Pamela Calloway

Pamela Calloway is the Interim President and CEO at EBCF, stepping into this temporary leadership role again after serving as Interim President and CEO from November 2021 to January 2023. She has also served previously as EBCF Board Chair and was a longtime Board member.

She brings more than two decades of skills and time-tested experience in government, private-sector, civic, and community service. Pamela is deeply passionate about social justice and has continued advocating since her first antiapartheid demonstrations while a student at Fisk University. As National Chair of the Black Law Students Association, she reached out to support Congressman Ron Dellums, who successfully led a 15-year effort to enact U.S. sanctions against South Africa in 1986. Years later, she advised him on workforce investment during his tenure as mayor of Oakland.

Most recently, Pamela has worked with Oakland Thrives, an organization dedicated to promoting wellbeing and equity for children, families, and communities in Oakland. Her professional experience includes a blend of private and nonprofit work rooted in the East Bay, specializing in workforce and regional economic development to meet business needs through governmental relations, human resources development, and strategic planning.

Pamela is an attorney and principal with Calloway & Associates and has held prior leadership roles including Executive Director of The Bread Project; Vice President and Director of the California Office for Public/Private Ventures; President and CEO of the Private Industry Council of San Francisco, Inc.; and Chief of Staff for the first Workforce Investment Board of San Francisco. Pamela has strong civic connections.

Her first political campaign was for Wayne Curry, the first African American County Executive in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in 1994. When she moved to the Bay Area, she volunteered for Kamala Harris’ successful campaign to become the first Black woman district attorney in San Francisco. Pamela has gone on to work in campaign organizations or as professional staff for former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Mayors Ron Dellums, Willie Brown Jr., and Gavin Newsom, as well as the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on workforce and economic development strategies and action.

She was appointed to the Port of Oakland’s Board of Port Commissions and gives generously of her time, volunteering for multiple boards (currently and formerly), including The Freight; Esq. Apprentice; East Bay Community Foundation; Chinatown Community Development Center; United States Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council; National Center on Education and the Economy Workforce Development Program; California Workforce Association; Workforce Investment San Francisco Board; and The Urban School Parents’ Diversity Committee.

Pamela is a graduate of Fisk University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and Georgetown University Law Center (National Chair, Black Law Students Association) and is a member of the State Bar of California. She lives in Oakland with her husband. Their son lives in San Francisco.