Co-Executive Director, Alliance for Girls
Chantal Hildebrand is the first Black co-executive director of Alliance for Girls, the state’s largest alliance of 130+ girl and gender-expansive youth-serving organizations working to creating communities where girls and gender-expansive youth of color are valued, respected, and safe, through youth-led research, storytelling, community building, and collective advocacy. She has over a decade’s worth of experience working in the nonprofit sector to advance gender and racial equity, through community mobilization, capacity building, advocacy, technical assistance, community-based participatory action research, and program management in international and California-based programming. She brings an intersectional lens and a passion for creating spaces for historically oppressed populations to share their diverse experiences and lead decision-making processes to improve their lives and wellbeing, and that of their communities. Her work has contributed to improving and passing over 20 policies, implementation guidelines, and budgets addressing issues of gender inequity in Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, and the state of California in the United States.
Hildebrand received her master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in public health and city planning. She also currently serves as a member of the Racial Equity Index, a global collective of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) dedicated to holding the global development sector accountable to dismantling all forms of systemic racism.