Board Director
Eder Gaona-Macedo has more than a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector and currently serves as the executive director of The Fund for Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Fund he served as the Senior Officer for Community Engaged Research at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, where he led participatory action research throughout the State of California. He is also the former executive director for Future Leaders of America (FLA), and one of the co-founders of the 805undocufund, which distributed more than $6.1M dollars to 4,500 undocumented families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic under his leadership.
Eder participated in Leading From Within’s Emerging Leaders cohort in 2016, when he was a fairly new executive director at FLA and he said the program was invaluable.