Dianne Yamashiro-Omi joined The California Endowment as a program officer in 2000. She currently serves as the Foundation’s Program Manager for Diversity and Equity.
Prior to joining The Endowment, she served as a foundation consultant with a number of organizations including the Levi Strauss Foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, the Asian Pacific American Community Fund and the San Francisco Foundation. Yamashiro-Omi also served as a program officer with the Koret Foundation and the Gap Foundation. In addition, she served as executive director, Board member and volunteer for a number of non-profits in the Bay Area.
Yamashiro-Omi holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from U.C. Berkeley and a teaching credential from the University of San Francisco.
