Anu Menon

Anu Menon is passionate about promoting the rights of women and disadvantaged communities domestically and internationally. She is currently focusing on philanthropic and political giving through her family foundation. Prior to this she was the Executive Director of Oasis for Girls, a San Francisco-based non-profit providing intensive after school programming to under-resourced BIPOC girls in high school. She also led Community Partnerships at Help a Mother Out, a Bay Area nonprofit working to improve family well being by increasing access to diapers for families in need. In the education field she served as the Director of Admissions and Operations at Presidio Knolls School and led graduate support services at De Marillac Academy, a school providing free education and wraparound services to middle school students in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. She has worked on a range of civil and human rights issues at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, ACLU of Northern California, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Stanford Community Law Clinic, and Human Rights First. Anu's board experience includes Adeso Africa, Presidio Knolls School, John Gardner Fellowship Alumni Association, and the Inner Sunset Neighbors' Association. She is also an elected representative from San Francisco to the California Democratic Party. She holds a BA from Stanford University, a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley.