Jasmine Payne

Jasmine Payne serves as assistant vice chancellor and chief development officer for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, where she leads strategic efforts to advance the institution's mission and pediatric care across the enterprise.

With nearly 20 years of fundraising experience, Payne has worked with major benefactors to develop and launch high-impact research initiatives, academic programs and capital projects. Before joining UCSF, she led the advancement program for the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering, which secured $900 million as part of the university's ambitious $7.3 billion Light the Way campaign. Previously, she held leadership roles at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she directed the Women & Philanthropy at UCLA Program and served as a key gift officer in the College of Letters and Science and major gift programs.

Payne graduated from Scripps College and completed doctoral coursework in English at the University of California, Riverside, where she co-edited the book "Global Migration, Social Change and Cultural Transformation."