Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee is senior program officer with the Haas, Jr. Fund. She manages the Education Opportunities program, which is working with the San Francisco school district, City College and other community partners to close the achievement gap for students of color. She has 30 years of experience working to improve the lives of low-income children, youth and their families.

Nancy has worked with a variety of private and public funders deeply involved in these issues, including San Francisco Foundation, Levi Strauss Foundation, Packard Foundation, and the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and their Families. She also has extensive experience in public policy and organizing, including serving as an aide to then-California Assemblyman John Burton.

Nancy’s many career achievements include: developing and overseeing programs providing sports opportunities to more than 15,000 young people in the Bay Area as director of programs and grantmaking for Haas, Jr. Fund grantee Team-Up for Youth; creating a nationally recognized welfare reform program in Oakland for the Clorox Co. Foundation; and developing the community outreach strategy for the implementation of a successful early childhood initiative in Alameda County.

A former Coro Fellow, Nancy has served on the Alameda County Human Relations Commission and was a board member of the United Way of the East Bay. An immigrant from Hong Kong, she also has volunteered in a number of community organizations, including Chinese for Affirmative Action, Asian Law Caucus, and Chinatown YMCA. Nancy attended San Francisco public schools and has a master’s degree in social work with an emphasis in community organizing from San Francisco State University.