Staff
Crystal Hayling
President and CEO
crystal.hayling@blueshieldcafoundation.org
Crystal Hayling joined Blue Shield of California Foundation as president and CEO in 2004, continuing her long-time commitment to helping underserved communities as a leader of philanthropic organizations. With 20 years of nonprofit and foundation experience, Ms. Hayling has advocated for women, minorities, low-income families and children through a variety of leadership positions. Prior to joining Blue Shield of California Foundation, Ms. Hayling was senior advisor for the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a Seattle-based foundation committed to helping low-income families strengthen their voice and mobilize their communities to advocate for social justice. In California, Ms. Hayling served as director of special projects at the California HealthCare Foundation where she helped establish and run the Oakland-based Medi-Cal Policy Institute, a public policy think-tank dedicated to improving and expanding California's Medicaid program. She has held leadership positions at the California Wellness Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.
Ms. Hayling, who has also lived and worked in China and Mexico, holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters in Management Science from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ms. Hayling serves on the board of The Center for Effective Philanthropy, and is also a member of the Northern California Advisory Board of College Summit, the Philanthropy Committee of the Global Fund for Women and the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Medicaid Leadership Institute. Ms. Hayling is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
For the past three years, Ms. Hayling has been honored by San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. In 2008, she was the recipient of a 10th Anniversary Madame C. J. Walker award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.
