About the Space

Wallis Annenberg, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation, is a visionary who strives to improve the well-being of people and communities throughout the world. Wallis has spent much of her life focused on philanthropy dedicated to education, communications, arts and culture, medical research, animal welfare, social justice and environmental stewardship.

Gregory Annenberg Weingarten is a Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation and founder of GRoW @ Annenberg, a philanthropic initiative of the Annenberg Foundation. GRoW’s mission is to support a broad range of innovative projects and organizations providing opportunities to address social and cultural issues, meet urgent community needs, and offer inspiration and collaboration — all with the goal of improving the quality of life in communities here and around the world.

Gregory has a degree in political science from Stanford University. He worked as a journalist at The Times of London before embarking on a career as an artist. His work has been shown in galleries and private collections throughout Europe and the U.S.

Gregory is a member of various boards including the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, the National Parks Foundation,  the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the USA Foundation of The American Library in Paris, the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet and the American Friends of the Louvre. He is also a member of the President’s Council at the J. Paul Getty Trust and a member of the Chairman’s Council at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Along with his wife and philanthropic partner Regina, Gregory is active in the lives of his two children and, through them, is helping shape the next generation of philanthropy.

Charles Annenberg Weingarten is a Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation and founder of explore.org, a philanthropic media organization. A filmmaker and philanthropist, he has directed and produced more than 300 short films, covering an inspiring range of people, places and nonprofits around the globe.

Annenberg Weingarten created Dog Bless You, a platform for celebrating the guardians of the human spirit, and uses it as forum to pair service dogs and war vets with PTSD. He also created and developed Pearls of the Planet, the world’s largest network of live nature cams, which was established in partnership with global steward organizations and media outlets spanning the world and streams worldwide on explore.org.

An innovator to traditional board room philanthropy, Annenberg Weingarten lives by the mantra “never stop learning.”

Lauren Bon serves as a Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation. She is a graduate of Princeton University and MIT and holds degrees in architecture and the history and theory of art. She lived in London for more than a decade and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is raising a son and a daughter.

Lauren’s work as a Director is most notable for her project-based philanthropy and her studio for practice, the Metabolic Studio.