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Tonia Karr

Nonprofit Leader

Tonia Karr is an active community volunteer and longtime supporter of nonprofit organizations that serve youth from under-resourced communities. Currently, she serves as a member of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Board of Directors, a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Education Dean’s Advisory Council, and Town School for Boys Board of Trustees. She is a former member of Stanford University’s Board of Trustees, KIPP Bay Area Schools Board of Trustees, and served as vice chair of Meritus College Fund.

Previously, Karr was a vice president in the real estate finance group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. She began her career at Kidder, Peabody & Co. in the firm’s real estate investment banking group.

Karr earned a B.A. from Stanford in economics and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.