Shiree Teng has more than 25 years of experience working with foundations and public and nonprofit organizations as front line staff, executive director, program officer, board chair, trainer, and consultant. Her fields of expertise include public health, housing, early care and education, employment and training, and labor education.

Shiree was formerly a program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program. She has provided evaluation and organizational development services to the Hewlett Foundation and The California Endowment (TCE), and recently managed a four-region, 16-organization capacity building initiative sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and TCE.

Shiree is skilled in organizational assessment, planning and evaluation, stakeholder analysis, board development, participatory facilitation, and cultural competency issues. For the past four years, she has facilitated a statewide learning community of child care and economic development advocates to address critical child care facilities development needs. She is currently serving as a diarist and facilitation coach to a “preschool for all” effort in California.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Shiree is fluent in three spoken dialects of Chinese, and has a lifelong appreciation of issues facing immigrants and communities of color. In 1996, she was selected to participate in an international seminar on “NGOs’ Role in Building Civil Societies,” held in Salzburg, Austria, with fellowship support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Shiree received her BA in Psychology and Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.