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Under Fox's guidance, the Fresno and Madera Counties chapter was able to shift focus from simply addressing the immediate needs of the mid-Central Valley's most disinvested community members to playing a more active role in attempting to dismantle bigger structural and institutional issues that keep those same people in generational cycles of poverty.
"It has been an incredible gift to serve the Fresno and Madera County communities these past eight years," says Fox. “It's now time for a new leader for the organization and build upon the strategic vision set in 2016”.
Interim Rahn comes to the organization presently by way of Dallas, having previously served as the first female President and CEO of United Way of Southern Nevada (UWSN). Under her leadership she guided the organization’s cradle-to-career community-based agenda, building strong partnerships to improve outcomes in early childhood education, student success, post-secondary attainment and workforce development. A DEI champion, Rahn also created a diversity taskforce at UWSN, ensuring that all community grant funding applied an equity lens. She brings more than thirty years of progressive experience leading high-performing teams, strengthening donor and board relations, navigating high growth and turnaround, and strategic planning in industries ranging from private organizations to complex nonprofits. Most recently she served as the Interim Chief Development and Marketing Officer of United Way of New York City.
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