Aisha Siddiqui

Aisha is the Project Director for SHINE (Stay Healthy in Nature Everyday), a program that brings patients from UCSF BCH Oakland on therapeutic outings in nature in the East Bay.

Over the past decade, she has worked in various roles designing, implementing, and evaluating programs intended to address poverty and racism. Previously, she was Project Director at the UCSF Department of Medicine, overseeing a guaranteed income trial for 300 Black young adults in Oakland and San Francisco. Before that, she worked at the California Social Work Education Center at UC Berkeley, collaborating with California’s five regional training academies to evaluate trainings for child welfare workers. She worked for 5 years at Girls Inc. of Alameda County, where she oversaw the evaluation of the organization's K-12 programs, and collaborated with program staff and participants to make sure programs were high quality, culturally relevant, and responsive to community needs.

Aisha is inspired by the resilience of young people living in disinvested communities. She loves the beach and the redwoods. She has her Master of Public Policy from University of Southern California, and her B.A. in Politics and Global Economics from UC Santa Cruz.