I'm Vinny Eng, a community organizer and nonprofit executive with two decades in San Francisco across public health, affordable housing, community safety, and pandemic relief. A few things I'm proud of: helping secure $46.7M in state affordable housing investment, co-founding SF New Deal (which disbursed $20M and delivered 2M+ meals in its first pandemic year), and serving as an interim executive director. I'm currently Vice Chair of the board at Hamilton Families.
I'm working through a question I haven't settled: whether the impact I care about is best pursued by leading an institution, or whether my edge lies somewhere I haven't fully mapped. My instinct is that convening stakeholders and moving resources to the communities most exposed to harm is undervalued in some high-impact conversations — AI governance included. I'm not sure that's right, and I'd welcome being challenged on it.
If you've made a similar move from frontline work into systems-level roles, or think I'm misjudging where I fit, I'd love to talk. Comment or message me directly.
Good day, everyone!
I'm Vinny Eng, a community organizer and nonprofit executive with two decades in San Francisco across public health, affordable housing, community safety, and pandemic relief. A few things I'm proud of: helping secure $46.7M in state affordable housing investment, co-founding SF New Deal (which disbursed $20M and delivered 2M+ meals in its first pandemic year), and serving as an interim executive director. I'm currently Vice Chair of the board at Hamilton Families.
I'm working through a question I haven't settled: whether the impact I care about is best pursued by leading an institution, or whether my edge lies somewhere I haven't fully mapped. My instinct is that convening stakeholders and moving resources to the communities most exposed to harm is undervalued in some high-impact conversations — AI governance included. I'm not sure that's right, and I'd welcome being challenged on it.
If you've made a similar move from frontline work into systems-level roles, or think I'm misjudging where I fit, I'd love to talk. Comment or message me directly.