Amina is a program associate at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, supporting grantmaking to help ensure California’s communities are strong and resilient places where families can thrive. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was as a curatorial assistant at the Oakland Museum of California and a Funding Advisory Committee member for the City of … Continued
Thania Barragan is a program associate at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, working to support grantmaking to help ensure California’s communities are strong, resilient places. Prior to joining the Packard Foundation, she worked for College Futures Foundation to close education equity gaps and further college completion for marginalized students. Thania holds a bachelor’s degree … Continued
Wanchee Pei is the Program Operations Manager for the Conservation and Science Program. In this role, she manages the internal operations and administration of the program and collaborates closely with partners across the Foundation to continuously improve our processes. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2019, Wanchee worked at Genentech, most recently as a Group … Continued
Andrea is an evaluation and learning officer at the Packard Foundation where she provides technical advice and thought partnership on strategy development, evaluation design, and outcome monitoring. She brings more than a decade of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning practice in international development. Prior to joining the Foundation, Andrea worked to deepen evaluation and … Continued
Marissa Guerrero is a Civil Society and Leadership program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In this role, she oversees grantmaking focused on equipping leaders and organizations to achieve their individual and collective goals. She also leads her team’s learning and evaluation work, which is rooted in a commitment to listening to partners … Continued
Chris is the information technology portfolio manager for the Foundation’s Information Technology Department. In this role, he manages the portfolio of projects within the Foundations IT organization to enhance business value. Prior to joining the Foundation, he worked at Cisco, NetApp, and VLSI Technology leading multiple business and IT project initiatives. He is an active … Continued
Marcella Cage is a program associate for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She supports grantmaking operations for the Foundation’s efforts to strengthen civil society and leadership, specifically focused on reproductive health and smallholder farmer and forest-dependent communities. Prior to this role, Marcella lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked in reproductive health and rights … Continued
Lyn works as a program operations coordinator at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, supporting program-level operations in the Environment & Science team, along with grantmaking on the Foundation’s work to protect and restore the ocean. Lyn first joined the Packard Foundation in 2019 as a program assistant, providing grantmaking and operations support to various … Continued
Ahmad Wright is the diversity, equity, learning and development director on the Packard Foundation’s Human Resources team. He joined the Foundation in 2019 as a manager of learning, development, and inclusion. Prior to working at the Foundation, Ahmad served as assistant dean and associate director with BEAM, Stanford Career Education. In his time with Stanford … Continued
Julian is a solutions architect and developer for the Packard Foundation’s IT team. In this role, Julian consults, analyzes, designs, builds, deploys, and supports complex business database systems and solutions for the Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Julian worked in the rental housing software industry, focusing on database solution development, maintenance, and support with … Continued