About May Harris
May Harris founded For Purpose, serves as its chief executive officer and advises its nonprofit platform on legal matters. The platform offers operating tools, courses and matched grants for nonprofit leaders. Its community connects leaders with peers, mentors and experts. Harris is also chief executive officer, founder and managing attorney of For Purpose Law Group, which advises nonprofits and social enterprises.
Earlier, Harris practiced law before helping start a nonprofit foundation and becoming its executive director. She earned a master's in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of San Diego while running it. Her nonprofit work spans more than two decades, and she writes about nonprofit law, governance and strategy. She created the CLARITY Framework and designed Aurora and Akademia. Through Akademia, she teaches Legal Blueprint and AI with Clarity. The San Diego Super Lawyers list selected her in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name May Harris in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
