Karla V. Salazar

Ms. Salazar, a bilingual leader, offers over fifteen years of management experience in the public, nonprofit, and private sector. Her life mission is to contribute to a more humane world by collaborating with visionary leaders, developing and implementing transformative ideas, strengthening organizations, and being of service to our communities. 

As a consultant and working at an environmental affairs consulting firm she has worked with an array of clients (partial list): International Rectifier; Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA); MEND; CALSTART; City of Los Angeles; City of Pasadena; Los Angeles City College; California Environmental Protection Agency; and the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project.

In the public sector, she worked as an Assistant Manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - Los Angeles, Field Director for the California State Controller – Executive Office, and an Analyst at the City of Santa Monica – Finance Department. 

In 2010, she successfully opened and managed the Los Angeles office for the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a national nonprofit and financial intermediary. Ms. Salazar directly provided financial management consulting to over 40 nonprofit organizations in California along with managing the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles office including business development, relationship management, staff management and leading the advisory committee. 

In 2013, she is launching her consulting work under SOS Strategies partnering with leading foundations, community based organizations, and small businesses in Southern California. 

Karla earned a Master of Arts Degree in Public Policy from the Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with an emphasis in international relations and specialization in Chicana/Chicano Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.  In 2008, Ms. Salazar also completed the Executive Program in General Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, John E. Anderson School of Management.