Brenda Solórzano
Brenda Solórzano is the President and CEO of The California Endowment. She was appointed to the position in 2024. This is a return for Ms. Solórzano, after working at the Endowment early in her philanthropic career. Prior to rejoining the foundation, she was the founding CEO of Headwaters Foundation in Montana, where she built an institution for the community, by the community, from the ground up. Leading with a lens of health equity and trust-based philanthropy, she reimagined and reinvented philanthropic practices, changed systems and policies to advance better health outcomes, and built a network of trusted partnerships across the state. In her career, Ms. Solórzano has also held positions at the Blue Shield of California Foundation and the California Healthcare Foundation. She holds a juris doctorate from Whittier Law School and a bachelor’s in history from the University of San Francisco.