Christine Tran

Christine Tran joins the Foundation as a program officer for Blue Shield Against Violence. In addition to supporting the program's strategic vision, her responsibilities include managing grantmaking and building relationships with current and prospective grantees.

Ms. Tran was previously an associate consultant at The Bridgespan Group, where she conducted and analyzed research on domestic violence for the Foundation, as well as on education, aging, youth nonprofits, and rural philanthropy for engagements with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies and The James Irvine Foundation.
 
Ms. Tran's prior experience includes managing a multi-service nonprofit, serving as a program director, working as a community organizer and youth worker, and teaching as a guest professor at a university in Cape Verde, Africa.  She currently serves as the Regional Representative for the Bay Area chapter of Phillips Brooks House Association - Alumni, on the Board of Advisors for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and as Board chair for the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco.

She has served as a research assistant at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. A Gates Millennium Scholar, she holds a bachelor of arts in government and a master’s in education policy and organizational leadership.  Committed to social justice, she brings to the Foundation a desire to strengthen underserved communities and to fight inequity.