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Patricia Sinay
With nearly twenty years of experience working with nonprofits both nationally and internationally, Ms. Sinay founded Community Investment Strategies, a consulting firm connecting nonprofits and foundations’ passions to action. In addition, she is currently the Community Relations representative in San Diego for Holland America Line and a lecturer on Public Service at UCSD. Ms. Sinay has worked in Washington DC, San Francisco, and San Diego and has experience working with nonprofits and community leaders from the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Canada, Central Europe, and the Middle East.
Prior to consulting, Ms. Sinay worked for The San Diego Foundation where she led the creation of the Civil Society and Organizational Success Programs. In 2009, Ms. Sinay was appointed to the Technical and Professional Advisory Committee of First 5 San Diego. Her honors include being selected in 1998 to be San Francisco Foundation Multi-Cultural Fellow; in 2002 to be a German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Community Foundation Fellow (in Slovakia); and being named to San Diego’s “2003 40 Under Forty,” an honor roll of young community leaders sponsored by San Diego Metropolitan Magazine.
Ms. Sinay is an immigrant from Latin America and has earned an M.A. in International Affairs from American University and a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA. Most importantly, she is a wife to a wonderful man and mother of two children under 3.
Ms. Sinay’s personal experience as a mother as well as her international experience in philanthropy and public service are an asset to the First 5 Commission’s commitment to the children ages 0-5 in San Diego County.