Shana Hazan is the President of Hazan Strategies. She is a community leader, educator, and proud parent of two young daughters.

Shana previously served as Chief Philanthropy Officer at Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) where she set strategy for and oversaw the organization’s Development, Institutional Giving and Public Affairs teams, which secured more than $25 Million annually to help low-income children, families and older adults across San Diego reach their full potential. Under her leadership, JFS secured nearly $40 million through an innovative matching endowment campaign. Shana’s unique combination of programmatic, public policy, and strategic fundraising expertise resulted in new partnerships and funding that allowed JFS to expand urgently needed services – while deepening program offerings and shaping local, state, and federal policy to support successful aging and end cycles of poverty.

A former teacher, Shana partnered with San Diego Unified School District and Harvard University to launch the Achievement Gap Prevention Project, which she conceived of to ensure children in San Diego’s Barrio Logan community are learning ready. Through targeted investments in culturally competent interventions in parents’ self-sufficiency and executive function, this project seeks to prevent the achievement gap before it ever starts.

Shana also designed and secured funding for the Linda Vista Kindergarten Readiness Network, a client-centered project that utilizes a collective impact model to address barriers to kindergarten readiness for children and their families. She was also the visionary leader behind the Hunger Advocacy Network, an innovative initiative comprised of social service agencies, anti-hunger organizations, and nutrition advocacy organizations that collaborate to advocate for state policies that increase food security.

Shana was appointed to and currently serves on California’s First 5 Commission and Chairs the City of San Diego’s Human Relations Commission. She also serves as President of the Friends of Franklin Foundation, which raises supplemental funding to support Franklin STEAM Magnet Elementary School in San Diego’s Mid City neighborhood.

Previously, Shana developed Jewish Family Service’s nationally-recognized model for youth leadership development through service learning. She also worked for ABC News in London, taught elementary school in Chicago Public Schools, and served as Safe Routes to School Director for Active Transportation Alliance in Chicago.

Shana holds a master’s degree in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University and earned her bachelor’s from the University of Wisconsin.

In 2017, she was selected as a University of Wisconsin Alumni Association Forward Under 40 Awardee. In 2016 she was recognized by Assembly Speaker Atkins as a 78th Assembly District Woman of the Year, and by San Diego Metro as a “40 Under 40” award winner.