Michele Silverthorn
Nancy Jamison Fund for Social Justice Program Manager
(she/her)
Contact me about the Nancy Jamison Fund for Social Justice and Far South Border North Program
Leaning in with passion and heart for equity and excellence, Michele first ventured into community development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador. With interest sparked, she has spent the last two decades working in social justice nonprofits and philanthropic organizations. Whether at a grassroots community-based organization or multi-million dollar foundation, she is a successful communicator across stakeholder constituencies and has a robust understanding of San Diego and Imperial County’s community organizations and philanthropic landscape.
Michele excels in planning, outreach, and execution of community-based programs, collaborative building, and implementing grantmaking processes. Her work encompasses vulnerable populations in health, immigrant workers, children, and working poor; homelessness and emergency rent relief; census outreach; and food systems.
Michele received a bachelor’s degree in City & Regional Planning from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a master’s degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University. After hours you can find her on a road trip with her husband and two sons or on a mountain trail with Maggie, her Australian Shepard.
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