Julia Lopez

Julia Lopez began serving as the President and CEO of College Access Foundation of California in November 2008 and was elected to the Commission in 2009. Before joining College Access Foundation, she served as Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. In her earlier work for Rockefeller, she served as the Director of the foundation's Working Communities program, addressing urban poverty and education in the United States. She is a graduate of Newton College of the Sacred Heart (now Boston College) and holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Julia is also on the Board of Directors of Pacific Community Ventures and REDF (formerly the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) and is a member of the Statewide Leadership Council of the Public Policy Institute of California.