2007 marks Shiree’s 30th year in the nonprofit sector. Over the past three decades, Shiree has worked as a front line staff, executive director, foundation program officer, board chair, trainer, and consultant. Her fields of expertise are public health, housing, early care, education, employment, training, community organizing, and the intersection of social change and philanthropy.

Formerly a program officer with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program, Shiree is now a consultant to the Foundation. She also manages the Healthy Returns Initiative funded by The California Endowment. Working with a team of La Piana senior consultants, Shiree provides and coordinates technical assistance to five California probation departments to help them strengthen collaborative relationships with mental health agencies and community-based organizations.  The objective of this work is that youth, both while in detention and once back in the community, will have better access to mental health services and, ultimately, better outcomes.

Shiree’s sweet spots in consulting include conducting organizational and environmental assessments; facilitating strategic planning processes, participatory evaluations, and learning communities; helping boards to develop their capacity; and helping organizations explore and work on issues having to do with cultural competency and diversity.  
 
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Shiree is fluent in three spoken dialects of Chinese, and has a lifelong appreciation of issues facing immigrants and communities of color. In 1996, she was selected to participate in an international seminar on “NGOs’ Role in Building Civil Societies,” held in Salzburg, Austria, with fellowship support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  Shiree serves on the boards of BlueSkies for Children, a nonprofit early-care and education provider, and LeaderSpring, a fellowship program to support and sustain nonprofit executive directors in the Bay Area.

Shiree received her BA in Psychology and Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.

Shiree lives in the Fruitvale district in Oakland, California with her husband of 10 years, two sons, and 9-month-old puppy.