Carol Larson JD

Carol Larson JD General Information

Biography

Ms. Carol Larson serves as a Board Member at the Sobrato Family Foundation. She served as President, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer, in the Office of the President at the David And Lucile Packard Foundation. She served as the Packard Foundation's director of programs from 1995 through 1999 and was appointed vice president of the organization in 2000. In the role of director of programs, she worked directly with the president to manage the Foundation's entire grantmaking portfolio. Her duties included supervising senior program directors and working with them to implement current programmatic guidelines and plans for the future in the program areas of Conservation and Science; Population and Reproductive Health; and Children, Families, and Communities. She joined the Foundation in 1989 as director of Research and Grants, Law, and Public Policy, at the Foundation's Center for the Future of Children. In that role, she worked on child health and welfare issues and edited and wrote for the Future of Children journal issues on drug-exposed infants, school-linked services, home visiting, sexual abuse of children, and juvenile courts. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree from Yale Law School.