faith) and was the Executive Director at Families for Freedom. She was a Fulbright Fellow to South Africa, where she documented the struggles of migrants, shack dwellers, and other working-class activists. She lectured for five years in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College on race and the criminalization of migrant life. Janis serves on the North Star Fund’s Let Us Breathe Fund Community Funding Committee, helping to resource Black-led organizing across New York City and the Hudson Valley. She holds an MA in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.