Raquiba is the Vice President of Programs at the San Francisco Foundation (SFF) where she manages equity-centered grantmaking for policy and systems change in the Bay Area region. Before joining SFF, she was the education program director at the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund where she led efforts to close equity gaps and improve college affordability for students of color and students living on low incomes in California. Prior to that, Raquiba spent three years as director of community investment with L+M Development Partners in New York City. Her work with the affordable housing developer focused on the design and management of a grantmaking program aimed at strengthening low-income communities of color in the city by investing in academic enrichment, workforce development, and food justice. Raquiba worked for 13 years with the Open Society Foundations, launching and leading grantmaking programs on racial justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ equality, Black male achievement, neighborhood stabilization, criminal justice, and other priorities.
Raquiba started her career in a New York City-based law practice providing private foundations and public charities with the legal and strategic support needed to advance their missions to dismantle barriers to economic, health, and education equity. Raised in East Oakland, Raquiba graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a degree in English. She also holds a law degree from Harvard University.
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