Full Name
Chris Ko
Job Title
Senior Director, Programs & Impact
Organization
Annenberg Foundation
Speaker Bio
As part of the Annenberg Foundation’s Senior Leadership team, Chris oversees its community grantmaking, investments & program portfolio.
Chris has seen different approaches to social change over 20 years, working to expand community schools in West Philadelphia, managing IT at a self-help Liberian Refugee Camp in Ghana and serving as an economic development policy aide for Mayor Villaraigosa. He was subsequently named a Coro Fellow working on special projects for SEIU, NPR, and later a Stanton Fellow studying vehicles for economic organizing. Most recently, he lead United Way of Greater LA’s impact work, creating a new focus on building neighborhood economic power after crafting coalitions to create and pass historic ballot measures around housing, homelessness, and racial justice.
Having grown up in the middle of class and racial divides, his time at Penn helped him make sense of the transformative change possible when we work together and is in the middle of a quest to visit LA’s 88 cities.
Chris has seen different approaches to social change over 20 years, working to expand community schools in West Philadelphia, managing IT at a self-help Liberian Refugee Camp in Ghana and serving as an economic development policy aide for Mayor Villaraigosa. He was subsequently named a Coro Fellow working on special projects for SEIU, NPR, and later a Stanton Fellow studying vehicles for economic organizing. Most recently, he lead United Way of Greater LA’s impact work, creating a new focus on building neighborhood economic power after crafting coalitions to create and pass historic ballot measures around housing, homelessness, and racial justice.
Having grown up in the middle of class and racial divides, his time at Penn helped him make sense of the transformative change possible when we work together and is in the middle of a quest to visit LA’s 88 cities.
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