Christine Margiotta (she/they)

Executive Director

Christine is passionate about channeling our collective power to create enduring justice and community. As Executive Director of SJPLA, she brings together nonprofit, community, and foundation leaders to fuel systemic transformation, facilitating mutual learning, deep connection, and synergistic collaboration. Christine launched SJPLA’s Systems Change Accelerator to bolster early-stage social justice initiatives and Anti-Racism for White People, a year-long learning journey for 170+ community leaders.

For nearly 20 years, Christine has leveraged a blend of community organizing, grantmaking, and policy change to create progress on racial and economic justice, homelessness, and LGBTQ rights. Prior to SJPLA, Christine was the Vice President of Community Impact at United Way of Greater LA, where she designed and led Home For Good, the region’s initiative to end homelessness. Home For Good brought together over 200 cross-sector partners and leveraged over $1 billion in resources to create housing for 35,000+ of the most vulnerable Angelenos.

Christine is a graduate of Scripps College and received her MSW from UCLA. She lives in Claremont with her two kids, Huck and Vivian.