WHO WE ARE
Get to know the founder behind the framework.
SOPHIE LEVY
Founder & CEO
For the past fifteen years,
Sophie has brought unlikely collaborators together around shared purpose.
Sophie Levy is the Founder & CEO of The Magnet Collective, an in-house workplace fellowship that equips employees with conflict mediation, communication, and collaboration skills. To graduate, Fellows "show off" their newfound skills by designing & leading an experience for their colleagues, creating lasting value for themselves and their teams, organization, and broader community.
At the national venture philanthropy firm New Profit, she served as what she likes to call a “translator” between investors, nonprofit leaders, community partners, and internal stakeholders, successfully stewarding over $25M in philanthropic capital. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of American University's Class of 2020, she led a high-performing national fundraising team at DialogueDirect, connecting citizens across twelve US cities with philanthropic initiatives aligned to their values during a time of widespread isolation and disconnection. Earlier in her career, Sophie conducted foundational research for Beit Hagefen, an Arab-Jewish cultural center’s inaugural “Third Space": a place in Haifa where people can encounter differences without relinquishing their own identities.
In her offline life, she completed the 400-mile Jordan Trail at age twenty-one, and later hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, experiences that demanded cross-cultural communication, bilingual logistical planning, and deep resilience that further sharpened the grit and adaptability that define her leadership today.
Advisors to the Founder
A group of experienced leaders helping guide our work
BETHANY HALLENBORG
VP OF EVALUATION & OPERATIONS
Bethany Hallenborg is a public health professional with a Master of Public Health from Boston University and over five years of experience in global health programming, strategic partnerships, and donor engagement as well as over 5 years experience in research related to infectious disease outbreaks, vulnerable populations, service provision, and structural systems for care connection. She has contributed to the development of more than $115 million in international health proposals, including USAID-funded initiatives across Africa and Central Asia.
Her expertise spans program coordination, grant writing, and cross-sector collaboration, social and human-centered research, with a strong focus on community health, infectious disease, and systems strengthening. Her work is driven by a commitment to optimizing systems, building efficient and collaborative teams, and designing cohesive programmatic structures that maximize impact and align with both purpose and people.
She is fluent in English and conversational in French, with a passion for advancing equitable health and prosperity outcomes at the local to the global level.
