Cathy Cha serves as a program officer in the Haas, Jr. Fund’s Neighborhoods and Strengthening Families program areas.

Cathy has more than 15 years’ experience in affordable housing and workforce development. Before joining the Fund, Cathy was a program officer at the Hyams Foundation in Boston, where she managed the $2 million Community Economic Development portfolio. While there, she led the development of a $20 million private loan fund for the creation of supportive housing for extremely low-income families in Massachusetts. Prior to that, she served as project manager at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in San Francisco, developing affordable housing and starting the agency’s first construction job-training program for neighborhood residents. She has also worked for ICF Consulting in San Francisco, the City of Oakland, and the United Way in Seattle. She serves on the boards of Chinatown Community Development Center and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

Cathy has a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Washington, Seattle.