James W. Head is the San Francisco Foundation director of programs and has over 20 years of experience in the field of community and economic development. For the last 17 years Mr. Head has served as president of the National Economic Development and Law Center. A lawyer by training, Mr. Head has significant nonprofit management, programmatic, and legal experience and has worked on nonprofit legal issues, as a consultant to foundations and government, and as a professor of law. As director of programs, Mr. Head is responsible for guiding a broad range of program areas and sustaining the vitality of the Foundation's community grantmaking. He currently serves as Legal Counsel of the California Community Economic Development Association, on the Community Advisory Board of Union Bank of California, as member and past Board President of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, on the Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation of New York, and on the board of Northern California Grantmakers. He has previously served as an advisor for the 2001 Race Commission in Cincinnati, Ohio, as member of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board, and was a founding board member of the California Community Economic Development Lending Initiative. Mr. Head holds a Bachelors from the University of Georgia and a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. He holds state bar memberships in Georgia, Florida, and California.