Carina Wong

Craft Strategy

Carina has worked at the intersection of policy, philanthropy and innovation for over thirty years. She spent over a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a Senior Advisor for Innovation and a Deputy Director where she focused on problems of sustainability and scale; network infrastructure and ecosystems; narrative change and designing for equity. 

She has worked at the national policy level and the state level as a bureau director at the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She led system redesign efforts at the district level in Philadelphia and was the founding executive director of the Chez Panisse Foundation in Berkeley, CA where she launched an effort to scale kitchen/garden classrooms and reinvent school lunch with Alice Waters and Chef Ann Cooper. In 2023, Carina launched Craft Strategy, a practice designed to help social sector leaders navigate change and launch innovation portfolios. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Raise for Good in San Francisco, and at the National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington, DC. She is a Trustee at the CA College of the Arts, where she received her MBA in Design Strategy. 

Carina holds a MA in Policy and Administration from Stanford University, an MEd in Secondary Education from George Washington University and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer, an avid swimmer, cook and mother of three children.