Staff & Trustees
Grants Officer Position Available!
Cedric Brown (Director) has nearly 20 years of experience as an educator and funder, including work with the San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy, and Level Playing Field Institute. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University. Cedric can be reached at cbrown AT mkf DOT org.
Tiffany Price (Grantee Advocate) most recently served as the Education Program Fellow at The San Francisco Foundation. Prior to her work there, Tiffany was an education researcher for SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research institute, where she conducted education policy research and evaluations. Tiffany holds degrees from Emory University (BA) and Stanford University (MA). She can be reached at tprice AT mkf DOT org.
Mitchell Kapor (Trustee) is a software designer, entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been called the ACLU of cyberspace. Currently he is the CEO of Foxmarks, Inc, a new consumer Internet service, and is the board chair of Linden Research, the maker of the online virtual world Second Life.
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Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D. (Trustee) has been focusing on identifying and eliminating workplace bias, harassment and discrimination for 30 years. In 2001, frustrated by the inability of the for-profit world to foster diversity, Freada created the nonprofit Level Playing Field Institute to rigorously and creatively address how diversity could succeed in both workplaces and education. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors. Her book, Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay, was published in October 2007. Full bio.