Staff
Christine Tran
Program Officer, Blue Shield Against Violence
christine.tran@blueshieldcafoundation.org
Christine Tran joins the Foundation as a Program Officer for the Blue Shield Against Violence program area. 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 an anti-violence community organizer and youth worker, and taught as a guest professor at a national university in Cape Verde, Africa.
While earning her Master's of Education in Policy and Organizational Leadership Studies at Stanford University, Ms. Tran served as a research assistant at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. A Gates Millennium Scholar, she holds a BA in Government from Harvard College. Committed to social justice, she brings to the Foundation a desire to strengthen underserved communities and to fight inequity.
