Patricia Eng
Vice President, Grants and Capacity Building
Patricia Eng is Vice President, Grants and Capacity Building at the Ms. Foundation for Women. In this capacity, she oversees the Foundation’s grantmaking and capacity building programs, which deliver strategic support to organizations working to build movements and shift policy and public debate at local, Tribal, state and national levels across the broad “change” areas of women’s health, ending violence, economic justice and building democracy.
Ms. Eng first joined the Ms. Foundation as Program Officer for Safety in 1999. During her tenure with the organization, she has established cutting-edge grantmaking initiatives to address and prevent gender-based violence by supporting grassroots, often youth-led, efforts nationwide. She is the founding executive director of the New York Asian Women’s Center, the first organization on the East Coast to comprehensively address violence against Asian immigrant women. Ms. Eng is the former Senior Vice President for Programs at Safe Horizon, where she managed a portfolio of programs, including 8 shelters, 4 citywide hotlines, as well as one of the most distinguished anti-trafficking programs and batterer intervention programs in the country.
Ms. Eng received a BA with honors from Princeton University and a Master’s in Social Work from Hunter College. She has received numerous awards, including a Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award and a President’s Volunteer Action Award; she was also a Revson Fellow for the City of New York at Columbia University.
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