Raquiba LaBrie heads the San Francisco Foundation’s (SFF) Systems and Programs team. In this role she oversees grantmaking practice and system design, manages community partnerships, and supports the arc of the Foundation’s programmatic work advancing racial equity and economic inclusion in the Bay Area. Drawing on the range of leadership roles she has held at SFF—including overseeing local and regional grantmaking designed to achieve lasting policy and systems change—she brings a career marked by deep commitment to racial equity and social justice.
Before SFF, Raquiba was the education program director at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, where she spearheaded initiatives to narrow equity gaps for Black and Latinx students in the San Francisco Unified School District and to forge a debt-free, equitable path to a college degree for California residents.
Prior to her work at the Haas Jr. Fund, Raquiba served as the Director of Community Investment at L+M Development Partners in New York City. There, she developed a grantmaking program dedicated to strengthening low-income communities of color through investments in education equity, workforce development, and food justice. Raquiba also spent 13 years with the Open Society Foundations, where she was instrumental in launching and leading grantmaking programs focused on racial justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ equality, Black male achievement, neighborhood stabilization, and criminal justice reform.
Raquiba started her career in a New York City law practice, offering legal and strategic guidance to private foundations and public charities. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and holds a law degree from Harvard University.
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