Torie Osborn was the Executive Director of Liberty Hill Foundation, which partners with Los Angeles grassroots organizations to combat poverty and injustice, and is now its Senior Advisor to Philanthropic Programs. She will serve as Special Advisor to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, linking the Mayor’s office to the philanthropic community. “Los Angeles has been named both America’s poverty and wealth capitals, ” says Osborn, “I will seek to identify and implement innovative policy ideas on complex issues such as economic development, homelessness and education through improving public-private partnerships and increasing coordination and communication between local government and the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.”
* Torie Osborn is now with Los Angeles County’s 3rd Supervisorial District
