Malka Ranjana Kopell is Co-Founder and CEO of Civity (www.civity.org), a national organization focused on fostering relationships of respect and empathy across divides of race, class and culture.

Civity scales its work through capacity-building – supporting leaders across the country to build social trust and expand the “we” of who belongs, as well as communicating a story of connection to counter the story of division that prevails today.

Ms. Malka has more than 30 years’ experience helping people work together in community. She founded the nonprofit Community Focus to facilitate more effective implementation of public policies by increasing community participation. She also served as a program officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, developing and managing grants in the areas of conflict resolution and civic engagement.

Ms. Malka was the founding managing director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University, and is currently a senior associate with the Program on Consensus and Collaboration at California State University, Sacramento.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.