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Type: Staff

Type: Staff

Carmen Tran joined the Packard Foundation in January 2007 and provides operational support to the Workplace Services department and to various programs across the foundation.

Type: Staff

Meshia is a workplace services specialist. She provides operational support to various programs across the Foundation, and assists with invoice processing, events management and reception support.

Type: Staff

Theresa Gonzalez (they/them) is a program assistant for the Grants Data and Operations team. They provide grantmaking and operational support for goal and initiative teams. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2013, Theresa was with VMware in Palo Alto for eight years, beginning as a receptionist, and ending as a workplace coordinator. Theresa is very … Continued

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Linh is a grants officer supporting the Just Societies goal area. In this role, she oversees the grantmaking budgets for Just Societies while supporting Foundation-wide grants management initiatives. Linh manages and collaborates on special projects that drive toward improvement and best practices in our grants management processes. In addition, Linh serves as a key advisor … Continued

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Kathy Barton is a grants officer supporting the Environment and Science goal. In this role, Kathy oversees the goal’s grantmaking budgets for Environment and Science, including the Packard Fellows program, while supporting Foundation-wide grants management initiatives. She manages and collaborates on special projects that drive toward improvement and best practices in our grants management processes. … Continued

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Alisa is the finance and accounting director at the Packard Foundation. Alisa and her team are responsible for financial reporting, external audit, tax returns, budgets, investment accounting, banking relations, property management, insurance administration, contract compliance, and investment accounting. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Alisa worked in finance for public retail and manufacturing companies, … Continued

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Lucy Lee is a Senior Investment and Tax Accountant with the Packard Foundation’s Accounting and Finance team. Lucy and her team are responsible for the investment accounting, cash movements of capital calls, distributions, trade orders and investments cash reconciliation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Lucy worked as an Operations Officer in Government of Singapore Investment … Continued

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Kurt is a Senior Accountant for the Packard Foundation’s Accounting and Finance team. He is responsible for month-end activities and reconciliations along with maintaining the Foundation’s Fixed Asset database.

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Marcus is the IT Director at Packard Foundation. With over 25 years experience in the IT field Marcus leads a team of staff and consultants to meet the needs of Foundation Staff and grantees in areas including application development, data and analytics, enterprise software, system integration, productivity and collaboration, core infrastructure, security, telephony, audio/video, and technical … Continued

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Stephanie Blount is a Systems Engineer in the Foundation’s Information Technology Department. Stephanie has worked in the IT field for over 15 years. Prior to joining the Foundation, She worked for several bay area companies including CompUSA, Terrapin Systems and Bebe Stores Inc., where she spent several years in end-user support roles leading to Help … Continued