Leanna Cates
Senior Strategy Officer at the Gates Foundation
- Role
- Senior Strategy Officer at Gates Foundation
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Leanna Cates
LeAnna Cates (she/her) is a Senior Strategy Officer in the Office of the CCO at the Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, WA, USA. LeAnna has 10 years of experience in strategy development, project management, and research and evaluation in the social impact space. As a trained strategist and global health practitioner, she advises and supports leaders and teams globally across philanthropy, non-profit, and government to use data-driven decisions and community participation to drive systems-level change, improve organizational performance, elevate impact, and increase equity and belonging. Born in Thailand and raised in the Midwest in a Vietnamese home, LeAnna can build connections across cultures and organizations. She is especially passionate about relationship building, building strong team cultures, and creating sustainable change.LeAnna holds an MSc in Global Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a 2x published author in Nature and a 2017 Ink Magazine 30under30. Outside of work, LeAnna enjoys sharing her experience as a first-gen Vietnamese-American woman and connecting with other women of color as an executive leadership coach. She also spends her free time climbing, traveling, and trying new cuisines.
Experience
Senior Strategy Officer
Feb 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Master of Science - MS, Global Health & Population
Skills
- Research
- Microsoft Office
- Leadership
- Management
- Training
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Strategic Planning
- Quality Improvement
- Personal Development
- Pcr
- Pipetting
- Gel Electrophoresis
- Curriculum Design
- Molecular Cloning
- Drosophila
- Python
- Matlab
- Confocal Microscopy
- Imagej
- Indesign
- R
- Mathematical Modeling
- Microsoft Excel
- Social Media
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