Vera Moore-Shaheen

Vera Moore-Shaheen is the West Region Leader for U.S. Community Relations at Citi. She brings an equity focused lens to how the voices and perspectives of nonprofit leaders and the communities they serve are reflected as Citi makes decisions about its products, services, and philanthropy. Prior to Citi, Vera helped spearhead JPMorgan Chase’s commitment to invest $75 million in the Bay Area through its AdvancingCities initiative — a five-year, $500 million effort to create greater economic opportunity nationwide.

Vera’s career in wealth creation began in the nonprofit sector. She has held leadership roles at national nonprofit organizations, such as the National Urban League, where she brought evidence-based restorative justice principles and innovation to employment training programs for young adults with prior justice system involvement. At SEEDCO, Vera provided consulting services to government agencies and philanthropic organizations, in the U.S. and abroad, that wanted to increase their grantees’ capacity to implement high impact workforce development programs.

Vera serves on the Coro Northern California Board of Directors and the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center’s Women’s Leadership Council. She is also an appointed member of the Entrepreneurship and Economic Mobility Task Force formed by the California Office of the Small Business Advocate, a division of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and was recognized on the San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 List in 2021.

Vera has a Master of Urban Planning degree from NYU and a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vera transferred to UCLA from Diablo Valley College.