Amid Trump 2.0, Insiders at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Describe a Mission Divided
Priscilla Chan met the moment with the kind of grace and sensitivity she’d become known for. It was July 2020, George Floyd had recently been murdered, and staffers at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—the foundation she started with husband Mark Zuckerberg in 2015—were hurting. Tissues on hand, eyes welling up, she hosted an all-hands Zoom to address them. “It didn’t feel right to not actually just spend the time as an organization acknowledging the—in medicine we call it ‘acute on chronic’—racial disaster that is our country,” she said, hands clasped in front of her, in a video obtained by Vanity Fair. If there was a silver lining, it was that the moment was so bad, change was imperative—both in the country at large and at CZI, whatever that would entail. “That’s my little hopeful pearl that...
