Karla,
Founder & Managing Partner

Karla Monterroso is an author, founder, and coalition architect dedicated to strengthening the leadership of multiracial multicultural institutions across sectors. As Founder and Managing Partner of Brava Leaders, she advises leaders and visionaries - from academics and artists to nonprofit executives and social justice advocates - on navigating power dynamics and bridging institutional divides.

With more than two decades of experience scaling social enterprises, Karla champions multiracial institution building as essential to a healthy democracy. Her work challenges conventional management theories that reinforce homogeneity, offering frameworks built for integrated organizations.

Previously, as CEO of Code2040, she grew its community from 25 to 3,000 while dismantling structural barriers in tech. She also expanded infrastructure and volunteer networks at Health Leads and College Summit, building systems to support underinvested communities.

Karla’s current work explores how power is defined, distributed, and practiced in multicultural institutions. She is writing her first book, How to Share Power, drawing on the lessons of leaders who must both advance their missions and design new systems, policies, and cultures for multiracial democracy.

A Long COVID survivor and contributor to The Long COVID Survival Guide (2022), she also served on the Advisory Panel for the Patient-Led Research Collaborative and the board of One Degree. A proud USC alum, Karla spends her free time gardening, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and being bossed around by her pets, Moxie and Felix.

Isabelle,
Partner & Head of Consulting

Isabelle Moses specializes in supporting leaders, teams, and organizations to create the conditions for joy and thriving internally as well as in externally facing work. Her experience as a nonprofit executive leader, executive coach, and organizational consultant has equipped her with tangible experiences of leading and supporting dozens of multiracial and multicultural nonprofits and philanthropies. Over the last two decades, Isabelle has worked across the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors with a deep love for organizations committed to positive social change. 

Prior to joining Brava Leaders, from 2017 to 2024, Isabelle served in executive leadership roles with ProInspire and Faith in Action National Network, where she experienced first hand the joys and challenges of leading multiracial and multicultural organizations. She honed her coaching and consulting skills with a variety of firms including Community Wealth Partners, The Management Center, Eagle Hill Consulting, and Accenture from 2007 to 2017. Earlier in her career she managed communications with The Calvert Foundation (now Calvert Impact Capital) and served as a small business development volunteer in Cameroon with the Peace Corps.

She holds undergraduate and M.B.A. degrees from Georgetown University and is a certified leadership coach from Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Hamlin School in San Francisco (her alma mater). Isabelle lives in Los Angeles where she loves Auntie life as well as spending time outdoors and on the dance floor.