Chevenee Reavis serves as Director of Philanthropy for a multi family office. There, she leads grant making and impact investing to scale solutions in climate and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, she was Director of Strategic Initiatives and Advocacy at Water.org focused on scaling fundraising and program reach. She came to Water.org after leading communications for several USAID public health programs in West and Southeastern Africa and fundraising for microfinance organizations operating in Southeast Asia.
In addition to her work in philanthropy, Chevenee has served a Chief of Staff at a renown visual effects company and brings corporate social responsibility expertise from her role at Starbucks Coffee Company where she led global CSR communications in partnership with commodity teams across cocoa, coffee, and tea.
Chevenee serves on the Boards of the Tipping Point Foundation and Numi Tea Foundation and is based in Marin California with her family and two dogs.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 12 million people who rely on smallholder agriculture have improved their yields and income with the help of a single, simple piece of technology: a human-powered water…