Team

Patti Chang

Patti has worked on behalf of disenfranchised communities her entire career. Patti is the founder and CEO of Feed The Hunger Fund which in California and Hawaii, provides small-scale entrepreneurs locked outside of the financial mainstream, with the tools and access to capital that allow them to participate fully in their community’s food economy.

As the former President and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of California, Patti Chang was responsible for the Foundation’s vision and for setting the tenor and momentum of furthering women’s philanthropy within the state, nationally and internationally. Patti helped launch the Women’s Policy Institute, S.F.’s adoption of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and La Cocina (San Francisco’s leading community kitchen).

Patti has served as the President of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, chairing task forces on Adult Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment and CEDAW.
She served as a Commissioner on SF’s Commission on the Environment and was appointed by Congresswoman Pelosi to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Patti has served on dozens of boards of directors.

Patti is a graduate of Stanford University where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence. Her strong roots lie both in Hawaii where she was born and
raised, and in California which has been her home for the last 40 years.