Elizabeth Steele Teshara
SENIOR DIRECTOR
Elizabeth Steele Teshara serves as an advisor to mission-centered organizations, specializing in stakeholder engagement, philanthropy strategy, nonprofit board governance, and producing impactful events and convenings.
Throughout her career, Elizabeth has been fortunate to work with some of the Bay Area’s most vibrant organizations delivering critical missions locally and across the country, including: UCSF, The Trust for Public Land, Family House, Helix School, The Institute for Security and Technology, Cameron House and Slide Ranch. Elizabeth also served as an Executive Director at CCS Fundraising, a firm specializing in comprehensive fundraising strategy services and consulting; and, she managed the governing board, produced complex events and meetings, and advised on engagement strategies for the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Elizabeth is proud to be an active volunteer, advocate and philanthropist. She serves as a founding Advisory Council member for Farming Hope, leading the council’s apprentice support efforts and supporting its sustainable and equitable food systems policy advocacy work, and is a Voter Services volunteer for the League of Women Voters. She proudly served the City and her district as an appointed member of the SFPUC Citizens’ Advisory Committee.
Elizabeth received her BA in Communications and Business Administration at Saint Mary’s College of California. She has rural roots planted in urban soil – born and raised on a farm in the Central Valley of California and now living in San Francisco, raising two city kids with her native San Franciscan husband, Greg.