Natasha Hoehn serves as Executive Director of the Silver Giving Foundation and Senior Partner of California Education Partners. She traces her lifelong commitment to public education and social justice to her years as a junior high school English teacher in the South Bronx, where she founded the school’s theater program, implemented an “early college” program and developed a project-based writing curriculum for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. A graduate of Yale University, former Teach for America Corps Member of 1996 and Coro Community Fellow of 2004, Ms. Hoehn’s passion for teaching and learning has led her to take on numerous leadership roles within the education community: as a student, teacher, policy analyst, fundraiser, evaluator, school board candidate, partner and communicator.

In addition to her role leading nonprofit organizations, Ms. Hoehn stewards numerous efforts to support strategic reform and engage civic leadership in California’s public schools. Since 2005, she has served as an executive-on-loan to the San Francisco School Alliance. She was an active leader in San Francisco’s Proposition A (2006) and Proposition A (2008) campaigns and serves as Chair of San Francisco’s After School for All Council and board member of the San Francisco Girls Chorus.