Roberta Achtenberg serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Campaign for College Opportunity. Achtenberg is an economic development consultant and is the former Senior Vice President for Public Policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

Achtenberg served in the Clinton Administration, first as Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and later as Senior Advisor to then HUD Secretary Henry G. Cisneros.

Before her appointment to HUD, Achtenberg served on the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco. Prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors, Achtenberg worked for more than 15 years as a civil rights attorney, nonprofit director and legal educator. Her work included appointments as a Teaching Fellow at Stanford University Law School, as Dean of New College of California School of Law and as founding Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

In addition to her work on the Campaign for College Opportunity, Achtenberg is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the California State University. She also serves on the board of San Francisco EARN and S.F. Works. She is formerly a director of the United Way of the Greater Bay Area, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and chair of the Board of Directors of Coro Northern California.

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