Recent Happenings
Organized and project-managed a Harris-Walz Fundraiser for Family & Friends, raising over $111,000. Co-hosted alongside Bela Bajaria, Mallika Chopra, Lisa Ling, and Reshma Saujani | SEPT 2024. Watch the Zoom here.
Executive produced the Silicon Valley Bank Catalyst 2045 Innovators & Icons Awards. End-to-end event coordination included drafting communications materials, press, vendor communications, supporting with celebrity honorees, and marketing.
This work was conducted in partnership with Tonna&Co. | DEC 2024
Currently co-lead DEIB Strategy Development for Los Angeles Education Partnership, including strategic guidance and facilitating on-site PDs for 90 early childhood educators.
This work is being conducted in collaboration with Gilded Knight Consulting. | SEPT 2024
Launched and currently manage the inaugural Blended Impact Lab TAM Fellowship, a 6-week program for college and students and Opportunity Youth aged 18-24. This fellowship provides tools, mentorship, and resources to explore career pathways as founders, funders, and developers, culminating in a $5,000 research competition.
See coverage here. Next fellowship application goes live in December 2024.
Crafted communications and marketing strategy for The BIG We’s inaugural Donor Convening, which brought together a powerful mix of national and local funders in Memphis. The strategy included a comprehensive communications and talking points document, custom invitations, approval workflows, event brochures, name cards, and other branded materials to ensure a cohesive and impactful experience. | OCT 2024
Moderated Prevent Child Abuse America’s (PCAA) 2023 National Conference panel on entertainment and children’s wellbeing. Panelists included Paul Blavin, David Goldblum, Harold Green III, Raven Magwood, Siena Oberman, and Tito Olowu. | AUG 2023
Supported EDC Ventura County in developing and launching a first of its kind Computer Basics Program Replication Toolkit, an open-source resource designed to empower communities through digital literacy.
See coverage here. This work was conducted in partnership with Cause IMPACTS. | NOV 2024
About
Mika is a seasoned social impact consultant with over a decade of experience supporting schools, social enterprises, and philanthropists, primarily in the entertainment industry. Mika’s journey in education began as a Teach For America (TFA) Chicago Corps Member from 2013-2015, where she taught early childhood education at a federally funded Head Start.
Following her TFA Chicago commitment, Mika joined the founding staff of KIPP Ignite Academy in Los Angeles as a founding elementary school teacher and social-emotional learning (SEL) specialist. She helped grow the school for three years.
After five years in the classroom, Mika transitioned to the philanthropic sector, serving as a program director at The Goldie Hawn Foundation. There, she supported the growth and scale of Goldie’s MindUP Program, a Scholastic-produced SEL curriculum PreK-8th grade students. In this role, Mika managed school sales & partnerships across the United States and supported the Education Director in training over 125 schools in the MindUP program.
Following Goldie’s foundation, Mika became the Director, and eventually the Vice President, of Client Engagement at The Artemis Agency, a boutique consulting firm specializing in entertainment philanthropy. At Artemis, Mika led a team of account managers who provided exceptionally detailed and creative services to entertainment philanthropists and culture strategists across HIV/AIDS, youth mental health, adverse childhood experiences, and STEM education.
As a newly formed LLC, Mika Jain Consulting sits at the intersection of impact and strategy. Mika supports small to mid-sized nonprofits and foundations in building and scaling impactful programs, optimizing communication streams, enhancing marketing and brand-building efforts, measuring double and triple-bottom-line outcomes, and strengthening organizational capacity.
Mika balances her time as the principal and owner of Mika Jain Consulting with her school work at the University of Southern California, where she is pursuing her second master’s degree in Social Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business.
Mika is a proud judge for the Anthem AWards, the branch of social impact awards for The Webbys.
Consulting Services
• DEIB Strategy & Implementation
• Education Program Design
• Landscape Analysis & Ecosystem Power Mapping
• Marketing and Communication Strategy
• Philanthropic Strategy Development
• PreK-12 Education Partnerships
• Social Impact Event Production
• Social Impact Strategy
• Strategic Expansion Planning
• Succession Planning
Mika is proud to help dismantle the inequities that her clients care most about. Through her full-time work and her LLC, Mika has supported incredible nonprofits, for-profits, and foundations including the following:
