Adora Land

Adora is a grantmaking director for the Bush Foundation. She provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for the Bush Fellowship program.

As part of the grantmaking team, Adora also helps find and select the highest potential ideas from communities throughout the region that can lead to high-impact investments for Bush. She is active in community conversations to understand the impact of Bush’s support and serves as a member of Bush’s management team.

Adora joined Bush in 2023. She is a relationship cultivator and a servant leader and served as the managing director of Leadership Development at the African American Leadership Forum. Her experience in the nonprofit sector spans more than a decade as a systems changer, facilitator of resources and connector.

Adora is committed to liberation and justice and works to develop collective strategies to increase community wealth through education, economics and leadership development.

She is an avid explorer of the unique culinary experiences of any city. She is a proud native of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Additional experiences and leadership

• Bachelor’s degree in sociology of law and African and African American studies, University of Minnesota
• Master’s degree, public and nonprofit administration, Metropolitan State University
• Qualified administrator, Intercultural Development Inventory
• Certified professional, project management
• Proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.