Penni Hudis moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 after growing up in New York City suburbs and spending 11 years in the Midwest. Her career has centered on addressing labor market inequalities through research, university teaching, and education program evaluation. She taught at Indiana University and UC Berkeley and worked in various roles, including at Bechtel Corporation and Bank of America, consistently aiming to understand and remedy societal inequalities.
For the past 17 years, Penni has supported nonprofit, social justice-focused organizations. She worked with ConnectEd on grant writing and consulting for low-income school districts and served as the volunteer Executive Director of The Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC), focusing on reducing cancer treatment inequalities for people of color. She has also been involved with Planned Parenthood, The San Francisco Senior Center, and Opportunity Junction, a nonprofit providing training for low-income individuals entering healthcare and administrative careers. Additionally, Penni is a member of Impact100 East Bay, serving on the grants committee.
Penni earned her B.A. from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan.
