About Anna De La Cruz

Anna De La Cruz helps funders, philanthropists, and mission-driven organizations design and measure strategies that create lasting social impact—always through a gender and equity lens.

For more than fifteen years, Anna has worked across philanthropy, global health, impact investing, and the care economy, bringing both rigorous research skills and creative problem-solving to complex challenges. Her approach blends academic discipline with practical innovation: building impact frameworks, structuring catalytic capital, and advising foundations—including those with fixed-life strategies—so their resources drive meaningful, measurable change.

She spent a decade as Chief Impact Officer at Linked Foundation, where she shaped grantmaking strategy, developed impact measurement systems, and led due diligence. Earlier, she worked with the UCSF Global Health Group on private-sector health delivery models and with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Mexico, overseeing large-scale evaluations on microfinance, small-business training, and voter engagement.

Anna’s work spans Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Asia, and she is fluent in Spanish. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Friendship Bridge, a Guatemalan organization advancing women’s economic empowerment.

Alongside consulting, Anna writes and speaks on the future of caregiving and the care economy, and is currently developing a nonfiction book on caregiving. Whether advising a foundation, guiding an impact investor, or keynoting a conference, she helps leaders deploy their capital—and their care—in ways that build a more equitable world.