Claire Callahan, MPA

Claire Callahan (she/her) is Stupski Foundation’s director of communications. She focuses on using the Foundation’s voice to inspire social change. Since 2019, she has led the development of communications strategies for the Foundation and its program areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the producer of “Break Fake Rules,” a podcast series that questions the fake rules of philanthropy that hold us back from transformational change. In partnership with Deputy Director of Communications Matthew Nagato, Claire develops communications campaigns that elevate community voices and call for transformational changes in the philanthropic sector. She first joined the Foundation in 2016 as a grants manager—a role that gave her the opportunity to understand grantee partners’ work and design the foundation’s grants management system.

Claire’s career in philanthropy began at The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW), now Forward Global, a nonprofit philanthropy education and networking organization dedicated to driving strategic philanthropic giving worldwide. In this role, Claire focused on sharing the philanthropic practices that result in meaningful social change with philanthropists aspiring to give better. At TPW, Claire managed the San Francisco office and was responsible for program support, event planning, knowledge management, and communications. Previously, Claire worked in civil litigation as a case assistant at Gibson Dunn and Crutcher LLP, where she coordinated complex trial preparation and litigation casework in international antitrust, intellectual property, and employment discrimination suits.