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Priscilla Chan - UCLA Global Citizenship Project
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This profile page for Priscilla Chan is only tangentially relevant to AI safety; it may be useful for understanding the philanthropic landscape around tech and science funding, but contains minimal direct AI safety content.
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This is a UCLA Global Citizenship Project profile page for Priscilla Chan, co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which is a major philanthropic organization with interests in science, education, and technology including AI-related research funding. The profile likely highlights her philanthropic and civic contributions in the context of global citizenship.
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- •Priscilla Chan is co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a major philanthropic entity funding science and technology research
- •CZI has invested in AI tools for biomedical research and other scientific domains relevant to AI capabilities and safety discussions
- •The UCLA Global Citizenship Project recognizes individuals making significant contributions to global civic and humanitarian causes
- •Chan's work intersects philanthropy, technology governance, and science funding, areas tangentially related to AI policy
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# Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
"Education is an incredibly personal issue for me…If you are the first generation to go to college, sometimes you do not realize your potential until others point it out.”
**BACKGROUND**
In December of 2015, Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and pledged to give 99% of their Facebook shares over their lifetimes to supports its mission. The initiative seeks to advance human potential and promote equality. Initially, focus areas will include personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people, and building strong communities. A notable hallmark of the initiative is that it is a limited liability company, not a nonpro t charitable organization, and can invest in a wide range of entities to accomplish its goals. The couple’s announcement was not their first endeavor in charitable causes. In 2012, Ms. Chan and Mr. Zuckerberg signed over 18 million Facebook shares—valued at about USD 500 million (RMB 3 billion) at the time—to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. In 2013, the couple donated another 18 million shares, worth approximately USD 992 million (RMB 6 billion), which was the largest single donation that year, and put Zuckerberg and Chan at the top of the list for the year’s most generous philanthropists. The bulk of this giving was directed toward community needs in fields that resonate with Ms. Chan’s personal experiences and concerns: education and health. The couple, who also supports economic security and immigrant integration, and disaster relief worldwide, has the potential to expand into other areas, given their increasingly vast assets.
**MOTIVATION**
A child of immigrants, Chan has spoken publicly about how public education has shaped her life. She described how her parents left Vietnam in refugee boats, seeking a better future but not understanding the education system in their new homeland. Ms. Chan grew up serving as an interpreter for her grandparents, who did not speak English, while her mother worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant and other jobs. As the first in her family to graduate from college, Ms. Chan said, “Education is an incredibly personal issue for me... If you are the first generation to go to college, sometimes you do not realize your potential until others point it out.” She credits her public school teachers for having confidence in her. “It was really my teachers who got me opportunities to attend colle
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