Annie (she/her) leads NFF’s national strategy for engagement and advocacy with nonprofits towards NFF’s mission of equitable flow of resources. Annie joined NFF in 2015 where she helped build the financial management capacity of the social sector. Before joining NFF, she was a Sr. Program Officer at First 5 LA and a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting. She started her career as a CA State Assembly Fellow and Legislative Consultant with the Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee. Annie received her Bachelor of Arts in political science from UCLA, and her Master of Public Policy from USC. She serves on the Independent Sector Public Policy Committee, California Coalition for Community Investment Policy Committee, and is a lecturer at CSULA’s MPA program. Annie is inspired daily by being raised by an immigrant single mother in southeast LA and by her three children to make their future world brighter and more just.