Tiffany Rose Naputi Lacsado, the Chief Program Officer at The Unity Council, manages diverse programs for community revitalization.
Her role involves strategic leadership, program design, and supervision in workforce development, small business and social enterprise development, health and social services, supportive housing and resident services, youth development, urban planning, community and civic engagement and policy advocacy. She’s served as a management consultant at AC Transit, addressing new bus operator attrition and founded The Lei Company Cooperative Inc, America’s 1st Pacific Islander worker-owned lei-making cooperative. Before her tenure in Community and Economic Development she has worked in various capacities in public health, including youth development at the San Francisco Juvenile Drug Court, HIV AIDs prevention education at the SMAAC Youth Center, and lactation education at Marin County WIC and Marin General Hospital.
Tiffany is a student in the California Academy for Economic Development and is pursuing an Accredited California Economic (ACE) Developer certification. Tiffany, originally from the island of Guam, resides in East Oakland with her three children.
