ROBERTA G. GORDON

Roberta Gordon is the President of the Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation and is an environmental attorney.  Her foundation work focuses on the intersection of climate and sustainable agriculture and food systems and other environmental challenges.  In addition, the foundation supports women's health programs, arts and identity projects, social justice programs, and other areas of need.  Roberta sits on the Advisory Boards of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Yale Initiative for Sustainable Finance.  Roberta is a member of Investors Circle, whose members make angel investments in startups having positive social and/or environmental impacts.  Roberta has a law degree from the Yale Law School and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of California in environmental planning and public policy, with highest honors, and chemistry.

An interview with Roberta, in which she discusses her approach to philanthropy, was recently published on the Regenerative Cloud website: Being Present in the Way We Give: A Fireside Chat with Environmental Lawyer and Philanthropist, Roberta Gordon.

On July 8, 2024, the University of California at Santa Cruz published an article called “Philanthropy in action: Alumna Roberta Gordon invests in students for Earth's future.”