Dan Torres

Dan joined the Bezos Family Foundation in October of 2019 to focus on supporting and cultivating partnerships for the Vroom program.  He has stewarded a domestic and global Vroom grants strategy while emphasizing sector growth in healthcare during his tenure. Prior to joining BFF Dan has had a number of roles focused on systems work to support families.  He was the Executive Director of the Washington State Essentials for Childhood initiative, a cross system, public private partnership with a vision that all children in Washington state thrive in safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments. He also previously served as the Director of Policy and Partnerships at Thrive Washington. In that role he directed the community momentum strategy for 10 early learning regional coalitions and developed Thrive Washington’s legislative agenda. Dan spent the beginning of his career focused on child welfare policy as an associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and at Casey Family Programs.