ABOUT CASSIE

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Cassie Haynes is a storyteller, leader, and builder. She co-founded Resolve Philly, where she built one of the most respected collaborative journalism organizations in the country. At Resolve, she led internal operations, shaped organizational structure and culture, and, alongside her Co-Executive Director, raised over $10M to support community-driven reporting and systems-level media innovation. Her leadership there bridged the gap between editorial vision and operational execution, laying the foundation for her current work.

Currently, Cassie is leading an organizational repositioning as Executive Director of the Independence Hall Association, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit behind USHistory.org, one of the most visited and trusted civic education resources in the country. Alongside her leadership at IHA, Cassie serves as President of Plot Twist Consulting, advising philanthropic institutions, collaboratives, movements, and mission-driven organizations on strategy, stakeholder engagement, and governance. Her consulting practice centers on helping organizations move money and build durable, practical, and values-aligned infrastructure.

A multipotentialite, Cassie draws on a broad-ranging background in public health, law, and the arts. She is also a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow alumna, a seminary student, Treasurer of the Board of Directors at City Bureau, a Chicago-based nonprofit newsroom, and a Trustee on the Ann Arbor District Library Board. And because strength, agility, and perseverance show up in many forms, she is also a Boston Marathoner, record-breaking powerlifter, and (mediocre) Brazilian jiu-jitsu player.