Tiffany Price (Director of Assistance & Advising) brings experience in education grantmaking and a background in education policy research and evaluation. This includes a knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods, small school reform, charter school reform, teacher learning and development, and other issues relating to K-12 education. She serves on the board of the Grants Managers Network and is a member of Northern California Grantmakers' Family Philanthropy Exchange Steering Committee. Tiffany holds a Master's degree in International Comparative Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and International Studies from Emory University. Tiffany also designs and makes jewelry as a hobby. She can be reached at tprice(at)mkf.org.
Justin Davis (Program Coordinator) played professional basketball after a successful PAC-10 career. He developed an interest in urban education while taking graduate courses in education. Justin is a mentor with East Bay College Fund and is creating a national college-level program to improve the social and academic development of black student athletes. Additionally, Justin secretly wants to be a sit-down comic. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Communications and can be reached at jdavis(at)mkf.org.
Mario Lugay (Interim Program Officer) was the first Program Director at the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation. He built significant experience in organizing as the National Coordinator of Racial Justice 911 and through CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. He also served on the Community Funding Board of the North Star Fund in NYC and is on the boards of both APEN and Resource Generation. In addition to his work with the Foundation, Mario also serves as the Strategy and Development Consultant to the New American Leaders Project. A native New Yorker, and for several summers a US Open ball boy, Mario earned a BA in political science from Columbia University. He can be reached at mlugay(at)mkf.org.
Cedric Brown (CEO) has over 20 years of experience as an educator and funder, working with the SF Foundation, SF Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, SF Cultural Equity Grants, and Level Playing Field Institute among others. He serves as the chair of Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy and is a board/committee member of Northern California Grantmakers, Funders Committee for Civic Participation, and Council on Foundation's Family Philanthropy Committee. Cedric received the 2010 ABFE Emerging Leader in Philanthropy Award and was profiled as a 2011 Changemaker in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some have also known him as a performer, director, and poet. Cedric holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University and an executive certificate from Georgetown University. He can be reached at cbrown(at)mkf.org.
Mitchell Kapor (Board) is an entrepreneur, startup investor, and philanthropist. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business.
Mitch is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the Firefox web browser; and the founding Chair of Linden Lab, maker of Second Life, the leading online virtual world. He is also a boar member of the Level Playing Field Institute and Managing Partner at Kapor Capital.
Mitch serves on the advisory Boards of Generation Investment Management (sustainable, long-term investing), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights on the Internet), the Sunlight Foundation (improving access to government information), and the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia and other free content projects).
Mitch has written widely about the impact of personal computing and networks on society. He has contributed articles, columns, and op-ed pieces to Scientific American, The New York Times, Forbes, and Communications of the ACM. Full bio.
Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D. (Board) is a nationally recognized authority on issues of bias, harassment, and diversity. She co-founded the first organization in the United States to focus on sexual harassment in 1976; and launched a boutique firm (Klein Associates) in 1987, which offers consultation, research, and training to US and international clients.
Freada is also founder of the Level Playing Field Institute (www.lpfi.org), whose Institute's workplace programs have conducted landmark research on the impact of unfairness on employees and employers. Freada's book Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay (Jossey-Bass 2007) combines quantitative research on who leaves corporate America and why, with stories of day-to-day experiences detailing the human and financial cost.
Freada is also a board member of the UC Berkeley Foundation. As a Venture Partner at Kapor Capital (www.kaporcapital.com), she invests in entrepreneurs of color and women entrepreneurs whose IT start-ups have a social impact.
Freada has been interviewed by numerous publications, including Business Week, the Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, the Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, The National Law Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Full bio.
