Jamie Austin

Senior Director of Impact and Learning, Tipping Point Community

San Francisco

Jamie Austin is the Senior Director of Impact and Learning at Tipping Point Community, which, in May 2017, announced a $100 million initiative to halve chronic homelessness in San Francisco. At Tipping Point, Jamie oversees efforts to measure and increase the impact of its investments. He has also served as chief operating officer of JVS, a workforce development organization, where he managed finance, human resources, information technology, and evaluation. He has had a variety of roles in the non-profit and government sectors, including budget director for the City of Fremont, statistician at UCSF, and senior program officer at Tipping Point. Jamie holds master's degrees from UC Berkeley in public policy, and epidemiology and biostatistics. He is a board member of Village Enterprise, which fights extreme poverty in Kenya and Uganda through entrepreneurship and is participating in Africa's first development impact bond.