Diane Aranda joined The California Endowment in March 2006. As a program officer, she focuses her grant-making activities on improving community health and the elimination of health disparities at the foundation's San Francisco Bay Area regional office.
Prior to joining The Endowment, Diane was a program director at the Prevention Institute in Oakland, CA, where she was responsible for shaping and advancing the organization's programs addressing health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and the built environment.
Diane also has considerable experience in philanthropy, including seven years as a program officer for The San Francisco Foundation. There she developed and implemented the organization's Community Health grant-making program.
Diane received her bachelors in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and masters in Public Affairs with a certificate in Urban and Regional Planning from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.