Chris Ko (he/him)

Board Member

Chris Ko serves as VP, Impact & Strategy for the United Way of Greater LA overseeing its efforts to combine community power, donations, and new solutions to support neighbors in crisis and close the prosperity gap. In his time there, he helped craft the community coalitions to create and pass ballot measures around housing (HHH), homelessness (H), and racial justice (J).

Chris has seen different approaches to social change over the last 20 years working to expand community schools in West Philadelphia and working at a Liberian Refugee Camp Self-Help Initiative in Ghana. He began his time in LA as a policy aide for Mayor Villaraigosa, helping design Bank on LA, which increased access to capital for 50k low-income Angelenos. He was subsequently named a Coro Fellow working on special projects for SEIU 721, KPCC, and LAUSD.

Having grown up in the middle of class and racial divides, he is glad to work in the rich community that is Los Angeles and is in the middle of a quest to visit each of its 88 cities.