Priscilla Chan (philanthropist)

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Priscilla Chan
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Priscilla Chan, in 2014.
Born (1985-02-24) February 24, 1985 (age 33) [1]
Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S.
Residence Palo Alto, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater Harvard University
University of California, San Francisco
OccupationPediatrician, philanthropist
Spouse(s)
Mark Zuckerberg (m. 2012)
Children2

Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) is an American pediatrician and philanthropist. She is married to the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she attended Harvard University for undergrad and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In December 2015, Chan and Zuckerberg pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, valued at $45 billion, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a political action company that focuses on health and education. As of 2016, they have pledged more than $4.6 billion to charities.

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Mark Zuckerberg American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook

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Early life

On February 24, 1985, Chan was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, [2] and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Her parents were Hoa Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam in refugee boats. [3] [4] She grew up speaking Cantonese and served as an interpreter for her grandparents. She has two younger sisters. [5] In 2003, she graduated as class valedictorian from Quincy High School, and was voted "class genius" by her classmates. [5] According to a Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, Chan is a Buddhist. [6]

Braintree, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Braintree, officially the Town of Braintree, is a suburban New England city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a town, Braintree adopted a municipal charter, effective 2008, with a mayor-council form of government, and is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 35,744 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Greater Boston area with access to the MBTA Red Line, and is a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's South Shore Coalition. The first and current mayor of Braintree is Joe Sullivan.

Quincy, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Quincy is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Metropolitan Boston and one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2014 was 93,397, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. Known as the "City of Presidents," Quincy is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents—John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams—as well as John Hancock, a President of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Boston Capital city of Massachusetts, United States

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 685,094 in 2017, making it also the most populous city in New England. Boston is the seat of Suffolk County as well, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest such area in the country. As a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth-largest in the United States.

Education

Chan entered Harvard University in 2003, where she met and began dating Mark Zuckerberg. She graduated in 2007 with a BA in biology, and also studied Spanish. She is fluent in Cantonese, English and Spanish. She is the first college graduate in her family. [5] After graduation, she taught science at the private Harker School for a year, before entering medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2008. She graduated in 2012, and finished her pediatric residency in the summer of 2015. [5]

Harvard University private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with about 6,700 undergraduate students and about 15,250 postgraduate students. Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities.

Harker School

The Harker School is a private, co-educational, non-profit school in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall by Frank Cramer in Palo Alto, Harker now has four campuses: Union, Bucknall, Blackford, and Saratoga, named after the streets on which they lie. The Union campus houses the Preschool, the Bucknall campus houses the Lower School, the Blackford campus houses the Middle School, and the Saratoga campus houses the Upper School.

University of California, San Francisco university

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Personal life

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Chan with husband Mark Zuckerberg in Prague

Chan married Zuckerberg on May 19, 2012, a day after Facebook's stock market launch. [5]

On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan were expecting a baby girl. He said he felt confident that the risk of miscarrying was low so far into the pregnancy, after Chan had already had three miscarriages. [7] Chan and Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg [upper-alpha 1] [8] on December 1, 2015. [9] [10] [11] On August 28, 2017, Chan gave birth to their second daughter, whom they named August. [12]

Miscarriage natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Some use the cutoff of 20 weeks of gestation, after which fetal death is known as a stillbirth. The most common symptom of a miscarriage is vaginal bleeding with or without pain. Sadness, anxiety and guilt often occur afterwards. Tissue and clot-like material may leave the uterus and pass through and out of the vagina. When a woman keeps having miscarriages, infertility is present.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged about $4.6 billion to charities, [13] including a donation of $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital, where Chan worked. [5] In 2013, they gave 18 million Facebook shares (valued at more than $970 million) to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The Chronicle of Philanthropy placed the couple at the top of its list of 50 most generous American philanthropists for that year. [14] They also pledged $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4]

San Francisco General Hospital Hospital in California , United States

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) is a public hospital in San Francisco, California under the purview of the city's Department of Public Health. It serves as the only Level I Trauma Center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. It is the largest acute inpatient and rehabilitation hospital for psychiatric patients in the City. Additionally, it is the only acute hospital in San Francisco that provides 24-hour psychiatric emergency services.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a Mountain View-based donor-advised community foundation that serves the Silicon Valley and surrounding community.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a magazine that covers the nonprofit world. Based in Washington, DC, it is aimed at charity leaders, foundation executives, fund raisers, and other people involved in philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy publishes 12 issues a year while updating its Web site daily. It was founded in 1988 by editor Phil Semas and then managing editor Stacy Palmer. It is owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., which also publishes The Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly newspaper covering colleges and universities.

On December 1, 2015, Chan and Zuckerberg posted an open Facebook letter to their newborn daughter. They pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is their new charitable foundation that focuses on health and education. [4] [13]

Chan's charitable goals focus on education, healthcare and science, which are closely tied to her personal background. [5] She is considered to have had a strong influence on the philanthropy of her husband. [4] She plans to launch The Primary School in 2016, a nonprofit organization that will provide K–12 education as well as prenatal care, in East Palo Alto, California. [5] She was one of six nominated for The San Francisco Chronicle’s third annual Visionary of the Year award in March 2017. The award honors leaders who strive to make the world a better place and also drive change by employing new, innovative business practices. [15]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Max", Cantonese Yale: Chàhn Mìhngyúh, Mandarin pinyin: Chén Míngyǔ, written 陳明宇.

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  4. 1 2 3 4 Christina Cauterucci (December 1, 2015). "Priscilla Chan's Formidable Influence on Mark Zuckerberg's Philanthropy". Slate.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hope King (December 1, 2015). "Who is Priscilla Chan?". CNN.
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  13. 1 2 "Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Donate 99% of His Facebook Shares for Charity". The New York Times. December 1, 2015.
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  15. ↑ "Philanthropy earns Priscilla Chan Visionary of the Year nomination". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
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