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.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Tran was an associate consultant at The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm, where she partnered with Foundation staff to develop its strategic direction, specifically focusing on the domestic violence landscape in California. She also conducted and analyzed research 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 strategic oversight and operations management at the Phillips Brooks House Association, a large multi-service nonprofit. She has served as a program director, worked as a community organizer and youth worker, and taught as a guest professor at a university in Cape Verde, Africa.  She currently serves 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 mater’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.