Carolyn Wang Kong

Carolyn has worked for the past 20 years to create health equity for communities across California. Prior to the Fund, she served as the Chief Program Director at Blue Shield of California Foundation, a statewide philanthropy with a dual mission of increasing health equity and ending domestic violence. She has also held operational leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente, where she developed an award-winning program to meet the needs of 350,000 limited English-speaking members in Northern California.

Carolyn holds a master’s in public health and public policy from UC Berkeley and a bachelor of science from UCLA. She is originally from East San Jose and spends her weekends driving her sons to basketball games around the greater Bay Area.